Card Patterns #19/Graduation Altered CD's and Last 2 pages of Silverwood Book

Here is a card for the card patterns sketch #19. My uncle's 80th birthday party is next weekend and my kids are going with my parents (I'm not!). I wanted the kids to have a cool card to give him! I used scraps from Bo Bunny paper (I used it for my daughter's outdoor school book which I will have to post pics of!). It's your day is from the George Cricut Cartridge and so is the circle. The branch is from the Storybook Cricut Cartridge. The scallop is a quickutz revolution 12" die. The 80 and owl are both quickutz 2 X 2 dies. The blingy leaves I got at walmart in the button section.




These next 2 pictures are of the altered CD's I made for each kid in my daughter's 5th grade class. I used a star theme for the boys and hearts for the girls (my daughter had 2 Morgan's in her class ~ one a boy and one a girl!)

I used the Cutting Cafe happy graduation big printable stamps on one side and Cutting Cafe calendar printable stamps on the other side. 5th grade is from the Locker Talk Cricut Cartridge, the names are from Don Juan Cricut Cartridge,




Congrats on the star one is from the Teardrop cricut cartridge and the stacked congrats is from Beyond Birthdays Cricut Cartridge.

These were such great fun to make. I also cut 12 of the stacked congrats out really big and hung them from the ceiling with fishing water with blue and white streamers and glittery grad caps.

Both my kids and my daughter's friend Stephenee helped us decorate for her room's breakfast. The kids said their room was the best decorated! Very fun!

And here are my last 2 pages from the Silverwood Book!

100% and Extreme are from the Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge ~ I love this cartridge!

This last page was kind of a fill in - I ran out of pictures. The black circles I used a doodling template my sister sent me ~ how cool is that! I got the bingo card from the frugal crafter blog fro free. Idaho is cut from the Cricut 50 states cartridge.

The green frame and "day" are from the Storybook Cricut cartridge. And last but not least, the July 2008 are from the revolution cookie cutter calendar dies!

I hope everyone is having a terrific Monday!

Card Patterns #17/More Silverwood Book!

Here is my card for Card Patterns Sketch #17! My niece is graduating from 8th grade on friday 6/12. I found out the colors of her school are black and gold!

I used a sizzix frame for my shaker and put a cutting cafe printable big circle on top (see right side for a link to the cutting cafe). The congratulations paper is just white cardstock with different congratulations printed on it with a word processing software. I used it for the back ground of the shaker + the little strip underneath. The black patterned paper has been in my stash for a long time! I used 2 kinds of ribbon and then some gold and black rhinestones to give it some bling! The name plate is also a sizzix (with chipboard behind it) and the 8th grade is cricut Don Juan. I got the gold and black and confetti at Dollar Tree! I think the bling is great for a 14 year old girl!

So here are 3 more pages from my Silverwood Altered Book.

This first page is pictures after they got done riding Thunder Canyon (see my previous post). They had rode thunder canyon 8 times and were already soaked and then went on to the bumper boats where you could also put money into these water guns and shoot at the bumper boats. They were so wet! My daughter couldn't stand it so I had to go out and get her some dry clothes out of the car!





They have some really cool roller coasters at Silverwood and they are all in an area they call coaster alley. We took this picture as we were leaving so that is why it is a little dark!










My altered books had quite a number of pages so I copied the tremors thing from the outside of the packet where they put the pictures they take of you on the ride. I had accidently cut out way to many "scream"s when I was doing the ice cream pages (quite a few posts back) so I used them here! The roller coaster is a Jolee's sticker and the use only as directed is from cricut graphically speaking!

I only have 2 more pages to post from this altered book. Sorry it took so long to get them all in!

Card Patterns #9 - Another 3 pages from the Silverwood Altered Book!

The Card Patterns Sketch yesterday was so cute! I made this card for my daughter for easter. I love the peek-a-boo bunny from quickutz and I have used it every year for something! I used this Basic Grey paper that I had in 6 X 6 and had to cut it down the middle and finagle (is that a word) it so that it would fit the card but with all the stuff down the middle you don't even notice!







Here are some more pages from my Silverwood (Amusement Park in N. Idaho) Altered Book. these are all the driving pictures. I had so much fun using my cricut on these pages. The old car is from the My World Cartridge, the Driver's License is from Locker Talk. Both of these patterend papers were in my stash! Yeah, I used something I've had for years!








For this set of pictures I also used paper from my stash! I used the Going Places and Graphically Speaking cricut cartridges. I love how it turned out!











For this last one, I had purchased this paper at my local scrapbook store, Scrapbook Fever because it was just so cute! It is double sided and the strip where Driving is is from the back side! All the words on this one are from the Storybook Cartridge and again I used Going Places!

I'm sure the kids won't get the "Driving Miss...." from the Driving Miss Daisy movie but the old cars and my son driving his sister and cousin was just too cute. In the picture on the left, if you look close you can see he has his thumb up!

This book is a little hard to take pictures of because it is just crammed full and will hardly shut. If I did it again, I think I would do it differently but even though it is really stuffed, it will be a keepsake for all of them!

Have a super week!

