Getting Back In The Swing!

I am so excited to be getting back into my blogging, I have been so busy with special orders and projects that my poor little site has been neglected.  To get back into the crafty swing of things I am going to be participating in a special Blog Hop starting tomorrow morning, Friday, March 16th.  I sure hope that you will stop by and hop along with us as we commemorate a beautiful change in seasons.  You are sure to be dazzled with all sorts of Fluttery things with Wings and awesome Flowery, Blooming Creations.

Until then I wanted to share with you a few projects that I have been working on. The Scrapbooking Factory recently got in some Super Happy Mail and it was the new line of papers from My Minds Eye, my new fave "Follow Your Heart."  I absolutely adore this paper and I made a few samples to put in the store.

The first layout is and 8x8 of my adorable grandson, Israel.  This paper is so fun and easy to work with and the colors are soft and the graphics are adorable:

Isn't this an absolutely gorgeous line of paper. The paper is double-sided making it doubly fun to work with.  I created a little banner and a few mattes and also trimmed the "you fly you soar" accent matte with coordinating twine from the same line.

Next I created a super cute card from the, "Follow Your Heart line," and I also used plenty of scraps for each project, not wasting a strip of paper.

This card has a punch heart and die cut flowers by Sizzix.  

This was a very sweet and simple card. The small "enjoy" pennant was cut from one of the graphics on the 12x12 sheet.

Totally switching gears I wanted to share a layout I did using a photo of my daughter.  The challenge came from the Scrapbook Throwdown a month ago and we were challenged to use fabric in our layout.  In this particular layout I used several pieces of material.  The largest being the fabric flower I made using a Gluber
The other fabric elements included trim on the bottom of the birdcage and the top of the birdcage.

Fabric flower made with a Gluber

Strip of fabric ruffle on birdcage.

Well that's it for now.  Please stop by tomorrow when I'll post some really sweet projects and links to follow for the Blog Hop!!!

Blessings and have a sweet crafty day!

 

The Scrapbook Throwdown Day 3

Hello Again!

I really wanted to catch up today so I am submitting my second post of the day to be on day 3 of the Scrapbook Throwdown.  This has been so much fun and has caused me to scrapbook some of my own pics for a change.

 Okay, so today I pulled out the sewing machine and went to stitching.  I actually enjoy do stitching on my projects and my cards are what got me started, I would say that 85% of my handmade cards have stitching on them somewhere.  I believe it gives the project a certain element that says I want this project to be really special.  Because it takes effort to pull out that machine just for a few stitches! 

My layout today is my sweet grandson, you won't get to see his adorable face on this one Simply his SWEET little feet, in the hands of mommy and daddy.  I stitched around the entire 12x12 border creating a nice edge that I generously distressed.  I inked most of the edges of each element and stitched around the layered matte of my photo.  There are 3 different kinds of stitches in my layout and some didn't require thread.  I had the opportunity to use some new acrylic stamps by MME and also a metal crown that I've been wanting to use.  I'm tempted to put a little gesso on it.  I had even painted a piece of the corrugated part of some cardboard and finally got to use it.  Check out the pics:


Stitched around the entire 12x12 sheet distressed and gesso'd the edges

 

Topnote die already has stitching around the shape

  

Stitched around tag with no thread

Used my new text acrylic by MME Lost&Found 2

Added a little zig zag stitch to one of the strips

That's it for today folks and I have had a wonderful time creating these layouts.  I really want to thank Chrissie Tobas for inviting me to the challenge and to Latrice for creating this forum.

Blessings until Next Time!


"Remember with GOD All things are possible!



Scrapbook Throwdown Day 2

COLOR SCHEME CHALLENGE

Well yesterday I had such a hard time trying to link up my page and just found out what the problem was! I forgot to update my blog first.  Oh well, so I actually kept UP I just didn't link UP right.  So today you will see two post from me (hopefully.)

After going through my stash I found a Super Cute pic of  my now 17 year old daughter that fit perfectly!  This picure was acutally taken on a warm Winter day at the zoo.  She had on cutesy leopard ensemble including leopard leggings, collar and headband.  She was quite the fashionista for the zoo.  I love these pictures as she stared back at mommy pointing at everything, while resting very confidently on daddy's shoulders.  What a cutie!

