More Lyrical Letters

I'm really loving cards with Kraft Paper and was able to whip these two out so quickly!

The Spellbinders Nestabilities Label 8 dies are perfect for cards. I cut two and then doodled around the edge.

I used the Lyrical Letters for both sentiments. Love that both were a 1 button option. By pressing the shift key I was able to get the flower/stem/leaf cut in another color. (I used Copic markers to color the stem and leaf.) A gem and a bit of Baby Blue Stickles finished off the flower. A little stamping and I'm done!



Again, I used the Lyrical letters cart for the leaves and Orange Peal Stickles for the knot in the bow.

Love those one touch cuts!!!

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I'm just loving the versatility of the Lyrical Letters Cartridge. On this lo I used the Jumbo key for Balls and Loop Dee Loo for the Galore. You can hardly tell, but I put crystal stickles all over the Galore.

Sizzix is another fav of my and I used that for the hearts across the bottom. Tim Holtz's Clear Rock Candy is on some of the hearts. My big crop o dile help put the metal grommets on.

Tin Curlers

I had a lot of fun doing this layout, which is very unusual for me. I gravitate toward bright colors, and heritage lo make me think way too much!

I've had this picture of my Mom for years. I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do with it until I saw these Prima Flowers on a page over at Scrapbook.com. My page evolved from there.

The journaling is my Mom's and it's a story about making their own curlers out of Pet Milk cans. They were very poor when she was little.

You have got to love Stacy Julian! I know I do!!! My mess of willy nilly albums finally got to me. I have over 30 albums is many formats. The mini albums I left as is. But the rest are now in the Library Of Memories System that Stacy came up with.

I bought her book "Photo Freedom" and it gave me all I needed to organize. My biggest fear was how was I going to incorporate the strap hinge albums with the top loading. Guess what? Some top loading pages are wide enough to handle them. Yayyyyy!!!!!

I chose to use these American Crafts Albums with the window cut outs. I used my gypsy to weld together the titles that slide right into the pocket. The glare on the pic is from the transparancy that I put in front to protect the title.

Here are my albums!!! I just need one more black one for the place we go, right now it's in an old 3 ring binder. I used the circle tags from avery to list more specific info. Like in the Pink All About Us, there is one that is All about Ellie, etc. In the things we do Green albums I have tags for Celebrations, Holidays and Christmas. (It seems for holidays I only do lo's for Easter and Halloween - Guess what's on my to do list???)

Regarding the book, if you want to purchase it, it is extremely hard to find. You basically have to find a store that still has it in stock - amazon only has first editions that are big $$$$. My archivers had 2 copies last I saw.

This is Dominic's Uncle Fester Look with his bald head and glazed eyes. Got to love the Dotted Swiss by Bazzill!

Here I used the Mask from Ranger and used the Glimmer Mist in blue and pearl. I did this lo for a challenge on scrapbook.com to use 10 or more papers on a lo.

New Year, New Calendar

A few years ago I went to a 12 hour crop at Archivers. The cost was pretty high but we got these great calendars as gifts.

Since then, I've come to really love these books although I have switched to the smaller size.

This one holds a 4 x 6 size in the sleeves.

To decorate the cover I used my most favorite paper K N Co Smitten. I love it so much that I bought another pack just because!

And, as you can tell by my Blog Name, hearts are another favorite of mine. So Sizzix to the rescue. The date is the lollipop font, and the hearts are sizzlets, funky heart and stamp heart. Love that Swiss Dot paper by Bazzill too, so had to add a dash of that! A pink ribbon to keep the date page and I'm ready for 2010 - for dates at least!

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