New Cricut Cartridges!

So Provo Craft has announced 6 more new cartridges coming out soon. Some are “I gotta have” cartridges and some I’m a little disappointed in while others are excited about them. I was very disappointed in the Car Decal. There isn’t anything on that cartridge that I’d want to put on any of our vehicles, but I’m sure, there are some who will think this is an awesome cartridge…but how many of those images are you actually going to use?

Now Paper Lace, this is a very nice cartridge and I have seen some already cool projects made with this cartridge…I think this one will be a great cartridge to get…especially for cardmakers.

Sesame Street Seasons, I think it’s an adorable cartridge. It wouldn’t be my first pick, but it’s got potential. I know it would be cute on some layouts, but again, I was thinking of a couple of card ideas that would be cute with some of those images.

Quarter Note, is also a nice cartridge, but again, how many times will you use it? I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but once I cut that Saxophone, that I need for my son’s layout, what else will I use that cartridge for?

That’s why I like Make the Cut and Scal, because if I only need an item I can purchase just the one item or create it myself. I can’t say enough about these two wonderful softwares. With these softwares available, it makes scrapbooking possibilities, endless. I have done so much more since acquiring these softwares. The reason why I say these, is because I originally started with SCAL, but I have to say, that I am only using Make the Cut now. I enjoy this program and yet I have used SCAL for some things as I can do a little better in that program than in Make the Cut, with that said, Make the Cut is my software of choice.

Paper Lace Cartridge

This cartridge features intricate paper cuts that are perfect as backgrounds, accents, or even focal points for your projects. You will also love the playful font that was designed to coordinate with the main designs.

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Wrap it Up Cartridge

Celebrate in style with the Wrap It Up cartridge! This present themed cartridge is filled with layered images for several occasions plus coordinating boxes, cards, and tags. It also contains fifty themed phrases with layers that you can add to layouts, cards, and other projects.

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Sesame Street Seasons Cartridge

Celebrate the changing weather with the Sesame Street Seasons cartridge! This playful cartridge is filled with images of Elmo, Big Bird, Zoe, Grover, and other Sesame Street favorites as they have fun throughout the year. The cartridge also contains layered props and words in English and Spanish for every season!

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Ornamental Iron Cartridge

Add a stately look and feel to your creative projects with the Ornamental Iron cartridge! The intricate gates and windows are perfect for creating sophisticated projects for weddings, family reunions, anniversaries, and other occasions. With coordinating fonts, this cartridge is a wonderful asset for your crafts.

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Car Decals Cartridge

Personalize the family vehicle with the Car Decals cartridge! This quirky cartridge is filled with whimsical images of family life such as riding bikes, participating in sports, and other activities. You can also use the icons, phrases, and font to decorate your car, windows, or creative projects to your liking.

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Quarter Note Cartridge

Music lovers will absolutely adore the Quarter Note cartridge! This shape cartridge is filled with music themed images, phrases, and fonts. Whether you have a pianist, violinist, or other musician in your family, this cartridge is certain to meet your musical needs.

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Another Monday night making cards

Here’s some cards that one of my younger girls made and allowed me to take pictures of her cards to share with all of you. She did a very good job…be sure to comment below and let her know how good she did. Enjoy!

Laugh Scrapbook Layout

So I found some pictures and when I looked at them, they made me just start laughing, so I thought, I needed to scrap them and that just had to be my title…I hope you enjoy!

On this layout, I wanted to do a class with no paper piecings, a title that was fun and easy to do page for even a beginner and yet still be very eye catching. We used a crimper on the title giving it the corrugated appearance, the title was cut using MTC software or if you have SCAL it can be done with that also, and we placed journaling blocks above our photos, and then the girls were to add their own embellishments to the page.  Let me know what you think…we love to read your comments.

Hoping to post my layout and maybe a couple of the other girls layouts on here soon. I hope you like this one that Anne N. made…love her embellishments!

Fishing Layout

This weeks class was supposed to be a Fishing Layout, but for whatever reason, I had no one attend class that night! My guess, it was 89 degrees and extremely humid and I think that everyone was just trying to remain cool and that it probably would be too hot in the back of the store to do scrapbooking, but several kits were sold and I still have a few more left if anyone else is interested. I truly love my layout…it is supposed to have a boy or a girl fishing on it, but since I have both girls and boys and they all love to go fishing, I decided to use both of the diecuts on my layout. I love Lisa’s cuts, they are so adorable and easy to put together. This has got to be one of my favorite layouts that I have done in the past few weeks, I hope you will like it also.

This is a close-up of the cutout.

If you look closely, I used some metalic ink on my title “The Big Catch” I also used my Cuttlebug to emboss the title, I think it just added that little extra to this page.

