Palm Tree Die Cuts

Surprise! Another Dominican Layout! This Layout was taken from CTMH's MAGIC Scrapbook Program. Thank goodness for my Xyron Sticker maker. It made putting together the layered palm tree border a snap.I cut it using the cricut but with one of my sister's cartridges and I can't remember which one.

Ingredients:

Close to My Heart: Magnifique paper pack and My Stickease, sweet leaf/ brown bag/ colonial white/ white daisy and sky cardstocks, Irresistibles Lots of Dots letters stickers, State of Mind stamp set, Embroidary Floss- Blue Assortment, pacifica eylets, lagoon/ pacifica and chocolate ink pads.

Cricut

"A Toast" stickers from stash.

I am entering this Layout in the following challenges:

Paperplay Challenges -Use a die

Paperplay Time -Anything Goes + Sentiment

Allsorts Challenge -Any die will do

Shopping our Stash.blogspot -Stuck on Stickers

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Scrappin'

Mel

Dominican republic with Miracle by CTMH

Here is another LO for my Dominican Album. It was taken from CTMH's IMAGINE layout book.

Ingredients:

Close To My Heart: Miracel Paper Pack/ My Stickease and Irresistibles, Dimensional Elements Borders, Wooden Badge Buttons, Desert Sand/ Black and Colonial White CS, Sky/ Pacifica/ Desert Sand/ Sweet Leaf Ink Pads, Seaside Wooden Shapes, You & Me Stamp Set, My Legacy writer Black Pen, Antiqued Copper Brads.

Cricut and Gyspy:My Sister Jen created the title for me, not sure what cartridge she used.

I am entering this LO in the following Challenges:

Alphabet Challenge Blog-"J" is for Journey

The Stampman Challenges- Time or Travel

2 sisters challenge blog-  Anything Goes

Anything challenge -Around the World

Creatalicious challenges- Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping Bye. Happy Scrappin!

Mel

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

 

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

8 x 8 Carter, Easton and Iggy LO

Here's another 8 X 8 layout for Carter's baby album. I had fun with this one. I got my Cricut out to make all of the silhouettes.

Supply List:

1. 
   
   Patterned Paper and Cardstock-CTMH
2. 
   
   Letter Stickers- MME, American Craft, and Miscellaneous from Stash
3. 
   
   Vellum Sticker-Making Memories
4. 
   
   Cricut Cartridge-A Child's Year
5. 
   
   Ribbon- CTMH Olive Grosgrain

Come back again for more 8x8 Layout posts!

Happy Scrappin!

Scrappy Mel

C-A-R-T-E-R

Hello All!
I have done another 8 x 8 LO for my friend's new baby boy. His name is -yeah-you guessed it. Carter. I used these adorable papers by Imaginisce that I have had since I found out I was pregnant with a boy, so 3 1/2 years. But they are so cute I couldn't resist using them in Carter's album as well.

Supply List:

Patterned Paper- Imaginisce

CS- CTMH (white) and Unknown from my stash

Stamp Sets- CTMH ( Believe Upper Case, and Simple Stitches)

Ink-CTMH (Colonial White pigment ink, and Sweet Leaf)

Markers: CTMH My Legacy Writers

I used the cricut to cut these 1 1/4" circles

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamps Challenge- We are all going DOTTY!

Paper Play Challenges- Anything Goes

Totally Gorjuss- Baby baby!

          Practical Scrappers- Use your # 1 Favorite Product- Close To My Heart inks are my absolute favorite product. In particular the Colonial White ( used above) and the White Daisy Pigment Ink stamp pads. They really make a stamped image stand out on a dark background.

Well that's all for now, back to finish some more, or go to bed. Not sure which will win out.

Nighty night, sleep tight. Don't let the bed bugs bite!

Scrappy Mel

8 x 8 album pages.......My Grandparents

My next few posts will be of 8x8 album pages I am working on for a baby album. The album is for my best friend Carmen who is having a baby boy. She should be having him any day now, since she was due on July 10th.

I have been trying to follow a few challenges, but still want to follow the theme that I originally wanted. (And bought everything for!)

