Lovely Acrylic Minialbum

Dear scrappers,
I made this album for a class that I though back on February 12...
I used the papers of the retired Dream Pop collection and from the January specials Cloud 9 CTMH papers and elements.




I tried to highlight more the teal tones to match one of students' wishes (she bought 2 kits for a bridal shower gifts).



I bought those pearl Jolee's hearts at michaels to make it more soft...



I used an acrylic album bought a while ago online and decorated the taps with some of the teal glitter trim, the negative of a cricut cut, and some gold polka dots washi tape from CTMH:
http://vicky-sa-scrapbooking.ctmh.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=7662&CatalogID=691
http://vicky-sa-scrapbooking.ctmh.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=7664&CatalogID=691



I used some pearl pens and blue glitter glue for accents.



I cut and distressed many cuts from the artbooking cmth cart. I used twilight inks and Tim Holzt distressing inks for the edges in blue and orange.
This cut had some notches for adding pictures, thus I highlighted it with gold pearl pen on one side and orange TH ink on the back...



I added some glitter glue hearts to the edges as well.

I'm in love with Artbooking cart overlays, thus I used two in this acrylic album. The hearts one is super cute. I added some glitter glue to the corner hearts as accents...



For the back I used a new paper wrinkler with heart motives... And distressed the risen hearts using the distresser kit from cmth...



I stamped a heart banner from the January SOTM in rust StazOn and blue Color Box's Surfacez inks.



Later, I added some envelops, which I distressed and changed the flap to match my theme. I added some orange using Smooch inks in the butterfly and a blank heart from the could 9 paper kit.



For the back I added an square with rounded corners and some of the elements from the cloud 9 kit.



I wasn't sure if wanted to add one more page, but decided to do it, when I stamped a hearts background using the hearts from the previously mentioned hearts banner using blue Color Box's Surfacez...



I added a risen glitter frame leaving space in the top to add a small picture. I punched some hearts out of the glitter trim and added to the frame and to a negative heart cut from the first page orange frame.



For the back, I overlapped two pieces of the embossed card stock and some washi tape. I added pearl pen triangles to the back of the cloud 9 elements in the bookmark...



For the last page, I used the tiger overlay and an stamped journaling block with glitter glue and smooch...



For the back I stamped a heart using the stamps included in the Artbooking cart. Kit.

The envelop was a later addition, details to come in my next post...



I hope you enjoyed this fun project as much as I did. Please post your comments and you are welcome add my pictures to Pinterest
Have a wonderful weekend,


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Vicky Tovar

St. Valentine's goody bags for the teachers

Dear scrappers,

What a crazy week!!!
Well, after several days of barely sleeping, I survived :-)

I made between one class at the college, a acrylic album class at home, and many quizzes to grade, these goody bags for my children's teachers:




I used some leftover stamped sentiments from last year's valentines and used them in a different way ;-)


I decorated the origami owl take out boxes for the lockets that I got for the two teachers and decorated some acrylic boxes I got at StampAntonio for the teacher aids...


I stamped my children names using some Color Box's Surfacez ink pad in Lila.


I added some Rhine stones, CTMH, for more interest.


And used the Aryanna's left over cut from my library Layouts to wrap the boxes using some more borders' scallop negative left over as little belts...
I punched some tags using recollection's emboss and punch kit...

Great, it was a very quick project and I was able to acknowledge my children's teachers :-)
I hope you enjoy this quick project,
Have a wonderful short week
Vicky
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Vicky Tovar

Free Valentine's day layout event at the Forest Hill library

Dear scrappers,
Happy new year!!!
Omg, I am so behind my new year resolutions, but I am planning on catching up this week.
I have 3 classes planned and I am assisting another one... Crazyyyy
I don't know if I will have some time left over for doing my kids teachers' goody bags ;-)
Good I planned head and both to the two more important ones some origami Owl lockets, chains, and charms :-)
http://vickytovar.origamiowl.com

The first class is a free event that is sponsored by the patrons at the Forest Hill library, where my work was show-cases back in. November: http://vickyscrappingpassion.blogspot.com/2013/10/forest-hill-library-display.html?m=0







This will be a beginners class. Details are to be found in our meetup group:
http://www.meetup.com/SAscrapbooking/events/160288102/






thus I chose the alternative sketch from the Ivy Lane WOTH, CTMH:
http://vicky-sa-scrapbooking.ctmh.com/retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=7632&CatalogID=1733







This is my version...

I substituted the papers with the ones included in the Ariana WOTH, CTMH:

http://vicky-sa-scrapbooking.ctmh.com/retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=7633&CatalogID=1733



The green and pink combo is just perfect for Valentine's day. I used the sentiment from January constant campaign card WOTG: dream pop... And I will have different color options of card stock mats, cut out and embellishments: some flowers cut with the cricut with their leaves, some rhinestones from the new drops from CTMH, and some acrylic flowers in pink. Super cute.

