Sketch 6-1-18

June 1st sketch from Let's Scrap Sketches is ready for you!

I totally LOVE this design from Michelle! The possibilities for rotating one page or both plus the way you can use up those scraps from your paper collections...I'm off to get creative!

Hopefully you play along with us on the Blog and link up your creations!

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Hello December !

Are you all ready for the busiest time of the year?!!!  I think I am, but almost always I am not...it's a denial thing.

Check out this great sketch from Let's Scrap Sketches for the 1st of the month...

You will see this paper collection again later this month as I'm working on completing 2016 Christmas before we celebrate 2017 Christmas LOL!

Poor colour day, it's dark and rainy and not so good for taking photos!

'A Perfect Christmas' by Echo Park...I like it !

 This paper collection seems to work out perfectly with all of our Christmas Sweaters :)

Head on over to Let's Scrap Sketches to see what the other Design Team created and to play along with us!

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October 1st! Oh My!

Wowzers my creative friends! I can't believe we are in the month of October already...and with that I have another great sketch from Let's Scrap Sketches to share :)

This sketch has great potential for adding lots of extra photos...I see some Flip Flap possibilities here :)

For me, I've been using some Fall papers from a 'new to me' company called Photo Play...we used these papers for the CherryLane Page Club this past month and I wanted to get busy using the leftovers so I have less paper (hahahaha), which may be futile, but worth the effort, right?!!!

Here's a couple of close ups...

I've got some really old Close To My Heart Jute ribbon along the banners here...love jute and burlap with the Autumn layouts and cards!

I raised the banners and the photo as well as a couple of the falling leaves for some added dimension and because that Jute ribbon was so thick, I felt like I needed to balance the layout out a bit more by adding height because of it :)

Thanks so much for stopping in today, head on over to the Let's Scrap Blog to see what the other Design Team ladies created with this week's sketch!

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Sketch Reveal Today!

Hello my creative friends...I hope September has been kind to you!

I've got another fun sketch this week from Let's Scrap Sketches :) 

I wanted to play with some left over bits from my Cherry Lane Page Club kit. I've already finished a couple layouts with these papers but I'm working towards using it all up...one kit at a time! Baby steps, right?!!!

Lots of possibilities here...and lots of photos...

Pretty fun paper from Carta Bella called Beach Day and some photos from my recent trip to Australia with my son and the Travel Club at his High School.

The polaroids were perforated on a 12x12 sheet from Jillibean Soup...perfect size.

I love, love, love the 3x4 and 4x6 cut apart journal sheets...a MUST have when picking up papers for this girlie! 'Good Times and Tan Lines' was a 3x4 card I cut down to fit.

I can use up all the left over bits with some of my pocket pages and get all the photos I want for this event, in the books!

Head on over to the Let's Scrap blog to see what the other DT lovelies have created this week.

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Products Used:

Carta Bella Beach Day paper
Carta Bella Beach Day Chipboard Accents
Simple Stories 'Carpe Diem' stickers
AC alphabet

September 1st sketch from Let's Scrap!

Good day my creative friends!

As promised, a new sketch from a new Design Team at Let's Scrap...some returning and some new, but all of us love the sketches and are super happy to be able to play with them and hopefully inspire you to play along with us too!

Here's the sketch...and when you click the link at the end of the post to the Let's Scrap Blog...you'll see what the rest of the Design Team put together with the same sketch! 

You'll notice that we all have our own unique style and take on the same sketch...which is what makes scrapbooking those memories such a fun and creative process...we look forward to you playing along and uploading your finished layout to our Let's Scrap Blog...you could even win some scrappy goodies :)

I've started digging into all the wonderful Close To My Heart products from our newest Annual Inspirations Catalog...the paper lines I've used are from the Basics Fundamentals Creative Collections and I'm in love!

*remember you can click on the images to get a closer look*

What do you think of this new mint green? It's CTMH's newest 'colour of the year' called Sea Glass...an exclusive colour for just this next year until the release of our new annual catalog August 2017...I am loving it!

This is our new Happy Thoughts embossing folder in the Sea Glass card stock...lightly sanded because our CS has a white core which is fantastic! It was a perfect fit for the theme in this layout ;) 

You'll notice several things in this photo, the glitter chipboard, sticker, letters and word are ALL from our You & Me Complements pack. We also now have some thin cut dies...the one I used here is a set of three hearts...love the thin outline and also the fact that I can use the insides of the heart for future embellishing!

Oh! I almost forgot the vellum with the gold polka dots! It's in a new Uptown Fundamental paper pack...I really love getting a transparent accent into my layouts and vellum is a great way to add some contrast or texture without changing the look too much.

