"London is Calling" ATCs

This card suits me to a T. 

This has been a busy month and I feel like I'm still trying to play catch up. I mailed these off this morning but I wish I could have kept them awhile! These ATCs are the for monthly ATC swap at Club Scrap. I used paper and elements from the London is Calling kit.  Last month, I made a Union Jack stencil for my London is Calling blog hop project and liked it so much I added it to my ATC design.  I designed the Union Jack background in Photoshop Elements and printed on Club Scrap cardstock. 

So, without further ado, here are the rest of my mini pieces of flair...

The love embellishment is from my stash and the quote is from the Gimme a Ring (2009) Club Scrap kit. 

The bottom half of the quote is a stamp from the Club Scrap Cruisin' kit from 2008. 

Elements from my huge stash of "scrap crap"!

More elements from my stash.

I added a layer of Glossy Accents to the "wellies".

We just completed our second monthly Twinchie swap too. This was the series I designed this month. I usually try to make them all different, but I liked this so much I just made them all the same.

If you are feeling creative and want to start small, check out the monthly ATC and Twinchie swaps. There's always room for one more!

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50s Kitchen Blog Hop!

Welcome to my stop on the 50s Kitchen blog hop! Isn't this collection soooo cute?! I had such a hard time deciding what to do for my project. I wanted to use EVERYTHING!

50s Kitchen Club Scrap Deluxe Kit

50s Kitchen Cat Clock Stencil

50s Kitchen Greetings to Go 

I made an Office Depot run for some mailing supplies and, of course, I had to look over the clearance rack while I waited in line. I found an "old school"  three ring binder address book that had a torn cover. BINGO! After a little "wheeling and dealing" with the manager, he discounted it to $2. I could work with that! A little recovering with the 50s Kitchen Lite papers, and an embellishment using some Ten Seconds Studios metal with the Kit Kat Klock stencil and voila! 

I love making something for myself that I will actually use! I am forever writing phone numbers down on pieces of paper that never make it to my Iphone contacts OR my phone isn't charged when I need to look something up. To quote my sister, "sometimes 'old school' is mo betta!" 

The next stop on the hop is Cathy at The Artful Gamut. If you would like to start at the beginning of the hop click here. Thanks for stopping by!

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"Far Out" ATC's

Just havin' a little fun with the ATC's I made for the Club Scrap Constellations ATC swap. This post features stamps from +Tim Holtz 's new 2015 Bird Crazy collection and +Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions stamp sets, Strength,  Black Sheep, and Legs Eleven, as well as +ClubScrap  cardstock and sentiment stamps.

Are these "far out" or what?!!! I went a little "bird crazy" and "dylusional"! I'm so full of (Club) scrap!

I found an ATC folio tutorial on Pinterest and made it for the swap hostess. Cute huh?

I can't wait to see what I get in return! Off to get creative for the London Calling ATC swap, have a FABULOUS weekend!

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London Is Calling And I Must Go!

Welcome to my stop on the London Calling blog hop! Today's hop features the February 2015 Club Scrap kit London Calling.

Club Scrap Deluxe kit

These stamps are the "bees knees"!

Collection Unmounted

Unmounted Borders and Backgrounds

Greeting Unmounted

I love going through my stash of Club Scrap Scrap Rap magazines for ideas and found the perfect one for this kit, the Scrapbook-in-a-box project from the 2009 Birds of a Feather Scrap Rap. So, without further ado, it's time for tea...

A few years ago my sister and brother-in-law made a trip across the pond and brought me back a Royal Albert coffee mug. This was the pattern the year I was born. So perfect for my photo shoot!

While I was making my project, I kept thinking how I wanted to decorate the cover of the box. I looked up traditional British gifts and one of the tea boxes had the Union Jack as a cover design. So, I made a stencil!

Don't you love how the design in the paper shows through the ink?

Yeah, so I bungled my first attempt. The red diagonal cross I inked blue. Humpf....BUT I ended up liking the second attempt better!

