Cut it Up Make it a Mini!

It’s a miniature challenge this week at Cut it Up Challenge Blog!  The theme is Make it a Mini!  A mini what, you ask??  Anything mini.  We’re looking for anything small – note cards, mini albums, magnets . . .  You get the picture, right?

I used an old freebie from Lettering Delights called Banner Day.  The set included an alphabet, paper pack, clip art, frames, even a mini album.  I got the svgs to go along with it.  The svgs are the same images that are in the rest of the collection.  I decided to make a mini mini-album! 

It’s just 3.5 inches!  It all started with the idea of making a mini mini.  Who would appreciate something so small?  My dolls, of course!!  So I brought them outside for a photo shoot.  (Who says fifty-somethings can’t play with dolls?)

Then I inserted their pictures into the Banner Day mini album pngs and printed them out at three inches.  After all the pages were printed out, I measured the boots, lamp post, and other elements, opened the matching svg files and cut them out the same sizes.  I placed the paper piecings on top of the printed images to give it some depth!

Here are the inside pages:

Here are some closeups of the cuts.  I also used old stickers here and there.

         

My husband was freaked out by my little mini.  He doesn’t really like my dolls (imagine that!)  but I have had them a lifetime and couldn’t part with my old friends.

My dolls, on the other hand, really enjoyed their scrapbook.  They spend a lot of time looking at it:

 

Stop over at Cut it Up Challenges to see the other design team members’ creative ideas, then it’ll be your turn to show us your minis!  Whether you enjoy making mini albums, or have some other small project in mind, we want to see what you come up with!  Join us at Cut it Up Challenges!  One lucky entrant will win this prize:

Hope to see your mini there!!

Evelyn

Nurses’ Day

May 6th was Nurses’ Day, the birthday of Florence Nightingale.  When I was making my card for our school nurses, I searched my computer to see if I had any nurse clip art or pictures, and I found this one:

It’s a photo of my mother (bottom right.)  I don’t know anything else about the photo, but I knew I wanted to use it for my Nurse’s Day card.  This is what I came up with:

I used tape from my first aid kit for the corners.

and put this sentiment on the inside:

I don’t remember where the paper came from – I found it in my stash – but I wanted to use it because my mother served as a nurse in the army and this paper had postage images on it.  The colors were perfect, too!  I like how it turned out. 

Evelyn

 

 

Tags for cookies

Every year, we thank our cleaning staff by making them each dozens of cookies.  Besides making cookies myself, my big job is making the personalized tags that go on each plate.  FUN!!

Here are the tags I made this year:

The lawnmower, tree, bee, and beehive are from Hi-Dee-Ho Neighborby Lettering Delights.  The chair, cupcake and teapot are also Lettering Delights – their Sweet Nothings set and the lizard is from their Love Pets set.  The tags are from their Delilah Tags.  The panda is from Create a Critter!

It’s always fun to make a surprise for someone who works hard, and our cleaning staff do such a great job making our buildings clean and healthy!

Evelyn

Cut it Up Mothers’ Day

Hello, everyone! Soon it will be Mothers’ Day, and we’re honoring all mothers at Cut it Up Challenge Blog today.  I’ve been wanting to make a word album for some time, but always mess it up.  This time I succeeded!! (Lucky Mom only has three letters!!)

I guess it could be use as either a card or a mini-album.  It measures 4.5 inches high by 7 wide.  I put white squares inside that could either be journaling areas or could hold some small photos:

I used Sure Cuts A Lot 2 with my Cricut Expression.  Using Lobster 2 font in shadow, I welded the letters to rectangles of increasing widths.  I also cut the letters without the shadow, both regular and flipped horizontally, in a darker shade of pink so the word MOM would stand out.

I finished it off with some liquid pearls.  This was a fun project!

Now we’d like you to link your Mothers’ Day project up at Cut it Up Challenges! 

One random winner will receive this prize:

Good luck!  I can’t wait to see what you make!!

Evelyn

Your Story baby album

I got a great deal on Your Story album kits from CricutMachine.com awhile back.  I didn’t need them, but at the price they were offering, I couldn’t pass them by.  They were selling bundles of kits for real cheap (I forget how much) so I picked up about twelve assorted album kits.  Two of them were baby albums with white covers.

The stickers that came with the album, two pages of alphabet stickers and one page of themed stickers, were real cute, and I used a lot of them.  I really liked some of the pages that came with the album, so those I used “as is,” but I didn’t like all of  the pages.  Generally, I don’t like plain flat pages, but I cut them up and put them back together combined with some leftover baby papers I had from another project, and came up with some great pages.  I’m very happy with the results, and the album went together very quickly.

Here are some of the inside pages:

This album is for a co-worker who is due in a couple of weeks.  I made it as a gift from our school’s Goodwill Sunshine Committee. There’s only one die cut in here – the cupcake.  It’s from Lettering Delights, their Sweet Nothings svg collection.

Evelyn

Get well soon

I saw this adorable image on Cely’s blog, Creating in Carolina, and I just had to follow her link and get it myself!  The little nurse is from Dearie Dolls Digi Stamps, and it’s called Dearie Dolls Mousy Nurse.  It’s already colored, but just slightly so she really appealed to me.  I had to have her!!  (I tried to find her again on Dearie Dolls’ site so I could give you the direct link, but even following Cely’s link, and using Dearie Dolls’ search, I can’t find her again.)

I made this 4-square card using scraps and a border punch.  I think it would cheer up anybody who was sick.

Evelyn

Cut it Up Arbor Day

In honor of Arbor Day, which is April 26th, we at Cut it Up Challenges are challenging you to use a tree on your project!!

There were so many to choose from, but I’d been wanting to use these beautiful files from Lettering Delights for some time now.  Isn’t that Cherry blossom tree gorgeous?

The collection is called Kyoto Kuties.

Here are closeups of the little Kyoto Kutie and the hummingbird:

I have to say I love trees!!  We used to have this huge mulberry tree in our back yard that my sister and I and several neighbors spent countless hours in.  We’d bring up our dolls and our radios and play, hang upside down . . .  So much fun!

I even remember a few Arbor Day songs (or parts of them) that we must have learned in grammar school music class, and of course planting trees on Arbor Day.  Have you ever celebrated it?

The Cut it Up design team has come up with some awesome projects, and I know you will too!  I hope to see yours linked up over there.  Here is the prize that one lucky crafter will win:

I hope it’s you!!

Evelyn