Weekend Getaway Was Productive!

This past weekend I went on a scrapbooking weekend retreat, and boy did I get a lot done!  My daughter wanted to give a mini album to my grandson's paternal grandma and great-grandma for Christmas, so I completed both of them at the retreat.  I did the same album for both.  All my daughter has to do is add the journaling.  Here are the pages:

I used the following cartridges:  B is for Boy Lite, Nate's ABCs, Creative Memories Stork's Delivery and Doodlecharms.  I don't know the sizes of the cuts because I had to actually put the cartridge in the Cricut to cut since I used the Cricut available at the retreat.  I had to really stop to think how do use it since I always use my Gypsy at home.

Here Is An Older Project

Since I haven't been able to fit in any scrapping for a few days, I thought I'd post a mini chipboard album that I completed at a weekend crop last fall.  It's for my grandson Ethan, who just LOVES Toy Story.  The Toy Story patterned paper and stickers are Creative Memories, the white cardstock is from a pack I bought at Meijer and the chipboard I bought at the Mega Meet last year.  I believe I used George and Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge for the actual pages, and I used Storybook to spell out Ethan on the edges of the pages.

I have plans to cut and assemble for him each of the characters on the Toy Story cartridge, but I think I'll save that until I have a few days of vacation.

4th of July Weekend

We had a nice 4th of July. Beth had to work, so we had a cookout after she got home. We had hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, baked beans and macaroni & cheese. Later in the evening, we shot off fireworks. We put on a good show!

Today (Sunday), I was FINALLY able to finish Ethan's alphabet book. The album is an 8 x 8 Pioneer album. I put Colorbok chipboard letters, covered in Colorbok chipboard letter stickers, on the cover. The cardstock used for the base of the pages is by The Paper Company. I used the Zooballoo Cricut cartridge to cut all the animals and letters. The letters on the title page and end page were cut from adhesive-backed cardstock I bought from QVC, and all the other letters and animals were cut from Bazzill cardstock. The animals are attached on the outside of the page protectors with velcro so Ethan can take them off and put them back on. I used my YourStory machine to laminate the animals.