This first one "My Grandparents" took me 3 hours! Who would have thought? That is because I took the sketch from a challenge and adapted it into an 8 X 16 layout.

I used an assortment of products for these pages.

First I'll start wtih the adorable digital stamps. They are from Bugaboo and I plan on using them a lot throughout the album. They were coloured using COPICS. I used my new Cherry Limeade Cricut Cartridge for the letters and Plantin Schoolbook for the circles. The patterned papers were from 7gypsies, MME, Creative Memories, and Kei. The CS is CTMH-Cocoa, Topiary, Crystal Blue, and White Daisy.
The Challenges I am entering this LO in are:

Sketch Saturday-Sketch

Stamp Something- Go Digital!

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle- Animals

            Practical Scrappers-Using your old Stash-Older than 1 year- 3 of these patterned papers I have had over  1 year for sure. The Blue Lettered one maybe almost 3 years.
The Stamp Man-Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by. Stay tuned for more pages!

Scrappy Mel

You're a Star! and My 1st Copics Experience

Hello again,
I am very happy to have a card to post tonight using my new COPICS!
This card was made for my niece Jenae who was quite crushed after not receiving an award at school. Only 2 children did get awards in her class, but in Grade 1, I think each child should get recognition for something they are good at, or improved in over the year. (That was the norm all through my Elementary Years)-I never received an award for spelling)
Anyways, now this is where my card comes in. After hearing how upset she was, I pictured this little fairy sitting on my desk that I had finished coloring and told my sister Jen that I would make Jenae a special card telling her how proud I was that she finished Grade 1 and send it in the mail. I hope it lifts her spirits.
Oh, and of course I had to encorporate a few challenges into it...

Here are the products I used:

Close To My Heart: Cranberry, Honey and Sunny Yellow CS, Sunny Yellow and Sweet Leaf Inks, My Legacy Writers Black Pens, "Flurry" Dimentional Elements,Clear Sparkles

Magnolia Stamp: Flying Tilda

Basic Grey: Green Striped Paper

COPICS MARKERS

Glitter Ritz-Light Gold

Score-Tape

Cricut and Plantin Schoolbook carty- for the 2 big stars and star strip.

Miscellaneous Items of Unknown Origin: green CS, green brad

The Challenges I am entering are:

• City Crafter-Shades of Green
• The Pixie Cottage-Sketch
• Crafty Creations Challenge-We want to see you SHINE!
• Sew Many Challenges-Anything Goes
• Sentimental Sundays-Encouragement and Support
• Stamptacular Sunday Challenge-Stars and Stripes
• Incy Wincy Designs- Things with Wings
• 365 Cards-Day 120- Shades of Green

I think that about covers it.... I'm off to do some more scrappin'. Take Care and Stay Healthy everyone so you can enjoy a beautiful summer!

Scrappy Mel

Remembering...

Hello everyone,

Yes I have been away for awhile, but now I am back and hopefully July will be a quieter month-Yeah Right!

The following card I had started with a couple challenges in mind for last week, but I decided not to enter it in any. This was one of the hardest cards I have ever had to make. Yes it looks so simple, but it was the saying on the front that I couldn't seem to get right?  But when does a sympathy card ever say exactly what you want it to? It was for a colleague of mine whose 2 year old passed away. He truly was an angel.

I used all CTMH products for this. Oooh except the cricut I used to cut the Hearts with the Essentail Accents Carty.

• Patterned Paper-Silouette
• Cardstock-Twilight and Tulip (hearts)
• Paper Flowers-Just Blooms
• Brads-Twilight Cordoroy
• Stamp Set-Angel Sent
• Comfort Sentiment-Silouette My Stickease

Thanks for stopping by.  I'm trying out my new COPICS that I bought on-line, so hopefully I can get some cards done with them to post soon.

Have a great week!

Scrappy Mel

Baby Boy- Dragonfly Card

Hello again,
I haven't gotten much achieved in the lines of scrapping these days. My little guy had his tonsils and adenoids out last Friday so he has been a little clingy. He is healing up quite well though, but still needs to stay "quiet and non-active" for the rest of the week, so no Daycare. I had to let him outside today though because it was gorgeous outside, I needed to get the jungle mowed, and he was getting stir crazy.
 Last night while Jamie was home I snuck into my craft room and started playing around with my Gliter Ritz, Martha Stewart Glitter, Score Tape and my Cricut. I made quite a few cute little critters with the Create a Critter cartridge.
This morning as William was watching Jungle Book 2, I managed to put this card together.

