Club Scrap Die Cutter's Blog Hop

Welcome to the Club Scrap Die Cutter's Blog Hop, hopefully you've arrived here from Rachelle's blog - but if not you can certainly start here and keep hopping along! 

 I started with the flower pot project from Club Scrap's Blossom Kit.  It has accordion like pages connecting the wooden pot shapes, which lends itself to lots of real estate for decorating.  Not to mention the paper colors are simply gorgeous!  When you get a project from Club Scrap it includes just about everything you will need to complete it, in addition to terrific written directions and lots of time there are videos to walk you through many of the projects.  The Cinema at Club Scrap is a great resource! 

I started the project painting my wood shapes with brown acrylic paint and when that was dry I dry brushed white over that. Then the front and back "covers" were stamped with the stamps from the kit.  Then following the directions I assembled the accordion papers inside that connect all the wood pots. Then it was time to embellish!

 I used the Cricut Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge to cut out all the flowers for this project.  In addition there are a couple butterflies using the Give A Hoot cartridge. Then they were sprayed with Deep Plum and Spring Rain glimmer mists!  Other shapes on some of the pages are made with the Stampin' Up butterfly embosslet die, QuickKutz dies and Spellbinders dies in addition to the occasional punch or hand cutting.

I'm going to give this project to my Mom and Dad.  The photo off the house on the flower "pick" is the first house they bought when the Bay Area was really booming - orchards were becoming housing tracts, young families were moving in and life was full of potential.  Now we're known as Silicon Valley, but back then there was still a lot of open space and freedom a kid! 

 

I still need to gather some photos as my parents will have a "page" as will each one of us three girls.  For now I have mine and Barb's done.  It was a fun project to put together!

I want to thank Erin for organizing this whole blog hop!  Next you'll want to head over to Wendy's blog and if you get lost anywhere along the way you can find the links below!  Thanks for visiting!

http://www.pagesofpictures.com

http://chrissiecreations.blogspot.com/

http://scraphappysistersink.blogspot.com/

http://www.capecodscrapper.blogspot.com/

http://www.creatingwithconnie.blogspot.com/

http://orezonia.blogspot.com/

http://squirrelyart.blogspot.com/     YOU ARE HERE

   http://wbellino.blogspot.com/

http://craftchaos.blogspot.com/