Cupcakes

I saw these cupcakes on Ingvild Bolme's Blog http://www.spinnvild.com/ and thought they were just so cute I had to make them. They're card holders so they make great gifts and you can make the slot inside as big or small as you want so they're good for either a small tag or a gift card. With my friend's first baby arriving soon, I figured that'd be a perfect reason to. I did a trial run first and here's what I came up with. I'm glad I did because I definately learned things I should've done differently, areas to improve on and ways to make it better... so the trial cupcake was a good idea. But I did like how it came out so I ended up giving it to my friend for her birthday and she loved it. And they were surprisingly easy to make it... I can't wait to try it again!!

Left: close up of the top: layers of fabric, lace, and ribbon, topped with paint, buttons & a cherry on top

Right: with the card pulled out

I'll post a tutorial for these when I make the next one. In the mean time, if you'd like to try to make them there are tutorials on Ingvild Bolme's Blog and on YouTube. I used steps from both and put them together to make mine. They're pretty easy to make and you can't burn them! haha...

Baby Shower Goodies

My Best Friend is having her first baby, a girl in November (basically any day now). I helped her mom with her baby shower and here are some goodies that we made for it...

Card & Tag for basket

Gift Basket and Diaper Cakes

Memere Layout

Here is a LO I did for my friend of her mother and daughter, part of the book I'm making for her daughter Reese. I used a lot of prima flowers on here and bright colors.

Flashback of some LOs

I plan on posting the new work that I do but in the mean time here are some of my favorites from the book that I made for Reese, my friend Shannon's daughter...

All Here is Reese sleeping when she was 6 weeks old. I love this picture because she looks like such a little doll. I used a lot of Tim Holtz distressing ink in Broken China on this LO and even inked the ribbon on the right.

Here is Miss Reese at the hospital when she was 4 hours old. I clipped her birth announcement from the paper for it too. I framed the picture using prima flowers, cutting them in half & gluing them under the photo. I distressed the edges of the paper & stamped the corners and added some pearls.

I love this colorful LO. This is Reese playing outside this summer. My favorite thing about this page are the ribbon and eyelets. I wanted to fit all the pictures bc they were all so cute so I cut them in circles to get them to fit. I then punched eyelets and threaded blue ribbon through to create a border around the circle. I added more circles with the pps & flowers.

An all purple LO... I wanted to use purple to match her shirt and it turned into all different shades of purple, which is fine because I love the color. This was my first time using cardboard, I love the look of it on LOs and you can do so much with it. I painted it purple obviously and used it to matte the photo. I also inked it with Tim Holtz ink in Dusty Concord and did a lot of inking of the rest of the page. I added some flowers and pearls, eyelet letters from Making Memories, and spelt her name with the playing cards. I tried to make it look distressed while still keeping it bright and girly.


Reese's Firsts. I love this picture of her, she was 6 months old here but I wanted to use it on this page with a list of her firsts (up until August). I kept it simple because the journaling is supposed to be the main focus and added a few other details. I tore & inked the journaling to make it look distressed & aged and inked the edges of the page. I did a big tear in the paper with stitching just to add a little something so it wasn't too simple. I've been trying to think of a way to add a journaling card so her mom can write down more of her firsts (she'll be walking soon) but I just can't come up with anything good so for now it'll stay like this and maybe make a new LO for her next firsts... :-)


Those are a few of my favorite LOs... to see more check out my gallery at scrapbook.com:

New Blog!!

This is my first post as I've decided to start my own blog devoted to my new favorite hobby: scrapbooking. Its a wonderful way to share ideas and get creative and I look forward to viewing other's work & blogs & whatever else is out there. I'm new at this so it may take some time to learn but hopefully I'll get it down soon!!