CTMH Product Spotlight Blog Hop

Welcome to our CTMH Product Spotlight Blog Hop! This month we are featuring the new paper packs in the Spring Idea Book, so I hope you'll hop along and check out all the fabulous inspiration! When you're done here, hop along to the Paper Crafting Princess to see more creations!
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I am featuring the Veranda paper pack - such a gorgeous paper pack with Juniper, Creme Brulee, Cocoa, and Garden Green. I took some old wooden frames that I've been storing for way too long and altered them with a bit of paper and some fun crumpled circle flowers in the corner.
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This first one was created for my SIL for her birthday. Her favorite color is green, and she has a pretty dark brown color similar to Cocoa in her living room so I knew this would be perfect. The frames didn't come with glass, so I cut a transparency to fit and then embossed it with Cocoa Embossing Powder using the Card Commentary stamp set - I think that will look nice over a picture. The ribbon came from the Veranda Creative Basics pack, but the papers came from the Level 2 pack. For this flower I cut circles of patterned paper, crumpled, and ink distressed. I also ink distressed the edges of the frame.


This second frame was created for the first customer of mine who noticed and mentioned seeing my girls in the Spring Idea Book - on page 51 if you missed it before ;-P For this flower and frame edges I sanded instead of inked.

To keep hopping, the next stop is the Paper Crafting Princess!
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To see one more project I have previously posted using this paper pack, just click on the following link - So Lucky

And to see a quick sample of what I've created using all of the newest Spring papers, check out the Valentine cards I made for my family - just click here!
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Thanks for looking!

I Did It!

At the beginning of the year, I set a goal of how many layouts I wanted to complete this year. I decided I could do at least 2 pages per week, so I set my number at 104. Well, as of last night, I have reached my layout goal for 2008 and we're barely halfway through the year! I'm so excited, even though I still have THOUSANDS more pictures to scrap ;-) But I'm having fun and preserving memories, that's what counts, right? I know some gals who scrap way more than 104 layouts in a year, so to some it may not seem like a lot, but this was a good goal for me. I looked back at last year and estimated that I only got about 50 layouts done, so double that in half the time is great!

So, be warned, this is a long post of artwork! I am posting my goal reaching layouts that I've completed in the last week. I just noticed that they're all old pics - I really haven't scrapped much of my girls lately....hmmmm, interesting.

Here is a layout of my Grandma and Grandpa's 50th wedding anniversary back in 1995 - oops, I just noticed that I forgot to add my journaling piece on the right page. They were married in 1945 and still together! I still remember, at this party, how my grandpa flipped his hat around and scooped my grandma up into a big kiss - that's the pic that's framed on the left page.

The flip book opens up to the pictures of some of the grandkids holding the Top Ten List.

I used Reflections for these two pages. Products Used: Caprice paper pack, Boutique Numbers, Card Commentary, Chocolate Mini Medleys, Chocolate Ribbon Rounds, Adorable stamp set, Because I Love You stamp set, Square Window Charm, Honey Sassy Strands, 6-pocket Photo Storage Page (cut up to create flip book), Classic Caps, All You Need stamp set (retired)

Here is a layout of our County Fair back in 1989. I added Hollyhock to tie the colors into me, but now I really wish I hadn't - oh, well!

The left page with the large picture of my brother and me, will open up using a TrueFit Folio, and inside will be these pages. I just can't get enough of these stitched circles - they're so much fun!

I used a PageMaps layout on each of these - the first set of pages is from a layout from the PageMaps Book and the other set is from April 2006 - it's just the same layout flipped. Products Used: Sarsaparilla paper pack, Homestead Alphabet, Fresh Shapes Dimensional Elements, Natural Hemp, Star Struck stamp set, Black Bitty Brads, Bigger Brads (my girls helped me use my Desert Sand Embossing Powder to make these brads match the page - they love using the tweezers and heat gun!)

And here is the page I completed last night - I really struggled finding the perfect title on this one, I debated leaving it just 'Cherish' or maybe 'Cherish the MomentS' or 'Cherish the simple moments' - I am still thinking about adding an "S" to the end of Moments - what do you think? This is my brother and I twenty years ago - wow, I can't believe it was that long ago!

I used a PageMaps layout from April 2008 for this one. Products Used: Blue Ribbon paper pack, various Dimensional Element letters, buttons, Moonstruck, Indian Corn Blue, and Sunflower Waxy Flax, Indian Corn Blue RicRac, Sans Alphabet, Calendar stamp set, Delightful Alphabet, White Daisy Grosgrain ribbon

Thanks for visiting my blog and thanks for all of the sweet comments - they really make my day.

Some new layouts...

Here are the layouts that I did yesterday - two of the pages were really simple as they were already done, I just had to add my pics and journaling ;-) But I still feel like I got a lot done yesterday! I'm at least attempting to make a dent in my millions of pictures! I have completed 82 layouts just this year so far - which I think is more than I did all of last year, so that's good for me! My goal that I set at the beginning of the year was to get at least 104 (two pages per week) and now that I'm on such a roll, I'm hoping to at least double that! Another goal is to use up a lot of my pre-done pages that I have done for club projects, workshops, and received in swaps - I have over 50 of those and I've used 3 so far ;-)

Anyway, here are my latest projects...

Celebrate Beauty

This left layout was done by Kelleigh Magle for Tiffany Cheney's Themed Party Swap that I participated in last summer. I created the right page to match. Also, I didn't notice until I was almost done, but the left page says Happy Birthday in the upper left corner, but it still works since David's birthday is in July - so I added the word 'celebrate' but now I wish I hadn't as it's hard to see.

Products Used - all CTMH: Floral Tapestry paper pack, White Just Blooms paper flowers, pewter brads, Card Commentary stamp set, Rustic Alphabet stamp set, and the CTMH font CD for the journaling pieces.

Happy Easter

I created this page for a club gathering project a couple months ago - it's nice to finally get some of those used up! I was going to create a right page to go with this one since I had some more pics of the girls in these cute bunny ears, but I really liked this one just by itself. Maybe I'll change my mind but for now this is just a 1-pager.

Products Used - all CTMH: Sweet Pea paper pack, Blush dot ribbon, Happy Easter stamp set, and the CTMH font CD for the Easter Poem on the tag.

Thanks for looking!