Just A Scrappin'

Scrapbooking Layout with Glitz

2012-01-22T23:59:00.014-05:00

This post was written by guest blogger Carol Horton. Carol is a Close to My Heart Independent Consultant. Please visit her website at carolh.myctmh.com and her blog here: carol-scrappininparadise.blogspot.com

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The layout I created for my scrapbooking class is from Cherish, the how-to book by Jeanette Lynton. The papers are retired, but since January is "Use your Scraps" month, I think it is appropriate. The paper is the Wings Creative Basics and can still be purchased on the While Supplies Last clearance on my website. The colors used in this layout are: New England Ivy, Sweet Leaf, & Cocoa. Accents are cut-outs from the Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge. Stamped sentiments are from the stamp set included in the Sonoma Workshop on the Go. That bright luster you see in all the tiny boxes on the Background Paper is created by Bronze Glitz Glitter Gel. All supplies can be purchased from me. There is a link on my blog: carol-scrappininparadise.blogspot.com or you can email me at hsch10@bellsouth.net with any questions.

Welcome to the Design Team

2012-01-22T09:44:00.000-05:00

Announcing the first ever Design Team for Just A Scrappin':
Crystal at Creations by Crystal
Confessions of a Paperholic
Brenda at Brenda's Scrappy Blog
Patti at Patti's Paper Fun
Cindy at Creating with the Heart
Keri at Keri's Kreativity
IvaGayle at Quilting/Scrapping/Crafts!! is just starting to blog and although her main focus is quilting, she has knowledge working with SVG files and SCAL, so I'm asking her to be a guest blogger now and then with paper crafts using those programs.

Congratulations ladies. As I don't have all of your emails to contact you, please email me (Angie) at luvs2scrapbook75@gmail.com by Wednesday, January 25 to accept being on the DT.

Angie at Luvs2Scrapbook

Vintage Rosette's

2012-01-22T08:07:00.001-05:00

I love this!

A Homemade Trading Card Game!

2012-01-20T11:49:00.010-05:00

Post made by guest blogger, Allison Coldren. Be sure to visit her blog here: http://orangeyougladdaily.blogspot.com/

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I cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to be a guest blogger for “Just A Scrappin’”. When I was given this opportunity, I thought long and hard about the right project for my post. I really wanted to do something special and different for this blog since I have been given so many great ideas and tips right here. And without further ado…

A Homemade Trading Card Game!

This is a twist on a set of ATCs. My 7 year old son LOVES all trading card games (Yu-Gi-Oh, Redakai, Pokemon, etc) and I HATE paying for these expensive pieces of paper. So we sat down and decided to make our own set together. It was incredibly quick and easy!

Now, I am normally a traditional paper crafter, but these cards are better off done digitally. It makes it easier to keep a unified look and add more cards whenever you want. Here is a quick tutorial:

1. Create your images for each card (my son drew his monsters on 8.5x11” paper) and scan them to your computer.

2. Create your trading card template. You can use any photo editing software that you have, or even a Microsoft Word document. We wanted a similar look to the set of Yu-Gi-Oh cards my son has, so we used that as an example while creating our template. Be sure to create a back side template to your cards (my son also made a drawing for this, but you can chose any image).

3. Insert one image per card and add your details (name, special powers, point levels, etc).

4. Print your cards and laminate. If you do not have a laminating machine, use clear Con-Tac paper. This makes the cards more sturdy and helps secure the front and back sides.

After this project, my son has declared his love for scrapbooking! I can’t wait to do more with him.

Stop by my blog to check out some other fun, kid-friendly projects. Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!
Allison

10 New Cricut Cartridges

2012-01-19T21:13:00.009-05:00

Something for everybody!! So what do you think? Is PC off to a good start for this new year?

Join Me!

2012-01-19T09:15:00.000-05:00

Let me ask you a few things…

-Do you love scrapbooking? (DUH!)

-Do you want to scrapbook more? (DUH!)

-Do you want to make new scrappy friends? (OF COURSE!)

Then why oh why have you NOT signed up for LOAD212? We’ll be spending 29 days together, creating dozens of layouts that will preserve yesterday while creating NEW memories with fun scrappy people!

29 layouts in 29 days – together!!

I want to invite YOU to spend February with me!

Click here to view more details.

2012 Rose Bowl Parade

2012-01-19T08:19:00.000-05:00

If you are (or are not even cause it's still interesting) a big Rose Bowl Parade fan check out this blog post: Behind the Scenes at the 2012 Tournament of Roses Parade Floats

Very cool!

Show Them Whoooo Cares With a Cute Card!

