February Cross Canada Blog Hop - Celebrate Today!

Hello and welcome to our Cross Canada Hop! We may be few but we are mighty! 

This month we are featuring the Celebrate Today collection, which I hope you can see is perfect for many events not just birthdays!

To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local consultant to place an order or CLICK HERE.

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!

You should have arrived from Kim's Blog

I played with the Celebrate Today Cardmaking kit and my watercolours! It was fun and easy to create these cards using the guide in this card kit and as usual, they always look far more fabulous in person!

I die cut these balloon dies with the exclusive card kit first and then I used my watercolour inks and my water brush to create the background on the stamped image.

This layout was the featured one in our Celebrate Today Scrapbooking kit...you may think this collection is centred around birthdays but I've used this to highlight my daughter's recent Graduation from her nursing program!

I've added our Story By Stacy stickers to add the LPN. I absolutely love those tiny alphabet stickers!

Can you see these sequins behind the vellum? How cool an idea is that!

Our newest Workshop kits are FABULOUS! If you haven't checked them out yet, you need to!

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.

Join us again next month when we will be featuring more artwork from our NEWEST Seasonal Expression Idea Book! 

So mark Marc 10th on your calendars and hop along with us when we feature our Yesterday & Today collection!

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Michelle's Blog...

Products Used:

Celebrate Today Workshop kit

Celebrate Today Cardmaking kit

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a little Spritz crazy ;)

I had fun with this Sketch 304 from Scrapbook Challenges this week! I used some photos from Marissa's 16th Birthday day out shopping...we went into Cloverdale to find some cowboy boots and of course we found some other goodies as well...

She used some of her Birthday money to buy this hat...because you know, she just had to have it!!!

I loved working with these papers from Crate Paper's 'Pretty Party & Portrait' collections...I went a little crazy with my spritzers...I wanted to distress it a bit with ink, I think I did ;)

The calendar was cut from a full sheet of patterned paper and the embellies are popped out of a die cut sheet that was available with the 'Pretty Party' paper collection.

Thanks for taking time out of your day to visit me here, I hope you can find something to scrap with this sketch...I've added the double paged sketch below too...enjoy!!!

I think I might even get busy with this double page sketch too!

More great sketches !

Well better later than never I always say! I have to confess that I've been crazy busy with various activities...and even though I am still creating, I'm not being so diligent with actually posting!

This past week, Let's Scrap posted another great sketch...as a Design Team member there we have been super busy creating {Inter}National Scrapbooking Month Challenges! 

So make sure to pop over there to check them out and to try to play along if you can!

Here's last weeks sketch:

and this is what I created from it:

I happened to just look through my stash of already printed photos...I have had these ones printed since 2001 !!! We went to Florida, Disney World actually, soon after my father had recovered from his Prostrate surgery...all was good and we wanted to celebrate this by having our entire family on a holiday at the Happiest Place on Earth!!!

I had fun rolling some of the patterned paper into a cluster of candles for his Birthday...not sixty! but a few anyways and seeing as I love twine and have loads of Disney stickers, they were as great addition to this embellishment :)

I covered some CTMH star chipboards with more paper and stickers to add some dimension and of course needed some more twine and buttons :) 

Thanks for stopping in today!

Let's Scrap Card Sketch for Wednesday!

Good Morning!

It's Wednesday and time for another sketch from Let's Scrap but seeing as this is the third Wednesday of August, today we've got a card sketch for you to try out!

Of course I was playing with CTMH's new Cricut cartridge, Art Philosophy, and it made short work of creating this card...for those of you that know me well...cards can take me just about as long as a two page layout! So anything that will help me get creating...this Let's Scrap card sketch by Debby D is just perfect for the cupcake image and the co-ordinating stamp set and sentiment that comes in one of the three stamp sets with this Cricut cartridge! This cute square shape is one of MANY card templates that the Art Philosophy cartridge cuts out too!

Here's another card using this sketch:

Cards, cards and more cards

Ok, so not everybody can rock the *card*...I am one of those people that can't...well maybe I can, but it takes me a ridiculous amount of time because I do 12x12...large scale stuff, not small scale stuff and honestly, it throws me for a loop! Weird huh? well thankfully there are plenty of resources out there for those of us that find card making a challenge :)

Jeannette Lynton, founder of the 'Close To My Heart' scrapbooking and stamping company, has created two beauties in her 'Originals' & 'Wishes' card how-to-books. Without these babies I would truly be lost in cyber world surfing for inspiration. Very time consuming and frustrating for some...

These cards on the other hand, I created with the paper scraps I used for my son's Rugby layouts I posted a couple days ago...made them at the same time...between layouts actually...didn't take me too long and didn't stress me out overly ;)

This card design is called 'All Tucked In' (page 94 ~ Wishes) & I used the 'Enjoy Life' and Birthday 'Card Chatter' stamp sets

  

This card design is 'card 5' (page 114  ~ Wishes greeting card workshop) & I used the Birthday 'Card Chatter' stamp set

This card design is 'Curtain Call' (page 94 ~ Wishes) & I used the 'Enjoy Life' stamp set

Check out these links for some inspirational Card sketches/maps:

Let's Scrap

Page Maps

Mojo Mondays

Now remember that any sketch, with a little thought and creativity, can become a page layout or a card layout...remember this post where I used a card sketch from Let's Scrap and created a single paged layout! I hope you find these resources helpful and have a great Thursday!

Birthday Beauty

Well yesterday my second baby girl had a birthday...15 years ago she was alot shorter  but just a beautiful as she is today :)

She is so lovely and the kindest soul...she has started her countdown now to driving, much like her older sister did at 15 years old...Happy Birthday baby!

Here's one of my creations from my last scrapbooking retreat at Loon Lake...she is the best cousin...she sure loves her little nieces and is a great sport with playing around, icecream and puzzles!