Catch-up!

I have a stack of layouts that I have not shared here. So hang on- here we go on a little game of catch up!!!

This layout was created with the February 2013 sketch for Canadian Scrapbooker's "Let's Get Sketchy" feature.

Patterned Paper: Teresa Collins Cardstock: Bazzill Buttons: Bo Bunny Letters: Basic Grey Water Colour Crayons: Faber Castell "Logic will take you from A to Z. Imagination will take you everywhere!" Albert Einstein

You can find a tutorial on how to make these textured chevrons on the Canadian Scrapbooker Blog here.

Patterned Paper, stickers and chipboard: BoBunny

Ink, Glitter: Clearsnap

Dies: Sizzix, Spellbinders

Flowers: Prima

Chipboard: Quick Quotes

This layout was posted on the Canadian Scrapbooker "Let's Get Sketchy" gallery for the December 2012 sketch 

Patterned Paper: Karen Foster Cardstock: Bazzill Stickers: Karen Foster Brads: Teresa Collins, American Crafts Trim: MME

From the Summer 2013 issue of Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine- from my 1 Stamp, 5 Stampers article.

Patterned Paper: Stampin' Up!

Ink: Clearsnap

Stamps/Dies: Obsession Obsession

Chipboard: 7 Gypsies, K & Co

Photo Booth fun! This was created for the Summer 2013 issue as well, but was not used. 

Patterned Paper: Glitz

Dies: Distinctively Dee's, Spellbinders, Memory Box

Wood Letters: KaiserCraft

Stamps: Glitz

Ink/Glitter: Clearsnap

Another Summer 2013 layout- for the "Inspired by Forrest Gump" article.

Patterned Paper/Stickers/Alphabet: Glitz Designs

Metal Embellishments: FabScraps

Ink: Clearsnap

Layout playing with texture paste and stencils...

Patterned Paper: DCWV

Stencil: Magenta

Ink: Clearsnap

Trim: May Arts

Letters: Basic Grey

Ephemera: Papier Valise, Prima

365- January 28

Played with Canadian Scrapbooker's Sketchy Challenge Sketch for January 2013. It ended up being quite simple- even though I tried to add more. In the end, this is all it needed, I guess. Anything I tried never improved it!

Supplies Used: Patterned Paper: Prima

Cardstock: Bazzill

Letters: American Crafts, Prima

Chipboard: Prima

Ribbon: May Arts

Don't you love how I hung my charm on backwards? Totally just noticed that now!

Birds of a Feather...

Supply List:

Patterned Paper: Crate Paper, Bazzill Dies: Spellbinders Inks: Close to My Heart Glitter: Pink Paislee, LaDiDa, Stampin' Up! Chipboard: Stampin' Up! Letters: American Crafts Trim: Doodlebug Designs Brads: Making Memories, Crate Paper, Harmonie (CDN)

I took some time to create this long weekend, using the new September Sketch from Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine.  This is my daughter with one of her best friends. These two rollick and laugh and talk full throttle in alphabets ("Hey BFF! I'll BRB. BTW, here's a cool...") the whole time they are together. Their energy is contagious and I love how their stream of consciousness interaction draws me into the moment, and out of my list head.  I hope to see what you create using the sketch too (Michelle, Sandy, Mei, Carla, Wendy, Mickey, Margaret, etc- you know who you are and I AM talking to you in particular!!!)

I had fun with my spellbinders dies creating these flowers. I used Bazzill patterned paper- the kind with an almost tissue like texture. I folded the sheet into thirds and could then cut three sets of flowers at a time.  The little petals curl up so nicely with just the edge of the scissors (kind of like curling ribbon). I originally was going to keep the flowers neutral, but these girls have too colorful personalities for that!  So I had to do some last minute coloring.  I didn't have spray inks in the colors I wanted, so I just took some of my Close to My Heart Dye inks and wiped the pads on a piece of wax paper. I then spritzed the ink puddle with Vanilla smooch and dabbed the color onto the flowers with an ink applicator. Ta Dah! Shimmery flowers in the colors I needed!

It was easy to match the little birdies- I just used the same inks:0)

And now for a little story behind the page.  This is my current scrap area.  It is in our living room, because we are doing some renovations downstairs where I usually scrap. A door was moved, so drywall dust is everywhere...

This is my scrap space right now.  We are getting ready to paint, so everything is moved to the center of the room, away from the walls. Although Avery keeps her toys down here, no one but me really hangs out in this space.

Look! A stash of scrappy things like an oasis in the middle of chaos.

This is the closet where my scrap stuff usually lives.  The corners are cut in with the new color. I have a shoe holder on the door for little odds and ends.

