Circle Pop Book Tuturial

I've been making a few of these fun Circle Pop Books! they are so easy and fun!

Here's a lil video tutorial




and here's the written instructions:

Circle Pop Book!Circle cutting system( Cricut or machine similar or cutting mat, hobby blade, and plate)

• 4 pieces of cardstock for base of project
• Bone Folder
•  Adhesive
• Scissors
• Patterned Paper
• Ribbon

Step-by-Step

Step 1

Cut four circles out of cardstock. Your finished project will be 1/4 of the circle's original size.

Use your Electric Cutting machine like the cricut to cut circles or  use a plate, place cutting mat on table. Put cardstock on cutting mat. Place plate on top of cardstock. Press down on your hobby blade all around the plate.

Step 2

Fold circle in half vertically using your bone folder.

Step 3

Fold circle in half horizontally using bone folder.

Step 4

Cut on fold line up to center point.

Step 5

Half inch down from fold line cut from right edge of circle to the middle fold line. This makes a flap on the lower right side.

Step 6

Cut at least 45 degree angle cuts on both sides of the flap.  You should now have 4 circles that look the same.

Step 7

Fold up the bottom left section.

Step 8

With your bone folder fold the flap down in half. This will make a mountain fold.

Step 9

Decorate your circles.
It is important that you decorate this project before assembly and not place any decorations on your fold line. Use any paper or accessories you desire.

Step 10

Place adhesive on flap close to the inner edge. This must be a permanent adhesive or they will fall apart.

Step 11

Slide the lower left hand section over the flap. The flap will be on the bottom.

Step 12

You now have 4 panels. You will attach the 1st panel to the 2nd one, the 2nd one to the 3rd one and the 3rd one to the 4th one. The 1st one is the front of your book. The 4th one is the back of the book.

Place adhesive all around the edge of the panel and 2 stripes in the center. Line them up on the bottom corner and edge. Then smooth them together.

Step 13

Cut 24 inches of ribbon. Center the ribbon around the book (if Desired). Tape the ribbon to the front and the back panels (not the spine).

Step 14

Decorate the front and back of the book as desired. Leave the book open or you can tie it open so it sits nicely on a table.

CTMH New Summer Color Palette

Many of you might have heard of the new Summer Color Palette CTMH is realeasing. That means the old one is retired!  I totally had forgotten about them, (silly me!) till somone asked me why they couldn't order a certain color! I did a quick little video to introduce the Yummy new Colors. Available Sept. 1st when the new Idea book goes active!  Lots of fun and new items! Be sure to check back to see whats new!.. Don't forget you can shop on line at my CTMH Site!!

Glue Dots

I did a little video showing how  and what you can use glue dots on. I'm sure there are way more uses than I cover. Enjoy!

In a Minute Layouts with Scraps

I did a video on how you can easily make some layouts with mostly larger peices of scraps. I'm going to do a small series on scraps! we all have them and alot of us avoid them or forget them! No MOre! Lets get them out and use them up!! Sorry about the beginning i thought the view would be different. So my draws are sideways on the video




here are the finished layouts after, inking, adhering, adding lil embellishments and pictures!

School Album

This is part of the School Album for my giveaway on Facebook for the August Refer A friend!

Blog Award!

I can't believe it! Jenny at Crazy About Cricut honored ME?!.. I know can you believe it ME!!! by giving me a blog award! I was so ELATED that she thought of me and liked my blog enough to give me this award :)

So here are the requirements in accepting this award:

I'm supposed to tell you 3 things I Love about myself!...mmmm... kinda hard for me but here goes nothing

1. I love my feet. I know feet! but they really are cute
2. My creativity that I have and am able to share
3. Being a MOm! i never wanted kids, really, its true when I was little no way was I going to be a Mom! I wouldn't trade it for the world now. Love my 3 lil mini me monsters :)

My favorite picture: hard to choose just one but do love this one

Here are the 5 blogs I'm passing this award onto. They are all AWSOME, and have given me some great inspiration!

1. Candace at Paper Crafts by Candace
2. Madison at Funky Cards
3. Ane at MIn Hobbyverden
4. Bryan at  Scrap Guy
5. Crystal at Crafting for Caitlyn

The rules in accepting this award are:

1. you must thank the person who passed it on to you:
2. copy award to your blog.
3. list three (3) things you love about yourself,
4. post a picture that you love on your blog,
5. pass award on to five (5) others

Want to win some cool Prizes?

