Saturday, February 19, 2011

Stamp Give Away

Everyone likes the opportunity to win something, and it is even more fun to win something cool like this great stamp given away on the Creations by Gill blog.  The stamps are adorable and I would love to add them to my stamp collection.

I think we can all relate to the “Hang In There” statement.  So pop on over to Gill’s Blog and join in on the fun. 

Good luck!
Kimberly

Thank You Card

Today I did a quick thank you card to send to a interviewer today.  I wanted a simple thank you and nothing more.  I bought some paper at Hobby Lobby because I liked the colors.  However, when I got it home, there were quite a few colors/designs that I was not particularly fond of, but I am sure I will find uses for it.  This printed paper is one of the pages that I was not really sure about.  It is supposed to be silver, but when I added the green card stock behind it, it darkened it and made it look more grey than silver.  I than added a simple thanks and a green sparkle flower that I had in my stash.  As I said, I wanted it to be fast and simple.


More Scrapbook Pages

Below are more pictures of scrapbook pages I am doing for my granddaughter’s scrapbook.  They have a Pooh theme going for their nursery so I am trying to stick with that for many of the pages.  Of course, at this point, these are two of the five cartridges that I own.

This first picture is from the delivery room, and the recovery room right before they brought mommy and baby back to the room for all of us to see.  While it is hard to see, I used a pink and white background paper on the left half of the page, and then added pink and yellow pastel blocks, and a little pink dress and a flower.


This next page comes from the delivery room right after birth.  There is daddy cutting the cord, and then the doctor hold baby Alivia up in front of the scales to show her weight.  I also added a journaling area for mommy (from a smaller portion of the with the pink embossed flower paper)to add any notes she may want to add, just a birth weight and height.  
I completed this page by simply adding a pink plaid background, followed by a pink paper with some glittery embossed flowers.  I also added an "It's a girl" and a "Love" embellishment to the page. 




This final page is the first page of Alivia’s scrapbook.  I added a picture of the baby sleeping and a cut of Pooh Bear sleeping in the bottom  corner.  I added an rectangular flourish on the top where I used my Cri-Kit Pens to write her name.  I then finished off the page by adding some bling around her name.

 
I know the pages are not perfect, but each day I improve with the process.  Each day I gather new and better ideas. Now, I just need to get more and more cartridges, and supplies.
Thanks all for your comments and suggestions.   

  

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Cutting With Vinyl

Each day is a new challenge with my new Cricut.  My husband and I are hockey fans and we follow our local USHL hockey team out of Lincoln. I used my cricut to cut out two hockey players in the face off position to place on the back window of my husband’s truck. 
I used the cricut vinyl in white at about 6” tall.  I weld the puck to one stick, but not both for ease of placement on the window. I used the Sports Mania cartridge for the players and the puck.

The results are in the pics below.