Learning to Bowl Mini Album

"Learning to Bowl" mini album made from Nifty Fifties Cartridge

I truly enjoy creating mini albums, and my Cricut Expression always me to make my albums in any shape or configuration I like. These pictures of taking my older two daughters bowling are several years old (we didn't even have the younger two yet!) It was their first time bowling and my husband was trying so hard to get them to use good fundamentals and all they wanted was to marvel over the "cool" two colored shoes they got to rent.

The idea of setting up this mini like a set of bowling pins has been kicking around in my mind for a while. When all the pages are closed the album looks like a fresh set of 10 pins just being set up. Some of the pages are on rings and some of them are on ribbon hinges so as you progress through the "steps" of bowling and more pins are "knocked" down you move through the album and see different pictures and journaling.

The entire album is based off a single bowling pin and ball cut from the nifty fifties cartridge. I cut the pin 10 times and removed the ball from each cut. I then set the pins up like a group of 10 and made a tracing of where each pin would go so that as I made moveable pages in groups of 3 or more pins they would all line up again at the end of the day. This pretty much ate up ALL my scrappy time this week, but I am happy with how it turned out so I included several pictures.

There are lots of Epiphany Crafts buttons, epoxys and findings on this and I love how I could use just a few papers and ribbons with Epiphany's tools to create a cohesive look.

 
Recipe

 Cricut Cartridge: Nifty Fifties
Patterned Paper: Glitz Designs, Pink Paislee
Tools: Epiphany Crafts (Shape Studio Tool Heart 14, Shape Studio Tool Round 14, Button Studio Tool Round 14, Shape Studio Accessories Bubble Caps Heart 14, Button Studio Tool Round20)
Epoxys: Epiphany Crafts (Shape Studio Round 14 Bubble Caps, Shape Studio Heart 14 Bubble Caps)
Buttons: Epiphany Crafts (Button Studio Round 14, Button Studio Buttons Round 20)
Settings: Epiphany Crafts (Vintage Settings - Club House)
Pearls: Want 2 Scrap
Adhesive: Beacon Adhesive (ZipDry), Stampin' UP! (Dimensionals, Glue Dots)
Alphabet Stickers: American Crafts (Black Canvas Thickers) Glitz Designs (Tiny Alpha - Burnt Orange)
Twine: The Twinery (Black and White)
Ribbon: May Arts (Red Pleated)
Pen: Copic (Mulitliner .01 Black)
Embellishments: Lil Davis (Bottle Cap), American Crafts (Chipboard Arrows, Heart), Die Cuts (Basic Grey)
Paint: Apple Barrel
Misc: Chipboard (Cereal Boxes), Jump Rings

Cuts
"Bowling" (with ball removed) on page 33 from the Nifty Fifties  cartridge cut at 6.5 inches.

Chicago CHA Update #6 - Canvas Corp and Glitz Designs

 Welcome to day 6 of my Summer CHA Update. Today, I thought I would share some images of paper, embellishments and wonderful samples I found in the Glitz Designs and Canvas Corp. booths.

Glitz Designs

According to their website owners, Erin, Ginger, John and Laura, started their "company, GLITZ Design, with one idea that has grown into a full-fledged Scrapbook company! We carry original paper, stickers, rub ons, stamps, rhinestone strips (we like to call it "frosting") and much more. We, Erin DeSpain, Ginger John and Laura Funk, started this company because we wanted to CREATE Exciting and Fabulous NEW scrapbooking products."

Glitz Designs showcased three new lines at the show: Vintage Blue, Beautiful Dreamer, and Dance in Sunshine.

Here are a few of my favorite items:

Glitz Designs Tiny Alpha stickers

Glitz Designs Flowers made from Beautiful Dreamer line

Glitz Designs Beautiful Dreamer line

Glitz Designs Beautiful Dreamer line

Glitz Designs "Dance in Sunshine" line

Glitz Designs "Dance in Sunshine" line

Glitz Designs Dance in Sunshine Line

Love this Yellow Suitcase with the Dance in Sunshine Flowers - Gorgeous Contrast

Glitz Designs Beautiful Dreamer Line

To view their entire product offering visit their website here: http://glitzitnow.com/index.php

For daily inspiration visit their blog here: http://glitzitnow.blogspot.com/

Canvas Corp

I am new to Canvas Corp, but with mixed media all the rage at the moment I really like the mixture of paper, canvas, burlap, denim and jute they had in their collections. Their artwork was amazing and I got lots of great ideas for the upcoming holidays, especially Halloween. 

According to their website "Canvas Corp was established in 2006 to bring products to market that we feel bridge the gap between hardware, home décor and crafts. With a goal to simplify the  process of  design, decorating and creating  by creating products that are functional, beautiful and just basic to bring out the creativity in everyone.

Canvas Home Basics Design – our line of design products that range from kits to make space planning an easy process to decorative hardware that finishes any design project with perfect style.

Canvas Home Basics Craft – blank surfaces is the key to our craft line.  Surfaces for home décor projects, party and event decorating and everyday paper crafts."

For more product information visit the Canvas Corp website here: http://blog.canvascorpcrafts.com/

Thanks for stopping by,

CarrieAnne

Nothing, but Blue Skies

I am almost done scrapping our pictures from LAST year's family vacation. This means there is little hope for this year's photos with a new baby and what I am sure to be innumerable rolls of pictures of his tiny cuteness just days away. My girls are sitting on top of Stone Mountain here in Northern Georgia or rather Bella and Victoria are hopelessly attempting to keep Maddie from running off Stone Mountain while they pose for this photo.

I enjoy "fussy cutting" or cutting out shapes, images and designs from patterned paper. Lots of times when I am watching my favorite show (Yes, that would be Bones - for those who know me best) I cut out designs to be used on future layouts and cards. I hand cut all of the flowers and vines multiple times from 7Gypsies paper and then layered and adhered them with a variety of adhesives to add dimension. The fabric covered brad is also 7Gypsies, and the rub-on title from My Mind's Eye. The Birds are actually transparent stickers from Glitz Designs that I backed with transparency first and then trimmed around so they too could be popped up with a dimensional glue without risk of sticking to the page awkwardly.

In order to have it appear as though the birds in the upper left and right are actually flying I cut their wings off and reapplied them with the transparency as reinforcement behind them to add structure.

Thanks for looking,

CarrieAnne