Scrap Paper Flowers - by Michele

Ingredients:

Paper scraps from MME “Mary Mary” paper pack and EP “A Walk In The Park” paper

MM brads

Letter cut from MME “Lush” paper

Stickles (Eucalyptus)

Second hand wood plaque painted with MM “Dusk” paint

Butterflies made from EP “A Walk In The Park” paper

How to make paper scrap flowers:

Round scrap flowers

*Take 6 circles and tear them each to a different size (NOTE…..save the paper that is torn from these circles….you will need them later!!!).

*Putting the largest on the bottom, stack the circles so the littlest one is on top. Using a paper piercer, make a hole in the center of the smallest circle and insert a brad.

*Bend, fold, crumple….however you want to distress your flower and adhere to your project.

Scrappy petal flowers

*Using 6 pieces of scrap paper (make them no bigger than 1”), gather the pieces by a corner and staple together.

*Fold, curl, or crumple the corners and sides to add a little life to the flower.

*Remember the paper torn from the circles that I told you to keep???? Curl them.

*Take the curled up paper scraps and form a center to your flower. When you get it to the size you want, use some adhesive to seal the end.

*Glue the center to the flower.

Leaves for the flowers

Need super easy leaves??

*Cut out some hearts.

*Cut them down the middle.

*Attach to the bottom of your flower.

*Curl the leaf if desired.

Special Feature - Birthday Party - by BethD488

When Amber asked for a special feature for April, I immediately put my hand up and started jumping up and down, saying "Me, Me, ME!!!"  Well, I jumped on my keyboard and said, "yes, pick me!!!"  Anyway, you get the picture.  The reason I did that was because I had a huge weekend planned as my DS's birthday was the day before Easter, and I had birthday stuff I was going to make anyway.  It was a perfect way to show some of the other projects I was working on (since I rarely have the time to upload pics and put them on the chat board - sorry).

Every year, I give my kids a themed birthday party.  As soon as they are able age-wise, I let them pick what that theme is.  This year, we got a Wii for Christmas and one of the games is the New Super Mario Brothers, so ever since, he's been obsessed with Mario.  Well, guess what he picked as the theme this year - you got it Super Mario Brothers.  Now, of course with my luck, I don't really have an interest in the game, so I had to do some research and some cramming about the characters.  While doing so, I found some pictures about party ideas.  So onto the projects I ended up doing (most of which are SMB related).

Invites:

I found an fairly easy invite that is different from what I usually do, and I altered it slightly.  It features the UP toadstool on SMB.  I made a pocket, and then made the toadstool and inserted into the pocket.  The invite information is on the toadstool bottom, and you have to pull it up to read it.  I also added the bonus star to it.

The CC products I used were:  EP Little Boy - Red Plaid back (green polka dots), Buttons back (orange check), Cool Stripe back (blue dots), Road Map back (brown check); MM small gold circle brads; Mm emtro mini shimmer gold alpha; Slice and Design Card Summer - star.

Non CC products are: SU yellow, ballet blue, pumpkin pie, ruby red cardstock; Recollections cream cardstock; 1inch circle punch; uni-ball white pen.

Favor Bags:

Instead of buying SMB themed bags or boxes for favors, I decided to make some very simple ones.  I bought some gift bags from AC Moore and added stars and border strips.  The tag says "Just for U, Thanks for Coming".

CC products (bags):  EP Little Boy (green polka dots, orange check, buttons, blue dots, brown check, vroom back - yellow stripe).

CC products (tag): EP Little Boy - In the Clouds; MM metro mini shimmer gold alpha, The Twinery Maraschino Cherry twine.

Non-CC products (bags): SU scallop punch, SU star punch, Recollections primary cardstock, SU wild wasabi cardstock, gift bags.

Non-CC products (tag): 3inch scallop circle punch; 2.5inch circle punch; SU star punch.

Cupcake decoration:

The tag I used for the cupcake is very similar to the tag on the favor bags.  The back has a picture of Mario on it.

