My "Lucky Me" Mini reveal!

Its finally time!!!
Time to Reveal my "Lucky Me" Mini!!!


First of all I just want to say how much fun I had making this mini! Its such a great idea that Bree came up with and I really spent a lot of time with

it. At first I wasnt sure if I was going to stick with the style of construction but I decided that I wanted to because I havent made a book like this before. Now that I am finished I wish that the book wasnt quite so bulky on the right side of the book but when its standing up displayed its really lovely.

I went with my typical style throughout a good portion of my book. I love chic, romantic, lots of flourishes, paired with lost of fun elements as well. I used far too many companies to remember off the top of my head (although I kept a running supply list for each and every page so if anyone wants to know what is by who just ask!)

I cant wait to see what all of you make, I know there will be some amazing work!

Here is the Creative Soup Version of my mini reveal

Eeeek Im just so excited about this mini!!!

Now here are a few other squares that were not included

 (the special extended version!)

And now for you all I have a few full sized pictures so you can get a good idea

about what each page really looks like and the size.

And there are some pages that were not revealed anywhere but here on my blog !

I hope that you all love my book just as much as I do!

Now it's time for you to join in on the fun!

Make sure that you head on over to

Creative Soup

today to get in on everything and to see all of the other ladies books!

There will be a project chat forum, tips and tricks, construction directions

and much MUCH more!!!

The Topic:

This class was inspired by the gratitude blogging a lot of scrappers did back in November. The idea is to create a mini-album full of things you are grateful for or things you just love or appreciate. Its a fun way to spend sometime documenting the positives of your life and tidbits about YOU. There will be ideas to help you make your list posted on the 2nd.

-Bree

Thank you all so much for looking at my "Lucky Me" mini! I hope you all enjoyed it and join in to make one

of your own! See you over at Creative Soup for the class!



Bonus Mojo Monday over at Creative Soup! (and a reminder about our FREE class that is being announced tomorrow!)

Happy Manic Monday everyone!

I am totally excited because today I have something super fun to share with you all!

Its an awesome BONUS Mojo Monday challenge over at

Creative Soup!

This MM was created by Bree and it was so fun to do!

Here are the guidelines:

Your challenge is to use some of Bree's favorite things from her project to inspire a card, layout or project of your own.

Here is Bree's project

Your project must meet at least TWO of the following:

1.Use the same color scheme as my banner (teal & golden yellow/orange)

2.Use butterflies on your project

3.Create a scallop circle shaped layout, card or project

4.Stitch a circle on your layout or project

5.Use a patterned transparency

6.Distress your project with paint

7.Doodle on your project

How awesome is this challenge!!!!

Here is my take on today's Mojo Monday:

Vintage Dress Form Frame



I love love it to pieces!

It is hanging on the wall in my Scrap room and looks perfect.

Thank you Bree for a wonderful MM.

 

 

On another completely exciting note.

Tomorrow over at Creative Soup we will be revealing Februarys FREE online class that we are offering!

 

This class is going to be so much fun, and I know that everyone has worked really hard to

make it interesting, fun, accessable and absolutely

worth your time!

 

 

Again for those of you who missed it here is my sneak for the class:

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you are all as excited as I am now

and I cant wait to see you over there!

 

 

"Love of all things" Monthly crop over at Creative Soup !

This months amazingly lovely invitation was made by Kristen, one of the
wonderfully talented ladies at Creative Soup!

Please join us for our Monthly crop!

All of us from Creative Soup would love it if you could join in the fun!

Saturday, February 12th

"Love of All Things".



My Mini Sneak is here! *hoorah hooray*

Happy, happy Monday everyone!

I have for you all an exciting sneak for my "Lucky Me" mini!!!

This is an awesome free online class that is being offered over at the Creative Soup scrapbook forum

in February! There is no limit to what you can do with this wonderful project!

Myself along with a handful of extremely talented ladies 

have started our books for the class to give you all tons of delicious inspiration

for your own books! 

Now without further adieu :

I really hope that you come by for a look this February and join in on our free online mini class!

If you have any questions at all please just write them out in a comment

 and I will get back to you ASAP!

Finally Friday: A birthday and a cupcake!

Happy happy birthday to my one and only

Hubby!

My dear sweet husband turns the ripe ole' age of 23 today!

I just love birthdays... who doesn't!?

All this recent talk of birthdays around our household got me thinking of

cake, specifically :

CUPCAKES !

Who doesn't just love cupcakes to itty bitty little pieces!?

Well I have for you all a tutorial for the cutest little cupcake pincushion!

Laundry detergent cap Cupcake pincushion tutorial

Items needed

1. one piece of white craft felt
2. cotton balls
3. good scissors
4. 2 types of ribbon
5. small hair elastic or rubber band
6. One white or green pipe cleaner
7. American Crafts Memory Maker double sided marker in LEAF (this is if you are using a white pipe cleaner)
8. colourful pins. (I used the 80 count ball point pins by Prym creative. I got these at Wal-Mart for under $2.00 I prefer these because they are the colour of sprinkles!)
9. Tombo Mono multi liquid glue or any other liquid glue
10. Hot glue gun and glue sticks
11. Laundry detergent cap. ( I used the one from an Arm & Hammer bottle of detergent+softener, I chose it for the pink colour!)
12. One red button or bead on the medium to large side

Step one

 

Fill your detergent cap with a handful of cotton balls so that they create a dome

shape that will resemble icing.

Step Two

Cover your cotton filled cap with your white felt and wrap your elastic around it to

hold the dome shape in place. Press the shape of the cupcake into your felt then remove from your cap.

Step Three

Cut the shape that was pressed into your felt out and set it aside after making sure that it will come down the

the bottom lip of your cap.

Then remove half of your cotton balls and put them back in the bag. With the other half you will want  to shred them until they are soft and fluffy almost doubling in volume.

Cut several squares out of your left over felt. you will then refill your cap with first the shredded cotton then your felt strips.

Step Four

Once your cap is filled and resembles the correct shape, cover it with your felt circle and glue all of the edges in place with your hot glue gun.

Step Five

Once you have secured your felt you will then glue strips of ribbon around the edges of the cap to hide the messy ends of the felt. This will give your cupcake a cute frilly look!

Step Six

Take your pipe cleaner and bend it into the shape of two small leaves with a stem. Cut the excess off and set aside.

If you are using a white pipe cleaner you will then color it with your American Crafts marker. Now take your button or bead and thread your pipe cleaner through and adhere it to the top center of your cupcake's frosting to make the cherry on top!

Step Seven

squirt a small dollop of your liquid glue onto some scrap paper and run the pointy ends of your pins

in the glue.

Then press your pins into your felt to secure the felt further and create your cupcake's sprinkles!

Now you have an adorable Cupcake pincushion!

These make the cutest gifts for just about anything and they are so easy to make!

I hope you find them just as yummy delicious as I do!

Don't forget to post a link of your own cupcake pincushions on my blog for everyone to see if you make one too!