Altered Frame

Hello all!  I hope you are all having a wonderful Tuesday!  Yesterday was absolutely gorgeous for Missouri in January.  As for today, winter is officially back.  I have an altered frame to share with you today. This is my first attempt and I am pretty happy with how it turned out.  A good friend of mine is pregnant with baby number two and I wanted to make them something for the nursery.  I bought this frame at Michaels and now wish I had taken a picture of it before.  This particular frame worked out nicely as it fits a 12 x 12 sheet of paper perfectly.  I first took the glass out of the frame and in pencil I traced around the 5 x 7 rectangle for the picture.  Once the picture portion was traced, I cut it out and attached the paper to the frame with Modge Podge.  I let the frame sit over night and then added the other images to the frame with Modge Podge.  As for the images, I used the following cartridges;  Create a Critter, Baby Steps and Pooh and Friends.  It is kind of hard to tell from the picture but I clear embossed swirls on the clouds to give them some extra depth.  I also inked all the edges with Tea Dye distress ink.  Once the frame was completed I sprayed it with Krylon's Matte Finishing Spray which I found at Wal-Mart.

Celebrate the Occasion: Challenge #46

PCW: Frame Challenge

Items Used:

Create a Critter (clouds). Pooh and Friends (stars), Baby Steps (sleeping baby. moon, cloud) Cricut Cartridges

Tea Dye Distress Ink

Pink By Design: Swirl Curls and Baby Love

My Creative Time: Whimsical Calendar Days and XL Label Die

Peachy Keen Stamps: January Stamp of the Month

Ribbon from my stash

Modge Podge

Krylon Clear Matte Finishing Spray

Chalk

White Gellyroll pen

Heat Gun

Embossing Ink

Clear embossing powder

Hot Glue

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!

Mini Album

Hello everyone!  I hope you all are having a fabulous week.  I have a mini album I would like to share with you.  I love the idea of mini albums, especially as gifts.  This is the first one I have ever done.  I wanted to cut it into a cute shape but ran into some trouble.  My cricut did not seem to want to cooperate and cut my chipboard.  If anyone has any tips on how to cut chipboard, I would greatly appreciate them.  I finally gave up and made a boring 8x8 square mini album.

I made this album for Melody Unger.  I went to college with her parents, Lois and Kaleb.  Lois and I were in the same social sisterhood.  Little Miss Melody is a miracle baby.  Due to health problems that Lois was having, she was born at twenty three weeks.  Melody joined this world in May at 10 inches and only 13 ounces.  Lois and Melody's fight to become healthy again was a long one.  Melody spent months in the NICU and Lois had some severe complications.  On October 3, Melody finally got to go home with her parents.  Things were looking up for the Unger family.  However, on October 11th, Lois' health took a turn for the worse and on the 15th she passed away.  I wanted Melody to have something for pictures of her and her mom.  So, I am sending the album to Kaleb so he can add pictures and journal memories.

Items Used:

Pooh & Friends Cricut Cartridge

Elegant Edges Cricut Cartridge

Baby Steps Cricut Cartridge

New Arrival Cricut Cartridge

Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge

Journaling sheets from Michaels

Chipboard

Crop-a-dile

Ribbon

Various punch out embellishments

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful rest of the day!

I'm Back :)

Hello everyone!  I feel like I have not posted in forever.  Last Saturday was my sister's wedding.  It was absolutely gorgeous.  I was out of town most of last week and I have spent this week recovering.  I finally got some time to make a couple of cards tonight.  My good friend from college is pregnant with baby number two.  They just found out that they are having a boy!  She is super excited.  I used the Peachy Keen sketch for inspiration to make her card.  Here is the sketch:

Peachy Keen Stamps - Sketch Challenge #62

Cricut 360 - Challenge #13 - Welcome Baby

Items Used

Cricut Cartridge - Baby Steps

Peachy Keen Stamps - Fun Kiddie Face set

Sentiment - Pink By Design Baby Love

Distress Ink - Pumice Stone

Various Ribbon

Have a wonderful night.  I am off to bed.  It is way past my bedtime. :)

My First Layout in a Long Time

I love my digital camera.  However, I am really bad when it comes to getting pictures printed.  My sister is getting married in the fall and we have been going through old family pictures.  I have had so much fun looking at them it made me want to catch up on my scrapbooking.  Since I have so many pictures that need to be printed, I have decided to start with pictures that are already printed.  These are pictures of my husband and my step-son before I knew them.

All of the images came from the Baby Steps cartridge and were cut at 3".  The squares were embossed with the Cuttlebug Traffic Jam embossing folder.