Come and join me to help promote this wonderful library, it is a free event, donations for the library are welcome though :-)

Hope to see you there,

Vicky


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Vicky Tovar

Last post for 2013 and Happy New Year

Dear Scrappers,
For my last of the year, I saved the little favor boxes that I decorated for my dear friends and my children's teachers:


I bought the take-out boxes last January at Big Lots and got some ceramic crosses, corn flowers, and a corn-angel from the Market downtown...
I made the tags using the dimensional element shapes from CTMH and some tags from a Christmas favor kits (CTMH). I stamped in archival black ink (CTMH) the baby Jesus and in gold the start. In ruby ink, I added a "December 25" from the Sparkle and Shine WOTG (CTMH).


On the back, I stamped either my children's names, or our family name and some sayings...


This is how the teachers' favors looked like when done...


This year, I didn't have much trouble finishing around 20 of those taking those nice shortcuts ;-)
Thank you for following me through this year. I hope to see your comments during next year as well and wish you best luck, health, love, and happiness for the 2014!!!!
Happy New Year
Vicky


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Vicky Tovar

Time for Christmas Cards and more Challeges

Dear scrappers,
So many project, so little time, and so many blog challenges to get inspired:
For today I took two, time to Sparkle & Shine at H2H blog and Ruby & Juniper at Color my Heart Color dare Blog:
http://heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com/2013/12/time-to-sparkle-and-shine.html
And
http://colormyheartcolordare.blogspot.com/2013/12/color-dare-74-ruby-juniper.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ColorMyHeart+%28Color+My+Heart%29

I helped a friend to make some cards (thank you Dawn) when she bought the big card kit from CTMH Shine & Sparkle at Gloria's (my CTMH upper line) and we made the 2 cards suggested in the instruction and them we had fun making changes using the cut kit pieces, the flourish, and ruby glitter tape from CTMH:



Here is my take for both challenges:


I hope you enjoy my cards, and get further inspired.
Have a blessed week and wish you Merry Christmas if I don't get to blog before the 25th,
Vicky

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Vicky Tovar

Another Quick Project: "Gift Card Holder"

Dear scrappers,
Once again, I decided to do a quick gift card holder for my Angel project at my local parish:







I used the BigZ die for memo holders and updated to hold a gift card by scoring it the size of the card and attaching another piece of paper with washi tape (CTMH).





I used one 6x12 piece of B&T from CTMH to cut the holder, the flowers (included in the died) and the small piece to hold the card.
This paper is great because is thick enough and double sided. The piece I used was from last year Christmas collection...
I added a piece of ribbon as handle and fussy cut two small leaves from glitter ribbon. The flower should had 3 layers, but I lost one and didn't want you waist more time cutting it again, my has only 2 and serves to keep the holder close...
To finish the look, I just added a Rhinestone to center of the flower, a small piece of the edge paper strip of the paper, and another star rhinestone to highlight the paper strip.






I was finish in less than 6 min., thus I decided to enter this project to the 10 min. Craft-32 challenge:
http://prettypinkposh.com/2013/12/10-minute-craft-dash-32.html
This is my second entrance...
I am also participating in the Blog Quick Quotes Friday Challenge 34:
http://www.blogquickquotes.com/2013/12/friday-challenge-34.html


I hope you enjoy this quick and neat project. Right due cut can make your life so much easier...
Have a wonderful weekend,
Vicky
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Vicky Tovar

Quicky Project and Nice Card for a Wine Bottle

Dear scrappers,
I made this quick wine card for a friend and had less than 10 min. To finish it, thus I decided to use the 10 minute craft-32 challenge as my inspiration:
http://prettypinkposh.com/2013/12/10-minute-craft-dash-32.html









I used a 3x12 inches of B&T CTMH paper from last year Christmas collection. I folded it in 4 and sealed it with a CTMH poinsettia brad. I added a piece of ribbon and glued it to the middle to served as a handle.








I used a piece of the CTMH tags dimensional elements to stamp my Sparkle & Shine sentiment. I added a ruby inked veneer bird as accent to finish the look.








I added another sentiment to the back and hand -wrote the names. I was done in 7 min. With enough time to wrap the bottle with cellophane paper and add a ribbon...
I just added 2 chocolates to the little pockets and voila I was done ;-)
It was a fun project to make, thus I made 3 more using the Shine and Sparkle left over pieces from my WSOTG... And used the
Heart to heart spark and shine blog challenge to make 3 more for other gifts:
http://heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com/2013/12/time-to-sparkle-and-shine.html










I hope you enjoy these projects as much as I did. I got the little card ideas from another CTMH consultant: Linda, thank you girl...
Merry Christmas


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Vicky Tovar