Happy Valentine's Day Card

I am very happy to share with you this beautiful card I made for my parents for Valentine's Day:

I was inspired by Papercrafter's Corner Magazine monday Week 85 with the torn heart and multi-blue background:

I was also inspired by the following sketch from Cardabilities:

To create the background, I took a piece of DCWV white cardstock embossed paper and painted tim holtz distress stain (broken china) into one corner, tim holtz distress paint (salty ocean) into another corner and tim holtz distress paint (chipped sapphire) into another corner. Once it dried I misted lindy's stamp gang (tibetan poppy teal) over it.

Other supplies:

paper: authentique (crush 6x6 pad)

other: we r memory keepers (sew easy board), ranger (glossy accents), forever in time (sequins), dmc floss, stampin' up (tiny sentiment stamps), tim holtz distress pad (picked raspberry)

Thank you for stopping by, and for your wonderful comments I truly appreciate them :)

Hope you can play along with PCC Magazine monday (you have until tomorrow to submit your entries): http://papercrafterscorner.com/blog/papercrafting-challenge-magazine-mondays-week-85/

And Cardabilities: http://cardabilities.blogspot.co.uk/

Hello - Let's Get Sketchy Week 4 (26/365)

Next up is another layout i created based on week 4's Lets Get Sketchy:


Here is my take (I promise this layout was inspired by the above layout, the whole time kyle was in the bounce house he would just jump round in circles so i thought the template was perfect):

Supplies used:
paper: echo park (summer bliss: birdie bliss, summer stripes), pebbles (family ties: mother), studio calico (atlantic 6x6)
title: recollections
other: simple stories (say cheese: bingo cards), studio calico (dots), tim holtz distress paint (squeezed lemonade), jillibean soup (kraft circle template), stars (dollar store), amy tangerine (buttons)

Thank you for stopping by, hope you can play along this month with let's get sketchy: http://nblo.gs/12Mho1

1st hot dog - Let's get sketchy Week 3 (25/365)

After a crazy busy week (terrible internet, sick son) I am back to share with you a layout i created using Let's Get Sketchy Week 3 sketch:


Here is my take

Supplies used:
paper: basic grey (blitzen: mistletoe), recollection (monkeying around), imaginisce (apple cider)
ink: tim holtz distress stain (peeled paint), tim holtz distress pad (forest moss)
alphas: thickers (rockabye: leaf)
other: doodlebug design (chunky brads), jillibean soup (social soup: die cut pieces), basic grey (blitzen: tags), k&company (lion sleeps border), my mind's eye (boy crazy: washi tape), stickers (unknown)

Thank you for stopping by and for your wonderful comments, hope you can play along this month at Lets Get Sketchy: http://nblo.gs/12Mho1

Bike Wash - ScrapMuch? DT reveal (24/365)

Hello its friday and that means another fabulous reveal from ScrapMuch?


Here is my take, i stayed pretty close to the sketch:

Supplies used:
paper: my mind's eye (boy crazy)
silhouette
we r memory keepers envelope maker
ink: lindy's stamp gang starburst (tibetan poppy teal, whale watch blue), tim holtz distress pad (peacock blue), tim holtz distress stain (mustard seed)
other: heidi swapp (ephemera color magic), carta bella (boys rule: ephemera), jillibean soup (spicy social soup: ephemera), recollections (enamel dots, tags), my mind's eye (boy crazy: washi tape), ospray (ribbon)

thank you for stopping by, hope you can play along this month for a chance of a fabulous prize!!!! http://nblo.gs/12TiWQ

Granny's 1st selfie - FWAB January Challenge (23/365)

Final layout of the night is one I created for Flourish with a bling's january sketch challenge:


My take:

Supplies used:
paper: DCWV (coral & navy stack)
washi: dollar store
flowers: prima (annalee), petaloo (color me crazy: gypsies)
alphas: hopscotch (bubblegum), recollections
inks: tim holtz distress ink (picked raspberry), tim holtz distress paint (spun sugar), lindy's stamp gang starburst (salt water taffy, pretty in pink pink)
flourish with a bling: kate's corner silver rhinestone, pearl - copper

