Scrapbook Pal Valentine's Hop!

Welcome to the Scrapbook Pal's Valentine Hop! Scrapbook Pal is a fabulous online store offering everything from Cricut cartridges to ink and they have super fast shipping and offer FREE shipping on orders over $25, a great deal hard to come by anymore! For your chance to win a Cricut cartridge of your choice be sure to leave me a comment as well as hop to all the DT members blogs leaving a comment at each stop and sign up to be a Follower of Scrapbook Pal to be entered to win.

Moving into my new home I have been very inspired to create home decor, so for my project I have another wall hanging! This time it is love themed and perfect for displaying at Valentine's. The backing for my hanging was found when we moved in up in the attic. It had a super old faded picture on it that peeled right off and gave me the perfect canvas for my project. Here's the details of how I made it.

Using the Cindy Loo cartridge, cut Tree1 at 5 1/4" with and without the shift feature.

*Emboss the tree trunk using your Cuttlebug and the Damask folder.

*For the sentiments Love and Hope, use the Home Decor cartridge and cut with the shadow feature on, cut Hope at 1 1/2" and love at 1 3/4".

*For the Faith sentiment use the Home Accents cartridge and cut at 1".

*For all the sweet little hearts and dots hanging on the tree, using the Cindy Loo cartridge cut the layer feature on filigre1 with you REAL DIAL SIZE ON. at 1/2" in desired colors.

*Emboss hearts with Swiss Dots embossing folder.

*Adhere everything in place and finish with a punched border, and some shine on the embossed hearts using the Sakura Clear Star pen. Hang and enjoy!

Now on to the see the fabulous projects by the rest of the DT, and be sure to leave a comment at each stop and back at the Scrapbook Pal blog for your chance to win your choice of Cricut cartridge! Thanks for hopping by:)

Tomi Ann (http://tomiannie.blogspot.com/ )

Tammy (http://theeventqueen.blogspot.com/ )
Amy (http://www.scrappingmommy.com/ )
Cheryl (http://sweetdesignsbycheryl.blogspot.com/ )
Jamie (http://jamielanedesigns.blogspot.com/ )
Crystal (http://crystalscraftycreations.blogspot.com/ )
Leah (http://paperblossoms.blogspot.com/ ) *you are here*
ScrapbookPal (http://scrapbookpal.blogspot.com/ )

Just for you

Happy Wednesday:) Hope you are having a good week. Mine has been going well, I just started homeschooling my 4 year old last week and our second week of school is going great:) My card today uses the current color challenge on SCS and a new digi from Heart Song Designs called Lovely Cupcake. I've loaded lots of new images so go peek if you haven't. Fun things coming the end of this week, on the 28th is a Heart Hop over on the Crafter's Digital Art Center where you could grab as many as 10 free digis for hopping along. Be sure to find the Heart Song Designs group and join us. Also on the 28th, here on my blog starts a weekend hop for Scrapbook Pal where you could win a Cricut cartridge of your choice! See you soon...

TT#33- Distressing

This week's Tuesday Throwdown is to use distressing on your project. I have a little confession to make...while I was happily making this card I finished it and was about to take the picture and looked up at what the challenge was and realized I did no distressing at all! So out came my little chalk eye creamy brown ink and I added some ink distressing, but you can't see it very well can you? Oh well...play along with us this week to have a chance at winning a great prize from one of our generous sponsors. Thanks for stopping by:)

Love You Lots!

This is my mom's Valentine card:) She doesn't check blogs so I'm safe posting it. I used some lovely Oopsie Daisy paper from Imaginisce for a mat for my spray of hydrangea flowers from Prima. I embossed the background with the Damask embossing folder, probably one of my very favorite folders. I finished it off with an inked doily, a little tag for my sentiment, a felt heart and a punched butterfly. Be sure to stop by the Your Memories Here store to see what's new! Enjoy your day:)

Laundry Wall Hanging

The Country Life cartridge available from Scrapbook Pal for a great price, is just full of fun and sweet images. I just recently moved into my new home and wanted to make a wall hanging for my laundry room. This cartridge was perfect! I found a wall hanging at a local thrift store that I could alter and a few Cricut cuts later I had myself a perfect addition to my laundry room:) Here's how I made it:

*Using the Country Life cartrige cut the laundry cut on page 59 at 5".

*Cut layer 2 with the shift on at 5"

*For the sentiment cut the phrase option at 2 3/4"

*To layer colors for the clothing cut layer 1 and layer 2 at 5" in desired colors.

*For the rest of the clothing cut laundry with shift on at 5".

*For the flowers cut the layer 1 wldflwrs with the REAL DIAL SIZE ON. at 2".

*Using the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge cut leaf 4 at 1" and 1 1/4" four times.

*Emboss clothes with Swiss Dots and Victoria Cuttlebug embossing folders.

*With a white signo pen add faux stitching around the border.

*Lightly ink the sentiment, "Fresh and Lovely" with Creamy Brown fluid chalk ink.

Assemble the hanging and enjoy your addition to your laundry room!

A Pair Of Love Birds

A simple card using the Love Birds image. I colored it with Copics and added an embossed layer along with some seam binding and an embellished bow. I love to use the silk hydrangea flowers you can find at Michaels or other craft stores. Please be sure to stop by the Heart Song Designs store if you haven't lately, I keep adding images! Thank you so much...and don't forget you still have lots of time to get a DT application in! Hugs....

