Rose Blossom Blog Hop: It's A (Beautiful) New Day!

Hi All! Welcome to the Rose Blossom mid-month Blog Hop featuring Close To My Heart's limited edition Live Your Day scrapbooking program. If you've just hopped over from Shelly's fabulous blog, Just One Pretty Piece, you are in the right place. I'll have a list of hop participants at the end of this post, along with a list of supplies used in this project.

Now, on with the show (& tell...)! Close To My Heart is celebrating National Papercrafting Month with a limited edition set of Picture My Life cards called Live Your Day. These cards are designed to be used in both planners and pocket scrapbooking layouts. I decided, however, that I wanted to use some of the cards as home decor pieces. And so we have today's project:

This Live Your Day card was originally all white detail on a light juniper back ground. I decided to step it up a bit by adding some water color to the flowers on the card. Though the camera didn't pick it up very well, I added a bit of shimmer to the flowers as well.

I then cut the 4x6 card down to fit in this white Ikea frame, and proceeded to alter the frame a bit. For a bit of bling, I added strips of Aqua Shimmer Trim to the frame, mitering the corners for a more finished, professional look. Then I stamped the butterfly images from the Your Beautiful Self stamp set on the light gypsy journaling cards in Whisper ink and fussy cut them. I added Gun Smoke Stickles to their bodies and antennae for some extra pop. While the butterflies were drying, I stamped the sentiment (from the same stamp set) on one of the 4x6 cards in Whisper ink and trimmed it down to fit. I then added some loops of seam binding ribbon and began to adhere the butterflies to the frame, popping some up with foam tape for dimensional interest. I added the sentiment using a stick pin and some foam tape.

Here's a collage of close-ups:

And here's the frame, one more time:

I hope you enjoyed my Live Your Day project. Don't forget, these cards are only available through the month of January. Now, for more inspiration, hop on over and see what the super talented Morgan has in store for you at TweetScraps.

And here's a list of hop participants in case you get lost along the way:

Brenda

Lynn

Marg

Shelly

Kim {that's me!}

Morgan

Cathy

Mary

Kim

Have a wonderfully creative day!

CTMH Live Your Day	Watercolors	Watercolor Brush Set	Aqua Shimmer Trim
CTMH Your Beautiful Self Stamp Set	CTMH Whisper Exclusive Ink	Ikea NYTTJA 4x6 Frame	Memory Book Glue Dots
CTMH 3D Foam Tape

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A Bit of Springtime Mojo

Hi All! Welcome to another Mojo Monday challenge. I just found out that I was one of the lucky winners for the January contest sketch from last week! (You can see the post on that card here, and you can see the other winners here.)  Have to say, I'm pretty stoked about it! 

Still, it's a new week and a new challenge, so let's take a look. 

 Here's my take on the sketch:

Close To My Heart is celebrating National Papercrafting Month with an exclusive set of Picture My Life cards called Live Your Day. They are designed to work well with planners or pocket scrapbooking. I'll show you how I used them with my planner in another post, but for now, I've been wanting to use them in other ways. So the striped paper I used here is actually one of the Live Your Day cards that I cut to fit. 

To make the front of this card, I started with a piece of White Daisy cardstock and masked off a circle. I used some of the small floral images from the Woodland Romance stamp set to create a background pattern. The images are second generation stamping using Gypsy, Pixie, Juniper, and Whisper inks. I then layered the front with the striped card.

The sentiment and accent flowers are from the Springtime Wishes stamp set. I stamped the sentiment on vellum in VersaMark ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I rounded the corners and popped it up with dimensional adhesive. I then used the coordinating dies to cut out the floral and leaf images and added them to the vellum to hide the dimensional adhesive. I popped the purple flower up with more dimensional adhesive for interest. I then finished the card off with some seam binding ribbon and sparkles from my stash.

Here are a couple of close ups:

And here it is on my sunny kitchen table. (I had to document the sunshine because it's been such a rarity these days!)

I hope you enjoyed my bit of springtime mojo. Most of the supplies I used are linked below.

Have a wonderful and creative week! And for more ideas on using your Live Your Day stop back by on Friday, January 15th for the Rose Blossom Blog Hop where we'll be featuring Live Your Day.

Live Your Day	Woodland Romance Stamp Set	Springtime Wishes	Springtime Wishes Thin Cuts
Clear Sparkles	Bitty Sparkles	Gypsy Exclusive Ink	Pixie Exclusive Ink
Juniper Exclusive Ink	Whisper Exclusive Ink	VersaMark Watermark Ink	Ranger White Super Fine Embossing Powder
Heat Tool	ATG Gun	CTMH White Daisy Cardstock	Heavy Black Cardstock

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