I hope you enjoyed this peek today at the new Let's Scrap sketch...head on over to the Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team created this week and Happy Scrapping!

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Products Used:

Z3263 Uptown Fundamentals
Z3289 Uptown Ribbon Pack
Z3269 You & Me Complements
Z3262 Rustic Home Fundamentals
Z3294 Memo Fundamentals
Z3249 Happy Thoughts embossing folder
Z3260 Hearts thin cuts

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It's the end of another school year in this household and also the end of High School as all three of my kids are now done...my son was the last one to finish up...well sort of finish...he's moving onto University now too to join his sisters!

Love this sketch, I really hope you have a chance to play along or at least get some scrapbooking done!

This is how I played with this sketch...

Loved working with some of this fun new Echo Park Pinstripes and Petticoats paper collection too! Head on down to the shoppe to grab some...if you're a local gal!

I cut the title from the Cricut and added some fun chipboard embellishments too...couldn't leave it without using some of those awesome epoxy dots! LOVE those :)

That's all for me today...make sure to leave me a comment and follow me to be entered into my RAK draw...free stuff sent to you! How fantastic is that!?!!

Now off you go to Lisa-Marie's Blog

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Let's Scrap a challenge!

Welcome! I was asked to be part of the Contributing Design Team over at Let's Scrap. Which I love, seeing as I've been really missing the gals over there and of course all the fantastic sketches and challenges! 

If you are feeling scrappy, head on over for some creative inspiration :)

So the challenge I'm participating in is from Susanna Granroth this week and this is what she's got to say about it:

This is the picture we need to look at and let it inspire us in some way...



This is a plate of cooked, nice and red crayfish… ready to be eaten with delicious schnapps and some singing (tradition). Every summer on 21st of July starts the period when catching these yummies is allowed. The same day several of the citys restaurants have these on the menu. Rich, and I really mean rich, people travel from the mainland as well as from Sweden for this one and only evening. The restaurant at the guest harbor has tables booked already for the next time. The people buy these for 8-10 euros/ pc and the table setting includes a bottle of vodka or another schnapps as well as wine bottles. The guests pay all opened bottles together with how many crayfish they eat. NOT a cheap evening at the restaurant, I can tell. (not that we've ever been as guests.. we buy them to a special price and eat them in good company at the cottage)
Anyway, this is your challenge:

You are free to use which ever LS sketch and what ever in this picture that inspires you. From the following list you are free to choose 3 items:

Bling, lace, ribbon/twine, flowers, cut outs, sewing, swirls,, something stamped, brads, journaling, five patterned papers, circles, stars or buttons.

So this is what I chose for my three items...five patterned papers (of course, cause I LOVE patterned paper!)...cuts outs and journalling!

This is a photo of my daughter showing off her Grandmother's Chicken Soup...with chicken FEET in it...oh yeah, I've never gotten used to it after 24 years but my husband grew up with it and loves it...we all love the soup, we just don't all love the feet!

Susanna's challenge photo got me thinking about this photo and the Portuguese Chicken Soup with all its contents...I pulled the red and blues from the photo into my patterned papers. I have to admit this challenge had me a tad stumped...but I like how it turned out in the end :)

This paper line is from Pink Paislee and it's called 'Snow Village' the cut-outs were from a huge package from the same collection...the left hand side of this Let's Scrap sketch was perfect for my photo and this challenge :)

Have fun and Let's Scrap !

Christmas Traditions

Merry Christmas! and many blessing for your New Year ahead!

I am here, not very present this past month to say the least but here now...does that count? I really have missed the interaction I get on my Blog...the new year promises to be charged with exciting new things and a renewed commitment to my 'Kraft' and my blogging :) 

Early in the year I was asked to be a Contributing DT for one of the Let's Scrap challenges. Now if you have followed along on my site over the years you would know that I am a HUGE fan of everyone there, have served multiple DT terms and LOVE all their sketches, challenges and events! The Administration Team there is so hard working and packed with lovely ladies from all over the globe! I would love to re-join the ranks of talented ladies for a future DT term, but for now I'd like to share my layout for today's challenge over at Let's Scrap.

Ezme is hosting today's challenge and the criteria was to use any Let's Scrap sketch, incorporate a featured technique from the site, add some stitching and scrapbook something about your Heritage, an important event or tradition...this is what I did:

This layout is highlighting our family's love of games...during the holidays we spend many hours playing various games...one of our family favourites is Monopoly...we currently own 11 different versions of this game! I thought it was fitting to refer to this as the 12 days of games as we play one game or another almost daily :)

Pink Paislee has a great Christmas line out currently called Snow Village...I picked up a handful of sheets and an Ephemera pack...makes for some quick and easy scrapbooking!

