Scrapbook Layout - 2010 Play the Day Away

PJ and his friends attended their last Kindermusik class before going into preschool.  We decided to take them to a playground for some fun.  The kids all had fun...I didn't - PJ wasn't interested in the playground and instead would BOLT to the busy street OR to our car - so I spent the day chasing him around.

They layout was something I found from pinterest.  I used cuttlebug on clouds and copic pens or inck on the pieces.  I can't go back and see which cartridges were used because my gypsy had to be reformated BUT,I do remember that the tree with tire swing was from pop-up neighbourhood (well, I think that's where it was).  The kite is from EDPD

Scrapbook Layout - 2009 Great Outdoors

I thought I better put in a project - the organizing is getting a little boring.  Here's a layout I did in November.

This is PJ playing out in the backyard in 2009.  He ended up thinking that the shed was the best toy ever!  HA HA, silly boy.

I used Elegant Edges for the postage stamp looking background. Pretty much everything else was from Campin Critters, except for the lawn mower, which I believe was from Pop-up Neighbourhood.  I used glossy accents on the mower (even though you can't see it in the photo).  I also inked (with copics) all the edges on the trees as well as used Swiss Dot embossing folder on the green trees.  Pop-dots were used on some of the trees and on the mower.

Thanks for looking

School house - end of year card

I finally finished my 8 pop-up cards with a school house inside (yes 8 - there are 8 teachers/aides/therapists in PJ's class).  I think they turned out pretty good (considering I'm the one making them).

Here are some photos of some of the pieces after they were cut (I used the gypsy to squish as many as I could into the smallest piece of paper.

Here's the front of the card - I did some inking around the white piece and the apple:

And the pop-up part:

I added the tree and grass myself.  It took awhile to figure out how to get the tree to pop-up...and as long as it does it the 1st time they open the card, that's good enough for me.  I wanted some dimension, so I put the tree slightly ahead of the building...which made it hard to do the grass...so its only adhered with glue on the tree trunk.

Cartridges used are Pop-Up Neighborhood (schoolhouse), Doodlecharms (apple), Campin Critters (tree), Plantin Schoolbook (grass).  I used glossy accents for the windows and the stamp is from Stampin' Up.

Here's the link to my original test-concept - school pop-up trial

School card - trying Pop-Up Neighbourhood

I just got my 4th quarter cartridge from the Cricut Circle and there are some cute cuts on it - I like the tree with the tire swing, the fence, lawn-mower and a bunch of other ones.  I need to get PJ onto a farm so I can make the cute tractor and other cute farm things.

I attempted to make one of the pop-ups....which don't really interest me because they are mainly buildings...why do I want to make a card with a building popping up inside?  WELL...I made the little school house...and is it EVER cute.  I think I'm going to make it for the teachers/therapists this year.

Here's a prototype...All the pieces were colored and cut using the imagine more cartridge and gypsy.  There are obviously things I would change and add (like not white paper for the card and pop-up and I may add grass and a tree or something to go with the schoolhouse.  The cartridges used are Pop-Up Neighborhood and Imagine More.

The hard part is knowing what size to make it so it'll fit in a standard card.  Everything was cut at 4.3.  I think I would make the non-pop-up part slightly bigger to see if it'll hide the "box" holding it all up.

from the side

Well...at least I tried it, right?!


OH...I actually MADE these...here's the link to the finished product!     SCHOOLHOUSE POP-UP