Color Dare #91

I love this coral color in the Ariana kit.  To incorporate the additional color for the Color My Heart Dare of the week, I stamped the title in Outdoor Denim, with the Vogue Alphabet (E1026).  One of the greatest things about the CTMH stamp sets is that they are clear and you can see through them for proper placement.  That feature lets you hook this script up for a connected title.

The zip strips in this one add great dimension.  I lucked up with the background in the diagonally cut picture.  The triangle piece I cut from the left side could be flipped and added to the right side, letting me put the zip strip at a greater angle.

The Ariana green in this pack is a great match for the greens of spring, letting the colors from your page co-ordinate with background colors in your pictures.

Free Alphabet

Close to My Hearts free download of the month is a great alphabet.  You can get yours by going here. Print your own before the download is gone, you have until April 30.  I used mine to try for that steam punk look with the Balloon Ride paper pack.  It didn't turn out quite like I had in my head, but that's why I make my living as an accountant and not an artist.  But part of the joy of scrapbooking is that it's yours and it doesn't have to perfect - you just need to have fun doing it.

  Side note: I put my date in the banner on the Balloon Ride paper.

Another great idea is to use them as a monogram.  Check out Jody's samples.

Wonderful husband

Many moons ago, we visited Constitution Village in Huntsville, AL. In one of the buildings was an old typeset desk, with a lot of shallow drawers for holding all the metal alphabets.  I said, "Ohh, that would be great for all my scrapping stuff!"

This weekend, my wonderful husband finished a smaller version of it for me.  21 shallow drawers perfect for holding a single layer of the old wood stamps, a new kit from CTMH or a page in progress I can't finish at the moment.

Lots of lovely storage space!  Thanks, Honey!!

Paper Pansies

I've been seeing paper pansies on some of the blog sites I visit, and wanted to come up with a version using our great CTMH Cricut cartridges.  I flower designed I liked best is on the Artiste cartridge, page 54, accent 3, shift F.  I made my pansies two layers, one cut at 1.5" and the smaller one cut at 1".

 

 

I stamped the middle of the smaller flower with a half starburst from the April 2013 SOTM kit.  I found I liked just a cross stamp better than trying to fill all five points of the flower.  If you don't have this stamp or something compatible, you can draw some lines coming out from the center of your flower.

Stamp set I used.

Stamp the half starburst through 2 of the petals.

Then stamp again, crossways, to create and X.

Place you smaller flower in the center of the larger flower and attach with a brad.  You can mix and match your colors.

This is one I tried to put spikes in each of the petals.

I used Gypsy in the middle of my yellows and black in the middle of the Gypsy paper.  Black faces definitely had more pop. 

April Workshop

For our workshop we'll be making a small gift bag that looks like a purse.  This idea is from Kristin Wilson and  you can find her tutorial here.  My sample:

The papers I'm using at the workshop are all retired, so you will have some new colors to play with.  There will be a selection of paper choices.  Workshop is from 5:30-7:30 pm, on Thursday, April 17.  Cost of workshop is $3.

Sugar and Spice

Add some Glitz and sponge on some ink for added dimension to a Art Booking title.

Color My Heart #86

The colors of this week's challenge - New England Ivy, Ponderosa Pine and Goldrush, spoke to me of the outdoors.

Since my background was Ponderosa Pine, with my inks being New England Ivy and Goldrush.  The Goldrush paper is from the retired Surf's Up kit.  The stamp set is A1127, A Journey (retired). 

Ribbon tip

This may be an old tip, but it's one I hadn't heard (recently enough to remember anyway).  I was keeping my ribbon from unwinding by using a pin or a piece of tape, but took a tip this weekend from your regular spool of thread.  I snipped a small cut in the surrounding cardboard and looped the end of my smaller ribbons through to hold it.

Cards from the March workshop

First Layout

Meet Teresa, showing off her first scrapbook layout ever!

Ladies, I think we've got another one hooked on Scrapping!

Unicorns and Glitter

Got Girls?  Check out the magical unicorn stamp set, available with your hostess rewards credits for only $10.

I cut a strip of glitter trim in half to outline the main frame here.

