Baking Fun: made with love - PCC Magazine Monday #65(layout 277)

Another week and another Paper Crafter's Corner Magazine Monday inspiration; unfortunately, I was not able to play along last week as I fell down the stairs and injured my ankle and wrist so was unable to play but I am feeling much better so am playing along this week.

Here is this week's inspiration:

I was inspired by the idea of creativity as well as the red, white and blue. Here is my take:

I used Echo Park's Grandma's kitchen and brads that i have had in my collection forever!!

thank you for stopping by, hope you can play along with Paper Crafter's Corner: http://papercrafterscorner.com/blog/papercrafting-challenge-magazine-mondays-week-65/

Heat Wave - Scrap Much? August 22 sketch (layout 276)

Another Friday and another wonderful sketch by Laura Whitaker for ScrapMuch?


Here is my take:

These pictures were taken while I was back home and we met my sister-in-law and niece at the park. It was so hot that we decided that we would go and get ice cream after we were finished playing.

supplies used:
paper: DCWV (summer dream), graphic45 (bohemian bazaar)
other: heidi swapp (colour resist banner), ice cream cone (recollection), flowers (dollar store), washi tape (dollar store), glitter (recollection), we r memory keepers (envelope punch board), simple stories (summer paradise: elements #2), bo bunny (lemonade stand: combo stickers)

thank you for stopping by, hope you can play along this month at ScrapMuch?: http://nblo.gs/ZnDbD

sweet & cute - FWAB August Challenge (layout 275)

Wow what a month it has been. Up until this month I had never done a tic-tac-toe challenge and low and behold this month I do two!!! This month's Flourish with a Bling challenge:


I chose Flower, Wood (buttons), Ampersand (title), and Butterfly (background):

Supplies used:
paper: simple stories (sn@p grey chevron/mini dot), studio calico (atlantic 6x6), little darlings (summer sorbet), glitter lace cardstock (flutter calm)
alphas: doodlebug design (shin-dig: bon bon)
flourish with a bling: trent's fence
ink: distress paint (spun sugar), distress ink (frayed burlap, picked raspberry), distress stain (picked raspberry)
other: american craft (mayberry die-cuts), teresa collins (daily stories wood pieces), studio calico (enamel dots), cosmo cricket (tiny text: love), doodlebug design (sew easy: lily white), prima (small paisley road), k&company smash (tiny flags), imaginisce (snag'em stamps: sunshine), prima (engraver stamp), fancy pants (happy go lucky frames), heidi swapp (ephemera), buttons (unknown)

thank you for stopping by, hope you have a wonderful day and can play this month at Flourish With A Bling: http://www.flourishwithabling.com.au/blog/august-challenge/

Love You - GrandDiva & Rochelle Spears Challenge (layout 274)

At the beginning of this month Frosted Designs encouraged everyone to go check out Grand Diva and the sketch challenge they are having this month. As soon as I saw the sketch I fell in love:

I love all the layers and the tags and the stitched circle. . .I love so many of the elements that I couldn't wait to play; unfortunately, because I was still on holidays I did have to wait and it wasn't until I got my pictures back from holidays that I was able to start to create.

As part of this challenge, Grand Diva also encouraged us to create a layout and combine with as many of her scrappy friends challenges as well. I chose to combine with Rochelle Spears' Tic-Tac-Toe challenge:

I went with one photo, circle, and treat bag.

Here is my take:

supplies used:

papers: authentique (glistening: shine,growth, indelible, natural)

alphas: thickers (buckaroo: robin's egg)

bag: doodlebug design

flowers: dollar store

other: we r memory keepers (sew easy circle), heidi swapp (vintage chic), paper clip (from LSS in Kamloops, BC)

thank you for stopping by and hope you can play along at GrandDiva: http://granddivasscrappyplace.blogspot.ca/2014/08/august-sketch-challenge-and-july.html

and Rochelle Spears: http://rochellespears.blogspot.ca/2014/08/august-scrappy-friends-challenge-july.html

Cousin Chalk Fun - LCOM #85 (layout 273)

This week's Let's Capture Our Memories sketch is by Laura Whitaker:


