Snowflakes 2

This is just the best cartridge.  These make great decorations and gift embellishments.  Here's the second group of snowflakes.

Group 2:

Closeup of the gingerbread man flake:

Closeup of what I call the retro flake:

Closeup of the ice skate flake:

Closeup of the double flake:

Closeup of the skis flake:

Closeup of the red/green flake:

Thanks for stopping by.

Sue

Snowflakes

Since the weathermen are predicting snow showers tomorrow, I thought I'd post snowflakes. The nice warm kind.  These are snowflakes I made using the Cricut and the When Its Cold Outside cartridge.  I've made everyone on the package at least once, but gave many of them as presents previously.  They are so very detailed; I just love to make them.

Here's today's group:

Some closeups:

1st the snowman flake:

2nd the white Christmas tree flake:

3rd the reindeer flake:

4th the dreidel flake:

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and 5th the pink and pearl flake:

I'll post the next six tomorrow.  Thanks for stopping by.  If you have the time to leave a comment, I'd love to hear from you.  Sue

Christmas Mini Album #1

Once I get started on mini albums, it is hard for me to quit.  This is my first Christmas mini of the 2010 Holiday Season.  It is made using a card cut on A Child's Year (a different cut than the Dream Mini from yesterday.)

The front

The first set of pages

The Santa image is mounted on a paper doily that was first inked with silver and then highlighted with green.
 

 

 

The second set of pages

The ovals resemble picture frames.  I used pearls to highlight this one.
 

The snowflakes are wooden buttons.
 

Third set of pages

This mat is almost too pretty to cover.  The paper is embossed glitter and the gems around the edge bring a lot of bling to the page.

Fourth set of pages

I love to make the pages very 3 dimensional.  The cluster of flowers in the corner bring a much needed texture to this rather flat set of pages.
The Joy pocket is trimmed with strips of gold ribbon and red glitter domes.
 

 This frame is decorated with silver balls. 

Fifth set of pages

   

The opened cover.

Thanks for stopping by.  If you have a moment, please leave a comment.  I'd love to hear from you.

Sue

Dream Mini Album

I'm working on several mini albums for gifts.  I thought I'd share pictures of this newly finished "Dream Mini" .  I designed it to be very pastel, glittery, and with lots of flowers. I used the Cricut to cut this album.  The pages are from A Child's Year card cut.

The front

Close up of the beautiful pin my friend June sent to me.

First set of pages

 June also sent me beautiful butterflies.  I used several in this album.  This purple one is made of two sequins and a brad.

Second set of pages

Third set of pages

The mats on this page are four scalloped circles punched and held together with a brad.  I fastened the brad to the paper before adhering it to the page base.  The circles are movable to provide more elements for photos or other items to be mounted.
 

Fourth set of pages

Here is another butterfly from June.  This is a purple print fabric stuffed butterfly.

The green butterfly on this page is also stuffed fabric, but is doubled and a gem is in the middle.  The blue gem in the upper corner is from a roll of Christmas gems I bought at Michaels.

Fifth set of pages

Opened Cover 

Tags used in pockets

Thanks for stopping by.  Please leave a comment if you have time.
Sue

Cutest Halloween Treat

My grandson Paul received this Halloween Treat at his Holiday Party at school.  One of the student's mother made it.  I just think it is so adorable and I hadn't seen this done before.  Just thought I'd share a couple of pics.

The loop of jute on the top is about 10 inches long so it can hang.  The candies are taped to the box of raisins. Don't you think this is cute?

Thanks for stopping by
Sue

Halloween Pictures

Happy Monday everyone.  I'm posting the picture of my grandchildren (Paul, Brenna and Bethany) in costume.  I guess black was the in color. They had fun and got tons of goodies.

Now, here's my youngest - Lady in her chicken costume.  She was so good to let us dress her for the two minutes she wore it.  Poor thing looks so humiliated.

Thanks for stopping by.

Sue

Happy All Hallows Eve

 Hi Everyone.  I hope you are enjoying your weekend and Halloween is a real treat for you tonight.
I just sent my grandchildren out (with their parents) to the nearest cluster of homes.  We don't have many houses by us and there aren't any children so we have to travel to a subdivision a mile or so away.
I will post a picture of them tomorrow since the camera went with them now.  The kids are dressed as Darth Vader, a Witchy Rock Star, and a Angel of Darkness.  Somehow, part of each costume is part of their personality on any given day.  Gee, it just seems like a few years ago I was getting my son ready to go out and get his candy haul for the year.  Now he has three of his own he gets ready.  Oh, well I have the dog.  She's dressed as a chicken.


Hope everyone has a great night.  Tomorrow I am posting a couple of mini albums I've been working on.  It seems like forever since I've finished a project.  I am working on so many things for the house and school projects I haven't found time to make cards.  But I just got a package from Really Reasonable Ribbon and it is full of beautiful ribbons and flowers.  I can't wait to dig in to it.

Thanks for stopping by.  Sue