Engagement Layout

A year later, I am finally getting around to scrapping the day my wonderful husband and I got engaged. I forgot how long it takes to make a scrapbook page, as I haven't done this in such a long time. . . but rather than seeing this as a started project, I am viewing this as a double layout completed (so that I feel less intimidated by the largeness of the project at hand).
The leaves that I embossed (shown below) are Autumn Leaves brand (also on a frame and corresponding piece on the second page of layout).
The leaves are from the Stamping cricut cartridge and the lettering is from the Jubilee cartridge.


Both the brown plaid ribbon and the red are from my stash-sorry the labels are no longer on them!Challenges:

For Fun Challenge-red, brown, creme (there are a few other colors, but those 3 are def there) I think it is my first time playing with them :)
Glitterbabes-frame it+glitter (embossing+ring=bling)
Stampin Royalty-ribbons (brown and red)
2 Sisters-anything goes
Digi With Attitude!-Bling it On (ring+embossing)
and a new one for me My Creative Time- polka dots

MyGrafico- embossing

Scrapbooking

I was just thinking and I haven't made a scrapbook in 3 1/2 years! Starting on my wedding pictures Friday night. I hope I can be creative enough!

Wow, Wow, Wowsers!

What wonderful candy The Stamping Boutique has! Their design team always has stunning cards and great challenges as well, so you should become a follower if you aren't already. The rules are simple, leave a comment, if you are a follower you get an extra entry and if you become a follower (to earn extra entries and see gorgeous cards), let me know by commenting here so that I can get an extra entry as well.

Was trying to put the picture of the goodies in, but looks like 5pm Wed Oct 20th (blogger Maintenance) is 10:45am here... sorry bout that. But you should still be able to hop over and get a chance at the goodies!

Ahoy!

I made this card for a special little guy who has a birthday coming up. He was one of my ring bearers in June and never ceases to make me smile.


I used Stretch N Bubbles image "Cute Pirate" (which can be found in their store here), and I agree, he is rather cute! The sketch is from Papertake Weekly's Challenge, and it was quite fun indeed :D I used stickles for the glitter, markers to color the images and created my own sentiment which reads, "Hoping your birthday leads you to the treasure you seek". Just one I thought of.
Other Challenges (not mentioned above):
Little Paper Shop- Glitter/Stickles
Lots To Do- Plain and Simple

Lemon Tea Bath Bomb

The recipe for the bath bomb I posted earlier on my blog. You can find it here. I promised pictures, so here they are. I also made a container pretty just for them. Next time I think I will roll them into balls (like a traditional bath bomb), as they kind of look like squished muffins :)
But nice smelling and moisturizing squished muffins <3 The first picture is them drying after I took them out of the muffin pan.


This picture showcases the top of the container I put them in. It is a dollar store Tupperware knock-off I bought when I first moved to college. I got much nicer stuff as wedding gifts and decided, hey, if I haven't used it in 4 months, why not alter it?!
The flower (nicely layered) is from Penny Duncan, she makes wonderful things, please hop over to her blog. She has many new cut files. The next one is a picture of the whole thing:
In this one you can see the bath bombs and the ribbon I added to the side:
And a showcase of the tags. The digi stamps are from Birds Cards (tub) and Ginger's House (sentiment). Both were free and still available :D
Challenges:
Little Paper Shop-color scheme (chocolate, yellow, blue)
Sentimental Sundays-tags
One Stop Craft Challenge-alter it
Anything Goes- ribbon

Trying Something Different

I came across a recipe in Woman's World Magazine for homemade bath bombs. I had purchased some in the past and really enjoyed them, so decided to try them out for myself. The recipe did call for some things I didn't have, so I made substitutions. I can share the original recipe with you via email (I guess they don't publish it online...) Below is my version (using the substitutes I had on hand). They are currently setting up, pictures to come.

Lemon Tea Bath Bomb:

1 cup baking soda
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup light oil (sunflower, canola, almond or olive-I used olive)
1 teaspoon green tea leaves (crushed)
1 muffin pan

In a large bowl (make sure it is large, the baking soda and lemon juice will bubble) mix all ingredients until bubbling stops and it is a paste-like texture. Press into the bottom of a muffin tin (I used a standard size tin, filled each cup 1/2 full and it made 7 bombs). Allow to sit in tin overnight or several hours to set up. Remove from tins and allow to air dry. Keeps indefinitely if stored in a dry container with a lid.

I'm excited to take them out of the muffin tin and see how they turn out!

Get Well Soon Grandma

As I was uploading the pictures I was trying to figure out who my husband's grandma would be to me [grandma-in-law, just my husbands grandma?] I decided it wasn't worth contemplating and since I call her Grandma Carol, that is who she is to me! She is also a crafter, and made a guest appearance on my mother-in-law, Tammy's blog. You can see her card here. Last week she had shoulder replacement surgery, so she has to take a break from crafting :( This is the get well card I made for her:

The flowers are from Designed to Delight~their challenge is to use this image this week. And I certainly had fun coloring it different ways (the first and last are digitally colored and the middle colored using markers). The Get Well Soon was printed off my computer (self-made).

I used stickles to add the glitter, the purple papers and ribbon are from my stash and the yellow is a piece of wall paper sample.

Challenges:
Designed to Delight-use digi image
Papertake Weekly-birthday bash (choose a challenge)-I chose Say It With Flowers from May
Creative Inspirations-Get Well Soon
One Stop Craft Challenge-alter it (I altered the digital image)
Glitterbabe-Glitter+Anything