We Belong Layout

Oooh 2 posts in a row! I am on a roll. This is another LO from my 20 pg workshop from MAGIC

I just love scrapbooking these pictures! I love the beautiful colours of the Carribean and they go beautifully with the Magnifique PP from Close To My Heart.

The Materials used for this Layout were:

Close To My Heart: Magnifique PP and Stickease, Chocolate Ribbon Rounds, Blue Button Assort., Antique Copper Bitty Brads, Borders Dimensional Elements,Stamp Sets (Classmate Alphabet, Comments, and Authentic), Pacifica and chocolate ink pads, Twill Ribbon.

"Family" was cut with the cricut from one of my sister's cartridges.

I am entering this layout in the following challenges:

crazychallenge- on the beach

paperplaychallenges- Anything but a card

allsortschallenge- Free and Easy

catchthebugblog- Anything Goes

sentimentalsundays- Anything Goes

Thanks for visiting, and Happy 4th of July to all the Americans!

Scrappy Mel

The Making of a Princess

Happy Sunday everyone. It is over-cast here. Not like yesterday which was scorching and was spent outside. Got a lot of weeds pulled in my flower beds. They are coming together nicely. I stopped by Extra Foods to look at their annuals. Poor pathetic looking plants. They are long past due for a transplanting. I didn`t pick any up however since it was just William and I with his wagon. Picked up some really cute "CARS" gardening gloves for William though.

On to my Layouts. This is another layout from my 20 page workshop. I took the time this morning to take pics of all of the dominican ones I have finished so far. Hopefully William will let me get a few posted. We`ll see....

The Making of a Princess:

Materials Used were.....

 Close To My Heart: Magnifique PP and Stckease, Clear Sparkles, Spray Pen with Create-a-Shade Pearl Paint and Chocolate, Lagoon re-inkers.

Making Memories: "Making" letters

Cricut: for all the rest of the letters

Thanks for stopping by. Happy Scrapping.

Mel

Another Dominican Layout

Hello. "Better late than never, unless you missed the whole show." Is my motto. I have had this layout done since my last post, but have not been on the internet much since my family moved to another place in town. And sadly, we've been moved almost a month and my scrapbook room is still stacks here and there, my desk is not set up, and no shelves on the wall either.  On the days that there is actually no rain I have been too busy outside with another LOVE of mine- flower beds. You should see the shape these are in. I think they grew over a few years ago! But I am looking forward to getting them cleaned out and my own plants in them.

So onto another Dominican Republic layouts:

These are my favorites of Jody and her son Chase.

Have you ever tried to find Purple and Orange paper that is not Halloween themed??

I'm telling you, not much- if any out there. Not to match these photos anyhow.

Her bouquet was birds of paridise and some local (Dominican) Cream coloured Flowers. I haven't looked up their name yet. Birds of Paradise were also hard to find scrapbooking wise, so I pieced these together myself.

Materials Used: Close To MY Heart-Stamps (Believe Lower and Uppercase, and Cherished Flourishes)

Ribbon Slide.

All the paper used was misellaneous courtesy of my assorted CS bin.

The quote was a rub-on from--( will find out soon)

The orange bling is from--(will find out soon)

And ribbon is from my sister's stash and Walmart.

I am entering this Layout in the following challenges:

• Simon Says Stamp And Show- a WORD!- Stamp a word on your project.
• Paperplay Challenges- Anything but a Card
• paper-crafting journey- Anything Goes
• Rubys Rainbow- Flowers
• Deep Ocean Challenge Blog- Flowers

Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope to post again soon. Happy Canada Day Everyone!!
Keep on Scrappin'
Mel

Dominican Republic Layouts

Hello Everyone! Here's what I've been up to lately. I have been working on a scrapbook for my friend Jody of her Dominican Wedding. I was a bridesmaid for her wedding on February 5th, 2011 in the Dominican Republic.
I started the scrapbook in January as a 20 page workshop for my 12 for 12 group. I created it from the new MAGIC scrapbooking program from CTMH. It uses one CTMH Level II paper pack and about 20 pieces of extra CS for bases and matting, etc. I am hoping to post the actual instructions once I get all of the pages put together. I was really on a roll from Jan- Mar, but this last month I've been occupied with other things.
So today I finally picked up my camera and took pics of what I have completed so far.... Enjoy!
The paper pack I used was Magnifique from CTMH unless otherwise stated. I know I should get my fingers slapped for using other products for projects in my class, but let's be realistic. There are sooooo many other products that are perfect for this beach wedding theme.

Embellishments:

Jolies Boutique-Music Note Bling

Cinderella and her Prince-Happily Ever After Cricut carty. I also added CTMH bitty sparkles and White Stickles to her dress to resemble the pattern on Jody's dress.

Butterflies-made with CTMH arrows from Chocolate Mini-Medleys Collection and the Heart to Heart stamp set that came with the Magnifique Workshop last fall. Then I added different colours of bling on the round end of the arrow with CTMH Blue and Green Sparkles Assort.

The "First Dance" letters are from my mom's stash-so who knows?!

I cut the others words out with the Cricut using Nate's ABC's- Love this Carty!

Hopefully I'll get another posted tonight or tomorrow morning. Off to my day job. LOL!

Thanks for visiting and Happy Scrappin'!

Mel

Lili of the Valley Cards

Here are 2 Christmas cards made with Lili of the Valley images. These 2 images are 2 of my faves this year.

