Monday, May 9, 2011

May's Inspiration Monday

Hello! Today marks another Inspiration Monday! I hope this Mother's Day weekend treated you well, and that you are ready to get down to some craftiness!






The Inspiration image is from The Wedding Community. Let's see what this image inspires you to create!




Once you have completed your project, please take a moment to upload a picture of it to our Monthly Inspiration Challenge Group!






We'd love to see how you were inspired!

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Happy Mother's Day America!

Wishing all the American Moms a very happy Mother's Day today from The Scrappy Tree!

Have a beautiful day and here's to being thoroughly spoilt today for everything you do all year round :)
Happy Mother's Day Moms - we love you!

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Mothers Day Cards and a Challenge

Hello, Diana here to share three Mothers day Cards I made inspired by these cute puffie bird embellishments from KI Memories.


The card size is 3.5” X 3.5”, I used a Maya road chip frame that I covered with acrylic paint, added some ribbon and lace, a few extra decorations like brads and gems, and finally a rub-on with the word Celebrate.





And now a challenge, in honor of mothers day make a layout about someone in your life that is a mom, it can be your own mom, your mother in law, grandmother, an aunt or even yourself, post it to the Lets Scrap Group in our Scrappy Community, I'll post them here on May25th.


I made this layout of my mom using a sketch from Inspired Blueprints


In My Heart Forever




Wishing you all a Happy Mothers Day in advance!


=Di

Monday, May 2, 2011

Altered envelopes

Good morning! Today I wanted to share a little project that I worked on over the weekend. The project came about because I absolutely love Maya Rd. envelopes but I struggle with just how to use them. So, I decided I would alter them and use them as a card.


Here is the first one I created:
Here is a second one I created:

Supplies:

Maya Rd. envelopes

K & Co. stickers

Martha Stewart doily

buttons

ribbon


Thank you for stopping by today!


~Julie



Friday, April 29, 2011

April's Art Journal Friday

Welcome to this month's Art Journal Friday! With May nearly here and the weather being SOOO much better (aren't you just loving it!) I am feeling colours this month - the light is better and lasts longer, and the world looks completely different just for having a little sunshine fall upon it :)


So keeping it simple, for this month's art journal prompt, create a page using any combination of oranges, purples and/or gold, in honour of the wonderful sunshine that is making a reappearance! All are welcome, and if you'd like to share your page and some love, you can come chat with us at our Ning Community and upload your work there.

Look forward to seeing you!

Happy Art Journaling :)

Gayle xx

p.s. simply can't post today without wishing congratulations to Prince William and Kate Middleton on their wedding day - best wishes for many happy years ahead, from The Scrappy Tree girls!

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Layouts

A few weeks back I posted a challenge about making a layout using less then 5 types of non paper embellishments, this is not easy for me because I am guilty of over decorating my pages, but I managed to make this layout using only: gems, ribbon and a glitter sticker.


The following beautiful layouts were made by two talented members of our Scrappy Community


Michelle Unruh

Michelle used only a gem flourish, and she rocked her Cricut machine.



Jean Marmo

Jean used corks and a bright flower that looks amazing on her page.



Beautiful!! thank you ladies for sharing with us your wonderful work.

I’ll be posting another challenge in a couple of weeks, and we would love for all of you to participate, so please leave a comment and let us know what kind of challenge would you like to see, all suggestions are welcome.

That’s all for today, hope you all have a great day!

=Di


Friday, April 22, 2011

Happy Earth Day!

Happy Earth Day bloggers! We all hope that you are able to do something good for the planet today whether it be big or small. Today, I'd like to show you how I repurposed an item that some people might throw away.

I started with this Crystal Light container. I love the shape of this and I knew it would be good for some sort of project. I decided I would get a head start on the end of the year teacher gifts with this and make it into a gift container for a set of bookmarks for my daughter's third grade teacher.
I love Crate Paper's Emma Shoppe line and I decided to use that on this container. To fully use every spare bit of that paper, I lined the outside of this container with the very first sheet of paper that was in the collection pack; you know the one that shows you a sample of each of the papers in the pack? I like to do that with my collection packs. Gotta use every last bit! :) I added lace, a Bazzill bloom, Crate paper accents, including the Crate Paper brad. I recommend using Yes Paste as your adhesive! It is able to stick to plastic and does so with ease!


Now, for the bookmarks! What could be better for a teacher?! I used a mix of Hero Arts Stamps and Papertrey Ink stamps on these bookmarks. All of these bookmarks were made using scrap paper from Crate Paper and scrap cardstock!


Thank you for stopping by today! Happy Earth Day!!




~Julie






Thursday, April 21, 2011

Soda Pop Bottle & Wine Cork Picture Holders

Hello, I’m back to share another Green Project.

I saved these bottles because of there cute and small shape and decided to use them as Picture Holders with the help of a Wine Cork and Tim Holtz Memo Pins
For the bottle decoration I used one of my favorite Crate paper line: Restoration, the colorful and fun vintage design goes perfect with the photos I selected of my parents back in there dating days.
I protected the photos with Therm-O-Web Self Adhesive Laminate and matted them on a piece of pattern paper.


This Friday April 22nd is Earth Day, here are some Freebies you might be able to take advantage of:

April 16-24: Free entrance into National Parks for National Park Week
April 22: Bring in any empty cosmetic product to Origins and get free samples.
April 22: Bring in a travel cup at Starbucks and receive a free coffee or tea at participating stores.
April 22: Bring in 5 plastic grocery bags at Disney Stores and receive a reusable shopping tote. While supplies last.
April 22: (Texas only) Visit the Green Mountain booth at these local Earth Day events and receive afree tree to plant at home or in your community.
April 22: Free homemade Organic Milkshake at EVOS

Comment and share with us in what ways you Go Green in your daily life.

Enjoy your Day!
=Di