Spring is in the air with Ruby Rock-It's August Moon!

Hi everyone! Hope you all are enjoying the end of the weekend. It was so nice here in Chicago but instead of being able to take advantage of the wonderful weather, I spent it inside doing some much needed spring cleaning. I really hate doing it, but it feels so good after you are done...it is such a freeing feeling. I did manage to get some scrapbooking in so I do have a layout to show you! With spring on it's way it seemed only fitting that August Moon by Ruby Rock-It Bella was the line we were revealing to you this month. It is such a soft and whimsical line...almost makes you feel like you are right there in a field of fresh flowers. I had these photos of my daughter from last school year, she played Little Bo Peep in a school play...and check out the Meadowsweet paper from the August Moon line...PERFECT!!! This paper is so pretty I kept my layout to a minimum so I could really let the paper do the talking. I added some lace ribbon from the line, some die cut stickers and oh, check out the beautiful little pearl accents that come in this line too. The bling strips I added came from the Bella Bling line (again, showing how easy Ruby Rock-It makes it to mix and match lines.

Here is a close up of those pretty little pearl accents I was talking about...

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Paper Issues says...Go Green or Go Home...

Paper Issues is all about the green this month. Their challenge to us this month is use green...the color green, something recycled or upcycled any way you want it..(ha! just like the commercial...I just had a Journey moment!) So come on everyone let's make them see green!!

Bella/Ruby Rock-It Paper Doll Banner...

Happy Friday everyone! Wow, March already and again here I sit with only a couple of deadlines to finish up. Not sure if you heard the big news yet about the Ruby Rock-It/Bella/Fundamentals company merge...well you can read all about it at the Ruby Rock-It blog...big changes and wonderful adventures are awaiting us all with this! So while you wait for some wonderful new product reveals which will be going on all month at the Ruby Rock-It blog I thought I would share with you another CHA booth project I did for Ruby Rock-It. This banner I made using the Bella Paper Doll line and oh what another fun line to work with. Sorry the "whole" banner looks a bit small...but don't worry...I added close ups so you can see how awesome this line is!

Upcycling=Creative Crafty Gifts!

If you are like me, you save anything remotely possible that looks like it can used on a scrapbook page, card or project! I save so much stuff I practically have to hide it from my husband because if he finds it he will throw it away. Recently while giving my daughter's room a major cleaning, I stumbled on an old dry erase board she had. It was a mess, scribbles all over, stickers stuck everywhere...well, I just could not throw it away, I knew I could do something with it. So with a little paint, some cork board (which my husband eh hem....had hoarding away) some scrappy papers and some embellishments, and for the pencil holder I used an old plastic coffee can and cut it right down the middle...a new board was created! I am so sorry that I completely spaced out taking a before picture...but here is the after...

To me this just did not look complete so again, the hoarder that I am found an old clipboard and did a few things to "gussy" it up and made it a calendar to go with the corkboard...

I still had one more thing that I thought would work with the enssamble, an old chipboard clothes hanger from Build A Bear...makes for a really cute door hanger....

I was in a real crafty mood this month so I also made a wall hanging for my daughter's room or for her door...

For this project I used 2 of the same scalloped papers. I used one for the back and for the front one I cut the scallops off and cut strips of that wonderful chipboard that we all save from our orders and covered it with matching ribbon to use as a base for the top layer...

A little bit of this and a little bit of that with Ruby Rock-It!

Free-Form February...oh how nice that sounds after all the hustle and bustle of CHA! We were given the opportunity to do what ever we wanted to this month. I took full advandage of this assignment. For my first layout I actually used 3 different lines...and Ruby Rock-It cardstock. The background paper is from the wedding line, The alpha stickers and some of the embellishments are from the Paper Doll line, the paper twine is from the Nostalgia line and from the Paper Boy line I used patterned paper and embellishments. I really love when I can make a layout using so many different elements and lines all together.
For my second layout I also used a few different lines. I used flowers and chipboard embellishments from the cardmaking elements, I used paper twine from the Nostalgia line, I used ribbon and die cut papers from the Keepsake line...and again all of these lines and elements flow so nicely together.

I hope I showed you how you can mix and match several different lines to make one wonderful layout!

I do with Momenta....

Hi everyone! I have actually had a bit of down time since CHA is over, and let me tell you, it has been nice. I have been kind of taking advantage of it for the most part. So while I am waiting for assignment dates to go live I thought I would share with you a couple of projects I got to do for the Momenta booth at CHA. These wedding papers and embellishments are so awesome and so easy to work with. Not only are they elegant, they have a bit of playfulness to them also allowing your projects to go either way you want then to. For my layout I went the elegant traditional wedding layout way....

And for my frame, I went a little elegant and playful using a plain wooden frame that I altered....

Bella/Ruby Rock-It Paper Boy Banners....

Good morning everyone! Today I want to show you something really fun I made with the Bella/Ruby Rock-It Paper Boy line. If you were all following the Ruby Rock-It blog, which I know you were...you saw some of the photos our wonderful team leader Rachel put up from CHA. The Ruby Rock-It booth was completed with a wonderfully cool bird cage like gazeebo fully decorated with banners we all made. Today I would like to show you one of mine... I am one to save everything and anything that I think can be used in some sort of crafty way. These old blue jeans were the perfect touch to show off this wonderful line....

Up close you can see all the fun elements this line has to offer and let me tell you...it was so fun to work with!