August Kit Reveal

It's August already!! Where is the summer going?? Here is the latest scrapbooking kit released by Scrappin' Great Deals!!

Lots of oranges, browns and turquoises, and a splash of yellow! Very pretty and definitely not my usual palette!! This was a challenging kit for me...which is good! It gets your creative juices flowing! So here is what I came up with. Two layouts so far, my third is still a work in progress (I have been working a LOT lateley!!)

First layout, my niece was here this summer and how she has grown! She will be 10 this year and she is so beautiful, always has been, so my layout: "then & now, Beauty"
I played with some Turquoise Glimmer Mist, lots of flourishes stamped with Dark Brown Chalk Ink, I used a Tim Holtz Sizzix Die to cut out some more flourishes, the kit came with the large flower and some orange flowers, and I added a few more plus some Prima pearls.
Close up of the layers in the title:
I used a Spellbinders nestie (labels 10) to cut out the title card from the scrap vellum I used to cover the floor where I sprayed the glimmer mist.

Here is my second layout, a picture of my Grandma with 6 of her Great-Grandkids! I love the sepia tones in this "Family is Forever" layout:

I used a Kaiser clear stamp set from their Peachy Keen line and some Versamark Dazzle ink on the brown cardstock to create the watermark (hard to see in the picture...much better in real life!) then I used Creamy Brown Chalk Ink to go over the watermark to create my own patterned paper. I used my Scor-Pal to add some texture to the cardstock and patterned paper. Another Tim Holtz Sizzix die cut out the bird cage, and I cut out the coloured birds/leaves from the patterned paper included in the kit. I used a cricut cartridge to cut out the title. Lots of inking and distressing...that's what I like!

Close up of the stamping:
The kit will be ready in the store after the holiday on August 3! Pick it up while you can...they go really fast!! Be sure to check out Sarah's blog and April's to see what they came up with as well!

Happy Civic Holiday!

Beauty

Another sneak peak.....this is a glimpse of one of the layouts I did with the soon to be released August Scrapbooking Kit from Scrappin' Great Deals!


I can do girlie!! Lots of flourishes and flowers for this layout!!

Time for a Sneak Peak!

It's that time again! Where has July gone??? Here is a sneak peak at Scrappin' Great Deal's August Scrapbooking Kit. Once again, Sarah, April and I have had the pleasure of designing with this kit! Can't wait to show you what I am doing!! One layout is done, and two more are in the works. Have a spectacular day!

Everybody Loves Marineland!

The belugas! For a mere $8.50 you can touch and feed a Beluga Whale. Those whales are really well fed!

One friendly Orca who made sure everyone within a 50' radius of his tank got soaking wet. Man can he splash his tail!!

Waiting patiently for their turn, well Malcolm at least...Ben will have to wait a couple more years!

After looking at the pictures ...we realized we dressed our kids the same. I dressed Ben and his dad put out clothes for Malcolm. Guess we all love orange & blue!

Petting some deer:
All in all in was a great day. Completely surpassed our expectations! Malcolm rode a lot of the rides, even the Dragon Mountain Roller Coaster. Good thing Dad has the stomach to go with him!! The Sky Screamer was off limits though, at least for this year!!

My Grandma

My Grandma celebrated her 90th birthday at the beginning of this year. Here she is with 6 out of her 8, Great-Grandkids. My brother and his family are visiting from Winnipeg, and we haven't had a group picture like this since my wedding almost 7 years ago(and 3 of these kids weren't born yet!!!). So it is about time we got a picture!!!

I LOVE my boys......My July Scrapbooking Kit Project

So I did something a little different this month with Scrappin' Great Deals July Scrapbooking Kit. I made a word album to showcase two of the most important people in my life....my boys. This kit totally screamed BOYS to me, and the colour palette is one I often use. I love the navy, browns, and greens, toss in some orange and I was in heaven. I LOVE the Dude line by Paper Loft, as well as Basic Grey's Max & Whisker, and the Prima colours fit right in too! The accessories were a perfect match too, Maya Road chipboard gears, diecut gears, Tim Holtz tickets, buttons, twine.....Did I mention I just LOVED this kit....THANKS Sheila!!!
So here is my album, (It's very picture heavy :) !!)
I had to create my own word album, using chipboard. I printed out the letters on my computer, traced onto the chipboard and cut them out, sanded all the edges, and then attached the paper to both sides using Scor-Tape. All the edges, (and my fingers) then got inked up using Java Chalk Ink.

Here are the inside pages:


I positioned the photos so they can be seen through the letter openings. I am totally into distressing at the moment so a lot of the paper was crumpled up and inked, the tickets were inked up, and so on! One of the sheets of the Dude paper had these great gears that I cut out and used with the buttons as embellishments.

