Valentine Cards

Here is a quick look at the cards Aaron handed out for his kindergarten class. We used the chipboard characters as the main design. I actually had the cards made(personalized thru Current) and just decorated the inside of the card and the outside envelope. We were able to personalize the cards by his classmates name....(the school gave us a list) and each child was assigned a number to make it easier to pass out their cards to their friends. So we used this for the envelopes....what we did is cut out 2 sizes of hearts(one red, and one pink) and we used the big red heart for the child's name, and the pink heart for the child's assigned number. We used a chipboard character for each child's card.....and I had enough characters to give each child two characters(one inside the card and one on the envelope). Here is my messy scrap area.....I bring Aaron's little cart table up to the scraproom so he can help with the scrapbook project. It doubled for a extra table for the crafts. I used these FOAM stickers for the cards too and also passed them out in the treat bags I made for his class(Yet another post for later...on the treat bags).

Again, the monkey Chipboard characters.....

I used 3D foam adhesive to make the characters more 3D effect and each character had a chipboard word saying that went along with the character. Plus, I even had stamp stickers with the character on them and used those for the envelopes too.



It took longer than I wanted it to .....to make all these cards(ugh)! I had Aaron sign his name on the first card we made and he ran outta room on the card. He got AAR....and didn't have enough room to finish his name. So Like last year for Preschool....I had him sign his name on separate piece of cardstock. Than all I had to do was post it onto the card. I wanted him to help and sign his name. He did a good job! I will be back later to post about the treat bags & party favors we made for his class.

Valentine Mail Box

Here my first attempt at Helping make my son's Valentine's Day Box for school. I've made one way way back in the day(for myself) but that was along time ago. Thank God for Scrapbook products....makes it more fun, and easy. We started with the idea of making a ordinary box....into a mailbox with working door and flag. My Hubby did that job...........and did a great job I might add! After the mechanical were done....we started to decorate the box.




Here is the project on the floor of my scraproom.......made each side first before pasting to the box. Unfortunately, I ran out of my Xyron permanent Adhesive...and was forced to use my re-positionable Xyron roll instead. Yikes...not such a great idea. The sides, and seams were folding over by the time Aaron brought his box home from school. I fixed it with some scotch tape to hold the seams down. That worked! Aaron wanted to use it for his playhouse after he was done using it for Vday at School. So I had to make it more durable with the tape....so he can use it for his rabbit's house(playhouse).

I used the new line by K & Company.....the little characters and paper were fun and perfect for Kindergartners. I even used the Chipboard Monkey that the chipboard was packaged in/for the front of the Box(I just added Aaron's name to the heart cutout and pasted a Chipboard sign that reads, "Happy Valentine's Day". I used the chipboard characters for Aaron's Cards he passed out to his classmates. I will show that a little later in another post. The characters are so cute, Monkeys, Robots, Lions, Frogs, cats, Bunnies etc.....very cute! We bought the handle at Home Depot....and added it to the box so the kids could open the box like a mailbox.

Here the monkey chipboard...I just tore the monkey off the container and used it for the mailbox front. The monkey was too cute for a storage container!!!


Yes, I decorated the inside too...it's a little hard to see here but in the back you can see the shiny hearts(foil hearts paper). I thought about putting another chipboard monkey on the inside flap but instead used the robot logo...since I used the robot paper inside.
I used the circle punch and cut out some characters from the cute paper with all the characters on the paper(glitter character papers). I pasted some of them on the inside flap along with the robot logo.

Here is a closeup of our working flag.....I used some 3D stickers along with some epoxy characters and chipboard words.

I decorated the backside of the flag....with some cutout heart shapes and used one of the Circle punch characters(Lion),and chipboard letters and hearts.

The top I just used the glittery Character paper.....and the back...I used some stickers that reads: Happy Valentine's Day.

I used some cool border stickers for the top lid and used the border stickers for the designs on the front and back of the box.

I also used 3D character stickers for the side without the flag. You can see with the closeup the 3D effect of the sticker. I used a circle punch and the foil red heart paper for the circle each character backdrop. I had border stickers with the characters on them too and used that for below the 3D stickers....and more of the foil hearts paper.
On the flag side I used the same design as the other side but only this time Used the Epoxy Character stickers. They have more of a shine to them and less 3D but have shiny jewels and layer effect to them.

