Gender Neutral Baby Mini Album

Wow I'm awful! It has been such a long time since I have updated the blog. I have participated in many swaps and done many "crafty" projects in the last 7 months but I just haven't had the extra time to manage the blog. Although I don't keep up with mine, everyday the 1st thing I do in the morning is to get on to blogger and youtube and check out all the beautiful projects from all my favorite crafty ladies. I would love to share some pics of a mini album that I completed this past week. It was a mini for a friend's baby shower. My challenge for this mini was that she doesn't know what she's having so I had to make it gender neutral. That got a little tough at times but I think it turned out pretty good. Thanks for looking and feel free to leave a comment.

Cricut Tin Swap

For the "especially for you" tin swap over at the cricut board I was partnered with Terri. This is the tin that she created for me and here are all the goodies that were inside!! I love everything!! Thanks so much Terri!!

June Garden Tags

The June theme for the Tag Bags Swap at YPP was Garden Party. I had to make 9 tags for my group and this what I came up with.

YPP May Many Mini Mini's Swap

Here are my pages for the group Many Mini Mini's at yourpaperpantry.ning.com/.

For the May swap we were to create a 4x4 page out of chipboard with a mermaid & friends theme. I had to make 11 pages and I will get a mini mini album in return with 11 different pages from 11 different people. I had a little bit of trouble with this but I ended up really liking the finished page. I can not wait to see the completed binded book!!

The Front:

The Back:

Another new addiction :-)

Just a quick picture of 9 flowers that I made for a flower swap. This was the May swap for the group Tags Bags over at www.yourpaperpantry.ning.com. These flowers were cut out of white cardstock using a few different cartridges on my cricut. I then glimmer misted them and used 2 coats of UTEE (love this stuff!!)

TH ebay auction

So, the other day I was browsing ebay looking for Tim Holtz products when I came across this auction. I bid on it thinking that it would go way too high but was so Pleasantly surprised when I won! How much you ask, I got ALL of this for $20.50 plus $7 shipping!!! I was shocked and so excited! I love a deal!

6 sets of TH stamps!!
Just the scissors retail for over $10

My new Challenge

A few weeks ago I submitted a few of my mini albums for a new design team and guess what...I was one of the ones chosen. I am so excited to be a part of a DT and hope that it helps to keep me crafting! Check out the website and other designers at http://www.cricutminialbums.com/, they are all so talented! Here is my 1st mini album for the DT.

I made this for my cousin Shawna's gorgeous son Gavin that turned 1 this month. She is a Wonderful photographer and I thought this would be a unique way for her to showcase some of her terrific photos. I made each page to correspond with each month of Gavin's first year also incorporating the seasons/holidays.

I utilized many different paper packs for this mini including, KC & Co, DCWV Prints for the Year and DCWV All about boys. I used my cuttlebug to emboss many of the picture mats, using many different folders. I also incorporated many of my favorite interactive pages, using envelopes or mini paper bags. I used my Cricut to make many of the tags and embellishments including the turkey and skeleton. Thanks for looking and feel free to leave a comment!

April & May (NB & 1mo old)June & July (2 & 3 mo)Aug. & Sept. (4 & 5 mo)October (6 mo)Nov & Dec (7 & 8mo)

Jan (9 mo old)

Feb & March (10 & 11mo)