Sweet Life Blog hop

Welcome to our July Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! This month's stamp from Close to My Heart is "Sweet Life" and is available exclusively through your Close to My Heart consultant from July 1 - 31, 2013. You can purchase this stamp set for only $5 with a qualifying purchase.






If you have just hopped onto my blog, please start at the beginning at Lucy's blog – Love 2 Create  If you came from "Darla " of "Caution: Crafting is Contagious" then you are in the right
place!


For my project, I decided to stamp one of the images and color it with color pencils. I used Sweet leaf for the back round green. I outlined the leaves in a dark green, then I colored them in with a lighter green color. I did the same with the yellow for the flowers and the red for the apple. The image is stamped in black ink, and it is popped up with a little bit of foam tape.

Your next stop on our "Sweet Life" hop is " Jennifer " of "4 Hearts Scrapbooking"




Lucy ~ Love 2 Create
Darla ~ Caution: Crafting is Contagious
Theo ~ Celebrate Crafts
Jennifer~ 4 Hearts Scrapbooking
Mary Ellen ~ Cr8ive ME
Cat ~ Catscrapbooking
Rebecca - Show Me Scrapping
Heather - Paper Crafter Anonymous

Everything's ABC blog hop letter D

Welcome to the Everything ABC's Blog Hop!

For this hop we will be featuring the letter D. This may be the name of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment. Whatever the crafter has chosen as their D element will be featured in their post.

If you have just hopped onto my blog, please start at the beginning at Amber's blog ~ Scrapper's Therapy

If you came from "Lucy" of Love 2 Create, then you are on the right track!






For letter "D", I had such a had time figuring out what to do. I finally went to my Artiste cricut cartridge, found the letter D, and decided to make a project using that letter. This card is under letter D ( card "D") and was cut at 3 1/2 using desert sand card stock. I distressed the edged with black ink using a ctmh sponge dauber. The floral paper is from the new paper pack "For Always", and this sheet just happens to have desert sand mixed in with the black and white. This piece of paper was cut at 2 3/4 x 3 3/4. I stamped Happy Birthday using CTMH detail clear embossing powder. I then took my sponge dauber, inked it with black, and swirled it over the embossed image so the image would be visible.


Supplies:

Artiste cricut cartridge (z1790)

Desert sand card stock (1273)

For Always paper pack (x7165b)

Detail clear embossing powder (z821)

Black ink (z2105)

sponge dauber (z726)






Your next stop on our Everything ABC'S blog Hop is " Linda  " of " Scrappy Therapy"

Here is the complete lineup in case you get lost along the way:

 Amber La Mons ~ Scrapper's Therapy
 Lucy ~ Love 2 Create
 Theodora~ Celebrate Crafts
 Linda- Scrappy Therapy
 Shalana Glass - Scrappin with Shalana
 Shelly Nemitz - Just One Piece
 Alicia Petitt - Serene Scrapping with Alicia
 Kathy Johnson ~Kathy's Creative Corner