My main tag was created using some of the Ranger Distress Stains...I am loving playing with this medium and anything Tim Holtz is magical!!! 

Tags are one of my newest loves {heart}

The Ephemera pack makes short work of embellishing...consider grabbing one for your next paper purchase...these bits will work nicely with my Project Life pages as well.

Thanks so much for stopping in today! I've missed this and you, so I need to get busy playing with my paper and glue so I can get back into my bloggin' routine once again!

 

Wanna Scrap?!!

I've been away from Let's Scrap as a Design Team member for several months now and I have to say I miss it! I do stay updated with the goings on via Facebook but it's just not the same as being a part of a Design Team and having a constant presence online in the gallery and chat groups...I miss them...might need to consider re-applying for their DT Call this month...???

Anyways, this past Wednesday they released a fun sketch that I wanted to share with you all...one of those sketches that uses up all your left over bits and of course if you are like me and have been collecting some Washi tape...great for that too!

I pulled out some of my Christmas scraps from last year...I've been plugging away at our 2012 Christmas trip to Waikiki, Oahu...I am using some Project Life sleeves in amongst my layouts just so that I can get it done! I wanted to use this photo as I figured it might get lost with lots of photos...I wanted to feature it with its own layout ;)

Can you imagine seeing a GIANT sandcastle in the middle of our hotel lobby? Now make it one of Santa and his elves and I have to make sure I take a photo!

I got these glitter alphas from a mini-album class last year...all the left over bits were from that class too...the more I use these alphas, the more I like them!

These papers are from American Crafts and this tag was cut from a 12x12 sheet...I used my decorative corner chomper to get these ticket corners, doodled in black around it to make it look like it was made this way...tricky I know:) It was great to find something that gave me those choices to check off...usually Christmas paper bits are all about cold and snow...neither of which we had!

There's a great prize package up for grabs too this week at Let's Scrap from Fancy Pants so be sure to head on over and enter your layout into the gallery for a chance to win!

a Royal Hawaiian Luau...

I took several photos of the Luau we went to at our hotel, The Royal Hawaiian, on Christmas Eve...it was a served meal, so different from other types of Luau...but the meal was delicious even still!

I really like this sketch for this event, I could have increased the number of photos, but in the evening, it was difficult to get great shots of the event so I decided to touch on the highlights of the evening instead!

Close To My Heart came out with a stamp set many many moons ago called 'Extreme Happiness'. It went with a paper pack called Moon Doggie...which was very tropical...now the paper is no longer available and the stamp set is not either unfortunately...but how smart am I to recognize that this stamp set is a keeper! I've used it many times over with different paper lines...and I love it here as well!!!

The musical notes paper is from Bazzill Basics and the other patterned papers are from Echo Park's collection called Paradise Beach.

All of the wooden bits are from Close To My Heart's new 'Trinkets Wooden Shapes'...there are 57 mini stampable, laser-cut wooden bits and I am loving using them! I'm actually going to need to re-order them as I am using them right up and I'm not ready for them to be all gone yet! :)

Here's the Lets Scrap sketch for this week: 

 

Thanks so much for stopping in today, if you have any questions about some of the products I've used, feel free to message me! Have a Fantastic Day!

the Mad Hatters...

This was so much fun! I go several times a year with my girls to different hat stores...this trip was when we were away in Hawaii this past Christmas with my husband's family...my adorable nieces are so photogenic anyway, but little Sadie was really enjoying this store AND Auntie Kristine taking so many photos of her too! It was nice to see my son Matthew getting into it too, seeing as he's usually not interested in joining me and the girls for our shopping trips throughout the year!

This week's sketch from Let's Scrap was a great fit for all these photos...and all the embellishments from my package of Pink Paislee 'Portfolio' collection worked great to jazz this page up!

I love to use my Sizzix to cut felt! and these bits are a perfect addition to add some more texture to this layout!

I added some more of those Close To My Heart wooden shapes from the 'garden collection' because I like these kinds of flowers...not the other kinds ;) and if you noticed, I had to 'make' a second letter 't' from a 'L'...pretty sneaky of me huh?!!!

Here's the sketch:

You might have also have noticed that I made this sketch work for me...make sure you use your sketches as starting off points and don't worry about every little detail...these sketches are here to help you get creative, not for you to worry about following perfectly! that is if you don't want too!!!

Thanks so much for stopping in today, I hope you have a crafty day!