Shimmering Shamrocks Blog Hop - Blog Candy Giveaway

Welcome everyone to the Shimmering Shamrocks Blog Hop hosted by Tanya at Scrappy Scavenger. My name is Grace and let me have a few min of your time to show you my shimmering shamrock project, some quick how-to-dos and how to win my Blog Candy giveaway.

This blog hop begins at 8 am, March 13th and goes through March 19th. Please gather up your cup of coffee or tea and sit down and relax while we take you through a world of sparkle, bling and of course gold and green.

If you have been fallowing the Shimmering Shamrocks Blog Hop line up then you came from Shannon's blog at www.purplelionpaper.com. Wasn't her project sweet? After this you will head on over to Janice's blog at www.cricutconfessions.com

This project is a large wall hanging about 2.5' x 2.5'. It is made from a cardboard base with book pages and patterned paper decorating the clover leaves. I will show you how to make those later in this post for those of you who are interested.

Erin Go Bragh for those of you who don't know is most often translated as "Ireland Forever". Didn't thin you would learn how to say something in Gaelic today did you? These letters are glittered with P K Glitz Glitter... LOVE THEM!

The center piece is a traditional Irish lass who is surrounded by the colors of her country.

If you continue to read you will find a quick how to make the book pages clover and information about winning my RAK giveaway. However, if you are ready to check out the other great projects in this hop, your next stop will be with Janice's at her blog... here... www.cricutconfessions.com

How I made the clover:

Step 1: Cut the clover shape from a piece of cardboard. Make sure you plan for a spot to punch a hole in to hand it by a ribbon off the backside. You can see the hole I made in the third picture below.

Step 2: Find an old book, maybe it is missing it's pages or is worn out and has given it's best to society. It could be a garage sale find or one you have had for ever and never read. Either way make sure it is no one's favorite book. LOL. Before ripping out the pages take your ink pad and run it over all three exposed sides of the book. Rip the pages out and gently fold them like this and staple. You can glue this stage but it takes more time.

Step 3: Take a few pages and wrap the stem to the clover with them. I used hot glue to attach it to the front then again to the back, cutting off any excess.

Step 4: Take your glue and apply it to the area of the staple and glue down to your clover shape. Fill the entire shape with these (mine took about 350 pages). I love the way this looks. Once you are done with this step. Decorate it how you wish.

I myself am not Irish but I love it when people have pride in their heritage and their country. So I am giving this project as a gift to one of my friends who's favorite holiday is St. Patrick's Day.

Blog Candy:

In the spirit of giving I have collected a couple of things to give to one random person who leaves a comment on this post (with your email so I can contact you!). To be eligible to win you must also be a follower. So, tell me whats on your mind and make sure you peek around my blog. Follow me and maybe we can inspire each other. Check out the scrumptious blog candy you can win. Two colors of Martha Stewart glitter and three yards of both the ribbon and the gold trim.

Reminder:

Encase you get lost or need to make sure you see all the wonderful project made by all these creative projects.

1. Tanya www.ScrappyScavenger.blogspot.com

2. Jen Roseman www.memorieswithjen.blogspot.com

3. Dianne Shiflett www.diannesscrappycreations.blogspot.com

4. Erin Spantastic http://spantastikreations.blogspot.com/

5. Pam Bray http://www.pammejo-scrapbookflair.com/

6. Pink Cricut www.PinkCricut.com

7. Debbie www.craftyd...eb-ddscrafts.blogspot.com

8. Kathy Floen www.kathy-thebeautifullife.blogspot.co.

9. Kathy Gillon www.kathyand3kids.blogspot.com.

10. Teresa Harris www.thescrapbookingqueen.com

11. Anita Cannon www.anitaandbugs.blogspot.com

12. Teresa Hendrickson http://bigtimestamperwanttobe.blogspot.com/

13. Chris Hurley www.stinkydogdesigns.blogspot.com

14. Kristi Bennett www.littlepapersprinkles.blogspot.com

15. Nancy Owen http://www.fancywithnancy.blogspot.com/

16. Jennifer Brown http://jlbzlittlecorner.blogspot.com/

17. Shannon www.purplelionpaper.com

18. Letitia www.gracesscrapattic.blogspot.com <----- YOU ARE HERE

19. Janice www.cricutconfessions.com

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog. I will leave you for today with this Irish Blessing...

