So I just started this yesterday and finished this today, YEAH! My sister's 40th birthday is the end of October and this summer on our family cruise my husband and I went kayaking with my sister and her daughter. And since I had some really great pictures and since they were not likely to have pictures of her and her daughter kayaking. Seems a little hard to achieve. And my sister doesn't have any actual albums. So I created this over sized tag album. Used my cricut to cut the over sized tags from kraft 12 x 12 paper, which was created with my gypsy. I then added 4x5 pictures and a little paper and stamp accents. I also distressed the tags with Tim Holtz stained walnut. I would love to say I used my imagine on this but not this time. I am currently hard at work on my family's vacation album... May I say its hard to do this album when we were traveling for three weeks. Too many great pictures and memories.

Okay, Imagine is here. LOVE IT!!!! And WOW, first project and success was easy. I made this simple birthday card for my niece and a topper to her present to cordinate. I can not believe the easy of this machine. Cutting letters are perfect even under an 1 inch tall comes out perfect. My expression may get jealous now.

I dragged my three kids out of bed at 6 am to get to the park by 7am to see the Hot Air Balloons set up, inflate and LIFT OFF! Absolutely wonderful, chilly but GREAT!

Okay so this is a Martha Stewart inspired wrapping. I like using brown paper, but well maybe the decorative daisy strip would have looked better on a smaller yet more square box. Which I punched out of a 2 1/4' strip paper and punched both sides. I actually love this punch.

Gift Card Envelope

So my son had a birthday party. And well after receiving many duplicate gifts with my kids, I now do gift cards plus my boys love gift cards. So I had to make an envelope to gift it in. One thing I learned is be careful with velum and embossing.

So here's what I did, embossed a velum envelope with my cuttlebug and then added glaze accents.

Baby Shower gift. Mady with tags, ribbon, stamps. This was actually a gift certificate to

have her baby boy's foot prints painted and pressed onto a ceramic cross with his birth information. That is when he arrives this month. Yes that means anytime now.

Oh, and she loved it. I will also throw in there a Christmas ornament too with footprints.

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