Happy Canada Day!

Happy Days to you...today is Canada Day for us and I'm in super sunny Las Vegas! So no Canadian celebrations in my home town but I can share a great new sketch from Let's Scrap Sketches!

If you follow the link you can see what the Design Team created with it and hopefully you'll have time to create this month as well!

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New Let's Scrap Sketch!

This is what we call a blast from the past...

We dug into the Let's Scrap Sketches Blog archives for this one but you can have some fun with photo layouts as the right page could lend itself to multiple photos!

I've been too busy travelling in January and February to get into my creative space but that doesn't mean you can't play along! 

While we're at it, here's the February 1st sketch we revealed...it's a fantastic sketch for multiple photos and a great way to use up your scraps!

I think I see a layout featuring some of my recent cruise photos...love the flags and the pockets...perfect for hidden journalling or when you just can't decide which photos to use!

Hopefully you have a chance to play along with these sketches this month...if you link up your creation to our Let's Scrap Sketches Blog, you have a chance to win a little something.

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New sketch with Let's Scrap Sketches!

I hope you have time to play along with us this time...another great sketch by Michelle!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!  

Wishing you loads of good times and happy memories for 2018...I hope you have fun documenting your life this year :) 

New Sketch with Let's Scrap Sketches!

Check it out! Michelle has created another great one...

I have been playing with the new Carta Bella 'Cabin Fever' line and thought this layout would be perfect for our upcoming trip to Big White Resort...seeing as we will be in the snow!

I know there will be several photos taken of our adventures in the snow...

Super simple and super fast...why don't you play along with us!?!!

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Jeepers Creepers...it's October 15th!!!

Jeepers Creepers...where'd you get those papers?  

Welcome to our October Blog Hop featuring Jeepers Creepers Creations.  To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local consultant to place an order.

We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop! 

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you want to follow us across Canada then please start at the beginning and join Michelle her BLOG

If you came from Corinna's Crafts then you are in the right place! 

I'm loving these CTMH halloween papers even if I don't have any little monsters at home anymore...well sometimes they are little monsters but they aren't so little and they don't dress up and embrace Halloween like they used too ;)  

Here's the new sketch from Let's Scrap Sketches...I was playing with the layout design in this sketch and just kept getting stuck...so I rotated the sketch and my layout evolved from there :)

My little pooches do embody the 'Monster' qualities sometimes...

I'm pleased with how it turned out. Remember that a sketch is supposed to inspire you...often times the layout design will evolve around your photos and papers and embellishments :)

The 'double' and stars are the new glitter chip bits in our Jeepers Creepers Complements package...along with some super fun stickers...

The purple is our new 'Pansy' colour...lovin' it <3 font="">

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Michelle!

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. 

We hope you will join us again next month when we will be featuring projects created using our Colour of the Year, Seaglass.  So mark November 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

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Let's Scrap August 1st sketch!

I can't believe we are in August already! Lucky for you, I've got another fantastic sketch to show you from the Let's Scrap site. Make sure you follow my blog to get them directly to your inbox!

I hope you enjoy this one...I'm going to head back to my lounge chair by the pool...Italy is wonderful...if you have a chance, check out my travel blog Full of Shenanigans and you can see what I've been up to!

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Let's Scrap sketch for July 15th !

Hello my crafty friends! I'm enjoying my holidays in Italy but wanted to share a fantastic sketch from Let's Scrap...I hope you have a chance to play along and get some scrapbooking done!

This sketch is perfect for those of you that are hanging onto those special 12 x 12 diecut sheets...come on I know you have at least one in your stash!?!!  Dig it out and whip up another layout using this sketch :) Play along with us at Let's Scrap and you could win some goodies from us.




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Welcome to the Let’s Scrap Sketches Summer Fun Blog Hop… this hop runs from July 1st to July 7th midnight so make sure you join in all the fun!! 

If you are joining the blog hop here instead of the beginning go HERE to start at Let’s Scrap Sketches and follow the instructions for the Blog Hop to get in for a chance on all the prizes!!

Be sure to comment on this blog and follow me for more great inspiring creations… you need to do both of these things to get in on the RAK for this blog and then please go on to the NEXT BLOG for more fun and chances to win prizes!!

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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another sketch from Scrapbook Challenges...

Hello and welcome to my scrappy space! I've got another sketch from Scrapbook Challenges here for you today. Remember that every Monday we release another great sketch and this week you are in for a treat as we've got a double-page sketch! 

I had some photos that were screaming my name yesterday...photos from a recent baseball tournament down in Tacoma Washington. 

My son is a true baseball fan and player and he loves to steal...whenever he can...but unfortunately for the other team he is FAST! So it's not very often that he gets caught out on a steal or on his lead-offs from the bag...

One of the things I LOVE about Close o My Heart's cardstock is that it's white core...so when I want to sand it or distress it I can see this awesome contrast!

Now if you've been with me for long you would know that I love all manufacturers of Scrappy stuff...I've been getting the Studio Calico Project Life kits for quite a few months now and in one of my recent kits I got these awesome cork adhesive asterisks! Aren't they fantastic?!!

You can also see in the photo above that I have sanded the edges of the photos, which makes them stand out against the black CS base nicely and adds a little roughness to them for this baseball layout ;)

Love mixing up my title with various alpha fonts and stickers...adds a great connection of colours to this page and it's a great way to add some interest too! My arrows are an assortment from CTMH, Studio Calico and Freckled Fawn...like I said, I love to mix it up!

Here's the sketch:

Thanks so much for stoppin' by today!

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!

Snapchats ;)

Good Morning! Well, I always seem to say 'Good Morning' because that's when I post! I probably should say 'Good Day' because we all BlogHop during the time we can...enough of my carrying on already...no matter what time of day it is there for you I'm still so glad you dropped by for today's Scrapbook Challenges Sketch #345 !!!

