Card + Flower Clip

Since I made so many of these flowers, I decided that I needed to find a way to use them other than accessories for my girls.

Here, the clip is used as an embellishment on a card.
It's a nice way to give a little gift along with the card.
I just clipped the flower right onto the card so that is can be easily removed and reused.

Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill; Patterned Paper: Jenni Bowlin; Glitter Alpha: Making Memories; Tiny Alpha: Cosmo Cricket; Photo Frame: House of 3

Look What UPS Delivered

Yesterday I had a wonderful surprise when I found this box on my doorstep.And this is what was inside.A Mother's Day bouquet for me! How col is that? Thanks goes to my sweet husband.

Silk Flower Hairclips

Last week I watched this video by Rhonna Farrer and decided that I wanted to give making flowers with fabric. She gives really great inspructions, so check it out if you want to see how to make several different types of flowers.

Visiting the fabric store may not seem like a big deal, but I really know nothing about fabric. Just stepping foot into the fabric section of the store makes me feel a little crazy. I feel much safer on the paper side of the store!

I picked up four different colors of a silky material. Just got a 1/4 yard per color and the total was only $2.99. What a deal!

Here's a look at what I cam up with.
I was able to make at least 10 of these is less than an hour. They really came together quickly. I still have LOTS of fabric leftover, so a 1/4 yard was a good amount of fabric.

Once the flowers were finished, I added a hairclip to the back with some hot glue. I decided to not back the flower in felt because I wanted to keep it soft and moveable.

I attached a couple of the flowers to an elastic headband. The fun thing about this is that the flowers are interchangable. You could have a drawful of flowers and just clip on whatever matches your outfit.My oldest daughter asked if she could just wear the clip in her hair. It was such a quick way to add a little pizzaz to her outfit.These were so much fun to make. I'm thinking that I need return trip to the fabric store so that I can try out a few different fabrics.

Salsa Chicken

One of my favorite recipes only has 2 ingredients and I almost always have them on hand.

The ingredients are:

1 jar of salsa (whatever brand we have in the pantry)
2 - 3 frozen chicken breasts

Place the frozen chicken into a crockpot, pour the salsa over the chicken and cook on high for 6 hours.The chicken will be falling apart and will be perfectly seasoned by the salsa. Yum.

We like to use the chicken in these tacos and just wrap it up in a flour tortilla.

Simple, easy and delicious. And a bonus is that all 3 of my kids will usually eat it.

Blog Hop Winner!

Thank you so much to everyone who played along in the blog hop yesterday.

I had so much fun reading about all of your dream vacations!

I forgot to tell you my dream vacation! I have a lot of places on my travel wish list, but I think one of the most fun vacations would be to get all of my family together to go on a European Disney Cruise. That would be totally amazing!

Now, on to our winner of the glimmer mist.With the help of Random.org, I got number 37.
So the winner is JessiW!Yeah! Email your address to me (lisa at scrapbookcircle dot com) and I'll get this right out to you.

Hope have a great day!

4th Anniversary Scrapook Circle Blog Hop!

If you are here for the Scrapbook Circle blog hop, welcome! I'm excited to share a creation and a GIVEAWAY with you today. If you just arrived from Diana Fisher's blog, I'm happy to have you here!

Here is the blog hop order!
Scrapbook Circle Blog
Aymee
Jill
Diana W.
Diana F.
Lisa (you are here)
Scrapbook Circle Blog


Today I want to share my latest creation with the Scrapbook Circle May Kit.
I started off with a simple black frame and white mat. I then punched nine butterflies and mounted them onto the blue patterned paper from Crate and then one of the Kioshi Basic Grey papers went behind the blue paper.

For a finishing touch, I outlined each of the butterflies with my journaling pen.
This matches my bathroom perfectly and is now happily sitting on my bathroom counter.

Now for the giveaway...Who wants to win this package of Glimmer Mist?

It comes with Olive Vine, Yellow Daisy and Coffee shop mists PLUS a walnut gold clear mist. Cool!
There are TWO ways to win...

1. Leave a comment here letting my know where you would go on your dream vacation.

2. Become a follower of my blog and leave a comment letting me know you are following.

(Leave 2 separate comments for two chances to win!)

Comments will close tonight and the winner will be announced tomorrow.

I am so excited to be celebrating Scrapbook Circle's 4th anniversary with you. I feel so blessed to be able to share my love of scrapbooking with you every month. Thank you to everyone who has participated in our community over the years! I'm looking forward to another great year!

Next, you can head back to the Scrapbook Circle blog for the end of the blog hop.

New Layout and Sketch Inspirations

This week Scrapbook Circle is sponsoring the sketch at Sketch Inspirations. I thought it would be fun to play along.

I took these photos of my daughter playing at the park last week. She has such a sweet, happy smile. One of my favorite things about the layout is that I used my new EK Success binding edge punch.
Here's a look the sketch.
We're giving away one of SC's Happy Days kits, so come play along if you want a chance to win.