Here is my take:

supplies used:
papers: studio calico (yearbook: valedictorian), dcwv (nana's nursery)
alphas: doodlebug design (shin-dig: beetle black)
flowers/ribbon: dollar store
banner: american craft (do it yourself)
punch: ek sucess
ink/paints: distress ink (seedless preserves), distress stain (seedless preserves), distress paint (victorian velvet), lindy's stamp gang starburst (sweet violet purple teal), perfect pearls mist (grape fizz)

Thank you for stopping in, hope you have a great day and can play along this month at Let's Capture our Memories: http://letscaptureourmemories.blogspot.ca/2014/08/lcom-sketch-85-reveal_16.html

Summer Magic - Scrap Much? August 15th (layout 272)

This ScrapMuch? sketch is by Laura Whitaker and I so enjoyed playing with it, it is a 1-pager with three pictures:


Here is my take:

journaling reads: kyle found a piece of seweed in the lake and carted it around the whole time he was in the water. Salmon arm bc. July 18 2014

Supplies used:
papers: bo bunny (hello sunshine: hello sunshine, breezy, delight)
ink: distress ink (spiced marmalade)
other: bo bunny (noteworthy: lemonade stand), bo bunny (chunky charms: swirls and brackets)

Thank you for stopping in, hope you have a great day and can play along this month at Scrap Much?: http://nblo.gs/ZdrGc

splish splash - Stuck?! sketches August 15th (layout 271)

I love love love the August 15th sketch from stuck?! sketches by Laura Whitaker mostly because it is a 1-page layout but with multiple photos (which is quite unique). Here is the sketch:

Here is my take:

I have a feeling that this layout is missing something but I can't quite put my finger on what it is missing but I refuse to let this sit on my scrap space (aka my kitchen counter) for the next couple of days/weeks/months while I figure out what is wrong with it so I am leaving it as is.

Supplies used: 

I splattered Tim Holtz distress paint (salty ocean) over the background paper

papers: bo bunny (lemonade stand: lemonade stand, carnival)

pinwheels: recollections

stickers: bo bunny (lemonade stand combo stickers)

other: pretty little studio (sand castle word flashcards), bo bunny (lemonade noteworthy)

Thank you for stopping in, and if you have any suggestion(s) of what I can add to this layout I would really appreciate it. Also hope you can play along this month at stuck?! they have awesome fun sketches to play with!!!: http://stucksketches.blogspot.ca/2014/08/august-15th-sketch-challenge.html

on the pier - ScrapMuch? colour challenge (layout 270)

I didn't know if I would get this month's colour challenge done considering I was on holidays for the first week and half of August and then earlier this week I fell down my front steps and landed on my ankle and wrist and I have been so sore that i've been on pain meds every 4 hours ever since. Today I was actually feeling better (i could stand without pain) so of course I scrapped a page while my son played.

Here is the colour challenge:


And here is my take (based loosely on savvy sketch #68):

Supplies used:
papers: stampin' up, echo park (summer bliss flip flops, birdie bliss, 6x6 paper pad)
journalling tag: bo bunny (lemonade stand: good times)
brads: unknown been in my stash forever
flowers: prima (paisley road)
chipboard: harmonie, and painted in tim holtz crackle paint (scattered straw)
banner: heidi swapp (colour magic: banner delights) and sprayed with lindy's stamp gang starburst (tibetan poppy teal)
punch: recollection
alphas: doodlebug deisgn (loopy love: blue jean)
other: WeRmemory keepers (enamel shapes: warm), distress ink (peacock feathers), jillibean soup (spicy social soup: die-cut cardstock)

thank you for stopping by and hope you can play along this month at ScrapMuch? colour challenge: http://nblo.gs/YW1ou

Yay summer - LCOM #84 (layout 269)

Final layout to share with you today I created for Let's Capture Our Memories based on their sketch #84 by Vicki Saulnier:


Here is my take:

Supplies used:
papers: stampin up, echo park (summer bliss)
die-cuts: fancy pants (nautical), bo bunny (noteworthy lemonade)
brad: dollar store
pinwheels: recollections

Thank you for stopping by and  hope you can play this month:  http://letscaptureourmemories.blogspot.ca/2014/08/lcom-sketch-84-reveal.html

Happy (layout 168)

I am absolutely in love with this layout. It is of my cousin and his new wife on their wedding day that I was so blessed to be apart of their special day. Unfortunately, I did not bring my camera so another cousin forwarded all the pictures he took that day and I chose this one because it was just so pretty.

