School Days - Scrapbook Saturday with My Cricut Craftroom!

Welcome!  I am excited to share a project I made for My Cricut Craft Room's Scrapbook Saturday.  If you stopped by today because you are a follower (thanks!!) please check out the other posts on Erica's page.  There is some fantastic talent being shared with this group!  Also, Erica recently opened a store, and I'll tell you that her prices for scrapbooking supplies can't be beat.  Check her out again later this week as she will be filling up the rest of her inventory!

Ok!  Onto this week's project!

I decided I wanted to try my hand at making a paper bag album - I had made them a LOOOONG time ago and used to give them as shower gifts.  Now I have all kinds of cool tools to make them with : )  Take a look at the pictures and I'll walk you through the process.

First, you start with three paper bags and lay them opposite of each other, one up, one down one up.  Fold them in half.  I used the crop a dial to punch two holes and put in two large eyelets for the binding.  I cut 12 sheets of 5 x 5 coordinating papers and ran them through my xyron to make them more sturdy and easy to adhere, and then applied them to the book.  Everything else were simply cricut cuts and embelishments!  I ran colored ribbon through the eyelets to complete the binding and made little slider cards to pop out of the open spaces in the bags.  Enjoy, and thanks for looking!

School Days cut from Nate's ABC's, Apple is from Wrap It Up

Pencil is Nate's ABCs

Glue is Nate's ABCs

Books are Wrap it Up

Bus is Nate's ABCs

Thanks again for looking, please let me know if you have any  questions.  If you would rather buy than make this album, I have it for sale in my Etsy Shop!  Have a great day!

My Cricut Craft Room's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop!!!!

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's 100 Cartridge Blog Hop!!!!

You should have come from the fabulous and talented Heather F.'s blog, http://www.papercrafteranonymous.com/.  If you did not please start at the beginning of the hop at
http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/. Thanks for hopping along this weekend, and good luck on winning some of the fab prizes up for grabs!!!

Today, I'd like to share a project with you made using Nate's ABCs.  Being the mom of a 3 year old little boy, I HAD to get my hands on this cartridge!  It's filled with tons of fun detailed images, and I thought putting some together for a few mini albums I would sell at several upcoming trade shows.  If you like what you see, I invite you to become a follower and check back as I continue to post the projects I have feverishly been working on over the last couple of months!

Here are pictures of the Mini Album using Nate's ABCs.  The "recipe" is below.  Enjoy, and thanks in advance for looking!

I cut the paper yo yo string in favor of using tied twine.  The image on the tag is from A Child's Year.

Supplies:

• 12x12 black chipboard cut down to 6 x 6 blocks (Five 12 x 12 sheets cut down yields four five-paged books)
• DCWV paper
• I used DCWV adhesive paper for the cuts in this project simply because I had it on hand and wanted to use it up, it certainly made it easier!
• The "dots" at the corners of some mats are simply punched from coordinating paper from my largest hole punch.
• Cuts are made at 2" and are NOT secured with adhesive over the photo mat (this is important if the book is a gift or pre-made)
• I used the super-duper Cropadial to punch the holes in the top right corner AFTER completing the book, and secured the book together with a 1" book binding ring.
• Journaling tags are given binder divider labels for a fun look. 

Next you should go to HOLLY at  http://hollys-hobbie.blogspot.com/ . I can't wait to see what she has to show us today!  Happy Hopping!

If you get lost along the way here is the entire line-up

1.      My Cricut Craft Room http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com  

2.      Mayra http://gettingcraftywithma.blogspot.com/

3.      April http://curlsandgrins.blogspot.com/ 

4.      Melissa http://pinkpolkadotscrapping.blogspot.com

5.      My Project http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/2011/09/my-project-for-100-cartridge-blog-hop.html

6.      Pattie http://sweetpsscrapbooks.blogspot.com/

7.      Patricia http://micraftygal.blogspot.com/  

8.      Ricki http://manicexpressionsdesigns.blogspot.com/  

9.      Rosa http://kleymanr.blogspot.com/  

10.  Samantha http://samanthascricutcreations.blogspot.com/  

11.  Sharon http://simplysweetbysharon.blogspot.com/

12.  Shelly http://kccroppers.blogspot.com/  

13.  Suzy's Crafts http://suzyssimplecrafts.blogspot.com/  

14.  Tammy S. http://thepurplemuse.blogspot.com  

15.  Tanya http://nonnascraftcorner.blogspot.com/  

16.  Tracy http://www.scrappininthewoods.blogspot.com/

17.  Yvette http://gammascreativecorner.blogspot.com/    

18.  Amanda http://craftsbyamanda.blogspot.com/

19.   Giveaway http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/2011/09/surprise-giveaway-saturday-september-3.html

20.  Autumn http://autumnsbuggycreations.blogspot.com/  

21.  Connie http://conniescraftycloset.blogspot.com/  

22.  Courtney http://craftingwithcourtney.blogspot.com/  

23.  Gayle http://gscraptime.blogspot.com/  

24.  Heather F http://www.papercrafteranonymous.com/

25.  Heather S http://operationcricutdesign.blogspot.com/   ----YOU ARE HERE------

26.  Holly http://hollys-hobbie.blogspot.com/

27.  Jen R. http://memorieswithjen.blogspot.com/

28.  Jenny R http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com/  

29.  Laura http://laurascraftsandmore.blogspot.com/  

30.  Lisa http://www.allmadebylisa.blogspot.com/  

31.  Karey http://www.creativecraftcorner.com/

32.  Kat http://katscrapfever.blogspot.com/  

33.  Lezlye http://lezlyes.blogspot.com/  

34.  Lucinda http://thegrowinggibson.blogspot.com/  

35.  Blog Candy http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/2011/09/reserved-for-this-weekends-blog-candy.html