Friday, August 31, 2012

Blog Hopping with Memorable Seasons

Welcome to our blog hop here at Memorable Seasons!
 
I hope you have enjoyed our hop if you have been following along and if you just arrived make sure you head on over to the Memorable Seasons blog and continue on through the DT blogs to see some of what we created during our Members Challenge Us crop.  You might also find a few peeks of what we are working with for September!  Make sure you leave a comment on the Memorable Seasons blog for a chance to win a prize that will be drawn at the end of the hop.  The hop will run from Friday, August 31st – Monday, September 3rd with a full reveal of our September kits on the forum on the 4th.  The winner of the hop will be revealed on the Memorable Seasons blog on the 4th also.  On Tuesdays throughout September you will find challenges listed on our Forum at Memorable Seasons and on Thursdays you will find the challenge listed on the blog – so make sure you stop by and catch up on what has been going on!

So if you follow my blog you will have seen a few of the layouts I created for our crop, but here is another one that I created for Detta's Possessive Pronoun challenge using my August DT kit - October Afternoon Cakewalk.

 
 
And I was one of the lucky DT members that received my September kit so, guess what I have a little sneak for you.  Can you guess what line I am working with?
 
 

Thanks so much for stopping by - make sure and leave a comment with your guess of which line I am working with and I will send a RAK to one lucky commenter/follower! 
                         
 

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Winner time!

I haven't forgotten, just waiting for some sunlight to take a picture! 

So first matter of business, I needed to pick a winner from the Paper Issues blog hop and the lucky person is...


Wendy, I have been a huge fan of yours for quite a while now...I totally LOVE what you did with this line....AWESOME! Your window box is adorable but that Discover layout is priceless!
 
Thanks for all of your comments they really make my day!  Kathy send me your address and I will get some goodies out to you.
 
Saturday I got a package in the mail and was so surprised to see this:
 
 
Yep, I knew eventually I'd see the magazine, but this was published in Scrap 365 September 2012 issue and I already have my layout and magazine in my hands! 
 
Make sure you stop back by on Friday, it's a secret, but it is good!

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Jillibean Soup sketch time

I had a chance to catch up on some of my scrapping this past week - I figured I had better get all the things done I want to do before we hit the books again and actually have a schedule!

Here is the August Jillibean Soup sketch:

JBS august sketch

And here is what I created with some of my stash:

 
 
 
 
 
I also created these layouts in the past few days for our Member's Challenge Us crop at Memorable Seasons:

Two Lily Bee layouts - I finally got my hands on the Buttercup collection - totally love these colors!



Thanks for stopping by to visit.  I hope to get back soon because I have a whole folder of projects that I haven't shared yet, yikes! 

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Things to share

I have quite a few projects that I've been working on lately, some that are still a secret and some I can share with you today.

So back a few weeks ago I shared my project Dreamland (click here) using Wall Sugar's Perfect Posies.  If you noticed in that picture it showed 3 flowers and I only used 2 on my project, but I had another project that I had imagined.  So I finally was able to work on my final flower project which I made for a dear friend. 

Here are some close-up shots and one in the process shot:

I covered a 6x12 piece of wood in Close To My Heart Stella Collection papers, modeling paste, CTMH inks and some stamps.  I then adhered my painted flower to my canvas, some CTMH fabric stickers, clay leaves that I made from a mold, a Maya Rd chipboard house and wrapped wire around my project.  I have never actually used wire on my projects, totally new for me, but I love the added texture!  I used moss for grass and punched a fence border out of the Stella papers.  I finished my canvas by adding a CTMH stamp that I cut the saying apart to adhere on my project and again some words that run along the bottom of one of the Stella papers.




We had a cupcake party for this dear friend and everyone loved these new cupcakes I tried so I thought I would share the recipe (Family Circle, June 2012, p62)

Snickerdoodle Cupcakes 
1 white box cake
1 cup milk
1/2 cup melted butter
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract (I actually used the real extract)
2 tsp cinnamon
Mix and fill your cupcake wrappers about 2/3 full.  Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.