The patterned paper I used was just scraps from my stash so I am unsure of origin. The cardstock for the flower was from CTMH- Heavenly Blue and Buttercup. The fauz stiching is with the same colour inks and stamped using the Simple Stitches SS. "Welcome to my world" and "Baby boy" were stamped from a stamp set purchased 3 years ago that I no longer have the packaging for, so I don't know it origin. I used the Accent Essentials cartridge for the flower and the Create-a-Critter cartridge for the dragonfly. I used Martha Stewart glitter "Turquoise" and Verdelite" to colour the dragonfly in. I first covered White Daisy CS with Score-tape, then keeping the top protective layer on, I ran it through the cricut to cut out the shapes. It worked awesome. I just turned the cricut pressure up and speed down.

I can't wait to try more-just need to find some time.

Hope you liked my card. I am entering it in the following challenges:

• Stamptacular Sunday Challenge- cute as a bug/ for baby
• Inspirational Card Sketches-

• Crafty Creations Challenges-It's a Stitch-up Real or Faux

That's all for now! Take Care, stay cool and Happy Scrappin'

Scrappy Mel

William's Father's Day card for DADDY!

Jamie has promised me he won't look at my blog until after Father's Day so I could post this card and enter it in a couple challenges.

William was quite excited to help me with this card for his daddy. He picked out all of the green scraps for me to use and helped me glue on the vines and "pop-up" the monkeys. The ZIG 2-Way glue pen is really kid friendly.

The CS I used for the vines and title all came from my scrap collection so they are an assortment of companies. The 2 shade of brown for the monkeys are CTMH chocolate and Bamboo. The ribbon threaded behind the title is also CTMH grosgrain Cocoa.

I used my cricut and my brand-new Create-a-Critter cartridge to make the vines, monkeys, and bananas.

I used the Plantin Schoolbook cartridge for the title. I love the "Tag" feature on the carty.

And that's pretty much all there was too it.

The challenges I am entering are as follows:

• 
  
  Fantabulous Cricut Challenge- create something for Dad!
• 
  
  Double Dutch Challenges-Father's Day card
• 
  
  Alphabet Challenge Blog- G is for Green

Hope you liked my card.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week with lots of Scrappin'

Srappy Mel

A "Precious" Wedding Card

Hey there!

Hope everyone is enjoying the sun! (If you are getting some) We have! I finally got the lawn mowed yesterday after work. After a week of rain it grew a foot, or at least the dandylions did anyways ={
So, I have finished up a couple projects, but only one I'll post tonight.
This card I have made for an upcoming wedding. I just love Precious Moments! And this little couple is sooo cute.

First off, I started with the weekly sketch from over at OCC Sketch Challenge Blog. I love starting with a sketch now! Gets the juices flowing faster I guess.

For this one I dug through my old scraps stash for the light mocha CS, the pink paper, and the yellow paper. The striped paper is the 1st paper I bought when I became a CTMH consultant. The "Sweet Pea" PP, now retired. The Always and Forever ribbon and the Precious Moments were purchased to make my wedding album almost 4 years ago.

For the bow I went totally out of my comfort zone and got a little crazy with an ordinary ribbon bow, some spray glue and Glitter Ritz. The lavender eyelets were from my stash and the thread was from CTMH Sassy Strands, sadly now Retired (I love these, but believe me, I stocked up!) I used CTMH pearls on the bottom.The scalloped circle, covered by the sassy strands, I cut with my cricut using the Accent Essentials carty.

The challenges I have entered my card in are:

• 
  
  OCC Sketch Challenge- this awesome sketch:

• 
  
  Sentimental Sundays- use your New or Neglected Stash
• 
  
   Practical Scrappers-eyelets
• 
  
  City Crafter- Something "Wedding"

Thanks again for stopping by! I hope to have a couple to post tomorrow! I'm heading to bed early-actually I started "The short 2nd life of Bree" something or other from the "Twilight" series and I want to finish it now!

