Boo Banner

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Hello Divas! Lori here with a Halloween Banner.

I know it is a little early, but Halloween is my very favorite holiday and I start early every year with my decorations!!!

Today I made a BOO Banner to share with you. I used my Gypsy and Cricut Expression to decorate my it.

I used BOO! from CTMH Artiste sized to 2 inches. I used Hide Contour to hide the inside cuts and the “!”. I cut this out of glitter cardstock. When I use glitter cardstock, I reverse the image (I am showing the original image here) and place my cardstock glitter side down. I use multi-cut 2. When I am done, I wash my mat with dish soap and a scrubbie to get the glitter off.

I cut these 3D flower shapes from CTMH Art Philosophy sized to 5 inches. I rolled them up with my McGill tweezers and used liquid glue on the center to hold them together.

I needed something to mount the letters on. I cut this image from Teresa Collin’s Chic and Scary sized to 3 inches. I used Hide Contour to hide the inside cuts (oval and witch hat).

I used papers from my Halloween stash for all of my cuts.

I cut the triangles out of chipboard. I traced and cut the paper to fit. It was later (after I cut the paper) that I thought to cut everything out on the cricut…. at least I only had 3 banner flags!!

After I adhered the green paper to the banner flags, I used black acrylic paint to paint the edges.

Here is a close up of the 3D flower that I rolled up. You can also see that I pop-dotted the letters onto the orange paper.

I finished the banner off with some orange ribbon.

I hope you have as much fun decorating for Halloween (or fall) as I do!!!

You can see more of my work HERE.

Summer Fun Mini Album

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Hello ~ Lori here from ScrappinMyStressAway!!

I found these 45 records at the thrift shop and thought they would make fun mini album covers!!

I re-created the record on my Gypsy using two circles sized 7 inches and 3 inches.

I used vinyl for SUMMER FUN using the font Cherry Limeade sized to .75 inches.

I sized my letters by leaving the layer with the “record” on it open. That way I knew my title would fit.

I cut out 3D flowers from Atriste sized from 3 – 5 inches out of sheet music and cardstock.

I inked the sheet music to match the cardstock. I used my tweezers to roll up the flowers and liquid glue to adhere them. I attached them to the cover with glue dots.

I traced and cut out chipboard circle pages and covered them with sheet music. I painted the edges of the pages with a bright blue acrylic paint.

I made some photo mats and cut out some flip flops and beach tags to attach to the corners.

I cut out a wave and some fish and tied the tops with twine.

I like to make a pocket for my mini albums and include tags or coordinating paper scraps.

I cut out layered flowers from Mother’s Day Bouquet sized from .88 – 2.53 inches. I cut them out of sheet music. Cutting did not go well as the paper is on the thin side, but I got enough to make my flowers.

I cut out some images from Life is A Beach. The flip flops are 1.82 inches. The tags are 1.75 inches. The gecko is 3 inches. I cut the images out in cardstock.

I tied a little twine on the tags.

I attached the gecko to the back cover.

I hope you like my unique mini album. I had a lot of fun making it!!

You can see more of my work on my BLOG!!

Graduation Cards ~ Sentimental Saturday

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Happy Graduation Cards!!

Hello – Lori here with some Graduation cards to share!!! Welcome to Sentimental Saturday where we post card projects only!!

My middle son is graduating next month and he has a lot of friends. I am making a LOT of graduation cards!!! I typically don’t like to mass produce my work, but in this case I would drive myself crazy (and run out of time) if I didn’t!

I did use a file from Silhouette to cut out the jumping graduate and hats. I am new to Silhouette but I still prefer the Gypsy. I can file all of my project pieces in one place and refer back to them when I need measurements for blog posts.

I LOVE having the option to open several layers in a project too. This project has 12 Layers and three card designs.

I used CTMH Artiste for the scalloped circle. I sized them to 4.62 inches (3 inches using Real Size).

On one page, I hid the outer circle so I cut out the scalloped circle. I cut these out in white cardstock.

On the second page, I hid the inner scalloped circle and cut out the shadow circle. I cut these out in black cardstock.

I used Birthday Bash for the numbers and sized them to 1.25 inches.

I custom the colors of the numbers to match the school. I have an entire page of 2013 to cut out in blue for my son’s school. The red and maroon are for some of his friends from other schools.

I used my 5″ Xyron to put adhesive on my numbers.

I saved a piece of the leftover cuts to use as a stencil. I placed my numbers inside the template and carefully peeled off my blue “leftover” paper. I do this to line up my letters (or in this case numbers) perfectly every time!