If I had a Flower......

How adorable are the new Inky Impessions stamps?!!? Well to inspire ME to make a card they have to be pretty darn adorable!!!  You can pop over to Scrappin' Great Deals blog for all the details!!!

Have an amazing day everyone!!!!

Heart Canvas

I really enjoy altered art, and I thoroughly enjoyed making this canvas!!  It started out as a blank 6" x 6" canvas from Canvas Corp, that I got at my favourite store: Scrappin' Great Deals.  With a little Glimmer Mist, a homemade mask, lots of rolled paper, and rolled flowers (all from the new Basic Grey line Kissing Booth), and a final spritz of both Goosebumps and Perfect Pearls Mist, it all came together!!! 

I am offering this project as a class at Scrappin' Great Deals on February 5, 2012, 11 - 2, $25.00!!!  Thanks for popping in and have a great day!!

Bundle Up!!

This is the second layout I did with Scrappin' Great Deals January Scrapbooking Kit.  My little guy is VERY helpful!  He loves working with me, be it inside cooking dinner or shovelling the sidewalks!  I hope he doesn't grow out of it! 

I love Maya Roads Snowflakes, both the translucent ones and the vintage wood:

Have a fantastic day!!

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!!

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!!

The Road of Good Intentions!

Let's just say my December Daily Album may turn into my December Weekly Album!!!  

I will share this with you: 

 

 

This is my annual photo collage that I will be putting in my Christmas Cards this year.  My store bought Christmas Cards!  Yikes!!  

More December Daily to share!

I have finally managed to print out some pictures and do the journalling to get my December Daily almost up to date!!!  I am on Day 4, so not TOO far behind!!!  Here are my pages so far:

Day One:

 

Day Two: 

 

Day Three, two pages:

Day Four, is a full page picture with the lettering added using Photoshop Elements:

 

And there we are so far!!  I hope to get up to date tonight, as long as I don't get lost on the road to good intentions!!  Day 5 & 6, here I come!!!

Want to win some blog candy??

All you have to do is pop over to Scrappin' Great Deals blog this week and leave a comment on every post!!  The more comments you leave the greater your chance of winning!!  You can read Sarah's post from yesterday that gives all the details - click here!!  Good Luck!!

And stay tuned for more pictures from my December Daily Album!!

Day One & Two!

Those good intentions get me every time!!  December the 2nd and already I am behind on my album!  How does this happen!  Life, that is what, but I am okay with that!  I spent last night getting in the Christmas spirit by decorating out at Scrappin' Great Deals, in preparation for their big Anniversay Event that happens tomorrow!

Anyway, I will now show you the interior of the first two pages of my album, minus the photos and journalling!  At least I am part of the way there!!!

A little close up of the holly along the side of the journal card:

I discovered Platinum stickles!  How did I not know that this colour existed!  Totally in love with it! So that is it for today!  Stay tuned for more!

By the way, if you are interested in learning more about the concept of a December Daily album, this incredible artist - Ali Edwards, is I believe, the originator of the idea. She has some amazing ideas to share!!

'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!!

Christmas Colouring Page

Remember those colouring contests you used to enter as a child, at Easter, Valentines Day, Christmas?  Well I got to make a Christmas colouring page for the company my husband works for!  (I did one back at Easter as well, you can have a look at it here!)  It's a cute little page with the company mascot - Smart Dough Joe - all dressed up for the holidays! 

Happy Holidays!!