Open House Highlights

Just a few highlights from my Open House & Ice Cream Social! The ladies had lots of products to check out and were introduced to several new items. It was a very "interactive" Open House! Guests were greeted by yours truly decked out with a mustache and they too were given their own 'staches. Pics were taken and then used directly on the "Create & Take" project. Even the kids got in on the action!

While the ladies started creating their page from the new how-to book Make It from Your Heart, I was busy editing and printing their photo's!

Just as they were finished with assembly, I had their photo ready to go on the page. The last detail was to add their own mustache they used in the picture to the layout. How fun is that?!

Here is one table filled with lots of new goodies and fabulous projects! I will show more details on each of the projects in upcoming posts.

In this area I displayed the new color families, National Stamping Month promotion, and the new Cricut Artiste Collection. All of the cards I pinned up use the new stamps in both of these collections. {close-ups of each to come}

I cut strips of cardstock and adhered them to clothespins. I then strung them on a 12x12 cork board Just a fun way to display the new colors!

I have so much more to share with you from this fun event, be sure to come visit again!

With Sympathy

I have been playing with several new products in preparation for my Open House event this weekend. One of the new stamps I purchased fits perfectly with this week's Heart 2 Heart challenge. Sympathy cards are not my favorite, but from time to time are needed for rare situations. For the H2H challenge to create a sympathy card I have used the new Words of Comfort stamp set. I also incorporated the new Love Blooms stamp where I got to play with some of our new Alcohol Markers.

This first card uses the Flirty papers and the roses were colored in with markers. I then highlighted them with the new pink Glitz Glitter Gel. It's a vibrant, bright card designed to lift the spirit of the recipient!

This card uses the same rose, but in lighter more subtle colors. I used the Clementine papers with some neutral burlap ribbon and cream pearls. I chose to use the stamps in soft colors to fill in the outline of the rose. I lightly blended the colors together with a blending pen. Simply elegant.

Open House Sneak Peek!

It's almost here! My Open House, Ice Cream Social and Idea Book Reveal! So many fabulous new products! Several creative projects to share! I just thought you might like a little sneak peek!

Open House and Idea Book Reveal

This coming Saturday is my Open House, Ice Cream Social and Idea Book Reveal!! Oh Yeah! It's gonna be a big day, lots of surprises in store! I have been crafting up a storm in my room to prepare. Here is a pic for my event, check it out!

It's a quirky theme as you can see. Ladies are invited to come check out my "Stache" of goodies from the new Autumn/Winter Idea Book. I've also been playing with the new Cricut Artiste Cartridge and can't wait to show it off! I "Mustache" you a question? Do you love the current trend of mustaches as much as I do?

I'm also loving these cupcake wrappers that are on the new cartridge. The can be cut to any size you desire, so you can make standard or mini cupcakes/muffins. Look at all the fancy variations~

This is merely a glimpse of what I will have on display, stay tuned!

More Scraps & Mojo

While I still had my bag of scraps out from the Heart 2 Heart challenge, I decided to give the circle card a try over on Mojo Monday. I completed the Mojo sketch earlier this week with the square design here.

How cute is that little card? I've used that special National Stamping Month stamp again called It's Your Day! Two D-size MyAcrylix stamps for only $5, wow! It's super cute and very versatile. It's coming August 15th, don't miss this one!!

"Scraps" Challenge!

Over on Heart 2 Heart this week is a challenge to use up your "scraps". What a great challenge seeing how my scraps bag is overflowing. The only item that is not a scrap was the card base. Everything else was pulled from my stuffed bag, check it out~

Yikes! Please tell me that you all have this same issue? I pulled some squares from some leftover Dotty for You kit and some Honey paper from an even older paper kit. I also had some Grey Wool cardstock that was replaced with the new Slate color. I used a new stamp set to add texture to the piece of Grey Wool. This brand new double stamp will be available August 15th in honor of National Stamping Month. The bicycle and sentiment are also on this stamp.

My card pattern comes from the new how-to book Make It from Your Heart, available to purchase starting today!

Celebrate Clementine Mojo

Today I'm giving you a sneak peek at one of the new paper collections called Clementine. I must admit that this paper was the first to be added on my "must have" list from the Autumn/Winter Idea Book. I created this square card for the Mojo Monday sketch this week. I love these Kraft cards, they are so versatile. Instead of having the scallop flap on the outside, I've re-purposed it to hold a gift card and bookmark on the inside. The sketch is sort of "convertible", I thought it turned out pretty cool, what do you think?

The front sentiment band slides off the card so you can open it to reveal the gift inside.

The Clementine papers are so pretty and the Cottage flower Assortment is the perfect compliment. What is your favorite paper pack in the new book so far?

