Chocolate Easter Bouquet

Hey scrappers, this is Kate from Sassy and Scrappy. I'm happy to be sharing this fun project with you today at She's A Sassy Lady. Wow, haven't the projects around here been amazing! I gotta tell you these ladies are so talented.

Originally when I came up with this idea, I was going to use a tin basket that I found at Target in the dollar section. And then I remembered the picket fence box on the Wrap It Up cartridge and I thought it would be really cute, so that's what I went with.


I sized the box on my Gypsy and basically fit it to page on a 12 x 12 mat. When assembled it makes about a 4 x 4-inch box.


I decided to emboss my fence with the Cuttlebug folder Distressed Stripes. I could have let it be a perfect little white picket fence, but this seemed a little bit more fun and of course adds texture and dimension.


Here's a picture of the box as I sent it through the CB. I basically folded the box and lined up the folder to the edge of the fence and sent it through. It worked perfectly. After embossing I used brown ink around the edges and a light layer over the stripes.


The green layer cuts the grass. If you look closely you'll notice that not all four sides line up correctly. Only 2 of the 4 sides line up. That kind of drives me crazy! Instead of cutting more pieces I decided to just use some green ink around the edges.

A picture of the flowers before I layered and assembled them. As you can see, two of the flowers are cut with pattern paper. I embossed the lilac colored flowers using the Swiss Dots CB folder.


Here are the supplies I used. I found the sticks in the children's art section at Michael's. I applied crackle paint to create a stem. To adhere my flower layers, chocolate candy, and flowers to the stick I used my glue gun. Make sure it doesn't get too warm and melt your chocolate, lol. In order to create added dimension to my flowers I sprayed a little bit of water on the paper. This helps the paper to "move" better which is especially helpful with the thick Papertrey Ink cardstock that I use. Then I just rolled the flower petals around a thin embroidery needle.

Once the fence and flowers were all assembled, I placed some flower foam in the box and created my bouquet. I'm not the best at floral arrangements, so keep that in mind. To finish off my project and add a little more "Easter" to it, I placed some paper grass in the box. I thought it would be fun to put more chocolate in and around the basket as well. I mean, you can't have too much chocolate!


Here is a better look at the fence. I really like the way it turned out.


I love how this picture came out. It just doesn't get much better in my world than flowers and chocolate! Although you can see in this close-up that I probably went a little heavy with the glue gun, but the I wanted that chocolate to stay up there! I really love all the color and layers.


Details:

• Box-Wrap It Up cut at 11.25-inches with layer
• Flowers-Mother's Day Bouquet cut at 2, 1.5, 1.25 and 1-inches
• Pattern Paper-Echo Park Springtime Collection
• Cardstock-Papertrey Ink New Leaf and Royal Velvet
• Embossing folders-(Cuttlebug) Distressed Stripes and Swiss Dots
• Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint-Peeled Paint
• Glue Gun
• Flower Foam
• Wood Skewers
• Egg Shaped Chocolate Candy
• Easter Grass

Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my project today. I hope it inspired you and perhaps you can create an Easter or Spring home decor projects yourself. I'd love to see what you come up with. Thank you Sheila for allowing me to post today, and as always I enjoy your comments! If you have any questions please let me know. Stop my my blog anytime, I'd love to see you.

A Little Competition In Dallas At The Stampede

I did it!!! Yes I am so excited I finished my layout in the time alloted. Four of us ladies that became friends on the message board and through blogging decided before the Stampede to have table games. So Pam drew names and we had to design and create a layout to put together in Dallas within a thirty minute window using the other persons photos. The completed layout would be gifted to the owner of the photos in Dallas.  I got Pam's name and she sent me photos as well as the web address of a bird sanctuary in India. I learned a little more about the country Pam came from than I knew before this game. Each lady also learned a little as we were told what the photos were about. I even prepared journaling but Pam prefers her own handwriting in her books just as I do.

So we turned the video cameras on and went to work creating. Now you can feel a part of the Dallas excitement along with us if you take a few minutes and watch first the make ready at home in the first video and then the second and final video we are right there in the midst of the swarm. The only rules were to prepare but not assemble and all you had to do was complete your layout in 30 minutes. So you were competing with time.

