Incorporating Origami in a Scrapbook Layout

     While I was away on my Scrapathon. One of the girls was busy not scrapbooking but making origami. She was making all kinds of cool creations. While I was making my last page, I asked her to make me an origami tie to go on my page.

The background is from the Wild Card Cartridge. Don't I have some handsome guys!

 Isn't  the tie great. I did create a tie with my design studio, but it didn't have the depth or the realism that this origami tie did.


My youngest son and I joined an Origami Club at the library that meets once a month to try our hand at it. We made a butterfly out of dollar bill. So much fun. 

 This is not for the faint of heart. There are a lot of steps to making this butterfly and I was guided every step of the way by my friend Barb. How she could remember every step was amazing to me. How cute is this butterfly. Barb make several of these with bills and made a floral arrangement incorporating real flowers to give as a wedding present. It turned out so very cute.


It is so easy to get in a rut with your scrapbook pages so look outside the box once in a while to spice up those pages.

If you want to try your hand at making an origami tie (so easy to make) I found a blog that has a video on how to make them. Go HERE . I am going to try to make a shirt card too. Have fun!

Another Wild Card Project continued.....

So here is the surprise that is inside the book. I made an envelope to put some scriptures in for her to pull out for comfort or inspiration.


I placed five cards in to start with. They were printed on vellum and then put on scraps of the matching paper.

Here are all five of the cards I made.

I thought that I could send her a new scripture every now and then for her to place in the envelope

My prayer is that she can find peace in rest in the arms of Jesus

Another Wild Card Project

I was asked to make an altered composition book for a lady at church. This woman is an inspiration and a soul mate to me. She is a retired dental hygienist (which I hope to be one day) with terminal cancer. She always has a smile and a hung for me she struggles daily with her cancer but relies on God to makes it through the day. It was an honor to make this book for her.

I used the Wild Card cartridge again. I saved the file because the size fit perfectly on the book. I am willing to freely share it so you.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/z1jiwgjolot/composition book.cut

I also made a bookmark with a jumbo paperclip. I used my Memory Maker Tag Maker which I hadn't used in quite a while.

The best thing about the book was the flower that I made which I got the file from HimmyKitty's CriCuts. It looks like it is complicated to make but it is really really easy. Thanks HimmyKitty. Here is the link to her website.

http://www.wishingstardesign.com/cricuts/

If you download the file be sure to thank her it is quite a complicated and time consuming file to make and freely share with everyone.

Make sure you come back tomorrow. I will show you the surprise I made for the inside of the book.

Wild Card Project

I have had a lot on my to do list and on Thursday my neighbors who have kids at college got together to make college survivor boxes to send to our college students. I made some Thinking of You cards to put in the boxes. Since I am new to the Wild Card Cartridge there is a big learning curve. I want to thank MamaC on the cricut message board. She did hours of work to get the right sizes for the 12x12 size paper. If you want the document hop on over to the cricut message board here is the link.

http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=4337932

So here is the result of my card project.

I needed 12 cards I was trying to use up the black and white paper from the wedding guest book I did but I didn't have enough to do all 12 so I used my favorite pack of paper right now the Teen Angst that was used for my youngest son's school project.
Here are the 2 cards close up
The card is the thinking bubble and the envelope is behind the card We had alot of fun getting together and talking about college experiences and catching up over the summer. All the ladies really put their thinking caps on and brought some really great things to put in the boxes. We used the small USPS Express Mail boxes. The boxes are free and it cost around $10 to mail as long as it is under 70 pounds. Here is a list of some of the things we enclosed
Toothbrush and Toothpaste (that was mine contribution)
Chip Clip
Kleenex
Deck of Cards
Candy/little bags of chip/ granola bars
Post it notes
Purex washer and dryer sheets combined (great thing for the college student)
The boxes were packed to the brim. I didn't mail mine, my son's girlfriend was going to see him this weekend so I sent it with her!
Don't miss my next post I had another project that I finished yesterday that turned out great