Happy Scrappin! Scrappy Mel

Childhood Portrait Birthday Card

Hey Y'all,

I only got one card today, but that is o.k. I spent some quality time with William watching Alladin and playing dinosaurs and reading stories about Super Friends and CARS.

For the challenge over at Crafty Creations Challenges, we had to use our favorite stamp set. Well I have so many favorites, each one from their own category. But since I had to go with just one I chose Close To My Heart's Childhood Portrait. I just love these cute silhouettes.

 The patterned paper was from October Afternoon. I stamped the little boy with Juniper, Sunflower, Cranberry, Sweet Leaf and Moonstruck inks. All from CTMH. I used the Cricut to cut the Happy Birthday with the A Child's Year cartridge.

Now should I give this card to my 35 y.o brother or 3 y.o nephew? LOL!

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Scrappin'!

Scrappy Mel

Have a MOOvelous Birthday.

Hello again,

Well between 3 loads of laundry and some cleaning here and there, I have managed to get a card done while the boys are out and about.

This card turned out just like I had pictured when I started! And that never happens!

When I started I had 4 Challenges in mind which were:

• 
  
  Cricut Cardz Challenge-must include brads or eyelets and use any cricut cartridge
• 
  
  Fantabulous cricut challenge-me-monday-11-must include 3 flowers
• 
  
  City Crafter week-6-recipe-card- which needed to include 1 ribbon, 2 papers and 3 flowers
• 
  
  The Shabby Tea Room-week-11- needed to have a tea party theme, polka dots, or both

As usual, all products used are Close To My Heart, except the ribbon- just Walmart 49cent stuff again.

I started out with the polka dot paper from the Silouette PP and instantly thought of cows. Luckily I had borrowed my mom's Animal Kingdom Cricut cartridge because I do not have a cow stamp yet.

The tree and grass were stamped with the Childhood Portrait SS, and the flowers with the Cottage Floral SS. I then added the Chocolate Bigger Brads to the flowers, the ribbon bow to the tail, the greeting and voila! Hee hee, it makes me smile anyway and hope you smile too when you see it.

Thanks for stopping by! Happy Scrappin'

Scrappy Mel

Mojo Monday # 140

Hello,
Once again I have locked myself in my craft room to finish this card for the Mojo Monday Challenge. This was a fun card to make. Do you know how long it has been since I have used patterned paper other than Close To My Heart? A very long, long time.

The striped paper is from "Laundry Line" by MME. Everything else with the exception of the red brads (which are misc finds) are from Cloe To My Heart.The other patterned paper is a white piece I stamped using the Stamp Sets: Say It In Style, Intrinsic Backgrounds, Botanical Borders, and Star Struck. I used Crystal Blue, Sweet Leaf, Chocolate and Holiday Red ink pads. The cardstock is Cranberry. The Green "flag" tag is the reverse side of the striped paper.

The Strawberry is stamped using the New Fruitful Delight Stamp Set and then coloured in with Holiday Red and Cranberry markers. Then I added liquid glass to the strawberries, cut them out (once they dried over night) and then sponge squared them onto the same image stamped again.It was stamped in Clover Meadow and outlined in Olive.

 I used the Cricut and the Accent Essentials cart to get that circle accent with a brad in the middle. I also used 3 antiqued copper CTMH bitty brads. 

And I think that is it!

Can't wait to do more tomorrow! I think I have the house to myself for a few hours!

As always, thanks for visiting, and Happy Scrappin'

Scrappy Mel

H2H Challenge-Stamped Background

Hello again. I was busy Last night! I also did this card for H2H Challenge- Stamp your Own Background I love this technique and I have used it on quite a few of my Layouts.

For the Background Stamping I used the NEW stamp set A Little Buzz (just released in the Summer Catty) and Joy Forever. The B&T was from Magic Moments with Hollyhock and White Daisy CS.

I used the Cricut to make the flowers with the Accent Essentials Cart. and the "Hi!" was cut using Ashlynn's Alpha Cart.

Thanks for Buzzing Bye!

Happy Scrappin'!