Recipe:

Right Page

(2) 4  x 12 inch border strip

               1 paper ruler cut at 12 inches each

          (1) 6  x 4 1/2 inch cardstock dark

(1) 5 3/4 x 4 1/4 inch CS light

          (3) 2 1/2  x 3 1/2 inch CS DK

(3) 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch CS LT

Left Page

Journaling box 2 1/4 x 4 3/8 inch Dk

2x4 inch Lt

top mats

4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inch DK

4 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch LT

3 x 4 inch Dk

2 3/4 x 3 3/4 inch LT

(2) 4 1/4 x 5 3/4 dk

(2) 4 x 5 1/2 Lt

I love these pictures that I put on here, it is of my son Chris and his brother Sam, they loved to go fishing with their dad. It was nice doing this layout this week for me as Chris’s birthday was 2 weeks ago and he would’ve been 23 years old. So it’s nice to be able to get this picture into the album to be able to share it with it our family. Chris was quite the little “ham” if you can’t tell by looking at these pictures…I am going to make another layout of fishing as I still have a few more pictures I can put on it.

Love you and Miss you Chris.

The day I was working on this layout, our son Sam went fishing and he caught an 18 inch rainbow trout and so as I was looking through the pictures, I found one of their dad, probably 10 or 15 years ago when he caught an 18 inch trout also. Gotta love my fishermen!

On this page, I decided to do my journaling on the side and the pictures I chose were ones of my daughters so I could use the little girl diecut on here…she actually was a cutout for roasting marshmallows, but thanks to Make the Cut, I was able to alter her and turn her into a fishing girl. :) Anyhow, in this layout are two Korean students that our oldest daughter, Erica, had in school in China and they came to the USA for the summer with her…in the 6 weeks they were here, we introduced them to many things and one was fishing. They were naturals. Also in these photos is our baby girl “Princess” Hannah…she did really good casting, unfortunately, no fish were injured on this day :)  We had such a good time, the kids fishing and me with my camera! The picture above is a day of fishing with Sam and Dad. I love remembering these fun times and now I have it in my album and journaling done. Enjoy!

Basketball layout

Here is my first page of my layout…I hope you like it!

Long lost layouts and some recent layouts

So I have some new girls who have been scrapping with us for a while now and they have wanted to do some of our older layouts but I don’t know where the posts went????? So I am going to post some of my layouts that I have in my albums and that way they can have a visual of how to do their layouts. I hope you enjoy seeing these layouts and also seeing some of the different techniques that we have used.

Our First layout is our infamous Rubber Duckie layout or Bathtime, this class has been done at least 3 times in a year and a half, and of course everyone's layouts have been done differently and used different pattern paper and cardstock.

Our next layout is our April Showers brings May flowers….on this layout I once again used my Surecutsalot program to cut the title, and my fence, and our little girl in her raincoat as well as our tulips and daisies. This layout is so cute…I can’t wait to add pictures to this layout.

 

The next layout is a layout for our pets…the picture I have is for our dogs…we currently have 3 dogs, Sheltie, he’s 17, a Yorkie, who is 3, and a new black lab who is almost 4 months. This was a fun layout, I can’t wait to get my cat layout done. Some of the ladies did cats, but I don’t think we took any photos, and they always forget to email me their layouts heheheheh.

Sorry for any blurring…I didn’t want to pull out all the pages, and the lighting was pretty good so I think you can see most of the project. If you are doing this layout, this page has (3) 4x4 mats…if you double mat, you would have (3) 4 1/4 x 4 1/4 mats for the bottom.

On this page, again I like to add chalk…it’s hard to tell in the pictures, but it just makes the paper piecing more dimensional. I love how my little Yorkie fit in the doghouse. The mat at the top of the page is for my journaling, where I plan to put all the things our dogs like…example….<3 going for walks, <3 doggie treats when I’ve been good, <3 love how my master loves me even when I’ve been in the trash, etc. Enjoy!

So some of us have kids who are graduating, eighth grade, high school and college and some Pre K and Kindergarten, so we made this layout that could work for all ages….the title…the word little, I used dk green colorbox chalk, and used glue dots for it to have a little pop to it…the word Grad was cut out with a shadow back, so I chalked the front with Amber Clay, one of my favorite colors to chalk with. the graduation cap was chalked lightly with some white chalk and I added the tassel. The mats on this page were cut at 3 1/2 x 5 1/2. the circle was cut in half and used on both pages…if you don’t own a Cricut, all you need is a large dinner plate, trace it on the back of your paper and then cut out and then you cut it in half.

