OH look it's my blog...

No I really didn't forget I had this blog. I've just been terribly busy. I've almost finished my living room remodel and I've packed to go on vacation. But I also found time to help Katie finish up our "Explore the Bug Zone" class for the Scrapbook Zone. Each month we will be taking a look at a different Cricut cartridge and finding out some of the interesting things you can create while using them.

First up "Walk in my Garden". Example one: a really cute card and envelope.


Example two: a gorgeous layout using large (6") flowers, their layers embellished with ink and markers.


Example three: Using the "Fit to page" option. Here I picked a flower and pushed the "fit to page" button. Look how cool it turned out. And yes I did use a piece of the new Basic Gray "June Bug" paper.


Example four: using the Design Studio program to creat mesh and a welded border.


And finally our chipboard mini book. Again we used the DS program and embellished it to the nines. I've showed this off before but it wasn't complete.


This class will be offered at the Scrapbook Zone 3 times this month. Once on a Saturday morning. We'll show you a whole group of things we created and you'll get to make a couple things and take home directions for the others. I hope you can join us.

Walk in My Garden

We have been playing with the Walk in My Garden cartridge at the Scrapbook Zone. What a fun cartridge! I showed you the chip board book a couple weeks age and now I can show you 2 layouts. This is the first one:


It was totally created with the cartridge. The details are so important and they were added in with ink and a black pen. This LO will be used as one of our projects in the new "Explore the Bug Zone" class.

The next one is a 2 page spread for our weekly "Pages 2 Go" kit. I had a lot of fun with this one. I just started cutting the flowers out and inking them. Laid them out on the page, looked at Katie and said now what? She smiled and found this wonderful pattern paper by Senic Route. Yep we needed this and now the photo mats. Two 4x6 and 4 3x3's.


The left side of this layout holds one vertical 4x6 and 2 3x3 photos. The little wheelbarrow was inked and detailed with a black pen. The flowers filling the wheelbarrow make the layout stand out.


On the right side we again have a 4x6 photo and 2 3x3's. The title looked really flat until we inked it. Katie had the brilliant idea of the extra big & sign. The Walk in my Garden cartridge does not have a font so we used Alphalicious and design studio to create the title.



I am so pleased with how these Layouts turned out. I can't wait to show people all the fun things this cartridge will do. Do you want to come Exploring with us in the Bug Zone?

A Walk in my Garden chipboard book

What a great way to start summer, a cute little gardening book. This book was entirely created with the "A Walk in My Garden" cricut cartridge and the Design Studio program. For the front cover we wanted the cut out so after experimentation we discovered the wheel barrow gave us the best look. We liked it so much we turned the cut piece into a decorative element. Each page has the shape welded to the squared base and then when we covered it we added the details.








This is one of the projects we are looking at introducing at the Zone. We want to start Exploring a different Cartridge every month. There are so many things you can do with the cartridges you already own. Be on the lookout for the next Scrapbook Zone Newsletter for all the details.