The CCS Virtual Scrapbook! Will unstick on 4/30/2013

[MakingScrapbooks]

Thank you ColleenG! I appreciate your sweet comments!

I use a few different things for creating my digital pages, depending on what the project is that I am doing.

For these pages, I used LifeTimez software (which was a limited edition version of Memory Mixer). It is extremely easy and quick to use! I can download digital elements off the internet and add them to the software to use. I've gotten lots of Disney related items over the last few months. It's sort of like a cheaters version of adobe photoshop without having to create all of your own elements. LOL!! I love it! I can work pretty quickly in it.

I then use Heritage Makers My Studio to upload the pages once I'm finished with them, and purchase it as a printed book. Since I'm a consultant, I get a discount on my books this way! I love the quality too.

Sometimes I create my projects in the HM My Studio. It is just as easy & quick as LifeTimez / Memory Mixer, but you need to be connected to the internet to use it. That's the big difference.

Hope that helps! You can PM me if you have any other questions. I'll be adding more pages to that slideshow soon. I've been busy!!!

Jan

 

[kytiam]

I just completed my 2007 Disney album (all 80 pages! )
I posted it on photobucket so I could share the whole album and then you could choose whether you wanted to look or not!
http://photobucket.com/disney2007

I couldn't figure out how to get the album switched around so you will be starting at the last page and ending with the first.

WOW!! That's one of the best albums I've ever seen! Your work is awesome!

 

[latharia]

I'm so thrilled! I'm done with my May 2007 Disney Album! My most recent additions to its pages are:
wow!
into the wild
5 reasons
Yo ho! Yo ho! It's a Pirate's Life for Me!
a cellar?
and
sunshiny

If you want to see more of my pages, you can click here, for my full gallery, including some non-Disney themed ones!

 

[MakingScrapbooks]

Awesome pages!!! Thanks for sharing!

Jan


Making Scrapbooks blog

 

[wdwdancerwannabe]

I'm wanting to make a cute bucket w/ the flowers/crafts sticking out on sticks - and put my child's pic in the middle of the flower for our teachers. Does ANYONE know what I'm talking about?

How could I google this? What's it called? ANyone have any pics to show me??? I know what I want, but I need help making it "cute"!!

Thanks for the inspiration!

 

[TPCShauna]

I'm wanting to make a cute bucket w/ the flowers/crafts sticking out on sticks - and put my child's pic in the middle of the flower for our teachers. Does ANYONE know what I'm talking about?

How could I google this? What's it called? ANyone have any pics to show me??? I know what I want, but I need help making it "cute"!!

Thanks for the inspiration!

There are tons of paper flower bouquets on the Cricut message boards. You would get tons of inspiration there. Good luck!

 

[MakingScrapbooks]

Yes, you can do this with paint cans! You can get empty paint cans in small and gallon size at places like home depot and lowes. Then decorate the outside with scrapbook paper & embellishments. Make something with your kids pictures, like an altered cd, and place those on dowel rods in the can. I'd use a piece of styrofoam in the can to hold them up. Then fill with paper shreds or something like that.

Hope that helps!
Good luck!
Jan

MakingScrapbooks blog

 

[mmkk]

mmkk, Great album!!!! I'm 6 pages away from being done with my 2007 album ... I hope to get them done before the end of the week!

Here are the pages I did this weekend:
castles galore
SLOW DOWN
Animal Kingdom
and
savor

WOW!! That's one of the best albums I've ever seen! Your work is awesome!

Thank you all for the nice compliments! Latharia-I love your LO's! I always enjoy seeing your recent work!

 

[kswm30b]

Congrats mmkk & latharia for finishing your Disney books! I've done almost 80 layouts, and I'm still not even half way done. So jealous!!

I haven't posted LOs here in a while, I'm so behind posting my LOs on the boards! I still need to post my MNSSHP LOs I finished about a month ago! I've been working on my MGM Studios LOs recently. I used the Cricut on all of these. If you want to know any other credits for these LOs, let me know!

Stitch Photopass-Since there aren't any Stitch embelishments out there, I made him using SCAL on the Cricut. It was harder to put him together than the cuts on the Disney carts, since those include outlines of where to put the color cuts, but it actually wasn't as hard as I thought. It just took a while since there were a lot of pieces. I cut him pretty big, at 7 1/2 inches, since I knew the smaller he was, the harder it would be! It was SO worth it when he was done though. He came out great, don't you think?

I also used SCAL to cut the title, using the "Dream of Me" font.

page 1:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_stitch1_blur.jpg.html

page 2:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_stitch2_blur.jpg.html

2 page spread:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_stitch_both_site.jpg.html

Indiana Jones-Months ago, a poster on the Cricut board posted Indiana Jones & Marion dolls she made using the Paper Dolls cart. I posted that I would be using her instructions (and thankfully, they were detailed!) to make my own Indy doll for this page. I don't think my Indy came out as cute as hers, though I still think he came out well. Especially since I only used one other embelishment on the LO, he really makes the layout! The title is made using the Adventure font in SCAL.

page 1:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_indiana1.jpg.html

page 2:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_indiana2.jpg.html

2 page spread:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_indiana_both.jpg.html

Indiana Jones doll closeup:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_indiana_doll.jpg.html

Tower of Terror-Used SCAL to cut the title for this page, too, using the "FrankenDork" font.

page 1:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_tot1.jpg.html

page 2:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_tot2.jpg.html

2 page spread:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_tot_both_site.jpg.html

Streetmosphere-Title is from the Alphalicious cart, both the title & shadow were welded with the software. The "MGM October 26" on the 2nd page is the first thing I cut with SCAL that I actually used on a layout! It's Twentieth Century Poster font.

page 1:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_street1.jpg.html

page 2:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_street2.jpg.html

2 page spread:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_street_both.jpg.html

Closeup of SCAL cut:
http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/cricut/mgm_street_title.jpg.html

Snow White/Dopey Topiary-Title is Happily Ever After cart

http://heatherw.com/other/gallery/v/other/scrapbook/dis07/mgm_snow_site.jpg.html

Enjoy!!

