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Design Team Projects: Heather Carpenter

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

Imaginisce “Wild Things” Layout

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Inspiration: My assignment this month was to use the “Wild Things” paper collection by Imaginisce. Like many, I have a thousand Disney pictures that are just waiting to be scrapped. When I saw the “Wild Things” collection by Imaginisce I thought of some beautiful photos that I had of the Kilimonjaro Safari at Disney World.

 

1)    Placed two 12×12 brown cardstocks next to each other .

2)    Next I layered different patterns of the Wild Things papers. I even placed some strips of the coordinating “Jungle Vine” ribbons to separate the papers. I found that mixing the patterns in this collection was very easy.

3)    Next I matted the photos with white cardstock and placed them on the center of my layout.

4)    I then cut a 2 ½” title “Kilimonjaro” from my “Life’s a Beach” cartridge and 1 ½” “Safari” from my “Hello Kitty Font” cartridge. I used the Design Studio to weld this word together. (To get the “blackout effect” behind the word safari, I used the Design Studio “hide selected contour” feature of my same word and then recut).

5)    Cut several 1 ½” hibiscus flowers with layers on the Life’s a beach cart and adhered to the corners.

6)    Cut one 8” and one 7” inch Flamingo from the Life’s a Beach cartridge and adhered to the left side of the layout.

7)    Next I mounted the title to the upper and lower parts of the layout.

8)     Cut a 2 ½” <crctp2-h> with window feature from the “Tags, Bags, Boxes & More” for the journaling tag and adhere journaling with a “Beastie Brads”.

 

 

Imaginisce “Wild Things” Door Hanger

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Inspiration: My assignment this month was to use the “Wild Things” paper collection by Imaginisce. When I saw the “Wild Things” collection by Imaginisce I thought how it would make an adorable door hanger for my “wild things” room. This could also be used for a birthday party decoration or a layout after the party and just add some photos.

1)    First I mounted a piece of the Wild Things patterned paper to  a 12×12” piece of chipboard.

2)   Next I cut out (2) 12 ½” pieces of “Bamboo” with layers from the Life is a Beach cart and adhere to either side of the door hanger.

3)   Then cut out an 8 ½” “Palm Tree” border with layers from the Life is a Beach cart and adhere to the bottom edge of the door hanger.

4)   Next I cut out a 2 ½” title “It’s a Jungle” from the Animal Kingdom cart and adhered to the top of the door hanger. This is on the “rhino” key using the “sound” feature.

5)    Then I adhered some of the pre-made chipboard animals from the Wild Things collection. You can also make your animals with the Animal Kingdom cart.

6)    Lastly, I punched two eyelets through the top corners of the chipboard and threaded my ribbon through so the hanger could hang.

Design Team Projects: Becki Adams

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Yellowstone

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Time spent on project: 2 hours

 

I’ve been so anxious to scrap the pictures from our trip to Yellowstone National Park but I just hadn’t found the right collection. I was surprised when I got the Great Escape Collection and it worked very well for our Yellowstone photos. I loved the rustic colors and my favorite thing is the cork stickers that I used for the title! The embellishments from the Great Escape collection provided a great way to add some color to the layout. The Cricut Camp out cartridge provided a great tree to give the layout the “outdoorsy” feel.

 

 

 

 

Cards Using Great Escapes Line

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For this assignment I wanted to show how versatile the Great Escape collection is by making a masculine and a feminine card.

 

I wanted to use the Great Escape collection to make a more masculine feeling card. The embossed surf board paper made great accents for this card. I chose the “life is good” die cut from the Graphically speaking cartridge to make the card have a carefree sentiment. The blue base of the card is the perfect colored background and adds some texture as well because it’s from the dotted Swiss collection by Bazzill.

The Aloha card shows of the femininity of the collection as well as a feel of the tropics and the beach.

The Cricut made it to easy to add the sentiment and a palm tree accent. (The palm tree is cut from the Paperdoll Cartridge and “Aloha” is cut from the Lyrical Letters Cartridge).

The Great Escape collection provided tons of adorable embellishments to finish off this card.

 

 

 

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Monday, September 21st, 2009

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Friday, September 11th, 2009

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Design Team Projects: Jen Nichols

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

MM Great Escape Album

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I wanted to have this album focus on all the photos I had from this trip.  I wanted to fit as many of those photos into this album as I could.  I decided the best way to do this was to keep my layouts simple and use my Cricut to create as many of the basic elements as I could.  All of my borders, circles, and photo words were cut from the Plantin School Book and Graphically Speaking Cricut cartridges and distressed with lots of brown ink.  I also used the Stone Script cartridge for the title on the cover of the album.  I used many of the different MM Escape accents to add interest to each layout.  I loved all of those matching accents.  It made it so much easier than trying to find things on my own and there was such a wide variety of them to choose from! 

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I created a little clear envelope with the Wild Card Cartridge and an old clear Cricut mat cover to hold the Shark’s Teeth that I had found.  I found the best way to get that to adhere to my page was by using Provo Craft’s Terrifically Tacky Tape. 

 

 

 

 

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What I loved about this album were the envelope and pocket pages!  What a great way to hold all of my different receipts and other mementos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, here are a few more photos of different pages throughout the album:

 

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