Easter Mini Scrapbook

While browsing at Michael's, I spotted these white cardboard eggs and they just called out "Mini Scrapbook to me:)  I have been wanting to make a unique mini book and these were perfect for a darling little girl's first Easter. My friend, Liz and I had a great time discussing how to complete this project. I was pleased how it turned out. Can't wait to add the pictures that her parents will take during this upcoming weekend. I have included a few of the decorated pages. Depending on the pictures, I plan on leaving a few pages blank for her mom to journal. I think I can include 8-10 cropped pictures in this scrapbook.
Some of the decorations on the eggs look a little crooked but it was the was just the photo!!

 This is the last page and it will be for journaling.

Recipe:

DP: Some were from my stash and my friend, Liz chose some from her pastel stash to complete this project.

Stickers: Michael's... Alphabet stickers: The Dollar Tree

Images: I wish I could give all the artist credit but they were not signed and I downloaded them before I started putting the site or artist's name with the download.

Ribbon: Michael's

Notebook Rings: Office Max

Small Eggs: Spellbinders Nestabilities

Modge Podge was used to adhere the DP to the cardboark eggs

I hope you have enjoyed viewing my first mini scrapbook. Perhaps I have inspired you to craft one of your own. Splitcoast Stampers have so many ideas to choose from.

Please feel free to leave a comment and/or follow this blog.

Happy Easter 

I am entering this project into the following challenges:

card cupids: Pastels

creative inspirations challenge: Easter

dream valley challenges: Easter

robyns fetish challenge blog: Easter

scrappy frogs challenge: Easter

2 sisters challenge blog: Ribbon, Pearls, Flowers

crazy 4 challenges: Create an Easter Gift

ellephantastic challenges: Anything but a square or rectangle

our creative corner: 3D Easter Project

bearly mine-challenges: Inside Out: decorate the inside of the project too.

top tip tuesday: Open Challenge

Some Bunny Loves You

This image was given to me by Lauretta @ Craft Your Passion Challenge Blog as I am a GDT member this month. I have used this image earlier in the month to craft an Easter Treat Bag and just wanted to use it again to make an Easter Card for my husband's aunt who turned 85 today. She loves receiving my handmade cards and I love making them for her. This is a versatile image that wouldn't have to be just Easter but any spring time occasion. I am trying to use my forgotten paper treasures (stash) because I have such an accumulation of beautiful DP. I just ordered some Baker's Twine and am loving it too. I am a great fan of paper piecing, as you can tell!!

Recipe:
Image: Lauretta
DP: FPT (Forgotten Paper Treasures)
Colored: Copic Markers
Twine: Baker's Pink and white twine.
Buttons: Vintage
Distressing: CTMH ink
Card Base: Michael's

I hope that you enjoyed viewing my card and that I have inspired you to use a technique new to you. Please feel free to comment and/or follow this blog.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
alys sunday challenge: Use Baker's Twine
creative inspirations challenge: Easter
scrap-creations1: Use a digital image
tuesday throw down: polka dots
incy wincy designs: Bright and Bold
a spoon full of sugar challenge: Let's Celebrate-Easter
ladybugs crafts ink challenge blog.: Anything Goes
sweet stamps blog: Use a Frame
kaboodle doodles: thoughts of Spring/Easter

Easter Treat Bag

This is my third project as guest design team member for Craft Your Passion Challenge Blog. Our challenge this week is: You've been spotted: use dots! I was given this darling image and decided to use it to create an Easter treat bag.

This is a simple project to make. I used a small white bag sandwiched between two rectangular DP pieces.  The bottom half of the DP was embossed. I cut out the image with a Spellbinder die then colored her,  paper pieced her dress and distressed the edges. The handle of the treat bad is a Stampin Up punch. Ribbons, flower, pearls and a sentiment was added.

