In The Garden

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I have a confession - I love to scrapbook, but I'm not a great photographer and sometimes you have a paper pack that just cries out to be used but you have no photos to use with it. In those instances I will sometimes print a nice picture I have found online, just for the sake of being creative and adding a pretty layout to my personal album. Such is the case here.

I was inspired to do this layout by Gabrielle Pollacco (see her layout and video tutorial here). You will probably see a lot of similarities between the two because I absolutely loved her layout - but I also tried to make it a bit my own.

Hope you like it. Comments are welcome.

Supplies

Paper: BoBunny "Enchanted Garden"
Stamps: BoBunny "Stitches", Stampendous, script text stamp (I can't remember the company)
Martha Stewart Swirly Lace punch around the page
Jolee's Boutique Lilac stickers
Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die
Sizzix Flower Layers #7 Die
Cheery Lynn Large Lace Fairy Queen Butterfly Die
Cottage Cutz Garden Fend & Gate Die
Provocraft Embossing Folder "Texture"
Crafters Workshop Template/Mask
American Crafts Ribbon
Prima Mini Roses
Gelato Squid Ink
K&Company Dragonfly embellishments
Studio18 Chipboard Elements
Stazon in Dove Grey and Stone Grey
Silhouette Cameo for the title

If you cannot find any of the products listed in our online store, please email Kristy directly at scrapbookingcafe@aol.com. She can usually track down and order anything you might be in search of.

Merry Christmas

Sometimes you find you just don't have the right colour cardstock. I found a neat little trick that will save you money, not so much saving time but you will have loads of colour choices.
All you have to do is die cut your shape out of white cardstock and then colour the shape.
For example this Ornate Poinsettia die from Cottoage Cutz was cut from white and coloured with Copic Markers R46,24 and 14, the green is YG93.

2 min Christmas card

Sorry for breaking the chain but I can't even see the top of my desk nor have I been in my room in over a week so there is just no way I can straighten it out right now.  But since I no longer have a spot at my desk I was forced to make a 5 min card and to be honest it took maybe 2 min to make.  That's it!  I was surprised how fast it came together, mind you it's a CAS card but sometimes I do manage to pull one off!! LOL

Just so you know I have a bunch of cards cut and folded and ready to decorate.  I keep about 5 kraft,white,red,blue,pink and what ever other colour I have on hand.
Take your die Elegant Reindeer from Cottage Cutz and cut one piece of white and one piece of red cardstock
Assemble the reindeer and add 3D Foam to the back.
Stamp sentiment and then adhere the reindeer.
That's it!!

Summer papers for Christmas cards

Well it's another hump day and I thought it might be......well I hope it will be fun to see some Christmas cards.  I know it's waaaaaay to early BUT if your someone who likes to make their own cards to send to family and friends then it's never to early to start.  Unfortunately I'm not one of those people.  I tried to keep them simple (thinking I may just make them this year) and quick.

 Pointsettia Die-Spellbinders

Paper-Tea for Two-Cosmo Cricket

Elegant Reindeer Die-Cottage Cutz

Paper-Tea for Two-Cosmo Cricket

And for some reason last week Blogger would not let me upload my cards so I missed my post.  Sorry about that.  I thought I'd share my cards now since you didn't get to see them.

Did you ever buy something you just had to have and then bring it home and forget about it?  Well today's cards feature a stamp set I just couldn't wait to get my hands on it's from Dear Lizzy and it's called Mason Jar, now skip ahead about a month and I finally got around to using the "must have" stamps. :)