Centerpiece:

One of the catalogs I usually use for birthday party supplies had an SMB theme package.  In it was a centerpiece that looked fairly simple, so I decided to make it myself.  It was basically a box that had the question mark and star on it with Mario and Luigi jumping out of it.  I simply found a box, covered it with four different patterned papers, and then found a picture of M and L and adhered it to a sun-like piece of cardstock to make it look like they were popping out of the box.  This now sits in my DS's room he liked it so much.

CC products: EP Little Boy - awesome dots and boxer strip backs; Slice.

Non-CC products: Mario Bros pic from web; Recollections primary cardstock; SU yellow cardstock; Slice Design Card - sports.

Birthday Card:

My DS is in first grade, and he is doing really well in school, but the best thing that happened this year was that he learned to read.  So I wanted to honor that in his card.

CC products: EP 6x6 A Boy's Life; American Craft thickers Jewelry Box.

Non-CC products:  SU blue cardstock, star punch.

Banner:

When I saw the chipboard banners CC sold a few months ago, I had the idea of making banners for each of my children that represent who they are and what they like.  For my DS's party, I hung it on over our fireplace, but it will eventually go in his room.  His interests include: trains, Cub Scouts, dinosaurs (he claims he wants to be a paleontologist when he grows up), chess, Legos, art/drawing and books, and soccer and football.  He absolutely loved this and how it represents who he is.

CC products:  FP Artist Edition chipboard banner semi-circle; EP Little Boy (green polka dots, yellow stripes, blue dots, red stripe, blue with white dots (back of journal cards), rock star and blue diamond, borders); MM mini gold circle brads; Slice and Design Card Green Thumb (Sam) and Big Kids (train, dinosaur, All Boy).

Non-CC products:  Slice Design Card Sports (soccer ball, cleat, Goal, football, Touchdown) and Fall Back to School (scissors, books, pencil, 123, ABC); Creative Imaginations Lego stickers; K&Co cub scout die-cuts; SU ruby red, pumpkin pie, wild wasabi, ballet blue cardstock; SU star punch; Recollections primary cardstock yellow; misc brown, black and white cardstock; Xyron; chess piece pics from web; and black pen to outline some of the die-cuts and give them some definition.

Then for Easter, I made some cute small decorated buckets.  I added them to our mantle and out other Easter decorations.  I used strips of paper and adhered them vertically around the bucket.  Then I cut out the work Easter and adhered it overtop.  The hardest thing was to figure out how wide to make the strips.

CC products: EP 6x6 Springtime; Slice and Design Card Spring.

Non-CC products: buckets; Xyron.

I had a lot of fun making all these projects.  It was also fun using almost all of an entire line of paper (EP Little Boy) - I'm saving the rest (and some of the matching cardstock to create the LO's of the birthday).  This was the first time I've done that.  I hope you have fun looking.

Spring is "Popping Up" - by ScrappyCanuck

A couple of months ago, I shared a free standing pop-up card on the CropChocolate discussion board.  One of the ladies was really excited by the design, so I promised I would share the tutorial with her!  Now that Spring is here, I thought this fun, interactive card would be a great base for a card all about “things springing up”!  So Blue, this one is for you!

Materials:

(all papers used for the example project are Echo Park Springtime)

-         Base: one piece of paper cut to 11" X 4 1/4"

-         Pull Tag: one piece of paper cut to 5" X 2 1/2"

-         Mat for Pull Tag: one piece of paper cut to 5 ¼” x 2 ¾”

-         Optional - wings: one piece of paper cut to 3” x 7 ½”

-         Fiber/twine for pull tab and embellishment (I used Stella and Rose)

Instructions:

Base:

1.     Using the 11" X 4 1/4" piece of paper, score at the 1”, 2 ¾”, 3 ¾”, 5 ½”, 7 ¼”, 8 ¼”, and 10”

2.     On the middle score line (5 ½”), mark the middle at 2 1/8” and measure out 1 ½” both ways.  You should now have a centered line along the score line that is 3” long.  This will be the slot in which the pull tag sides in and out. 

3.     Using a craft knife, cut along the 3” line.  Note: depending on the number of layers you plan to include on the pull tab, you may need to make you slit wider.  If so, simply run your craft knife approx. 1/8” beside the line you have already cut. 

Pull Tag:

1.     Place the paper you cut for your pull tag on the piece cut for the matting.

Putting the pieces together:

1.     With your base card right side up, apply adhesive to the bottom of edge of  one end along the 4 ¼” side. 

2.     On the other end of the same piece, apply adhesive approximately ¾” from the bottom edge (right below your first score line)

3.     Slide the pull tag through the slit in the middle of the base

4.     Fold UP the bottom 1” of the base on both ends (the ones that have adhesive), forming a sandwich with the pull tag in between in the center.

5.    Optional – Although your card will now stand on its own when you pull up on the pull tag, I have added “wings” to help keep the card open.  Pull the tag up, so your card is in the open position.  Run adhesive along the back of the pull tag along the edge that meets the base of the card, and approximately 2 ½” up from this edge.  Line up your wing paper along the back of the pull tag, and adhere.  Fold the pieces that stick out over top of the pull tag across the front.  You now have two wings that can be opened when the pull tag is in the upright position. 

6.     Embellish the card on any visible section.  

Spring Traditions - by BethD488

Every year, around the first day of spring, a few friends come over and make pierogies with us.  Two are of Polish descent and my DH is partly Ukrainian (in case you didn't know, pierogies are a traditional dish in both countries).  And my kids usually get involved somehow for at least a little bit.  We make the traditional ones with potato and cheese filling, and some with a sauerkraut filling.  Then we switch it up a little bit and make a savory one with a sausage, mushroom, green pepper and cheese filling.  I find them all so YUMMY!!!!  This year, when we got together, we made 215 of them - WOW!!!  I think that's the most we've ever made.

When someone from the focus group requested ideas and suggestions on how to use some of the smaller transparencies we've been getting in these wonderful assortments from CC in layouts, I thought I would do that to highlight the concentration my 3.5 year old DD used in the process, as well as the pile o' pierogies we made.

CC products used:

MME Quite Contrary Jack and Jill (12x12 and 6x6)

MME Tre Jolie 4x6 transparencies - Je T'aime "Cute" and Mon Cheri "Give"

MME Bohemia transparency frame - Bliss "Pretty as a Princess"

MME Confetti titles - Surprise "Me & Mom" - friends

MM Slice

MM Slice Design Card - Spring

MM Design shop - cooking stickers

Non-CC products used:

SU Regal Rose cardstock

SU Wild Wasabi ink

SU Big Deal alphabet

American Crafts thickers - Patchwork

American Crafts elements - metal photo turns

Recollections cream cardstock

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - sunflower yellow

Vellum adhesive

Steps on putting together layout:

1.  Choose 2 different pieces of patterned paper.  One will work as your base, and the other as the accent.

2.  Cut the accent piece so that you have a 1.5 inch wide "c" shape.  The inner portion will be used on one side of the LO, and the "c" will be used on the other.

3.  Choose either one border (from pre-printed border paper) or cut strips from desired patterned paper.  I used a pre-printed border that is about 1inch wide.

4.  Choose pictures. My finished sizes include: (2) 3.5 x 6inch, 2.5 x 6inch, 3 x 5inch, 3.5 x 3.5inch, 3 x 3.5inch.  I went with the grid look here.

5.  Pick 2 or three pictures that you want to highlight and match those with transparencies of your choosing.  (See instructions/ideas/comments on this below).

6.  Instead of using another picture, I added a small rectangle of patterned paper to highlight the spring-y feel.  That was 2 x 3.5inch.

