happy easter!

Happy Easter!  I created this card to send off to my boys out west.  I love the clean and simple look.  The stamps are from Close to My Heart and I cut the eggs with CTMH's Art Philosophy cartridge.  The butterfly is one of a set of three die cuts from Cheery Lynn Designs.  Using a zigzag embossing folder and fringe give the illusion of a basket for the eggs. 

This topiary was created using flowers also cut from CTMH's Art Philosophy and there are also several of the Cheery Lynn butterflies.  I stuck them in a styrofoam ball using straight pins and hot glue.  The dowel is covered with the same ribbon as the bow and I found the pot at a garage sale.  The little Easter baskets have chocolate eggs inside and the tutorial to create them can be found at Pootles Papercraft.  Sam is a an independant UK Stampin Up Demonstrator and she has some awesome tutorials.  Please check her out!  I did up about three dozen of these delightful baskets and am off to drop them and the topiary at a retirement home here in my community.  scrap happy...

ambrosia

I have always liked Bo Bunny's Ambrosia Collection and picked up this mini album on sale at my local scrapbook store which unfortunately has now closed their doors (so sad).  I fell in love with all of the colours in it but they do not go with all of my boy pictures so this will be given to a special girl I know.  I am entering this in ScrapbookPal.com's Share Your Project Challenge.  (This is where I get my "Scrappy Tape" from which I use on all of my projects.) I embellished it using papers, rub-ons, buttons and metal pieces from the collection.  The butterflies were created with a Martha Stewart punch and a Cherry-Lynn Die.  The doilies are from Dollarama and the bling and ribbons are from my stash.  Finally, I used my Cricut and CTMH's Art Philosophy cartridge to cut out the various flowers in the album as well as some of the photo mats.   The rolled flowers were cut at 2", 2.5" and 3" using the flowers at shift row 5 column 9 and column 10.  I rolled them up using my quilling tool, which makes the rolling fast and easy and then added some hot glue to the bottom.  The beige flowers were cut using the flower (r3c10) at 1", 1.25" and 1.5 inches.  I sprayed them with water, crinkled them up and then unfolded, inked the edges and glued them together.    It is surprising how much enjoyment you can get from creating something with such beautiful colours!  scrap happy...

 

 

 

still the same...

I saw Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine's sketch challenge for March on Facebook yesterday and immediately thought of a piece of paper that my good friend Jan Moxey gave me that would be perfect to be used with this sketch.  In fact everything about this layout came together easily.  The rest of the paper is from CTMH's Huntington collection as are the wooden buttons.  When I came across this photo of my sister and I, the song "Still the Same" started playing in my head and I knew it should be the title.  While we are many years older, most people who have seen this picture have commented on how much alike we still are. Unfortunately my memory is not so good that I can remember when the picture was taken but I absolutely love this picture and my sister!  scrap happy...

valentine minions

my grandson is six and for the past several years I have made valentine's for his classmates.  This year I made minions and he loved them. This post sharing a free printable minion valentine from Jonie Sumsion was in my facebook feed back on January 27th and I thought they would be the coolest of valentines especially if you love the Despicable Me movies.  All I had to do was print out the template on cardstock (there were 4 per page) and then cut around the overalls and eyes so that you could fit in a hostess ho ho.  Seemed simple enough...  however, ho ho's are not nut free so I had to improvise with wrapping granola bars in yellow cardstock.  The sentiment says "Friends like you are one in a minion"  lol  Trent added his classmates names as well as his own and did all the stuffing.  It was lots of fun to help make his Valentines special as everyone likes to feel special don't they...  scrap happy!