**Winner for last day of giveaways**

It is so sad to see all this fun ending :( I have alot of fun reading all your comments and getting input from everyone.


The winning comment is:

Here are your random numbers: 2

Timestamp: 2008-04-01 00:55:50 UTC

and the comment was left by:

Melissa D. (SCS honeybee7896) said...
I am glad I decided to come back tonight and check your blog. What wonderful goodies you are giving away and have already given away. Tutorials are great, I am getting into altering things lately also so pointers would help. A video would be great but I am not sure how difficult that would be to put on your blog. Just keep on keeping on :)
March 30, 2008 7:26 PM

CONGRATS!!!!

Please email me your address so that I can get your goodies out to you!!!

Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge # 41

Whooo Hoooo!!!!! I had time today to stamp!!!! I have been crafting up a storm today. Today I wanted to show you a card that I made for Beate's Challenge. I have had these square cards from DCWV that the fronts are embossed. They all are all so pretty, to the point that you do not want to add to much to them so you do not hide the embossed images. The card had flowers embossed. I used PaperTrey's Berry Sorbet & Aqua Mist cardstock. I used my trusty Scor-Pal and made lines on the cardstock to match the card front itself. The ribbon is from Pink Hedgehog Paper Crafts.

I hope you all have a good rest of the night and I will see you tomorrow :)

**Winner for Day 5**

I have had so much fun sharing my birthday week with all of you. I hate to see it end.

For Day 5, the winner is comment:

Here are your random numbers: 3

Timestamp: 2008-03-31 01:12:19 UTC


And the lucky person for comment 3 is:

Chloe W said...
I like seeing all kinds of crafts. I have really enjoyed being able to see your blog , we are on Spring Break this week.Have a great weekend!Chloe W
March 28, 2008 1:22 PM

CONGRATS!!!!!!!

Please email your address so that I can get your goodies out to you :)

Last Day of Birthday Bash Giveaway!!!!!!!

*****CLOSED*****

Hello all :) I completely forgot that I did not upload this pic and pick a winner from Friday's giveaway :(

I am gonna keep this post open until I get home from school about this times tomorrow :)

I have had so much fun this week reading every one's comment on the giveaways. I am gonna be putting them on in use very soon. Keep your eyes out for that!!

For this giveaway what I have for you is:

2 g studio clear stamp sets, 2 packs of self adhesive buttons, a roll of sticky decorative tape, a pack of flowers, 6 rolls of 12" of ribbon and a set of each rectangle & circle metal tags.

I would love to hear what else you would want to have happen on my blog. I have been getting such wonderful input and I would like it to hear more :)

Acrylic Album Tutorial

Whoooo Hoooooo!!!!! I finally got this tutorial uploaded :) Thank you to everyone who has been soooooo patient with me. This is gonna be a long post. A VERY nice fellow blogger Melanie Menchinger taught me how to upload more than 5 pictures in one post!!!! Now you will all the info in one place, how cool is that??

Ok, so here goes....if you have ANY questions, leave me a comment or email me and I will answer them on this post. (you may not be the only one wondering, LOL!!!!)

I get all my materials for an acrylic albums from Kits2Remember. Jessica is wonderful and she ships fast. My mom & I are taking a class taught by her next month. It is gonna be fun. This is the company that I was trying out for the design team, but did not make it. It is ok tho, I am gonna keep trying :) This album is the 4x4 Friend's Acrylic Album Kit. It comes with the cover & back acrylic, paper, ribbon and embellishments. You need to have the Bind it All & wire. If you don't have a Bind it All, you can use the Crop A Dile to punch holes in the acrylic. (It works)

Ok, enough of my rambling on......I knew that I wanted the wire to be centered on the acrylic (it comes with this blue plastic over it to protect it), so I used my quilting ruler and found the center and marked a line with an ink pen, but do not push too hard, you will leave an impression on the acrylic.












Now you need to line it up in the Bind it All with the center line on your Bind It All.











Here are the cover and back after they are punched with the Bind It All.








Now is the fun part. You take off the blue plastic and decorate as you wish!!! The inner pages on this album is designer paper cut to 4x4, just like the acrylic pieces and punched with the Bind It All the same way (do not mark on the paper, I relined the acrylic pieces in the Bind It All with a couple of the pages at a time and punched). You can have all your pages acrylic if you want to, it is up to you.

After you have all your pages decorated, it is time to bind them all together. Stack up all the pages in the order that you want. Like in this picture, this is my cover with all the pages stacked under it.













Ok, I hope I can explain the next part ok, please let me know if it is too confusing. You take the back cover and flip it so it is on top of the front cover. It will be like you are reading the VERY last page of a book. This picture shows my back cover on top of my front cover. This part will make sense at the end of this tutorial.












Now you will insert the wire. I always lay the book over the edge of the table so that you can put the wire in with one motion. The you bind it with the Bind It All.











Here are my pictures of each of the pages in this book.

Front cover:










Back of the front cover & page 1:







back of page 1 & page 2:







back of page 2 & page 3:







back of page 3 & page 4:







back of page 4 & page 5:







back of page 5 & back cover:
(if you enlarge this picture, you will see the "seam" of the wire. It is hidden in the book.)






back of back cover:












So what do you think??????? These are sooo much fun to make. Make sure you check out Kits2Remember and tell Jessica that I sent you :) Trust me , you will not be disappointed and you will get hooked, just like I did :) I have other kits that I need to finish and I found some new acrylic shapes that she just got in that I am trying to get my mom to get me, hehehehe.

I hope you enjoyed this long tutorial. I hope it is worth it :)

Birthday Bash Giveaway!!! Day 5

***Day 5 Closed***

I can not believe that it is already Friday!!!!!

I have decided to have an extra day of giveaways, so tomorrow will be a BIG bash!!!!

For today, I have a set of g studio clear stamps (family), some metal dots bling, and 2 packs of self adhesive embellishments!!!

Make sure you leave a comment on this post to be entered. I really enjoyed the question yesterday, so I am going to extend it over to today.

Post what you would like to see from me on my blog. If you answered it yesterday, you can put the same thing or different, it is up to you!!!!

I also finished my second acrylic album, so that will be up later today. I will be at my Aunt's house today, so as soon as I get home this afternoon I will get it up :)

I hope you all have a happy Friday!!!!

***Winner Day 4***

We have another winner..... I really love your comments and I am working on everything you guys have said!!!!

Todays winning comment is:

Here are your random numbers: 6

Timestamp: 2008-03-28 15:09:39 UTC

And the comment was:

Stephanie said...
I'll also vote for more altered items. You have a great blog!
March 27, 2008 9:29 AM

CONGRATS!!!!!!

Please email your address so that I can get your goodies out to you.