I think Aaron was happy with his box...and the working flag and door flap helped that along. I think next year tho, Aaron has to help out more with his box. You can tell I did all the work. I didn't get him to do much but he did help with his cards. The attention span is not quite there yet...but He does like to help scrapbook(which consist of him playing around with my scraproom TV more than scrapbooking but oh well)!

Happy NSBD

Not too much to post. Just wanted to wish Everyone Happy National Scrapbooking Day today. I have no plans to scrapbook. What a bummer huh? I wish, I've been missing scrappin' alot lately. I usually don't get time to scrapbook in the summer much. Although, We decided to put Aaron into Summer school program........and that is going to free up some MOM time. So I might do a little scrapbooking in the summer this year. Will see how it goes.

I didn't get any scrapbooking in this past year. Just too much going on with my Ma passing away and Aaron going to school for the first time. Really had to get use to a newer schedule. Well, that and I was completely lazy AND trying to save $$$$. Scrapbooking can be a expensive hobby. I really didn't buy too much scrapbook products this past year at all. Which is good .....cuz my scraproom is just overflowing. I need to use my old products before they get out dated. LOL!

I hope everyone has a great NSBD! If you stop by....please share what you did NSBD. I know it's not much but I plan on watching QVC Sunday night/Mon. .....I think Lisa Bearnson suppose to be on. I haven't check the schedule yet but Lisa B. mentioned it on her website.

What I'm working on next

Here is my next project I started working on for scrapbooking. Decided to start out slow and do a bunch of mini albums. I remembered these Donna Downey tag and coin mini albums I bought from QVC awhile ago(Feb.)

The first one I wanted to start with was the big green tag album. I had just the perfect photos for this size. Our little mini trip to Bluefin Bay Resort on Minnesota's Northshore in Tofte, MN. Love, love that place. Bluefin is our favorite place on the Northshore of Lake Superior. I have tons of fun photos from when we first brought Aaron up to Bluefin in the summer of 2005. He was two years old at the time.

I wanted to use this size album as .....it would work perfect to make panoramic size photos of Bluefin and Lake superior and some hiking trails we hiked.

Here is my messy scraproom: at work on the album.



Here is my cover I made. Like I said I decided to go with panoramic size photos(same size as the album. I used the chipboard that was included in the kit. Great chipboard....it was self adhesive(LOVE IT) and the "vacation" rub-on. The rub-ons are all handwritten format(Love that too). I also made a back journal page with a sized up photo of bluefin coastline. It was kinda blurring in doing that but thought it added to the charm. Than I added some more rub-on's for the title. In the photo they are not rubbed on to the photo yet.



Here is the inside flap of the album and first page. Not sure yet what I will do with them yet??? Since I decided to go with large photo format it won't leave much room for anything else. Which is what I was aiming for on this album. Simple and photos. Mostly just add rub-on's and chipboard and some journaling.



Here is the last page.........darn! I like how it turned out now and I added all kinds of fun accents to this page. Can't go back now ....I already made the large format photos. Ha! Only reason I did this with the last page....is I had this photo that couldn't make large format and decided to add it to the end. Since it was small I had to add all the other stuff and ended up liking it. Hee hee....That will be the only pattern paper page most likely.




Just a closer look........don't you just love that chipboard round frame? So fun! I had some left over paper from my Colorbok (by Kolette) paper kit. So I added paper and border design with a saying and just happen to have these fun metal flowers that were just the right color. I haven't adhered anything down just yet but it was my work in progress. Love that photo of Aaron and Doug on a walking trail steps at Cascade River.

Well, that's my sneak peek.........no big thrill just simple easy scrapbooking. My style is more let the photos be the MAIN deal. I love embellies and pattern paper. However, I love the photo to be the main focus. Since that's why I scrapbook.

Home for the Holiday Accordion Album

My other Accordion album I made. I haven't added pixs yet but when I do....I will post with pixs. I used the papers that were in the Daisy D paper kit(Christmas). I decided the papers were so pretty....so I did them first before adding photos.

This album I tried to make more low profile and less embellies and more plain.

The papers were pretty enough on their own. I did add some Deja View Color Rub-on's to the pages. That all I really added.

Here is the cover and back cover of the album. I did add a few embellies onto the cover. Again, just some primas and some Autumn Leaves buttons & KI bling flowers.

The title was a rub-on and I used a round die cut from the Daisy D kit for accent on the cover title. The back side cover is just a piece of that gorgeous paper. Love the distress look of those papers so much.

Just some Photos taken of the Accordion album. This one is the front side. I like how the middle of the album turned out. I had those super cute dog & cat stocking paper and just worked great for a border of sorts.