I used Let's Capture Our memories #83 sketch (Anna Castro):


Here is my take:

Close up of the cluster:

Supplies used:

paper: martha stewart

ink: distress paint (black soot)

flowers: forever yours, recollection

camera: scrapbook store in kamloops, bc (where the wedding took place)

jewels: taken from the table at their reception

flourish: bazill basics chipboard (flourish)

title: glitz frosting (happy)

layering stencil: tim holtz doily

This is also my entry for August White with 1 Challenge (licorice): http://whitewith1.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/august-challenge.html

Thank you for stopping by and hope you can play: http://letscaptureourmemories.blogspot.ca/2014/08/lcom-sketch-83-reveal.html

if friends were flowers I'd pick you - A2Z August Challenge (layout 267)

As soon as I saw this month's A2Z scraplet sketch challenge I knew exactly which scraplet I wanted to use and it came together so beautifully I'm so happy with the end result. The sketch is by pagemaps:




And this is the scraplet I used:



This is my take:

close up of some of the details:

I misted the scraplet with Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst spray (salt water taffy, clam bake beige), and Tattered Angels (creme de rouge):

 

Other supplies:
paper: studio calico (atlantic 6x6 paper pad), prima
sequins: craft medley
twine: american crafts, dmc floss
punch: martha stewart (heart)
flowers: prima (delight)
pearl: dollar store
stitch template: stampin up
journalling card: american crafts (mayberry)

Thank you for stopping by, hope you can play along this month with A2Z scraplets: http://a2zscraplets.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/august-challenge.html

Time2Ride - PCC Magazine Monday Week 63 (layout 266)

Hello and thank you for stopping by. One thing I really missed while I was on holidays was participating in Paper Crafters Corner (PCC) weekly Magazine Monday challenges (I think I missed four while vacationing). So I knew that when I got back I needed to get back into creating because their magazine covers are so inspiring and challenging (like this week's).

Here is this week's inspiration:


This one was quite challenging for me because of the single person with the tears flowing down her face and the sound blasting from her ear. . . so for a couple of days I was definitely stumped. I am so glad that the deadline for magazine Monday has been extended til sunday because I was up until quite late last night working on it since while looking at it yesterday morning, inspiration finally clicked and I came up with a plan, and I'm so happy with the way it turned out.

I was inspired by the black splattered background, the pops of blue and the patterned hat. This is my take:

I splattered the background with Tim Holtz Distress Paint (black soot). The papers are Studio Calico atlantic (6x6 paper pad). I misted the title (fab scraps) with Tattered angels (jazz blue) and perfect pearls mist (turquoise blue). The bicycle i inked with Tim Holtz Distress stain (broken china). The arrows are recollections and the tabs are heidi swapp.

Thank you for stopping by and for your wonderful comments, I hope you can play along this week at PCC magazine Monday: http://papercrafterscorner.com/blog/papercrafting-challenge-magazine-mondays-week-63/#comment-146629

some more enchanted garden layouts (layouts 262-265)

Feed the Ducks - ScrapMuch? August 1 (layout 260-261)

I warned you that I worked all day with Bo Bunny's Enchanted Garden (it doesn't help that I take tons of photos everywhere I go either), but I definitely made a dent in the Enchanted Forest photos (yay me) :)

When I first saw this ScrapMuch? sketch I knew that these photos of my son feeding the ducks with my parents would be the perfect match since I had both vertical and horizontal pictures that fit perfectly. Here is the sketch by Laura Whitaker:


Here is my take:

Supplies used:
papers: bo bunny (enchanted garden: mosaic, pathway, fantasy, romance)
alphas: thickers (rockabye leaf)
washi tape: dollar store
flower: recollection, unknown
die-cut: bo bunny (noteworthy enchanted garden)
chipboard: southern ridge trading co
ink: tim holtz distress stain (mowed lawn)

thank you for stopping by and for your wonderful heartfelt comments, hope you can play along at scrapmuch?: http://nblo.gs/Z2sSk

Peek-a-boo - ScrapMuch? August 8 (layout 259)

I don't normally have my picture taken and even more seldom do I scrap myself but I figured since this sketch came out on my birthday (yes August 8th is my birthday and I am now {wait for it} 34. . .gasp!!!) I had to do a layout of myself.

