A Mini Album....

I made this mini album for a friend who just had a baby girl.  Her name is Ava.

There are tags for each page.  I have photographed all the pages below, including the tags.
Note:On the back of the first tag, I put her height, weight, and date of birth.  I printed the information on the computer onto white cardstock.  All of the other tags, I left blank on the backside of the tag.

 

For my mini-album, I used the paper from K and Company ("Itsy Bitsy").  I cut the letters at 2" from the George and Basic Shape Cricut Cartridge.  I cut them 3 times and glued them together to make them thicker.

I embellished with stickers from Michaels and some "Bow-tique" pink flowers that I found in the baby section at Michaels (I think they're supposed to be used to make hair barrettes).

The hot pink flowers are from Offray's "Stylish Accents."  I can't recall where I bought them.  

The ribbons are just the result of my occasional raids on Michael's $1 ribbon table.
I used my Crop-a-Dile to punch my hole and eyelet into the pages.   I used the smaller eyelet setting.

(*)Grafix Clear Craft Plastic is available at Michaels.

The tags I cut using my Sweethearts Cartridge (I glued two of the same shape together).  I adjusted the size of each tag with my Design Studio (for those of you unfamiliar with Design Studio, it is a piece of software that you can use with your Cricut to alter the cartridge shape.  I should add that I got mine through Walmart.com because it was cheaper through them ($38.))  

The frames on the tags, were through Stretch Your Imagination (Cricut Cartridge) however, again, I adjusted them through Design Studio.

I cut and glued a plastic sheet  (*)on the border of the frame to mimick glass.  I then used a very thin line of Foam Tape (from Scotch) to line 3 sides of the frame.  This left one side for which my friend could slide a photo in.

If you'd like to make one, or see how one is made, please click on the link below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Dq4oqhY0xY&feature=player_embedded 

Mary, over at Cardztv, showed me how to do this. If you haven't visited Mary's site, you should. She has a variety of projects that you can create and the best part is that she usually has a video to accompany her project.   She just started a cooking blog too (with videos). http://www.simplecookingwithmary.blogspot.com/ 

She's tons of fun and just the nicest person!  

I hope you all had the opportunity to spend time on Nicole's Blog Hop. There were some totally awesome projects there, and I found a lot of new blogs to start lurking on.