The set contains 3 spiral flowers and 3 leaf dies. Cut and emboss the spiral flowers and roll into beautiful tiny roses! Ink them, spray with Perfect Pearls or Glitter Mist, distress them, or leave them as is. You decide! They are beautiful on just about any project you can think of, and have I mentioned they are fun?

I whipped up this card and matching box with using the Bitty Blossoms in no time at all!

Products used:

DCWV Chateau Lavender Mat Stack

DCWV Chateau Lavender Cardstock Mat Stack

DCWV Le Tres Chic Cardstock Mat Stack (Click HERE for DCWV products)

S5-086 Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms

CL-03735 JustRite Violette Vintage Labels (Just a Note sentiment)

656546 Sizzix Scoreboards die Box w/Scallop Flap & Flowers  (I didn’t use these flowers on this project)

I used my Cuttlebug and extended plates with the Scoreboards die

If you would like to see how easy it is to use the Bitty Blossoms, you can see it in this video!

Well, what did you think? You would use the same technique with other spiral flowers.

Hope you all have a great Memorial Weekend! We will be closed for the holiday, but back on Tuesday! See you then!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Carrie

Have no fear! Teresa Collins is here! This kit makes it so easy to create fun and beautiful pages. The accessories embellish your projects so well that it’s effortless to make them look gorgeous. You receive 9 sheets of 12×12 double-sided cardstock paper and two 12×12 sheet of double-sided die-cut accessories. Again, the 6×6 paper pad is a wonderful compliment to the kit!

I had, shall I say…ahem, a guilty indulgence in creating these pages and I’m sure you’ll have the same wonderful experience!

Products used:

Teresa Collins Sweet Afternoon Paper and Accessories

Teresa Collins 6×6 paper pad

DC0280 QuicKutz Nesting Pinking Circles

DC 0282 QuicKutz Nesting Pinking Rectangles

DC0283 QuicKutz Nesting Pinking Squares

DC0274 QuicKutz Weave

Products used:

Teresa Collins Sweet Afternoon Paper and Accessories

Teresa Collins 6×6 paper pad

DC0269 QuicKutz Pocket

DC0264 QuicKutz Star Punches

DC0275 QuicKutz Garden

DC0284 QuicKutz Nesting Butterflies

DC0286 QuicKutz Nesting Scallop Paisley

DC0285 QuicKutz Nesting Paisley

Brads

Colored Pencils

If I could say one thing that I love about these pages, I would say the layering! Layers, layers, LAYERS! Layers are in! It adds dimensions to a page just like it adds that extra “umph” to your outfit (come on…most of us are laying our clothes these days too). If you want a little pop of dimension, try glueing just part of an item down instead of the whole thing. For example, I layered the butterfly, but on the two outer pieces I only glued the middle part to give the illusion that it has wings. I did the same with the paisley flower. Also, never underestimate the power (and shape) of your kitchenware. To get a good, very large circle (or in this case-a half circle), I always use a dinner plate!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Stacy

Products used:

92897 Idea-ology Crowded Attic Paper Stash

GX-1920-00 Core’dinations Kraft Core Nostalgic Cardstock 12 x 12

92715 Idea-0logy Grungeboard 5×8

656634 Sizzix Bigz Caged Bird die

Idea-ology Philosophy Tags

Idea-ology Memo Pins

Idea-0l0gy Mini Paper Clips

Idea-ology Sprocket Gears

Spellbinders S4-362 Ribbon Buckles

Hemp

Rockin’ Janie alphabet from the Sizzix Elclips Starter Kit

Copper solid eyelets

I cut the bird cage out of cardstock and Grungeboard to give it more dimension.

Very simple! Keeping it simple means keeping it fun for me, otherwise, I get to stressed out and it isn’t fun anymore. It has to be fun! This is playtime! My time to relax! MINE-ALL MINE!!!!

Whoa…. stay calm. Sometimes I get a little defensive about getting some time to myself. It’s all good though.  We girls need time to ourselves once in a while. Oh, and one other very important thing-Remember the CHOCOLATE!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Carrie

I want to show you a couple layouts that Stacy did a while back with the Little Darlings. As a mommy of two little ones, she understands the importance of taking advantage of every quiet moment to scrapbook and keeping supplies within a collage budget! She tries to keep things simple so that she can finish layouts during those RARE moments to herself, and get them in her books before other little hands get a hold on them! I’m sure many of you can relate!

Graphic 45 makes it easy to keep those pages simple and beautiful with all of the amazing color and art in their paper.

Products used:

Graphic 45 Little Darlings 12×12 Paper Pad

DC0262 Quickutz Nesting Clover

DC0307 Quickutz Pennants

S4-270 Spellbinders Fair Isle Pendant

Products used:

Graphic 45 Little Darlings 12×12 Paper Pad

S4-269 Spellbinders Lotus Pendant

Prima Flowers

Brads

Don’t you just love the soft pastels in the Little Darlings Collection? Thank you Stacy for sharing your “darling” layouts!

If you are new to scrapbooking or want to start, but feel overwhelmed with the hundreds of products available on the market, remember to start out simple, then invest in some supplies that you can use over and over. A good die cutting machine and dies are great things to invest in because you can adapt the die cuts so many ways! For a comparison of die cutting machines click HERE.

Have a great weekend!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Carrie

Some of you likely know these already, but for those of you who are just discovering the world of embossing, you will have a blast trying these techniques which will inevidably lead you to try more!

If you are wondering what embossing folders are and what kinds there are, you can click HERE that will take you to our blog specifically focused on comparring the different embossing folders on the market that you can find at cutathome.com.

The video today will show you a couple of inking techniques and several different materials that you can emboss which you may already have laying around your house! I used the Grand Calibur machine with a Spellbinders M-Bossabilities for my demonstration, but these techniques can be used with any of the embossing folders that we carry, such as Sizzix Textured Impressions, Tim Holtz Texture Fades and Texture Trades (ATC size), Quickutz and Cuttlebug.

There are so many things you can do with these babies, but this should help you get a start on trying new things with your amazing embossing folders! If you don’t try, you will never know how much fun it can be! So grab your embossing folders, paper, die cutting machine and some ink and let’s get started!

Did this help get you started? Did you learn something new? I would LOVE to hear some of the things you have tried with your embossing folders! If you have tried a technique that you would like to share, please leave a comment. That would be awesome!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Carrie