Polaroid Challenge

Good Morning!

It's my turn to host a two week challenge over at Let's Scrap and seeing as my life has been crazy busy these past few months and I haven't had a chance to participate in many challenges myself, I thought I'd throw a nice and easy one at everyone!!!

Polaroids! Yup, ones that you re-create because I'm pretty sure there aren't many folks out there that still have one, but the look is fun...so that being said here's the challenge:

Incorporate a 'Polaroid' looking photo into your layout...check out this link for the details of this month's challenge and some helpful tips to get you creating Polaroid looking photo mats for your photos and layouts!

I've been hanging onto these photos for a couple years...you know when you scrapbook some photos from an event and then you don't finish?!! Well that's me with many things in life, but in the end, this sketch and challenge was just what I needed to get these pics into the album!

All scraps from my Footloose paper packet and the sun and clouds were leftover cuts from my BC Crop for Kids classes...so this layout was crazy easy! Which is nice for a change :)

Thanks for stopping by here today and have a fantastic weekend, hopefully you'll have a chance to play along for the chance to win a RAK from me!!!

countdown to classes @ BC Crop 4 Kids...

Today I want to show you some photos of the class I will be teaching on Saturday, October 6th from 10:00am - 12:00pm for this fantastic Fundraising Crop which benefits BC Children's Hospital...it's called BC Scrapbooking Crop for Kids and it is so much fun!

This class is being sponsored by Bryan Heidinger and he's the Owner of a great Scrapbook shop in Downtown Abbotsford called Paper Nation!

I have created two double-paged layouts and two single paged layouts using a My Mind's Eye collection called 'Indie Chic' which came in some fantastic colours!

this kit includes a FULL package of American Crafts Thickers

also, a FULL package of MME decorative brads

a FULL package of MME decorative buttons and various journalling spots and die cut bits...

I've even cut some felt bits and die cut shapes for us to create our own handmade embellishments...

 I love this Jute twine...such a great texture to add here...

and remember those corner rounders, circle punches and scallop punches? well we are bringing them back here and I'll show you WHY these are the best 'staple' tools in your stash!

If you're coming this weekend, I'll see you there...if you've only got a few hours to spare...have a look at this years classes and just come on down to the Ramada and sign up for one of them! They are taking late sign ups all the way until the classes start, unless they are sold out of course! Which is our goal seeing as 100% of that class fee is going directly to BC Children's Hospital!

Thanks for stopping by!

more with this month's Very Merry Christmas!

I know, you might not be in the Christmas mood yet...but this October you can get a great Christmas'y stamp set for only $5.00! It is the perfect addition to your stamping collection because you can use it for layouts, cards and you can make some gift tags too!

It's easy, with any order you place of a minimum of $35 in the month of October, you can get this set for $5 !

I have created a great card today using a 6x6 Kraft card base, our new Pear & Partridge Christmas paper, Cranberry & Colonial White cardstock, our new Burlap ribbon and some Cranberry baker's Twine from our Harvest Baker's twine collection:

  

I started with our pre-done 6x6 card bases and I've scored it at 1½ inches on either side of the center fold:

Then I folded along the score lines so that the center fold comes into the middle of the card...add some heavy duty double sided tape JUST along the outer edge of the card as pictured above:

 I trimmed an opening along the folded edge so that I could slip my Gift Card into the slot...this is why I was careful not to add adhesive too close to the fold as I wouldn't have been able to slide in my card!

I adhered the Burlap ribbon along that scalloped edge of this card base, mounted the sentiment with 3D foam tape and then after I put my gift card into my card, I wrapped some of that great twine around the card twice and tied a bow...this way the person I give this to can just untie the twine and the sentiment will still be attached to my card!

Thanks for stopping in today and if you have any questions about my card, the products I've used or this month's stamp set, please contact me!

BlogHoppin' with a Very Merry Christmas

Hello and Welcome to another SOTM BlogHop with some fabulous Close To My Heart consultants! We've got 66 participating this month and hopefully we'll get you excited to create some Christmas themed projects.

If you've arrived from Kim's Blog, then you are on the right track!

Well I'm loving the new Pear and Partridge papers but I love it even more when you add a sheet of Dakota paper as the wooden board background...this card just feels rustic to me :)

Stay tuned for more posts with this great October stamp of the month!

Now head on over to TerryAnn's Blog for some more inspiration and I hope to enjoy this month's Hop!!!

School Days

Good Morning! 

I love sketches...have I said that before??? Yes, I'm quite sure I say it very often ;) This sketch is awesome and I sure hope you decide to play along with it too...I think I might even create another one.

I flipped a couple things to make this sketch work better with what photos I had on hand, I also got a chance to play with my Cricut and my CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge...

When you need just the right colour for your title, this AP cartridge does the trick, I used my Creme Brulee cardstock to add some more yellow to this layout with these letters.

Can you see the white splatter...I filled my CTMH spritzer with some rubbing alcohol and some White Daisy re-inker...played with spritzing and loved the final result, just a little distressed

Twine has got to be my perfect go-to item for a dash of texture and colour

seeing as I'm a huge fan of all types of shapes...stars and school of course are fantastic together and this layout needed some star treatment...I even ran the large start through the embossing folder and my Sizzix...thanks so much for stopping in for a visit today, enjoy your Wednesday and I hope that you have fun with this sketch :)
This week's sketch is being sponsored by:

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Wednesday's Let's Scrap Sketch!

Hello! This is my last layout as one of Let's Scrap current design team :( I am looking for a little holiday from the Design Team aspect as it is fairly time consuming and seeing as December and January are so busy for me, didn't think it would be fair to all the hard working gals on the DT if I wasn't active during those two months!

We are getting ready in this house for the Holidays and for our Christmas in Mexico! 

So excited!

Hope you have some fun with this weeks sketch!

I am constantly working away at the kids' school albums and I've completed three double page layouts for Marissa's last day of school where her teacher, Mr. Willms, took his class to Castle Fun Park for a day of FUN! Here's one of them!

Super fun papers, journalling tags, buttons, alphabet stickers and twine used here. Jillibean Soup mostly, die cut papers were from Jenni Bowlin, twine from Twinery and the mini alpha were from October Afternoon.

I love those pkgs. of Jillibeans' journalling spots...perfect as embellishments or journalling tags...I will complete Marissa's Top 5 Memories once she comes home from school!

Those mini alphabet sheets in various colours have got to be a staple in my scrapbooking stash for sure! I love to use them, as I can create long titles and phrases that can explain the page without lots of journalling :)

...YES! that is my crazy daughter hanging off the 

mini-merry-go-round!!!

Wednesday's Let's Scrap Sketch time!

Wednesday is here again and I've got another great sketch from Let's Scrap where I've incorporated the CTMH stamp of the month as well!

I have to say I love, love, love this month's stamp set 'Cherish the Day'...perfect addition to almost anything :) More artwork on this post too...and after your done here, have fun going through the 57 additional artwork posts from my fellow CTMH Consultant's where they are also showing off artwork from this month's SOTM!!!

and as you can see I've been using my new favourite thing...twine!

my second favourite right now is this big scalloped border...and my banner is super cute too if I may say so myself!!!

Thanks so much for checking this sketch out...hopefully you'll give it a whirl yourself and get one more double page layout done this week! Feel free to contact me if you are liking this SOTM (aka. stamp of the month) as much as I have been in using it...and you'd like one of your own! Remember that SOTM's are only available during the month they are featured so don't wait!