Which Twilight Team Are You On?

Sorry Jacob - you're definitely a cutie - but I'm "Team Edward" all the way - LOL!! I'm back in time for Halloween with a "Twilight"album that I've been working on. I wanted to share this because I know a lot of you out there are fellow "Twi-hards" - hee hee...I created this using my Gypsy and my Cricut - as well as my Twilight stamps from Artful Inkables and then a stamp set I found at Barnes and Noble. The first pic is of the entire book - I had to really dig into the Cricut cartridge library to find shapes to match the ones on the covers on the books...the first one with the apple was pretty easy to find...here's a close-up...
The apple is from "My World" - all my shapes were cut at 5 inches as my book is 5 1/2 inches tall. The word "Twilight" in the oval is from the Barnes and Noble rubber stamp set. I bound my book with the Bind It All and used some red ribbon to accent the binding.
Here is my "New Moon" page. The flower is from the Gypsy Wanderings - which comes pre-loaded on the Gypsy. The Team Jacob stamp is from the Barnes and Noble stamp set. I embossed all the photo mats in my album with the Argyle Cuttlebug embossing folder - I ran black Core'dinations color core cardstock thru the folder and then sanded it down really good to get the cool 2-tone effect.
Here is my "Eclipse" page - the ribbon was trickier to find - I ended up finding this ribbon on the "Wild Card" cart - I had to play around with the sizing of it and then rotate to fit it to my book. The Team Edward stamp on this page is from the Barnes and Noble set as well.
And my Breaking Dawn page - those of you who have read the book know which scene I'm talking about - hee hee...I used stamps from Artful Inkables on this page for the quote and the feather background. The crown on this page is from the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge.

Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out my Twilight album - are you counting down to the new movie in just a few short weeks?? I know I am!! I hope you all have a very safe and Happy Halloween!!

Spongebob to the Rescue!

I'm back again with another shape album to share!! This one is actually the first one that I did (before the Cars one) - I just hadn't gotten a chance to post the pics of this one on my blog. I did this album again using my Cricut and my Gypsy. My kids LOVE Spongebob and I did this little album so we could put some pics of them in their Spongebob jammies in it. I went with a Superhero theme with these adorable cuts from the Spongebob and other cartridges - here are some close-up pics of the pages - details for cut sizes and paper are under each pic...

Here is the first page - after each of the pages were designed on my Gypsy - they were cut in lightweight chipboard and covered in patterned paper. On this page - Spongebob was cut at 4 inches from the Spongebob Squarepants cartridge and the paper is from the DCWV All About Boys stack.

Here is page #2 - paper from the DCWV All About Boys stack again - Patrick was cut at 4 inches as well and is from the Spongebob Squarepants cartridge.

Sticking with the Superhero theme of the album - for this page I used the superhero car from the Paper Doll Dress-Up cartridge (it was cut at 2 inches). If you click on the pic - you can see bigger view of it and you'll see that the car was covered with a blue iridescent paper to give it some shine. The paper on this page is from the DCWV Generation Tech stack.

Here is the cityscape - this is from the Going Places cartridge - with the Gypsy - I was able to play around with the length and width to get it to match up with the other shapes in my album. The paper on this page is from the DCWV Generation Tech stack.

And the last page - the moon and the night sky - I cut the moon as a circle from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge - it's a 3 inch circle. I cut it using yellow glitter paper from the DCWV Glitter stack to give it some shimmer. The paper is from Hobby Lobby - I believe it is by KI Memories.

Thanks so much for stopping by!! I hope you're enjoying looking at these mini-albums as much as I enjoy making them - I really feel like I've been in a creative rut lately and doing something different like this is starting to bring my mojo back! ;)

Start Your Engines!!

Hello everyone!! Watch out - I'm back again and I've got a new toy - hee hee...I was lucky enough to purchase on of the new Gypsy machines by Provocraft when they debuted on HSN a couple of weeks ago and let me tell you - I've been having A LOT of fun with my Cricut again now that I have my Gypsy!! This is actually my second completed project with my new toy - I posted a Spongebob album over on the Cricut messageboards - here's a link - and I'll try to get the pics posted of that album here on my blog in the next day or so. But onto this new project I have to share with you today - it's a chipboard shape album made with the Disney Cars Cricut cartridge!! I have been loving all the custom shape albums and word books I've been seeing around scrapbook land lately - so I did some research on how to make them using my Cricut machine and the Design Studio software. Well - then my Gypsy came - so I decided to try it out with that instead and am loving what I'm able to do with it so far!! Basically - I'm designing my pages on the Gypsy - then cutting the pages out in lightweight chipboard and patterned paper to cover them. Then - I go back and re-cut all my shapes for my book and layer them on. Here are some close-up pics so you can see - all cuts were done with the Disney Cars cartridge..
When all the pages lined up - I wanted it to look like The King, Lightning McQueen and Chick Hicks were racing across the finish line - so for the first page - I used the checkered flags from the Cars cart - cut at 2 3/4 in. The paper is from Hobby Lobby as is the checkered flag and red ribbon.
Here is "The King" - he was cut at 2 1/2 inches and I accented him with red and crystal Stickles. All the checkered flag paper I used is from Hobby Lobby.
Here is Lightning - cut at 2 1/2 inches - accented with orange, yellow and crystal Stickles. (I love this pose - look how he is looking over at mean ol' Chick Hicks - hee hee...)
Here is Chick Hicks - page #4 - cut him at 2 1/2 in. and accented his numbers with crystal Stickles.
And the last page - the finish line - this cut is from the Cars cart as well - cut at 1 3/4 in - I stickled the letters and the lightning. The paper is some old Karen Foster racing paper I had in my stash.

Thanks SO much for stopping by and checking out my album!! I'm guessing now that I have my Gypsy - you're gonna see a lot of scrapbooking on my blog as well my normal stamping (when I get some more free time) - I've got one more Copic class left to do for the year and then I plan on getting back to some recreational stamping - LOL!! Have a wonderful day!!!