Fridays with Friends - Thanks Angela!

My friend, Angela, is spending a weekend at Retreat to Complete on Lake Cumberland, Kentucky and she is making the most of her time there!  Look at this awesome mosaic layout she created.  I just love all these bright, beautiful flowers and the way she incorporated the yellow photo mat and the quote to tie everything together.  MAGNIFICENT!!!

UPCOMING MOSAIC MOMENTS CLASS - BASEBALL!!!

In celebration of all the fun All-Star festivities going on this time of year, I'm offering a baseball mosaic class at Stamping Buddies in Deer Park, Ohio.  Details can be found in my facebook group called "Cropportunities." 

Minerva Mosaics is offering a beginning Mosaic Moments class where students learn the basic Mosaic Moments page layout system techniques – including measuring and cutting to fit the grid, photo taking and other tips. The class includes only the grid papers, patterned paper and die cuts to complete two 12” x 12” pages. Further, if you finish your page while at the class I am offering some prize drawings! Students will gain valuable hands-on experience, and will leave the class feeling confident in using the Mosaic Moments system and inspired to create fabulous pages. You will be amazed at how easy the grid system is to use and how creating these great pages takes far less time than you could have ever imagined.

Class cost is $20, payable by June 26th so I can have time to order all of the custom papers/dies.

Supplies Provided to Each Student:
• 2 Sheets Mosaic Moments Grid Papers
• Reds Logo Die Cut
• 1 sheet of Cincinnati Reds Patterned Paper
• Paper Tiles and cardstock
• Lil Chizler tool 
• Mosaic Moments Quick Glance Guide

Student supplies needed: 
• The Mosaic Moments 14” x 14” craft mat (If you do not have one - see me for a discounted combined class fee/mat purchase!!) I'm sorry but other cutting mats are not acceptable for this class. I instruct specifically with the Mosaic Moments mat because it is custom-designed with the 1/8" grid to work in conjunction with the Mosaic Moments grid papers - the mat is part of the technique that you will be learning and is the only way I am authorized to teach this class.  (If you need a mat, I'm offering a combined price of $35 for the mat and the class  - the mat normally retails for $28 so this is a great deal.)
• YOUR OWN BASEBALL PICS SIMILAR TO THOSE IN THE SAMPLE.
• Herma Dotto REMOVABLE adhesive 
• 12” or 15” metal ruler with cork or rubber backing
• A good quality craft knife or rotary cutter with sharp blade. 
Note: Stamping Buddies will have only a limited quantity of each of these items available for sale at the so please notify me in advance if you wish to purchase same.

June 15th is Nature Photography Day

We all know that nature photographs make GREAT mosaics, right?  Well, June 15th is Nature Photography Day.  I'll share mine if you'll share yours!  Feel free to post your favorite Nature Photography Mosaic on my Facebook page and you will be featured in an upcoming "Fridays with Friends" blog post!

Techniques on Tuesday - PAGE PATTERNS

Do you struggle with how to arrange the photos on your Mosaic Moments layouts?  Are you always on the lookout for some fresh new configuration?  Please be sure to check out the Mosaic Moments Page Patterns Page.

On this website, Tami Potter and her creative team have done something truly fabulous.  She has provided you with page maps that you can use to plan your layouts.  There are two really cool things about this page:

The first is that the layouts are color-coded for those of you who are using the Mosaic Moments dies. The colors on the layouts correspond the the colors on the packaging of your various die sets.  (Please contact me or use the snapncrop link to the right, if you are interested in purchasing any of the die sets.)

The second is that when you hover over the page pattern, it switches to a sample (or two) of actual layouts created using those page patterns.

The page pattern above is an example of the former version.  They were black and white, but still very easy to follow and quite inspirational.  

The page pattern below is one of the FABULOUS new color coded page patterns.  The green, pink, purple and blue squares all represent shapes/sizes that can be cut using the Mosaic Moments dies.

Candy, Candy and More Candy

Here are a couple of layouts I did a couple years from a Creative Memories paper pack called "Candy Shop" - although there are no pictures of candy, the bold colors and arrangements, certainly do give the "suggestion" of candy and would make some really fun candy-themed layouts for kids.

June is Candy Month!

In addition to being Camping Month, Soul Food Month and a whole lot of other reasons, to celebrate, June is also Candy Month - "While we may celebrate candy all year long, June has the privilege of being the official Candy Month. No one seems entirely sure why or how June became Candy Month but, when the title gives you licence to enjoy as much guilt-free candy as you like*, who cares?! That’s not to say June is without relevant history: it was in June 1963 that US confectioner Hershey’s acquired Harry Burnett Reese’s business (yes, the original Reese of Peanut Butter Cup fame) and it was in June 1904 that George Cadbury and his staff invented Dairy Milk.

Some cultures consider chocolate to be a type of candy while others consider candy an exclusive name for hard-boiled sweets. However, it’s quite a generic term and can be used to describe toffees, marshmallows, licorice, jelly sweets, British rock and more. Yum!

* Please enjoy responsibly. Your dentist cares about your teeth and so do we."


Candy is such a fun way to embellish your mosaic layouts.  We associate some sort of candy with nearly every holiday, don't we?   Think about  it:

  

Use those candy close-ups to make some sweet mosaic!

June is for Brides

Do you have wedding pics you think would make great mosaic layouts?  Here are some tips from Mosaic Moments for Wedding Scrapbooks: