Wild Ones!

This is a kit I put together for Scrappin' Great Deals.  Perfect for those dinosaur lovers out there!!  Everything you need to complete the above layout, except adhesive, is included in the kit! It will be available soon over at Scrappin' Great Deals, both in store and online!! 

My Sunshine

Good morning everyone!  Looks like we have another heat wave heading our way here in Southwestern Ontario!  I will enjoy today's temperatures while it lasts - hot but not as much humidity!

I have another layout to share today - created with Scrappin' Great Deals July Scrapbooking Kit.  Sadly, it is also the last of the monthly kit program.  Happily we are still creating kits - just in a new direction.  We are making DIVA kits.  Layouts, cards, altered items;  kits with full instructions to create one layout, or a group of cards or even an album.  I will post more details as we get them underway!!

Right now here is:  "MY SUNSHINE"

I had fun playing with a new Ranger stamp set, Dylusions - that is the flowers along the left side, stamped in Tattered Rose Distress ink, hilighted with my Distress Markers.  I used an EK Success border punch on the Authentique patterned paper, and then used a Prima flourish mask to add some dimension to the paper.  The rest of the embellishments are in the kit - the wood butterflies by Maya Road, a lovely little folder by Simple Stories, ZVA roses, pearls, ribbon, twine.  Loving the orange & pink colour combo!

Have a fabulous day!!

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!!

My Favorite Blessings

My three boys taking a break in the shade of the tree, sipping on juice boxes.  Love this picture of them!  The layout was created with the April Scrapbooking Kit from Scrappin' Great Deals.  I even managed some white space, which is a challenge for me!!  I used some stamps from the Unity SMAK kits that come magically to my house every month!

Pop over to the store blog today to see the whole kit and some layouts that Sheila created!

Oh Baby!!

 

A beautiful picture of my sister-in-law Julia holding my Benny just days after he was born.  The layout was put together using the incredible March Scrapbooking Kit from Scrappin Great Deals.  Loving those blues and yellows.  And the MME Bright Side Line "Sawyer" - that is the wood look background paper - Adore it!!  There are several different styles in the new collections and they are flying off the shelves!!!

Nap Time?

I found this picture recently of my son Malcolm, from ages ago.  He is just too cute, can't help but smile at it!  He however informed me that that couldn't have been him! (Oh yes dear, it was!)  Here it is scrapped using Scrappin' Great Deals' March Scrapbooking Kit:

Gorgeous new papers from MME - Miss Caroline collection and BoBunny's new Weekend Market.  A Tim Holtz mask helped with the background and his matching Sizzix die made the chipboard timepiece and is included in the kit.  Yellows and blues - very hot right now!!!

You can head over to the stores blog today to see what the whole kit looks like and check back in here over the next couple of days to see the other layouts I have done!

Be Still My Heart!!

Hey All!!!  I have my third and final layout from Scrappin' Great Deals February Scrapbooking Kit to share with you today!

Here is the kit once again:

 

 and my layout, "Be Still My Heart"

Malcolm and I cuddling on the couch.  I love that he is such a cuddly guy, hope that doesn't change for a very VERY long time!!!  Love the layers of paper, punched with a Martha Stewart doily border punch.  I have seen it done on various blogs, and thought I 'd give it a try.  Quite happy with the result!! 

Make sure you pop over to Scrappin' Great Deals' blog today.  You may have heard that BoBunny is coming to the store!!!  Well, you heard right!! All the way from Utah, JoAnn, BoBunny designer, has a weekend full of classes for us, on February 18 & 19.  We finally have some pictures of the projects we will be making!!  Head over to the blog to have a peek!!!

Have a fantastic day!!

Love My Sooss!!

Wow, does my little guy love his sooss (our soother terminology!!)  So many pictures, so many soothers!!  This is my second layout using Scrappin' Great Deals' February Scrapbooking Kit.  Love the MME paper!  I added a heart to the paper using a Crafter's Workshop template, a ranger foam tool and weathered wood distress ink.  I also used some Glitz stickers, Lily Bee Paper, and Jillibean Soup Heart Pins - All of course included in the kit!!! 

Enjoy your weekend!!! 

Heartfelt Sentiments!!

Happy February Everyone!!!  Although outside it feels more like the end of March, crazy winter we are having here in SW Ontario!!! Today I am sharing Scrappin' Great Deals February Scrapbooking Kit, its theme "Heartfelt Sentiments"!!  It will be available for sale later today or tomorrow.

Full of designer paper by Lily Bee, Basic Grey, Kaiser and MME, with a ton of co-ordinating embellishments!!!  Love is in the air, in the shades of pink & turquoise!!! 

Here is one of the three layouts I made with this kit, a wedding picture of my valentine, my hubby: (side note: wow does he look young! It was 9 years ago!!)

