Jingle All the Way - Crossover Challenge (layout 350)

Hello, another Christmas layout to share. This time I created a layout for Child's Play and Pixels & Paper crossover challenges. I used a pagemaps sketch to scrap a picture my cousin and his family sent me last year in their Christmas card:

The colour inspiration came from Pixels & Paper challenge:


Child's Play has a recipe challenge:

gold (ribbon)

animal (reindeer & dog in photo)

something older than 1 year (ribbon I've had for about two years and the border is about three years old)

3 patterned papers (bg tree paper, green paper, tartan paper)

bling (green paper has shimmer to it, i also added some yellow bling to mimic stars that the reindeers are dancing through)

Supplies used:

paper: dcwv (evergreen stack, scalloped stack)

other: fiskars (border punch snowscape); border (recollections); jolee's boutique (reindeer); ospray (ribbon, gold); bo bunny (silver and gold brad); flourish with a bling (mango pearl)

thank you for stopping by and for your kind comments, hope you can play along this month :)

Child's Play: http://childsplaychallenges.blogspot.ca/2014/11/crossover-challenge.html

Pixels & Paper: http://pixelsandpaperchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/

Tis the season - "Get Inspired" Holiday Challenge (layout 349)

**I am finally feeling a bit better so am able to upload this layout; however, since the weather was dark and stormy outside  I was not able to take a clear clean picture so I will have to update that (hopefully tomorrow will bring better weather) **

up is a yummy festive layout that I created for Let's Get Sketchy "Get Inspired" Holiday Challenge. In our family, food plays a huge part of my parents annual Christmas Eve party. Nowalthough the pictures look pretty mellow they aren't because everyone has some sort of food in their mouth (hehehe love food). Here is my layout - Tis the season:

I used the mood board and the sketch as my inspiration:




Supplies used:
papers: dcwv (evergreen stack)
inks: lindy's stampgang starburst (glory of the seas gold), distress ink (black soot), distress paint (festive berries)
flowers: bazzill basics (paper flowers: poinsettas and holly leaves), prima (small road trip)
other: pins (little yellow bicycle: christmas stick pins), paperclip & jewels (forever in time), brads (misc christmas brads), wood veneer (studio calico), sticker (dollar store), stamp (inkadinkaclings: folk holidays expressions), washi tape (queen and company: micro dot christmas), ribbon (recollection)

Thank you for stopping by :)

Lobster - November Scrappy Friends Challenge (layout 348)

Hello everyone, back again, this time with a fun layout "Lobster" of my family and I's yearly tradition of going to red lobster:

This layout was made for the scrappy friends challenges. First up is Rochelle's tic-tac-toe:

I went with the lower line of journal card (authentique: radiant), 4+ patterned papers (bo bunny apple cider 6x6 paper pad), and buttons (recollection, unknown)

For Grand Diva's Creative Corner Sketch Challenge, I only did a single page and did the right side:


And Kelly's color challenge, I thought the colours were perfect since shrimp-feast always seems to happen in the fall:

Other supplies used:
alphas: recollection
flowers: bo bunny (apple cider), petaloo (orange daisy)
bling: zva creative (crystals orange), studio calico (dots)
inks: distress ink (frayed burlap), tattered angels (pinecone)
other: sew easy (circle tool), flourish (forever in time), floss (dmc), pen (sharpie)

Hope you can play along this month with the Scrappy friends challenges:

Rochelle's tic-tac-toe: http://nblo.gs/113ZrP
Kelly's color challenge: http://www.creatingwithpaperandmore.blogspot.ca/2014/11/november-color-challenge-october-winners.html
Grand Diva's Creative Corner Sketch: http://granddivasscrappyplace.blogspot.ca/2014/11/november-sketch-challenge-and-october.html

Thank you for stopping by and your wonderful comments, hope you have a wonderful day :)

A day to remember - Once upon a sketch (layout 347)

Good news on the home from, I am finally starting to feel better that I am actually able to sit upright and update my blog with all the layouts I have been working on this week. First up is my entry for Once Upon a Sketch's november Challenge:


I was inspired by the simplicity and beauty of the sketch and decided to sketch a picture from my cousin's wedding this past summer (journaling is hidden behind the photo):

I decided to go with a simple black and white layout because i really wanted the picture to shine. There was so much love that day and i really wanted that to shine through.