7.  Choose title and alpha(s).  I chose three different ones to spice things up a little.  And part of it is with a tranparency also - the "friends".  Use the vellum adhesive for this one.

8.  Add embellishments as desired.  I used one of the many sets of cooking stickers I got.  Also, I used my slice to make the butterfly and the bird to add some more spring feel.  I also added some of the stickers that match the paper set (leaves with buttons as flowers, and hearts).

9.  Add journalling.  Here I used a pre-printed journal card that matches the paper.

10.  Then I added the recipe.  I scored a piece of cardstock at 2.5inch increments, wrote the recipes on them, and then used the glimmer mist to give it a well-used feel.  Then I added a metal photo turn to allow the recipe to be folded out.

Instructions/ideas/comments about the transparencies:

5a.  Two of mine I used as all around frames, one of which I added a background piece of patterned paper (from the 6x6 pad) to help the pink and the bird stand out.  

 5b.  The flowered one was wide enough that I felt it worked well against the background papers. 

5c.  The viney one only had the vines on two sides, so I cut it down to match the width of the picture.  And then I added a background piece of patterned paper (from the 6x6 pad), also the same width as the picture, to help the vines stand out here also.  But it still acts as a nice frame for the picture.

5d.  I used vellum adhesive for the transparencies so that it doesn't show through.  I also only adhere the top edge to allow for differences in materials (this comes from my engineering mind thinking that if things are shrinking and expanding, the transparency and paper will do so at different rates - we don't want to worry about buckling later on, do we?).

5e.  For an idea about how to use a 12x12 transparency on an LO, see my profile.  There is a picture of a layout I did of my DD's first Christmas on there.

Enjoy the ideas, and feel free to make and enjoy the pierogies (my mouth is watering just thinking about them)!!!

Want to join a fabulous team of inspiring ladies??

Here is your chance!!

This is a chance to let your creativity shine!! We will be rewarded with $25 in CropCredit each month for your contributions to the Design Team. Even if you have never been involved in a DT before, don’t let that discourage you!! Everyone in this community has talent that deserves to be shared.

Requirements:

• Have an active blog and Facebook page and be willing to post your monthly blog post as well as promote and participate in contests, blog hops, etc. that CropChocolate.com is doing. Your Facebook should be used AT LEAST weekly to promote CC.com.

• 1 blog post is required, as well as a weekly challenge every other month. (5 pics/project will be required as well as step by step instructions for each picture using AT LEAST 50% of CropChocolate.com product.)

• Be active and encouraging in both the Focus Group as well as on the CropChocolate.com board.

• Be willing to commit to a 6 month term.

Here’s what you need to submit to Try-Out for this fabulous team:

• Send your name and blog address toamber@cropchocolate.com with “Design Team Submission” in the subject line.

• Include:

o Why do you feel you would be a good fit for the CCDT?

o What do you find the most inspiring thing in your life?

• I would like to see 2 projects from you. Please make sure that they both include 50% CC product!

o 1 that reflects YOU as a crafter. It does not have to be scrapbooking related. It can be a home décor, card making, and etc. project. Tell me how this reflects you.

o 1 that is something that is completely out of your box. I want to know why you chose this project as your Out Of the Box project.

All entries are due by May 13th, at 11:59pm MST. I hope to have the team announced by the 20th of May. If you are chosen, June will be your first official month and I will use both of your projects for your June feature to officially introduce you to the community.

I am looking forward to seeing each of you try out for this amazing team. Our first DT was full of talented and inspiring ladies and I would like to keep that tradition rolling in this great company.

Best of luck!

Amber

Spring Wreath - by D2

Hey everybody!! I've seen tons of messages on CC lately about "paper hoarder" this and "paper monger" that.. haha. So today I wanted to show you a couple of my FAVORITE things to do with paper! Curling it.. and rolling it! Both take the same basic shape and process. I love to use them as embellishments on cards and layouts.. but also as fillers in wreaths!! Throw in some handmade flowers, resin pieces, vintage buttons and trims and VIOLA!

