Summer Memories.....

Hello, Diane of  http://happyscrapperdiane.blogspot.com with a layout to share with you.  Summer has ended, but those Summer memories still need to be put on the pages.  I am sharing two pages I created for my grandson Cameron's album of a trip to an amusement park called Coney Island not far from where we live.  I wanted to create pages that were fun just like the day we spent at the park!    

I decided to use several items that he visited to display in the layout.  

 I used my Scrap n' Easel to layout and align the letting that I cut from Carousel using the shadow feature of the font cut at 1.25 inches.  To make sure it was correct, I placed the ruler to help get it straight too!

 I decided not to use the letter part because they were small and decided to use my Uniball pen to make some accent lines on the letter to make it stand out a little bit more on the paper.

 I cut the Ferris Wheel from Carousel at 5 inches and used the shadow and cut 4 different colors of the top of the ferris wheel in teal, gray, white and red.  I used the gray as the main and then cut the cars from the other colors and glued them in a pattern and stickled the gray area in silver to make it shine.

The roller coaster was cut from the Summer Celebrations cartridge at 4.5 inches and I cut every layer in a different color and cut pieces to make it different.  After I finished I did stickle the gray in silver which does not show in this picture, but in my final pages.  I cut the bumper car  at 3 inches and the ticket booth at 5.75 inches and both were from Carousel as well.  I used the ticket booth as a journal tag. Thanks for taking the time to look at my project.

Details
Designed By-Diane Kielman
Cartridges Used-Carousel and Summer Celebrations
Machines Used-Cricut Expression 2 and Gypsy
Project-2 page layout
Other Supplies-Pattern paper from Stampin Up, Cardstock from Recollections, stickles by Ranger and Uniball white pen

Happy Summer

Greetings ya'll, this is Debbie of Debs Eclectic Thoughts Blog.  The Cricut FANatics Blog theme for the month is End of Summer so I wanted to make a project to show all the wonderful things I did with my 9 year old granddaughter over this summer. 

First I started off making a collage of photos from some of our favorite things we did this summer. It was super easy.  Walgreens now offers a collage option where you can just add up to 20 photos and it creates a wonderful collage for you.  You can even change the background designs and colors. I had mine printed at 8X10 size.

 You really can't make a summer layout without the sun on it so I started there with my design.

I made the sun in two layers using CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge. To give more dimension to my Cricut cuts I often like to use an alcohol marker to trace around the edges.  I used Distress Marker in Spiced Marmalade here. I then added small foam dots to pop up the two pieces of patterned paper. I am using Echo Park's Hello Summer patterened paper in my layout.

To make the Happy Summer 2012 title, I started with a label shape from CTMH Art Philosophy.

 I also welded together using my Gypsy the 2012 numbers from the same cartridge.

The "Happy Summer" is from Summer Celebrations cartridge and was cut in

 two different patterned papers and then layered one on top of each other slightly off set.

I then adhered the label to the 2 dimensional sun.

Washi tape is so fun to use and I could not resist adding a bit to the border area

of my background page. As you will see in my final layout version, the great thing about washi tape is that you can peel it up easily and change where you place it :) 

Still using CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge, I made these little

tag shapes and added the word FUN also cut from the same cartridge.

And a layout isn't really complete without a bit of journaling.  I cut a piece of patterend paper as a base, then used my Dynamo Tape maker to print out the words. Makes it easy to add to the paper since it already has adhesive.  I cut a couple of little slits in the paper and added some gorgeous twine to give it a little umph !

 

And tada...

Happy Summer 2012 is all ready.

 

Cricut Info & Supplies Used:

Designed By: Debbie O'Neal

Cricut Machine Used:  Expression, Gypsy

Cricut Cartridges Used: Art Philosophy, Summer Celebrations

 Other Supplies Used: Bazzill Cardstock, Echo Park Patterened Paper, Washi Tape, Twine,

foam dots

 

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