Cinnamon Buttercream Frosting
1/2 cup softened butter - blend for about 30 seconds
4 cups 10x sugar
3 Tbls milk (this is too runny - try 2 1/2)
1 tsp vanilla (imitation extract here)
1 tsp cinnamon

I just made another batch of these because they were so good, hope you enjoy!

And finally, we've been cropping at Memorable Seasons this weekend and the inspiration is totally flying everywhere!  I've gotten 4 done and 2 are almost ready, and so many ideas for the rest, now to get the time to work on them!

Team Work was made for a chipboard challenge - I used some Jillibean Soup inerts from their frames and die-cut some stars which I wrapped in twine, all products were Jillibean Soup.





And this layout was made for a number challenge.  I used some Echo Park and my CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge to make this layout of Vinny's 3rd birthday.




Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope to get back here soon and show some of my other layouts I've been busy working on!

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Summer Lovin' with Paper Issues


Welcome to our Summer Lovin' blog hop with Paper Issues and Simple Stories!  I hope you are having a wonderful time hopping through our blogs and make sure you get in on the prize at Paper Issues!

Here's a picture of the prize you could win.

How are you loving your summer?  I am not much of a hot weather girl, hate to say, but my kids sure are!  My youngest has just started walking and so he is ALL over doing just what this title say, Discovering!  I wanted to document all the different things that my little guy is doing right now so I would forget ...
Materials Used:  Simple Stories, LYB, Scrap FX, stash
I was completely inspired by the windox box flash card (#2409) that I found in the Summer Fresh collection and created my own window box completely free of bugs which is just my type!

Materials Used:  Simple Stories, Flower Shoppe Cricut Cartridge, Maya Rd, Fiskar


Don't forget you can always use my code SWEET for a 20% discount at Paper Issues.

I have some leftover Simple Stories Summer Fresh goodies for one lucky reader - Just leave a comment and I would love for you to follow my blog.  I will pick a winner on August 25th.  Now it is time to jump on to Amy's blog for some more Summer Lovin', have fun!

Paper Issues  http://paperissues.blogspot.com/
1. Susan T http://
www.susanscrapbooker.blogspot.c
om
2. Bethany http://
ribbonglitterandglue.blogspot.com/
3. Melissa www.melissapriest.com
4. Sara Z http://
www.sarazenger.blogspot.com/
5. Wendy A http://antenucci.blogspot.com <-- You Are Here
6. Amy T http://
tsurutadesigns.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

A First

So this year has brought a lot of scrapbooking firsts to me - I'm hoping the year continues to bring even more of these neat opportunities! 

One of these firsts was I was asked to be a Featured Artist at Scrapbook News and Review.  I was thrilled at the opportunity, but I was asked to send a tutorial on something; it could be a picture tutorial or a video.  So, I turned to my dear friends at Memorable Seasons (where I am now the DT co-coordinator, another first) for suggestions of what I could give a tutorial about.  Well the one thing that they kept mentioning was my style and use of white space.  As I thought about their comments I had the HUGE brainstorm to not only talk about my style and white space, but to make a video!  Yep, I made a video and posted it to YouTube and everything, I am so very proud of myself.  Course what you don't know is how many times I recorded the thing and what all goofy things I did!  Yikes!

So here is my video, yes it is a first so don't judge it too much, but I hope you enjoy!

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Today is the day!

To see the new Close to my Heart catalog and boy is it a good one!  You can view the whole catalog here http://wantenucci.ctmh.com/ .  Here are a few of the things I am REALLY excited about,

This is the Workshop on the Go:  Pear & Partridge Cardmaking Kit (G1043) can I hear what date is the class?

Or maybe the Workshop on the Go:  Advent Calendar Kit (G1044) definitely another get together for this one!

And then, something really exciting a new Cricut cartridge (Artiste Collection Z1790) with another 700 items completely different from the last cartridge (Art Philosophy Collection Z1686).


And here is one of the projects I plan on creating with this cartridge!

Hope you take a minute to go shopping, just click on the link above or on my tab at the top!  Thanks for stopping by.