This first video is the make ready and packing for the swarm. All we were required to do is a single page layout but I wanted a special page for Pam and went with a 2 page spread.

In this video we are here in Dallas and you can hear all the noise in the background. I am in a room with 200 ladies and we are busy working.

In this last video I finish my pages and each of us share our pages with you! I am just so excited to share these ladies talent with you today.

This is a photo of the finished page minus the journaling that Pam will do herself. I really like the way it turned out.

Close up ot the alligator and notice how different the grass looks after inking and hiding the glitter area a little.

And finally a closeup of the crane. I used pop dots to give him dimension. He is the stork from New Arrivals.

Here are photos of the other pages:

The above pages were made by Pam at The Bug Bytes for Melissa. She used plenty of stickles and glitter on this and you can get a better view of this page in the 3rd video. It is AWESOME.

This page is made by Melissa of Melissa Made for Elizabeth. Isn't it AWESOME? I love the motion of this page and know that I will scraplift it to use on my children's pages as I begin putting them together.

This page is made by Elizabeth of 217 Creations for me. Elizabeth made this AWESOME page using her Imagine and she too used plenty of glitter.

And finally one last shot of my page made for Pam.

We all had such a great time doing this and I think I would like to do it again next year as it really generated a lot of excitement, anxiety and anticipation for each of us.

I sure hope you enjoyed today's post. I thank you for your sweet sweet words of encouragement. Your comments inspire me to continue sharing with you.

Sassy Flower Window Card

Hi this is Lori and I am a Sassy Guest Designer today!! Sheila is famous for her Window Cards, so I thought I would make one for her blog. Usually when I make cards, I make them two at a time ~ so I guess I made two for her blog!!

 

I started out with some fabulous paper that I found.  This is an 8x8 stack called The Colorful Life and each page looks like a piece of art!!

I took this piece of paper from the pad, and added a sheet of music paper from Immortal Love, and a piece of blue from my Shimmer Stack.

I welded this frame and shadow from Gypsy Wanderings together to form a card (3.95h). I took a flower from Mother's Day Bouquet (3.08h) and used Hide Contour to hide the inside cuts. Then I welded the flower into the frame.

I copy and pasted (before I hid the inner cuts) the large flower twice. I added another flower in two sizes (1.59h and 1.35h).

I wanted a liner for the card, so I opened a Layer 2 and copied the shadow of the frame. I made it a little smaller than the card (3.71h).

 I cut out the pieces and used my Martha Stewart Score Board to score the card in half (4 inches).

I used Vintage Photo and Fired Brick to ink the flower pieces.

 

I crumpled the flowers a little for some texture and added a pearl to the center of the flower. I used glue dots to piece the flowers together.

I used one of Joy's Life All Around Sentiment stamps for the inside of the cards.

 

Here is the second card.  I switched the card and liner for a different look.

I had fun making these window cards Sassy Style!

Thank you Sheila for sharing my project on your blog today!!!

Dallas Stampede Scrap Room

I had to share this little 2 minute video of the room that we scrapped in. I was just amazed with an entire room holding 200 scrappers with all their goodies. I have been to many crops and a few swarms but nothing as grand as the Texas Stampede. It was so much fun and always something going on. This little video was taken around midnight on Saturday night and many ladies were sneaking upstairs to put something more comfortable on to scrap in and even though I was in bed be 2am I heard this room had people in it all night!

This is just a quickie video of the room around midnight on Saturday. It will give you a little idea of the volume in the room. I just kept moving trying to get my prepackaged kits I made done. I did scrap a 2 page layout for Pam, 8 Easter cards, 2 digital Happy Birthday cards, 2 Slider Birthday cards, 2 get well cards and the beautiful card that Pam designed. Oh I almost forgot I also have the BEAUTIFUL album that Teressa Collins designed from her WONDERFUL class too... and that was AWESOME.
Thank you for joining me today and for your sweet sweet words of encouragement. Your comments continue to inspire me.