The products used were:

• CTMH-patterned paper and ribbon from Mistletoe Creative Basics, Red Sparkles, New England Ivy CS and Cranberry and New England Ivy inks, My Legacy Writer Black Pens
• Fun Flock
• Stampin' Up-Border Punch
• LOTV-Image
• COPICS

The Challenges I would like to enter this card in are:

• Lili of the Valley-A Few of My Favorite Things- I love to colour with COPICS, so that is definately a favorite. I love Fun Flock because it makes the hat look furry and "pop" off the page.I love CTMH papers, Inks and Ribbon- I definately couldn't live without them and CHRISTMAS is my favorite time of the year.
• Alphabet Challenge Blog-F-Foliage- Christmas Tree

   

The products used were:

• CTMH-patterned paper from Mistletoe Creative Basics, Red Sparkles, New England Ivy and White Daisy CS, Cranberry and New England Ivy inks, Glitz Glitter Gel, andSentiment Stamp
• Fun Flock
• LOTV-Image
• Cricut-Cheerful Seasons Cartridge to cut snowflakes
• COPICS

The challenges I want to enter my card in are:

• Pile it On Challenge-Feathers-n-Fur- Fun Flock around girl's hood and pom-poms to look like fur
• Stamp with Sarah Kay-Snow/Snowflakes
• Sew Many Challenges-Snowflakes
• Cupcake Craft Challenge-Light it UP!

Thanks for stopping by! Off to post more cards.

Scrappy Mel

 

Sharing the Magic

Hello everyone! The 2nd day of December already. Here are a few cards I have made with the sentiment "Sharing the Magic" from the Close To My Heart -Stamp of the Month set in October. All 3 cards are using the same pattern since I made a little workshop for my cards. The sentiment is embossed with White Embossing Powder from CTMH.

The first one I made using a digi stamp from Bugaboo Stamps. Sunbonnet is so precious with anything that she has- this one being a present.

Products used:

• CTMH-Mistletoe Creative Basics, CS-New England Ivy, Sentiment Stamp, presents stamp, clear sparkles, white embossing powder, cranberry ink, new england ivy ink, Glitz "Stardust" glitter
• Bugaboo Stamps-Sunbonnet with present
• Stampin' Up-Border Punch
• Sun Bonnet and presents coloured with COPICS

The Challenges I am entering this card in are:

• ABC Christmas Challenge-Y-Yultide with Red and Green
• Sew Many Challenges-Red and Green
• Totally Stampalicious-Anything goes

My next card has Tilda by Magnolia stamps. I love all of these adorable stamps. Each one can be used in so many different ways, not just one set theme.

Products used:

• CTMH-Mistletoe Level 2 Assortment (flowers), New England Ivy brads,Mistletoe Creative Basics, New England Ivy CS, Sentiment Stamp, presents stamp, white embossing powder, cranberry ink, new england ivy ink
• Magnolia Stamps: Tilda Image
• COPICS

I am entering this card in the following challenge:

• Magnolia Stamp Lovers-Punch it up!

Last but not least-Candy Cane Cherrie from Tickled Pink Stamps. This whole series of stamps is adorable.



Products Used are all the same plus:

• CTMH-white buttons, Star stamp, gold embossing powder, Cranberry Embroidery Floss, Mistletoe Creative Basics, CS-New England Ivy, Sentiment Stamp, presents stamp, white embossing powder, cranberry ink, new england ivy ink, Glitz "Stardust" glitter
• Tickled Pink Stamps-Candy Cane Cherrie
• COPICS

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Alphabet Challenge Blog-E-Embossing
• One Stop Craft Challenge-Christmas Cuties

I have been out of commision for 2 days with a bad back. The prescription I am on for muscle relaxers doesn't exaclty make it easy for me to focus on crafting. But as long as I don't move too quickly or make big movements I am o.k. LOL  Hope tomorrow I am able to get some more cards done.
Thanks for stopping by,
Scrappy Mel



Cards for Canadian Soldiers

Hello All!
I am finally getting a chance to post something!  I  found a blog this holiday season that sends Handmade cards to Canadian Soldiers to send to their families at Christmas time- and any other occasion for that matter. I am looking forward to sending many cards that I make to this cause. cardsforcanadiansoldiers.webs.com is Wonderful! The deadline for Christmas Cards has passed, but if you would also like to send cards of any kind in the future, please check out their website.

Now on to my cards.... I was able to get 34 ready and sent out, but.... in a mad rush to get them in the mail on time I forgot to scan may of the different kinds. Argh!!
The following cards were from a card workshop I did for mass production last year, which I did not finish, or need. All I had to do to these were add the Snowflakes which were cut using the Cricut and the NEW Creative Memories Cartridge- Cheerful Seasons. The Stamped image is a NEW stamp from Close To My Heart-Captured Moments.

All of the papers are from Close To My Heart. The patterned paper "Aspen" however is now unavailable. I have a bunch put away 'cause I love it!! But don't want to use it and run out! Isn't that silly? I'm sure some of you out there in blog land have done the same.

Hopefully I'll have more time to post again soon. I have been getting lots of Scrapbooking and Cardmaking done lately so I hope you come back to see!
Thanks for stopping by and Happy Scrapping Everyone! and too our American neighbours, "Happy Thanksgiving!"
Scrappy Mel