On my Facebook Fan Page  THE SCRAPOHOLIC  I am having a refera friend contest. Its really simple!

First you need to have friends and family who have a facebook account.  You don't necessarily need one but i will need a way to get in touch with you if you WIN!! Send them to my Facebook Fan Page, tell them to "LIKE" the page, then to post on the wall Your name and that you sent them to get credit!

Grand Prize for most referrals is a Custom Scrapbook made by me! (20 pages)

2nd Prize is your choice of Either a Pre- MAde "DISNEY"  themed scrapbook or a Pre-Made "SCHOOL" themed scrapbook.
Here is the Disney Pre-Made Scrapbook

The persons with the 4th and 5th most referrals will win a large mystery box of scrapbooking supplies

The next Top 5 (so bottom top 10 referrals 6- 10) will win a scrapbook or card bundle kits

Everyone who has a least one referral their names will go in a drawing for an ultimate mystery box of scrapbooking supplies!

Did you Miss the Page to send everyone to!?   HTTP://FACEBOOK.COM/THESCRAPOHOLIC

Here are the ways you can "refer" my "fan page":

1. Under my profile picture is a "suggest page" and a window of your "friends" should pop up and you just click their profile pictures and then at the bottom of that window will be a "send suggestions" button click that. Be Sure to let your friends know to post that "YOU" referred them so you get credit!

2. You can "share" one of my posts on your wall by clicking "share" type a post above to tell friends to "like" the page and tell them to to post that "YOU" referred them so you get credit!

3. You can "tag" me in a post by simply typing "@" symbol then w/no space start typing "THE Scrapoholic" (@The Scrapoholic) below your post a list of names will show up keep typing till you see "The Scrapoholic" click it and my name should appear "BLUE" which makes it a clickable link to my fan page and the @ symbol disapperas. tell friends to "like" the page and tell them to to post that "YOU" referred them so you get credit!

4. If you have a Fanpage or a blog Give me a shout out and tell your "fans" or "followers" to "like" the page and tell them to to post that "YOU" referred them so you get credit!

5. You can "tweet" about it on Twitter too!

6. Email your friends and family with the link and tell them to post on the wall!

Let your friends know you want to win one of the prizes and what a fun page this is :) and be sure (i can't stress enough this point enough) that they post "you" referred them!!

 THEY MUST POST YOUR NAME ON MY FACEBOOK FAN PAGE WALL FOR YOU TO RECIEVE ANY CREDIT. BE SURE TO TELL THEM TO TAKE THE TIME TO POST OR YOU WON'T GET ANY CREDIT!

Jungle Theme CTMH Memory Keeper

I made this custom box for a customer! It is a CTMH Memory Keeper, that I altered for a little baby boy's memories! I inked the edges with Cats eye "burnt Sierra" chalk ink!

CTMH Products used are:
Memory Keeper
Moon Doggie Level 2 paper pack
Back Country Level 2 Paper pack
Chocolate, Colonial White, Orange, Petal, Garden Green, Topiary and Smokey Plum Cardstock
Coordinating CTMH Inks for inking edges

Cricut Cartridges used
Zooballoo for the vine
Animal Kingdom for Alligator, elephant and Lion heads
New Arrival for Monkey and Girafee

I used my ATG gun and Scotch liquid adhesives


Top view of box

Front flap and top view

Side and top view

Ecraft cutting machine?

what are your thoughts on this machine?  i like no more mats! not that i spend alot on them and this would be investing into another machine and learning it. though it doesn't look difficult to learn.

A few Projects

Heres a couple things I've been working on.

This is an altered composition book, I made for a lil girl that I heard is going thru a tough time. Its a surprise and hope it brings her some much needed smiles. I stamped some fun "girly" images randomly throughout the notebook too!

I made this for a swap I'm in at Paper Crafts by Candace. Its for a color swap. But can't decide which i like better. The one with the shadow or without behind the pumpkins. The basket is from "doodlecharms" the pumpkins are "Pooh and Friends"

with

Without

A little About ME!

So, I thought it would be nice for you all to "get to know me"! So, I did a video and tried to talk about myself. I did about 100 takes and really not satisfied completely with any, but this one is the best out of them all> Hope its not too "cheesy"?! Hope I don't sound to "pathetic" either!  I'm not one that likes to talk about myself, so this was really hard challenge!

