5th March 2012 Challenge

I tried to come up with a way to tie this challenge into a March Madness theme. I decided to make it an embellishment madness challenge. I would like for you to use 20 or more of the same type of embellishments on your project. You could use brads, flowers, buttons, die cuts, stickers... Whatever you choose! 

On my example, I used more than 30 flowers on the roof of my paper birdhouse. I also used more than 20 stickers. It was a great way to use a lot of the amazing stickers that came in the Celebrate Life kit.

Birthday Celebration

Hi everyone! It's Heather, and I have three different birthday cards to share today. We celebrated Brandon and Jordan's birthday yesterday so it's a good thing that I had quite a few scraps leftover from my Celebrate Life kit and add on. I used those scraps to create these cards.

I love how versatile the kit was this month. I was able to make feminine and masculine cards out of the same paper by changing the embellishments a bit. I totally love when that happens. The cupcake patterned paper was my favorite in the kit. So cute!

This card is a little more grown up and elegant. I think my Mom will be receiving it when her birthday rolls around. I used the Perfect Pearls to add a little bit of shimmer to the big flower. They're so easy to use.

I think this card could be used for a boy or a girl! I added a little bit of ribbon from my stash and I popped the tag with foam dots. I loved the sentiment on the tag. It's a really great view to have about life.

Have you all seen the sneak peeks for next month?! I am so excited to get my hands mine. They both look gorgeous. (As always!) 

Hello Tat

Good morning Saturday!

Pinky here to share another layout using the Celebrate Life kit for March.

I thought it would be fun to scrapbook the memory of my tattoo, and

the artsy feel of the Authentique paper was perfect for this.

For me this kit was very versatile, WAY more than just birthdays!

Hope you have enjoyed my samples, happy Saturday my friends.

Pinky-Scraptastic Club Design Team

Fantastic Four

Hi everyone! It's Monday and I'm back to share more scrappy inspiration with you. I've used most of my Celebrate Life kit so I have had to look for ways to use my scraps. I really wanted to use the kit with these photos of my son because the colors worked so well together. I searched the internet for inspiration and when I came across Susan Stringfellow's sketch #66, I knew it would be perfect.

I used the little word stickers from the kit to do a tiny bit of journaling. I also used a lot of Stickles to dress up the sticker embellishments from this kit. The cake on the journaling spot has Rock Candy Stickles on it, and the star circle is outlined in Black Diamond Stickles. The little button brad came from my stash.

This is the first time I've ever made a rosette successfully! I've tried before, but they kept popping up. Apparently the secret is in using the right glue. I had to search for a while to find my hot glue gun, but once I did it all came together. I topped the rosette with a sticker and more Stickles.

I added a simple title and placed the pinwheel next to it to add interest because it felt a little too plain. I really loved the sparkly Thickers that came in the add on!  

That's all for me today! I hope that you all have a wonderfully scrappy week.

Heather

Celebrate Cards!

It's that time of year again....who am I kidding?

With 3 boys it is always that time of year!

There are always birthday's in our house, and the

Celebrate Life March Kit was perfect for me to catch up on card making.

I love having a stash of cards for those impromptu party invitations!

Pinky- Scraptastic Club DT

a few projects

TGIF my Scraptastic friends!

This week has flown by...I can't believe it's Friday already. Hubs has been gone all week for work (Napa)...must be nice. My week started off with Bailey having lice...totally has grossed me out. I don't like bugs of any kind. So that's been my week, how has your week been?

Today I'm sharing a couple of projects that I finished up over the weekend. 

First up is The Twister Champ

I used the Celebrate Life Kit and Add-On for this layout...the pictures from a sleepover that we had weeks ago were perfect for this kit! I hand cut all of the banners on the bottom and then matted them with white cardstock so they stood out better on the black cardstock. I painted the white thickers that were in the add-on with a paint dauber from a past kit...the white just wasn't working for me. 

Next up is a layout that I made using the Be Amazing Kit and Add-On.

Be Amazing

To start, I splattered my kraft cardstock with Miss Mary Mack Sprinkler, Atmosphere Mister Huey and White Mister Huey. I matted my patterned papers with the teal cardstock from the kit. And I totally stole Melanie's idea of tearing the chipboard pieces apart from the chipboard sheet in the add-on...I really like all of those pieces much better once they weren't so thick. Oh, and the little kraft butterfly stickers...I painted the edges of the smaller butterfly with a teal paint dauber from a past kit and then layered them...love how they turned out.

And last up is a little Birthday card that I made with the Celebrate Life Kit

Happy Birthday

I hand cut the banners and matted them on black cardstock and then white cardstock. I then punched some holes in the top so I could run my twine through them, made some bows and voila....a cute little birthday card.