Recipe:

DP: TJMax

Image: Lauretta's @ Craft Your Passion

Michael's: Flowers, ribbons, pearls and small white bags

Sentiment: G Stamps

Colored: Copic Markers

Embossing: Cuttlebug embossing folder

Spellbinders: Oval cut out with image

Distressing ink: CTMH

 I have to admit that I saw a similar treat bag somewhere on the internet. However, I did not save it and couldn't find the source. Please let me know if you know the original source and I will post it.

I hope I have inspired you to create something with dots and enter your paper craft into our current challenge. When you have completed your project, just click HERE to enter.

I am entering this paper craft project into the following challenges:

die kreativen stempel freunde: Easter Package

the angel company: Paper piecing

die cut dreams: It's Easter Time

incy wincy designs: Bright and Bold

lexis creations: Anything But a Card

wood ware usa; Die cuts/punches

trimmies craft challenge: Easter

digi doodle shops best: Stripes

crazy 4 challenges: Create an Easter Gift

A Special Award!!

I was so surprised and pleased to receive two E Mail from
 two blogger friend. Leanne  lives in Pakistan and is relatively new at blogging. She is a delightful artist. You can visit her blog HERE. Anniebee is another avid crafter with dreams of designing in the future. Wait until you see her work:HERE!!
This is the Versatile Blogger Award that both of these ladies sent to me:

The story goes that this blog award has the purpose of bringing to light bloggers who are creative, make wonderful creations, but have less than 300 followers. And the rules ask that you...

1. Thank the person who sent you this award.
2. List 7 things about yourself.
3. Send this to 15 bloggers

1.  Thank you, Leanne and Annibee. I am touched by your kindness;)
2.  Seven thing about myself:

• I am a retired elementary school teacher
• I love traveling anywhere, especially with my husband
• We have four grandchildren, who we adore
• I love paper crafting. I have learned so much since being on several design teams.
• I am taking a break from design teams this summer so that I can spend time doing other things
• I am Vice President of the Board of Directors for our local YWCA and volunteer @ My Sister's Closet (a shoppe for gently used women's clothes.) I enjoy meeting all the people and helping them choose affordable outfits. I also love dressing the mannequins!!
• My daughter and I share this blog. However, she has little free time right now to post...maybe this summer???

HERE are the 15  deserving bloggers that I am sending this award to:

1. http://celiashobby.blogspot.com/
2. http://daydreambeliever-gina.blogspot.com/
3. http://bettina-bettyboop.blogspot.com/
4. http://aprilsalley.blogspot.com/
5. http://everydaylifeinmymind.blogspot.com/
6. http://grotjeltveit.blogspot.com/
7. http://poppet-craftingwhenican.blogspot.com/
8. http://gonebytheboard.blogspot.com/
9. http://maggiescraft.blogspot.com/
10. http://aqualeigasescape.blogspot.com/
11. http://clairescraftycreations.blogspot.com/
12. MORE TO FOLLOW!!

Barbara: TWO BY TWO

We want to thank all of you who participated in our Anything Goes Challenge, last week at Craft Your Passion. I am not sure if it was a record of entries for them but it was for me. I still have a few visits to make! This week our challenge is Use two of something. Here is my take on Two by Two:

I have used two pink ties, two butterflies and two dimensional elements on this card.

This card is called a tri-step card.

I have seen several examples of this tri-step card but had not tried one before. It really is quite simple. For directions just click HERE. Follow direction then just have fun and decorate! The CS and DP were actually from several completed projects. I was able to coordinate them for this card. The image was colored with copic markers then I colored another skirt, popped it up for dimension and added stickles to the waist. The shoes were also colored then black stickles were applied. A light gray copic marker was used for the girl's shadow then I sponged the background of the image with blue and green stamp pad ink. After the flowers were colored with a bright pink copic, the centers were touched with a Gelly roll glitter pen. I colored the grungeboard with bright pink copic markers also then covered most of it with a gold leafing pen. The butterfly on the upper right has been cut off the side of the image and repositioned. It was also layered.

