February Journaling Spot

Good Morning!! Can you believe it's been a week since we started these blog hops? It's gone so fast! We have really enjoyed reading all of your comments though, so thank you for hopping along with us!

Today's featured set is February Journal Spot. This one contains the Journaling Heart and the word February (I didn't use it here, but other dt member's did so you'll see it when you hop :)
This is a picture of our daughter and grandson. I LOVE this picture. So I thought the heart would be perfect for this picture. The colors on my picture are a little off, sorry about that, I did play with it, but couldn't get it just right.

The background paper is old paper from Flair. The red with pink hearts is from Imaginisce - Loves Me. It the back of "The Game of Love" which is one of my favorite papers in this line :) I matted the picture on red and added some black photo corners. I added an Imaginisce flower and some dew drops in the swirls of the heart and in the center of the flower. I machine stitched the panel behind the picture and then tied the sheer black polka dot ribbon. Then I put it all together. It really was an easy page.

Our last blog hop today will work similarly to the other's this week.

Visit each dt member's blog to see how they have used the February Journaling Spot and be sure to leave them a comment.

Go to the 2RedBananas blog and answer a question for us in the comments section, then you will be entered to win the February Journal Spot stamp :)

Our quote for the day: "To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world." - unknown

Thanks so much for stopping by and remember the stamps will be released at 12:01am EST on Monday, February 2nd.

January Journaling Spots :)

Good Morning!! Are you up for some more blog hopping today? We have more blog candy at the end :)

Today, we are introducing you to the January Journaling Spots. There are two sets, one with snowflakes and one with a mitten and sentiment. My first layout, which is an 8X8 so you can get an idea of how big the stamps are uses both of the images in the January Journaling Spots2. I love how the journaling spots are an embellishment to your page as well as just being a place to write! You can decorate the mitten in many ways, all I did was stamp it on blue cardstock and used a Twinklette pen to put some green glittered ink on the stripes and around the edge. It was so easy and doesn't take away from the pictures, which is always my goal when scrapbooking.



Recipe:
Paper - October Afternoon - Night Light "Katie", green bazzill and blue cardstock
Ribbon - May Arts Solid Iridescent - sage
Embellishments: Dew Drops - Water, Marvy scalloped punch, paper piercer, pop-dots
Ink: Versafine - Onyx black

This one uses the January Journaling Spot set. It comes with snowflakes and a "January" stamp. We get LOTS of snow here, so I got to use one of my pictures to write about how I love to watch the snow falling from the sky. I never would have thought to use orange on a snow layout, but I really like it. I'm going to have to think outside the box a little more often :) This one also uses one of the new May Arts ribbons - the Burlap/Woven string in Natural.

Recipe:
Paper: Webster's Pages - Parlor Collection - "Southern Comfort", Bazzill - orange, regular blue and brown cardstock.
Ink: Versafine - Vintage Sepia
Embellishments - one of the NEW ribbons - May Arts Burlap/Woven String - Natural, Dew Drops - Flame

Okay, for all of you blog hoppers, you need to know my answer to the question. My favorite ribbon is textured ribbons. I love texture, whether it's sheer with sparkles, or grosgrain, or this burlap, or the new suede leaves, I just love what texture adds to my projects :) Leave a comment here, so you can be entered into the blog candy drawing, and if you want to tell us what your favorite ribbon is, we'd LOVE to know!

Be sure to hop to the other DT member's blogs to see what they have done with this set and to get their answer to the question, and make sure to comment on their blogs too. Then hop back to the 2RedBananas blog to leave your comment there.

Our quote for the day: "Dreams are the touchstones of our character." - Henry David Thoreau

Thanks so much for hopping along with us again today!!!