Card In A Box -

This is a new item that I made.  The pictures here are my 2nd time - I had to make a practice run you know.  I am so very excited with how it turned out and how REALLY simple it was to make.  Yeah you heard me simple.  I was worried at first it looked complex, however after some research and few you tubes I found it wasn't complex at all.  The hardest part is figuring out where and what embellishments you are adding.  (also the fun part)  The business card in these pictures will be replaced with a gift card.  I like that they fold and fit in a envelope.  This is my first real nice one I completed I will be making 60 some of these here in the next couple weeks.  My daughter and friends will be helping.  Hope you enjoy and I hope you will try one of these.

This is the Card in a Box - the business card will be a gift card.

Close up of it.  Images and box were cut on my cricut explore air.

Another angle

Here it is folded ready to go into an envelope.

2016

WOW 2016 here already!

I am going to try and get to all my resolutions this year.  Lots of scrapbooking ones.  My daughter will soon be 15 years old and I am only finishing her 2 year albums.  As you can see I need to move a long a little faster.  I am making plans, hoping to follow through and have a successful 2016.

What are your goals for 2016?  Please share.

I find it helps if you write them, perhaps create a vision board.  Maybe I will try both.

This year I am going to break my goals out a little more.

5 Must Complete Goals

1.  Journal and Title Anniversary Book (for Mom and Dad)

2.  Complete 2 Year Album completely

3.  Complete All Dance Pages

4.  Complete all Gymnastic Pages to current

5.  Get School Albums up to Date for Charese

Daily Goals

1.  Complete a two page spread daily

2.  Keep all Journaling up to date and complete

Long Term Goals

1.  Complete Shower Books

2.  Complete Wedding Album

3.  Get all negatives sent in and uploaded to computer

4.  Get all scrapbook items cataloged

5.  To post to blog on a daily basis and facebook business page

Well there are a few of mine so far.  I am behind because we are on day 10 of January and I have not completed any pages.  So I am off to hopefully complete 10 2 page spreads today, or at least shoot to be caught up by end of week.  We will see how it goes.

Have a great New Year everyone and I hope you are successful at obtaining your goals this year.

Getting the PERFECT PAPER!

Wow! I haven't been out here for awhile so again new year resolution is to get out here and post some stuff hopefully pages I am doing.  Lots of goals this year.

You can see in the top left the three black dots I started with.

Here I have a few more done. I am starting to think Why did I do this!

This page now done with black dots.

This one is completely done.

This page took the longest.  I love it though.

Here is why it takes me so long to get pages done though. I had this great red paper with white polk a dots on it. However, in Charese's costume it was red with black polk a dots so you guessed it I made my own red paper with black polk a dots. Here is the transformation. I took the red and white paper and some CTMH glitter back sticky back Shimmer Trim and a hole punch and made my own red and black polk a dot paper. It was a lot of punching. Sore fingers. I would like to say I am done but I am duplicating this page so I have to do it again. Hope you enjoy!

My Challenge for Today

This is going to be my Challenge for the day.  I already have the pictures picked out.  Just need to set it up and see how it turns out.  How about you try it as well and let me see what you come up with.  I will Post my results soon.

This is my version.  For this page I used Black, Colonial White, and Cashmere cardstock from CTMH, Pattern Paper is Lost&Found record it! paper line, ribbon was just what I had on hand, rhinestones are from CTMH.  Used Cricut to cut out letters.  I really like how it turned out.
 

SPRING BREAK - 2014

Spring Break here at the Brown house.  I was so very excited for it - dreams of finishing pages, lots and lots of pages was what I was hoping for on Spring Break.  Well my dreams didn't come true but I had a wonderful Spring Break.  My mom came to visit and Charese, Grandma (my mom), and I went to the movie Divergent.  Very good I really liked it.  I will save the talking about that for another day.  What I did do on my Spring Break was spring cleaned the kitchen (what a mess but I got rid of a lot) and spring cleaned my office.  It is still a work in progress but I am getting there.  I will post pictures of the transition.  It won't be complete until into summer I don't think.  Anyway the other thing I did was finish these 2 page layout.  I am so very very happy with it  I just have to share.

First of all I just love the title for this page.  I created it with my Cricut expressions.  I made the heart and paw prints, and the (on, my) lasered out of the heart.  Paw Prints were from Paperpups cartridge, Lettering is done with Jasmine, I forgot where the heart was from.  

The background paper is from CTMH For Always paper packet, The lettering is CTMH Champagne cardstock, Heart is CTMH Cranberry cardstock.  The black cardstock is from CTMH as well.  The patterned paper is Lost & Found record it!  Love Love this patterned paper.  I used pastel chalk pencils to do the journaling on the pages.  Love those too.

This is the second page - where I added brads from CTMH too.

My daughter for Christmas wanted a photo shoot with her dog.  So we contacted a friend that is a photographer, Michelle Lockwood Photography, and she did such an awesome job.  I just loved them all.  I have several more layouts to do with pictures from this photo shoot and I can't wait to see how they turn out after doing this layout.   Hope you enjoy them.  Thanks for stopping by.

Seventh Grade Portrait Page

Hello there - I was inspired by a sketch off of the A Cherry On Top Website and whipped this page together this evening.  I really like how it turned out.  I used a paper I found at Crafts Direct and then ordered more from www.acherryontop.com along with some embellishments that went with it.  The paper and embellishments is by Basic Grey.  The paper is RSVP Confetti/svp-4378, embellishments are RSVP-Mixed Brads and RSVP- Flags.  I also used white paper from CTMH, along with some solid color paper from CTMH.  Enjoy!!

Here is the sketch

Card Boxes - Would you like to Make These?

Would you be interested in learning how to make these Card Boxes with cards to go with them.  If so please email or comment below and let me know and I will work on getting a class set up.  This would have to be a Saturday class - because it will take a couple hours.  They are not to hard so grab a friend or two and let me know today your interested.