A Year in Review

I can't believe it has been almost a whole year since I got going in scrapbooking - I mean intensely interested in it.

It started last year at the MOPS Scrapbooking Luau here in town. It started at 9 a.m. and went to 8 p.m. I can't tell you how tired I was by the end of the night, but I got so much accomplished that evening and knew this was something I really wanted to pursue.

Last year I didn't know what an SVG was - Scalable Vector Graphic; I thought cart meant shopping cart (short for cartridge) and just barely knew what a Cricut was. Or a .cut file.  To me stack meant all the stacks of photos I had to sort through not paper stacks. And paper stack is not very descriptive either. What I learned was that a paper stack was a collection of coordinating papers/cardstock bound together like a giant note pad and that they came in all different sizes, from 4 x 6 up to 12 x 12. I discovered that vinyl was not an LP (these predate CDs) but a material with many different uses from scrapbooking to home decor.

That first scrapbooking luau has created a monster. I have this urge to collect paper. I love making cards. We have one craft store here in town - Hobby Lobby - and a scrapbook store in Algood. I'm anxious to visit Michael's again when we make the trip to Michigan, and see what stuff I can find.

Copyright 2011, ACK, for Generational

SVG Blog Launches on Saturday

Visit their Facebook page, or visit this link. I would be happy with either one!

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Found Object Craft

The other day when I had just finished off a round of Laughing Cow cheese, I looked at the packaging and thought, what can I do with this?  This package on the right ---

First, eat the cheese, but best if you don't do it all at once! Then, peel off the top and bottom labels. I tried to get the top label off in one piece, to use as a template, but alas it did not cooperate. Sure I could have measured the top and cut my circle on my Cricut, but instead, I just traced it, cut it slightly larger and glued it over the top overlapping onto the side of the top. Then I glued ribbon around the side of the lid and the bottom. I dressed it up with flowers and a cute little glittery brad and Voila! a nice little gift box.

The flowers were blog candy I won earlier in the year, the ribbon, the brad and the paper are all Paper Studio.

I have some ideas for Christmas ---

Copyright 2011, ACK, for Generational