Twinchie Fun!

Just a little fun post to share with you today about Twinchies. I whipped these up as a little something to slip in with my daughter's lunch. She loves little handmade notes and surprises.

I used some Coffee Shop Glimmer Mist on this twinchie. Then I cut a kraft scrap and used my Fiskars border punch on it. Then I used my Yes Paste to adhere it to my pink base. I found these cute little stickers in the dollar bin at JoAnn's.

My daughter loves butterflies so I made sure to use one on this twinchie. The paper scrap with the butterfly is from Prima. The stamped butterfly is from Stampin Up! I cut it out and popped it out using foam squares and I added a little dot of Stickles for a bit of sparkle!

My final twinchie is a shabby chic little goodie that I'm sure make my little girl smile. I used some paper scraps from Hobby Lobby and a Prima flower with a blue brad.

I am hoping my little girl will like a little hello note from me in her lunch on the back of one of these!

ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS! Due to FB's fan page changes, we can not contact you individually but we have chosen a daily winner from our FB page for the first 6 days of our Marvelous March Fan giveaway, and we are listing the winners here! Thanks to all of you for your support. If we have listed your name, please email us your contact info to thescrappytree@hotmail.com.

March 1st- Jean Marmo

March 2nd- Carol Ann Anspaugh

March 3rd- Melissa Eggler

March 4th- Terri Vandergoff

March 5th- Jennie Boxall

March 6th- Clare Buckingham Dempsey

Gayle is next up and rumor has it, she will be doing some tweeting this week :) Have a great night everyone!

Thanks again for your support

Kristin xx

Using Stamping on your layouts

I'm an avid rubber stamper and I definitely stamp more than I create layouts, but I really like to combine my love of stamping with my layouts and it is a really simple thing that you can do also!





I made this layout of my two girls on one of their lovey moments. I had just gotten some new Papertrey Ink stamps and I thought they would be perfect for this layout.


I have a close up of some of my stamping here:

Layering stamped images can really add some punch to your layout. Below is a close up of a banner I stamped. I added the title "Sisters" with Thickers.

I hope you will give stamping a try on your layouts!!

Supplies Used:

Prima paper

Prima flowers

vintage button

Thickers

Martha Stewart tag

Papertrey Ink Stamps:

Banner Builder

Delightful Doilies

Signature Greetings

Happy March Everyone!

As we move into our third month of the year, The Scrappy Tree wanted to do something special for all of our supporters and fans. We've already had a busy year so far and are planning more fun to come but we know we can't do it without you. Well, we wanted a special way to say Thank You to all the folks that have supported us so far this year, with our charity efforts, joined our challenges, those who come back day after day to visit us here, and on Twitter, Facebook and joined our groups in our scrappy community. SO.......................

for the entire month of March, we will be randomly selecting a daily winner on one of our four social media locations to win some scrappy supplies!! All four of us will take turns picking a daily winner, we will be giving away random items from all areas of the arts and crafts industry and be contacting our supporters here on the blog, on Twitter, on Facebook and in our Scrappy Community. We are not asking you to do anything other than to keep being awesome, of course if you are not following us in all the above you may want to, just to increase your odds, just saying:) So look out for messages, tweets, FB messages and messages on our Scrappy community telling you, You Have Won! We will inform you how to contact us once you have been chosen, GOOD LUCK to all and here's to a Marvelous March!

Gayle kicked us off to a great start with her St. David's Day challenge and introduced it's lovely prizes, isn't that dragon too cute for words :)

Today I would like to introduce the WCP challenge for the month. This month a simple free tool I have been using a lot recently came to mind...

Let this bubble wrap inspire you to create something using it as a tool, let the blue inspire you, let the look and feel of plastic be your inspiration, it's up to you! If you would like to share your project once complete, upload it Here, we would love to see it!

Have a great day, thanks for stopping by!

Kristin xx

Happy St David's Day!

The Scrappy Tree would like to wish you a very happy St David's Day! St David is the patron saint of Wales, and on March 1st every year, this is celebrated across Wales; children at school wear the national costume, and many people wear a daffodil or a (fake!) leek, as these are both Welsh national symbols.

As you may know, one of the Scrappy Tree team lives in Wales, so we thought we would offer you a chance to experience a bit of Wales for yourself! Create a project of your choice using the colours yellow and green (representing the colours of the daffodil) and upload a picture to our Scrappy site here. The competition will close on 14th March and we'll announce the winner on the 15th!