This is the counter where all my tools live, ready to use.  Where is everything, you might ask?

In the garage of course!!!!   This is the shelf that lives in the about-to-be-painted closet.

This is the sad pile of scrappy stuff, waiting for it's refreshed home!

So. Scrapping is an extra adventure these days!  It was entertaining to search for things I had in the garage or the pile of chaos downstairs.  But I am excited, for it will all be worth it when we have a great family room set up, complete with scrap space. I have found that I don't like to be isolated from the rest of my family to scrapbook and this set up is greatly anticipated! Until then, I think I get bonus points for extreme scrapbooking!

Oh My... It is Sketch Time!

Happy May everyone! I spent the weekend on a scrapbook retreat with the amazing team from Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine.  What a wonderful, supportive, lighthearted bunch of people to hang around with.  We scrapped, laughed, laughed, and laughed some more. End result- i got a few assignments done, but not nearly as much as I hoped to. I would have to talk less, but what would the fun be of that? Might as well stay home then!  One thing I did do was my take on the May "Let's Get Sketchy" challenge.  Here is the sketch:

And here is my layout:

Supplies used:

Cardstock: Bazzil lPatterned paper: Harmonie Die: Sizzix Pearls: BoBunny Clearsnap Smooch Glitz Pins: Maya Road Paper Ribbon: I am guessing K & Co. Pen: Zig


Go! Take the challenge:0)

Welcome April!

April is here and ironically we've had more snow in April than I think we've gotten all winter! Great big snow storms followed by sunny days that take it all away... spring:0)

It is Easter weekend here, and I am grateful for a few extra days off for the weekend. It gave me a little time to play with my scrap supplies, and the first thing I tackled was the April "It's a Sketchy Challenge" from Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine.

Hope you like what I came up with! I had a lot of fun making this one.  Of course, what is not fun about a layout featuring a banana split bigger than my kid's head?

 Supplies used: Patterned Paper- Glimpses by Signify Pink; Diecuts, stickers and gems and ephemera- Glimpses by Signify Pink; Cardstock- Bazzill; Chipboard- Pink Paislee; Ink and Glitter- Clearsnap; Gems and Pearls- BoBunny; Charm- Stanislaw Imports. 

I had total fun making the hemp swirls, as per Canadian Scrapbooker Webisode #26, adding an extra swirl of glue on top that I glittered up using the Fairy Dust Glitter by Donna Salazar for Clearsnap. Sprinkle a few bits and pieces around, and viola! "Dig In" was done!

April is shaping up to be a busy month! Dance festival season has begun, and Avery's first festival was this past weekend. She danced with her hip-hop group with all their pink badness to "California Girls". This is her first year in hip-hop and she loves it! And I loved seeing her dance her heart out up on stage.  As a first year group, the audience always AWWWW's at the cuteness that arrives on stage, but as an eight year old, this is serious business!  Here are some first festival pictures. She has a few more this month- another chance to perform her hip-hop routine and two for her tap routine.  

All dressed and made up! Complete with fake eyelashes, lol!

No group in their category got gold, and Avery was completely thrilled with her silver medal. Her group was awarded the "Most Promising Group" designation and one of her classmates was singled out for having that little extra spark. Avery was so excited for her friend!

And to top off a busy month, I've been asked to do a guest design spot at Scrapbooking Fanatics.  I'll be working on a week's worth of blog posts and projects for April 23-27.  My dt kit has arrived and I am so excited to dig in and play!

March's "It's a Sketchy Challenge"

Spring break has started here, and since we aren't traveling one place or another to see family, I have some time to play in my scrap room.  Although time evaporates way faster than I think it should, I have lots of scrappy plans for the week.  In between playing with my family, getting together with friends and dance festivals of course...

First on my list was to play with Jill Sarginson's yummy March sketch over at Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine's "It's a Sketchy Challenge".  Take a peek at the sketch:

I loved the banners, but using so many photos is outside of my comfort zone.  Of course, that makes it good to go there! I actually had more pictures printed but didn't use them all.  Baby steps... I think I have a hard time covering up beautiful paper, even with my beautiful daughter's face!

I used Fancy Pant's Childish Things line for this layout, including the letters, trim and glitter cuts.  The flowers are from Prima and the cardstock is Coredinations- a line they put out with Fancy Pants. It went perfectly and added some great texture to the background.  I made me think of the promise of spring flowers emerging from the mud left after the melt...

I used up some scraps to make this baby girl card. It kind of looks like I used the sketch, but was more like a card I loved and pinned on Pintrest.  I actually pinned the same style of card a few times, so I figured I should make a banner card pronto to get it out of my system!!