Waterfall Card Tutorial

These are fun cards to make! Simple, easy and FUN!  CAn do them for any occassion! I chose to do Halloween on the tutorial because Halloween is coming up fast!

Waterfall Card Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 5 ¼" x 8"  card stock
• Bone folder
• Scoring tool
• 9 "x 2" coordinating card stock
• 4 squares 1 ¾" x 1 ¾ "of white card stock
• 3 ¾" x 5" coordinating card stock
• 4 stamps that are no bigger than 1 ¾" x 1 ¾ "square
• Stamp pad
• Color utensils
• 4 squares 2" of coordinating card stock
• Double-sided tape
• 1"  x 3 ½" coordinating card stock
• 2 brads in a coordinating color
• 4" ribbon
• Stapler

Step 1    Fold the 5 ¼ " x 8" card stock in half to create a 5 ¼ " x  4" card. Crease the fold with a bone folder to make it crisp.

Step 2
Score the 9" x 2" strip of cardstock at  2", 2 ¾ ", 3 ½ " and 4 ¼ " from one of the ends of the strip. Fold the card stock back and forth at each of these score lines. Leave the card stock folded at the 4 ¼ " score line.

Step 3
 Stamp your images on the 1 ¾ " x 1 ¾ " squaresof card stock. Color in the stamped images with you choice of coloring utensils.

Step 4
Attach each stamped square of cardstock, with double-sided tape, to one of the 2" x 2" squares of card stock centered to create a sort of frame around the stamped card stock.

Step 5
Use double-sided tape to attach the bottom stamped image of your waterfall to the 2" x  2" section of the 9" x  2" strip created by the first score line.Attach the next image to the strip with double-sided tape just along the top edge of the square. Place that image just below the score line. Continue attaching the last two images the same way as the second image.

Step 6
Attach the 1" x  3 ½ " strip of card stock to the 3 ¾ " x 5 "card stock 1" from the bottom with a brad at each end of the strip.

Step 7 
Attach the 3 ¾ " x  5"  piece of card stock to the front of the card,centered, with double-sided tape. The end of the card stock with the strip attached should go at the bottom end of the card.

Step 8
Slide the unfolded half of the 9" x  2"  strip of card stock that has the stamped images attached through the strip of card stock attached to the front of the card with the brads. Use double-sided tape to attach the bottom edge of the strip with the stamped images to the strip attached to the front of the card.The bottom edge of the stamped images strip should line up with the bottom edge of the strip attached to the front of the card.

Step 9
Fold a 4"  length of ribbon in half and staple it to the bottom of the part of the 9" x 2" strip that is threaded through the horizontal strip on the front of the card. This functions as a pull to cue the recipient of the card to pull the strip down.

Would Love to see yours! Post it here! 

Fun with Flowers

I did a quick little video on flowers. Nothing extravagant, just some ideas of what you can do with them. More for Inspiration than anything!  Enjoy!

Issues! Issues! Issues!

I have no idea what is going on! I haven't been able to sign into my blog for several days! I've had issues trying to follow blogs posting on blogs! UGH! frustrating! Kept telling me my blog doesn't exist, yet I was on the page viewing it! Then it would tell me I don't have a blog, would you like to start one?  Well, For Today, at least I have gotten in! So, my appologies for not being able to post! I have lots of videos to share with you! So be prepared to be overwelmed for the next few minutes of postings so I can catch up! :)

Has anyone else incurred this problem?

MOnkey Layout!

This Layout was fun to do. I can't say I'm completly happy with it seems like its missing something or unfinished? THough overall, I do like it! I used CTMH Caboodle papers and "chocolate" Cardstock, Cricut New Arrival "monkey" die cut, Zooballoo for the "vine" and making memories acrylci squares. this was at Univwersal Studios and Curious george being silly with my daughter!

I Used this "sketch" for the layout

ATG Gun changing the adhesive

I did a simple video showing how you change the adhesive in your ATG GUn! So simple I practically did it one handed!

Cards from scraps

So, i've had this idea that i got off someone's Patchwork" card, and for the life of me i can't find the post! Sorry would love to give credit for the inspiration but i just dont remember and i've searched blogs to find it and i cant. so anyways i thought oh how cool would that be to use scraps of paper and emboss them to make a card! So i took different emboss folders and my scrap solid color papers and cardstock and fit hem in the emboss folder. Some scraps needed a little trimming but i think you'll get the idea!