Telephone Address Tag Books

It is with a very heavy heart that I am now creating my newest projects. My middle child and her great family and my son and his great family are all moving out of the state. I created these simple telephone address books for them to get all their friends info before they leave. Texas is a big state and they were both 3 hours away. Now one is moving to Ohio and the other to Florida. It will not longer be that early morning drive to go visit.

Below you will see what I am up to now to keep from crying.

Here is the flip side of both

Father's Day Book

The biggest project to date has just been completed. I put my Cricut, Cuttlebug and Crop-a-Dile to work to get this one done. All the kids help gather photos and artwork or notes. I put them all together and here they are. Grumps got a little teary eyed. We love it.

Each of the letters is its own page.

This is what they look like unstacked.

Here are all the inside pages.

Boys Initial Books

I finally got the boy's initial books done enough to post them. It is hard to decide what to embellish with because i don't want to make them too "girly". I will dress them a bit when the pictures are there. I am practicing with my Crop-a-dial and will definately use it on these.
Enjoy!!!

JAM

MDH

JCK

Girl Initial Books

I am truly blessed to have six crazy grand kids to create things for and with. Here are the covers for the girls individual picture books. Their initials were welded to the covers in Design Studio. Since they are all still young (need I say destructive) I only put the initials on the covers. All inside pages were cut on my paper cutter to size. I cannot wait to put the first pictures in them. Here are the girls books.

Thumbelina

Tinkerbell



Princess

Thanks for a friend

I made this card for my friend that got me hooked on Cricut and everything that goes with it. It is simple and not necessarily good - but the sentiment is heartfelt.

Now i need to work on photographic skills.

USMC TBS Word Book

I am trying to post my first pictures of a project. I had dreams about this word book for days. Could not wait for my Cricut to get here as well as my Design Studio software. I was hooked from the start. You will have to forgive me for the difference in the size of the pictures and for the white out on the faces (and a few spaces i cannot figure out how to remove). I am a bit worried about posting face shots.

The Basic School, United States Marine Corps.

Next we have the inside pages I will post them by letter

Here is the U

UNITED

S is for

STATES

M is for

MARINE

and C is for

CORPS

OOH RAH

next is the inside back

Here is the back of my USMC word book.

Semper Fi

Creations

It seems that my life (and dollars) this last month or so has revolved around things that begin with C. I purchased a Cricut Expression and 2 Cartridges. Unfortunately the cartridges seem to multiply like bunnies and subtract from my Cash. I have found that Oh My Crafts and the Cricut web sites have deals with percentages off and Michaels ~ though you cannot use coupons on the Cricut ~ puts the Cartridges on sale every now and then. I will be posting some of the projects I have done in the near future. I have also found a great way to store my new equipment.
A friend gave ~ yes I said gave ~ me a Cuttlebug. I have have not used it yet but that is planned for this evening.
I also have a Crop-a-Dial and a Bind it all. If you have not seen or used a Bind it all you need to. It is a real feeling of Completion when you pull the handle and make all those pages into a book.

Jumping off Spot

Well today is the day. I created my blog. Maybe I am ready for 2010. I am jumping off into a new bottomless pit. Best thing is ~ I have lots of friends that are already there. Thanks for joining me.