Sending You A Happy Hello!

On Friday, Two Scrapbook Friends launched their National Scrapbook Day online crop. Each member of the design team, plus Joanne and myself, issued a challenge and participants have the week to play along and a chance to win some prizes.

My challenge was paper piecing. I love this technique and thought it would make a great challenge for my online friends. Here is the card that I made for my challenge.

I used a stamp set to do my pieced design. All you do is stamp the image on your background and then select the sections that you want to piece together on top of the stamped image. Re-stamp those in the colours you like and then cut them out.

I pieced the 'leaves' of the trees and this adorable bird.

Visit the Two Scrapbook Friends forum for more details on the online crop! I hope you find some time to play along.

Cutting Cafe Blog Hop Winner!

Good Morning! I want to thank everyone that joined in on The Cutting Cafe blog hop! I received so many nice comments and I really appreciate all your kind words. Here is the card that I made:

I have done the random draw for the winner of this awesome cutting file!

And the lucky winner is............AVRIL!!!!!!

Congratulations! I will send that file to you right away!

The Cutting Cafe Blog Hop & Giveaway!

Welcome to The Cutting Cafe blog hop! If you are following along, you should have arrived here from Leah Schaeffer's blog. If you have just happened upon this, you will want to start at the beginning (click here).

I used a great set called the Flower Pot Shaped Card! With Mother's Day coming up, I thought it would be a perfect card.

I used the Prairie Hill collection from Pink Paislee and some Kraft Core cardstock to create my pot and flowers. I added a kraft cardstock centre to a few of the blooms and inked the edges with Walnut Distress ink.

I sanded the edges of the orange flowers and the pot to expose the kraft interior. I printed the sentiment on kraft cardstock and added it to the bottom of the pot.

Leave a comment on my blog and you will have a chance to win the Flower Pot Shaped Card & Sentiment set. I will make the draw and announce the winner on Saturday morning.

From here you will be visiting the very talented Jessica Esch! Make sure you visit all the blogs on the hop because everyone is giving a set away!

Regina Easter

Iris Benkel-Sommer

Lori Warner

Paula Riley

Leah Schaeffer

Carolyn Wolff (that's me)

Jessica Esch

Dawn Mercedes

Jeri Thomas

Lana Clarke

Happy hopping everyone :)

1 Great Day

Wow, it feels like forever since I have created a layout. I couldn't wait to dig in to this new product from Pink Paislee. I love the combination of orange and teal.

My main design element is pinwheels! These are so easy to make and they worked great with my summer theme. I added a kraft coloured centre and an orange brad to give some dimension.

I used my Silhouette for my title (which I also love). I used foam adhesive to pop it up and I stitched the #1 to give it a bit more character.

I used one of the background papers (with the diamond pattern) and I cut it up to create pieces for my background. I added a bit of stitching to highlight it as well.

This layout will be featured as a workshop at Two Scrapbook Friends so you will have a chance to add this to your albums too.

Happy Birthday!

I have really been enjoying making cards lately and today, I have another one to show you. I love to paper piece stamped images and that is exactly what I did to create this birthday card.

First I stamped the image (a Whipper Snapper stamp) on my white background and coloured in the faces with Copic markers. Then I stamped the image multiple times, on all the different colours I would be using to piece my image together. From there, you just hand cut out each piece and layer it on top of the stamped image on the white.

I also used my new Dymo label maker and the new Kraft Core cardstock (we are now carrying this at the store) to create the sentiment for my card.

I stitched with some twine and some floss and inked my card with Walnut Distress Ink.

Thanks for visiting :)