You'll win the items shown:- two Welsh recipe books (one sweet, one savoury), some Welsh tea, a Wales mug, a Welsh dragon (a red dragon appears on the Welsh flag), a felt leek, a lovespoon (these were originally carved and given as a gift to a sweetheart; the symbols represent different sentiments) and not shown here we'll also include some Welshcakes for you to enjoy with a nice mug of tea!
Of course the real prize is this cute little dragon! :)

To be in with a chance of winning, get those yellow and green supplies out and get creating! Happy St David's Day!

Resolutions Tag Book - February

Here we are on the last day of February.... how are those New Year's resolutions coming along? They slip so easily out of mind don't they!

We posted here last month about keeping them in mind all year long by making yourself a tag book. We'll be sharing one with you every month, and would love to hear which resolutions you're working on in 2011 :)

This month's resolution for me is....

Follow your interests and study hard! Learn, learn, learn....

This year I'm having a change of career so I want to work hard and learn as much about it as I possibly can; however, this resolution also extends to my interests! I always want to keep learning new things and look forward to trying out new crafts and techniques this year :) this year already I have been using a sewing machine on a few of my projects which is a new thing for me, and I love it!

What are your experiences with your resolutions? Now that we are two months into the year have you come up with some new plans to follow? Let us know how you're getting on!

Gayle xx

February's Art Journal Friday

Welcome to Art Journal Friday, come one, come all and bring some paper and crafting stuff! I've been thinking since the last time I posted this that I have been a bit lazy of late in making sure that it's completely clear that art journaling is open to EVERYBODY, and can be as serious or as fun as you want to make it :) if you need to get something off your chest, use art journaling; if you need to have some fun and play about with your supplies, make a mess and try out some new stuff... put it in your art journal! It's all good, all valid, and if you love or hate it, no one needs to know but you :)

The aim of our monthly prompt here is to maybe give you an idea to start you off on a page; you're free to take whatever you want from the prompt, and if some or all of it doesn't work for you, then that's ok too :) for me, I'm just happy to spread the art journal love!

This month I wanted to journal about something a little more personal to me; I am in the process of moving jobs, and had been working for my old employers for about 10 years! It's really made me evaluate my relationships with the people that I've worked with, and made me think about the advice, the knowledge, the inspiration they've passed on. I'm more thankful for their support towards me than they will ever know, and this month needed to work through how emotional I was feeling about that! There have been tears on this one people, I warn you! :-D

This month's prompt is inspire - journal about someone (maybe more than one person) who inspires you, and you want to say thank you to them. It might be that you're journaling thoughts that you don't feel comfortable to share with that person, or thoughts that actually you've already shared but you feel strongly about it and it will make for a great journaling experience for you :) if you want to cover it up under some paint/paper once you've written it then you can, it's your art journal (and personally I do that all the time!). Sometimes the process of getting it out of your brain and onto paper is the important thing, not that you record those thoughts for posterity!

If you do want to share your finished page with us, there is an Art Journal Friday group at our Ning community where I promise you will receive lots of love for your work! We are a supportive bunch and we love to see what you create :)

Have a wonderful weekend!

Gayle

Then & Now Receipt Holder

7 Gypsies always comes out with the most original display products in the scrappy market, and with there Receipt Holders they did not disappoint, for my project I used the small one, each space is 3”X5”

Something else about this receipt holder is that it inspired me to mix all these embellishments that I would normally not put together, and I really like the lost and found trinkets look

Then & Now is a display with a photo of my husband and I when we started dating and a most recent photo of us, I did not realize how much we’ve changed physically until I put these two photos together, the changes are huge and it’s kind of funny to think about the fact that we are in the last years of being young adults, but will definitely always be young at heart ;)

For any display where you have to leave the photos exposed, I recommend that you laminate them, and that way you’ll be protecting them from any damage. I like the Self-Adhesive Laminate by Therm O Web, it took me a little practice to get a clean film with no air bubbles and I’ve learned that it works even better with matte finish photos, do not use a bone folder or a ruler to smooth out the laminate, your thumb will be the best tool, the final results are fantastic.

Supplies used:

7 Gypsies Receipt Holder, Avignon paper and Tags, Antiquarian Journal Pages and Princesca Hardware
Making Memories Paper Reverie
Wrinkled seam binding Ribbon
Tattered Angels Framed Fonts
Tim Holtz Memo Pins
Prima Hydrangeas
Therm O Web Matte Self-Adhesive Laminate
Dymo

I hope I was able to inspire you to make a display with your own then and now photos :)

Have a Great Day an Till Next Time

=Diana