So, I clean my stamps with wet wipes.  And after a while I have this very pretty colorful wet wipe.  I laid one across some white cardstock, pressed and left it for about 10 minutes; a nice amount of the ink transferred to the paper, in the water color style of the wet wipe.  On the unicorn, it was a clear print of the small unicorn, but I laid a wet wipe on it, pressed and lifted immediately.  The ink bled a little with the addition moisture for the effect you see. 

A Big Thanks

Thanks to all the great scrapping buddies who have sent get well cards to my sister.  She has been tickled pink to receive them - and the nice pillow case!  She is still recovering but doing well.

Color Dare #84

Topiary - card stock, ink and chevron ribbon
Sky - Balloon ride paper pack, paper and zip strip.
Sweet Leaf - card stock and plastic flower from Skylark kit
Champagne cardstock.
Sentiment - Give a Lift (D1581)
Bicycle - La Belle Vie Scrapbooking stamp set (retired)
Some clear Glitz in the flowers

Check out the other entries at Color My Heart.

Lagoon

A quick card with left overs from the Skylark kit.

Using the negative space

I did a double layout a while back, and left the negative space on my Cricut mat. (It was not a new Cricut mat.  Paper left on a new mat becomes a permanent part of the mat.)  I finally got around to putting some tape on the hexagons and lifting them onto cards.

I was able to embellish 8 card with the negative space, five of which I will show you.

Get well card

Just a simple card. 

The butterfly is cut from the Artbooking cartridge, page 62.  I left it on the 11" setting.  The gold strip is from the Ivy Lane Card making kit.  It's the only place to get gold shimmer trim right now, but you could use a cut strip from the Brown and Tan Glitter paper.  The washi tape is from the Sparkle and Shine kit (retired).  I used a strip of the washi tape on the back of the envelope, like an envelope seal. 

Diamond Dolls

My lovely daughter, Hurricane, pictured many times in these blogs, has joined her high school's Diamond Dolls.  The girls man the concession stand at the baseball games and give snacks to the players.  This mama had to get involved and decorate the bags to put the snacks in.

 

The first one is an 8" background cut from the Artbooking cartridge.

The second one is cut from Base Camp cartridge (because I wanted a shadow font) and then the new hostess stamp set My Hero B1448. (Yeah, it's a plane not a jet, but close enough.)

 

 

Two things I want to say about this post - First - I think it's really cute when mom who blogs, gives her kids nicknames in order to protect their identity.  So, I'm going to refer to my daughter as Hurricane, mostly because I just love that nick name.  We don't use it so much now that she is older, but as a child when she walked through a room, it was like anything loose whirled and fell on the floor behind her.  She was such a mess maker!

 

Second - you know how your workspace gets cluttered with all the things you are working on.  Hurricane walked by, saw these:

 

 

 

 and asked (shocked) those aren't for their bags are they?  Just too funny - she knows I'll embellish anything!

Saturday's Crop

Saturday's crop went really well. The weather was great (no trudging through the rain) this time.  Sherry surprised us with these neat little treats, pull the ribbon and out slides your candy bar!

The next crop will be March 15th, St. Patrick's day crop.  Wear your green!

Color Dare #79

Rummaged through the stash for these colors!  I used some from the Victory pack, the Buzz and Bumble pack and Emporium (2009!),  The stamp sets are C1408 Live Inspired and D1436 (in the wrong package so I can't tell you the name).  All this stuff is retired.  The only thing not, is the Artbooking cartridge I used to cut the birds.  Check out the other entries at Color My Heart. 

Skylark Sunshine Card

I had very little of the Skylark kit left over after completing the two double layouts, but I got a couple of cool cards out of it.  It's just a square of the bird page, with a sentiment in desert sand and some hemp.  The little dragonfly is a metal brad I picked up at my local scrapbook store.

Skylark

I finally got some time to scrap this weekend!  I used up my Skylark kit, first with the main kit double layout (not pictured).  Instead of the second layout in the instruction guide, I went with the this one.  I really liked the entire decorated page and wanted to show case it.

I will add one vertical and one horizontal picture the right page, leaving most of the cool printed features in the open for viewing.

See other great Skylark ideas at the Color My Heart site.