I played with my glue gun and made these little glue splats and dots, I used glitter glue sticks and my non-stick craft sheet. The splats peeled right off the sheet and I glued them onto my letters. It was a technique I read about in an issue of Canadian Scrapbooker and have been itching to try it out!I used my new EK Success dinosaur punch....(Malcolm loves all things reptilian, Ben better too because he is going to inherit all the toys as he gets older!!)
I painted the chipboard gears with Smooch Ink, the colour is Pumpkin. Great medium, drys really fast and comes with its own brush! Really like it!

My son's are a blessing, I am so thankful for them.


The only items I used that weren't included in the kits were the hot glue embellishments I made, orange embroidery cotton and green yarn. I also used more of my own chipboard gears.

I hope you liked my work! Make sure you check out both Sarah's and April's blogs to see their creations!! Enjoy your day!!!

JULY Scrapbooking Kit!!

Here it is, the JULY Scrapbooking Kit from Scrappin' Great Deals!! It will be ready for purchase tomorrow, July 2, 2010. I totally LOVED this kit!! I mean, all Sheila's kits are amazing but some fit your personal style better than others, and July's kit is so me. My project needs a bit of last minute touch ups so I will be posting later tonight!

Sarah, SGD's resident designer and April, SGD's newest employee diva, are the other designers for this kit. (and they are oh so talented!!)

HAPPY CANADA DAY!!!!

Last Day of School

For my son's school it really is the last day. Our beloved little school is being closed forever. It will be a bit of a tear jerker when I go to pick up Malcolm shortly. His incredible SK teacher is also retiring. I can not say enough good things about this amazing women. Where she gets her enthusiasm or her energy I don't know but I wish I could bottle it some days!! She has given Malcolm a terrific start to his schooling, I am so very thankful! Here is the card I made for her, to help her remember (not that she'll need it) Malcolm and his dinosaurs.

The little dino guy is part of a set called O' Happy Day from the Greeting Farm and it is so perfect for my paleontologist in training! I tore up some brown cardstock for the "rocks", stamped some trees from a C.C. Designs dino set, added the sentiment with some jute twine and tada! (I coloured with my pencil crayons!)

Have a great day!! Enjoy the sunshine and lack of humidity!! My hair is loving it today!

Sneak Peak

A little sneak peak at the upcoming July Scrapbooking kit from Scrappin' Great Deals!! It will be available July 2! Sarah, April and I are the designers for this upcoming month. And I totally LOVED this kit! SO can't wait to share!

The Pirate Princess....

Our niece turned 3 last week..HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Anna is just so fiesty and sassy, she lights a room up! I coloured up the Strawberry Pirate from Kraftin' Kimmie's stamp line because the image reminds me of Anna; only I called it the Pirate Princess because that is what Anna declared herself to be one day last winter.

Lets see..stamped on Neenah with Memento ink, coloured with my Derwent pencil crayons, blended with mineral spirits, used some Bo-Bunny Love Bandit paper, Bazzill cardstock, Imaginese flowers, unknown pink pearls, chipboard number coloured with pink glittery paint.

Happy Father's Day!!

I hope you all had a wonderful Father's Day! For the first time in months, maybe even years, our kids slept in until 8:00am. This really NEVER happens!! And Ben didn't get up in the night either!! So we had a great start to the day!

A couple of cards to share celebrating Father's Day! First my hubby's card, nice and simple. He has a thing for Zebras.


I stamped a Zebra image (from Maya Road..picked up at the last SGD garage sale, thanks Angie!). I stamped it using dark brown chalk ink, on paper from Creative Memories, cut it out in a nice oval, mounted it with Java Bazzill cardstock, pop dotted it to the same pp, mounted the whole thing on Raven Bazzill cardstock. I stamped the sentiment on the same pp, attached it to a piece of chipboard, put on some ribbon and all done!!

Now my FIL's card. I decided to see if I could colour on kraft cardstock with my pencil crayons and still be able to use the mineral spirits to blend. And you can! I used the Father's Day stamp from Popcorn Bear, so cute! I kept the colours simple, lots of brown tones to go with the kraft paper, nice and masculine.

I added some buttons, tied on some twine, stamped the sentiment on a tag, and mounted it all on some Bazzill cardstock.

Have a great day!

Momma's Little Angel saying "I love my soosie!"

Seriously!! How adorable is my little guy?! Just by chance did I happen to click at the right time. Seconds before he was grumpy, gave him is soother, and voila! Instant perfect picture!