I'm hoping to spend a little time in my scraproom this weekend...fingers crossed!

I will have the first sneaks of the April Kits next weekend...I'm just waiting on my last box of scrappy goodies. I hope that you all have a fabulous weekend!

Banner Challenge- March Madness!

Good morning,

with March Madness all around and you know that means banners,

pennants and GO TEAM GO all around.

You can see 2 of my projects from the

Celebrate Life Kit this month had banners on them.

So for this challenge you need to have a BANNER on your project

& just for fun use STAPLES, simply because I love staples.

You have until April 4th at midnight to submit all of your entries for the March Challenges.

And this month's prize will be a $20.00 GC to the Scraptastic Club shop.

Birthday Surprise!

Happy Monday everyone! It's Heather, and I'm back to share another birthday themed page. I have three kids and I rarely lack birthday photos to scrap. Sometimes it's really hard to get excited about scrapping another birthday layout, but the Celebrate Life kit certainly inspired me this month. I designed this page to work around the super adorable chevron patterned pocket. I really wanted to use it behind a photo with just the top peeking out.

Here's a closer view of the pocket. You can see that I used some of the chalkboard mist from the add on, and I used a bunch of layers to add interest. I also did some fussy cutting to tuck more details behind the photo, and I layered several stickers on top of the photo as well.

Here's a close up view of the title work. I really loved the font on the red alphabet stickers. There's also a tiny bit of glimmer mist near the title. The "surprise" sentiment came from the big sticker element sheet.

Now do you see why I love this kit? It's adorable and it's also really huge. So far I've made two layouts, two cards, and an altered project. I probably have enough left over to make another page too. I guess I'd better get scrapping! Have a great day everybody. 

Celebrate Life Layout

Hello Scraptastic Club friends,

Pinky here with a layout today.

The March Celebrate Life kit was completely inspiring.

From the tags to the twine I fell in love!

Perfect for my artistic side, and those inner thought layouts.

Pinky- Scraptastic Club DT

she's an all star...

Good morning my Scraptastic friends and Happy Hump Day!

It's Jessica here and today I'm going to share my first 8.5 X 11 layout (actually this might be my second try at this size) that I made using the Celebrate Life Kit and Add-On.

 

So here's my layout...

 

 

I really love the bright colors from these papers and I thought they were perfect for my picture of Bailey with her ribbon from cheerleading (she was chosen to get the ribbon on the very first practice for outstanding effort). I used the washi tape from the kit to make my frame for the picture (I'm now in love with washi tape, must have more) and I used the liquid pearls (the free goody in the kit) to paint my thickers and to add some "pearls" to my flags (liquid pearls is also one of my new favs, and I'd like to have one of every color)

when I showed Bailey the finished layout, she asked my why I put the little red person on there

and my response was "because it looks like the little person is doing a cheerleading jump"

She then just looked at me sideways...I don't think that she bought my reason. Oh well, I love those little people and I think they're stinkin' cute. What do you think? A cheerleading jump?

 

I love the versatility of the kit...it doesn't have to be used for birthdays. It's perfect for other pages as well.

 

That's all for me today. I hope that I inspired you.

Have a great day!

Let's Celebrate!

Happy Monday everyone! It's Heather, and I'm back to share my latest project. This month, every single one of my Scraptastic Club projects will have die cuts on them. I recently discovered dust on the top of my Cricut Expression and I was mortified. That's why you see the big, layered octagon used as a background. I decided to break my hexagon obsession for a while.

I've wanted to use pinwheels as an embellishment on one of my pages forever. The pinwheel journaling sticker from the Celebrate Life kit inspired me to give it a try. I googled pinwheel tutorials and they have tons of videos available on YouTube. It's easier than you think!

I do want to add one little tip that I discovered. My pinwheels looked really flat and unrealistic at first. My solution was to push a pencil into the curve of each arm so I could gently shape the curve around the barrel of the pencil. They were much more dimensional and pretty after that!  

 Last but not least, I took a detailed photo of the title work. I layered two of the flower stickers on top of one another, then I placed the title over that. The corner of the octagon looked really plain after all of the fancy title work, so I stuck a tiny star sticker under the edge. 

I hope everyone has a wonderfully scrappy week!

March Kit Reveals.....

Good morning my Scraptastic friends!

TGIF...I'm so ready for this weekend, tomorrow is Bailey's birthday. We had a sleep over party planned, but because she's been sick, we had to move it to next weekend. But she's still excited for tomorrow!!!

Anyhoo...I'm super excited to share the March Kits with you. These kits will be available for purchase on March 1st.

Be Amazing Kit

Be Amazing Add-On

Celebrate Life Kit

Celebrate Life Add-On

I can't wait to dig into these sometime this weekend :)

I hope that you all have a wonderful day and a great weekend!