Thursday, November 13, 2008

Paper Piecings by Lisa Christmas Sale!

For those of you who love creative and gorgeous paper piecings (I'm talking about the ones where people see them and freak over how dang cute they are... yeah, those ones!) PaperPiecingsbyLisa is the place to go!

Right now she is running a Christmas Sale. $2.00 per pattern! That's a $1.50 in savings! She has added so many cute patterns AND she is now selling the most adorable handmade cards. You have got to see them! (Just click the links to go to the pages.)


She sells her pattens in JPEG and SVG formats. If there is another format you need, she can do it for you, just contact her. For those of you who do not know what SVG formatting is, well, it is the format that allows you to cut her patterns on your Cricut! How cool is that? All you need is the SCAL (Sure Cuts A Lot) Software. That, too, can be purchased from her home page.
Happy Piecing! °Ü°

Saturday, November 1, 2008

What's Scrapining?

I just joined a brand new network for scrapbookers! It was started by the very talented Lisa from PaperPiecingsbyLisa. I am really excited about it. If you would like to join the network yourself, here it the link! WhatsScrapining Hope to see you there!

Monday, October 20, 2008

Sugar & Spice Scrapbook Album with Recipe Holders





















My good friend, Lisa, is the best cook! She loves cooking and sharing her family recipes. Her birthday is Friday and I wanted to give her something she would appreciate. I saw this and said, "That's Lisa!" I had so much fun making it. I have always wanted to make one of these BoBunny albums and starting out with a small one was perfect!

I love that it holds photos as well as recipes, too. The back three pages are actually paper bags cut to fit height wise. Her recipes will slide easily down into each pocket. What a great gift for posterity's sake! You have no idea how many family recipes perished when my mom's home burned in 2005. Some she can remember right off the top of her head, others are just gone. I wished I had put together one of these for me years ago. Well, on the up-side, there is today and I can start from right here. °Ü°

Happy Birthday, Lisa! Can't wait to see it with your pics and recipes!

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Halloween Pages for October's Class

Happy Halloween! October's pages are designed, put together and ready to go for next week's class! "Spook-Tacular Halloween" is the title. When I first started these, they were taking a dark and spooky turn and I hated it, so I took everything off and started over. "Cute" is what I was going for. I hope I got it right. Since my Cricut can only cut so much, I had to go the old fashioned way with "Frank" (Frankenstein) and "Glenda" (The Witch)... paper piecing. So, I got out my papers, chalks, inks, adhesives and went to work. I think they came out pretty cute.

The entire spread

Page 1
The moon, bats and Frank

Frank's head and the bats pop up. Infact, Frank's entire body pops off the page. I gave the bats gemstone eyes so they would "glow"

4x4 mat, the spider web and spider. I traced the web with a silver glitter gel pen and drew the line down to the spider.

A close-up. Spidey's eyes glow, too

4x6 mat with pull out journaling tag. This part of the title.


As you can see it is a good size tag so lot of spooky facts can be journaled!

The tag tucks perfectly behind the frame and is inked with orange and black inks.


Page 2


Another 4x6 mat with Trick-or-Treat ribbon


This pocket holds two tomb stones which pull out for more journaling. The ghost pops off the page just over the pumpkin.

Our two tomb stones. Amazing what a little chalk can do, huh?


The "Halloween" part of out title


Our little Glenda and two 4x4 photo mats


The pumpkin, Glenda and black cat all pop off the page


Glenda has a spider on her hat that pops up and frog on her dress that pops up, too.


I popped her off the page for dimension, but also so that the photos would easily slide under her and onto their mat.


Ok, so there it is! Don't forget the following supplies:
  • Chalks
  • Q-tips and/or make-up applicators for chalk
  • Gel pens: black, orange, white and silver
  • Color Pencils
  • Black Ink Pad (From last month's class)
  • Scissors
  • Pop Dots
  • Brown Ink Pad (for Franks boots)

Friday, September 19, 2008

Little Trick-Or-Treat Brag Book









My daughter's Young Women's class invited me to come and teach them a scrapbook class in October. They wanted something simple and fun, something that was Halloween or Fall themed. Well, I am BIG into shape brag book albums lately and pulled out one of my very favorite Cricut Cartridges to make this simple brag book. My daughter LOVED the way it came out!
I had to keep it really simple because we are only going to have about 75 minutes to get the whole thing put together. It is technically only 4 pages put together to make 8 pages front and back. I pulled bright card stock from my stash so I wouldn't have to buy paper to do 20+ albums! YIKES, huh? It is 8 inches tall and it holds (6) 4x4 photos. The only hardware are 4 silver eyelets and the 2 rings holding it together. There is some simple basic inking and I used color pencils for some of the shading since my chalks aren't going to be feasible to share with 20 teenage girls! I decided that the little plastic googly eyes would be lots of fun and save the girls from the frustration of trying to dot or draw out perfect little eyes. They really do make it fun, especially when they go cross eyed! A bit of ribbon adds some whimsy.
I think it turned out just adorable and is a great keepsake for fun Halloween pics with friends! This is going to be a fun class and I am really looking forward to it!

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