A quick fall craft

A 5 minute pumpkin!  

The supplies!  I used 2 pieces of cardstock (and have quite a bit left for my scrap basket), a tape runner, foam squares, oval cutting guide for the Custom Cutting System (Creative Memories), Soft Suede ink pad (Stampin' Up!), wire works (Stampin' Up!) and a small brown scrap of cardstock.

This is the Custom Cutting System with the Oval guides and the 3 different cutting blades (they give you different size cuts in graduating size of 1/4 inch.)

Directions: Using the largest oval (for the largest size pumpkin) and the blue blade cut 3 ovals from the outside of the guide.  Over lap two of the ovals slightly and on third oval adhere foam squares to pop the center of the pumpkin.  Ink your edges (I use a sponge or the finger dauber to do this) before adhering the center oval on top.  From your brown scrap of cardstock cut a "stem" piece and adhere just behind the center oval.  With the wire works (26-gauge wire) I cut a length (eye-balled) approximately 8-10 inches and wrapped both ends around a pencil then folded in half and secured with a foam dot behind the center oval.  I did this for both sides of the stem.

I might add leaves but for now I'm very happy with this little 5 minute craft.  I do plan to make more in varying sizes but needed to get a few things done for now.

I hope you enjoyed this little craft project and look forward to your comments and suggestions.

Thanks 

Maraline

A little "Magic"

What a fun layout to make!  Using the Creative Memories Gems cutting system it was quite easy and the perfect title page for our Disney album.  The papers come from the Say Cheese collection, I believe I ordered them through Scrapbook.com but at the moment not totally sure as I got them a while ago.  I do love how the flower seems to pop off the black background.

When we travel to Disney World; we color coordinate our shirts to make it easier to keep track of each other and have a different color for each day.  Probably the only time we are color coordinated in photos...lol.  The difficult part of the matching shirts is trying to get them in styles that we all like, and when some of our family members that live in different states join us.  Also we have found that we need not only short sleeve tees but also long sleeve in case of a slightly cooler day.

This is using a project recipe (Bookworm) from Creative Memories, using the Say Cheese paper collection and the filmstrip border maker cartridge from Creative Memories. I love how it gave me the chance to use 9 photos and still have a clean look.

The Project Recipes are so versatile and always great looking whether you use the paper collection they were designed for or other papers.  I'll be sharing a beach album I've been working on with my granddaughter soon that we used the Cool Serenity Project Recipe.  I'll also show how to change sizes from 12 x 12 to 8x8 pages.

Until next time Happy Scrapping,
Maraline

REvamp......Starting over

After a  very long hiatus and fall almost upon us I'm back!

I want to share my love of crafts, cooking, connecting with people and love of family.  Grab a cuppa and get to it.

About a year ago, I began selling Creative Memories, mainly for and to myself because I love their products.  The papers and albums are top notch quality; but honestly the tools are my absolute favorite!

Creative Memories did go through a period of closing a few years back and then was bought by Caleb Hayhoe and it is back!  The products are kept fresh and of great quality. Believe me you will love the products and tools!

Talking about the products and tools from Creative Memories I wanted to share a layout I made a couple days ago.  It uses the new paper pack Toil & Trouble, black cardstock, goldenrod cardstock, the new Victorian stand alone border punch, Leaf Trio Punch, and the new Pumpkins Border Maker cartridge along with an original (yellow) Sizzix die - Ghosts

I don't usually pre-make my pages; but knew I wanted to use the Victorian Fence border punch for a Halloween page and will be filling it with photos shortly after Halloween.  The Layout is based on a Project Recipe (Sketch) from Creative Memories (Countryside Comfort - another new paper collection this month).

I will be posting more tomorrow evening, so please come on back and join me!


Maraline