Recipe:

Michael's- CS,DP, Ribbon, Flowers

Dimensional Elements: Tim Holtz, Ideaology grunge board

Krylon Gold Leafing Pen

Stickles: yellow & black

Copic Markers

Stamp Pads: CTMH

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

Image: Coco dingo

Sentiment: free digi stamp, author unknown

Gelly Roll pen

I hope that you are inspired to craft a paper project or card with two of something;) When you have finished, please click  HERE  to enter the latest challenge at Craft Your Passion.

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please feel free to leave a comment and/or follow this blog.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

stamp-n-doodle: Girly

woodware usa: Anything Goes

catered crop: I used: Polka dot DP, Stamping ink-blue and green, ribbon, gold leafing pen ink, swirls, ribbon

dream valley challenges: Things with wings

paper sundaes:  Childhood Memories

2 sisters challenge blog: Spring

if the shoe fits scrap it:  Spring

craft us crazy: Spring

dutch dare-card challenges: Spring Has Sprung!

ambers crafts and stuff: Try something New (Card Design & Grungeboard dimensional elements)

Barbara: Exciting News

Craft Your Passion has asked me to be a guest designer for their blog for the month of April!!! I am so excited to be a part of this delightful team. I will be participating in their challenges and my projects/cards will be posted on their blog. I will also be commenting on some of the entries.

This is my first project: An envelope bag.

 This is called an envelope treat bag you can find the directions HERE. It is amazingly simple because Angie is so thorough in explaining directions. I thought this was a perfect holder for a package of flower seeds. I added some Easter grass and sandwiched the seeds in the bag.I paper pieced the image, added ribbons, swiped the scallops and the sentiment. Finally, I added the butterfly.

Recipe:
Image: Lauretta's
DP: Michael's
Embossed with Cuttlebug Folder
Ribbon: From my collection of treasured ribbons
Sentiments: Spring-G Stamp, Flower- TLC


The Theme this week at Craft Your Passion is Anything Goes. I hope I have inspired you to create a special project/card and enter their current challengeHERE. The details about this challenge and the winner's prizes are also listed on the main blog.
Thank you for visiting my blog. Please feel free to leave a comment and/or follow this blog.

I am entering this paper craft into the following challenges:
cooking it up with katie: sparkle, shine, shimmer (you can see the sparkle if you enlarge the image:)
aifactory challenges: bright as day
craft us crazy: Easter/spring
delightful sketches: Flowers
moving along with the times: More than one fold (the folds are on the sides of the envelope and the bottom)
pixie dust studio pixie challenge: Fluttering Wings
the rubber cafe: Flowers
stamp insanity: Feeling Edgy
incy wincy designs: Show a pocket
stamping vacation: You name the challenge: paper piecing and must use a pocket
sparkles forum challenges: Springtime

Barbara: Easter/Spring Hop

HOWDY!!

I hear the geese returning and today I saw a robin. There are even a few crocus flowers peeking through the snow! SPRING must be coming...I hope!! Our next challenge for The Creative Cowgirls is Easter/ Spring. We are having a FABULOUS SPRING/EASTER HOP ALONG . Our challenge is to create a paper craft with the theme of Spring or Easter! The WINNER of our HOP will be awarded a spot as a Guest Designer for our April 17th and June 1st challenges
You can begin HERE at the Cowgirl's Home page. (The posse has made so many wonderful paper craft projects, you will be inspired :)
Our Hop is being sponsored by none other than Crafty Ribbons.

The winner will be gifted with a collection of these gorgeous ribbons:

The WINNER will also receive 3 images of their choice from CHI CHI MEMORIES.

THE TOP 3 WILL ALSO RECEIVE AN IMAGE OF THEIR CHOICE FROM

CHI CHI MEMORIES.

The directions for this fun hop and the Hop Order can be found HERE

 This is the card that I designed. There are two pictures so that you could see this Twisted Easel Card from a different angle. It really is an easy card to make, If you google Twisted Easel Card, there are several wonderful tutorials to follow.

