Winter Monster Hats Album

 

Here's how my Matchbook Mini album turned out .... Love it!  This is FREE tutorial on you tube, showing how to create this album (dimensions included).  Here I have created these pages digitally using my Winter Chills Collection.  Below I have 6 FREE png files for YOU!  Once you've downloaded them, all you have to do is drop in your photos and size them correctly.  Save the file then as a jpeg file and have them printed.  Then add the pages to your album.  Easy as pie!

 

I choose to add 10 pages to my book (which equaled 20 different pictures), and look how thin it still is.  Click here to get the FREEBIE pages.  Enjoy!

 

Winter Window Album

 

My children might as well be snowmen and snowgirls.  When they get home from school they put on their snow suites and head outside into the freezing cold (even with the extra wind chill here) and spend the rest of the evening building snow people, forts, pulling each other on sleds, have snowball fights, etc.  On occasion I actually join them in all this chaos, but most of the time I watch from my 'winter window' and laugh and smile as they play.  This album was made to remind me of all the fun things I watch going on outside my 'winter window' during this cold season. 

 

Link to the pattern (on sale is winter season thru Jan. 31st)

Link to the you tube video showing the project.

 

The box opens up and the pages flip out to the sides using Laura Denison's "out of the box bindingsystem."  Inside the pages are these fun interactive tags.

 

 

Open the page flaps for more places for photos and journaling.

Credits: DCWV 2014 winter paper collection

Winter Chills Digital Collection

 

Winter finally came here in Utah, on Christmas Day! What a wonderful suprise!  I love winter… everything about it … the delicate white snow fluttering to the ground, the red noses on my kids faces, the snowmen and snowforts, tubbing down the hill, and the warm cocoa that greets you when you come inside from all the fun. Around our house, I don’t think a day goes by that my kids don’t spend some part of the day playing in the snow. As a result I get TONs of pictures and I wanted a kit that would ‘have it all.’ So I created the Winter Chills Collection. It has a fun, playful flavor but still showcases the whimsy.  It is loaded with all sorts of fun embellishments for any snowy day activity and 22 designer papers!  On sale this delightfully winter season.

 

And if you wanna save yourself a little extra time, here I've already made a bunch of titles, tags, and journaling spots in the Winter Memories Extras.

Sled Foto Folio Winter Sled

 

Here it is, the Winter Sled edition of the Sled Foto Folio.  This is the SAME pattern as the Christmas Sled Folio, but look how different it turned out!  It snowed on Christmas Day (yah!), and my kids begged us to take them sledding.  I got some great photos for this album and can't wait to add them to it.  Again, here is the link to tutorial on my website.  Here is the link to the you tube video accompanying the tutorial.  The video tutorial walks you through the process of how to construct this album, and hope it is very helpful to you .  I used the 3x4 and 4x6 cut aparts, as well as the sticker sheet from this paper line. 

 

Notice the large photo mats tucked into the pocket there.  Great for adding extra photos of your event.

 

Again, room for more large photo mats there on the right.

 

These ice skates are from the American Doll clothing accessories.

 

Credits: Carta Bella "All Bundled Up" 2014

Winter Window

 

Happy New Year everyone!  This months Ladies Night at JoAnn's is a 'shaker box' with an album inside of it.  Yes, the snow shakes around in the front ... fun!  Join me on Januray 23rd from 6-9 pm.  If you can't make it, be sure to visit my website to pick up the pattern ...

Here is the link ...

 

 

also, when looking at the album the pages open out flat for easy viewing. 

paper and embellishments are DCWV, "Winter Basics" 2013

Wooden Snowman

 

My mother had a boutique at the Quilted Bear when I was young.  I spent many hours working along side her and learning her craft.  I'm so grateful for all she taught me and loved being with her.  I love to look at ideas on line and say "I can make that!"  And that is what happened here.  I was in the mood to make a little snow time craft so I googled 'winter craft ideas.'  This is one that I saw done up a couple of different ways and thought was really cute.  I took a quick detour to Home Depot for the wood, during my weekly grocery shopping.  Then I showed my husband (an amazing carpenter) a rough idea of what it was supposed to look like.  Gave him the dimension for the head and he had it cut and sanded in no time.  That Saturday my little five year old help me paint the pieces, and in the random 5 minute intervals of spare time, throughout the evening I was able to finish painting it and adding a little decor.  Supper easy to make ... the pieces are 2x2 wood, white paint, glaze painted on and wiped off, sanded edges, and a little ribbon, fabric, jute, and snowflake button.   LOVED the way it turned out!

Snowglobe Album

 

So ... Etsy didn't work out so good for me, and baby number five has kept me supper busy.  So I haven't posted much, but I haven't stop creating!  I have a goal to post my projects more often this year just to keep you inspired once in a while.  With that note, let's get started.  This is an album idea I started last year.  I made the snowglobes and the tags and then got stumped ... that doesn't happen to anybody else does it. LOL!  Well, this year while I was looking for ideas for a different project inspiration hit for this one instead (isn't it always they way).  So I put the other project away and pulled this one out again.  LOVE the way it turned out with all the bling, felt, twine, stickers, embossing, etc.  I'm so glad I waited for the inspiration to hit.  Now I just need to dig through the family photos for some adorable shots of my kids playing in the snow.  To finish it off I was going to put them on chipboard, but then I got stumped _AGAIN!  Awe, inspiration will hit again at the right time.  Happy Scrapping!

 

Credits: Paper line is Basic Grey "Eskimo Kisses" from a few years ago.

I used the "Joys of the Season" Cricut Cartridge for the snow globe pieces and tags. 

The grey swirls are from the "Accent Essentials" Cricut Cartridge. 

The rest was just random things from my stash of supplies.