Hope you can play along with Flourish with A Bling this month: http://www.flourishwithabling.com.au/blog/january-2015-sketch-challenge/

live your own fairy tale (21-22/365)

happy: joy - Sketch-n-time (20/365)

Next up is a layout i created for sketch-n-time's twistback thursday:


My new is the flourish which i got this past christmas, the old is the title (jillibean soup: wise words happy) and the butterfly (prima: resistant canvas):

Other supplies:
paper: american craft (cardstock), recollection (patterned paper)
flower: prima (olivia)
inks: tim holtz distress pad (frayed burlap, tattered rose), tim holtz distress stain (picked raspberry)

Thank you for stopping by, hope you can play along this month with sketch-n-scrap: http://www.bloglovin.com/frame?post=4044431513&group=0&frame_type=a&context=expanded_post&context_ids=&blog=5195193&frame=1&click=0&user=0

Scavenger Hunt - Sketches4all (19/365)

Next layout to share is one i created for sketches4all january design team challenge:


Here is my take:

Supplies used:

paper: stampin up (cardstock), bo bunny (camp-a-lot 6x6 pad)

ink: tim holtz distress paint (vintage photo), tim holtz distress pad (frayed burlap), tattered angels (pinecone)

alphas: studio calico

other: washi tape (dollar store), fancy pants (happy go lucky: patterned frames), forever in time (sequins, flourish, flowers)

Thank you for stopping by, hope you can play along this month at sketches4all: http://sketchesforyou.ning.com/forum/topics/sketches4all-january-2015-design-team-challenge?commentId=4597096%3AComment%3A414408

Love hugs and kisses be mine forever and ever (18/365)

Next layout is one I created for Let's Capture Our Memories:


I was inspired by the hearts and negative space from PaperCrafting Magazine Monday Week #84:


Here is my take, I made hearts instead of circles:

Supplies used:
paper: colorbok (cardstock), authentique (crush 6x6 pad)
paint: tim holtz distress paint (festive berries)
other: studio calico (dots), authentique (crush: components), stampin up (piercing), sew easy (piercing mat), embellie (recollection)

Thank you for stopping by, hope you can play along this month at Let's Capture Our Memories: http://letscaptureourmemories.blogspot.ca/2015/01/lcom-sketch-107-reveal.html

you have until Sunday to get your entries in for Magazine Monday: http://papercrafterscorner.com/blog/papercrafting-challenge-magazine-mondays-week-84/

Play Time - Picture This January 15 (17/365)

Second layout I am sharing with you tonight is a layout I created for Picture This! January 15th challenge which was to use black & white, lace and 3 photos. I created a layout based on a page maps sketch:

Supplies used:
paper: colorbok (cardstock), bo bunny (lemonade stand: sidewalk), studio calico (atlantic 6x6 pad)
ink: dylusions (white linen)
washi; dollar store
alphas: doodlebug design inc (shin-dig: lily white)
other: dmc (floss), jenni bowlin (mini bingo card black), we r memory keepers (piercing mat), flower (recollection), bling (forever in time), stampin up (piercing tool)

Thank you for stopping by and for your wonderful comments, hope you have a great day and can play along at Picture This!: http://picturethischallenges.blogspot.ca/2015/01/jan-15th-picture-this.html

Love the Moment - Stuck?! January 15 (16/365)

Ok so after a crazy busy weekend I am back to share some layouts that I have been working on. The first layout is one i created for Stuck?! Sketches January 15:


Here is my take, I scrapped a picture of my cousin with his son and his girlfriend (now his wife) at our family reunion back in 2012 (and here i thought i scrapped all of 2012 and then i found an envelope full of pictures from 2012):

Supplies used:

papers: dcwv (cardstock), teresa collins (memorabilia 6x6 pad)

flowers: kaisercraft, dollar store

ink: tattered angels (patina)

other: basic grey (take note), authentique (crush: components), pearls (unknown), geotype (geomini transfer lettering)

adhesives: 3l, glossy accents, heidi swapp

Thank you for stopping by and hope you can play along this month with stuck?!: http://stucksketches.blogspot.ca/2015/01/a-feature-and-reminder.html

letter from santa (15/365)