Did you create with this sketch? I will be watching for you on the CS sketch page, or send me a link in the comments if you also post to a gallery or blog so I am sure not to miss it!

Canadian Scrapbooker February Sketch

I turned this:

Into this:

Supplies Used: Patterned Paper- Basic Grey. My Little Shoebox; Punch- Stampin' Up!; Stickers- Basic Grey; Stamp- Donna Downey for Unity; Book text from 'Alice le Fee'.

I thought it would be neat to try tone on tone for the title.  I was right.  It is neat- it just doesn't photograph well with my little instant camera. (Our regular camera was dropped by the beautiful photo subject here. Sigh.)  I used one of Avery's old books to make the ruffle frame around the photo, something I learned at Cropazanza in Red Deer from Donna Downey.  It killed me a little to rip up the book.  Avery is happy though.  She is planning on using the pages to make paper beads, so I guess all is well!  The little Basic Grey envelope holds some notes from Avery on what she wants to be when she grows up (vet, fashion designer), who her friends are and what she likes best about school, etc.

You can see what amazing layouts others made with this sketch, and find out how you can play along too right here.

Canadian Scrapbooker January Sketch

The travel portion of holidays are over, and I promised myself a little scrapbooking time each day before work started again. The first thing I tackled was the January sketch for Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine (again by the lovely Jill). You can follow along with the sketch too, and if you use a Canadian company somewhere your interpretation is eligible for publication (but all entries are shared for inspiration- so send it in!!!). There is all the info you need if you follow the magazine link above:

This layout will go to my Mom and Dad for their scrapbook frame; I send them a new layout now and again. I didn't have a winter family photo, and wanted to have all of us for their wall this time. So I didn't follow the theme, but I did follow the shape of the layout!

Stuff used: CTMH cardstock and metal tab; Simple Stories paper; Basic Grey, Kaisercraft stickers; My Mind's Eye rubons; Stampin' Up! eyelets; Harmonie acrylic and chipboard; Making Memories Chipboard; 7 Gypsies paperclip; Prima flower, trim and gems; Tim Holtz tape; Clearsnap Spritz (log cabin); Fiskars punch.

Canadian Scrapbooker December Sketch

I actually did this one after the January, but switched dates on my blog:0)  Here is the December sketch:

 And here is what I did with it!  I had a bit of fun with my Tim Holtz for Sizzix dies, using one to cut the snowflake border and another to build the dimensional tree.  For the tree I cut 4 and then glued them together like a fan, so the tree totally pops off the page.  I hardly ever scrap birthday and Christmas photos, so it was great to get an older picture fancied up, thanks to the sketch!

Now show me yours!!!!!!!  If you leave a link in the comments, I would love to come and look.

Supplies used: Coredinations cardstock; Basic Grey papers, stickers and embellishments; Tim Holtz for Sizzix dies; Riff Raff chipboard; Ranger stickles.

Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine's October Sketch

I had some glorious unclaimed time today, and so I dove into some of my scrappy supplies and created a layout based on Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine's "It's a Sketchy Challenge" for October.  Follow the link to find out how you can play too!!!!

I totally enjoyed playing with Harmonie's Shabby Love papers.  So, of course, I had to scrapbook a photo of my sweetheart!

Supplies Used: Patterned Paper- Harmonie, Fancy Pants, Basic Grey, Mark's Paper Company; Letters- Prima; Chipboard, Ribbon & Brads- Harmonie; Flower Die- Spellbinders; Other- Score-it Board, Ranger Ink.

Now I want to see yours!!!!!  

UPDATE: I kept looking at this layout and was bothered by it.  Finally I realized it just wasn't done!!!!  So I added stuff.  NOW it's done:0)

It's a Sketchy Challenge!

Oh yeahhhhhh!!!!!!  Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine has introduced a sketch challenge!  The gallery will be up and running shortly (even people who hold websites together need to take a holiday now and then) so you can share your creation with everyone, and get inspired by everyone else.  The first sketch was created by Guest Designer Jill Sarginson and you have until the end of the month to send your layout to the online gallery.  Anybody, from anywhere in the world!  And even better, if you use product from at least one Canadian scrapbook manufacturer, your layout could be chosen for publication in the magazine.  See more details here on where to send your layout etc.

I know what I am doing today!  How about you?

And.... It's WHY NOT WIN WEDNESDAY!!!!!!  This week's prize has been sponsored by Karen Foster!  It's the line featured in the passport section of the Fall 2011 issue. To win, do this:
1. leave a note here (under the WNWW thread) and
2. leave a note on the Karen Foster Facebook page. This prize package could be yours eh?!?!?!?!?!??