Materials from CropChocolate: Fancy Pants random pack of cardstock, Teresa Collins music sheet cardstock, Walnut Stain distress ink.

Materials non CC : buttons, bakers twine, amazing mold putty, wreath, hot glue, faux stamen, pencil, water.

You'll want to have any type of die cutter and or punches as well... to cut out and make flowers for your wreath - I really do prefer the handmade flowers to the store bought ones! Ink your flower edges, crinkle and stack your layers.. insert any centers you'd prefer.. beads, jewels, pearls, fake stamen! Grab a wreath from your favorite craft store and any buttons, resin pieces, twine, and or ribbon.. and of course don't forget your flowers!! Now.. ONTO the fillers! (Twirled and rolled paper)

Steps:

1) Cut your paper into long skinny triangles. I usually do between 6 and 8 inches long. The widest part of the triangle is only about a 1/2 - 1 inch.

2) Ink your edges!

3) Lay your pieces out on a flat surface (wherever you splatter paint) and spritz with water.

4) Allow to soak in for a couple of seconds.

5A) For rolling paper beads -- grab your pencil and wrap the paper around the pencil tight and taught.. starting with the fat end of your triangle and overlapping the paper all the way to the tip of the triangle.

5B) For curling paper -- grab your pencil and wrap the paper around the pencil tight and taught.. starting with the fat end of your triangle.. but instead of overlapping stretch your paper DOWN the pencil while you twirl it around.

6) Allow to dry on your pencil

7A) For rolling paper beads -- remove your paper.. run a bead of your favorite glue at the tip of the triangle and roll back up!

7B) For curling paper -- just remove from your pencil and it will be in a stiff spiral!

8) Repeat until you have a nice pile of both

Now assemble your project! Here is a close-up of the curled paper in use!

Now.. get to curling and rolling!!! -DeeDee"

Dahlia Flowers - by CorrieW

Supplies

·         8 circles of the same size, they can be regular or scalloped (I used EP Springtime)

·         1 slightly larger circle

·         Button or brad for the center

Instructions

1.        Take one of the circles and fold in half and crease

2.       Fold in half again but pinch on the outside edge, don’t crease; you are just marking where the quarter mark is.

3.       Unfold the circle

4.       Take the bottom right side and fold in towards the center in between the quarter marks, repeat for the left side

5.       Flip over and fold bottom right edge to the center line, repeat for the left side

6.       Repeat all steps for the other remaining 7 circles

7.       Take the larger circle and fold in half and in half again (crease each fold)

8.       Unfold the circle

9.       Glue the first petal on the crease of one of the quarter marks, repeat for all the petals.  Use the crease lines as your guide for the center and to line up the petals

10.   Add a button or brad to the center.

Spring LO by Moon Jenn

Product Listing:

    Bazzill Bright White textured cardstock

    MME Lush Papers (turquoise)

    Prima Flowers

    MME Lush Brads

    MME Lush Bling

    MME - Title

    Directions:

    I used the white cardstock as my background.

    I cut the MME Lush papers to 8x3 (the demask one),  

    7x7 (the polka dot one) and for the houndstooth, I used a strip that was 1x5 inches).

I layered the papers on there cardstock, and matted the picture on another piece of white cardstock.

I adhered it all together and then added the MME brads to the Prima flowers.  Then I glued them down, using glue dots.

Next, I added the title (MME rub on) and once that was complete, I    added the bling to the edges to complete the layout.

More SWEETNESS Every Day

Ahhh... Spring. One of the best times of the year. All around, things are changing. Blossoms bloom. Leaves sprout. Grass greens. Perennials pop up. Annuals are planted. Days are warmer and streams are full from run-off. Spring means new life and change.

At ChopChocolate.com we're going through some changes as well--you might call them "new life" changes. Through the winter we ran new deals at 8am, 12pm, 4pm and 8pm MST. This was a change to our model. We tested it over the summer and had some success so we introduced 2 more deals for the Fall and Winter. Now we're going to introduce another new change... a SWEET one.

