Retired Product Rescue!

My goal this year is to use up some of my older retired papers, so the theme of Retirement at H2H challenges this week was just the prompt I needed!

I scrapbooked some photos from my nephew's birthday, using the retired Wanderful Paper Packet- travel themed paper but I have found this blue polka dot so versatile for masculine pages!



I also used retired washi tape and a retired ProPlayer complements sticker along the bottom of the page. The sticker doubles as a title, as my boys and their cousins had lots of fun playing the sumo game and using the inflatable play areas.



Do you have retired products, a retirement coming up or any other project that would fit this theme? Link up with us here!

ABC Blog Hop- I

Welcome to the Everything ABC's Blog Hop!

For this hop we will be featuring the letter I. This may be the name of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment. Whatever the crafter has chosen as their I element will be featured in their post.

If you came from Catherine then you're on the right track!

My background this month is an Ink Spray background, which you can use on either card or scrapbook layout projects.

I started off with an 11x11 piece of White Daisy cardstock and some Lagoon re-inker in a spray pen.



Lightly spray the cardstock- you may want to do this piece on a newspaper. You can get a large or smaller area of mist, as well as droplets like you see on the sheet. Have fun and experiment with this part until you have a look you like!



Mat your white cardstock on a piece of coordinating cardstock and have fun completing your layout. Here I added some photos of our trip to the museum as well as some embellishments and patterned paper.



The spray gives such a fun look to the page, and can look modern, dramatic or vintage depending on what types of colours and saturation levels you use.



I used the wanderful WOTG stamp set to create the title, and added some Wanderful and Chalk It Up Assortment embellishments. The great think about an ink spray background is that it does not need a lot of embellishment to complement it, and so you spend less time completing your pages.



Have you tried an ink spray background before?

Your next stop on our Everything ABC'S blog Hop is Darlys Recker.

In case you get lost along the way…go to Scrappy Therapy for a complete list of participants!

CTMH supplies used:
Cardstock: Lagoon, White Daisy
Embellishments: Chalk It Up Assortment, Chalk It Up Complements, Frosted Complements, Lagoon Hearts Washi Tape, Teal Shimmer Trim, Wanderful Assortment
Ink: Lagoon Re-inker, Juniper
Paper packet: Fundamentals Whimsy Assortment
Stamp set: Wanderful WOTG
Tools: Spray Pen

Artbooking In April- What a Wonderful World

Today I am sharing another mini album for my Artbooking In April series- using the Cricut Artbooking cartridge to create paper perfection!

This album was inspired by the Heart 2 Heart challenge this week- What A Wonderful World. Travel certainly makes me look at all the different things my beautiful country of New Zealand has to offer, and at the beginning of this year we went on a family road trip to Cromwell at the bottom of the South Island.

I created this album using the Artbooking 8x8 Travel Mini Album as well as the 6x8 Summer Mini Album as I had a few pages! I cut the pages themselves in Whisper, Glacier and Canary cardstock, and used accents in Pacifica, Honey, Outdoor Denim and papers from Seaside, Tommy and Wanderful.

Here is the title page- off we go on our adventure! I love this overlay cut from the cartridge- it gives the page a definite wow factor!

I mixed a combination of 8x8 pages, half pages and 6x8 pages throughout the book. Here is the back of the overlay page as well as the back of one of the half pages with a family photo on it, and a 68 page with some photos of the boys playing during our lunch stop.



Cromwell is famous for fruit, so we had to get a photo of us with the giant fruit! I also got some great shots of my son playing in the mall, where I have photos of myself as a young girl. The Oh Snap and photo frame were cut from the Cricut, as well as the apple.



Another fun overlay and a notebook style page were great backgrounds for photos of our cherry picking, and the retired Jubilee button with a cherry on it was perfect!



Some more half pages are scattered throughout the book, as well as some small journalling boxes that I stamped.



The Cricut Artbooking mini albums even have some great envelope style pages, perfect for memorabilia. On this page I had some photos of us on the lake (our first time fishing and everyone loved it!) so I placed the fishing licences in the pocket. I also added a fish embellishment from the Seaside WOTG and some epoxy bubbles.



I was a bit of a big kid on this holiday, and loved the flying fox at the Dinosaur Park. My husband was more interested in the car museum!



One of the main reasons we went on this holiday was to celebrate my grandparent's wedding anniversary and their birthdays, so I also have some family photos throughout the book.



The last page is another fun overlay page, featuring some stickers from the Wanderful Complements and a little note about how much we loved Cromwell.



 This was such a fun mini album to do, and I really loved how easily it came together using the Artbooking cartridge.

Be sure to check out my other Artbooking in April posts, and if you have anything related to this wonderful world link it up with us at H2H!

Washi Wine Charms

This week's #‎jrlcreativechallenge‬ over at Close To My Heart is to show a fun way using Washi.

I always lose my wine glass at parties and end up making more dishes, so I came up with this quick and easy wine glass charms so that you can keep track of drinks at your next get together.

All you need to do is cut four hollow circles- you can use circle punches or the Cricut to do this. Snip a small cut in each circle so that it can be placed over a wine glass.


Cover a mini clothespin with a strip of washi, trimming any excess. Use a different patterned washi tape for each clothespin so that every person can have their own design.


Slip the circle over the wine glass and secure the two edges with a mini clothespin.


Now everyone will know at a glance which glass is theirs!


CTMH supplies used:
Desert Sand Cardstock
Mini Clothespins
Black Arrow Washi Tape
Gold Polka-Dot Washi Tape
Lagoon Hearts Washi Tape
Ruby Chevron Washi Tape