Recipe:
Image: Chi Chi Memories gave all the posse members several cute images to choose from. I chose this darling bunny.
PP:American Craft
Ribbon: JoAnn Fabrics
Pom Pom: Michael's
Colored with: Copic Markers
Gelly Roll pens: used on "Happy Easter"
Stickles: used on her barrette.
Borders cut with a long Sizzix Die

I hope that you have enjoyed visiting this blog. Perhaps I have inspired you to create a Spring or Easter card or paper craft. When complete, you can click HERE to enter the Creative Cowgirl Challenge. Don't forget to hop over to the Cowgirl's blog and visit the rest of the posse. Please feel free to leave a comment and/or follow this blog.

Happy Spring!!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
crafts and me challenges: Anything Goes
creative cottage challenge: Spring Has Sprung
fab n funky challenges: More than one fold
paper pretties blog: Spring is in the air
stamping vacation: Spring
delightful sketches: Pastels and Ribbons
digi doodle shops best: Ribbons and Bows
dutchdare-card challenges: Celebrations
catered crop: Spring
quirky crafts: Twisted Easel Card

Barbara: Mother's Day

Challenge #114 We were so excited to have over 200 gorgeous entries for our last challenge at The Crafty Pad. We all must be lovin digi images:) We hope you will enjoy this challenge equally as well. The challenge this week is:

"Mother's Day."

It is not too early to think about Mom and how you will share what she means to you. Several of you will be making many Mother's Day cards for women who have or had an important part in your life. So let's begin!!

I had so much fun designing this card: I call it a "Screen Door Card."

I took several pictures so that you could see both the outside and inside.

Recipe:

Image: Debbie @ The Crafty Pad -I cut apart this image and placed the boy outside the screen door

DP: Michael's

Screen Door: Buffalo Stamps and Stuff had this die specifically made for them. I purchased a package that included the door frames and screens. http://buffalostampsandstuff.blogspot.com/ ( If you decide to order from Sharon @ Buffalo Stamps, please tell her Barbara sent you!)

Tim Holtz's white crackle paint used on the door frame, then sponged with ranger ink

Paper Piecing: Mom's pillow

Colored: Copic Markers

Sentiment: Free digital stamp, sorry I do not remember who did this stamp

Gelly Roll Pen used on Mom's slippers 

Glitter: Mom's fur on her robe

Our sponsor this week is:

The winner of our weekly challenge will choose 3 digis of their choice from Crafty Sentiments.

I hope you have enjoyed visiting my blog and that I have inspired you to create a card or paper craft for someone special in your life. When you have your project complete, you can click HERE to enter our Crafty Pad Challenge. Please feel free to leave a comment and/or follow this blog.

Happy Spring!!

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

creative inspirations challenge: Mother's Day

dream valley challenges: Mother's Day

gingerloft challenge: Die Cut-Screen Door

one stitch at a time challenge: Mother's Day

sparkles forum challenges: Springtime

all sorts challenge: For a Special Lady

craft your days away: For Mum

ces challenges: Die Cuts-screen door

totally gorjuss: Spring has sprung

suchins: Anything Goes

paper take weekly: It's a Mom's Thing

ambers crafts and stuff: Use a die cut - screen door

fairytale-challenge blog: Pink and green

stampin for the weekend: Mother's Day

the shabby tea room: Color Inspiration

do you stack up: Shine on - Mom's robe, inside the card :)

My Fairy Name:Meadow Goblinwitch

Did you ever dream of being a fairy when you were young? I am sure most of us wanted to fly, to see and do everything and to be beautiful like all faries are!! Then we could just blink and disappear when it was time to do homework or chores.

My fairy name is: Meadow Goblinwitch

 

She brings riches and wealth.She lives in fields where wild flowers and poppies grow.She can only be seen in the enchanted moment between sleep and waking.She wears a skirt made of red petals and has gentle green wings like a butterfly. I am so happy that I found this site- a Fairy Name Translator. If you want to know your fairy name and characteristics, please click HERE

Barbara: Using a Digital Image

We would like to thank everyone who participated in our last challenge at The Crafty Pad. We received so many beautiful paper crafts with buttons.  Who knew that buttons were so popular and versatile? I will never look at buttons the same way again!! Maggie posted  a wonderful tutorial this week on working with shrink plastic. This is one you won't want to miss!

