Botanicals Blog Hop!

Welcome to my stop on the Club Scrap Botanicals Blog Hop. It just so happens that the blog hop and my 8 year old niece's first communion coincided. This  collection is perfect for celebrating this springtime rite of passage! 82 children made their first communion last weekend. The service was beautiful!

Yeah...he was so excited that we were all outside!

Of course he wanted to go up and down the steps!

Her front tooth is loose!

She was soooooo beautiful! (Yes, I'm a proud aunt!)

Badness...

These are the build up to these...

Club Scrap Botanicals Digital Kit  using the layout cutting instructions included with the kit.

Club Scrap Botanicals Digital Kit

My gift was a peek-a-boo card. Click here for the SplitcoastStampers tutorial. 

All card stock and elements from Club Scrap.

I even made a custom made box for the card to fit in!

             

Your next stop on the hop is Jill P's Place. If you want some of this awesome collection for yourself, check out the Club Scrap store!

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April Birthday Swap

I made these cards for the Club Scrap April Birthday Card Swap. Participating in these swaps helps me get out of my rut of using the same old techniques AND it inspires me to use stamps and stencils that I haven't used in a while. I "scraplifted" some ideas from my stash of Scrap Rap magazines.

New members are always welcome. Check out the fabu ideas on the Club Scrap blog and join in! 

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"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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