Dallas Stampede Table Game - My Surprise Card & Give Away

I am so excited to share this card and video with you! While in Dallas I made this lovely card.  You see we planning on doing a couple of table games while at the Stampede and this was one of them. Pam of The Bug Bytes, Melissa of Melissa Made and Elizabeth of 217 Creations and myself each designed two identical cards. The first we were to make within a 10 minute period while either video taping or taking photos of so one lucky person commenting on the post showing the table game might win the 2nd card!

Here is a photo of Pam of The Bug Bytes with the card she completed that Melissa at Melissa Made designed.

And here is our beautiful Melissa of Melissa Made showing of her card designed by Elizabeth of 217 Creations.

And the lovely Elizabeth of 217 Creations picked my names so she gets to do a Sassy card!

It was so much fun as you really needed to know the style of the person who you drew their card from to know what you were dealing with. I got lucky as mine came with instructions!!!! The papers stack was All Dressed Up by DCWV. The first thing I did when I got home is ran out and purchased the stack!
Did you see the wonderful Sentiment in this card? It is Pam's very own Copyright that she designed just for this card! Isn't she wonderful to share that with me and 1 other lucky lady?

Thank You - Thank You Pam for this awesome card. I have to admit I was thankful that the video was going and I didn't have to stop and take photos along the way.

Now all you need to do is leave a comment on this post to quality for the drawing for the other card from my Stampede table draw.... and don't worry I will send the directions too if you are the lucky person to be picked at random!

Thanks for joining us today, I sure hope you enjoyed the few minutes in Dallas with us. And, thanks for you sweet-sweet words of encouragement. Your comments continue to inspire me... Don't forget to comment to have a chance of winning this gorgeous card kit. You have till Saturday 4/9/11 at 8pm CST. The lucky winner of this GORGEOUS card kit designed by Pam at The Bug Bytes will be announced on Sunday 4/10/11 at 6AM.

The Lady

Hi This is Pam from The Bug Bytes .
 Thanks Sassy for having me on as designer in your blog.
The other day when I was cleaning up my scraproom I saw that I have some Graphics 45 papers. I have them but felt awful cutting them as they are so beautiful but well they have to be cut sometime. So I took out a pack which I had 2 quantities of. I know I am silly. I used the renaissance fair pack and took one sheet out of it lol.
When I went to Micheal's I came across this cameo or is it cabochon or is it cameo cabochon - whatever . I loved it and got it as I knew it would go so well with this. well some brads, ribbons and fibers(divine twine), pearls and some die cuts (I have used sentimental cartridge for the frame and storybook for the title ), some left over oval shapes from Imagine card - Easter card I made for challenge and a flower shape I made for my previous circle card (cut from MS cartridge I think), some prima flowers and inking and a gold foil pen and the layout came about. I measured the oval and photoshopped a picture of my mom - the Lady in my Life. My mom is nothing like me. I am like the jester but she - she is every inch a lady and this paper was the perfect setting.
I used coredinations paper as the plain cardstock. Yes that paper which Okie enabled. (see I buy it and use it and I still get smacked by her just because AllisonF's brain needs to be saved - How fair is that?).I think I also have used a tiny bit of Bazill cardstock. I embellished the Prima flowers further and the leaf - I just grabbed a silk leaf from a pot downstairs. Hush!! It was too green so I used some gold foil leaf pen and also orange ink on edges. Even the flowers and tags are brushed with blue , orange ink and gold foil.
Title - I added pearls and also used souffle pen. I decided to braid together 2 different colors of ribbons. The swirl is from 3 birds. It has been in a box too for long. I further embellished it with pearls. The flower shape is Quicklets. It's so easy to get them on. Tag pictures - the one lady with pearl earring by Vermeer and the other I am not sure Sargent?Rossetti? is also from Graphics 45 pack. And tied with divine twine - which greenbean enabled!

Ooh don't you love the paper and tags from this line?

Braided Ribbon close up

Close up of letters to show the pearls. Wondering why I have blue lines zebra lines? Well I was inking it with marker and accidentally got the line running across. Instead of dumping it I improvised and added random lines throughout the title :)

So that's my Simple Layout for today.