I Can't beleive it'a been so long...

It's hard to believe that it's been 10 months since my last the last post and the last page I scrapped.  Not sure how I got so side tracked or so uninspired to create anything new. It's not that I haven't taken new pictures,  heck I even bought a new Nikon D3100 digital SLR camera last fall.  2010 seemed to be a year of changes and checks and balances, some subtle and some not so subtle, LOL. Then last week my daughter brought me a project she wanted me to make.  She was going to a baby shower for her friend we have known since they were kids.  The baby's name is going to be Noah and the nursery theme is Noah's Ark.  She requested I make a shadow box of the Ark to go with the bedding she had bought from Baby's R Us.  She brought over a shadow box that was 16x20 showed me the picture of the quilt to get the basic idea of colors and style.  With help from my daughter on what colors and animals this is what I came up with. The ark and Noah are from SVG's I made in Inkscape and cut with Make the Cut.  The animals were cut with Cricut using Animal Kingdom. 

I cut individual planks for the bottom of the ark and layered them on a solid piece. I raised the pieces of the top and bottom of the boat off the mat to give depth to the inside of the port holes and windows.

The animal heads were raised with foam dots to give them some depth as well. All but Noah and the whales were cut with the Animal Kingdom cartridge. The ark, waves and cloud were done with MTC.

Well I may be in trouble now.  I found myself in Joann's picking out paper stacks and found a few new EK punches. Did I mention K & Company has some gorgeous embellishments I couldn't resist.  OMG I think the scrapping bug has returned!

Side tracked again...

My grand daughter spent the night last weekend and we rented movies. Twilight just happened to be one of them.  I have seen all the cut files and heard the buzz but had never seen the movies. We enjoyed the movie and  then of course we had to watch New Moon. I find if I enjoy a movie I always end up reading the book as well. Four Twilight books later I am waiting to see the new Eclipse movie in June, go figure.  Well I finally got back to putting together the Alice in Wonderland layout I had spread out on my scrap table for more than a week. I made the White Rabbit about three inches and it was a bit tricky to work with so  many small pieces but he turned out OK after I finished I think.  I want to try a larger one so I can get more detail on it. I did end up removing most of the scrolls on Alice's leaves for the smaller cut version as well. The links for the cut files for the Rabbit and Alice are below for anyone that would care to use them.

Alice

White Rabbit

A Beautiful Sunny Sunday...

It was such a gorgous day out today.  Sunshine always lifts my spirits and I just love the smell of spring.  Today I went to see the Time Burton and Johnny Depp movie, Alice in Wonderland. I went with my one of my daughter's and four of my grand kids. We did the 3D version and it was all I could do not the laugh during the movie looking over at my three year old grandson.  He was wearing those big black plastic 3D glasses trying to keep them up and eat popcorn at the same time. I loved the movie but then I always enjoy Johhny Depp in Tim Burton's movies. The movie gave me an idea for an Alice layout. So I went through my my digital color book pages and pulled out a couple Alice in Wonderland images to break down with Inkscape. I want to cut them in soft colors and use paper from Prima's Nursery Tales stack. I will try to share the cuts in the next couple days.  I just want to make the cuts before I do.  I find sometimes when there are alot of smaller pieces you have to make some adjustments and I want to make sure they cut before I post them.

Staying out of the craft stores…

My challenge to myself this past month is to stay out of the craft stores. It is quite impossible for me not to come out with a roll of ribbon, a paper stack or some little something that caught my eye. I’m like a magpie with shinny objects. I seem to have accumulated more paper and crafty things than I will most likely ever use in my life time LOL.  I have a habit of spending my lunch hour at Tuesday Morning, Michael’s, Joann’s or the LSS that are all five minutes from work. I have come the conclusion that my brain is not wired to just window shop. It has the over whelming desire to buy. In the effort to break this habit I have been bringing my laptop to work and spending my lunch hour creating or cleaning up cut files. So far so good, I have only slipped once last weekend. I found Fisker’s 7x7 inch clear stamp sheets at Dollar Discount; I bought 5 sheets because even I couldn't pass that up. This is today’s lunch hour file, hope someone can use it. The file contains the double heart mat and all the items on it, click here to open the download.