May the sun shine, all day long,
everything go right, and nothing wrong.
May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!

Happy Scrapping!

Altered Tree Branch and 100 Flowers in 20 min Video Tutorial

Hello everyone! I am so excited to share this project with you this morning. This is my Caring Tree. It used to be a low hanging branch in one of our trees in the front yard. The hubby cut it down for me and I love it!

I have made 500 flowers, 280+ leaves (video posted below) from the Mother's Day Cart on my Cricut. Check out the videos and photos and let me know what you think about it.

This first photo is of the entire project. The tree was made to display the cards I make. It will have cards all over it whenever I make them... or get them out of the drawer... LOL. Right now I am just enjoying the tree as it is.


This is a closeup of the flowers and leaves. Like I said before there are 500 flowers and 280+ leaves on this tree. That took the longest to do believe it or not. Hours with a HIGH temp hot glue gun... not my idea of fun but well worth the pain... er... I mean time it took.


This photo shows a few of the 30 office clips I have throughout the tree. They will be holding cards.


MY CARING TREE - is a tree made of ...

1 - branch from the tree in my front yard
1 - Vase on clearance at wally world
1 - hot glue gun
3 - boxes of mini office clips
7 - hot glue sticks
286 - cricut cut leaves - misted, folded and curled
500 - cricut cut flowers - distress inked, doodled, misted with two colors, glued and then glittered.
500 - pieces of bling

oh ya and two really bad hot glue gun burns... but all worth it.

Completed Tree project video:



100 Flowers in 20 min - Video Tutorial:



I enjoyed making this project and what I will use it for. Happy Scrapping everyone!

~ Grace ~

Win a years of We Scrap Kits!

On to the BIG NEWS!!!!!!!

YOU, yes you, CAN WIN A YEAR'S WORTH OF WESCRAP KITS!!!!!!!!!!



Though their kits are not new, their Kit Blog is! =) And to celebrate, they are giving away A YEAR'S WORTH OF WESCRAP KITS sure to keep you busy for {at least} a year! How to enter you ask? Check out their blog...

http://wescrapkits.blogspot.com/2011/03/march-kit-win-years-worth-of-kits.html#comment-form

Dr. Seuss' Birthday!

Happy birthday to Dr. Seuss, he was a huge part of my child hood and a huge part of my children's also. My daughter just the other day finished reading her very first book all by her self, Green Eggs and Ham.

To honor his birthday I created some cupcakes for my kid's classrooms. Two different Dr. Seuss books were the themes.

Cat and the Hat(Thing 1 and Thing 2) :



Green Eggs and Ham:


If any of you are interested in a how to on these I would be happy to type it up (I took photos of each stage) but if not that is cool too. Just let me know in my comments.

Thanks for checking in!

~ Grace ~

Grungy Glitter Technique

Good morning everyone!

I found this new-to-me technique while working with some chipboard. I always felt glitter was so pretty it needed to have a full and solid coat but did you know that sometimes a little goes a long way? I thought I would dive into a couple of techniques over the next few projects that would add just the right amount of glitz.

In this LO I also used some Bronze, Ritzy Ditzy Glitz and spritzed the bottom corners of the center pink paper to add more "Grunge".

For a good solid coat of glitter on chipboard I have always used Wonder Film. It makes a spectacular finish. But on this layout I was distressing a lot with my inks and felt it I wanted a distressed title due to the subject matter (this is a pet that is no longer with us). So I took out my Helmar Gemstone Glue (It wont cloud Gemstones and I figured it would be a good glue to use with glitter) put a little pile of it on my splat mat and started painting it onto my letters with my finger. Making sure to get different thicknesses and not always getting the edges. Dusting it immediately with chocolate Glitter Glitz made this title just the way I want it. Still tons of glitz but with a kinda grungy, distressed look around the edges.

I am so organized now in my scrappy space that I have been able to make my projects so much faster. Finding everything I need where it should be saves so much time it allows me to play with my products a bit more. Below I am showing you some of the ribbon and doily flowers I made for this LO. Hope you enjoy!

Happy Scrapping and hope you get some time to be creative today! Share with me the link if you do. I love to see peoples projects!

~ Grace ~