Supplies used:

papers: color blok

flowers: recollection, forever in time

other: gesso, ranger (texture paste), tim holtz (layering stencil: dot fade), lindy's stamp gang (midnight rendezvous raven), authentique (crush components), pearls (forever in time)

Thank you for stopping by, hope you can play along this month at Once Upon A Sketch: http://nblo.gs/112TpR

Parade Loot - LCOM #96 (layout 346)

Let's Capture Our Memories #96 is a sketch by Ana Castro, although when i first saw the sketch i immediately thought card but when i sat down to work on it I decided layout. Here is the sketch:


here is my take:

Supplies used:
paper: authentique (shimmer, tradition, energy, native)
alphas: doodlebug design (shin-dig: ladybug)
inks: lindy's stamp gang starburst (rudolph nose red), tim holtz distress pad (weathered wood)
other: ribbon (recollection), bazzill chips (flourishes)

thank you for stopping by, hope you can play along this month at LCOM: http://letscaptureourmemories.blogspot.ca/2014/11/lcom-sketch-96-reveal.html

Perseverance (layout 345)

this week has been a rough week with sickness, for three weeks my husband has been sick (viral so no antibiotics) but this week my son started to get it and last night he had it full board (hence why i'm updating this morning).

Yesterday morning while my son was relaxing on the couch watching Cars (favorite movie watches it atleast once a day) I got to go play and created the following layout:

I created this layout based on Sue Sykes sketch for November's Canadian Scrapbooker Sketchy challenge:

And based my colours based on PaperCrafter's Corner Magazine Monday Week 75:

I was inspired by the magazine with the ombre background (which I made using gelatos, water and a paint brush) and the fall colours (using bo bunny apple cider paper and autumn song noteworthy). Other supplies used were recollections (alphas) and we r memory  keepers (enamel shapes warm).

I am quite happy with the way this turned out and although the photos were not taken in the fall it works since they work with the colour of the bike and there are still leaves on the ground since winter hit much too soon last year so was not able to rake them all up.

I am also sharing a picture of my wrap-around porch (which I'm not going to lie is a major reason we bought our house) it is larger on the one side that we have enough room for our extra large patio table and is perfect for entertaining summer parties and guests:

I have some more excitement to share!!! A couple of weeks ago I entered a contest with PaperCrafter's Corner and I won the Authentique prize pack. I am happy to say that it came in the mail yesterday and the wonderful people at Authentique were so sorry that they mailed my prize late that they added some extra goodies (items on left side of photo) as an apology. I cannot wait to start playing with them; however, I think my favorite part is they added a package of their 8x10 ready to frame radiant prints and I cannot wait to get a frame and hang one in my son's room and when we move into the new house (whenever that may be) the others will hang in his playroom!!! Thank you to Authentique and PCC!!!! 

Hope you can play along this month with Canadian Scrapbooker: http://canadianscrapbooker.ca/sketchy/showphoto.php?photo=1143&title=november-2014-sketch&cat=542

You still have until tomorrow (sunday) to submit your entries for this week's Magazine Monday: http://papercrafterscorner.com/blog/papercrafting-challenge-magazine-mondays-week-75/

Pit Stop - ScrapMuch? Design Team Reveal (layout 344)

I am so happy to share my very first design team layout with you for ScrapMuch?

Here is November 7th sketch:

Here is my take!!!

Supplies used:
papers: bo bunny (on the go: argyle, trucks, cut outs)
alphas: doodlebug design (shin-dig blue jean)
stickers: unknown
inks: tim holtz distress ink (weathered wood)
other; seweasy (piercing mat, starter kit), dmc floss, stampin' up piercing template

thank you for stopping in and hope you can play along with ScrapMuch? you have until November 30th to link up your entries for a chance to win a great prize!!! http://nblo.gs/11czqt