2 Sketches/Card Patterns #8/More Silverwood Book!

So I'm really slow at getting the 2 Sketches card done this week! In fact I don't think I've done it for a couple weeks now! Everything has been incredibly busy at work and I've been trying to work on some altered books in all my spare time! It feels good to be scrapping again and getting something completed!

I used the 2 Sketches sketch this week to do some more "all occasion" cards that I could use as thank you type notes at work. On February 14, Oregon celebrated it's 150th birthday so I took this picture of the cake (it fed 3,000 people) and used it for the cards. I work for the State of Oregon so this works great!

The 2nd card I made is for the Card Patterns #8 sketch. I broke out my 2008 (or was it 2007???) DCWV paper pads and used some patterned paper from it. The cute bunny is a Scrapyland.com exclusive Quickutz Die. He is so cute! I was just waiting for a time to use him!

Here are 3 more sets of pages from my Silverwood altered books! I had a lot of fun with the Elephants page ~ this is my niece Sydney. I used the Indie Art Cricut Cartridge to do the wings (I got such a deal on this cartridge as it was the last one at my Michael's and they were clearancing it - I got it for $19.99!). The Elephant is an exclusive Quickutz die cut (I'm not which store was the one that offered it but I had to have it and this is the first time I used it!).

They have a great Merry Go Round at Silverwood also. The stamp that says Best of Times is a Teresa Collins.

On the 2nd Merry Go Round page, I had an opportunity to use another Quickutz Exclusive die -the horse (From Shop Remember When).

This has been such a fun book and I've been able to be so creative! I'm shooting for getting it completed by Easter but that could be a little aggressive as I have 6 sets of pages to get done (X 4)!

Take care and have a great weekend!

Card Patterns #7 and Use It #3 + a few more pages of the Silverwood Book!

I liked Card Patterns Sketch #7, that I used it again! I actually used the outside of the oval frame that I used in the card I posted yesterday! Can't let anything go to waste. I used the sizzix bunny and some little flowers that someone sent me in the card challenge on scrapbook.com a few months ago! I stamped "some bunny loves you" on cardstock and then used the cuttlebug embossing to see how it would look afterwards. There is a first time for everything! I'm not sure I like it a lot but I'm going to give it one of my kids for easter!





My second card if for the Use It #3 challenge. Use eyelets (yes, Heidi you are right, I do have tons of eyelets!!!), something more than one year old, and polka dots. When I saw the challenge I thought of the XO eyelets I bought many, many years ago. The red heart was actually from a package of die cut hearts that my sister, Darleen gave me (again, many, many years ago!) and the flowers were probably from one of the first bottles of primas I ever purchased. The red heart paper behind the hearts is also at least 2 years old! This was incredibly fun! Can't wait for next week!



I'm also posting 3 more sets of pages from my altered Silverwood books. I will try to post a couple pages each time so that the suspense (LOL) keeps building! I actually counted out and I only have 6 more sets of pages to go (then times by 4!!!). I'm hoping in a couple weeks I get it finished!

Silverwood is an amusement park in Northern Idaho. The first picture is outside the corkscrew which is an upside down roller coaster that they got from Knotts Berry Farm.




I had a ton of fun with this ice cream picture. The patterned paper was from the DCWV 2007 summer stack and I remember looking at that big ice cream cone on the paper thinking, I'll never use this! Well, I think this turned out great. I stickled the ice cream cone and then cut all the letters out with the cricut! I would have never been able to do this without it! Thanks to my sister, Teresa, I am now a cricut lover!!!! (PS - you can check out her blog - see my side bar - Tsscrappinblog!)






And the last pages this time are from the tilt a whirl - I had to put the little circle around my kids because it was really hard to get a picture!

Have a great week! I'm hoping to do some more this wee!

Card Patterns + Silverwood Book Part 1!

I saw the card patterns sketch today and I automatically thought "easter egg." Looking through my stash of easter paper, I found this patterned paper! I cut the "egg" out of chipboard with the sizzix oval frame! The chocolate rabbit is a new quickutz die. The flower is felt cut with a sizzix die. And the grass is also a sizzix!

It seems like a pretty simple card ~ sometimes simple is good!





I have really been scrapping lately! I started an altered book for myself, my daughter, my son, and my niece (yes 4!) in August. I had done the cover and the first 2 pages in August and hadn't touched it till about a month ago! I'm really putting a lot of effort into it and it is probably one of the most creative projects I've ever done. I got the books at Craft Warehouse - the pages are heavier than chipboard - it was meant to slip pictures in and has sayings and quotes in it. But at Craft Warehouse, they had one that they had started altering and it gave me an idea! I do have more pages done (by I'm not done with the book yet!) so I will share a few here and there!

Silverwood is an amusement park in Athol, Idaho just north of Coeur d' Alene. It had some awesome roller coasters and a lot of other cool rides. When we were visiting my parents last summer in Lewiston, Idaho we took my niece with us to spend the day there! (My friend Gail always points out that even if we spend a day doing something it takes many more days to scrap it!).



This is the map at the entrance of Silverwood! This is Shaina's book ~ each one uses a little different colors on this first page and has their name in the book (I just put "mom" in mine!).










I got their picture by the entrance to the log ride! Very fun!











The Corkscrew is a roller coaster that Silverwood bought from Knotts Berry Farm and it was the first upside down roller coaster!