visions of chocolate cake...

...dancing in my head. Oh me oh my! Did you see the luscious and gooey chocolate cake that Linda Barber made with her AC/QK stash on the Amercian Crafts blog yesterday?! Now that truly is a visual delight! I mean, c'mon, seriously, there is nothing better than chocolate AND scrapbooking...well, maybe a Diet Dr. Pepper--it's gotta be diet to offset the 72.9 grams of fat and 956 calories--per square inch--you're eating in the chocolate cake, right? That makes it alllll okay. Now that's my idea of a balanced diet.

So are you all enjoying the lovely goodness on both blogs as much as I am? Wow!

Ready to see some more?

Are you suuuurrreee.....?

Well, what am I waiting for then??? How's about this little number from Jen Gallacher? Pardon the obvious pun, but it is dyn-o-mite, wouldn't ya say! FABulous!

Supplies:

• Cardstock, pattern paper, buttons, red brad: American Crafts
• Die Cuts: Quickutz
• Red photo corners: Heidi Swapp
• Circle punches: EK Success
• Twine: Craft Supply
• Stamping ink: Michael’s
  

Left Page Instructions:

1. Cut a large wavy background die cut from dark brown cardstock and mount on tan cardstock.
2. Mount on green cardstock and add a strip of dinosaur pattern paper to the bottom of the layout.
3. Machine stitch in place.
4. Rub edges of a strip of yellow cardstock with brown stamping ink and mount in center of the layout.
5. Add a strip of tan cardstock rubbed with brown stamping ink to the center of the yellow strip.
6. Double mount a light tan and a dark brown button and tie with craft colored twine.
7. Add to the strip.
8. Use the text tool to cut “DINO” from orange cardstock and “mite” from red cardstock and mount on strip.
9. Add a red brad for the dot in the “I.”
10. Mount two photos on brown cardstock and mount on wavy background.
11. Add two large red photo corners to the top of the layout.
12. Print journaling on orange cardstock and punch out with 2” and 1 3/8” circle punches.
13. Mount on a 2 ¼” and 1.5” circles punched from brown cardstock and mount on layout.
14. Cut a stegosaurus die cut from green cardstock and mount on layout.
15. Cut two different sizes of star die cuts from yellow cardstock.
16. Rub edges with brown stamping ink and mount on layout (using a pop dot for the smaller star).
17. Add a small punched circle in black for the dinosaur’s eye.
    

Right Page Instructions:

1. Mount tan cardstock on green cardstock.
2. Mount two photos at the bottom of the layout.
3. Machine stitch the dinosaur pattern paper to the top of the layout.
4. Rub the edges of a strip of yellow cardstock with brown stamping ink and mount in the center of the layout.
5. Mount a tan and smaller orange strip (both rubbed with brown stamping ink) to the yellow strip.
6. Double mount a tan and brown button with twine to the strip.
7. Cut the tree die cuts from brown and green cardstock.
8. Add some yellow cardstock behind the open tree branches.
9. Print journaling on brown cardstock and cut into strips before mounting on layout.
10. Add two small red corners to the bottom of the photos.
    

How about this adorable card from Erin Lincoln! I LOVE how she cut the word 'Mom' from her label--using the negative space. And adding the bit of AC Flair for the center of the "O"? Perfect.

Supplies Used:
American Crafts: Blue Skies paper and Flair; Glitter Cardstock, Craft Fair chipboard buttons, Flowers

QK: Cookie Cutter Label, 2008 Christmas Gift Set Alphabet

And since I'm on a mental sugar overload already this morning because of thinking about that chocolate cake for way too long, let's share another card from Jen. I LOVE this card! Again with all the little details. Lovely.

Supplies Used:

• Cardstock, pattern paper, button, "Thinking of You" stamp, ribbon: American Crafts
• Die Cuts: Quickutz
• Embossing folders: Quickutz
• 2” Circle punch: McGill
• Photo corners: Canson
• Border punch: Fiskars
• Twine: Craft Supply
• Stamping ink: Inque Boutique, Michaels
  

Instructions:

1. Fold a sheet of green cardstock in half.
2. Use the open circle embossing folder to emboss a sheet of dark brown cardstock.
3. Machine stitch a border of dotted pattern paper to the bottom of the card.
4. Ungroup the scallop border die cut and cut the pattern from tan cardstock.
5. Rub edges with brown stamping ink and mount beneath pattern paper.
6. Use black stamping ink to stamp “thinking of you” on a strip of teal cardstock.
7. Rub edges with brown stamping ink and mount on punched border strip of tan cardstock.
8. Tie two lengths of red gingham ribbon to the stamped border and mount on card.
9. Cut a “run, jump, skip, play” circle die cut from both green and orange cardstock.
10. Cut the green circle in half and mount on orange die cut.
11. Rub edges with brown stamping ink and mount on card.
12. Punch a 2” circle from teal cardstock and emboss with polka dot (patterned) embossing folder.
13. Cut circle in half and rub edges with brown stamping ink before mount on die cut circle.
14. Mount teal fleece flower on die cut circle.
15. Mount button tied with twine to circle.
16. Add two tan photo corners to the upper corners of the card.

And now the winner of the American Crafts goodies:

Candice said...

More amazing projects!! I just love those birds!!

August 25, 2009 5:25 PM

And the winner of the QuicKutz goodies:

PamSpradlin said...

I am off to scraplift these cards. They are just so cute!

August 25, 2009 8:31 AM

Congratulations! E-mail us with your address at customerservice@quickutz.com and we'll get those out to you!


Wanna see what's up for grabs today?

Should I just tease ya some?

I'm in a weird mood this morning, so this could go on forever.

Oh, alright. I guess it's not very professional of me to keep ya waiting. ;)

Here's a little somethin'-somethin' from American Crafts:

And a little somethin'-somethin' from QK.

Just leave a comment with your name and you'll be eligible to win one of these very fine packages! I'll draw a winner in the morning!

Have a chocolate-filled day...and don't forget to make it a balanced diet with a diet soda. ;)

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