He only takes the best!

Today's post is to share a memory book I made to celebrate my mother in law's life. She had been ill for a long time that I felt it was a blessing when she was able to pass just before Easter.  She had the lord in her heart and often would sing hymns to her family although she could do little else.  While I collected pictures of her I notice she always had a smile!  Elsie had a happiness about her that I see in her children.  You could not have asked for a better grandma.  Elsie watched our girls when they were young and I was at work.  She never put those babies in a crib preferring to hold them while they slept in her arms. (She also let them eat candy for lunch but a grandma is allowed to spoil... that is the grandma law!.) She will be missed-

Here is the cover and a few pages:

This is a quick mini book as the base is pre made paper bags. 
I covered them with paper and die cut the ends.
Letter Envy Cricut Cartridge was used for the monogram.



Tags slip into the bag for more pictures and journal space.
I kept the embellishments simple and cut them with my Cricut.

Nifty 50!

My hubby is 50! Makes the math easy for me because I met him when he was turning thirty.  I have known my dear husband for 20 years!!! I made this nifty card for him with a beautiful digi stamp that Market Street Stamps generously gave me for signing up with their ning site. I love this funky radio as I my dad enjoyed fixing up old radios.. and I would ask my dad a bazillion questions while he was working on his radios.

"50" is from Letter Envy, "nifty" and retro base is from Nifty Fifties
both are Cricut Cartirdges

Silly Rabbit

It is Throwback Thursday Challenge Time over at My Creative Time.  I made this silly rabbit card and used my very first My Creative Time stamp that I purchased, Color Me Happy.  I used my Letter Envy Cricut cartridge for the base behind the rabbit.  The rabbit is from the Just a Note cartridge and I cut a tag from the Sentimentals cartridge to fit my stamp  perfectly. 

Hello Jinger and The Scrapbooking Queen

I made this card for a design call at Jinger Adams' blog.  The design team will be creating projects with Jinger's new product line! It sounds like crafty fun to me. 

For this card, I used Letter Envy Cricut cartridge for the background and sentiment.  The bee is from my favorite cartridge Create A Critter.  The card base is a standard A2 size but I cut some of the bottom of the card to frame the card better.  This way, no extra postage is needed to mail your "Hello" to a good friend ;)