March Cross Canada Blog Hop!

Greetings from Beautiful British Columbia! 

Sunny skies today and almost tulip season!!! Yippee!

Welcome to our March Blog Hop featuring artwork inspired by

 'What we Love about Spring'.

 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.

 If you came from Brae's Blog then you are in the right place! 

It feels great to use up some of my stash for this layout...leftover pieces from my Gimme Some Sugar Workshop kit, sticker bits from my Better Together Complements pack. It makes me happy knowing that the flowers will be blooming soon !

Products Used:

Pewter, Black, White Daisy cardstock
Gimme Some Sugar paper collection
Gimme Some Sugar Cork Shapes
Gimme Some Sugar Complements
Picture My Life Cards - be-YOU-tiful
Block Alphabet Thin Cuts
mini stapler
Better Together Complements
Grey Ribbon
scallop border punch
sewing machine

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 Celebrations. 

So mark April 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

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April News and April Showers...

Hello and Happy April Showers...not sure where you are but in my neck of the woods we've been blessed with glorious warm sunshine, spring flowers blooming and of course April rain showers...while you have to be someone who loves or at least tolerates some rain to live on the WestCoast in British Columbia...I do love it! Strange I'm sure you're thinking but with rain comes the smell of wet pavement, green grass, brightened yard colours and packed down mulch! Yup! I've been busy cleaning my yard of leaves and trimming/edging the grass along the flower beds, lightly pruning old growth off my shrubs...AND spreading half a dump truck load of Organic Bark Mulch!!! Fun stuff...sore back, but the yard is starting to look great :)

Last week was also a terribly sad week. One of my daughter Marissa's close friends decided to end her own life...just tragic. My heart has been heavy for many days and Marissa was away on her school trip to Thailand when she found out, so I was also sad to not be able to be there with her when she found out...dealing with death is very hard...dealing with the death of a young person is very hard...dealing with teen suicide is terrible...as a parent, trying to talk to your own children about this is difficult and it's also hard not to be angry. I've been feeling it all over the past couple of weeks but last weekend was the memorial service for Marissa's friend and to say that was tough would be an understatement. I was very proud of Marissa though as she was able to go infront of everyone and read a speech she wrote about her friend.  I am glad she was able to share her special moments, I'm sure it is a way of coping and dealing with the loss of a precious friend.

Marissa giving her friend a ride! One of her favourite photos even though its blurry and taken with her phone.

Now...lets move on as we all need to...right?!

With the current April showers here I have been kicked out of the backyard and I'm into the house! Which for those of you that know me means Scrapbooking!!!

I've created a 'numbers' challenge over at Scrapbook Challenges for this month. April is all about 'everyday moments' at SBC and with the coming of the fourth month I thought I'd challenge all of you to work with the number FOUR :) Head on over to my Blog post there to see what's involved and hopefully you'll have a moment to play along with any one of the great challenges we'll be featuring this month!

This is my challenge layout featuring FOUR photos, FOUR patterned papers, at least FOUR embellies and a couple sheets of cardstock, easy peasy right?!! Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Pinterest Challenge

Good Morning! Are you up for a fun challenge???

It's my turn over at Scrapbook Challenges to host this month's Pinterest Challenge. 

In March we are focussing 'All About Me'...not me specifically, but me meaning each of us!

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Your job is to take any inspiration from this photo and create a layout with it! You can see that I was focussing on all the wood and used a barn board pattern for my base.

Of course the first thing that drew me to this photo was those gorgeous paper lanterns!

So I wanted to mimic the circles and add some depth by layering  the different sizes on top of each other.

I've used an older sketch from SBC and there was a hot air balloon in it...so that gave me the idea to dig out my Studio Calico stamp from way back when and voila!

This is a photo from many years ago. My family was on vacation and we stopped at Lake Louise...not sure any details other than that! So it goes to show that we need to document each of our stories...only you can tell your story best...I hope you create a layout this month just about YOU...something your kids can cherish in years to come :)

Thanks for stopping by and of course as usual, I'd love it if you played along with us over at Scrapbook Challenges!