I tried to use all of these arctic color choices and blend in the brown hues.   I also had to cut about 1x2 inches from my photos and just used the strips on  the layout just for fun, "waste not, want not " right?  This was fun challenge and less all the hoopla with the linking to the Scrapbook Throwdown page I had a great time!

Description: Color Theme Layout Challenge for The Scrapbook Throwdown
MME - Lost & Found 2, Prima Sprite blossoms, Dear Lizzy letters by American Crafts
Ink: Perfect Pearls & Antique Gold
Embellies: MME Buttons, flower stick pin by Little Yellow Bicycle

BLESSINGS!!

HAPPY MONDAY

Hello Everyone,
Hope this is a blessed day for you, I woke up with a wicked migraine but still managed to get this posting out after taking some meds.  I worked on some projects last night to put in my booth at the store and I'm going to try and make a bunch.  I'm trying to keep the "Going Back To School" theme in mind and make little gifts for teachers and students.

The first project are Bookmarks made with  jumbo paper clips that I purchased from HEB for $1 ( Plastic Container of 25) I will think of something cute to do with the container later.  These bookmarks were made with scraps that I couldn't bare throwing away. 

This next project is a cute little paper treat "fold" idea made for Kitkat bars.  I used cutesy paper by Crate Paper & My Minds Eye.

These cute little baskets I've made before but I really like the texture of the crate paper double-sided design for the cuteness and sturdiness factor. I'm not sure what I'm going to fill these up with but it definitely will not be the truffles that I have in this pic, they were just for affect and I'm eating the chocolate.

 If  I'm not mistaken I have a tutorial on my blog for this basket, check the archives.

Lastly I couldn't have ended my work without my first love of crafts so I created a nice card for a teacher

 I actually used the back of new line of paper that The Scrapbooking Factory Just got in called JOY RIDE by Cosmo Cricket.  I suppose the black paper with the dashed and solid lines are suppose to be roads, but they look like school paper to me, so I thought it would go great with my teacher card.  I cut out the apple with my Cricut (George Basic Sampler.)  I have been waiting for the moment to use my self adhesive cork paper that I got from Michael's and last night I did it. YEAH!!

Lastly here is my latest layout that I will be displaying in Jane's store at the Scrapbooking Factory.  I thought It came out pretty cute, it's funny now all of a sudden my children are taking a little bit of interest in what I display.  Trust me it's not a compliment to my work the kids just want to make sure that I'm not putting anything out that will embarrass them!

I used a really lovely set of papers from My Little Yellow Bicycle called "Zinnia." These are not my favorite papers but they really are lovely and I can't do everything "PINK" all of  the time!

I will be teaching a couple of classes this month at the Scrapbooking Factory and would love to have you join me, you can check out the dates of the classes by going to the stores website: thescrapbookingfactory.blogspot.com

Thanks for Stopping by and have BLESSED WEEK!!

My Newest Layout

Okay,

I have a confession, I have designed layouts for other people but rarely have I sat down and done any for myself, so now since I'm working with Jane at the Scrapbooking Factory, she told me that I was going to have to brush up and so that's exactly what I am doing and I am having a wonderful time.  It's something that is for me and my family to enjoy and I'm usually doing things for other people and now I have a great since of how special it really is.  I showed this layout to my children and they were like, "Hey mom, that's cool !"  and they really looked at it, not one of those side way glances and it was a different, "that's cool."  Usually when I show them a finished product they give me sort of a congenial that's nice mom.  I think I'm really going to enjoy this more than before....Hmmmm, I think I need to see about getting me a really, really good

camera  :-)

By the way, I used designer cardstock by The Girls Paperie called On Holiday.  The base background paper is from Making Memories, it actually went rather nicely with this layout and the theme is similar.  Michael's has this paper on the discount aisle so I'm sure it's on it way out.  I purchased the On Holiday Paper from The Scrapbooking Factory.

Have a Blessed Day!!