2012-01-18T08:29:00.006-05:00

Today's post was made by Carole. You can visit her blogs by clicking here: Tuffimom's Quilts - Ewes Quilting

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Show Them Whoooo Cares With a Cute Card!

Making cards for the holidays is a great way to steal some creative time during a very busy season! Now, I’m relatively new to card-making—I’ve been quilting for 20 years and was given a Cricut for Christmas two years ago to use with my fabric crafts. (And, yes, I did make a cute wall-hanging with my Cricut, but that’s a subject for another post!) In the meantime, I discovered making cards is very similar to assembling a quilt top.
This year, I made cards for gift cards, thank you notes and gift tags. Found the Wild Card cartridge to be pretty wonderful for a variety of cards!

Made with Wild Card Ornament at 4 1/4 inches outlined with a silver Sharpee and a ribbon hanger

My aunt was more thrilled with the hand-made card than the gift cards inside!
The Very Merry Tag cartridge offers so many cute tags and everyone seems to enjoy them on their gifts.

Just a sampling of what tags I made this year
Pretty cool being able to customize your tags to match your gift wrap and add that perfect touch on every gift! Each tag was between 3 inches to 3 ½ inches. Thinking I’m going to start making these in October so I can have plenty on hand for Christmas. I just pop in paper, tell the machine to cut a bunch and assemble the tags. Might be fun to have a bunch of friends over and make enough for everyone’s gifts!

Whoo loves a cute thank you note???
The owl card is one of my favorites! I used shiny metallic paper for the owl, tree and greeting. Before putting the liner in the owl, I turned up the feathers on his chest a little to add a bit of texture. This little cutie was also made the Wild Card cartridge at 4 ¼ inches.
The weather around here has been unseasonably warm for New Jersey, which is conjuring thoughts of spring flowers. Wild Card also has this darling daisy card I made at 4 ¼ inches.

Wishing for springtime....

Will send this card during the next snowstorm!

A word of warning when making the flower card—make sure the liner and outside match, since they can only be oriented one way. (Don’t ask me how I found that out!) Would have preferred a way to make the grass a different color on the envelope, but there wasn’t a separate cut-out. Being cheap, err, frugal, and not wanting to cut another envelope and cut out the grass portion, I decided to get out my colored pencils and enjoy some relaxing coloring time.

Thanks so much to Linda for allowing me to be a guest blogger! Had a wonderful time sharing my cards and tags with you!

For Sale: Bind-It-All, BIA Tote & Tool Kit, 8 boxes OWires (Brand Spankin' New)

2012-01-17T02:57:00.003-05:00

For Sale, everything you see below, brand spankin' new, never even removed from the original packaging. BIA, Carrying Case, Tool Kit, and 8 boxes of OWires. Make me an offer and you pay shipping. Email ohscrap@gmail.com if interested.

ZUTTER BIND-IT-ALL VERSION 2.0 is PINK and has been updated. This personal, dual-action binding system allows you to easily punch and bind journals, mini scrapbooks and an array of other fun projects. This updated version has a bigger opening giving it a 35% greater punching thickness. Extension Bar helps with accuracy on projects bigger than the width of the machine. Overall it is more durable and updated from the original blue one. Small and compact but does the job! Comes with instructional and project DVD.

Pink Bag-A-Bind Tote by Zutter
The Bag-A-Bind is the perfect way to safely store and transport your Bind-it-All, tool kit, and other scrapbook accessories. It’s a great way to stay organized and small enough to take to any class or crop!

Tool Kit
All the essentials for punching, binding, and scrapbooking. This tool kit comes with 11 indispensable tools - including: craft knife with refills, mini scissors, wire cutters, pliers, bone folder, stainless steel ruler, measuring tape, paper piercer, 2 sewing needles and a ball point pen - all stored safely and durably in a heavy-duty nylon pouch. Make one investment in all these tools and punch and bind like a pro!

Zutter Bind-It-All O-Wire Combs (3/4" Antique Silver)
These O-Wires were made to be used in the Zutter Bind-It-All machine. These O-wires will securely bind cardstock, chipboard, cd's and more in just seconds! The closed size of the wire is 3/4". The length of each strip is 11". Comes with 6 comb strips per package. Total 4 boxes of 6 wires.

Zutter Bind-It-All O-Wire Combs (3/8" black)
These O-Wires were made to be used in the Zutter Bind-It-All machine. These O-wires will securely bind cardstock, chipboard, cd's and more in just seconds! The closed size of the wire is 3/8". The length of each strips is 11". Comes with 6 comb strips per package. Total 4 boxes of 6 wires.

Cricut Imagine

2012-01-16T05:15:00.000-05:00

Today's Post is by guest blogger Patricia Salazar.