Heather

 

[DaksKid]

Ok, I tried this again! Try clicking here. These are my mom's pages and her first attempts at scrapbooking. She said she would love to hear advice from the experts here as to how to improve on them!

 

[TPCShauna]

Ok, I tried this again! Try clicking here. These are my mom's pages and her first attempts at scrapbooking. She said she would love to hear advice from the experts here as to how to improve on them!

What's to improve? Those are INCREDIBLE! If my first pages looked like that, I would never have to improve. Please tell her that they are amazing and at least one supposedly experienced scrapper will be scraplifting.

Thanks for sharing!

 

[wdwdancerwannabe]

Here are two bouquet buckets that I made for my DD7 first grade teacher and my DS2 child care provider.

I mostly used the LOCKER TALK Cricut cartridge - Originally it was a cart that I thought I would have NO use for --- but I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!!

I also used the PAPER DOLL Cart.

Thanks for looking!

 

[Disneynut4ever]

You are very creative!

I haven't gotten into the Cricut craze yet. How expensive is everything? You need the machine and all the cartridges, correct? What is the cost (approx.)?

 

[wdwdancerwannabe]

My mom got the little cricut for $119 on Black Friday (what a buy!) --- Right now, they're about $150-$180---- the bigger one is $300 or more.

The Carts run $60-$90 each - you have to keep your eye open for the sales (Michaels and Hobby Lobby) - they have 50% off sales every once in awhile.

I stopped scrappin' entirely for a couple years - then I got my Cricut and the rest is history!! It's very addicting - I love it!

These projects, though, took me at least 3 straight days. I started on Saturday night and finished them on Monday night. I was really surprised how much paper I used!!!!

 

[juligrl]

Ok, I tried this again! Try clicking here. These are my mom's pages and her first attempts at scrapbooking. She said she would love to hear advice from the experts here as to how to improve on them!

Improve? Those are wonderful!!!
Very nice work. I'm impressed!

 

[msr709]

Ok, I tried this again! Try clicking here. These are my mom's pages and her first attempts at scrapbooking. She said she would love to hear advice from the experts here as to how to improve on them!

Tell your Mom she should be giving advice on scrapbooking, she's got it down pat! Great job!

 

[ColleenG]

Stitch Photopass-Since there aren't any Stitch embelishments out there, I made him using SCAL on the Cricut. It was harder to put him together than the cuts on the Disney carts, since those include outlines of where to put the color cuts, but it actually wasn't as hard as I thought. It just took a while since there were a lot of pieces. I cut him pretty big, at 7 1/2 inches, since I knew the smaller he was, the harder it would be! It was SO worth it when he was done though. He came out great, don't you think?

Heather,
I love your Stitch! I saw the website that you I guess downloaded the clip art file from, but how did you get SCAL to break it up into the various colors? Is it in a file that way? I don't have SCAL and have been thinking of getting it. If it can cut other characters it just might push me off the fence . Don't tell my DH Thanks for the help.

 

[kswm30b]

Heather,
I love your Stitch! I saw the website that you I guess downloaded the clip art file from, but how did you get SCAL to break it up into the various colors? Is it in a file that way? I don't have SCAL and have been thinking of getting it. If it can cut other characters it just might push me off the fence . Don't tell my DH Thanks for the help.

Thanks!

Well, kind of. You have to download inkscape, but it's free! (or if you have Adobe Illustrator you can edit svg files that way.) You can pretty much cut ANYTHING out there, you just have to trace it in Inkscape. What's great about the site I got stitch from is that you don't have to trace anything, it's much easier. Just make sure you download the wmf version from that site. Then you import it into inkscape, and just pull it apart! Just drag all the pieces that are the same color so that they are together, so it's easy to line up on the mat when you go to cut it. So group all the light blue pieces together, then all the dark blue together, then all the red together, etc. Once you move all the pieces away, the black background is there to cut as well. I'm not too good at explaining things, lol, but it's not as complicated as I probably make it sound! You save it as an svg file, and in SCAL, just import the svg file.

And of course you can cut it any size you want, the only thing that restricts size is the size of your mat. I rotated stitch so that I could cut him at 7 1/2 inches.

I was on the fence for a while about this program. When I saw the discount posted here, I decided to go for it. I've already gotten my money's worth out of it (I have several carts that I haven't even used yet, or only used once, and spent $30-$50 each, so even if I only made the stitch LO, it would have been equal to that!) I've done several more LOs the last few days that I need to post, and I've used SCAL on those as well. I still use my carts, but I love being able to cut out any font on my computer. The other characters (and any shape/design/image/etc) is just icing on the cake.

 

[TPCShauna]

Where did you get the Stitch file if you don't mind me asking?

 

[kswm30b]

Where did you get the Stitch file if you don't mind me asking?

http://vector-cartoons.com/

They have tons of characters there, including non-Disney ones.