Michigan Momento Box

I just love all the tray boxes everyone is scrapping with!  This month The Robin's Nest Design Team got a chance to work with McGuffey Workworking trays.  I put together another keepsake for my boys, to help them remember our summer trips to Michigan.
To start the tray I painted it with some acryllic craft paint in tan.
Supply List
McGuffey Woodworking Wood Tray
Acrylic Paint
The Robin's Nest Fresh Mowed Grass Dew Drops
The Robin's Nest Teal Flowers
The Robin's Nest Glitter Teal Journaling
The Robin's Nest Teal Stamp
The Robin's Nest Aquamarine Glitter Cardstock
The Robin's Nest Brilliant Brown Glitter Cardstock
The Robin's Nest Paris Bliss Ribbon
The Robin's Nest Paris Stickers
The Robin's Nest Calamity Jane Diagonal Glitter Cardstock
The Robin's Nest Time Rubon
The Robin's Nest Beach Stickers
The Robin's Nest Glitter Mocha Daisy (back side is striped)
The Robin's Nest Glitter Awning Paper
The Robin's Nest Glitter Gold Letters
Purple Cows Punch
And don't forget you can win some Robin's Nest Goodies, by entering their monthly challenge using the sketch below.  Find all the details here for your chance to win $25.00 gift certificate for their online store!

How to Get the Perfect Oval Rosette with Tim Holtz Die

I love the Tim Holtz Rosette die.  And I love gluing two together to create an oval rosette.  I am entering this card into the Case Study CSC94 Challenge.  So, here is the trick to getting the perfect oval rosette:
1)   Cut two of the rosette strip shapes in the same color paper and glue together to form one loop.  I used orange cardstock.
2)  Cut two small ovals for the center of the circle from the card stock using Creative Memories Oval Cutter.  I like to glue one to the front and one to the back to add stability to the rosette.
3)  Fold the rosette as usual, alternating peaks and valleys.
4)  Place your oval rosette inside the largest Creative Memories Oval cutter to keep in place while you glue.

So simple and so easy!
For my World's Best Father I used my Cricut Imagine with Ancestry, Cricut Craft Room Basic Shapes (Free!) and Martha Stewart Seasonal Cake (Best Dad).  The Tie is cut with Father's Day and the printed paper is Basic Grey.  I finished my matt with a bit of machine zig zag and my card is done.

Color Clear Dew Drops for the Perfect Match

When I saw this weeks Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab World:  Man-tastic, I knew I wanted to try this trigger with Dew Drops from The Robin's Nest.  But, despite having a large collection of Dew Drops, I had no brown and no grey one's.

So, I got out my Copic markers and tried coloring clear Dew Drops.  It works!  And I think it works best with dark colors.  I love the brown one's!  The stamps are Nicole Croy SOI Designs 4131 (tape measure) and Clear Art Stamps Sew Special (sentiment).

So Thankful for My New Expression!

Today I am sharing my thank you note made for Provocraft.  I won a new Cricut Expression from the Cricut Blog!  Be sure to follow the blog for more wonderful giveaways!  Thanks so much Provocraft!
I was inspired to make this card by Becca, over at Amazing Paper Grace.  She used a die to make her beautiful card and you can see it here.  I knew that Damask Decor would be perfect for this look!  To create this card, I cut the flower petals with Damask Decor in the Silhouette mode, and glued them together.  I tried to shape them a bit and added some bling.  The Thank You was created with my Cricut Imagine, Audrey, Sophisticated, and Elegant Edges and the Cricut Craft Room software.  This is my newest obsession:  creating sentiment labels with my Cricut Imagine.  I love the professional quality, that I can match what ever I am working with and never have to worry that I will miss stamp them.  The polka dot stripe is also from Audrey.

And before you go today I want to remind you about some important happening at The Robin's Nest:  the Design Team Call and the May Challenge.  I have been on the design team for two terms and love their product!  You can see more of their products at their online store HERE.

Above is the sketch for the May Page Map Challenge.  There is a $25.00 gift certificate given to the challenge winner!  I love to use challenges to get a project finished.  Maybe you need to scrapbook a special photo, so use this challenge to get it done and maybe win some beautiful supplies!  You can visit this link to enter your project to the challenge.

Delightful Doily

I love to use paper doilies on my scrapbook pages!  I have found the best way to highlight their beauty is to use them in a single photo page.  Now, you might find this alarming if you have always scrapped multiple photos, but I would encourage you to try this and spend sometime playing with paper on your page!
For this page, I wanted to use the Cricut Sophie Cartridge for the doily and I wanted to use the color combo of grey, pink and teal.  So I got out a collection of pretty papers from The Robin's Nest and a few pieces of paper ribbon from Creative Memories and made a stripe of striped paper to get the colors I wanted in the piece on the left.
I made a paper bow by cutting two strips of The Robin's Nest paper 1 1/4" wide and 12" long.  I made a mark on the wrong side of one piece in the middle and folded the ends in to create the loops.  I created the ends by notching the ends and pleating the bit below the bow.  I cut the loop of the remains of the paper and trimmed the center of the looped piece a bit.  I added Dew Drops to the doily and fussy cut some of The Robin's Nest Glitter Pink Swirl to create an embellishment to match the circle cut in the same paper on top of the doily.
Supply List
The Robin's Nest Glitter Pink on Pink Swirl Paper
The Robin's Nest Red on Rope Paper
The Robin's Nest Lovebirds Dew Drops
The Robin's Nest Glitter Awning Paper
The Robin's Nest Water Border
The Robin's Nest Red Sorbet Glitter Card stock
The Robin's Nest Glitter Numbers Card stock
The Robin's Nest Glitter Black and White Pinetree Cardstock (grey side is background paper)
Creative Memories Paper Tape
White Card stock
Cricut Sophie Cartridge

Delightful Doily Card with Moxie Fab

We all have tools we haven't used in our stash, and sometimes the best way to get them out and make sure they are not neglected is to try a challenge.  So, this week I am using the Moxie Fab World Card Creations Doilies and Lace Challenge to get out my last Stampin' Up purchase and put it to use.  I think I purchased it in January and it is now May, so I am using Moxie to get going.  Be sure to check out all the entries to this challenge, they are so fabulous!
Stamp is Close to My Heart, and paper is DCWV.
I apologize for the poor picture, my digital camera is no longer showing my picture preview.  I will have to add a new camera to the top of the wish list!

Cricut Imagine Spring Summer Blog Hop Winner

The winner of the gift certificate for one of my Etsy stores is: Laura Davidson, who said, "Great cards.. super ideas..."
Laura Davidson please look for an email from me regarding how to claim your prize.
And the winner of the grand prize gift certificate for Erica's Craft Room store is Scrappin Sista.  Please look for an email from Erica or myself on how to claim your prize. Thanks to all of your blog hostesses and thanks so much for stopping and hopping with us!