Let's Scrap with Chantilly and CTMH!!!

Hello! So glad you've stopped in today...it's always fun to start with a sketch...whether it's a card or layout sketch, whatever gets you creative and creating!

It's Wednesday and so that means it's time for a new sketch at Let's Scrap, this week is the third Wednesday in the month so that means a Card Sketch! As you can see, I created a layout instead!

So in case you haven't been following along, it's also time for a new Close To My Heart catalog! (contact me if you need one!) So of course with a new catalog, Consultants get to order from it one month before it goes live to customers, a great perk for us, and I ordered!!!

Now in case you've noticed, that lovely little fabric brad is from our *New Chantilly Assortment...and there are 9 adhesive backed ones in each package for $5.95...so they aren't really brads but they look like them! I've tucked this wee birdie onto a flower from the Paradise Paper Flowers and the Colonial White Rosette Ribbon  from last catalog! These lovely papers are from the *New Chantilly paper Packet and those FANTASTIC kraft mini-alphabets are NEW from CTMH too! So excited that we finally have some mini-alphabet stickers and even more excited that they are in my favourite Kraft!!!

Now a heads up...we are offering FABRIC to coordinate with two different paper collections and Chantilly is one of them...this bow coordinates with the paper collection  and all of the items in the artwork below are from our new catalog!

Here's the sketch!

Thanks so much for taking a moment today to check out my post, I love that you stop by and I hope you have a chance to get busy with paper, scissors and glue!

thinking of you...

It's been such a crazy month! I have to say that doing home renos and planning parties and just everyday stuff at home are really starting to be a little overwhelming! Luckily we are at the end of the deck reno and the party is over...Friday was fun and stressful as the power went out the entire time!!! It was some great ambience for a Halloween party, but really inconvenient to offer appetizers when I'm only able to do them on the barbeque! Luckily the guests still had fun and I've got two stressful activities off my list :)

So, earlier in the month I had hopes to work with some other Let's Scrap gals and get some LOAD projects done (layout a day) with the hopes of achieving at least 31 ! Seeing as it is currently the 29th and I've only just completed 10 before this card...I am going to spend the next two days trying really hard to complete more than 11 :)

This sketch was from earlier in October and I combined a great  challenge from Scrapbook Challenges this month as well.

The challenge was to combine at least 5 different patterned papers together in one card...this was 6 different patterns as well as the bird houses which was cut from another piece of patterned paper...

  Here's the Let's Scrap card sketch:

Make sure you have a look at all the great challenges over at Scrapbook Challenges, especially if you need a little help getting things done...challenges are usually just what you need to get the mojo flowing!

Hexagons rock!

Good Morning!

I wanted to share with you todays card sketch from Let's Scrap...except when I saw it I knew I had just the paper and it had to be a layout!

Here's the sketch:

and this is what I did!

This paper by My Mind's Eye is fantastic, great colours, great papers and great accessories!

The chipboard sheet and button package that coordinates makes really short work of putting a cute layouts together quickly! Especially when you have a great sketch! and some twine!!!

I hope you have a great Wednesday and thanks for stopping by today!!!

Kick up your Heels

Good Morning, I'm back from Dallas, Texas !!! Did you miss me?!!!

It's Wednesday and that means I've got another sketch for you from  Let's Scrap...this one is our card sketch but you know how I'm not really as excited about cards as I am with layouts so I decided to do this sketch for some more of Olivia's Convocation photos :)

I asked the girls to do something fun instead of always standing perfectly infront of the camera...I told them that one of the photos I remember of my Grad was with my gal pals and our legs being kicked up can-can style...this is what they did:

Now I know that all of you have some kind of die cut paper that you bought because it looks so cool...I have about 30 I think maybe more...anyways ;) this sketch is perfect to get using those sheets that might (if you are anything like me) be just sitting there in your craft room!!!??

I am using just one paper pack from SEI, their Field Notes collection, for all of Olivia's Convocation photos.  I've told you in some recent posts that I spent some time cutting out each of these butterflies from a sheet of paper...these frames were also cut from a sheet of paper...

Now I also wanted these girls to kick up their heels because my daughter Olivia was on the hunt for the 'PERFECT' pair of heels that would 'Make Just The Right Statement' when she was on stage...like as if everyone would be specifically looking at her shoes...? I told her that the only ones to notice would be her...she thought I was insane ;) 

Olivia is second from the left in her chunky wood and leather heels...

These photos were also the perfect way to show off those carefully thought out purchases :)

You might have noticed in this last photo the stitching, this is some heavy duty thread that I've used in my sewing machine and followed the curve in the patterned die cut...I am finding that this thread is perfect for layouts as it really shows up well!

So glad you've popped in here today, thanks for visiting!

One sketch, three looks...

