Hello Kitty Pocket Letter

Recently, I came across a somewhat new concept in scrapbooking called Pocket Letters.  Read all about them here:

http://janettelane.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-are-pocket-letters.html?m=1

I have already made several.  Here is a Hello Kitty Pocket Letter for my dear friend and fellow KCCropper, Kitty.  She is a big fan of Hello Kitty.

Front:

Back:

Pocket Letters are a lot of fun.  I'm currently in swaps with individuals from Canada, Kansas, and two from Florida.  Its a great way to meet fellow paper crafters, too.  

SHELL

Card Creating Tuesday

Hello!
Well, today is the last day of January so
Valentine's Day
is right around the corner.

   
I made this Hello Kitty Valentine card using the Hello Kitty cartridge.

Inside sentiment....  Destination: Love

(Image cut at 3")
       
  I am so glad I bought this cart when I did (a little over a yr. ago).
Now it seems to be one of those that are hard to find and when
you do, it costs a pretty penny.  I bought mine for $12.00...
and I heard the other day that they are selling from $50.00 - $65.00
on ebay now.. YIKES!!  I love my Hello Kitty cartridges!!

Thanks for stopping by and leaving me some Hello Kitty love! ;)

Be sure to check out the wonderful cards that my
DT Sisters created over at My Cricut Craft Room.

~ Shelly Lynn ~

     

Festive Friday: Halloween Mini Book

TGIF!

Today, for Festive Friday over at My Cricut Craftroom,
I am sharing my mini book that I created using
Halloween cuts from two different cut swap groups
that I participated in during October. I challenged
myself to use as many of the cuts as possible...
some I used on Halloween cards but most of them
I used in this book. It was a lot of fun and I am very
happy with how it turned out. Thanks to everyone who
swapped cuts with me!! I couldn't have done this
book without ya! I apologize that I can not be more
descriptive about which cartridge every cut came from.

The front cover includes two pull out tags.

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On the inside cover is a spider web photo frame...
a photo slides behind it. To get a better look
at each page, you can click on it to enlarge it.

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The flag banner in the middle of the page
(on the right) is velcroed and opens up to more
pages... as you can see in the next picture.

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Each of the flaps that open have two tags that pull out.

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This is a pic (above) with both flaps open.
They close like barn doors and velcro shut again.

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The yellow photo mat (on the right page) opens up
(with velcro underneath) and the Dracula stamped image
on the right is a pull out tag that pulls out upward.

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The black photo mat also opens up... or shall I say
opens downward... as you can see in the next pic.

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Ta-Da... three more photo mats!!
It's very difficult to show you the full effect of this
album in photos... a video would have been much better.

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The Trick-or-Treat page (on the right) opens up.

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And another flap on the bottom right side
opens downward. There is also an orange ticket
tag that pulls out from the Too Cute To Spook
Stamped image. I thought the backside of the
tag would be perfect for a little bit of journaling
with my white gel pen... bc the backside is black.

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Near the purple ghost on the bottom flap
is the back of the orange ticket tag.
And the center is a polk-a-dot photo mat.
So there are plenty of spots for photos.

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Above is a close up of the ticket tag... it
slides in and out of a little "hidden" pocket.

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Both of these pages are flaps that
open to the left and right. And there
is space to add a photo under the
HALLOWEEN cut on the left page.

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In the above pic, the left flap is
open and the right flap still closed.

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Here is a closer pic!! Ya Gotta
LOVE candy corn!! YUM! YUMM!

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Now both flaps are open to reveal more photo mats.

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Here is a close up of the right page
once it is opened up. The stamped skeleton
image is another tiny tag that slides in
and out of the pocket underneath.

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Above... There are 3 flaps (on both sides) that open
up to more pages. The first two flaps on top are
just decorative with cuts... then when you open
those to the left and right... you will see (the next pic)...

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After opening the spider and jack-0-lantern
flaps above, this is what you will see... room for
2 more photos and some journaling on the right side
next to the tonic tag. Then you open these two orange
flaps to reveal the last photo mats in this section.

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Space for 2 more Halloween photos!
I added a little bit of green stickles on the jack-o-lantern's
leaf to give it a little bling. The spider has bling on her bow.

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Such a cute Jack-o-lantern! I love it!

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The polk-a-dot mat on the right opens up to...
can you guess... more photo mats!!

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Under the ghostly gathering square are 3 pull out tags...
more for journaling. And room for 3 photos on this spread.

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The witch flap opens up (as you can see in the next pic)
to the Pumpkin Patch section of my mini book.

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You can't really tell in this pic but the orange
photo mat is embossed and it
opens downward for more photo mats.

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Once the top and bottom flaps are open...
you see two more flaps.
These flaps open to the left and right.
Photos can be added to the polk-a-dot flaps.

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Once all four photo mats are open... you see four
pumpkins and a place for a pumpkin patch
photo in the center. Remember... these are all
cuts I received from others! :)

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The last two pages are more flaps that open up.
I added two buttons on each section and wrapped
embroidery thread around them to keep them in place.
To open the flaps, you unravel the black thread on one side.

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Here is a close up of how I closed these
flaps instead of using velcro again.

