Scraps From My Heart

Welcome to another edition of Blog Bop, friends. Once again, I’ve been bopping around the blogosphere to bring bouquets of beautiful inspiration for just for you. This time I’ve tapped into some keen manufacturers’ blogs and I hope you’ll find something here that will get your juices flowing! It’s a great way to spend a Tuesday, don’tchatink? For example, I’m loving this cool card from GCD Studios: Chic Card by guest designer Kim Hughes Moxie Fab Alert: clean & graphic, mixed media, scalloped edge, butterfly How’s this for elegance from Glitz Design ? Love Canvas by Leslie Ashe Moxie Fab Alert: color combo, crowns, bird, patchwork squares This layout from Queen & Co. is sweet as pie: Wish Big Layout by Kristin Hayne Moxie Fab Alert: texture, texture, texture! While this card from Hero Arts is gorgeous in its simplicity: Thinking of You Card by Jennifer McGuire Moxie Fab Alert: shaped card, clean and graphic, bold focal point emerging from background stamping How cute is this recipe book from the Maya Road Design Team blog ? Farmhouse Recipe Book by Katie Watson Moxie Fab Alert: retro-vintage, recipe book, cohesive title/design This awesome layout from American Crafts is so hip I want to shake mine: 1987 Layout by Shannon Zickel Moxie Fab Alert: great use of white space, multi-photo, jazzed up journaling, colorful without being overwhelming This little wreath from Adorn It is out-of-the-box! Wreath Craft Kit Moxie Fab Alert: sweet use of a transparency, shaped project While this layout from the Jenni Bowlin Studio Design Team blog just makes me smile: Sunshine Layout by Dina Wakley Moxie Fab Alert: great use of color media and white space, ticket, sun & rays, clever masking This card from October Afternoon makes me think that life IS a bowl of cherries: U.R. 2 Sweet Card by Stacey Kingman Moxie Fab Alert: color combo, cherries, card, punny And I can’t get enough of this vintage Americana from Webster’s Pages : Sweet Corn Card by Audrey Pettit Moxie Fab Alert: vintage Americana, pom-poms, and let’s face it, it just screams summer! My oh my oh my–that’s some serious inspiration, friends. If your juices are overflowing like mine are, you’d better leave a comment telling me which project speaks loudest to you and why by midnight MST on Sunday, June 14 and I’ll draw a random winner to win a fun prize! In the meantime, you’ve just got to click on over to the Moxie Fab World Value of Vintage Challenge Group to see all the amazing vintage-y projects that are being uploaded there. Who knows? Maybe they’ll inspire you to enter the challenge for a chance to WIN! Click here for all the ol’ details! Juicy juicy, ~Cath

Hey friends! It’s the tippy top of Tuesday! I’ve been ” bopping ” around from blog to blog, blipping about, bouncing around like a bouquet of balloons in a breeze for none other than moxie fab inspiration just for you. You know, the kind of inspiration that puts your heart in your mouth, urging you to drop everything and get all paper crafty? Like these cards I was oh-so-happy to find on Julia Stainton’s blog : What’s the Buzz? Moxie Fab Alert : bees, colorful vintage Rock and Roll Medallion Card Moxie Fab Alert : gradient color Button Blooms Card Moxie Fab Alert : coloring book look, buttons, clouds, clean & graphic style, markers Go For It! Moxie Fab Alert : patchwork, color scheme, stitching …and these fresh projects on Roree Rumph’s blog that made me feel all a-giddy: Welcome House Moxie Fab Alert : house, butterflies, stitching, scallops Funky Bird Card Moxie Fab Alert : wonky bird, cool stitching, half-concentric circles background I love this layout on Danielle Flanders’ blog : Moving Up Layout Moxie Fab Alert : mixing color/black-and-white photos, scalloped circle, vintage background paired with graphic foreground I found this card on Cindy Lawrence’s blog and it made an instant smile on my face: Have a Swingin’ Day Card Moxie Fab Alert : tree, swing, clouds, owl, bird, googly eyes, markers While this card on Kimberly Crawford’s blog echoes one of our favorite trends here in the Moxie Fab World: Love You Forever Card Moxie Fab Alert : color combo, Victorian overtones, clean lines …and these cards by Katie Anderson are simply and irresistibly sweet: Live Laugh Love Card Moxie Fab Alert : clean and graphic style, simple flower, scalloped edge, color combo, typography, hemp twine Vroom Vroom Birthday Card Moxie Fab Alert : retro/vintage image, color combo, clean and graphic style Home Sweet Home Card Moxie Fab Alert : bold polka dots, color scheme, houses, window card, clean and graphic style It’s amazing all the inspiration that one can find from one happy little bop! if you’ve been inspired the way I’ve been inspired, bop on over and check out the other inspiration these talented gals have to offer! Cindy Danielle Katie Kimberly Julia Roree But before you go, leave me some love by midnight MST on Sunday, June 7 letting me know which of these projects inspires you the most and why, and I’ll send 1 random winner some love in the form of some boppin’ awesome American Crafts Thickers! Just boppin’ along, ~Cath PS Be sure and bop by tomorrow to see the winners of the Moxie Fab World Citrus Color Challenge ! I’m so excited I can hardly stand it! See you then!