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Why so many people complain over the cricut imagine?

Many people were wondering if they should buy a cricut imagine or not on black friday, it was such a good deal, how can you not buy it for $187. I was one of those people, I don't buy things just because they are on sale, but what made me decide on buying an imagine was the fact that I'm a full time mom, I have 2 toddlers and little time for my self, at the end of the day I can only stay awake for a few hours, whith the imagine I just print and cut, I don't need to glue all the pieces to get just one cut.

But if you are someone that doesn't know how to update your computer or how to install a printer you might want to just get a cricut expression or the expression 2.
So many people post messages at the cricut website regarding problems with the imagine, the thing is if you begin installing or updating your imagine and you turn it off or unplug it you will be the one causing your imagine to stop working properly. If your internet connection is to slow or you have a computer virus or an old computer with low memory the process will take forever, you have to be very patient. If this is your case grab a book and don't stress about it or it will drive you insane. In my case it took me little time to do the updating and installing. But I love anything that has to do with computer work.

The calibrating is not as bad as some say, you just pick the numbers where the blade cuts just in the middle or covers the black line, don't think that the blade cut should be below the black line so that you can get the blade to cut the whole image, this is not true, you set it up just like a printer, like I said make sure the blade cuts the black line , not above or below.

My advice to you will be, find out how fast your internet is, do the instalation during the day so you can call the cricut customer service if you run into problems. Login to the cricut website, click on comunity and then on cricut imagine, there's plenty of posts than can be helpful, good luck!

Seven Reasons to Backup, Print and Organize Your Photos

2012-01-15T07:13:00.001-05:00

The link I've attached is an ad for Archiver's however it also has an article in it called "Seven Reasons to Backup, Print and Organize Your Photos". A must read!!

Click HERE to read it.

Canvas Tote Bag

2012-01-14T06:41:00.000-05:00

Post made by guest blogger, Queen Bee. http://queenbee3200.blogspot.com/

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So I saw a really cute bag that, Leslie (http://cardmkrleslie.blogspot.com/) had on the Cricut message board as well as her blog site. With her HUGE help, she got me a bag at her local Christmas shop, since I don't have one here, and she sent me the bag and some Heat Transfer Vinyl (HTV). So after being scared about what to do, I decided that I would cut with contact paper to see how the cuts would come out and to also see the sizing for my bag. Here's the bag before I got started:

Here's what I did with my contact paper cuts.......a LO to use for later on.

Here's DS and me working on what to cut on the new vinyl.

After cutting the vinyl....it was time to iron-on.

Next it was time to check on the pieces to see if they were ready.

So here I am peeling the plastic layover off the shells.

The front completed!!!!!

Here's where the vinyl did something weird. I'm not sure because the image is with thinner/smaller pieces or what, but here's my name on the back of the bag.
So that's pretty much it!!!! I really enjoyed spending my time working on this too!!!!
Please leave a comment, I'd love to hear what you think!!!!

Glass Etching

2012-01-11T01:27:00.000-05:00

Post made by guest blogger, Lisa McClanahan. Visit her blog here:
http://mcclanahan7.blogspot.com/

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My daughter-in-law and I wanted to have friends over for a tea party and we wanted them to be able to take something home with them. Since we had some glass etching cream that we used on her and my son's toasting glasses for their wedding we decided to etch a glass for each guest. We wanted to keep the cost down so bought our glasses at The Dollar Tree.

This is one of the toasting glasses from the wedding. The big "M" came from Tie the Knot Cricut cartridge and the small "M" & "S" came from the Jasmine.

These are the glasses that our guest could take home. We chose 3 different size glasses.

This is our trial glass before starting the ones for our guests. It has icicles and snowflakes but since it was the holiday season we chose to use icicles holly leaves for our guests.

First we cut the images on the Cricut using vinyl. Our icicles and snowflakes came from the Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake Art and the holly leaves were from the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge. You will want to use the reverse image so you can use the actual image for something else if you want. If you don't have access to a cutting machine you could use any adhesive stencil.

The icicles were easy to adhere to the glass. Since it was curved we had to make sure the creases were closed, we did this by pressing them flat.

We used transfer tape with our snowflakes and holly leaves so our small pieces stayed in there exact place.

The etching cream was applied with a foam paintbrush. We applied it pretty thick but not so thick that it dripped down.

After about 10 minutes we rinsed the etching cream off with warm water and removed the vinyl.

We had a lot of fun making the glasses and the image could be changed for any occasion. I think they would make a great personalized gift.

