Wow!  It's been quite a while since I've posted.  Thanks for all the kind emails asking if eveything's okay.  Everything is fine, I've just been really busy these last couple of months. 

Anyway,  I have a really cute project for you today.  It's called an explosion box.  It is such a unique way to display photos and it is really easy to make. This box is the perfect gift and it doesn’t even need gift wrap!  The box holds up to twelve photos and folds up into a 4 x 4 box.
 

You will need the following to create your explosion box:

3 pieces of  12 x 12 cardstock

1 piece of 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock

Decorative Cardstock

Outside Box:  12 X 12 piece of carstock scored at 4" on all four sides. Cut out the four corners and fold on score lines like a big plus sign.  Cut 4 pieces of decorative paper to 3 3/4" square and attach to the 4 corners of your box.

Middle Box:  10 1/2 X 101/2 piece of carstock scored at 3 1/2 " on all four sides and again cut out the four corners and fold.  Cut 4 pieces of decorative paper to 3 1/4" square and attach to the 4 corners of your box.

Inside Box:  9 X 9 piece of cardstock scored at 3" on all four sides and again cut out the four corners and fold.  Cut 4 pieces of decorative paper to 2 3/4" square and attach to the 4 corners of your box.

Lid:  8 X 8 piece of cardstock scored at 1 7/8" on all four sides.  Cut the corners of the lid as shown here and attach with a little piece of adhesive.

 Attach some ribbon and /or some other embellishments to decorate your box.

Here's an explosion box that I recently made.  I will be posting this as well as a few other photo boxes in the Moonlight Creations Store a little later this afternoon. 

The following scrapbook pages are examples of progressive scrapbook pages.  That simply means you start with a 6" X 6" page and progress to a 81/2" X 11 page and finally progress to a 12" X 12" page.  These were one of the first layouts I created for my scrapbook club,  I used the stampin’ up stamp set, "Always"  and wild wasabi, purely pomegranate and blue bayou ink, cardstock and ribbon for these pages. 

My scrapbook club meets monthly in my home.  The pages are predesigned by me and all the supplies needed to create the layout are included.  Members are required to place a stampin’ up order of $29 per month.   If you are interested in learning more about my scrapbook club visit my scrapbook club page.

For detailed instructions on how to create these scrapbook pages see always progressive scrapbook page instruction.

Thanks fo looking

Here’s a scrapbook I made recently for a craft fair.  I used the stampin’ up stamp set, winter post, along with ridinghood red cardstock and the matching ribbon.  The front cover is embellished with felt flurries and a flower from the flower fusion too collection. Inside I used a couple of silver brads from the hodgepodge hardware set to hold it all together.  There are 10 pages and room for 20 photos.  The pages are made using the clear envelopes available from stampin up. 

Supplies:

Stamp Sets:  Winter Post

Cardstock:  ridinghood red and whisper white

Ink:  riding hood red

Accessories:  flower fusion too, felt flurries, hodgepodge hardware, dazzling diamonds glitter, ridinghood red ribbon, clear envelopes,

corner rounder, crop a dile and scallop square punch

I sell these scrapbooks for $12 plus shipping

If you are interested in purchasing a scrapbook email me

Thanks for stopping by