We hope that you will enjoy our current challenge: "Use a Digi." This can be a digital image or sentiment or both. Easy Peasy...Right?

Our sponsor this week is once again, the lovely JOANNA SHEEN

and the prize is a generous £10 voucher to spend in her online store. Joanna has so much to choose from and free postage too, which is always a bonus, lol. You can check out her online shop HERE

For our DT card, we were given this adorable digi stamp by Debbie @ the crafty pad stamp designs.  I chose a CAS design because the image is so darling, I didn't want to distract from it.

 inside verse

Recipe:
Image-the crafty pad stamp designs
DP: From my forgotten treasures of DP!!
Ribbon: Michael's
Image; TLC
Colored: Copic Markers

I hope you enjoyed viewing this card and that you are inspired to use a digital stamp to create your paper craft project. When you have completed your paper craft, you can click HERE to enter your project into this week's challenge. Please feel free to leave a comment and/or follow this blog.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
Catered Crop:  PP:stripes with mini print, pearls, spring
robyns fetish challenge blog: Spring
bunny zoes crafts: Pearls
paper playtime: Challenge 1: Purple and Green
crafty anns challenge blog: Spring
stamping with dragon: Spring
wags n whiskers rubber stamps: Spring

do you stack up: Add a Bow

shellys images blog: Show us what you've got

creative cottage challenge: Spring has Spring

scrapbook sisters : Spring Flowers

sugar creek hollow: Anything Goes

sweet stamps blog: Think Spring

ambers crafts and stuff: Stashbuster & Anything Goes

etsy inspired: I was inspired by this long bifold wallet:

Barbara: Butterfly

I made the Top 3 at Gingerloft Challenges!!!!! I was asked to be a GD for their next challenge. This is the card that I submitted:

I had so much fun using the pearl paints that I purchased awhile ago but forgot about them. By mixing and shading, I think that the butterfly and the flower almost look real :) The card fold is called a frame fold. This is the first time I have used this technique. I wanted something simple to frame the image. Thanks to Splitcoast tutorials, you can find their tutorial HERE.
Recipe:
CS,DP,Ribbon,and Bling: Michael's
I am entering this card into the following challenges:
delightful sketches: Butterfly
paper-craftingjourney: Things with Wings
crafty anns challenge blog.: Spring
simply create challenges: Monochromatic

Barbara: WISHES

We want to thank all the wonderful crafters who entered challenge #111,add a ribbon, last week at The Crafty Pad. We had an amazing number of entries and of course so many beautiful paper crafts!! You can check out our winners HERE.

This week our challenge #112, is to add a button/buttons to your craft project.

I decided to make a step card in order to highlight the adorable image from The Crafty Pad. I chose a muted green card stock and a coordinating floral DP. Your might be able to see that I paper pieced the well and the roof covering the well. I also popped up the roof to add dimension. I cut out extra flowers, curled them then added brown pearl centers. The sentiment is computer generated. I colored white buttons with copic markers to make them the orange color then backed them with another flower. You might be able to see some of the dimension on this card in the second picture.

Recipe: CS, DP- Michael's

Image: Debbie at The Crafty Pad

Background Shape: Nestabilities

Sponging: CTMH stamp pad ink

Gold framing:

Buttons: vintage

Our sponsor this week is:

Our fabulous prize for one winner will be:

 A Fancy Fancy Folds and Motion Paper Crafts CD (Value $17.95) and a one year on-line subscription to the Technique Junkie Newsletter.