While on holidays we went to the Enchanted Forest and since it is such a magical place I had to use Bo Bunny's Enchanted Garden collection (seriously loving this collection right now. .. used it all day!!!). Anyways back to ScrapMuch? august 8th sketch by Laura Whitaker:


I altered the sketch by flipping it on it's side but keeping the accents pretty much the same. Here is my take:

Supplies used:
papers: bo bunny (enchanted garden: imagine, mosaic, fantasy)
twine: american craft
flowers: prima (delight)
die-cuts: bo bunny (noteworthy enchanted garden)
washi tape: dollar store
alphas: thickers (rockabye leaf)
ink: tim holtz distress stain (seedless preserves)
chipboard: southern ridge trading co

thank you for stopping by, hope you can play along at scrapmuch?: http://nblo.gs/Z2sSk

make a wish... - sketchy challenge (layout 258)

This month's Canadian Scrapbooker sketchy challenge is by the fabulous Sue Sykes:


I love all the layers with the big title and one photo. Here is my take:

While on holidays we went to the Enchanted Forest (between Sicamous and Revelstoke in British Columbia) and if you have children between 2 and 12 you should definitely bring them there because it is such a wonderful magic place (we went with my parents and even they enjoyed it!!). After we went to the Enchanted Forest i was on the hunt for Bo Bunny's Enchanted Garden because the beautiful whimsical papers just fit so beautifully with the Enchanted Forest so when i saw this sketch I knew I wanted to use one of the photos from that day, mostly because when i saw the splatters I thought of throwing pebbles in the wishing well. I'm so happy with the way this layout turned out.

The journalling reads: after climbing the tree house with pa, Kyle stopped at the wishing well to play in the water. Mommy threw money in the well and made a wish that you will always know how much mommy loves you.

Supplies used:
papers: bo bunny (enchanted garden: mosaic, fantasy, pixies, romance)
alphas: thickers (darling geyser)
washi tape: dollar store
sequins: craft medley
die-cuts: bo bunny (noteworthy enchanted garden)

Thank you for stopping by and for your wonderful comments. Hope you can play along with this month's sketchy challenge: http://canadianscrapbooker.ca/sketchy/showphoto.php?photo=1047&title=august-2014-sketch&cat=539

Hello Love (layout 257)

As soon as I saw this sketch from Stuck?! and colour challenge from Let's Capture Our Memories I immediately thought of the new Bo Bunny Alora supplies i picked up while on holidays. I just loved the sketch and immediately thought of the photos I took of my cousin's daughter while we were on holidays.

The Stuck?! sketch is by Laura Whitaker:


And the colour challenge by LCOM:


Here is my take:

Supplies used:
paper: stampin up (cardstock), bo bunny (alora birdie)
chipboard: bo bunny (alora), bazzill chips (flourish)
flowers: unknown
die-cuts: american crafts (mayberry)
twine: american crafts
stencil: heidi swapp (minis patterns)
sprays: lindys stamp gang starburst (franken lime, clam bake)

Thank you for stopping by and for your wonderful comments.

Hope you can play along at Stuck?!: http://stucksketches.blogspot.ca/2014/08/august-first-challenge-and-reveal.html

And at Let's Capture Our Memories: http://letscaptureourmemories.blogspot.ca/2014/08/august-color-spot-stucksketches-prize.html

Gyrassic Park - August DCWV stack-a-holic challenge (layout 256)

Hooray I am back from holidays and boy did i have fun. unfortunately, everytime I wanted to scrap i went and shopped for more supplies so i came home with a tote full of supplies (hooray).

One of the new things I found was Die Cuts with a View 6x6 The Kidosaurus Stack which goes perfectly since while I was on holidays my mom and I took my son to Gyrassic Park a free family event in my hometown. We took lots of photos that night (as per usual) so when I saw this month's stack-a-holic challenge I knew the perfect pictures since i had three photos of down time at the park while we ate snacks.

This month's sketch is by Diana Fisher:


Here is my take:

Supplies used:
paper: dcwv (cardstock brights 12x12, the kidosaurus stack 6x6)
arrows: recollections
sequins: craft medley
alphas: thickers (rockabye leaft)
circle: bo bunny (chunky charms arrows and circles clover)

thank you for stopping by and hope you can play along this month at DCWV: http://dcwvinc.blogspot.ca/2014/08/august-stack-holic-challenge.html