This is the backside of the album.

Below is just some photos of the Accordion album. Starting with the front cover:

Here are the scanned images of the accordion album.............2 pages at a time:

Another postcard I made of the Home for the Holidays Album.

This is the first time I made a project without the photos in mind first. Alot of people scrap that way but usually I design around the photos. This time i designed the papers on the album first. Should be fun to see how that works out once I add the photos.

I used a white accordion album this time. Same brand as the last one: American Traditional Design. I just used the rest of my Daisy D papers from the kit and the Deja view rub-on's and some Making Memories Rub-on's. This accordion album was alot easier to make. TFL!

Family Christmas Accordion Album

The last of the Christmas 05 photos I put into Accordion albums. This one I named: Family Christmas Accordion Album. This one is my fav. out of the accordion albums. I worked harder on this one. I loaded it with embellies and ribbon. It is thick but fun.

I used Daisy D Paper kit(Christmas) for the papers.



I tried to use the vintage Santa paper the most on this album. It was my favorite paper from the kit.



I just love the look of Daisy D papers to begin with.....such distressed vintage feeling to them. The Santa paper I used from this kit just had so many cute things on the paper. Like the vintage toys and I especially like the airplane on it. Very fun colors too. Daisy D makes the best paper kits. This kit was a 8x8 paper kit.

Here some scans of the Front Cover and the Back Cover:

On the cover I used the Santa Photo Corners with the Red distress Vintage paper from the kit. I added the Sheer Frame from Making Memories with a cute pix of Aaron in the middle. Than added the green paper underneath the sheer frame. Than decorated it with Primas and KI Lab kit bling flowers. I also added the file tabs from the Daisy D kit and added rub-on words and Word Confetti from Making Memories. All the file tabs are from the Daisy D paper kit. They were just too cute! I added them to the back and front of the album.


Just a photo view of the album opened up. Both Front and Back side of the accordion album.

I was going to make the album from scratch but I was time limited. I wanted to get it done fast. So I bought American Traditional Design Accordion album in Black for my project. This was a time saver and probably made better than anything I could make~ha!

Below are just some Photo views of the album. I did a photo shoot of the album at different views. It's hard to scan in an accordion album. So I wanted to get different views with my camera for my blog. Here are those photos:

I did scan the originals in but had to do so 2 pages at time to fit on my scanner. I always like to have the original scans. So here are those:

This was a postcard I made of the scanned in pages. So I would have one scan of all the images together.

Pretty cool huh? I like using my photo program for that purpose.

I used alot of products on this album. I already mentioned Daisy D paper kit. Some others products I used:

American Craft Ribbon & Felt Flowers(Greenhouse), KI Memories Color Lab Kit(Joyful), Queen and Company Bon Bon Brads & Fontastics & Hook-Up & Sassy Sequins(Merry Kissmas), Making Memories Rub-On's and Word Fetti & Sheer Frame, Autumn Leaves Buttons(Winter Garden).

Someone asked how I made this album....very easy...I bought the pre-exsisting album. Than I just used the Daisy D papers and Daisy D cut outs from the kit(this kit had Loads of things in it: including those very cute Swirls you see on the backside pages). I than cut paper out to fit the black accordion album(designed the pages and put photos on). When I was done I stapled the ribbon onto the pages. First doing the front side of the album...than on the backside I had to pre-staple the stuff on before I glued it down(so it wouldn't show thru on the finished front pages). The covers(front and back) were thick so I used my crop a dile to punch a hole to put the brad and ribbon thru. On the other side of the covers(the inside of the albums) I just put brads thru BEFORE I pasted the papers down. So the front cover wouldn't have brad thru on finished page. Stuff like that........just takes a little bit of pre-thinking. Make sure when you design the album that when you flip it over to do the backside......that it is right side up. Ha....I did a bad and didn't look and had the pages of my backside upside down. I than Had to get out my faithful "undo" and redo them right side up. LOL LOL LOL! Hope that helps on the questions and TFL! I had alot of fun with this album. I think I will leave this one out for display in the house somewhere. All the ribbon was alot of fun to do. I always seen albums with loads of ribbon on them and wanted to try that technique. I always thought that was such a waste of ribbon when people would do that on a album...but after doing so....it really didn't take up that much ribbon. One could even use extra scrap ribbon laying around. I had 2 cases of American Craft Ribbon and I didn't' use much of it at all.