Bumblebee - 12X12 Scrapbook Layout With Altered Flowers Using Gelato's

Hi Fellow Crafters!

It's been a very busy and eventful 2014 so far so I am pretty far behind in my Scrapbooking.  I want to thank Sheila for having me here on her blog. Today I am sharing a 12X12 layout of our grand daughter on this past Halloween.  She is the most adorable Bumblebee ever.  I love this age and her sweet innocence and a wee bit of attitude sometimes.  She make us smile, laugh, and keeps us on the move when she and her big brother are here at our house.

Don't sweat layouts, this 12X12 page is super simple and ever so easy to make using Close To My Hearts Artbooking and Art Philosophy cartridges.  My font came from my PC and I used my Silhouette to weld and cut it.

I started out with this adorable photo I captured Halloween night at our church festival.  I printed it out as a 5X7 and matted it on some black card stock.  I added this little heart (bling) that I picked up at a scrapbook convention last summer.

I cut my honeycomb overlay to use as my backdrop on the bright yellow card stock from the Artbooking Cricut cartridge at 11 inches from some basic black cardstock.  I adore this Artbooking cartridge simply for the overlays! It has a wealth of other items on it too, so be sure to check it out if you do not own it yet.

These great little flowers were cut from Close To My Heart Art Phlosophy Cricut cartridge at 1.5 inches from a glossy textured card stock. They are so easy to alter and add bling to using Faber Castell Gelato's. I do love these gelato's because they are easy to travel with and you can use a water pen.  Michael's sells these by the way and I was able to use my coupon.

I added a little Gelato in yellow to the outside edges of my flowers and then barely wet my paint brush and moved the watercolor paint around the edge of each petal.

I inked the edges of each petal using my favorite chalk ink. A little liquid glue in the center and then add your bling.  I am using some glass glitter from Stampin Up that I've had a few years, so I am not sure its still available. So easy to make and so CUTE! I adhered them to my layout with several glue dots after allowing them to dry overnight.

I wanted to pick up on the orange color of the title and its also in my grandsons Optimus Prime costume so I made two more flowers using yellow and orange gelato's and on one of them I added the white gelato to make it a little more distressed. I like how they both turned out.

These two flowers need some bling too, so I went looking for some micro beads in my closet and added them using the same glue and allowing them to dry overnight. I love being able to use up some of my stash.

I printed this photo of my son and his sweet family from Halloween night. It's rare that I get them all together and have my camera ready so I was happy, happy, happy to get this picture!

I added my thoughts around the edge of my overlay using a fine tip black marker and this layout was complete! With the right tools, a little basic paper, and some inexpensive bling you can have your pictures scrapped for future generations to enjoy for a very long time.

Thanks for coming by today and have a great Easter and time with your family and friends! Don't forget the camera and some extra batteries too!  See you next month!

Blessings,
Donna Lee

Artbooking Cartridge Helps Organize My Card Stash

I am so excited to share this with you today as I have an organized card stash!!! You see I am somewhat of an organized nut and it was driving me crazy to have to go through a box of cards every time I needed one. As I was looking through my Artbooking booklet I noticed this cute little file folder and new exactly what I was going to do with it.

Don't you just love how easy this was? And I used some paper from My Minds Eye from a stack a couple of years ago and easy peasy I have organized cards! Now all I have to do is the other box of cards I have downstairs. I laugh but often times I am getting ready to leave to go somewhere and think I should bring a card and I am able to get that without running upstairs so it works to have 2 stashes! Besides with these card parties it really keeps my supply up.

This is what it looks like. You could type or label the tabs but I just wrote on them and that works for me.

I hope you enjoyed my little post today and you too take just a few minutes to organize your card stash, you will be so happy you did.
Thanks for joining me today and for your sweet sweet words of encouragement. Your comments inspire me to continue sharing with you.

CCR & Artbooking To Make An Easy Card

Hope you had a GREAT Labor day weekend. Wasn't it great to have a couple of days off to enjoy with family. Well it was a little wild around here. We had our grandchildren over and just a great time of celebration and fun in the pool.
I made this cute little card using the Artbooking cartridge from Close To My Heart and George and it was just as easy as could be. Just follow the following video so you too can learn to make any A2 card into a shape card.

See, wasn't it easy? I just love shape cards and this one is just as cute as can be. Now you need to give it a try too.

This is what the card looks like standing up and as you can see it is  in the shape of the little Giraffe. I used the real dial size for the giraffe but not on the lion.

I actually got out my Peachy Keen stamps for his cute little face using black ink.

This is the stamp I used from CTMH, it is called Be Still.

Well I hope you liked today's post. It was nice spending time with you! Thank you for your sweet words of inspiration. You comments inspire me to continue sharing with you.