LOVE Blog Hopping!

Hi, and welcome to my creative blog!! Scrapbook Place is having a blog hop, and it starts HERE!! I have created something unique, I hope. I love the seasons, especially SPRING, when everything starts to grow. So to celebrate the season just around the corner, I have created some Frappe Cap Collages.

I have seen soda bottle caps that have been decorated inside and thought they were charming, but could not see me using such a tiny frame for my artwork. So I decided to do the same but with a bigger canvas and used the caps from Starbucks Frappe drinks.
Here are the materials and instructions needed to make your own little framed pieces of art. Read all the way down to the end, because I’m offering Blog Candy to a couple lucky people.
The materials needed to do a project like mine are pictured below:
Starbucks cap, thoroughly washed and dried
Patterned paper, cut into a 1+1/2” circle
Assorted bling and tiny embellies
Liquid Glass or other crystal glue
Flower soft or other dimensional product
Favorite adhesive

I started by cutting a 1+1/2” circle from my patterned paper. You can use cardstock, but I like a little pattern to decorate the background of my collage. My Creative Memories Circle Cutter set, but found I had to trim just a tad all around the cut circle. If you have a 1+1/2” circle punch, that’s awesome (I don’t have one!).
Make sure it fits nicely in the inside of the cap. If it does, you’re ready to embellish. Take the circle out of the cap to embellish it. I just played around with the bling I had on hand, using a jewel dragonfly or an adhesive-backed ladybug leftover from a swap, some jewel flowers and assorted adhesive-backed tiny jewels.

When you like your design, adhere the embellies onto the circle. Let dry if using liquid glue. Then you can attach the circle into the inside of the cap.
I wanted a more 3D effect for my caps, so I squeezed a little Liquid Glass from CTMH around the inner rim of the cap, and gently placed some Shamrock Green FlowerSoft onto the glue. Let dry and admire your work.

Warning!!! These little circles of artwork are addicting! I made all these in one fell swoop, and am frantically searching for more Frappe caps with which to make more. For the winter snow scene, I used my snowman punch and some white glitter cardstock. I glued homemade “flower soft” onto this rim. I made this by rubbing two white Styrofoam balls together and gathering the “dust” from the friction (I found this “recipe” online). Framing these circles of art with 3D materials just seems to make them pop even more.
At the moment I am displaying mine on my metal file cabinet. I attached some magnet material to the backs. I foresee a future swap on Scrapbook Place Yahoo Group soon, don’t you?

Now for some fun!!
1.Leave a comment on this post and tell me whether you’re interested in trying your hand at these little circular collages. Also tell me how you will use/display them.
2.I will randomly choose a winner of a small prize to a lucky person who commented.
3.If you are a Scrapbook Place member, then I challenge you to make your own Frappe Cap Collage. Go to Your Scrapbook Place and link your photo to the Blog Post regarding my featured Blog. A random winner will be chosen to take a walk on the J-Board for a cool prize.

What??! Not a member of Scrapbook Place Yahoo Group? Oh, my, you are missing lots of fun, inspiration, contests, challenges and new friends. Just click onto the link to the right at the top of my blog and it should take you to the Group. Any questions, leave a comment and I can hook you up.
Meanwhile, enjoy your new addiction!!
Okay, next on the Blog Hop is Anna If you somehow get lost along the way, here's the correct path, starting with me and continuing on to Anna, then:

Linda

Allie

Diane

Lindsy

Teresa

Donna

Your Scrapbook Place

Happy Hopping!

Sweet Treat

Today's card makes me hungry for summer and ice cream treats! I was sorting through my overabundant stash of leftover papers and came across this cute patterned paper, so I had to use Tilda enjoying her cold treat to go along with it. All my papers are bits and pieces leftover from swaps, so I can't ID the pp nor cardstock, but I can let you in on all the fab colors I used to color her with my Copics:
YG03,05; E00,13,35; B93; C3; Y11
I also glitzed the card with CTMH Liquid Glass and Stamped the background with Versamark Champagne Dazzle ink. The pearls are "denim" from Queen & Co.
This card meets the requirements for the new challenge at Cupcake Craft Challenges which asks for cake and/or ice cream any where on the card. Check them out, their sample cards look yummy!
I also entered this card into a challenge at Paper Take Weekly
Theirs is also a sketch challenge, so I am really crossing new frontiers! I don't usually do sketch challenges. I create by sitting at my desk, where I hope inspiration will strike, playing with an image or some paper or an embellie that strikes my fancy. I rarely use sketches, so hopepfully a challenge like this will make me more disciplined (you think?)
Anyway, check them out, they're a lot of fun!