Merry Christmas - Let's Get Sketchy January Week 2 (14/365)

So all week I have been battling with a cold and although i no longer feel as though i could be an extra on walking dead without going to make-up first, i don't feel comfortable taking my son to playgroup in case we infect someone else. So instead we have been having crafting days in the morning, so while I scrapbook, my son plays playdough or like this morning coloured stickers and then put them in his book :) So while he was stickering, I was able to get some playtime in and created a layout based on this sketch for Let's Get Sketchy January week 2:

Here is my take, I flipped it and added some tags, instead of flowers I used snowflakes:

Supplies used:

paper: DCWV (candy cane lane stack)

inks: tim holtz distress pad (black soot), lindy's stamp gang starburst (glory of the seas gold), smooch (snickerdoodle)

snowflakes: recollections (stickers), a2z scraplets (chipboard)

other: american craft (twine), martha stewart (fine glitter)

Thank you for stopping by and for your kind comments, hope you can play along this month at Let's Get Sketchy: http://nblo.gs/12DiZn

i love you - DCWV January stack-a-holic challenge (13/365)

My next layout to share today is one I created for Die Cuts With a View (DCWV) January stack-a-holic challenge. Here is this month's sketch:


Here is my take using the coral & navy stack:

Supplies used:

paper: dcwv (coral & navy stack)

punch: ek success, we r memory keepers (envelope punch board)
inks: tim holtz distress pads (frayed burlap, picked raspberry)
other: liquid pearls (baby blue), we r memory keepers (sew easy script template, sew easy piercing mat), doodlebug design (welcome home brads)

Hope you can play along this month: http://dcwvinc.blogspot.ca/2015/01/1st-stack-holic-challege-for-2015.html

Pixels and Paper Challenge January Guest Designer (layout 11-12/365)

A couple of weeks ago, I got a very exciting email asking me to be a guest designer for January's Pixels and Paper challenge. I jumped at the opportunity and was asked to create a project based on this photo as inspiration:

I loved this photo so much that I was actually inspired and created two separate layouts.

The first layout is: beach toes. I created the sunburst, clouds and title with my new silhouette. To create the sunshine I twisted american craft twine around a piece of therm-o-web icraft dots 2". I added a bit of paint behind the clouds to add some dimensions and added glitter glue to the sunburst.I also painted the "sand" paper with folk art gold glitter paint. Other supplies: sticko (stickers), paper (karen foster). I am also submitting this layout for Picture This January Challenge: 1 photo, sunburst, paint:

My second layout I created: sunshine: catching waves. I love this photo so much, it was taken last summer during our family camping trip in the shuswap. I created the background using blue, white and gold gelatos, water and a paintbrush. While it was drying I cut the background using my silhouette. I then took out all of the pieces of papers and used studio calico (atlantic 6x6 paper pad) for the beach supplies. Other supplies: imaginisce (endless summer die cuts), we r memory keeper (enamel shapes: warm), tpc studio (just beachy).

Thank you for stopping by, hope you can play along this month with pixels and paper challenge: http://pixelsandpaperchallengeblog.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/hello-to-our-january-guest-designer.html

To play along with picture this!: http://picturethischallenges.blogspot.ca/2015/01/jan-1st-picture-this.html

Just be You - Scrap Much? January 9th DT reveal (10/365)

Good morning, how is the weather in your neck of the woods?? Here it is freezing!!! Last weekend the weather network said we would get relief Tuesday and here it is Friday and now we aren't supposto get warmer until monday. . .so we are still sitting at -40 with the wind chill. Hopefully it is better at your house!!!!

This week we have this fun sketch form the fabulous Laura Whitaker!!!

