Scrappy Times: Animal Cookies

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Monday, August 31, 2009

Caleb's first year scrapbook is finally done!

In honor of Caleb's 3rd birthday, I felt it was time to finally finish his first year album. LOL. I don't scrap in order and just do what interests me at the time but I was ready to get the first year wrapped up. I ended up with 3, yes 3 albums for his first year. The first one chronicles my pregnancy all the way up to him going home from the hospital. The second one goes through his fifth month, and then I finally got smart and got a 3 ring album for the rest of the year. It is packed with layouts. I guess his first year will be very well documented. So, all I had left was the title page and the last page. I used CTMH Animal Cookies L2 paper-I love this pack. I also used the stickease and some Dimensional Elements. I covered the DE in stickles for the sparkle effect. I used a sketch in Becky Fleck's Page Maps book for this layout. That's the first time I've used a sketch out of that book. I really wish she had included the dimensions of all the papers she used on the layouts. There are some cute ideas in her book, but I found it difficult to duplicate the sketch because of the lack of dimensions.

And here is the last page. When I started it, I intended for the title to be "What a Year". After I started printing the pics for it, I decided that it needed to be "Oh How I Love This Face!" The title was cut using All Mixed Up and was welded in Design Studio. I used the foam numbers from CTMH for the numbers. These are pics of him at 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 months. The "months old" was cut with Opposites Attract and was also welded in Design Studio.

Now if I could just get his second and third years done I'd be doing good!

Monday, May 11, 2009

Massive project-FInally finished!

I agreed to do 9 altered clipboards for the teachers at my son's preschool. I guess that wasn't real smart since I'd never done one, but I figured that they wouldn't be hard to do. Boy, was I wrong! I had so many problems from the start. I used my tape runner to adhere the paper to the board on the first one that I did. After I did that I discovered that when using Mod Podge on top of a project you also need to use it to adhere the paper to your project or your paper will bubble. Lovely. Second problem was that I tried stamping on it. Guess what? Mod Podge smeared the ink. So, lesson to self, don't stamp or ink on something if you plan to mod podge it. I ended up completely redoing the first one. Then to add to the dilemma, the CTMH clipboards are a weird size. They are 12 and 1/2 by 14 and 1/2. So to get the border across the bottom, I cut the 12x12 cardstock diagonally from corner to corner and then the cardstock was long enough to go across the bottom. I was pretty pleased with the end product despite the numerous problems. I used the Animal Cookies paper from Close To My Heart to cover the boards. I cut the flowers on my cricut using George, the letters were cut using Alphalicious, and the words on the back of the boards were cut using Graphically Speaking. So without further ado, here they are:

I put a poem on the back and this is what it says:

One Hundred Years From Now
by Forest Witcraft

One hundred years from now
it will not matter
what kind of car I drove,
what kind of house I lived in,
how much money was in my
bank account,
nor what my clothes looked like.
But, the world may be a better place
because I was important
in the life of a child.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

CTMH Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Close To My Heart Blog hop. Over 40 CTMH consultants are celebrating the release of the Summer Idea Book by sharing their amazing creations using the new product via their blogs. Just click on the link at the end of each post to hop to the next blog. If you have come here from Jen's blog, you are on the right path. If you did not come from Jen's the blog hop starts at Erin's blog. There is a complete list at the bottom of this post.

I used the new Animal Cookies paper pack for this layout. This paper is adorable and so versatile.

This layout is based on a layout in Imagine called Medley on page 34.

List of supplies used:

Animal Cookies Level 2 Paper Pack X7112B

Animal Cookies Level 2 Stickease X7112C

Sweet Baby Stamp Set C1359

Tulip Stamp Pad Z2116

White Daisy Pigment Ink Z2163

Summer Carnival B rad Assortment Z296

Dimensional Elements Simple Alphabet lowercase Z1048

Liquid Glass Z679

I random stamped the tulip cardstock with stamps from the Sweet Baby set in Tulip Ink to give the cardstock just a little umph. I cut "Let's get" on my cricut using the Opposites Attract cartridge. Then I covered the letters in liquid glass and then applied glitter to them. I also did that on the chipboard letters "wild." I also heat embossed the date and polka dots with white embossing powder to make it stand out a little more. The date stamp was from the January stamp of the month. The rhinestone frame is from our Connections club rewards. Ask me how you can earn a set of the rhinestone frames.

This next layout also uses the Animal Cookies paper.

This layout is based on the layout in Imagine on page 66 called Memoirs Complete.

List of supplies used:

Animal Cookies Level 2 Paper Pack X7112B

Animal Cookies Level 2 Stickease X7112C

Craft Buttons Summer Collection Z1282

Summer Collection Bigger Brads Z296

Tiny Typewriter stamp D1222

White embossing powder Z673

Liquid glass Z679

The word "the" in the title was made with chipboard circles covered with the Animal Cookies paper. I then stamped the letters with the Tiny Typewriter Alphabet stamp and then heat embossed the letters with white embossing powder. Then to get the epoxy look, I covered the circles with liquid glass and let it dry. The words zoo crew were cut with my cricut using the Zoobaloo cartridge and were also covered with liquid glass.