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When you open the first two flaps (on the left)
here is what you'll see... and the
RIP cut is a pocket for another tag.

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On the inside back cover... DEAD END!
But room for two more photos on the
inside of the left & right flaps!

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Uh-oh.... my book will no longer close!
LOVE IT!!

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Here is the completed book... as you can tell,
it no longer closes correctly.
It will just have to sit on my shelf like this!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE creating mini albums!

Be sure to check out the Festive Friday projects
from the other Design Team Members over at
My Cricut Craftroom.... oh, and be sure to stop
in this weekend.... we are having another
100 cartridge blog hop going on!!

Happy Friday!!!

~ Shelly ~

DAY 1: Luck of the Irish Blog Hop

Welcome to the very first Luck of the Irish 2 day Blog Hop.

If you came from Shawnee’s blog Blessed On the Bright Side,
you are right on track. If not, and just lucked up on this blog,
you can go back to the beginning HERE and hop along with us.

We're so excited to being doing this hop, and we have a fabulous line up
with some very talented folks. There will be lots of fun projects, along
with some great blog candy, and an AMAZING grand prize for this hop.

This hop runs from Mar. 17 - Mar 18, so you have plenty of time to make it all
the way through the hop. Check out each blog and see what BLOG CANDY
you could possibly WIN!! Come back BOTH days to see some new projects.

* KC Croppers (Kitty & Shell) will be giving away a
$10.00 Gift Certificate to Michael's. You must leave a
comment on both days of the hop and follow KC Croppers
to be eligible for the random drawing.


Here is the complete line up

Lisa - http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://honeybearzdesigns2011.blogspot.com/
Shawnee - http://quiverofangels.blogspot.com/
Shelly & Kitty - http://kccroppers.blogspot.com/ You are here!
Misty – http://www.abusyplace.blogspot.com/
Creativek Kuts - http://www.creativekuts.blogspot.com/
Deb - http://www.scrappingmamma.net/
Corrine - http://celebratingordinarymoments.blogspot.com/
Suzanne - http://cricutcraftingrammy.blogspot.com/
Tristan - http://tristans-time-4-craftin.blogspot.com/
Mickie - http://littlescrapcorner.blogspot.com/
Rachelle – http://rachelle-rachellesplace.blogspot.com/
Sheri - http://highland-eyes.blogspot.com/
Inga - http://mommahobbit.blogspot.com/
Melanie - http://melaniespapercraft.blogspot.com/
Christine - http://crabbycakescrafts.blogspot.com/
Bobbi – http://rockgirlcustomdesigns.blogspot.com/
Angie – http://luvs2scrapbook75.blogspot.com/
Debbie - http://craftydeb-ddscrafts.blogspot.com/
Lisa - http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/
Scrapping With Lisa on facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scrapping-with-Lisa/130882060268842

There is also going to be an overall grand prize, which is being sponsored by
Lisa from Scrapping with Lisa and she will be the first and last blog on the hop.

In order to be eligible for the grand prize you must leave a comment on every blog
in the hop, as well as become a fan of Lisa’s blog & of Scrapping w/ Lisa on Facebook.


The GRAND PRIZE for the
Luck of the Irish 2 day Blog Hop is as follows:

Nine sets of 2 page layouts with pre-made pages,
just add your pictures.

One Halloween mini album with background paper included.

One blank calendar tent with a set of calendar pieces stickers.

One premade Halloween chipboard album.

9 Disney stickers

One book of Disney 8.5 x 11 papers and a Minnie mini album.

One brand new Christmas Mini Album which you put together.

One perfect pages kit.

2 fall photo albums, blank.

One beautiful finished light denim blue album with 20 pre-made pages,
all you have to do is put pictures in it and you have a completed album.

Last will be a gift certificate to a secret store.

The total for this grand prize is valued at approximately
$212.00

With all that said...
here is Shell's St. Patty's Day projects.
Tomorrow, Kitty will be posting hers.

For these projects, I used the following cartridges:
Paper Dolls, Hello Kitty, & Doodle Type.

FOR A FREE SHAMROCK SVG FILE...
CLICK HERE!

Your next blog stop is Misty

Have a Happy St. Patty’s Day!!

~ SHELL ~

More Valentine Cards...

Here are the cards I created this yr.
for Valentine's Day.

A Couple of Cards

These are a couple of cards I made recently using Cricut cartridges. The Hello Kitty card was a thank you to a student who gave me a very cute Hello Kitty gift.The deer was a birthday card for my husband's grandma- he even helped me by typing up the sentiment inside! I used Hello Kitty Greetings for the first card, with a little American Crafts Metropolitan paper for the bow accent. The second card used Create a Critter with American Crafts Everyday paper as the background. Both were really simple, but I think both turned out nicely.

MPS Pink, Green, Black, CRICUT Challenge

Well... I made two cards for MY PINK STAMPER'S
Challenge today. I wasn't very impressed with
the first one, so I decided to create another.
Now...
to decide which to submit for the challenge....
hmmmm....
I'm leaning towards the ladybug card.

My new favorite thing is adding
stitches with embroidery thread!



To participate in the challenge... see link below....

http://www.mypinkstamper.com/2010/04/mps-challenge-pink-green-black-create.html