 Here is my take:

this past summer my aunt from the north west territories came for a visit while I was visiting my mom on Vancouver Island so we went over to my mom's best friend's house to take a dip in her pool :)

A couple of close ups:

Supplies used:
papers: DCWV (coral & navy stack)
inks: tim holtz distress stain (seedless preserves, broken china), distress paint (victorian velvet), lindy's stamp gang starburst (cranberry mist burgundy, whale watch blue), liquid pearls (lavender lace)
other: washi tape (dollar store), stampin up (paper piercing), martha stewart (ultra fine glitter: rose quartz), teresa collins (daily stories: wood pieces), we r memory keepers (enamel shapes: cool), authentique (diction stickers), recollections (arrows), heidi swapp (september skies: wood veneer), sizzix (framelits: labels), dmc floss, a2z scraplets (chipboard title)

Thank you for stopping by and for your wonderful comments. Hope you can play along this month: http://nblo.gs/12zzhQ

more halloween layouts (8&9/365)

here are two more layouts tonight (sorry for all the entries at once, i finally had a nice day to take photos):

Eeek - scrap our stash january challenge (7/365)

my next layout for you tonight is one I created for Scrap Our Stash January's challenge. This month you had to create a layout that had products that spelled TWINE:


Here is my layout (based on a sketch by Lisa Hidy):

T (two photos)

W (washi tape)

I (ink)

N (number [in date], new papers)

E (eeek, enamel dot)

Supplies used:

papers: american craft (cardstock), doodlebug design (ghouls & goodies: spooky sprinkles, sweet treats)
ink: tim holtz distress pad (black soot)
embellies: washi tape (dollar store), k&company (halloween glitter die cut, haunted word grand adhesions, halloween icon), recollection (enamel dots, rosette)

Thank you for stopping by and for your wonderful comments, hope you can play along this month with scrap our stash: http://scrapourstash.blogspot.ca/2015/01/happy-new-year-and-new-stash-challenge.html

Candy Haul - sketch n scrap #72 (6/365)

Next layout up is another fun halloween layout I created based on sketch n scrap's #72:


I made it my own as I absolutely love this sketch but only wanted to use one photo (my absolute favorite from all the pictures we took halloween) so instead of the three photos at the bottom i substituted stickers:

Supplies used:
paper: stampin up (cardstock), doodlebug design (ghouls & goodies: spooky sprinkles, sweeet treats, wacky waves)
inks: lindy's stampgang starburst (midnight rendezvous raven), tim holtz distress pad (seedless preserve), liquid pearls (lavender lace)
alphas: recollections
embellies: bella blvd (trick or treat: paper pieces), k&company (haunted word, spooktacular stickers, halloween icons), jolee's (pumpkin sticker), studio calico (dots)

Thank you for stopping by and for your wonderful comments, hope you can play along this month at sketch n scrap: http://www.bloglovin.com/frame?post=4018093977&group=0&frame_type=a&context=&context_ids=&blog=5195193&frame=1&click=0&user=0

Trick or Treat - Let's Get Sketchy January Week 1 (5/365)

My next entry tonight is a layout I created for week 1 Let's Get Sketchy:


I really liked this sketch and made it my own:

Supplies used:
papers used: stampin up (cardstock), doodlebug design (ghouls & goblins: sweet treats, spooky sprinkles)
embellies: k&company (halloween glitter die-cut, spooktacular candy layered accents), recollection (bling roll), bella blvd (trick or treat: paper pieces), studio calico (enamel dots)
ink: lindy's stamp gang starburst (midnight rendezvous raven)

Thank you for stopping by and for your wonderful comments, hope you can find the time this month to play along with let's get sketchy: http://nblo.gs/12tDO0

Spooky - Canadian Scrapbooker January Sketchy Challenge (4/365)

Second entry tonight is my take on January's Canadian Scrapbooker Sketchy Challenge. It is based on this wonderful sketch by Sue Sykes:


Here is my take:

Supplies used:
paper: stampin up (cardstock), bella blvd (halloween magic: funny bones, pumpkin parade)
embellies: bella blvd (trick or treat: paper pieces), jolee's boutique (glitter pumpkins), sequins (forever in time), k&company (halloween icon die-cut)
mist: lindy's stampgang starburst (midnight rendezvous raven), tim holtz distress stain (spiced marmalade)
glossy accents 

Thank you for stopping by, and for your wonderful comments, hope you can play along this month at Canadian Scrapbooker:http://canadianscrapbooker.ca/sketchy/showphoto.php?photo=1178&title=jan-2015-sketch&cat=545