Shower Banner and more to come

Wow! When I thought that I should post something today I did not realize that the last time I did was January!  Since then there has been a lot going on here.  February is a short month anyway, and with all the snow days, where my job is to wrangle the kids, along with being EXTREMELY tired all the time - all the free time I had I was napping.  I did get a couple crafting things done = I made the banner and favor tags for my friends baby shower in the middle of the month.

Here is the whole thing hanging in my new craft space.

Details!  It all turned out so awesome and cute!  She even ended up hanging it in the baby's room after the shower.  I used chipboard for the pieces and covered them in chocolate, large circle is sorbet (I think), then white daisy.  letters and in sorbet and then shadowed with chocolate, added small pearls and owls from the Artbooking cartridge to accent.

  

This is the tag for the favors!

 



Then the beginning of March was taken up with sleeping (yay) and getting my plans ready for a long term sub in my classroom until I go back to work in May.  Then on March 19, Oliver Logan joined our family.

He looks like he has a black eye because he was breech and wedged up under my ribs and they had to manually push him out.  This was at about 12 hours old.

He is a great baby, and while it took about 1 1/2 weeks to get back on my feet, the recovery wasn't too bad.  I have completed a couple of sewing projects since but I need to get pictures.  I will try and post about them early next week.

Happy Crafting!

Christmas Card Album

Happy Snow Day!!

I tried and made good creative use of my snow day today but I didn't get anything finalized.  :(

However, I thought that I would share photos of my Christmas Card Album with you.  This is made using the CTMH Pocket album (Z1870) and some scraps of the Pear and Partridge paper that I had lying around.

 

LOVE the cover!  I added accents in white daisy, cranberry, topiary, and honey.  On the inside I placed all the photo cards that we received this year.  My ultimate plan is to make a page per family and then add the cards as they come in each year.  This will let us see how their families grow and keep the Christmas letters all in one place.

 

I haven't yet but you could decorate the outside of each pocket with something that reminds you of each family and with their family name and the years of cards that are there.  Maybe even return addresses in little pockets outside of the big pocket.  The options are endless.

 

Happy Crafting!!

Christmas Trees

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!

I hope that you are looking forward to lots of turkey and fixings tomorrow, and that you are lucky like me and someone else likes to do the cooking.  I have several things for you today.

First, I have updated my classes for December, please check them out on the Classes tab.

Second is a reminder to order your goodies out of the holiday catalog soon because you can only order through the end of December.

And Third, I have a quick rundown on how I made this fabulous tree featured on the front of the new catalog.  Warning:  this isn't an in depth tutorial!

 



Basically I followed the tutorial here with minor changes.  I used my Cricut Craft Room to cut down the width of all the pieces instead of doing it by hand.  I have the CCR file if you would like it.  Then I used the CTMH sparkle paper to do the snowflakes, and I made the star with washi tape and some stamping.  A foundry pin clip is holding the star on.  Here is a close up of the star. 

It takes a full 3 sheets of the sparkle and shine paper and 1/3 sheet of the sparkly paper and a sheet of white daisy.

I hope that your Thanksgiving is full of food and Family and time for Crafting!!!

Halloween Mini-book

Hello All!

I just completed my first Artbooking project and I am impressed by the results.  I created a Halloween Mini-book!  I used the two mini-book keys and some titles and photo frames from the scrapbooking layout.  I really like the way that I do not have to search for images, it is all right there on one key.  Here is how it turned out!

The cover

Page 1 and 2.  I left the frame open on two side so that I could slip in a picture later.

 

Pages 3 and 4.  I really like the way that the layered grave stones came out.  Found out that glue pen glue does not like to stick to the glitter paper.  :)

Pages 5 and 6.  Again left the frame open to add pictures.

The back.

All ready for this year's photos!  I may add more pages but it will depend on how many pictures I end up taking while sneaking candy from the kids stash.  If you would like to make your own contact me for the materials list or you can join me for the workshop on Tuesday!  Just let me know you are interested in coming ASAP!

Happy Crafting!

ps check out Google+ for Sarita layouts.

Mini-Album

Wonderful Wednesday!

Hello everyone!  This week the kiddos have been in camp so I have accomplished much in my craft room.  The first project that I want to share with you is my very first Mini-album.  I am usually a double page spread girl, however I thought that I would give the mini version a try.  I went into this not knowing what I wanted to put into the mini but decided to do the time I spent in the hospital with daughter right after she was born.

 

I used the Dream Pop paper that I had left over from our May Constant campaign.  I first set up a project in Craft Room and decided on a size for the album.  I then made 9 layers and in each layer I had a variety of shapes that I wanted to be part of my album.  If you would like a copy of the Craft Room file just email me and let me know.

 

Then I cut out all my layers, each layer in a different B&T or cardstock sheet from Dream Pop.  Then I scored each piece that was going to become a page where I wanted it folded, not necessarily in the middle.  Layer 1 and 2 are the cover they need to be in the middle.  To get the ribbon secure, I used liquid glass and sandwiched one length of ribbon in between the two layers.  Then I layered my pages in the order that I wanted making sure the I assembled the envelope for the middle of the album first. 

 

Next, I clothes pined the layers together to help them from shifting as I sewed the album together.  Then using my stylus and pad and a tapestry needle and grey bakers twine I sewed it together.  The trick is to punch the hole and then take the stitch, then punch the next hole - next stitch;  you get the idea.  See below!

 

 

 Once I was all the way across I tied it off and left a short tail.  Then I glued in some of the other shapes and put the whole thing closed under some heavy books overnight to fully dry.

The next day, I picked my pictures and placed them in the album embellishing as I went.  I also went back to Craft Room and designed the title and some letters and dates for the inside.  Done!

 



I really like the result and it will be nice to look at with Daughter.

 

Here is the middle with the envelope closed, I used hook and loop dots.  Inside is a larger picture and some journaling.

 

For my workshop and if I decide to do another in the future I think that I will use either narrower ribbon or cut the ribbon I used in half so that the bow is not so overwhelming.

 



If you would like to make your own let me know and I will show you how!

There are also new classes posted here.

Happy Crafting!

Emily