Made Especially For You's Blogoversary

Welcome to Made Especially For You's 2 Year Blogoversary Blog Hop!

If you're looking for the 3 Girl JAM Birthday Blog Hop..please click HERE

If you've come from Erica's blog, you're in the right place! If you just came across the hop, please start at the beginning over at Made Especially For You.

I first met Ashley almost 2 years ago when I applied to be on the ME4Y DT and she graciously asked me to be a part of her team. I mean this sincerely when I say that Ashley has to be one the most sweetest, honest, geniune and sincere crafters I've met online. She's always sharing what she knows with others and supports me in my crafty endeavors. I am thrilled that she asked me to be a part of her Blogoversary. It means so much to celebrate this milestone in her crafting journey. Thanks Ashley for being one of the first DT's to give me a shot..love ya girlie : )

Instead of having a theme for the hop, Ashley put together a bingo board full of some of her favorite crafty things and we were to choose at least 3 of them and create a project.

 I chose a 3D Project, Polka Dots, and Pearls and made a sweet shabby chic turquoise themed tag.

Here's a quick video showing you the tag up close....

 
 This was such a fun tag to create. I love all the layers, textures and embellishments on this. I've made this for a friend and I can't wait to send it off to her : )

To coordinate with our bingo board, we have sponsors providing prizes to match each item listed on the board! 

The Paper Nest

3 Copic Markers of Winner's Choice!

AND A SECOND WINNER WILL RECEIVE...

Doodlebug Designs Polka Dot Paper Pack!

(Assorted colors - 4 6x6 sheets of each color)

Freckled Fawn

10 Rolls of Washi Tape!

Miriam's Crafting Supplies

$5 Gift Certificate!

The Cutting Cafe

$20 Gift Certificate!

My Craft Spot

Winner's choice of 5 Bundles of Twine!

(10 yards of each color, over 50 colors to choose from!)

Scrapping Fun with Tonya

3 Pack of Stickles!

3 Girl Jam

$15 Gift Certificate!

To qualify to win, you must:

1. Be a follower of Made Especially For You

2. Leave a comment on every stop of the hop

3. *Extra Entry* Become a fan of the MEFY Facebook page

Winners will be announced at Made Especially For You on Thursday June 20th.

Your next stop of the hop is Georgiana's blog.

Ashley (Made Especially For You)

Tonya

Stephanie

Jessica

Erica

Abby

Georgiana

Laura

Pam

Eileen

Cyndy

Robin

Thanks so much for hopping with us! :)

Made Especially For You Color Combo Challenge

Welcome back my creative friends for another weekly challenge with Made Especially For You. Today's post is bittersweet for me as this is my last challenge and post as a DT member : (  I have thoroughly enjoyed being on this DT and working with Ashley and I will miss working with all of the creative ladies I have met through this Team...BUT we can still stay in contact through our creative channels & blogs. Now on to the challenge!!

I have to tell you what a fun one to go out on...when Ashley showed us the color story for this challenge I instantly fell in love. I seriously love the colors we had to work with. Before I show you the color story..here's my card for this week.......

And here's the color combo you get to work with.......

See..I wasn't kidding when I said the colors were FAB : )

I am seriously lovin the Botanicals Stack and the Coral Couture Stack & Card Stock Stacks from DCWV. I've been finding myself reaching for these quite a bit lately.

This yummy Honeydew twine from The Twinery works so well with this color combo.

LOVE!!!

Are you ready to see some amazing inspiration from my fellow DT members?? Well click HERE and you will see what they came up for this challenge.

Our sponsor for this week is Di's Digi Downloads

The winner of this weeks challenge will receive a $10 voucher to use on Di's Digi site....pretty cool prize : )

Now that you know all the details surrounding this weeks challenge...head into your creative space and start working on your submission for this weeks challenge. I can't wait to see what you create : )

I want to thank all of you again for always stopping by and seeing what I am up to and for those of you who became followers of my blog through the challenges at Made Especially For You, I hope you continue to come back and check out my scrappy posts and see what I have coming up.

Happy Scrappin!!

Products used:
DCWV-Botanicals Stack, Coral Couture Stack & Cardstock Stack
Coredinations-Sandtrap
StampinUp-Just Because
The Twinery-Honeydew
Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Antique Linen & Iced Spruce

Celebrating Earth Day with Made Especially For You!

Happy Monday my creative friends. Today we are celebrating Earth Day over at Made Especially For You. I have to tell you that I am in LOVE with the card I made for this weeks challenge.

We were asked to create a card for Earth Day by using something recycled on our cards. Let me show you my card & let's see if you can guess the two recycled items I used : )

Can you tell? Well one ispretty obvious but I stumped a few people at work/home with what the "flower box" was made of. It's a recycled toilet paper roll tube! I use these for mini albums..I will do a post about that later.

I used some corrugated cardboard from the recycle pile at work for the backdrop on this card. I inked it up a bit with some Walnut Stain & tore the edges.

Ok up next is my FAVE part of this card....

I seriously love how this turned out. I was digging through my recycling scrappy items and this idea just popped into my head to use the TP roll as a window box.

I picked these silk flowers up from a local store in town and they fit perfectly!

Here's a peek at the inside and a side view of the TP window box.

Small cluster of flowers to pull the front to the inside.

And one last look at my recycled card for Earth Day....