Here is the second page along with the first page so you can see how you put it together. I love the school writing paper, this of course will be used for my journaling..my little graduate is popped using dimensionals. The mats on this page are (2) 4x4’s and one 6 1/4 by 4 1/4. Enjoy.

this is one of my favorite pages…It is of some happy times with my Mom and my brothers, and sister, niece and my dad, also in the above pic is a picture of my kids with my mom…they love her so much! I haven’t finished stringing my pearl beads, if you look, you can see that I twisted it and made little loops, and that is what I plan to do to finish it on this page…just need to finish.

On this page is again family members…upper left is a gathering we had to surprise my mom with a family photo…this is the last photo of all of us together that I know of, after this picture was taken I found out I was expecting our youngest girl. Also picture of my boys and my oldest daughter and of course my dad. The edges of our layout was done with the new Stampin up punch…butterfly was cut with glitter paper, using SCAL2, also the key was cut with SCAL2, then I added lacey ribbon, some skittles and later I will add my journaling.

Easter layout…I used the cuttlebug to add some design to my eggs…of course we chalked everything. I wish I had used a different bunny…but this one works. In the page below, I used my Bic markers to outline the title and the basket…you can get the holder from Custom Crops…I also have the gel pen holder…I use them a lot.

Using Ribbon in our layout

So tonight I wanted to try something different, thinking it would be very simple and yet attractive to our layouts…it turned out to not be all that simple, but once we got the hang of it, everyone loved their layouts…I still have to put mine together, but promise to add it soon…I think you will like what the girls did with their layouts and ribbon! Enjoy!

Sister Layout

So as we are trying to decide weekly what layouts to do, the ladies decided we should do a Sister/s or Sister-in-Law layout. I also used on this layout my favorite stamps of all time…Magnolia stamps…I love them, so I showed the girls how to use copic markers, watercolor pencils to color our little darling.

I decided to use pictures of my two daughters who are so close and believe me, they have a lot of pictures of each other…I dare say over 500 or more, some really nice, posed photos and many, many silly photos…that make me laugh…I so love my girls…I hope you enjoy or layouts.

Our mat size were (2) 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 and (5) 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 adding faux stitching along the border. Also one 2 x 5 inch, For the layout we used 12 x 12 background and top strip is 1 1/2 x 12, middle is 2 x 7, and then 7 x 12 and bottom is 3 1/2 and we used a tear ruler for the edging, this is page one…on page 2 you just choose which colors you want to start with, making sure that it pulls your focus from page one to page two…so you start with at the top, 2 x 5, 2x7, then your bottom strip is the same as the first page, and on some of the layouts, they did it a little different in the middle. Our flowers were cut with Scal2 and then chalked and then we used a stylis and curled the ends of the flowers and added buttons in the center…We were going to emboss the letters for SISTERS, but someone had borrowed the Sizzix from the store and I forgot to bring my Cuttlebug…but they still came out really nice…what do you think? Be sure to leave your comments and we love to hear them. Enjoy!

Grandmother/Nana Layout

I’m a little behind on my layouts, and I’m so sorry. My weeks are pretty busy with the sweet little ones that I take care of and I try and devote my time to them and then at night, I’m exhausted! I guess I’m not as young as I used to be, and get wore out pretty easily these days. But I’m only 2 weeks behind and I’m going to try and do the updates all this evening. However, I don’t have everyone’s layouts as some of you wanted to email it to me after you finished or after you adhered your photos…don’t forget, if you want them on the blog to email them and I can still add them.

So tonight we did something a little different. I’m not used to doing this type of a layout with flowers and no paper piecings, but I think it came out really nice.  Jane brought black and white photos and it looks very heritage, in my opinion…I love it! so here’s some of the layouts and I will add the rest as soon as they are sent to me. Enjoy!

On this layout we also used the new Stampin Up border punch, glitter paper for the butterfly, ribbon, and of course SCAL2 was used to make all the cuts.

And of course, none of these layouts look anything like mine, which I will post as soon as I finish putting my photos on, as I just got them in the mail of my mom, my kids, Nana…love you MOM!

At the beach layout

Though we were small in number, we had a great time and everyone’s layouts turned out so nice! I would like to say a welcome to Coreen, it was nice having you attend our class!

This was a rather easy page to do, with little paper piecing, mat sizes were the standard 6 1/4 x 4 1/4, with pp 6x4, and then 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 with pp at 3x3.  CS representing sand was cut at 6” and then torn to give the rough edge implying the water coming on shore. Choices were for a little girl or little beach boy. After coming home and looking at my picture, I realized that I put the boys arm in the wrong  place, but no one else would know! Oops, I just blew that, :)

Enjoy our layouts and be sure to leave comments.  Kits are available by emailing me at dimahi@hotmail.com