Tip - Shopping Lists in a Photo Book

I gave new life to an old photo book - which I rarely use anyway because of too many photos! These things are easy to find at thrift or dollar stores. I started out with one cover and then changed it to one I designed with the Cricut. The lettering was from Alphalicious and then the scrolls from Wedding Solutions - using two colors of paper and then just linking them together before sending it through the Xyron and adhering them to the black cardstock. The covers are a bit larger than the 4" x 6" photo pages, so measure the cover they have in there before creating your own.

For the inside, I created a base for a 4" x 6" card (to make it cheaper, I just cut down cardstock to the proper size with a paper cutter and saved the scraps for other projects) and just changed the location name with each print. Then on another word file, I created a sheet with 4" x 4" blocks of checklists for inserting into each page. Those are printed on standard copy paper to save on the cardstock. After I fill up one checklist, then I toss it into recycle and put in another insert. Helps if you can get it worked out to print the paper two-sided as well. Just keep your margins evened up for it to work. Obviously, by the photo, I put any current store coupons I may have on the corresponding page.

After I came up with my frequented store list - some are obviously lumped into one such as "Home Improv" (ie Lowes, Home Depot) to save some space. I do still have some empty pages, but lumping those type stores together helped with that. I didn't lump my craft stores together because I'm sometimes more specific with what I want from where. Also at the end, I created an index for the front with an alphabetical list (which they are in the book alphabetically as well) for a quick reference to see what stores I have in the book.

This has been so much easier than having a list or multiple lists just stuck everywhere. Plus I can pull out the book whenever I think of something that I want to get the next time I'm at a particular store! Especially after reading the Sunday ads.

Card - Garden Party

FRONT:

INSIDE:

This one actually has two layers of dirt and the carrots are raised from the back layer of dirt. It's hard to tell in the photo though. Kind of which I'd done a backing shadow to the letters, but didn't think about it until after I'd already Xyron'd it. Plus Taylor kept wanting to stand on the Cricut! But had to give the little nod to Ricky Nelson.

Supply list:

• Paper: Georgia-Pacific White Cardstock, Astrobrights Orange, Embassy Colored Paper Dark Green, Brown Construction
• Carrots: Found image on the internet, printed onto each of the colored papers and a little CPA later...voila!
• Phrases: Cricut Alphalicious card
• Dirt: Wavy Scissors, Embossed with swirled stencil

Card - Party (Girl)

Supply list:

• Paper: Embassy Black Cardstock, Embassy Colored Paper in Purple, Light Purple and Light Green
• Texture: ("It's A Party") Cuttlebug Folder "Spots & Dots"
  

Card - Happy Birthday (Girl)

Supply list:

• Paper - Embassy Black Cardstock, Embassy Dark Green & Light Green
• "Happy Birthday" - Microsoft Word cut with Martha Stewart Circle Cutter
• Flower - Cricut - George & Basic Shapes cart
  

Card - Way To Go / It's Your Day

Another for the MCPT February card challenge with another little 3D effect for the balloons from the George & Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge. The phrases "Way To Go" & "It's Your Day" were also both from the George cartridge.

Scrapbook - 8x8 page - Love Is Strange

Note: Grascal bowed out of the festivities. He's not into the whole 'brotherly love' thing!

Supplies:

• Cricut Cartridges: Alphalicious; George & Basic Shapes


• Paper: Pink base: Embassy Ampad Colored Cardstock; Patterned: Making Memories Embellishment Paper Cosmopolitan Collection


• Journaling: Fonts - Balmoral D; Bradley Hand ITC


• Punches: Martha Stewart Crafts

Card - Grandmother - Flowers Have Sun

I remember seeing this saying somewhere a few months back and thought it was a nice sentiment. I can't recall if it was actually for a Grandmother or not, but that's how I opted to use it. It was also helpful that I had photos of flowers from the flower beds over the past year and the new Cricut with an also new Alphalicious cartridge. I took some Astrobrights paper and just let it cut various flowers from fully covered mat boards for an afternoon and just divided them by size into clear containers until time to create the card last night. It allowed the process to go a lot faster.

Supplies list:

• Cricut - George cart - flowers (1", 1.25", 1.5")
• Cricut - Alphalicious cart - lettering (1")
• Paper trimmer for square background papers (1.5")
• Marvy Clever Level Craft Punch LV-SJCP42 Square for photos (2" diagonal cut)
• Card base - 8.5x11 - Royal Crafts Sonburn II Cover Stock Earthtones collection
• Adhesives: Xyron (photos, colored squares, lettering); Glue Stick (center of cut flowers)
• Brads (only used on two front cut flowers)
• Making Memories Mini Square Tropic Item #26112 key lime
• Making Memories Flower Pastel Item #30182 larger green of two sizes

Front:

Inside: