Coolest New Toy!!!

I can now make my own thermally bound books of any size up to 15"X15" and 4" thick!!!!  It's amazing!!!  I just create pages I want, slide them into the spine of the cover I created, heat, and it's done!  No rings, no stitching, no accordion folding.  Just a book, like all those ordered through online photo sites.

Here's the first one that I by covering chipboard rectangles:

 This next one is a 4X4 book and I used cardstock for the covers.  It's not as study but at least as sturdy as a small spiral notebook you by at the store.

These will be wonderful for small additions for tucking into gift bags and then there is the whole realm of possibilities or themed photo albums or scrapbooks as gifts and to archive the heritage information I am working on.  Whole books with all the information in nice, clean binds.  :)  Oh, and reports......but who wants to think about reports????

Happy Birthday Sweetie!

I love Michael! He turns 52 today and I gave him several gifts including this perpetual calendar and a card (other gifts were no handmade....  :))  Here is the perpetual calendar I made.  Turned out to be pretty easy to do and my wonderful friend Tracey and each made one in an afternoon.  We got the idea from the Close to My Heart consultant website.

This uses a 12X12 chipboard base, Mischief papers, and various letters and alphabets.  Isn't it cute?  I was just surprised how fast it actually went together!

For Michael's card, I used a Mojo Monday sketch.  He favorite color is purple so I tried to use purple with a masculine twist:

BIG Happy Birthday to my Love!

Paper Trail Blog Hop featuring Wonderland paper

Happy New Year and welcome to 2012!  If you got here from Karen's Inky Fingers blog, you have already been treated to the fabulous paper featured this month.  For January, our little blog hop is featuring Close to My Heart's Wonderland paper, for an elegant "wintery" feel using neutral grays, soothing blues, toasty browns, and accented with light trendy lavender.  These are thank you cards for the students and friends who gifted me for Christmas so each is a small notecard.  I seem to be making lots of little notecards these days.

  For more beautiful work featuring the Wonderland papers, continue to hop over to Vicki's Wizard Hangout blog!

Merry Christmas 2011!

These are quick Christmas notecards I made for some close friends.  The card, background, holly leaves, and tag were all quickly cut out on my Cricut.  Then it was a real quick sponge to all the edges, fast stamping on the leaves and tags, and adhesive.  These were REALLY fast!  While the red glitter glue dried, I had time for a shower before dashing out the door.  :)

Happy Birthday, Dear Friend!

One of my closest and oldest friend celebrated her 40 yesterday and I wanted to make a special card for her.  The internet was my life saver yesterday.  I found several cards/patterns I loved, pulled together some of my friend's favorite colors from the Roxie paper pack, switched on the Cricut, and turned out this card:

It was just amazing how quickly this card fell together!  I finished it off with two dozen lovely roses in the same pinks used on the car on the way to the party.  The whole thing just came together so easy!