Tommy Thank Yous and Journaling Cards

Today is the final day of my, "Use up all of my Tommy Paper Pack," challenge! So, by now, I was down to smaller scraps. I decided to add a piece of retired gray cardstock, which I should use up anyway, right? I made two standard card bases from it and cut out some shapes with my Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge to match a stamp I wanted to use from the D1542, For a Friend, stamp set. Using my leftover scraps, here's what I came up with. Since the fronts of these cards are relatively light, I kept the insides blank.

 

Well, then I still had some scraps so I made some journaling cards which I could possibly add to

 my Project Life Style Album or to one of the layouts I made with Tommy.

So I got quite a few projects done with one paper pack! I only added two full 12" x 12" sheets of cardstock (Grey Flannel and Slate) and one White Daisy card base plus White Daisy scraps and Colonial White craps. After making all of the projects I shared with you this week, I am left with just the few scraps pictured here. For reference, that striped square piece measures 1.5" x 1.5."

 

Not bad, don't you think? Of course, when I finished, my daughter asked, "Do you have any more of that red anchor paper?" Sigh!

 

I imagine I could probably get another card or journaling spot out of these scraps but I'm content with filing away the larger pieces in my scrap drawers and recycling the smaller pieces for now.

I hope you enjoyed my challenge and seeing what I could come up with.

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Tommy Layout from Cherish

We are on Day 5 of my, "Use up all of my Tommy Paper Pack," project!

 

For this double scrapbook layout, I used the pattern called Portrait Collection on page 76 in Cherish. Cherish contains 50 double layouts and comes with step by step directions as well as an example of the layout. I love the examples since they sometimes show how you can modify a layout and how to add different embellishments. I have the original hardcover version but it now comes in a softcover spiral bound book which allows it to be very affordable at $14.95.

 

I wanted to keep the nautical theme out of these pages since I don't know what pictures I want to use on them and I stuck with mostly a blue and yellow color scheme. I added a piece of Slate cardstock as a backing and I added a few narrow strips of paper which go down vertically in between the yellow and striped paper on the left and in between the striped paper and Slate cardstock on the right. I didn't embellish much except for the, "Treasured Moments," strip I cut from one of the zip strips in this pack. Once I know which pictures I will use on these pages, I may embellish more, but for now, I kept it simple.

 

Both pages, side by side

 

Left page

 

Right page

 

This seems to be a good layout to use when you don't want to have to fuss too much! I changed the order of the papers a bit and since I already had the narrow strips of paper earlier from some other cut (two are the narrow zip strips from the tops of the papers which I usually cut off right away), I think I just used two slices of my paper trimmer to get the pieces I needed! One was for the striped paper. I then adhered one striped piece on the Honey patterned paper on the left and one on the Slate cardstock on the right. Then I cut my Outdoor Denim in half and adhered those pieces on after adding my narrow vertical strips. How easy!

 

Tomorrow will wrap up my Tommy challenge so be sure to come back and see my final projects!

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Tommy Birthday Card #3

Here's the third birthday card I made with Tommy. I decided that since I was trying to use up my whole paper pack, I should try to finish the Tommy Assortments also, and I only had two pieces left from my Assortments pack. I really like the little canvas flags and cork pieces that come in the Tommy Assortments pack. I almost thought I should hold on to them...but I was good and did not hoard them! I added a little bit of the yellow and white Baker's Twine and again, as with my first Tommy layout, I may add some Outdoor Denim or Cranberry once I get the Harvest Baker's Twine set. The sentiments are from the Card Chatter - Birthday stamp set, a set I go back to again and again.

 

Front of card

 Inside of card (the inside really needed some heft since I had added the Tommy Assortment embellishments to the outside -- it helped the card even out a bit in weight)

 

Tomorrow, as I continue my, "Use up all of my Tommy Paper Pack," project, I will show you another double layout I made.

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Tommy Birthday Card #2

The following Tommy birthday card is very similar to the one I posted yesterday in that I used the same stamps sets from the Cricut Artiste bundle. I added a candle from that stamp set this time and a sentiment from a different stamp set, Card Chatter - Birthday, to the inside of the card. I also used pattern 20, on page 42, from Make it From Your Heart, Volume 1.

 

Front of card

 

 Inside of card

 

As I mentioned in my first post of this series, Tommy came out in the Spring/Summer 2013 Idea Book so it is on it's second run in the current catalog. That means it will only be available while the Autumn/Winter 2013 Idea Book is valid, until the end of January 2014. If you're interested in it, you might actually want to purchase it before January though. I know some papers which were not being sold anymore after July, like Later Sk8tr, sold out before July was even over!

 

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Tommy Birthday Card #1

It seems that I am always in need of Birthday and Thank You cards, so as part of my, "Use all of my Tommy Paper Pack," project, I set out to make some cards.

 

I used D1529, the Cricut Artiste Collection Birthday stamp set to stamp the sentiment, Oh Happy Day, and the cupcake image on White Daisy scraps shaped to match, cut out with the Cricut, of course. I used colored pencils to color in my cupcake which I had stamped in both Outdoor Denim and in Cranberry (on two different shaped pieces from the Cricut Artiste). Foam tape gives both the cupcake and the sentiment some dimension without making it too bulky.

 

Front of card

 

 

Since the front of my card was heavy with layers of paper, I added some of the scraps which were left over, after I made all of my Tommy projects, to the inside of my card just to balance out the weight and to give some interest to the inside as well (and to use up my paper, yay!).

 

Inside of card 

Stay tuned for another Tommy project tomorrow!

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Tommy Pattern Nine Scrapbook Layout

Believe it or not, I hadn't touched the Tommy papers even though I had bought them with the release of the Spring/Summer 2013 Idea Book all the way back in January. I love them. The colors are vivid and the designs are crisp and bold. Sometimes when I really like a paper pack, I'm afraid of cutting into it. My hoarding tendencies come out and I don't want to ruin the paper. Crazy, no? So, I thought I needed to challenge myself. I decided to try to use my whole pack of Tommy...all at once!

 

For the next several days, I will feature the different items I made using the Tommy Paper Pack. Here's what it looks like and what comes in a pack.

6 – 12" × 12" Cardstock Sheets (2 Desert Sand, 2 Outdoor Denim, 1 Cranberry, 1 Honey)
6 – 12" × 12" B&T Duos® Papers (2 each of 3 double-sided designs)

I used Make It From Your Heart, Volume 1, pattern 9 on page 22 for the following scrapbook layout.

I also used the Tommy Assortment pictured below to add some pizazz to my layout.

7 pieces: 4 printed canvas flags, 2"; 3 adhesive-backed cork labels, 1½"; Cranberry, Outdoor Denim, Honey.

 

Here are both pages of the layout. You can click on any picture to see it a bit larger. The first photo mat should say 7" x 5" and not 5" x 7" but you know what I mean!

Here is a closer view of the left hand page...

and a closer view of the right hand page.

 

The only other item I used besides the Tommy Paper Pack, and the Tommy Assortment was a bit of yellow and white Baker's Twine from the Paradise Assortment. I am waiting for my Harvest Assortment of Baker's Twine to get here. Once it does, I may add some Outdoor Denim and Cranberry Baker's Twine to the layout too. We will see. The pattern in the book suggests adding a title to the bottom left side of the layout but I think I will probably put my title in the upper right hand side after I see how it look with pictures. While I don't have my exact pictures for the layout yet, I am intending to add some beach photos to this layout.

 

I used a little more paper than is called for in the original pattern because I added the red anchor paper in the middle of both of my background papers, just because I liked how it looked!

 

Come back tomorrow for my next project!

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