Ticket to Ride

This layout was published in the July issue of Scrapbook Trends. I made this one when I was designing for gcd studios using the fabulous Funhouse collection and I forgot that it got picked up before I posted it on my blog...so here it is.

I spent my weekend crafting, shopping for Christmas presents (happy to say I am pretty much done!), and today was a kids Christmas party complete with Santa and Sleigh rides. FUN! I hope you had a SUPER weekend!!!

Dandelion Wish

I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's day weekend and spent some time scrapbooking on National Scrapbooking Day:-)

This layout features Soul Food from gcd studios and is on their blog today HERE.

Today is a GREAT day in my household, Madison had her cast removed!!! She is so excited...and couldn't wait to get on her bike!

Circles!!!

Today my layouts for gcd studios went up on their blog! It seems I have had circles on the brain lately.... :-)

This past month, I was lucky enough to have been given Soul Food and Animal Crackers for girls to work on...and I simply ADORE both of these collections!!!

The first layout, "Almost Seven" is about my oldest daughter. A couple of weeks before my kids birthdays, I like to do a layout, to look back and reflect on how much they have grown! I just love the orange and pinks in this collection!

The next layout, "Sugar and Spice" uses the Animal Crackers collection. The papers are SO CUTE!! I cut out several circle from the Icon Dots sheet and pop dotted them for dimension. I also did a bit of fussy cutting on the Cube Leaf paper so that it was overlapping onto the white cardstock. I then painted with a bit of white paint onto my paper and wrote my journaling on top!

Happy March...we are that much closer to spring...yipppeee!!!

Gift tag set

Another project today for gcd studios!

With the Christmas season quickly approaching, I love to have special gifts on hand to take with me to give to the host of a dinner party or for my kids teachers...there are just so many people who deserve a little special something! And this project, doesn't break the bank!

I made a set of four Christmas tags using the lovely papers from the Joyful Peace collection. I simply adhered some scraps on paper to white cardstock and then cut out my tree shapes. I then added some yellow stickles to some some gcd studios star chipboard! Simple! Adding a quick paper bow to the box really finishes it off!

Happy creating!

Jamie

Christmas Ornaments

For my project this month for gcd studios, I decided to make some ornaments out of paper. I used these gorgeous papers from the Christmas Sleigh Collection...and I WISH you could see and feel the texture and shimmery goodness, so beautiful! Perfect for my ornaments! I really like them in this dish to use as a centerpiece on my table but now I need to make some more to hang from my tree :-)

Here is close up:

Want to make one? It is not as hard as it looks but grab a coffee and I'll go through each step with you!

First gather your supplies: You will need paper, glue, and a punch (if you have a 1" or 2" circle punch this will make it soooo much easier...I used a coluzzle which took a bit more work). So go ahead and and make your "template" circle out of cardstock.

Fold your circle into a triangle shape by folding in three sides to the middle.

Go ahead now and punch out 20 of these circles from your patterned paper.

Use your "template" circle to help you fold all of your circles so they are all folded the same.

Now that they are all folded, we can start to adhere them together.

Glue five of them side by side until you make a "hat".

Make three of these "hats" and leave the other ones for now.

Next, glue two of these hats together on one side.

Now take a single piece and adhere it to where you see the open triangle space in the photo above.

Next, ahere another "hat" directly below where you just adhered the single piece. The hat will can be adhered on three sides. To fit in the spot shown in the photo above.

Ok, if you are still with me it should look like the photo above. See how there are three triangle spots? This is where you will adhere three more of the single pieces.

Alright, now there is just one piece left to adhere!

Congratulations! You are now done! Happy creating!!!

Jamie