I've had the Cricut Artbooking Collection from Close To My Heart for quite some time and have used bits from it but recently I took a good look at it. There are scrapbook layouts included on the cartridge.
The following are the images, numbers and cartridges I added to my design canvass.
- Dog - #M2F8D6 - A Child's Year
- Heart Banner Border - #3EF31- Close To My Heart Artbooking
- Rectangular Frames - #M40CE5 - Close To My Heart Artbooking
- Square and Circle Frame - #M40D2C - Close To My Heart Artbooking
- Buddies - #M58139 - Close To My Heart Artbooking
- Heart Paw Print - #M4130AD - Close To My Heart Artistry
- Woof - #M2F3AB - Animal Kingdom
- Bird Dog Circle - #M32A1E - Paper Pups
- Bone - #M3B5AC - Disney Mickey Font
Following the guide in the Artbooking cartridge book, I sized the two scrapbook layouts at 11". To keep the photo sizes standard you must keep to the specified dimensions. I adjusted all of the other elements to fit on the page to make it aesthetically pleasing. I layered the scrapbook layouts and embellishments onto white cardstock.
I embossed the words "Faithful Friend" from the Faithful Friend stamp set with Ranger White Super Fine Embossing Powder and my heat gun. On the right layout the large photo didn't fit in the space so I used a piece of Almond cardstock to fill in the gap. Then I stamped a sentiment from the Faithful Friend stamp set on the Almond space. I used one of the leftover hearts that were cut out of the banner to embellish that space as well. I also stamped a sentiment from the Faithful Friend stamp set onto the dog bone. I used 3D Foam Tape to raise up the bone and the two Woof's. I had to cut the tape down the middle to be narrow enough to fit on the Woof's. I put both of the dogs together and cut the tails down to look more like my dogs' tails. I used the Dual Action Glue Pen to adhere the dogs, the buddies embellishment, the Bird dog embellishment and the banner.
I used Tombow Permanent Adhesive to adhere the layouts to the white cardstock and the photos to the back of the layout. The 4" X 6" photos were much bigger than the spaces for them so I lined each photo up behind the layout, placed the cutout from the layout back in the space and carefully removed the photo and the cutout. I took large scissors and cut the photo about 1/4" around the cutout. This allowed the photo to be cut down but gave 1/4" to put the tape to adhere it to the back of the layout.
My preference in scrapbooks is a D ring album. It's easier to add photos to it than the strap hinge or post bound albums.
It took less than 2 hours from start to finish to make this two page layout. That might seem like a lot of time to someone but I like all of my embellishments to match or accentuate my photos. I feel like it makes the page more meaningful.
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