First Cocoa Daisy Order and Layout

Hi everybody!

I hope your week is going well. Have you had a chance to get in your crafty space and create? I have and it feels great!

I received some awesome goodies this week. One being my very first order from Cocoa Daisy. 

I sat right down and got to work with my bounty. I was too late in ordering to get the full kits from April and May so I had to settle for the grab bags of “bits and pieces”. We’ll settle is not the correct word because these grab bags are awesome!

Here’s my first creation and I plan to decorate some planner pages with some of the rest....

Okay so first off that little typewriter die cut?! Love it! So of course my journaling had to be typed! I had a great time playing with this first Cocoa Daisy shipment and can’t wait to start receiving my pocket page subscription each month!

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

Another Mini Album Finished!

Hi everybody!

I hope you're having a great day and looking forward to the weekend.

I wanted to share a mini album I completed with you.

I shared a page from the album found in THIS POST.

Now, I have the entire album completed!

Here is a little sneak peek of the cover:

And here's the link to the You Tube video:

http://youtu.be/QilhWM256iI

I appreciate you watching my YT videos.

Please subscribe to my channel and leave a comment! :)

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

I'm Late.......TIMES TWO!!!!! The Grinch is in the Christmas Story!

Okay, I'm soooooooooo late in posting my

Red Carpet Studios post today

and my

Dueling Darlings card.

So, here they are, all wrapped up together.

I'm so sorry to be so late in the day posting these......

First off, The Red Carpet Studios Challenge is "How the Grinch Stole Christmas".

You must use the sketch from Stuck and include a tree of some type on your project.

Here's my page:

(sorry for the picture quality, I literally just finished this page and it's almost dark here)

Here's the sketch we were to use:

 My page is from a 8x8 mini album I'm currently making (that explains the rounded corners on one side and not the other :) ) with the Bo Bunny Woodland Winter collection.

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Now, on to my Dueling Darlings card.

The Dueling Darlings are a blog group on SCS that I've been a part of for years. We receive a card kit from a different hostess for each round. This round the wonderful Jeanette was the Dazzlers hostess (Kelly was the Divas hostess).

This is what I made with the kit she sent:

I love the Kraftin Kimmie images she sent, I must shop for these! LOL

The gold glitter organza in the kit is wonderful! Love that stuff! I added a strip of it behind my oddly cut burlap.

I just felt the need to spotlight this image. Baby Jesus is a great reason to spotlight! :)

I didn't add one of the sentiments Jeanette sent because I loved the paper studio paper background and arranged my card to show it off!

Our leaders wanted us to share a personal Christmas story along with our creations....

I have to say one of my fondest Christmas memories is running around on Christmas Eve to both my grandmother's houses, Mom and Dad rushing me and my sister along trying to get from one house to the next. My Mamaw Swader (mother's mom) had a tiny home. She also had 8 children and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. I remember her wood stove getting so blazing hot with that many people in her house that one year the men wised up and enclosed her front porch! There was no heat needed in the new enclosed structure due to that very, very efficient wood heater and the front door of the house open! ha ha ha ha At my Mamaw Wray's (Dad's mom), well, she had a little bigger of a home but just as many children (yes, both my parents were their parents youngest children and they both had 7 brothers and sisters!) and probably a few more grand children and great grandchildren. I remember being so hot and sooooo tired when we finally got home on those nights. My parents never had any problems getting me and my sister to sleep before Santa came. :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a great day!

Until next time...

Blessings....

Melina

What's the Movie Theme at Red Carpet Studios?

Well it's:

Bicentennial Man, of course!

ehem....have to admit....I've never seen this movie. So, I'm glad that we just have to use metal on our creations! :) That's what I love about RCS challenges, you don't have to know the movie to play along with the challenges!!!!

Our sponsor for this challenge is:

and this is what I made:

This is the "sister" page to the layout I posted on Oct. 10th.

I used a sketch from PageMaps.

I'm loving this paper, Vintage Bliss.

The metal I used is a butterfly clip from Mayo Road.

I hope you have a chance to play along with our challenge at Red Carpet Studios!

Thanks for checking out my blog.

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

Time to Get Scrappy!

Over at 1~2~3 Get Scrappy Challenge Blog!

It's the 10th and the 123GS team has revealed another challenge and a load of wonderful projects!

Here's what I made:

using the last row down on our October Challenge board:

I hope you can join us.

Hop on over there and see all the great projects made by the DT.

1~2~3 Get Scrappy!

Thanks for stopping by...

Until next time...

Blessings...

Melina

Going All Pink with Red Carpet Studios

Whoops!

Where did my RCS post go?

Guess I can't rely on blogger huh?....

For this challenge over at RCS we are gettin' Pretty in Pink!

Our Sponsor:

and here's what I made:

Our baby girl loves pink so this was simple for me to figure out who my subject would be! :)
I used a snowfall acetate sheet from Hunkydory on top of the Melon Mambo card stock. I found a piece of plaid, glittery scrap to accent. The snowflakes are cut with the Art Booking cartridge. I love the new vintage button and resin pieces from Stampin' Up! I thought they made lovely snowflake centers.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Be sure to check out the Red Carpet Studios challenge #54 found HERE.

Until next time...
Blessings...

Melina