!## I won a Technique Junkie CD in a challenge several months ago. It is just awesome and so inspirational

I hope that you have enjoyed visiting my blog. Perhaps you are inspired to create a step card, use one of The Crafty Pad images, or add a button(s) to your craft project. Please feel free to leave a comment and/or follow this blog.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

card makin mamas: Green Challenge

fairytale-challenge blog: Something with a kinder image

floweret stamplar: Birthday for a child (monthly blog challenge)

catered crop: Ifollowed the recipe: spring colors, copic markers, birthday...plus:buttons, step card, pearls, flowers :-)

sentimental sundays: Green + a sentiment

Barbara: Monochrome card

We would like to thank everyone who entered The Creative Cowgirl Challenge: Hawaii,the beach, or tropical. Unfortunately, our Mr. Linky was not working up to par. I want to thank those of you who entered in the comment section. We did look at your lovely craft projects.

This week, Mr. Linky is fixed!! Our theme is : Create a Monochromatic paper project/ card.

Some design team members were given this beautiful Lilly stamp, from Delicious Doodles, to use. I love flowers, especially lilies so I was excited to begin.

I decided to make this a simple card so I didn't detract from the image. I colored the flower with Copic markers and highlighted it with Prisma pencils. I sponged around the image with stamp pad ink.

Recipe:

DP,  CS, Ribbon, Bling: Michael's

Stamp Pad Ink: CTMH

Charm: from my FT (Forgotten Treasures!)

Our sponsor this week is:

The winner this week will receive:3 images from Delicious Doodles.

Each of the top 3 picks will receive 1 image.

Delicious Doodles has now started their own challenge spot. Follow either of these links to check out their challenges:http://deliciousdoodleschallenge.blogspot.com/

                       http://deliciousdoodles.blogpot.com/

I hope that you have enjoyed viewing my card and that I have inspired you to join our challenge this week. When you have completed your paper craft you can enter it by clicking: HERE.  Have a wonderful week.

I am entering this card into the following challenges:
design dollies: Pink with a splash of yellow
incy wincy designs: Pastel Colors
k b challenges: Use the color pink
desert island crafts challenge: inspired by nature, hand colored flower, 2 PP, No sentiment on front of card, distressing
ladybugs crafts ink challenge blog: Spring Colors

Barbara: Seam Binding ribbon

We want to thank all who entered our 110th challenge at The Crafty Pad: Something Yummy for your tummy"!!! Again we had so many awesome entries. Please click   HERE  to see who was the lucky winner.

On to our next challenge: 111: A very simple one: "Use A Ribbon" on your project.  The DT was fortunate to receive ribbons from our sponsor this week: Crafty Ribbons to use on our cards. This seam binding ribbon is unique. You can use it as an ordinary ribbon or if you wet it, squish it together and let it dry...it has a totally different look. You can see this on my card this week.

Since my ribbon was green, it made me think of (and dream of) summer. I chose to use Debbie's new cat image with the sentiment: Lazy Days of Summer. I designed a simple tent card using a Spellbinder Nestability to cut out the center of the tent and a smaller one for the border. I cut out, glittered, and popped up one of the butterflies in the background to give it some dimension. I added the beads to carry out the green theme.

Recipe:
Card Design: Tent card...Splitcoast Stampers Tutorial HERE
Image:the crafty pad stamp designs
Ribbon:crafty ribbons
DP: from my precious stash!!
Coloring: Copic Markers
Charm: My design
Glitter: Martha Stewart

We are fortunate to be sponsored this week by Crafty Ribbons.

 This card was made by the Crafty Ribbons DT. I shows how versatile the seam binding ribbon is.

Thank you for stopping to view my blog. I hope that I inspired you to try a new technique, card design, image, or a new way to think of ribbons.  If you are ready to enter our current challenge, just click HERE.
Please feel free to leave a comment and/or follow this blog. Have a wonderful week and may you always find time for something that makes you happy. Stay warm...we are expecting another 10 inches of snow!!! Hurry Spring......

I am entering this card into the following Challenges:
kb challenges: Anything Goes-use a digi
woodware usa: Anything Goes
paper take weekly: Anything Goes
top tip tuesday: Use your favorite- one favorite, I have so many..using ribbon is one of my top embellishments and this seam binding ribbon is awesome!
alys sunday challenge: anything goes
bling it on challenges: Anything Goes + add a charm
card cupids: Anything Goes
do you stack up: Use the color green on your card