Create a Banner to Hang

2012-01-10T00:01:00.022-05:00

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I am truly fortunate to be Scrappin In Paradise here in Florida. As a Close to My Heart Independent Consultant, I make a lot of projects to showcase things customers can make using CTMH products. When CTMH released the Art Philosophy Cricut Bundle Cartridge, I wanted to show some of the diverse things you can make using it. Many times, I end having these little things around and never get a chance to use.

The project I made hangs in my classroom. It has a combination of cuts from the Art Philosophy cartridge. I took one of the CTMH My Creations Banners and inked the edges using Tulip ink. Then I covered it with Roxie papers that I cut in the banner shape from the AP cartridge. The letters for my name are the decorative layer font. There are little circles cut out of the letters, but I chose to put Mocha Opaque adhesive gems into the spaces.

There are various swirls, and frills, 3-d flowers with Mocha Opaques in the centers, layered flowers with dyed crocheted flowers in the centers, and the "key to knowledge" all cut from this same cartridge.

Images are raised using pieces of cardboard layered under them at various thicknesses.

In the "space" banner, I cut several rose images from another sheet of paper and layered them onto the banner itself. I added some Pearl Opaques to the swirl.

The flowers in the centers are made using the white crocheted flowers that I dyed using Tulip reinker and layered onto several flower cuts from the cricut cartridge.

The flower and the butterfly are each two part images layered together. Either piece could be used independently, but they look so great together.

Products Used (All CTMH)

Z1686 Cricut Art Philosophy Bundle
Z1378 My Creations Banner
X7140B Roxie L2 Paper (used Bulk)
Z1333 Mocha Opaque Adhesive Gems
Z1336 Pearl Opaque Adhesive Gems
1388 Colonial White Cardstock
Z2166 Tulip Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
Z2266 Tulip Exclusive Inks Reinker
Z697 Sponge

Kit-A-Licious Page Kits

2012-01-09T01:09:00.000-05:00

Post made by guest blogger, Melanie Hyatt from Kit-a-licious.

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Hello everyone,

We are so excited to be a guest contributor to "Just A Scrappin".
Let me introduce us. We are 3 ladies who decided to start a "small" scrapbooking business on a "whim"..... I am Melanie, mom to 3 busy girls and a full time Hospice Triage Nurse (I am blessed to work from home). Lisa, mom to 2 wonderful teenagers, she also works from home in her scrapbooking business and is also a full-time baseball mom and last but not least Bev, she works full time in a very busy accounting position and is also mom to 2 wonderful kiddos. She also has a son who keeps her busy with sports.

We all had a love for scrapbooking and a little conversation while at an event in Natchez, MS one year has lead to all of this! We love every minute....craziness, travelling and all! Well 2 and 1/2 years later here we are. We are the proud owners of Kit-A-Licious, Page Kits To Go. We are an online and mobile page kit business, specializing in double page layouts. Our pre-made kits are designed and pre-cut for you, they come with a color photo to guide you and all you need is your beautiful pictures and adhesive. The kits are great for the scrapper with little time, the scrapper who needs help getting their creative juices flowing, the new scrapper just learning to play with paper and the experienced scrapper who uses our kit as a base and adds to it and makes it totally their own. Over the past year we have added basic supplies to our site, such as inks, adhesive, stickles, pens and various tools.

You can see NEW kits posted daily on FACEBOOK as well as at Kit-a-licious, online store. If you are anywhere near any of the events we attend, we would LOVE to meet you. We travel across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. We attend about 10-12 shows a year and dates are posted on our store site. While traveling we also teach various types of classes....layouts, mini-books, canvas', and altered projects. We were recently thrilled to be featured in "Scrap n' Art Online Magazine".

That is about it for now, we will be posting regularly while Linda gets her new business up and running. Be watching for tips, product reviews and sneak peek from upcoming CHA. Also, we LOVE to have giveaways!

Thanks for checking us out!

Kit-a-licious gals,
Melanie, Lisa and Bev

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Just A Scrappin' Design Team Call

2012-01-08T08:48:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone!! I want to take a moment and introduce myself. My name is Angie over at Luvs2Scrapbook and I have followed Linda's Blog for some time now. When Linda expressed a need for guest designers, I suggested that she have a design team to take over the load of her blog for a while so she can focus her energy on her new photography business that has taken off!!! YEA!!!! So she asked if I would head up the call, so here goes...

If you would like to be considered to be a Design Team member for Just A Scrappin', please create ONE project for this call. There is not a required theme to follow so be as creative as you wish! Your paper project can either be a card, layout, home decor item or a 3-D item!

This will be a 3 month term, you will be required to do 1 to 2 blog hops a month & complete at least 1 project a month with a given theme! Also, you will need to have a blog to participate!