I used the green patterned paper from the CS Lite kit for this one. The pattern showed through the ink on this one too!

I filled the pockets with tea packets and wrapped a few Red Velvet Oreo's in place of English biscuits.

I added a few extra bits and bobs, some cutaparts, vintage mini postage stamps, some tiny teapot embellishments and ribbon.

Instructions on how to make the perfect cuppa. I used the Chancery Cursive font and printed on the blue cardstock from the Lite kit. 

Doesn't that sound delightful!

Aren't these the cutest mini vintage postage stamps? 

I finished it all up with a card. Umm, do you see the boo boo? I didn't see it 'til I was finished. Oh well, I don't really suppose any of the Americans I would give it to would notice unless I showed them a pic of the Union Jack first, so Bob's your Uncle!

The crowns were cut using my Cricut and the Indie Art cartridge.

Grab a cuppa and chivvy along to check out what FABU project Cathy has to share on her blog! Cheerio!

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Child's Play Challenge

This is the second week of Club Scrap's Winter PSL and the challenge is to "release your inner child with coloring and doodling"! This is my card for the week...

There is a viral video of +Dee Grunig on Facebook and I watched a few minutes of it and then went to search for the full video on Youtube.  Such a cool technique! I used Club Scrap hybrid re-inkers and makeup sponges to create the background on the Constellations glossy white cardstock. Check out Dee's "unintentionally funny" video, keep sponging Dee!


                               

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Throw Me Some Kisses Mister!

Welcome to my stop on the Club Scrap Valentines Day blog hop, there's a whole lotta love in this post! There's also a Linky Party on the Club Scrap blog for you to share your own Valentine creations. Link up for a chance to win a cool Club Scrap logo t-shirt! The hop features the new Love Ink kit (which I did not get) and past Valentine kits (which I have hoarded been waiting to use)!

I have nieces and nephews in three different states and they all LOVE to get snail mail. What am I saying, I love to get it too! I packed some fun boxes to send...paper heart garland, cool Valentine themed cups, little gift cards for Chick fil A, Starbucks for the big girls, and CANDY! Oh, and chewy chocolate chip cookies for my brother!

They all received their packages today. My sister-in-law sent this video of her little blondies...I ♥ that baby!

                                

I haven't made Valentines in years and decided to make the Club Scrap Love Blooms G2G cards from 2012. I love this paper...I printed out the card making instructions and tweaked them a bit so I felt like they were mine. I even mailed them on Thursday so that they would arrive on Valentine's Day! (So not like me, I am a procrastinator...)

I also used stamp images from the 2011 Love Inkorporated and My Funny Valentine collections. 

And last, but not least, my final card. In celebration of Mardi Gras, because I am a Louisiana girl, I made a Mardi Gras card!

 I just got my Dylusions stamps by +Dyan Reaveley in the mail Monday and thought they would be perfect for a Mardi Gras card! I used a quote stamp from the Club Scrap 2011 My Funny Valentine kit and stamped the background with Perfect Medium and dusted with a mix of Perfect Pearls powders. I "watercolored" the embossed Dylusions stamp with Perfect Pearls. Just mix a little water with a tiny bit of PP's and you have some cool shimmery watercolor paint. The jester hat is designed from a couple of different stamp images. The triangles on the hat are stamp images from the 2014 Club Scrap Reunion kit that I cut out. The purple one is embossed with a background stamp from the 2008 Haberdashery kit, as well as the brim. I sewed the little jingle bells on with waxed thread.

 I loved Roni's star card from the Constellations blog hop and designed my card base to mimic that style. 

12*12 sheet of cardstock scored in half at  6 inches and turned and scored again to make four 6 inch panels. Two opposing panels are scored in half on a diagonal. I folded on all the score lines and folded the diagonal folds in toward the center. 

Keep hopping to check out all the Valentine surprises! Your next stop is Cathy at The Artful Gamut. So, in true Louisiana Mardi Gras style laissez les bon temps roulez and Happy Valentines Day too! "Throw me some(thing) kisses Mister!"

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