It's been several weeks now that my DD, Marissa, has returned from her adventures in Thailand! She experienced some amazing things, some of which were captured in photos...but I had just the snapshots she sent me through Snapchat as my main source of communication for the two weeks she was away!

It was a bit scary for me to send her off on this trip as it was the first trip she's taken without her parents...travelling to Thailand meant many hours of little to no communication home, which was stressful for me!

Now I'm not sure if you are familiar with 'Snapchat' but it's an APP the kids use on their iPhones and Androids to send photos like they do text messages...they can add a little bit of journaling or do some drawing on their photos and then send them off like a text message...needless to say, I certainly did look forward to getting Snapchats as they were easier for Marissa to send to me than it was for her to phone me...for some reason her text feature wasn't working there and she isn't a regular Facebook user anymore.

Even though the picture quality isn't great, I LOVE these photos, they illustrate Marissa's silly personality very well and this sketch was perfect for these 3x4 photos...I even used my Basic Grey Marrakech papers! I've been holding onto those for years now ;)

This layout came together super fast, especially seeing as I used the sticker sheet and only a couple of pieces of patterned papers!

Make sure you pop over to the Scrapbook Challenges Blog to see some more inspiration from our Design Team with this week's sketch...thanks for stoppin' by!

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!

need inspiration?

So glad you've stopped in!

I have found another fantastic scrappy site! Great sketches and Design Team inspiration...some great prizes up for grabs too! Check out inspired Blueprints !

I know it may sound funny, but I love how they present their sketches...nice and clean with the basic skeleton of the sketch...I prefer this as I find I don't obsess over the paper patterns in the sketch or try to duplicate them...I just look at the basic design and find photos and papers I want to work with...this makes the design and assembly so much simpler for many scrapbookers!

I took my nieces and kids to the Greater Vancouver Zoo in September last year...took oodles of photos of course but this is what I made from the sketch...

I've used three (3) sheets of 'Fall Fever' by Echo Park, CTMH cardstock (Juniper and Colonial White) and one sheet of CTMH patterned paper (wood plank background), assorted Twinery twine

You'll have noticed that I used two 4x6 photos instead of the one larger 6x8...always use your sketch as your starting off point...it's intended to help you with general design...not hinder you...so don't worry about 'exact' when you are looking at sketches...look at it from the perspective of "Do I like this sketch?" and "Can I work with this?"

I know it was crazy...but I fussy cut each leaf and owl...I just had to because they were the perfect accent from the scraps of paper I had left. These pictures aren't the greatest as we've had rain and more rain these past couple of days which makes everything dark and gloomy.

I've also entered this page in the 'Scrap Your Story'  Animals Challenge for this week :) You'll remember that I posted about this new Challenge site last week, four challenges a month and prizes up for grabs as well!!! What better incentive do you need? Check them out too :)

Now I mentioned earlier that I took oodles of photos of our Zoo visit...to add more photos with this layout and to be able to still journal about the day, I've incorporated some Project Life sleeves into my 'Everyday Life' album along with this layout above...here's how they look together:

I worked on this layout and four (4) PL sleeves to add to this event in my album for about 2 hours last night! I still need to add some journalling, but I wanted to show you how I'm starting to add these sleeves to my regular albums...

The 'You're a Hoot' came from the reverse side of the papers, the benefit of picking patterned paper with sentiments and cards on them.

I just know that I can't scrapbook everything I take photos of...so instead I'm just scrapbooking some of my favourite pictures and using Project Life for the rest...this way I can take bits of paper and stickers etc. and add them as well...it all still ties it together and looks fantastic too! But best of all I'm getting these photos into albums for people to enjoy instead of sitting on my computer!

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you have a scrap-tastic week full of goodness!

Like my new look?!!!

Like my new look?!!! I was needing to lighten my mood and the look on my blog, so after several hours of fiddling, some curse words and lots of trial and error...more error than I'd like...this is it!

Happy Monday everyone! 
As usual, I have a sketch for you, this one is sketch #335 from Scrapbook Challenges!

Nice and easy, lemon squeezy...great papers from Studio Calico, banner from Basic Grey and tags from Crate Paper...an OLD overlay from My Mind's Eye that I was so happy to add to this layout!

I keep my odds n' sodds in a basket and love it when I can grab that random item and incorporate it into my layout!

This clear overlay from MME has been in my stash for at least five years!

This stitched banner was from a sheet of banners that Basic Grey has just recently produced, I got it in a grab bag of goodies from CherryLane Scrapbook Shoppe...a local scrappy place!

I hope you have a chance to get crafty this week and also play along with the sketches I'll be revealing this week! It's a great way to use up your stash!!!
Check back Wednesday and again on Friday for more goodness!

 Thanks for stopping by!

My Sketch!!!

Good Morning! I am super excited to share my sketch which is being featured this week at Scrapbook Challenges!!!

My version of the sketch that I sent Chanell at SBC wasn't nearly as nice looking as this one above...it was just a challenge we had in December to look at an Ad and create a sketch from it! Here's the Ad I was looking at:

I wanted to create another one with this sketch as I actually really like it! No bias at all :)

One of the great things about patterned papers that have fun designs on them is that you can fussy cut them out to create embellishments! 

and of course those sticker sheets certainly come in handy for ready to go sentiments and journalling spots...made this layout come together very fast and everything matches...

I love that I'm really digging into my alphabet stickers these days...I didn't have enough letters to do it all in any of these three but mixing up my title has a better feel to it I think than if I'd used all the same colours. It draws your eye to the title...

and here's the layout, which you would have seen back at the beginning of December:

Same basic design but completely different looking!

So glad you stopped in today, thanks for visiting and I hope you have a chance to play with this sketch soon!