Your entry MUST BE A NEW PROJECT especially for this DT call!

The deadline is Monday, January 16 @ midnight (est) to leave a comment below with a link to your blog and project. Be sure there is a way for me to contact you :)

I will announce the new DT on Saturday, January 21st!

Best of luck everyone!!!!

Angry Bird Card

2012-01-08T08:07:00.000-05:00

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Hi. I'm Carol Horton. Linda invited me to be a guest blogger to her wonderful blog. I am so excited to share myself and my creations with all of you.

I know that Angry Birds is a very popular game right now. As a matter of fact, I have a kindergarten student who adores the game. When I showed him a picture of the card, he knew right away what I was trying to create! I have to admit, I had only seen the game once and dismissed it. I do however, have a friend, Mindy, who is addicted to Angry Birds. Of course, once I saw this card created by Tracy Sanders, I knew I had to try to make it for Mindy's birthday.

I cut all the pieces to make the card from the Close to My Heart Art Philosoply Bundle Cricut Cartridge. I had no directions on what to use to make this Angry Bird, but I experimented until I could figure out the pieces I needed. I did have to play around to get the sizes right.

To tell you how to find the keys to cut, let me explain how I mark my overlays. I use a system that I think came from Robyn at MyPinkStamper. I label each row with a letter A-E and each white key is numbered 1-10. I start at the first image page in the handbook and mark it A1 and continue to A10. The next image is B1 and goes on to B10. I'm sure you get it.

The body and eyes were made using circles cut on key A1. You need a larger one for the body, 2 black for the eyes in 2 different sizes and a third to cut in half for the eyebrows. You also need a white circle for each eye.

The plume for his head and his wings were cut using the key B2 shift. I cut the center part for each wing. I used the entire top of one for the head feathers.

His legs and feet were cut with the image on key D6 Layer Shift. It looks like a tree trunk but I cut off the extra branches and put them upside down.

His nose was cut using key E5 shift.

Close To My Heart Art Philosophy Bundle Cricut Cartridge is a truly versatile cartridge. It has 6 decorative keys {font, font layer, tag, cards, layer, decorative layer}. It can cut 700 unique images. I believe all the images can be used alone or with another image. I created a blog post of all the images I could cut just using one button. You can see it here.

Thanks for looking.
Carol

Vinyl Meets Aluminum .....

2012-01-07T18:21:00.006-05:00

Post made by guest blogger, Queen Bee. http://queenbee3200.blogspot.com/

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So my son's B-day is coming up in a couple of weeks. We're doing a pool party which should be a blast. I wanted to do something really neat for all the kids so I decided I would make them goodie bags and make each kid their own bottle.

So first I started out with the names:

Then I cut a bunch of circles on the Cricut. 2 sizes 1 inch and 1.5 inch circles. I started applying them in random order on the bottles.

My son's bottle is green, cause he's the birthday boy so he can have a different color. I didn't want red dots on it as it would remind me of Christmas every time I saw it. So I picked a different color for his smaller dots.

And a couple more pictures:

I am pretty happy with the way they turned out!

Anybody?

2012-01-07T08:25:00.002-05:00

A year or so ago I started my own local business. It took off and now I find myself crazy busy, to the point of neglecting my craft blog, Just A Scrappin. I don't want this blog to die as I have full intentions of jumping back on the Cricut horse as soon as things settle down so I was wondering if anyone out there would like to do some guest post on here. You could write about anything you like as long as it's craft or Cricut related. Any body interested?

Merry Christmas Friends

2011-12-20T08:29:00.000-05:00

New Cricut Cartridges

2011-12-15T20:25:00.003-05:00

Eight new cartridges were introduced in today's Hello Thursday. Click HERE to check them out.

Happy Thanksgiving Ya'll!

2011-11-24T06:58:00.001-05:00

Have a wonderful family and friend filled Thanksgiving dear Bloggie peeps. You guys are awesome!

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Blitsy

2011-11-22T07:42:00.005-05:00

You've heard of Groupon and Zulily right? Well there's a new site starting up called Blitsy that is like Groupon but it's aimed at crafters. Sounds fun huh! Refer a friend and if they make a purchase, you get a credit. So friend, click HERE and check it out. ;)

http://blitsy.com/rewardsref/index/refer/id/3857/

Dude!!

2011-11-14T21:58:00.003-05:00

Wowsers! What's going on over at CricutMachine.com??

Walmart, Black Friday & the Imagine

2011-11-10T12:11:00.001-05:00

Here's a preview of Walmart's Black Friday ad....has the Imagine for $187. Told ya to wait. ;)

LINK