Parade of Pages {Scatter Sunshine}

How about some more splendor & sunshine on this parade!  These pages are so much fun! They are colorful and have space for several photo's. The Stickease makes it easy to add embellishments and even a spot for journaling!



Parade of Pages

It's July folks, we are already half way through this year...seriously?! The 4th of July celebrations are just around the corner. That makes me think of BBQ's, Apple pie, Fireworks and Parades!
When my kids were younger, we lived in a great little community where all the children were around the same age. Every fourth of July we'd have a big neighborhood celebration. One of my favorite memories was the Bike Parade. All the kids would decorate their bicycles or trikes with ribbons, streamers, balloons and flags. They would then ride all together around the block in a parade!

My kiddo's are older now, so no more bike parades. Thankfully I have scrapbook pages to remind me of those precious memories. Hey, that gives me an idea...This July I'll have a Parade of Pages!

I've been super busy creating pages for upcoming events. I've been able to get out some older papers that have not seen the light of day and put them to use. Better to use them up now and make room for the new Close To My Heart products coming soon!!

Let's begin with some great "Summer" pages! This layout uses up some older Splendor paper and Stickease. Splendor was one of my favorite paper packs. I wanted so badly to hoard every last piece of it! Now they will be a great backdrop to some fun Summer Photo's.

Come back each day this month to see what pages I add to the Parade. Enjoy!

RCC6 "Get Sketchy"

It's a sketch challenge this week on Ribbon Carousel Challenges Blog. Go to the blog for all the details and to see what the other talented designers created!

My card uses the Splendor papers and My Stickease from Close To My Heart. There is hardly any stamping, only the "Happy Birthday" title, the Stickease does all the rest of the work for me! How awesome is that? I used some Heavenly Blue ribbon {CTMH} and orange twine {The Twinery} as my "spool" items.

Splendor Recipe Box

Next month I am hosting a workshop to create this recipe box. Close To My Heart introduced the box in the summer Idea Book and instantly I knew this would be a fabulous project. My customers and friends know that I usually have something yummy to eat when they come over for a class. Now they can create this super cute box to file those recipes of toffee or frog eye salad!

I ultimately chose the splendor papers for my box because the greens and oranges match my kitchen, but also because I absolutely love this paper pack. All the products I used are CTMH except that big fat orange ribbon. {oh, how I wish we sold more ribbon}

Check out the H2H blog for more fabulous ideas with a "recipe" theme!

Summer Wishes in a Jar

~ Heart 2 Heart ABC {anything but a card} Challenge ~

I enjoy making cards and scrapbooking my photo's, but I especially love creating projects from found or recycled products. For this week's challenge over at H2H, I wanted to create a jar to showcase some snap shots from this summer and fill it with our memories!

The Ball jar has been hiding in the back of my pantry for some time now. I created a four panel piece of card stock that is decorated with Splendor papers, family pics and stamped images from Hot Diggity. I also stamped tiny bumble bees and adhered them inside the jar with a tiny bit of liquid glass. It reminds me of summers back east as a little girl trying to catch fire flies. That is also how I arrived at the tag description of "capture summer wishes". It will be an ongoing project this summer adding more memories that we have yet to make.

I topped off the jar with circle paper flowers, or as I learned from Tresa Black this weekend "lollipop flowers". I adorned it with some sheer and grosgrain ribbons.

Splendor-ific!!

It's not very often that I go through an entire Level 2 paper pack. I'll usually have some full sheets of paper or larger scraps leftover. In the case of the Splendor papers I have barely a few smaller scraps leftover and a sheet of card stock. I guess I really liked this paper pack.

I cleaned up and re-organized my craft room this week. Now that everything is in it's proper place, I'm ready to make a new mess! I have been working on some pages in hopes of getting caught up over the summer break. Here is a layout of my daughter's final days of school.

Clearly Fabulous

Close To My Heart's new Clear Cards are fabulous, fun and quite addicting. They are super easy to use and so cool to experiment with. Here are just a few I've done since receiving my order. The first one was taken mostly from the Summer Idea Book. It uses Splendor papers and chipboard Pizzaz Irresistibles.

You can find clever ways to hide your message inside. This one also features a paper flower using Veranda papers.

Splendor Sheet

Had this vision in my head to decorate a cookie sheet with Splendor papers and some adorable critters. I thought about my sis-in-law immediately and thought she might enjoy this as a Mother's Day gift as she is my daughter's God Mother. I painted the cookie sheet with a beige color to tone down the silver. I used a couple different papers from the Splendor Level 2 paper pack, a favorite this season for sure. I used several different types of ribbon, some old ~ some new. The cute froggy and owl stamps are from the new Hot Diggity stamp set. For the magnets I punched circles of B&T papers and covered them with circle windows. I then glued a strong magnet to the backs of them. Some Goldrush buttons and a library clip to hold a photo completes this fun memo board.