Scent My Cards

ok, I ordered two more scents. People who get my cards are gonna be angry I'm making them gain weight...lol.

I got Cake Batter and Cindy's Signature Scent. I will let you know my take on these two scents.

Go check out Cindy's Blog: Come Night or Day I Scrap Away (My Stampin' Scrapin) Lots of great project outlines there.

Convoluted Project

I titled this Convoluted Project because it is like a snow ball heading down hill. I signed up for this Coffee Card Swap nearly 6 months ago and in my fear that I will forget I keep double checking the calendar so I know when I need to get started on it. It is a card swap on the Cuttlebug Card Exchange Yahoo Group, so it has to have some kind of Cuttlebug'ease done to it.


Now I've been thinking about what I'd do for it and cut down a bunch of 5.5x4.25 panels and embossed them as you see here. Some are done in Chocolate and some in Vanilla Cream (both CTMH papers) I set them aside and decided to come back to it.


Time passed and then my new toy arrived (QuiKutz Silhouette) promptly named "My Big Baby" and I dinker'ed around with it for a week and found a hot coco cup complete with froth steam and a spoon. So it took me a few days to alter the cut to be as you see on the front of this card. It was a great opportunity to play with it and learn about altering pre-existing cuts.


Time passed and during that time I entered a blog candy opportunity to win some Card Scents from Scent My Cards. Lo' n' Behold I WON! - - I NEVER win anything. I decided to pick my favorite thing to smell which is Coffee. So this arrived yesterday and I have to say I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the roller ball applicator...what a brilliant move that was. The smell is to die for and should be called "for the LOVE of Java". This morning around 8am I rolled on the back of the coffee cups (between the layers) one swipe of my "Scent My Cards" (only did 3 cards so far and have 8 total I can make) at 7pm when my hubby came home he walked in and said "mmmm, did you brew a pot of coffee at this hour?"

So now I have a card to go for the swap, a card to send to Cindy at Scent My Cards as a Thank You for the opportunity to win this YUMMY addition, Cards to add to my Stash Bash Challenge and a GREAT Smelling Craft room!

So this is the first Version of this card. I have a total of 8 cards and I'm doing 2 of each Version. I will share them with you and I get them done. This is mounted on a white card base with a 1/4" white border left all around. Here it just blends into the background. I used the Cuttlebug Embossing folder for the background. The Coffee Mug was not altered at all and is a die cut from my "Big Baby" The inside of the Mug is adapted from the froth cut for inside the cup of hot coco. There are no changes in the steam other than I adhered it facing the right because to the left it looked like a ? mark to me. I found a Scalloped circle cut that had 4 nesting's and I simply sized this one to fit exactly behind the mug to better distinguish between the background and the inside of the mug (see I did these separate from each other so they I didn't have the for site to make them different colors)

Stash Bash Layouts Continued

These two layouts are also from the Jeanette Lynton Layout books.
They were done of a bunch of misc. bath photo's of my son when he was a wee one.

Now here are some of the yummy details of the pages

On both pages I used some Lustre Gems to simulate water drops. I adhered them using Liquid glass or Diamond Glaze. On these pages I used Stonewashed Lustre Gems.


Up until this point I used all older items I had already purchased. For this panel I did a search online for a poem about bathing babies and the water drop image. I then downloaded the image and pasted it on a word document in color and then placed the poem on top of it in full black. I then mirror printed it onto some Make Your Own Rub On Sheets that I got as an RAK from a Friend. This was so much fun to do.Fast and surprisingly Easy!

Working Full Time ~> Adding to the Challenge

Last Wednesday I switched to a Full Time Job and have been going through training for the new position. It sure has been adding a hitch to my keeping up with things around here. Even laundry seems to have taken a side street these days. Say a little prayer for me if you will to not only handle the change around here but also to make it in this position which is highly technical. YIKES!!!

Blog Candy

My Friend Deborah is having a Blog Candy Opportunity...go check it out.

Stash Bash Cards n' Sheet Loads

Here are a few cards I made for Mother's Day. On both I used a Sheet Loads Sketch and the Spots n' Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder.

During the Stash Bash 3 Cards are equal to a 1 page Layout!

SheetLoad of Cards

Four Layouts From Stash Bash

These first two pages are identical to the ones I created for Quinn and just shared. Using the Imagine or Cherish layout books by Jeanette Lynton made it so easy to then turn around and at the same time create two additional pages that matched. So all told I made 6 pages using 2 different layouts from Imagine and cut them all out at the same time.

Nothing super special about these pages other than they are for my "Special Christmas Album" Project and the way I was able to utilize the Imagine and Cherish books to there fullest. They were a great purchase to my library, that I've used countless times. I think it's time to get the next one, Reflections.

I Won I Won I Won

See things really do come true...and since I am the Queen of JAVA I choose Coffee which should be called Java Juice...ok my 2 cents Cindy. (wink wink wink)

You have to check this out....Scent My Cards is great and now I get to try out my first scent! Keep watching the blog for more give aways.

Thank you Cindy!!!