Pamper Yourself!

Here's another card I made for my Granddaughter for her personal bridal shower.

I purchased this image from *MyScrapChick.com*, printed all the separate pieces, coloured them and then put it all together.  I gave the towel texture by embossing with my Cuttlebug and a Sizzix Alterations folder.  The black border is a Martha Stewart *punch around the page* set, sorry I don't know the name of it.  

The wedding is only a week away now, excitement! excitement!

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*Garden Tea Party* Mini

My latest *crafty* project is this mini album made with the DCWV *Garden Tea Party* paper collection. There are lots of tags and *tea* related sayings included in this collection, so there's tons of room for pictures.

I tried a new binding technique on this one, (new to me anyhow) called *stacked hinge binding*

I found an excellent, detailed tutorial for this album on Youtube, courtesy of *Papercrafter 45*.  There you'll find instructions for this 6.5" x 6.75" album from start to finish, including the stacked hinge.

Now for some pictures, there's lots to see...

 Front cover

Here's some of the pages...

The inside front cover

Some of the right hand pages have flip outs, as you can see in the next pictures

flips to the right

flips up

This page has a corner pocket

Some left hand pages have side pockets

 Some pages have pockets across the bottom

Some of the left hand pages flip out to the left as seen below

 

Inside back cover

The back

I didn't include all the pages here.  I'm very pleased with how this album turned out & will definitely make another one.
 My next project is another mini album using my Cricut *Elegant Edges* cartridge.  The cartridge has a *books* feature, with many designs to choose from.

Thanks for visiting my blog today & come back soon!

Thank You's etc.

My 2nd post for today.  

Here are a couple of thank you cards I recently made.

Now a shower card

That's it for today friends, bye for now & happy crafting!

Winter Theme Bridal Shower (with a fun twist)

My Granddaughter's bridal shower was this past Saturday.  The theme was *winter* with a fun twist.... cute penguins.

I've been working on the decorations etc., for a few weeks and here are some pictures of them.

We had a hot chocolate bar which was a big hit.

In this picture the chocolate covered spoons are missing.

Here's the beautiful *bride-to-be* enjoying her hot chocolate!
I made her a fascinator, so cute!

These are the favours, *Penguin Kisses*
Each one holds 2 Hersheys Kisses.
(Go here for the directions to make these)

The food table decorated with pine cones, snowflakes, little gifts and wine glass lamps.

Night time

Water bottles with wraps, made with Memory Mixer on my computer.  Sorry for this picture, but it's the only one I got of the water bottles.

This was a lot of fun to do, thanks so much for looking!

  

More Sunburst Cards!

Love making these sunburst cards, or starburst, as some people call them. This is a great way of using up your scraps.

Here's two more, the first one is an easel card, I adjusted the size of the top piece to fit the sunburst.

As you have probably noticed, my punching went a little awry on this one... oops!

The next one is for a farewell party.

I did a flap on the inside so that there will be plenty of room for everyone to sign it.

That's it for today, see you soon!

Sunburst Style!

Hi folks,

It's been a while since I posted anything, but I have been busy crafting.  Can't tell you or show you what I've been doing.... it's a secret for now.  Shhh!! ;)

Here's a card I made.  I came across this style while I was browsing on Youtube, I thought it was nice, hope you like it.

The papers are from the Bazzill *Timeless* collection

The inside.  

I find it hard to write neatly without lines, so I usually lightly draw some lines with pencil & ruler, then erase them when I've written my message.

Here's a link to one of the many tutorials for this card on Youtube

Thanks for dropping by today, I'll have lots more to share with you soon.