This was a great challenge as I think it's important to recycle anyway but to incorporate items that would normally get tossed into your scrappy projects is a FAB idea & your projects turn out so unique & different.

Our sponsor for this week is Jessica at Jessica's Craft Shaque

The winner of this weeks challenge will receive a set of decorative corsage pins. Be sure to stop by Jessica's blog and show her some love for offering up a great prize.

Make sure you head on over to the Made Especially For You challenge blog so you can check out all of the other Earth Day cards by my fellow DT members. You will also see all of the details surrounding this weeks challenge.

Thanks again for stopping by my blog today...I see that I have two new followers from my last post...YAHOO!!!. I know there are tons of scrappy/craft blogs out there and I really appreciate each of you who come back each day to check out what I've been up to.

My one year blog anniversary is coming up in June and I have a huge giveaway planned to celebrate this mile marker for me. I'll be sure to post all of the details surrounding that in the next couple of weeks.

Be sure to come back tomorrow for another scrappy post.

Happy Scrappin!!

Products used:
DCWV-Botanical Stack
Coredinatsions-Sandtrap
Toilet paper roll tube
Corrugated cardboard
Studio 112-Summer clear stamp
Misc flowers
Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Walnut Stain & Iced Spruce
Staz-On Jet Black ink

Made Especially For You: 3 Flowers Challenge

Wow..I can't believe it's Monday already. Where did the weekend go?? One good thing about it being Monday is that it's time for another weekly challenge with Made Especially For You.

The challenge this week is a fun one I think..create a card featuring 3 flowers. I love using flowers of all sizes, colors and materials on my scrappy creations. Here's my card for this weeks challenge...

 The paper flowers are from the Colorbok Flea Market collection. I added some Stickles and inked them up a bit. 

 Inking & adding some stickles are a fun, quick and easy way to dress up some flowers for your project. 

 And one last look....

 Our sponsor for this week is 3 Girl Jam

 The winner of this weeks challenge will receive a two piece bundle of crinkle ribbon. This is a FAB prize for sure. I've used some of their crinkle ribbon and it's lovely. 

Wanna see some more inspiration for this weeks challenge? Head on over to the Made Especially For You blog and see the awesome cards by my fellow DT members. You can also get all of the details surrounding this challenge while you are there. 

Now head into your creative space and get started on your card for this weeks 3 Flower challenge.

Be sure to come back for another scrappy post. 

Happy Scrappin!!

Products used:
Coredinations Canvas Texture-Frappaccino & Lipstick
Colorbok Flea Market paper flowers collection
Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Walnut Stain
Ice Stickles-Crystal Ice
Studio 112 Clear Stamp-Spring
Carolees Creations Ting A Ling brads
Twine-scrappy stash
Brown ribbon-scrappy stash

Cricut Cart-Art Nouveau Review & Tag Project!!

Hey Everyone..it's Abby from ScrappinAbby. Today I am doing a Cricut Cartridge review over on the Made Especially For You blog. My hubby bought
the Expression for my birthday last November and the Art Nouveau cartridge was one of the carts that came with the machine. Here's what I created using that cart....

This is the Art Nouveau cartridge & the image I used for this tag....

There are so many beautiful designs on this cart that I had a hard time deciding which one I wanted to use for my project..but I decided on the peacock feather..I just love those. I decided on the papers I wanted to use and cut out the images...

The images on the keypad that comes with this cart does a great job of walking you through which key sequences to push to make the different cuts and layers. The booklet also lists the features to use but it's nice to have it on the keypad as well so you aren't always looking for your booklet if you don't have it handy.

When I put the layers together..I only put adhesive down the middle of the purple feather. I wanted the edges to stand up a bit to mimick motion and what a real feather would look like. You could of course run this through a Xyron machine or use a glue pen if you wanted the whole feather to lay flat on your project.

I really like the detail with this image. I haven't used the feather cut before so I was pretty pleased with how well it turned out.

The next two photos will give you a better look at the layers with this image..

This is probably my favorite thing about using a Cricut and the many carts out there...I love the layers you can create with the images. I have to admit that I really don't use the alphas that much on my carts...but the letters on the Art Nouveau are just gorgeous..the different fonts are something I haven't seen before. So I just may have to come up with another scrappy project featuring the letters this time.

I've only used the Art Nouveau cartridge a few times but I have to say that I really do love this one. I would say that if you are new at using a Cricut you may not want to use this cart as your first one since there are so many layers and features to get the images you see listed in the booklet..this isn't too discourage you from trying it though. This is a great cart and has lots of beautiful images that you can use on many different types of projects. You do want to be careful when you are removing them from your cutting mat since there is so much detail on the images. I also found that slowing down your speed helps with having nice clean & sharp cuts. Which is important when you have such thin & fine images like the feather.

I hope this Art Nouveau Cart review was informational, helpful & shows you that you can use a fancy pants cart & images on small simple projects such as the tag I shared with you today. I do recommend this cartridge & I'm glad it came with my Expression..I am looking forward to creating more scrappy projects with this.

Thanks so much for letting me share another scrappy creation with you : )

Products used:
Coredinations CS-Wisteria, Purple Majesty, Sage
Kraft Tag-I tea stained this for the distressed/aged look
Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Frayed Burlap & Dusty Concord
Want 2 Scrap pearls
May Arts Striped Grossgrain ribbon, RG67
Studio112 Summer mini clear stamps