Cari Fennel Workshops at SGDs!!

Have you heard that Cari Fennell, Prima Educator is coming to teach several workshops at Scrappin' Great Deals, the weekend of September 19 & 20th!! We can't wait!!

Above are 3 of the 6 cards that you will make should you be taking the Friday night workshop! There are only a few spots left for this particular workshop so if you are interested, please register online by following this link!! (REGISTER here) These cards use the new Coffee Break Collection by Prima!! 

There are other workshops to choose from this weekend as well: 

Family Double Page Layout

Christmas Card Class 

 

Mixed Media Canvas

 

 

We hope you can join us for part of the weekend if not for all!!  Door prizes, treats and amazing classes!!

A Wedding Card

The image is a Crafter's Companion Popcorn Bear, coloured with Derwent Studio Pencils, the patterned paper is The Paper Loft - Shades of Grey (featured on their blog today and shows the paper I used!).  The ribbon and flowers are from Prima, and the sentiment on the inside comes with the Bear stamp.

Have a fantastic weekend!!

Ruffled Tissue Paper!!

I am really loving the new line Neapolitan by American Crafts!  Lots of springy colours, pinks, yellows, oranges.  There is also some fantastic paper that has strips of ruffled tissue paper!  LOVE it.  I used it on this layout: (Excuse the photo - not quite enough light!)

The colours completely matched those used at my cheeky niece's 4th birthday party last year! I matched up the American Crafts paper with some of the Victoria Park line from Lily Bee.  It has been awhile since I did a double page spread, I need to do it more often!! 

Looking forward to this year's party Anna!  Hope it is as fun as last years!!  xo

Love Wish Dream

This is a little 6 x 6 mixed media canvas, that I made for a class I taught last March at Scrappin' Great Deals.  Mix up some Prima paper and masks, along with some Tim Holtz inks, stamps, stains and tissue paper, add in a Unity Stamp, and you get a vibrant piece of inspiration for your studio!

Oh So Lovely Ladies!

It's that time of the month again!!  Scrappin' Great Deals' May Scrapbooking Kit will be released this week.  Sheila and I played with the kits during our weekend retreat at Woodeden a few weeks ago.

Here is the kit, it's theme: "Colours of the Rainbow":

Here is my first layout to share:

Oh So Lovely Ladies!

I layered the background with Basic Grey, White Cardstock and lastly American Crafts Vellum.  Some Prima flowers, Pebbles Candy Dots, a Prima Art Tile, American Crafts Fabric Brad, lots of layers!!  The American Crafts Thickers included in the kit are white foam, and I coloured them with Peridot Mixed Media Ink.  The pink floral burst border is punched from an EK Success punch and is included in the kit.  The white scroll border, is also an EK Success punch,(not included in kit).

Another note: Remember that it is NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING DAY on Saturday, May 5, 2012!! 

COME CELEBRATE

WITH SCRAPPIN' GREAT DEALS!!!

SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2012

FROM 10am until 1pm

We are having one of our famous

FREE CUSTOMER EVENTS!!

MAKE 'N TAKES ~ RAFFLES ~ DOOR PRIZES ~ TREATS

THIS IS A  EVENT!

PLEASE CONSIDER BRINGING A TOONIE TO HELP SUPPORT BREAST CANCER RESEARCH!

I hope you all can make it!! It will be a truly outstanding day!!

Moments in Time

Today I have a project up today on the Scrappin' Great Deals Blog.  It is a layout I completed on the weekend at the retreat, titled "Moments in Time".  Here is a glimpse of it, and you can pop over to the blog to see the whole thing!!

Happy Crafting!!

Two Layouts to Share!

ENJOY THE JOURNEY

This layout was from Scrappin' Great Deal's March Scrapbook Kit.  I shared it over on the store's blog last month but thought it deserved a spot here too!!  Love that picture of Malcolm, and I really wanted to remember him saying "My energy hurts!"  Two year olds have the best lines!!

STOP AND SMELL THE FLOWERS 

Pictures of my Benny smelling the tulips.  The pictures were totally staged, he was smelling them, but then I had to go grab the camera and get him to do it again! This layout used April's kit at Scrappin' Great Deals.  A couple of the kits are still available in the store, they aren't posted online yet.

Have a great day!!

Believe in the Magic!!

I used a Tim Holtz District Market Burlap Panel - Memoirs, as a foundation for this canvas to display a picture of my kids with Santa!  The picture is held on with a memo pin, so you can change it every year!!

Tim Holtz Products used:

Memoirs Burlap Panel
Tattered Pine Cone Sizzix Bigz Die
Kraft Glassine Paper
Alcohol Inks: Oregano, Mushroom, Bottle
Winter Sketchbook Stamp Set
Limited Edition Winter Distress Ink Set
Limited Edition Fall Distress Ink Set
Core-dinations Cardstock
Christmas Memories Kraft Resist Paper
Kraft Resist Chipboard Alpha
Picket Fence Distress Stain
Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint
Memo Pin
Other Products:

Prima Alphabet Stickers
Maya Road White Transparent Snowflakes
Maya Road Wood Snowflakes
Platinum Stickles
Kaiser Craft Paper Flowers
Encore Champagne Metallic Ink
Spellbinders Holly & Ornament Die
Bazzill Chipboard Flourishes

You can pop over to Scrappin' Great Deals' blog for some more details and close up pictures!!!  Happy Holidays!!

Natural Beauty

I simply can't stop looking at this layout!!  Actually at one of the pictures I used in the layout, how stunning is she? A forest princess, pixie, fairy child - you name it, she is it!

 

I don't think I could have gone wrong with this picture as the focus of my page.  In fact I probably could have just put it on a plain piece of cardstock and said "Done."  But of course I didn't and created this:

Love the blues and oranges together, that brown lace from May Arts- WOW, petaloo flowers, prima resin birdhouse, specks of glimmer glaze popped around, die cut leaves to mimic her crown, love love love! :)

My first Tutorial!!

Well it isn't a video but it is step by step photos on creating my latest layout!  Check out Scrappin' Great Deals blog today and check it out!!  See how these:

 

All combined to make this: 

 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!!!

Vintage Romance!!

Good morning everyone!!  I hope you checked out Scrappin' Great Deals blog yesterday!  I am so thrilled to be a part of such an amazing team of designers and working with Andrea is always a joy!!!For today I have the reveal of SGD's September's Scrapbooking Kit - it will be available later today for purchase!! 

Here is the kit: this month's theme is Vintage Romance!!

The Printery line from Prima, Portrait by Crate Paper and Love Games by Glitz!!! Embellishments from 7 Gypsies, Prima, Glitz, Fancy Pancy, Tim Holtz, MME!!  Co-ordinating Bazzill cardstock, tattered florals and flourishes, butterflies......Lovely.

I have one layout to show you today.  I was inspired by this kit to make a layout using my Grandparents wedding picture.

I will have a full tutorial on how I created this layout next week, so make sure you check back in on Tuesday!! There is 6 hours of work on this one!!  It seemed to take forever, Sheila kept telling me to glue it down for goodness sake!!

Thanks for looking and have a fantastic Labour Day weekend!