Use Your Stash Blog Hop-Coloring

If you are coming from Paige Dolecki's blog you are on the right track!  Welcome to the Use your Stash Blog Hop.  This month's challenge was to coloring something on our scrapbook page.  I LOVE to color and so do my littles, so I thought this would be a fun challenge.  I decided to do a page following a sketch I found online from Pinterest.  I love the way that it turned out and hope you do too!

I used the ShinHan Marigold and Turquoise Blue markers to color in the flowers from the Love Blooms stampset.  Yes this is a stampset that has a stamp that will color in the flowers for you, but I wanted a different look this time around.  I wanted to make a few of the flower petals darker than others, but didn't want them in a normal, usual pattern.  By coloring over the petals more than once I was able to get the darker look that I was looking for where I wanted it.  That is the joy of using the ShinHan Alcohol markers, you can get the different tones just by coloring over the areas more than once.  You can also get a totally different color by using two markers and they blend so well together because they are alcohol based.

Now head on over to Marilee Eatough to see what she had fun coloring this month!

Products used:

Blossom paper pack X7196B 
Pear Cardstock X5764 or in a combo pack X5935
Kraft paper Z1375

Pear stamp pad Z2197
Chocolate stamp pad  Z2111

Handwritten Print Alphabet E1030
Love Blooms C1511 (no longer available)
Brushstrokes Flair C1608

Coral Reef Sequins Z3042
Teal Shimmer Trim Z1918
White Shimmer Trim Z3024
Lagoon Hearts Washi Tape Z2004

ShinHan Marigold Z2457
ShinHan Turquoise Blue Z2465

You can get all these products at my website.

Happy Scrapbooking!

Use Your Stash blog hop If You Stamp It

Thanks for joining us on this blog hop where we are using some of our scrapbooking stashes.  If you have come from Heather Jane Schmuckal's blog you are on the right track!   This month we are featuring stamps that we bought because we loved them and when they arrived we forgot about them, put them away, or just didn't have a use for them at the moment.  I actually have a ton of stamps like this so it was really fun for me to grab a few and use them.

I used 3 brand new stamps on this layout, each stamps set featured a frame stamp that I used to run down the middle of my layout.  I used Sweet and Lovely from the Artbooking Cricut collection (D1571), a stamp from the Art Philosophy Cricut collection (D1496), and this months stamp of the month, Just Sayin' (S1505).  I also used a few other stamp sets, but I had used them before so I will list them at the end of this post.

This layout sketch came from the Stashbusters class that I took and featured awhile back from Big Picture Classes and I felt it was fitting for this blog hop. I hope you enjoyed this layout and blog hop.  To keep hopping just head over to Shirley Ross's blog.  

Happy scrapbooking!

List of materials used:

1358 White daisy cardstock

X7196B Blossom paper pack

D1571 Sweet and Lovely from Artbooking Cricut collection

D1496 Art Philosophy Cricut collection stamp set

S1505 Just Sayin' (this months stamp of the month)

C1429 Party Pennants 

C1474 10 Things

Marigold ShinHan marker

Z2105 black ink

Z3042 Coral Reef Sequins

Z1853 Aqua Dots

Z1799 Silver Shimmer Trim

All products can be found and purchased on my website.

I'm Back!

Sorry for the unannounced break from me and my blogging. The good news I am 22 weeks pregnant and finally feeling good and I am also finally all caught up on everything that went to the wayside while I was sick for three and a half months.

So today I will share some cards that I made using a new product as well as share the special for this month.  Hopefully I will be back later this week with some more artwork.

These three cards were made using the Blossom Workshop on the Go (G1095). If Blossom sounds new to you, it is. It is one of two new paper packs in the Seasonal  Expressions 2. It went live and I never told you guys, sorry! If you want a hard copy of the Seasonal Expressions 2 let me know I have 9 all ready to be mailed out.

May is National Scrapbooking month and Close to My Heart has a fun and bright paper pack with 12 sheets of b&t paper (2 of 6 designs) and is only $8.95.  There is also a special D-sized stamp art available only this month as well and it coordinates with the paper pack.  I do not have any artwork yet but you can go to the Close to my Heart's blog, Instagram or Facebook pages to see artwork.

To order your paper and stamp today just go to my website.

Thanks and happy scrapbooking!