Time to start posting some layouts that I actually have scrapped over the past couple weeks...as you know I was away a couple weeks ago up at Loon Lake and the Ultimate Scrapbook Retreats...in April I was able to treat myself to a four day weekend of Scrapbooking...it's the only retreat that they offer for Thursday to Sunday...I love the extra day, it's amazing what you can get done with that extra day!

So we had a sketch at Let's Scrap a few weeks back for cards...now as soon as I saw what Debby had created, I thought only of layouts! Here's her sketch and some photos of how I used it for inspiration around getting three dance layouts completed for my daughter's Dance album!

Some really old embellies I've had laying around, so glad to put them to use!

These layouts are getting added to my daughters dance album...and seeing as they are all the same size, it was hard to try to think up multiple different looking layouts...but working with the same sketch made it fast and they all do look different even if I used the same sketch to start off  with!

My handy Exacto blade came to good use here as I didn't want to cover the wings on this emblem...the cork embellie and studs worked great with the military looking dance photo :)

Super plain layout...not really finished in my eye, but done nonetheless! Marissa had the best most perfect hair, so the photographer had her placed in the middle :) I love the stars here and the pink alphabet sheet stickers in felt were a great size to work with!

This last layout was fun because I was using up some of the tags I've collected that I liked from the kids' clothes! I thought they added a sassy attitude to the layout seeing as that was how I felt they danced to this song :)

Cool *new* Challenge Blog!!!

So in my constant mission to find cool things on the web...I've stumbled across a great new blog called 'Use It or Lose It'.

 Nikka Geers, a fellow Close To My Heart Consultant, has created this blog with the hopes to get some of us CTMH fans to join along in the challenges...

you guessed it, to use it or lose it!

Now if any of you are like me, I love a challenge and often it is just what I need to get the ball rolling and to jump start my creative Mojo!

As you can see by this gorgeous photo, we are to take what we see in this picture and try to create our own artwork using this as inspiration...with the current snowy/wet conditions here on the West Coast in British Columbia, these colours are making me feel happy and creative!

This is what I've created from this piece of inspiration...forgive the colour...photos were taken this evening and they are truer to the inspirational photo than they look :)

White Daisy, Black, Lagoon and Pear Cardstock from Close To My Heart
Patterned piece is from the Magnifique paper collection
(Mojo Monday sketch)

One of my all time favorite stamp sets is the Enjoy Life set which is where the clock comes from and the sentiment is from the Card Chatter-Sympathy set...however, I think that this sentiment could work for any occasion as the sentiment does say 'happy thoughts' on the front and on the inside it says 'coming your way' so I'll probably use this for any number of events :)

Now how about you? Have an urge to play along? 

Check out this great new Challenge Blog 'Use It or Lose It'

Wednesday's Let's Scrap Card Sketch!

Hello! I know, I know...it's not Wednesday! You're right, but it's still a great day for a sketch! Especially seeing as this is the third Wednesday of the month, so that means we are playing with a card sketch...

I decided to dig into some of my Sonoma paper pack...we are going to be working on this paper collection for January in my Hostess Workshop Clubs...I love the purple and tan and cocoa colours together...I hope you have a chance to play with your paper and glue!

I've used the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge to cut out this card base at 4 1/2" with Desert Sand paper and used the Sonoma B&T duos paper with some Colonial White cardstock to cut the tag (also, AP from Cricut) and stamped the Winter Wishes in Petal from the 'December 25th' stamp set (C1469)...added a Mocha Opaque to the centre and tied it onto the card with some purple twine from my store! Thanks for stopping by!

Wednesday's Let's Scrap Card Sketch!

Hello and welcome to another Let's Scrap Card Sketch by Debby!

Products Used are all Close To My Heart:

Mischief Level 2 paper pack

Mischief felt shapes

Licorice Pearl Opaques Gems

Create-A-Shade Pearl paint

Cocoa re-inker and spritz bottle

Kraft cardstock

I have been busy getting ready for a weekend away at the "Ultimate" Scrapbook Retreat...I think I might just snap some pics for you all to see while I'm up there this weekend...

Also, stay tuned for another SOTM BlogHop at the end of the month featuring November's awesome stamp set 'Cherish the Day'...thanks for stopping by!

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:

Mojo Monday again!

Good Morning! I always love to see the sketches coming out on Mondays from the Mojo Monday sketch Blog site...this Monday is their 200th sketch! and to celebrate, this is what they've said:

"And since it's such a special occasion, we've got PRIZES to give away this week!  We'll add a prize for every 50 entries (up to a max of 8) and each randomly chosen winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to Verve Stamps!  Hooray for prizes!"

Why don't you play along with them...here's today's sketch!

I hope to add my spin on this sketch later today...remember to link up to their site your creations!

Mojo Monday 196 ~ even if it's not Monday!

I decided to play along with the Mojo Mondays card sketch challenge this week 

seeing as I suggested this site to all of you yesterday ;)

Here's their sketch:

and here's mine:

We should play again next week...what do you think?