TT#31- Valentine

Can you believe Valentine's Day is less than a month away?! That's the challenge this week over at Tuesday Throwdown, create a Valentine themed project. For my card I stamped some large polka dots in white craft ink onto my pink background and then layered a punched border, some lace and embossed mat behind my image panel. My image is from Heart Song Designs called Be Mine Bears. I colored the cute couple in Copics and did some piercing to the mat. Hop on over to the Tuesday Throwdown blog and join us, we always have a great sponsor! Thanks for dropping by:)

Great Grandma LO

Happy Monday! My LO today uses lots of Prima goodies, the flowers, lace trim and trimmed out butterflies from the Wings stamp set. The paper is from Imaginisce, Oopsie Daisy and for a few finishing touches I used a few Dew Drops. All supplies can be found over at Your Memories Here.I hope you are having a great start to your week! Thanks for dropping by:)

Little One

For those of you that know me I make a lot of baby cards, so I thought it only fitting to start off with one of my baby images, especially as any purchase you make will go toward bringing my son that we are adopting from Ethiopia home:) For my card I used the Birdie Delivery image, colored with Copics. I die cut the flower, layered it and added some Star Dust Stickles. I hope you'll go check out the Heart Song Designs store, I'm adding new digis everyday, and if you haven't applied for the DT why not give it a shot? Hugs....

TT#31- Background Stamping

Well, I'm late getting my post up for this week's Tuesday Throwdown, but, better late then never, right?! :) This week we have a fabulous sponsor, Mark's Finest Papers and a fun challenge, background stamping. For my card I stamped swirls on the bottom layer and polka dots on the top. I think this can pass for a more masculine card, which is always a good thing to have in your stash. Be sure to hop on over to join us this week, there is a super cute stamp set up for grabs. Hugs...

DT CALL! Heart Song Designs

I have some exciting news to annouce today. After a wonderful 15 months of working with Sweet 'n Sassy stamps I am going out on my own with my digi images. My company name is Heart Song Designs and I am planning to have my grand opening Feb. 1st. My initial hope is that whatever sales come in will help my husband and I bring home our baby from Ethiopia, it is such a costly process and we still have a long way to go. This is all happening fairly quickly and I am on the search for my first DT. I would LOVE it if you would apply! Thanks so much for your support.

Closing date of call: January 28th, 2011

Heart Song Designs is a brand new digital stamp company in search of it's very first DT! If you love working with digis and love to color this may be the team for you. I am looking for 7 talented stampers to join me in promoting my digis by being an active design team member.

Discription/Requirements:
If chosen, your term will be 3 months, with a possiblity of extention. You must have an active personal blog that you post to at least 3 times per week.Personal blog posts using Heart Song Digis is required at least once a week as well as participating in SplitCoastStampers challenges once a week and uploading to the gallery. Posts to the Heart Song Inspirations blog is also required, but you may use your weekly personal blog post for this. All posts must include a live link to the Heart Songs Designs store blog.

Benefits:
As a Heart Song DT member you will recieve all newly released digis as well as your choice of previously released digis.

To Apply:
To apply for the Heart Song Designs DT please send your full name, state or country you live in, a short bio of yourself, why you'd like to be on the team and a link to your blog and any online galleries to Leah Cornelius at heartsongdigis@gmail.com If you are chosen you will be contacted by me inviting you to join the team by Sunday, January 30th.

Site link: Heart Song Designs

Gingerbread Cookies

This was our third year of our tradition of baking gingerbread cookies before Christmas. The kids love it and we surely get our fill of gingerbread for the year! I used some fun Christmas paper, Prima lace trim and rosebuds and I finally tried out the trendy banner look! I cut the banner using Country Life cartridge on my Cricut. It really is fun to scrap annual traditon photos as you can really see the change each year in the kids. Be sure to stop by Your Memories Here to check out what's new, thanks so much for stopping by!

Pretty Pitcher

This month I was so excited to get the Country Life cartridge. It is chock full of super adorable images and it even has a banner cut that is wonderful! For my card I just had to play with this pretty pitcher and I love how it came out. Here's how I made my card.

*Using the Country Life cartridge cut the pitcher at 3" in green cardstock first.

*Cut the pitcher again with the shift on in pink at 3".

*Cut the layers for the flowers and pitcher bands. Adhere all together.

*Emboss the mat with the coordinating Cuttlebug folders, Preserves.

*Ink all edges of paper with Cat's Eye Fluid Chalk ink in Creamy Brown.

*With Xmas Red Stickles add a center to each of the flowers.

*Finish with ribbon and tag.

If you haven't checked out Scrapbook Pal lately you should! They have fabulous prices and free shipping with an order of only $25! Hugs....

TT30- Embossing

We're back to our Tuesday Throwdown challenges! This week we have a great sponsor called Robyn's Fetish and the challenge is to use embossing. I chose to do some dry embossing. I colored my image with Copics and used some little flowers I've had for ages. Be sure to stop by the blog and enter for your chance to win a great prize. Thanks so much for stopping by!

Love you more each day....

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year's! I am trying to get back into my normal routine with family and crafting, but it has been a bit challenging! So, to start off the New Year I decided to ease into it a bit by creating a quick tag that could be used for the fast approaching Valentine's holiday. I used the gorgeous frame stamp from the Prima Wings stamp set, trimmed it out and then used some SEI Love Bird rubons and embellished it with some Prima ribbon and flowers and of course a Dew Drop. You can find all these fabulous supplies plus lots more over the Your Memories Here store. I hope you are having a wonderful Monday and thanks so much for dropping by!