I Need a Hero

Here is my latest and greatest card for the Hambo Hoedown! This week’s challenge is a sketch challenge, which you can find here. The image is a digi called Bird Hero from Hambo Designs. You can use any of their images for their challenges! I colored this fine specimen of a hero with my trusty Copics (colors listed below), and glitzed him up with CTMH Liquid Glass and “Clear Star" Gelly Roll by Sakura.
All the papers used were bits and pieces from my stash. I can’t abide throwing away even the smallest of leftover papers, so end up with a drawer (okay, five drawers) full of bits and pieces of papers. I store them in hanging file folders in a five-drawer file cabinet, separated by colors and themes. I have vowed to use up as much of my stash as possible before buying another piece of paper, but it’s so-o-o hard, with all the lovely new papers coming out, and all the lovely old papers going on clearance so the store will have room for the new. I like ink, too! My favorite pastime is to ink all the edges of my papers. I also stamped the red cardstock background with a small Stampin Up stamp and some “Champagne” Versamark Dazzle ink.

Copics used: B02.93; YG03; Y17; R29

Finding the Right pair of Shoes is Magic

That's why we all need a little help from the Shopping Fairy! Here's my card for the Corrosive Challenge Blog Their challenge this week is something MAGICAL. Fairies are magical, even though mine has very realistic goals: A girl can never have too many shoes! Sigh, sdhe may never have enough shoes, but will her budget stretch enough to ever satisfy her? The answer is NO!!!

I love the color teal, and when I saw teal file folders in the giveaway pile at my school, I knew I could use them in my cardmaking. So I cut this one to a note card size and added patterned paper from WE R Memory Keepers, Girls' Night Out Collection, Siletto design, and framed it with black cardstock (from WalMart).
I colored her with my Copics: RV34; BG10,72; G00; Y17; YR61; E00; 100.
I glitzed her with CTMH Liquid Glass, Crystal Stickles, a 2 stray jewels I found on my floor and Sakura White gel pen.
The black belt is another item tossed away by my teenaged daughter that I rescued from the waste can, and the netting is 100% Abaca fibers from Pulsar.
I have just rediscovered the Corrosive Challenge Blog and am loving it. Check them out!

Spring is Coming but is Shy

Hmm, murky grey skies and snow trying to stay on the ground. Doesn’t seem much like Spring, but I’m in a Springtime mood. So saying, here’s my newest card, ready for Spring.


I colored my Whoopsie Daisy digi image (isn’t she the cutest, I got her free from the challenge blog below) with Copics: E00,08,13,35,37; B93,04; G21,94; YG67; Y17; RV34; Blender, and ZIG Brushables English Lavender.
My patterned paper is from a DCWV stack, and cardstock is Coredinations. I used my Epic Six to cut Scallop Square with Nestabilities and rounded most of the corners for that softer touch. Embellies used were: Jewels from Shabby Chic, Flowers found at a rummage sale, CTMH Liquid Glass and Ribbon from American Crafts.
This card meets the requirements for this week's challenge at Do You Stack Up? The challenge this week is to use DOTS on your cards! You have to this week Wednesday to check thewm out and enter this challenge!!
AND The FLOWER card challenge at Mami Doodles
Their challenge ends this Thursday--I know, I know, I'm giving you all short notice, but you still have time to check them out and enter!!

New Day, New Card

This card is being sent to my son, who has completed Boot Camp is halfway finished with Military Police school. I try to write him twice a week, but when things are slow, I send a card with a couple photos of his daughter and the rest of the family.
I used a House Mouse image called "Tickling the Ivories". If you love House Mouse as much as I do, go on over to:
House Mouse Challengefor some fun challenges and a lot of inspiration! Their challenge this week is a card with anything House Mouse and a LOVE theme! Since I am sending this to my son, my card also qualifies for a challenge "for the boys" over at
Crafty Catz Weekly
For my card, here is a list of what I used:
Image - House Mouse Tickling the Ivories
Papers - PaperTrey Raspberry Fizz Cardstock, CTMH (I think) Patterend paper
Inks - Copics: 100, N3, C3, C1, RV34, RV11, YR02, YR61, E00, 0. Zig Brushables: English Lavender. Stampabilities WHite Pigment Ink Pad.
Sentiment - Microsoft Word (white on black background), Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Four, Sakura white gel pen.
Embellies - Adgesive-backed Pearls (from a swap, no ID), QuicKutz Flourish die cut, CTMH Liquid Glass.
Don't forget to check out the challenges at the blogs linked above. You're gonna love what you see!

Love is in the Air

tis the season to express your love for someone, and right now I am loving the challenges offered out there. Here is my newest card, a sweet perfection of pink, starring a Bildmalarna stamped image. She is such a cutie patootie, isnt she?

Challenges:

PINK
http://stampingscrappingchallengecentral.blogspot.com

LOVE
http://BILDMALARNABLOG.BLOGSPOT.COM
http://cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com/

Card Details:
Papers-PaperTrey Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz, DCWV Luxury stack
Stamped image- Bildmalarna Mimosa with Tulip
Embellies- Jewels, White Blossom & K&Co; Cricut Cuts
Colors- Copics
Glitz- CTMH Liquid Glass, Stickles, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist "Bubblegum"