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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Post Card Album

I got this idea from a very talented lady on Scrapbook.com named Laurink. She collects postcards and did an album on her trip to Hawaii.

Mine is a little different. I made my postcards and 4x6 pics into pockets by gluing 3 sides and leaving the top open.

Then I did my journaling on both black and white tags.

Each tag got a ribbon stapled to the top.

Ticket stubs and receipts were also stapled to the tag.

Some pages have paint on them, this one has some doodling around the paint.

I did not include pics of each page as there are 25 pages in this album.

Rubons were used on this page. I didn't have enough postcards for all the pictures I wanted to include so I made additional pages by using black card stock

The arrow has been colored using colorbox ink and then sprayed with pearl glimmer mist. And yes, that's a shark!

I love this picture so I included a ghost heart, inked with stazon and then wrote on the heart with a Signo pen.

There was this pool where you could touch a sting ray. It took some nerve before I could stick my hand in there.

We went to M&M World. It was a lot of fun but we look a bit pooped! The temperature was high and being in the desert, well, we kind of look melted.

I do think that Green has style though!

Gypsy Fun!!!

Yes, I was one of those people who was up at night when Provocraft and their World Launch on HSN.

Their offer was too good for me to pass up. Yes, yes, it was $299. and I know that's a lot of money ... but...my cricut was a gift and I have only ever bought 2 cartridges and one of those was on ebay and I spent $22 for it. The other cartridge I bought on sale at Michaels for $39. So my total cricut investment was pretty low. HSN was offering five $59 flex pays, an extra cartridge, a car charger and this lovely bag. No tax and free shipping.

Now do you understand my purchase??? Oh did I mention I got mine before they hit the stores? Oh, yeah!

There wasn't any instructions in the box so for those of you who aren't computer savvy, be prepared for a little frustration. I waited a day and then went on the message boards at www.cricut.com and got the low down. After reading a little, my set up was easy as pie!

I do not own the Cricut jukebox or the Design Studio software and the gypsy eliminates the need for both, although they are compatible.


So here is my first layout using my gypsy. I used the Home Decor, Base Camp and Don Juan cartridges. The adore was a one button on Home Decor. I and these were base camp and I welded all the words together. This means I smooshed the letters so they touch and when it's cut, it comes off the mat as one piece. Bright and eyes are from the same font but after I welded the words together I stretched bright to make it stand out more. The orange mat has the name welded making it one piece also.

When you look at the last pictures you can see the 6 x 12 piece of paper I cut from. Because you decide where on the mat you cut, I was able to only use a portion of the paper.



A little stickles to outline some words, eyelets around the Bazzill edged paper, inked edges and one of those big gromlets give a little more pizazz.

I really like being able to cut out whole words that are one piece. Saves time and frustration when gluing them down!

And I really do adore those bright eyes!!!