As a prologue, we are in the testing phases and we will keep you updated as we move forward. Over the past few weeks a lot has happened at CropChocolate.com. We have 100s of new items to sell and lots of new brands that we will be adding. You've noticed Cricut, Prima, Doodlebug and more--and many more are coming.

With all this newly acquired inventory, we've been working though a testing phase of how often we feature deals. This has created some excitement for us because we can start selling multiple deals each day--some days up to 10... or more. What's different about what we are testing is an algorithm that will trigger a new deal once the previous deal sells out. That means no more "downtime" until the next deal posts. Once a current deals sells out, you will see the red "SOLD OUT" button for only a minute then BAM!, onto the next deal. We have put up deals at odd times over the past week and have seen great success and now we're testing to make sure we have all the bugs worked out before introducing the new schedule randomizer.

In the coming weeks we will give you updates on this and more exciting news at CropChocolate.com.

Best,

The CropChocolate.com Team

 

Masking - by JeepMama Paula

Did someone say PARTY?

Crop Chocolate Products Used:

Wintertime Paper from Echo Park

Fancy Pants 10” Delight Stamps

Making Memories Slice Vinyl

Zing Embossing Powder in White

Tim Holtz Distressed Ink in Festive Berries & Evergreen Bough

Glitter Paper (VERY old)

KI Memories Alpha

Non-CC Products:

Versa Mark

Tim Holtz Distressed Ink in Black Soot, Mustard Seed, Chipped Sapphire, Dusty Concord

Sizzix eClips (for Die Cutting)

Marvy Heat Gun

Craft Tray

 Instructions:

Begin with Making Memories Slice Vinyl & cut image out.  Place new mask on a piece of Grey Wintertime Cardstock. Using Tim Holtz ink with one of the long skinny stamps from the Fancy Pants Delight set, begin on left side of page, stamp from top to bottom re-inking as necessary to, repeat with all colors. Done with Color ink, get out the black & stamp around mask with floral images, make sure you goall the way around the mask for it to look best when finished. Using a paper towel, wipe excess ink from mask working from outside in. Using butterfly wing with VersaMark, press stamp into VersaMark then stamp onto page close to “ear” area, generously sprinkle White Zing embossing powder; repeat with other butterfly wing by opposite “ear”. Working over craft tray, tap off excess embossing powder & return to container. Using embossing gun, work from backside of paper to melt the embossing powder. Let mask cool completely then remove eye area from page. Ink in eyes using Tim Holtz Black Soot with a Tim Holtz distressing tool with a foam pad. Remove mask from cardstock. Decorate the rest of the page as desired, I chose Mardi Grad Beads along with a photo ofmy younger son mounted on Giltter Cardstock.

Guest Designer - Paper Flower Bouquet - by Miwa

Hi, cropchocolate.com folks! I was really excited to get my assignment of making an Easter project, because it's always fun to incorporate flowers and pastels into the mix. The only thing that could make it better was to add some chocolate - so I did! 

 

CC Materials: 

EP Grab-bag (utilized Summer Days, Springtime, Splash, and Playground)

Eggcellent stamps by Jillibean

American Crafts buttons (pastel)

QK License Plate 4x8 alphabet

MME Lime Twist twine

 

Tools used: QK flower die, tissue paper, glass cup (Crate & Barrel), wooden bbq skewers, chocolate eggs (yum!), lots of glue dots

 

I found a good-sized glass cup at Crate & Barrel and filled it with chocolate eggs (to support the skewers). In order to obscure the skewers from view, I covered the lower portion of the jar with tissue and tied some pink twine around it. You can decorate the glass with anything you like, but I thought ornaments from Scrappy Canuck's blog (http://scrappycanuck.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/its-wintertime/) would make very pretty "flower" trees and contrast very nicely against some iris-folded flowers. I topped off the display with a "Happy Easter" sign and sprinkled a few "chick-in-the-egg" images from the Jillibean Eggcellent stamps (the 3-dimensional look was created by adding foam tape behind the eggs). 

