Embellishments from Paper

Welcome to our blog hop.  If you are coming from Shirley's blog then your on the right track!!  This month's technique teaches us to use patterned paper to create embellishments for our paper craft projects.

For my project I chose a piece from our new Stella Paper Packet (X7147B) to create the flowers.  Can you believe these flowers were fashioned from this piece of paper?  Believe me, they are!!  After a bit of cutting and piecing they bloomed all over my project!!  They added the perfect touch to my desktop photo frame.  A special thanks goes out to our featured hopper this month Michelle Battitori for sharing this project with me.  I love all the little drawers for storing my things!!  The project was made entirely from the Stella paper packet.
Thanks for stopping by, now hop on over to Michelle W's blog and see what fabulous creation she has in store for you.  Don't forget to share your project made with this technique on our challenge blog and you could win a fabulous prize put together for us by Melissa Robinson!!

Use it or Lose-Volume 1, Issue 2-Flowers and Buttons

Welcome to this month's issue of our Use Your Stash blog hop.  If you are coming from Michelle's blog, then you're on the right track!!
This month our challenge was to use flowers and buttons.....not a problem in our studio.  The only problem being which to use. Soo many to choose from.  We've spent years collecting flowers and buttons from everywhere.

For my project I began with a basic black and white layout.  Then I dug thru the jars for flowers and buttons to suit my fancy!

My layout is created using the following product:
Pattern Paper - Quick Quotes
Flowers - Close To My Heart, Prima and the flower jar
Buttons - Aunts, Grandma's and mom's sewing jars and the button jar
Butterfly - Close To My Heart.

Thanks for stopping by.  Now hop on over to Rachel's blog and see what creation she has in store for you!!

Even Easier

Welcome to this month's blog hop.  We are featuring the "Even Easier" technique as shown on page 91 of the Spring/Summer 2012 ideabook.  If you are coming from Shirley's blog you are on the right track!

Even easier - what could be better, right.  This is accomplished by two super simple steps using our Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge and a stampset.  With a ideabook stuffed full of stamp sets made to coordinate with the 700 images available on the cartridge, all you have to do is pick your design, cut then stamp - how easy is that!!

For my layout I first began creating with our new Super Hero paper packet (X7152B).  The colors of the paper worked perfectly with my pictures and since it is all double sided I could choose pieces that had no "hero" images to use.  My next piece to use was our new stamp set Family Love (D1506).  I wanted a sentimental/crazy saying for my family photo and this worked great. I then cut my tag from the cartridge twice - once for the saying, then again for the blue mat (I added 1/4" to my measurement for the mat).  Sooo much easier than trying to cut this with scissors and get it nice and even!! 



On a final note, I added two more images cut from the cricut cartridge to my layout.  The blue stamp behind the saying and the tap for my hidden journaling.  Even though the image I used wasn't made exactly for the stamp cut, it fit perfectly in the end!!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope I have inspired you to create "Even Easier".  Now hop on over to Wendy's blog and see what she has in store for you.

Be sure to share with us your creation over on our Technique Challenge Blog for a chance to win a really great prize!!