Happy
Scrapdoodles Design Team Wednesday! I am highlighting two beautiful collections that can be found in the store. First up is
Authentique's "Gathering" collection. This collection is so versatile! The colors (blue, orange/coral, brown) are very trendy right now and lend well to layouts and projects of all types. I fell in love with the patterned paper called "Flourish" and used it as my background for this hanging memo board. I started with a 12x12 square of cork board and hot-glued the patterened paper (which I trimmed by about 1/4 inch on each side and rounded the corners).
I kept the board simple - just using a few of the die cut quotes and shapes from the same collection. As a bottom border, I used some felt ric-rac ribbon I found from My Mind's Eye.
Then, I found and printed a free 2012 mini calendar from online and cut each month and attached it to a square of patterned paper, punched holes and strung it with brown ribbon. Since the back of my board is cork, I attached the calendar pages with a large felt-covered tac. I also made my own little notepad with graphing paper cut into strips and bound together with ribbon. To attach this to the cork board, I actually made two holes with my awl and secured the pad with the ribbon - it's tied in the back. To hang the board, I hot glued the large ribbon hanger and then the two bows on top in each corner.
Since I had a lot of scraps left over, I made several simple cards. For these I started with a plain card base and decorated the fronts with paper, ribbon, buttons, and die cuts.
Next up is this wintery layout. I know we've hardly had any snow in the region this year, but there are so many new winter lines in the store, it's hard to pass them up. Maybe you can catch up scrapping the Big Snow we had a few years ago! One of my new favorites is
Fancy Pants Designs' "Winterland" collection. I love the soft colors and subtle patterns. One of the border strip sheets had a quote "Snowflakes are kisses from heaven" which made me think of the fun my daughter had when it "snowed" back in January. She kept running around saying it tickled and tasted like frosting! I knew this was the perfect line for a layout with her sticking out her tongue to catch the snowflakes. The layout came together easily with a full background sheet, one border and a few of the coordinating heavy-weight stickers. I added a bit of paper lace I had in my stash and cut out a title using my Cricut (Gypsy Wanderings cartridge). There's still more "winterland" left and, perhaps, one more snow in Virginia before spring is finally here! Happy Scrappin' Everyone!
Week One: Join us as we get you started on this journey. Shirley Pando will provide a general overview of the types of ribbons and some other basics. Then Cara Miller and Jeri Parks will dive into the many uses for ribbons as borders. You'll be amazed at how versatile ribbons can be. 
Happy Scrapdoodles Design Team Wednesday! I am highlighting two beautiful collections that can be found in the store. First up is Authentique's "Gathering" collection. This collection is so versatile! The colors (blue, orange/coral, brown) are very trendy right now and lend well to layouts and projects of all types. I fell in love with the patterned paper called "Flourish" and used it as my background for this hanging memo board. I started with a 12x12 square of cork board and hot-glued the patterened paper (which I trimmed by about 1/4 inch on each side and rounded the corners). 
Just thought I would share a few Valentine's Day projects we've been cooking up here at home.
I punched some circles out of cardstock and adhered them to the plastic circle handle, then Hannah added the glittery heart foam sticker. I made a tag saying "You Blow Me Away" and Hannah added another foam sticker (okay she added one or two and then was "done" so mama had to finish the rest). I tied them onto the bubble wand and "tada" ... very cute and inexpensive Valentines.
We also had fun making these "toilet paper roll heart stamps" we saw on Pinterest. I just shaped the roll for Hannah and squeezed out some paint and she went to town! 
When the stamped images were dry, I cut up some of the paper and adhered it to a pink cardbase. We added some more foam stickers and "tada" ... more cute and easy Valentines. Hannah signed her "H" and we put some in mailbox. 
Do you make New Year's Resolutions? I like to think about the year past and set some goals, so I guess I do make resolutions. This year I decided to create a layout to reflect some of these goals of mine. I picked up some fun American Crafts products for this layout. I normally scrap very girly pages so it was a nice change of pace to pick up some selections from AC's CHAP line. I came home with three sheets of double sided papers and a pack of chipboard shapes. I used my Cricut (Jubilee font and Printing Press numbers) for this page and journaled the rest in pen. The "2012" in the letter "O" is cut from a calendar. I'm thinking I'm going to hang this layout so I can be reminded of my New Year's thoughts and goals.
While I was at my favorite scrapbook store - Scrapdoodles in Fredericksburg - I was "lovestruck" by the wonderfully sweet selection of Valentine's Day papers and embellishments. The neat thing about a lot of these papers is that they can be used in all sorts of layouts. I could see many of these sweet sentiments in baby layouts, anniversaries, wedding, and in my layout here - just a fun shot of my daughter on the eve of her 3rd birthday. For this layout I used 2 patterned papers from We R Memory Keepers "Love Struck" collection. Also from this collection you can see one of the super adorable bottlecap embellishments (I think I may have to make a hair bow for Hannah with one of these) and two of the tags or mini cards. I am also using some cute ribbon from Pebbles.