Burgers and Ice Cream

Mixing some old papers with some brand new ones for this layout today! Do you have those old familiar places that you enjoy visiting time and time again while on vacation? We certainly do, so I wanted to really capture that in my scrapbook this year.

I pulled out some older Typeset papers and popped in some new yellow {creme brulee} papers from the Clementine paper pack. It was the perfect combination for my traditional eateries layout!

The layout design came from the new how-to book Make It from Your Heart. If you look closely you can see a new stamp image from one of the MyAcrylix stamps in the Cricut Artiste Collection.

Got Mojo?

Ever feel like you lost your crafting mojo? Luckily I always rediscover my mojo with the release of a new Idea Book. I have been crafting like crazy in my room, but wanted to take some time for a challenge and share with you here on my blog. Today I am using the sketch over on Mojo Monday this week along with some new papers and stamps from the Autumn/Winter Idea Book. Check it out.

The cream and pink papers are from the older Lucy paper pack, but the black and cream striped paper are from the new Halloween themed paper kit called Moonlight.

The award ribbon was stamped with one of the My Acrylix stamps that is included in the Cricut Artiste Collection. You can cut the shapes for the award circles as well as the ribbon pennants.
If you look closely in the photo you will see the one I used on the bottom right.

Water Fun {with} Heart 2 Heart

The challenge this week at Heart 2 Heart is to create a project about Water Fun in the Summer time!

My family just recently spent 2 weeks having fun in the water and mountains of Lake Tahoe. My brother treated us to a couple of days boating and relaxing on the beach. His boat has always been in our family. He and I have many fond memories from our childhood and now our children are creating great experiences on it too! How cool is that!

*New Product Alert* I've created a fun banner with some pennants and strung them on a line of brand new black&white grosgrain ribbon! I folded it in half and then tied it all together with some twine.

My layout today is from a brand new how-to book featured in the Autumn/Winter 2012 Idea Book. It's called Make It from Your Heart Volume 1. In the past, how-to books were either all scrapbooking or all cards. This book however contains 16 two-page layouts, two single-page patterns and 12 card patterns. The artwork is gorgeous with several samplings of variations for many of the designs. The patterns also coordinate with the current and up-coming Workshop on the Go kits. The best part...it's only $7.95! Oh yes, you'll be seeing many of these patterns right here on my Blog!

{sneak peek inside the book}

Hip Hip Hooray

I'm playing along with two more of my favorite challenges today. The first is a fabulous sketch at Mojo Monday and the other is a very cool photo on Inspired By!

The longer pennants in the sketch worked perfectly to represent the oars in the inspiration photo. I was also inspired by the distressed colors and just had to include that number 3 in there. Although the irresistible number three chipboard is a rectangular shape, the burst of rays around it gives the illusion of a circular element.

Ahhh! My card, this sketch and the photo all make me really happy! : )

H2H Sorbet Sketch

Now that the July Parade of Pages is over, it's time to play along again with my favorite challenges. It's a sketch challenge on Heart 2 Heart blog this week. The pattern is fairly clean and straight forward allowing room for lots of creativity and embellishing. I've pulled the lovely Sorbet cardstock and matching B&T paper for this card. It has nuetral colors of Colonial White and Desert Sand with just a pop of Sky blue. {all of these colors will remain in the new Idea Book!} Take a look~

Here is the sketch~

As mentioned above, the colors on my challenge card will all still be available in the new Autumn/Winter Idea Book. Unfortunately many other colors are being retired. Please take a look at the list below and get the ones you want before they're gone!

Grey Wool
Grey Flannel
Vanilla Cream
Parchment
Brown Bag
Baby Pink
Taffy
Sunkiss Yellow
Key Lime
Heavenly Blue
Lilac Mist
Amethyst
Holiday Red
Sunflower
Sunny Yellow
Dutch Blue
Moonstruck
Vineyard Berry
Tulip
Garden Green
Spring Iris
Petal
Garnet
Pansy Purple



Parade of Pages {End with Family}

You've reached the end of the parade! I hope you enjoyed my parade of pages and have found some inspiration. I scrapbook because my family is the most important thing to me in my life and I want to preserve all our memories. I felt it would be most appropriate to share these final pages that focuses on that.

Parade of Pages {Winter Wonderland}

You can never have enough Christmas pages in your albums! This time I am using the cool Wonderland papers! I really let the gorgeous snowflake papers be the star and did just a little bit of stamping and embellishing.

Would you like to get a head start on your Christmas scrapbook pages too? Remember this month is The Perfect Pair promotion. If you place an order online of $75 July 30-31st,  you can choose either the Believe papers with the Holiday Pockets or the Wonderland paper with the Wonderland MyStickease Assortment for free. For more details and to place your order click here.