Who says you need a title?

It's like a card without a sentiment....usually you need one, but not always.

I'm still on my quilted scrapbooking kick.  Last week I saw this post at Basic Grey, part of the Moda Friendship Quilt Along, and immediately thought that it would make a perfect layout.

I pulled out my Little Yellow Bicycle Once Upon a Christmas papers (Thanks Lisa!) and picked three of the more subtle/tone on tone patterns.  Each of the squares is 2 1/2" square, so the center portion is 5" square.  I just cut the squares diagonally using my paper trimmer, inked all the edges, and laid the pattern out.

Normally I would run all the pieces through my Xyron, but since I knew I wanted to do some stitching, I used my Tombow so I  could avoid the outer edges.....keeps my sewing machine needle in better shape.



I did manage to goof on the journaling (possibly because it was about 11 PM and my brain was kind of fried.....I started of saying that Xiao Ayi (my younger sister) took us to lunch, but then remembered that it was my parents who treated.  Since everything was adhered/sewn already, I just amended my journaling to correct it.  Doesn't make a mess, still tells the story, and you would never have known had I not told you right?  A couple years ago I would have obsessed about it, but I like to think I'm a bit older and wiser now.  The point is that I got the memory/photo scrapped, and the facts are there...eventually.



That's all for me today.  Hope yours is wonderful!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Little Yellow Bicycle - Once Upon a Christmas Collection; CTMH - White Daisy Cardstock
Ink:  CTMH - Black
Other:  CTMH - Sponge Dauber; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; Sewing Machine; Pigma - Black Micron Pen; Gelly - White Gel Pen

Hello Spring Cards

When I was working on Carina's Before and After Easter layout last week, I ended up with this strip left from one of the sheets of paper that I used.

It's such a cute little scene, and I thought it would be perfect to cut up for a set of cards, so here's what happened:



The paper really didn't need much. I just added some Hello Spring embellishments and a few trims.

For this one, I added the 'Love' sticker, some Amy Tangerine ribbon and stick pins.



This one used used another cardstock sticker that I popped up with some dimensional foam tape and then a clear cut shapes butterfly that was also popped up. So easy!



Finally, this one took a little more effort. I stitchced around a couple of the clouds using Blueberry Trendy Twine. The Hello Spring sentiment is another clear cut shape which I layered over a little piece of vellum so that it stands out a bit more, and then a little more Strawberry Trendy Twine finishes it off.



Hope your week is going well! Thanks for coming by!

Supplies Used

Paper/Cardstock: Little Yellow Bicycle - Hello Spring Garden Rows; CTMH - White Daisy Cardstock; Michael's - Open Stock Vellum
Other: Little Yellow Bicycle Hello Spring Stick Pins, Cardstock Stickers, Clear Cut Shapes; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape; Trendy Twine - Blueberry and Strawberry; 3L Large Dodz Adhesive; Tombow Mono Adhesive; American Crafts - Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Chevron Ribbon

Easter 2012 - Before and After

Looking at these photos together cracks me up. The one on the left is one of my favorites of Carina. She just looks so grown up there. The one on the right is after a hard Easter's day. Note the colored jellybean drool on the sleeve of her right sweater, the chocolate all over her face (partly because she shoved chocolate eggs in her mouth without taking the foil wrappers off), and the grass and mulch all over her legs/stockings. Quite a sight!

Anyway, this is another one of those layouts that is mostly a single collection - Little Yellow Bicycle's Hello Spring line. LYB does a great job with embellishments/stickers and I really took advantage of that here....that tree in the bottom left corner is one of my favorite elements. The tree/leaves are a single sticker, and then you place the flowers yourself.



The only other products I used were the alphas - glittered foam thickers as well as some alpha stickers from Nicki Sivlis' Gingerbread House line - the color was PERFECT.



Hope your week is off to a great start!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock: LYB - Hello Spring papers; CTMH - White Daisy cardstock
Other: LYB - Hello Spring Fabric Favorites, Cardstock Stickers Favorite Pieces, 6x6 Decorative Edge cardstock, Clear Cuts Shapes, Dimensional Stickers; American Crafts - Glitter Foam Thickers, Eclair; Nicki Sivlis - Gingerbread House alpha stickers