Card Layout

I started participating in the Mojo Monday card layout challenge. The link is listed on the right side of my blog. It was nice to spend some time relaxing and being creative one evening this last week. It is for my dear friend Tiff. My heart goes out to her and her family.

A busy week

 As if this last week wasn't going to be busy enough on it's own, I got the stomach flu. UGH! Fortunately the worst of it was over in the first 24 hours. I recovered enough to make a few of the cards that are pictured below. I found the design recipe on the Kraft outlet blog and made the first one a Christmas card. I can't wait to fill the pockets with yummy chocolate and give it to my choc-o-holic friend :) I then thought what a cute card this would make to give to the ladies on my visiting teaching route. So five cards later, the ladies I visit with every month are going to get their message tucked under the band on the inside of the front cover and they are also going to get a sweet treat tucked into the pockets on the other side. These cards could be embellished more if you like a lot of frill but I like the simple look of the brown "cardboard" paper and earth tones that come in the fall. Also the pockets fit a gift card very nicely :)

A mini for baby

I made this mini for my sister's step-daughter. Each page is for a month during her pregnancy. My sister found such cute embellishments it made this album easy-peasy!

A few more mini albums

One thing I love more than a mini album is Mickey Mouse :) I pretty much love Disney, but nothing is better than the mouse himself. Our family went to Disneyland last December for one last family vacation before our oldest left on his mission. These are the mini's I made for the pictures of that trip. The castle mini  is from a coloring book castle picture I transferred onto graph paper, then used cereal boxes as the chip board. I got this idea from a blog called, "Loving our small town life", but it no longer is available. I covered the cereal boxes with black paper and embellished away. The mickey head album is from a shape off of my Mickey Font Cricut cartridge. I love my Cricut! I made this album for my youngest, so she could take it to school and show her friends. She loves that it is all hers. Again it is made of cereal boxes then covered with paper. I know they aren't proper acid free products but these aren't albums I think will last very long with kids handling them anyway.

My family mini

I love making mini albums! I really like to scrapbook but making a mini keeps me motivated. I can start a project and finish it the same day or if I want to make it a little more embellished I can finish it in a weekend. This mini is made with pink paper bags and I used a book technique from Kathy Orta that I saw on you tube. We had our family picture's taken with my husbands 64 GTO and I thought a retro book theme would work perfect with the pic's!

A fun beginning

My first post, what should it be? Well I love paper crafting but I find all hand made or repurposed items fun and interesting. I will be using this blog to share my crafts with others and to learn from others also. So let the fun begin!