Lots of fussy cutting, distressing, embosssing, stencilling.., my usual!!  I don't know that I have ever used grey in a layout before, but it certainly looks nice with the turquoise of the Kaiser & Lily Bee papers!! 

So there you are, I'll share more over the next couple of days! 

Snow Peeps

What a winter wonderland out there!! So much snow has fallen in London and area over the last 24 hrs and it is still falling!! I have a layout from Scrappin' Great Deals January Scrapbooking kit to share with you today. Appropriately it is titled "Snow Peeps"

I used some lovely paper from Fancy Pants and Echo Park, lace from Maya Road, some die cut snowflakes, the white pearls were coloured orange with Copics, as was the Fancy Pants alpha. I love the pink colour they are originally, but it just didn't go with the picture! A close up:


I used a fabulous new snowflake border punch from EK Success, and I covered the blue flakes with rock candy stickles and the alphas have Glass Effects on top to pop them up a bit.

Hope you all enjoy your snow day today, as much as these three kids did last week!!

'Tis the Start of the Season!!

Welcome December!  The most wonderful time of the year!!  Today is the release of Scrappin' Great Deals December Kits, and I have the Scrapbooking Kit to share with you today!  It's theme: An Enchanted Christmas!!

(Full details about this magical kit and the kit clubs can be found here!)

I blogged earlier about using the kit to create my very first December Daily Album. Today I have a little snippet to show you of the first page of it:

Love this cute little guy popping out of a box!!! He is another fabulous Mo Manning Image by Stamping Bella! I coloured him with my pencil crayons and mineral spirits.  The number one is chipboard coloured with a fabulous new colour of Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze - Chianti!!  Add a little Tsukineko champagne metallic ink to the edges and it is perfection!! The holly is cut from a Tim Holtz mover & shaker die - Tree & Holly, and has also been treated to a little champagne!!  

I will show you the whole page after I add the pictures I took this morning of my two boys opening their Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar.  (I might be missing the Christmas connection there?? When did Star Wars = Christmas???) Ah well, they were both happy!  And that is part of the Christmas spirit at least! 

Enjoy your day!

December Daily Albums

Good morning everyone!! It is non stop rain here in Southwestern Ontario! I can't believe how much it has rained since last night! It is a great day to cuddle in and do some blog hopping! I did some of that last week and what I found reminded me of a project that I had planned to start ages ago. (Ages being years!) Have you heard of a December Daily Album?? I was on the Fancy Pants blog last week and the design team were showcasing their takes on it. (You can read it here.)

Basically a December Daily Album is a journal, notebook, or album that you prepare prior to December 1, leaving spaces for pictures, journalling, letters to Santa, etc., that you add during the month of December giving you a complete documentation of the holiday season! The theory being you are less busy in October/November so you do the bulk of the work before the craziness of the holidays begin!

This is my year to start this tradition that if all goes according to plan, I will continue for many years to come!! I decided to take Scrappin' Great Deals' December's Scrapbooking Kit and make my first December Daily Album!! Here is a glimpse at the kit that will be released later this week:


On Saturday at Scrappin' Great Deals' all day crop I was able to get my album pages cut out, the front and back cover are chipboard covered in patterned paper, and then I used the Cinch to cut the holes in preparation for it to be bound. I then started working on the front cover:


Needless to say I am still working on the rest!! I have two more days until December 1st!! It will be a busy couple of nights I have to admit. I hope you come back in December when I will start showing the interior!!

Have a fantastic day!!

The Pumpkin Patch

This is my latest layout created using the November Scrapbooking Kit from Scrappin' Great Deals!  Our Trip to the Pumpkin Patch!!  My son Malcolm, my nephew Alex & I had a fantastic day at that farm petting animals, playing games and searching for the perfect pumpkin.  These pictures were way back from 2007, the boys look so young! 

A couple of close ups, (double layouts are so hard for me to photograph!)

I sure got a work out pulling two sleds full of pumpkins & three year olds!! It sure was a great day.  Really happy that I scrapped the pictures finally and remembered all the fun we had!

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! :)

Me & You Together

Welcome to November!!  I hope you had a fantastic Halloween and that it didn't rain too much on your trick or treaters!!

Scrappin' Great Deals is releasing their November Scrapbooking Kits today and here is the kit, with its theme Autumn Journeys:

Love all the bold colours and the mix of warm and cool tones.  Lots of paper in this kit, as always!!  And a ton of embellishments too!

Here is one of my layouts, titled "Me & You Together":

It uses some of the SEI paper that is in the kit along with Bazzill cardstock.  I used one of my new Spellbinders, Orchard Harvest, to create the maple leaves in the upper corner.  Included in the kit is a solid brass maple leaf made by Vintaj, a brand new product in the store. It is called a "blank" because it is meant to be embossed!!  That is right!!  I embossed it to create the lovely little veins that you see!!!  How awesome is that!  A little close up of it:

I used the cricut cartridge "Graphically Speaking" to cut out the title using cardstock.  I then used my Cowboy Glimmer Glaze (by Tattered Angels) on the brown cardstock to give it some texture & depth; love how it now looks metallic!

