Hey Everyone....

I hope you all have been enjoying your weekend!!! Mine has been very nice as I was actually off yesterday so I've had an extra day to have fun!!! I needed to create a birthday card for my hubby's cousin...as we are celebrating her birthday this afternoon.....she's I believe 7 years old and LOVES Hannah Montana.....so I knew I wanted to do something to incorporate her into the card.....

So I decided to make a name book for her!!! HOPE.......but one that can be used so many times over........huh!!!! So here's what I made.....I found some Hannah Montanna graphics online......saved and removed the background so I just had the image of her and her name.....I took the name and created a paper background along with Happy Birthday Hope all over the paper....printed it onto some purple scrapbook paper and some yellow scrapbook paper......I just gotta say it turned out SUPER cute!!!! I used this paper to cut the fronts of the book pages......

I then used just the Happy Birthday Hope and created another background and printed it out on green and also purple scrapbook paper and used these to cut the backside of the Hope book pages I also created a cut file to do a shadow cut out of her and her name then measured the size of the cut out and then printed her image the size of the cut cut worked perfectly!!....note...when I layed my paper on my cricut mat to cut the backside of the pages I flipped my designed paper face down so when it cut it would be right side up when I glued to may chipboard........Oh yeah....for the chip board I used cardboard from pizza pocket boxes....WORKS SUPER!!! AND I'm recycling!!!!

I created some frames with Hopes name in them as well as a Fancy swirly frame with Happy Birthday cut out.......used LOTS of fabric flowers ribbon, confetti and glitter!!! I am TOTALLY thrilled with how this book turned out.....hence the reason I'm showing so many views because I want to be sure you can see the whole book!!!!!

I can't wait to give her the book today and I'm hoping it's something she will want to display in her room but we shall see......

I thought maybe some of you might be interested in the scut and svg files I created to make the book.........below are screenshots of the files and the download links are below the images......Some of them there are 2 different files to download....I explain what is in each file.....

Download Swirly Frame: here

Downlaod Swirly Frame w/ Happy Birthday: here

Download Hope Right: here

Download Hope Left: here

Download Book: here

I sure hope you liked what I created and might be able to find some use for the files!!!! If you have any questions about the files, please let me know...I will tell you on the Hope book file above.....I have it spread out on a 12x24 matt so I could get all the layers out at one time to work on...BUT before I actually do my cutting (because I only have a 12x12 matt) I change my matt size to be 12x12....the other files are still there....BUT they won't cut because you've set your cutting matt size to be 12x12...does that make sense???? What I did was put the items I wanted to cut at that time in the view of the 12x12 matt.....and kept the other files on the part of the matt that won't be seen when the matt is changed to 12 x 12....made my cuts then moved the other ones into the cutting area and the ones I had just cut over to the side that won't show when matt is set to 12x12.....

I hope I've made that clearer then mudd....LOL...If not and you have ANY questions, please feel free to email me at pennyduncan@att.net I would be happy to clairfy the best I can!!!!

I want to THANK YOU for stopping by to visit with me.....I had so much fun creating this book and I thank you for taking your time to come by!!!! Please come again...until then....I pray you all have a WONDERFUL Easter!!!!