 

But how do you iris fold? Check out my tutorial to see how easy it is to create a distinctive look on your crafting projects! In a nutshell, you follow a strict pattern (structured by number and color) and lay down strips of color-coordinated paper to form an "iris". One of my favorite iris-folding websites is http://www.circleofcrafters.com/irisfolding/, where you can find tons of free patterns - just resize the image to the appropriate size. 

 

Happy iris-folding!

Fur Wreath - by LMissCrafter Jamie

Fun Fur Wreath

Materials Used:
Fun Fur
12" foam wreath
Hot Glue
Martha Stewart Coarse Glitter
Echo Park Victoria Garden Paper
Ribbon
Strong tape

For the Paper Bow:
1. Cut five strips of scrapbook paper to 1" x 12".
2. Find the center point of each strip and fold each end in.  Staple to secure in place.
3. Tape each of the strips on top of one another to form the base of the bow.
3. Cut one strip of scrapbook paper to 1" x 4".
4. Wrap the ends towards each other and staple to secure.  This will form the top of the bow and hide the other staples.
5. Adhere the paper from step 4 onto the top of the bow with tape.
6. Cut tails for the bow and adhere if desired.

Instructions for the wreath:
1. Hot glue the end of the fun fur onto the wreath.
2. Wrap the fun fur around the wreath and continue until you get all of the way around.
3. Hot glue the other end of the fun fur onto the wreath to secure.
4. Take three plastic eggs and coat in white glue.
5. Sprinkle glitter on the eggs as desired and allow to dry.
6. Hot Glue the three eggs onto the wreath in the desired location.
7. Embellish as desired.
8. Wrap a piece of ribbon around the wreath to use as a hanger.

CropChocolate.com Warehouse Sale

Hi All!

It has been a long winter and it is time for us to get rid of all that extra SCRAPBOOK product - you don't want to miss this sale, we have new brands we have never carried before and a lot of special deals!

BRANDS: making memories, fancy pants, bo bunny, echo park, basic grey, ranger, teresa collins, my minds eye, we r memory keepers, doodlebug, slice, cricut, and many, many more - chances are we have your favorite!

DETAILS:
Thursday APRIL 5th
1pm-8pm

Friday APRIL 6th
10am-6pm

1168 West 500 North, Unit B
Centerville, Utah 84014
(801) 918-4351

*this can be hard to find, take the centerville/parish lane exit and travel west to 1200 west and make a RIGHT (north), then take your first RIGHT (east) and then a LEFT at the driveway that has the concrete and chiropractic businesses in front.  We are behind these business in the north/west corner and will have our garage doors open for you - if you can see a making memories sign in the parking lot, you are in the right place!


See you there - and bring a friend, you both get $5 crop credit to use online!

Sweetly,

McCall

CropChocolate.com

One sweet deal at a time

Spring Chick Basket - by Cricutica Paula I.

Ahhh - April.  I have to say this is one of my favorite months.  The theme for the Design Team is Spring so get ready for lots of fun projects to keep your mojo flowing!

- Amber

Spring Chick Basket

Product List

My Mind's Eye twine - Together

My Mind's Eye paper - 6X6 Happier

Making Memories - 12X12 Black & White

Making Memories - Pink Shimmer stickers

Yellow Yarn

Classic ink- Pumpkin Pie

Supplies

Scissors

Large Dull Needle

Instructions

Continuously wrap yarn around single finger

Once you have large bulge of yarn around finger cut end of yarn.

Thread end with dull needle.  

Pull needle through middle of bulge(right next to skin).  Repeat 2- 3 times.

Tightly pull on yarn and gather.

Release from finger.

Cut through center of bulge where finger once was.

Now just add your beak and eyes. Voila!