Scrapbooking

Here is my creation for the Color Dare #43! Fun primary colors of Outdoor Denim, Cranberry and Honey make for a bright and cheery look!The shapes were cut with our Cricut Artiste cartridge which gives some nice detail to the overall look. The little flower is mounted on a Pin Clip tied with some Outdoor Denim Chevron Ribbon and accented with a blue sparkle. Since the Bee layer has 3D Foam underneath I just stuck the pin into the foam! Look closely and you can see a bit of glare on the wings. That's because I used Liquid Glass on the wings! A bit of sanding on the background and distressing the edges of the layers all add up to give lots of visual detail to the overall design!All products are Close To My Heart:Perfect Fit-Frames 2Pun FunCardstock, Inks & Markers: Outdoor Denim, Honey, CranberryCricut ArtisteOutdoor Denim Chevron RibbonTrinkets Wooden ShapesPin ClipsSparkles: Red and Blue3D Foam TapeLiquid GlassSanding KitEdge DistresserSpongeThanks for stopping by!Happy Stamping!Michelle

My husband is a teacher and came home this week with a bunch of requests for teachers who are retiring. I always ask about their hobbies and he said his coworker Sharon is really looking forward to traveling. Well thanks to SVG Cuts I had the perfect project to make for her!This little suitcase is from the latest SVG Cuts Kit ~ Summer Holiday SVG Kit.It was really easy to put together and makes a perfect little gift holder. I used the Congrats from Five Minute Cards SVG Kit. I added some stitching and attached the luggage tag with Trendy Twine.I also make some quick Thank You Cards for the Scout leaders. This time of the year I make alot of Thank you cards and this one is so easy and fun. It is from SVG Cuts ~ Five Minute Cards SVG Kit. I am loving the Authentique Papers - it is from the Carefree Line. I accented with some Trendy Twine and used by Epiphany Craft tool.Thanks for stopping by and have a great week.

I am feeling rather pleased with myself with this card! I've magically managed to use up some really strange offcuts - strange in the sense that they were odd shapes to use! I've used offcuts from a Christmas card I made some months ago with the Santa Baby Wordbook and Paper pack downloads from Funky Hand.I've used the strip offcuts from the wordbook as the main background and then the spotty ones are the papers. The grass was cut with a Marianne Creatables die - it is supposed to be icicles but I use it for grass all the time!The image is from From The Heart stamps - its part of the monthly progressive challenge - and I've coloured it with Promarkers plus watercolour pencils for the background.I found the flowers and brad in my stash (they were lying on the table!) and I handwrote the sentiment.It's been an exciting day today - needless to say I've been out of the house for 12 hours karting and yes, another trophy was won by Samuel!I'd like to enter the following challenges:Cards In Envy: Sketch followedI Heart Sketches: Monthly challengeDream Valley Challenges: Animals Robyns Fetish: 4 Legged FriendsImage: From The Heart Stamps, coloured with PromarkersPapers: Santa Baby downloads from Funky HandDies: Marianne CreatablesSentiment: Handwritten Everything else: My Stash

Hi Everyone! Just wanted to post these Zoo Cupcake toppers I made last year for a baby shower.I couldn't post them before because they were in the Cricut Magazine Birthday Edition 2012 I used Cricut cartridges Create a Critter, Life's a Party, Lite Bloom, Lite Sugar and Spice.also used Peachy Keen Face Stamps and Trendy Twine ~ ? For full instructions check out the magazine for step by step instructions

So happy to have last week's photos done for my Project Life album... now it is onto my real project life - planting, cleaning, driving...For this week I actually used my Acorn Avenue collection by Crate Paper. Although it is a fall themed pack, I thought it worked well for the photos this week. I also used some Technique Tuesday Stamps, SRM Stickers, Silhouette cuts and some wood veener by Freckled Fawn and Studio Calico.

Have you picked up the latest issue of Country Living? In this June issue, I have a fun, outdoor lounger to share. The fabric used, Sunbrella Steeplechase Malibu, was really nice to work with, and you gotta love woven stripes for the sake of cutting and sewing precision. It is a bit pricy, but for outdoor use, this type of fabric is essential. Follow the directions on page 57 to make these loungers for indoor use as well with any other fabric- perfect for TV watching or reading. The inserts are standard bed pillows, around $4 each at your local Target. The pillows easily insert and remove from the back to allow for washing of the cover. My favorite feature in the June 2013 issue of Country Living is my friend, and former CL Editor’s beautiful Kentucky wedding. Jourdan Crouch Fairchild took the handmade wedding to a spectacular new level. You can find images and projects from Jourdan and Andrew’s wedding at CountryLiving.com. A favor request… Do you remember these fun little lifesaver napkin rings? This is a craft I shared in the Country Living July/August 2011 issue. I would sincerely appreciate your time in re-Pinning this project over on Country Living’s Pinterest Board for favorite craft demo requests at the Country Living Fair in New York. Thank you!!

Here we go with the first of Ellen's amazing clusters from the Rose Garden collection. Download here. Love this!

Happy Shopping! Joanns also has a lot of their papercrafting at 50% off - see stores for details! Also at Hobby Lobby Want to see more of my projects? Click HERE to see my gallery! Subscribe to Obsessed with Scrapbooking to learn more about ways to use the Cricut in your scrapbooking!

Thanks everyone for the wonderful feedback for my Pretty Patterns 2 video, I'm so glad you are all finding them so helpful! (It sold out yesterday, but Gina will be ordering more! You can also create similar effects with the stamps in Pretty Patterns)   Today's short video shows how I took a project from my first book A Year of Flowers, and updated the card with just a few changes using my new A Year of Flowers 2 set, for an entirely different look. I also share the watercolor Copic coloring look I did in my first two A Year of Flowers 2 videos (which can find on myYoutube channel), this time with a different flower from the set.  Please enjoy! A Year of Flowers 2 stamps (there are a few left in stock now, but Gina will be reordering)   A Year of Flowers book

Staying on top of my Project Life album has been a bit of a struggle for me, but I'm still hanging in there, if even by the teeniest thread. It's a vicious cycle : catch up, fall behind, catch up again, promise myself not to fall behind ever again, fall behind, catch up, repeat cycle.   I want to stay on top of this so badly though. I really do.  It's going to be so, so good when 2014 starts and I have 52 weeks worth of photos and journaling to look back on in my album.  Keep on going Mel, just keep on going. I thought I'd share my pages from week 7 to 11 and pop back tomorrow if you'd like to see week 12 through to 17.  Tonight I'm going to try my best and finish weeks 18, 19 and 20.  Last year I only made it up 18, so I'm pretty happy to be passing that milestone!! Most of these weeks I was naughty and forgot to take many photos or keep a journaling record, but I find a single page is great for these times. I set up a Project Life pinterest board a couple of months ago and really want to start using it more to gather ideas around the net.  There are some great printables out there!  I'm also excited to be hooking up with the lovely My Poppet and we'll be bringing you a Project Life treat very soon, so keep your eye out for that.