I will show you another double page layout that I also made with the kit in the next day or so (as soon as I finish it up!!  In the mean time you can pop over to the store's blog to see my layout titled "Natural Beauty", I gave you a sneak peak of it yesterday!! 

Thanks for stopping by!!

Goodfellas!!

Here are a scary pair!  My oldest two nephews dressed up at a booth at the CNE a few years ago.  I love the pictures but good thing I knew it was just an act!  They played their parts very well, perhaps a little TOO well!

This is my last layout using the October Scrapbooking Kit from Scrappin' Great Deals.   I used the Graphic 45 papers and the 7 Gypsies for the background and then cut out a bunch of paper embellishments from some Echo Park and Pink Paislee paper.  I really do love combining different manufacturers on one page. Such a challenge to make sure the colours match!!

You can pop over to the store blog - here - for more details on this page!!!  Thanks for popping in and have a great day!

Boo!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Here is Layout Number Two, made from Scrappin' Great Deals October Scrapbooking Kit, Titled Boo:

 

 

I created my own little pumpkin patch using my Cricut and last years special edition Halloween cartridge.  I LOVE those pumpkins!!  I brushed on some black soot distress ink around the edges, then I covered them with Rock Candy Crackle Paint to give them some interesting texture.  I did the same with the title BOO, which is included in the kit and cut out of a new Tim Holtz Sizzix die.  

I love my little tiger and dinosaur!!  This year it is going to be a monster and Captain Jack Sparrow!! 

Well, I have one more layout to show, and will have it for you on Tuesday!!!  Thanks for popping by and Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Not Spooky Enough?

Good day everyone!!  Tuesday, October 11th is the release day for Scrappin' Great Deals October Scrapbooking Kit!!  Sorry to keep you waiting this month, but hopefully you will agree it has been worth it!!

Here is the "Oh so spooky" kit, it's theme "Halloween, of course!":

It is stuffed full of designer paper from Echo Park, Pink Paislee, Graphic 45, 7 Gypsies and Bo-bunny; co-ordinating Bazzill cardstock; a ton of embellishments, alphas & stickers from Pink Paislee, Tim Holtz, Prima, Autumn Leaves, Authentique, Want 2 Scrap, and Canvas Corp.!!!  Love those bright greens and oranges mixed with the black!!

Sheila took a break this month, but I have 3 layouts to share with you over the next few days!!!  I LOVE Halloween!!

Layout One: Not Spooky Enough?

 I loved the collaged look of one of the papers included in the kit but found it a bit too bold for my layout so I used my new Picket Fence Distress Stain to cover it entirely.  This stain is semi-transparent so it allows the patterns to be seen while it tones down the colour.  Here is a picture of the paper prior to staining it:

I was very impressed with how it looked after covering it up, it suited my layout much better!!!  After the stain dried (very quickly I must add), I splashed on some drops of glimmer mist - Black Magic and Autumn Harvest; distressed edges and tore paper; these little clothes pins are cute little embellishments - a close up:

The pins were white and too bright so I covered them in Spiced Marmalade & Black Soot Distress Ink; I punched out some pumpkins using my EK Success border punch; the clear buttons were coloured green using an alcohol based marker (not Copics, gasp!); Firefly Stickles covered some punched cardstock circles; basically a lot of layers, distressing!! 

Here are a couple of  peaks of my other two layouts that I will show over the weekend:

Just to keep you coming back of course!! More details on the techniques I used will be posted on the store blog  over the next couple of weeks, so make sure you check in there every once in a while!!  You can also pop over to the store's website for a complete description of the kit and the kit club membership - click here!!  Thanks for looking and have a great day in this sunshine!!!

How about a little sneak peak??

Well with all the excitement of National Card Making Day, and the launch of Scrappin' Great Deals new and improved website - the release of the October Kits is going to be a little delayed!!  However, I do have a little sneaky peak of the Scrapbooking kit:

And just to get you in the mood for Halloween, here is a layout that I made from LAST years October kit, that I was fortunate to have published in the Fall 2011 issue of Canadian Scrapbooker - titled SPOOKY:

Have a great day!!

Prima, Glitz & Crate Paper

That's some of the content of Scrappin' Great Deals September Scrapbooking Kit!!!  I was up WAY past my bedtime last night getting it put together, and let me say "It is STUNNING!!"  Can't wait to show you a sneak peak of all the scrappy goodness, creams, browns & greens!!  Now to get assembling!! 

Have a fantastic day!