Dot & Whimsy

It's a super fun team-up this week with 

Both Design Teams have swapped product, so it's double-the-inspiration!

I went a little gah-gah mixing the beautiful bright flowers & trims with Bella's always-sweet color palette.

So, hang on...lots and lots of photos to share with you today :)

A palette of baby boy pastels are the charm of this sweet little card. 

I paired up elements from the Baby Boy Collection which I found matched perfectly with the green in the Chartreuse Embossed Daisies. 

For the centers of the flowers, I used a 1/2" circle punch and then layered the pieces onto 

the flowers with a foam square. A large glittered brad sits at the top and brings a nice bit of shine.

 Supplies:Baby Boy: Cute Cuts, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Miniatures; Freestyle Sophisticates: Freestyle Banana; High Five Alpha Stickers: Blue

 

 Following an 8.5x11 sketch from Page Maps, I created this layout using several fun collections from 

Bella Blvd and a circle of Mini Florettes by Petaloo. After cutting a large scalloped circle, I added

 a border of the Mini Florettes along the edge. I staggered the blooms in color and also raised

 every-other-one with a foam square. 

 A small ribbon bow made a delicate bridge between the two different areas of the page. To the center of the flower circle I was able to add a journal sticker to tell of the Easter Day.

 Supplies: Spring Fling & Easter Things: Borders, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Just Write Journaling Stickers; High Five Alpha Stickers: Gulf; Sunny Happy Skies: Magic In The Sky; Button Market: Checkers; Ciao Chip Elements: Borders

 For this card I used a tone on tone combination which I separated with an edging of pink ric rac trim

 around the journal sticker. A cluster of chipboard hearts layered with Petaloo embellished 

crochet hearts sit below the speech bubble sticker. I cut apart one of the Green Assorted Daisies and 

fashioned them into leaves around the hearts. 

 I love the addition of the rose brads at the center of each flower and they were so easy to

insert through the crochet heart centers.

 Supplies:Love and Marriage: May Eighteenth, Alpha+Bits Stickers, Just Write Journaling Stickers, Wedding Day Miniatures; Ciao Chip Elements: Stars & Hearts; Crochet Hearts: Cotton Candy

It seemed that a flower shaped chipboard album was fitting for a Petaloo and Sand & Surf mini!

 For the cover page, I focused on layering as many of the flower varieties together to show how well they could mix 'n match; the colors blended beautifully with the Sand & Surf Collection. Throughout the pages blooms can be found either layered or clustered together.

 I love that the Florettes have jeweled centers ... just the right amount of bling! 
The heavyweight chipboard album came from Scrapbooker's Emporium

Phew!  Now wasn't that a lot of eye-candy :) 

Stop by the Petaloo Blog and say "hello"...they're hosting a sweet giveaway!

Bella Blvd will be giving away this gorgeous collection, "Love & Marriage"

 Visit the Bella Blvd Blog and leave a comment throughout the week...a winner

will be announced this Friday!

So happy to see you today...thanks for dropping in!

Happy Sunday and Happy Father's Day!

I'm up today at the

with not one, not two, but three projects!

First up is a layout; an 8×11 layout to be exact!  I found the perfect sketch from

 Page Maps and went from there.  I’ve used patterned papers, cut-out journal square

 and a punch-out tag from the Family Fun Paper Kit.  I also punched out a couple of

 hearts from one of the patterned papers as well!

To create the pleated accent, I cut 2″ x 12″ strip of paper, punched one edge with a

 decorative edge and folded at 1/2″ increments.  Glue the ends together and fan into a circle.

  Glue to the top of a 2″ circle and place something heavy on top until the glue has dried. 

 Vintage Street Market paper is the perfect weight for creating these fun embellishments.

My mom’s birthday was on the 11th of this month and of course she was expecting

 a handmade card hehehe…her expectation I could not let down!

 Once again you see that I’ve created a pleated embellishment.

This time I used the metallic paper from Dimestore Vogue.   To round the edges, 

I used a corner-rounder punch.  For the base of the card,

 I layered patterned papers from the Family Fun Paper Kit and hand-cut 

the vacuuming woman from one of the pages! 

 A little tag from the Party Games collection was attached to the side with a ribbon bow

 and paper flowers from my stash.  With my home computer and printer, I printed 

the sentiment onto the piece of paper as shown.  The inside of the card simply read

 “and have a happy birthday!” 

 She loved it!

 Finally…and I LOVE this…is my Patriotic-decked-out-BINGO-card-hanger!  

I have a small wired dress form on the side of my craft desk. 
On this I like to attach something fun that reflects the holiday or season…
it adds a little happiness to my clutter and makes me smile.

Isn’t it great?!?  Can you sense my delight and love LOL
 And I have to admit, Vintage Street Market BINGO Craft Cards are my favorite product.
 The versatility with the various sizes and colors are endless!  I layered one of the large red cards
 with a medium royal blue one.  From my stash, I glittered a chipboard star and layered
 it with a glittered scalloped circle, vintage milk cap and patriotic embellishments.
 The perimeter of the red card was lined out in Red Twirly Twine.

I'm so happy to add it to my collection of little hangers :)

See you all in a couple of days...glad you've stopped by!