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Monday, December 29, 2008

"C" is for Cherished

This is the third page of an ABC album for a cherished baby girl.

In this layout, you can place a 4" x 6" photo at the top.

At the bottom, I first sewed bottom and 2 outer sides and also a straight line between each circle. That way, you can insert 3 smaller photos into the slots.

At the bottom, there is supposed to have a cute phrase of "Your are a treasure to cherish always." But I messed it up by typing "is cherish" instead. But I didn't realize that until now. So if you are going to make this page layout, please don't make the same mistake as me. Have fun!!!!

Items used in this layout include:

1. Chatterbox's Villa Memory Building Kit
2. Chatterbox's Olive fuzz stickers
3. Chatterbox's Olive 3-D stickers
4. Heidi Swapp's Pink Chipboard Alphabet Box
5. Heidi Swapp's red, pink and lemonade felt flowers.



Saturday, December 27, 2008

Organizing Spellbinders Dies

Today I want to share a great solution I found for Spellbinder Dies.

I have been using CD cases to store my Spellbinders for a while but I didn't quite like the solution. The first problem was that I couldn't fit long rectangles dies into a CD case. Also with the number of CD cases I had, a lot of times they would fall off when I transported them from the house to a crop.

Then I found Tim Holtz's stamp binder. The dimension of the pocket is 7" w x 8.5" h, I can definitely fit the long rectangle dies and curved rectangle dies in there without any problem.

To keep them from shifting, I then found some avery inkjet printable magnetic sheets sold at Sam's Club's website for $7.88 with shipping fee included. That saved me a trip to the store... :)

Each package of magnetic sheets comes with 5 sheets. I cut each sheet in half and trim off the long side to be 8" long and they fit perfectly in the pockets. So I can store 10 sets of Spellbinder Dies. I then printed out their item number and name of dies on address labels and stock them on the magnetic sheets. See how neatly they stored in this cute binder.

Inside of the binder also has a front pocket and that's where I keep my tan embossing mat and white spacer plate and instruction sheet.

Here is great thing about this binder. It comes with a zipper so when I am done with these dies, I just close the zipper. Voila...they are safely kept inside the binder.

Not only I can keep Spellbinders Dies in this binder, I can also keep my clear stamps, stickers sheets, stencils,..., etc. I just love it.

Here is another tip for organizing Spellbinders Dies. I don't know about you but when I scrapbook, I love to take out all my tools and accessories. But when I am done, it's difficult to separate Spellbinders Dies into their own sets. So when I get a new set of dies, I use marker to label them in the back with the item number and die number with the largest one as 1 and second largest one as 2, and so on. That way, it's easy to sort them.


















For Scalloped Square Dies, because these dies overlapped with each other, you can not nest them together on the magnetic sheet. You have to alter the sizes and keep in 2 separate piles like below.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

"B" is for Baby

"Have you ever held a baby, a baby, a baby like this?"

Continue with the baby girl ABC album, this is another cute 12" x 12" page layout I made using Chatterbox's Villa Memory Building Kit, olive ribbons and Heidi Swapp's Pink Chipboard Alphabet Box, large floral and baby chipboard.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

"A" is for Angel

I have been wanting to make an ABC baby album and finally I got some time to do so. I will share this ABC album with you as I complete them one page at a time and I hope you will be patient with me.

This is 12x12 album made for a baby girl. I started with Chatterbox's Villa Memory Building Kit, which features pink and olive color with floral, stripes and plaid pattern. For the ABC alphabets, I chose Heidi Swapp's Pink Chipboard Alphabet Box. These Chipboard Alphabet are about 2" tall so they will definitely give my pages a pop.

To make the letter "A" stands out more from the pastel background, I built a layered flower from Heidi Swapp's large floral and felt flowers and jeweled brad and use it as the background.

I also tie an angel chipboard to the letter "A" to emphasize "A" is for angel. Because this angel tag is not glued down, you can add a short message to the back of the tag if you want to.

You can place a 4" x 6" photo and a 4" x 4" photo or journaling block. These 2 mats were first cut with Fiskars's Paper Edgers, then sewed together and added pink ribbons.

To tie the olive chipboard alphabets "ANGEL" with pink, I sanded them down a little before applying Stampin' UP! Rose Romance ink around each alphabet.

At the bottom of page, I added a clear die cut wing from Heidi Swapp with a 3-D angel sticker from Chatterbox to start a cute little phrase "Angel is God's whisper in the wind". This phrase was printed on a piece of cardstock cut and embossed with Spellbinder's small rectangle die with a background cardstock cut and embossed with large rectangle die. The clear die cut wing is also inked with the same Stampin' UP! Rose Romance ink in the back. I hope you like this cute baby girl layout. I am sure that it can be easier converted to a baby boy layout by simply changing the color.