Mom Layout

Hello everyone! Glad you stopped by!

I really love working with scrapbook kits because they take the guesswork out of matching papers, embellishments etc.  I am honored to be asked to play with such great scrapbook kits from My Creative Scrapbook.  Pam Rangel does a fantastic job each month designing the kits.  For March, I was excited to work with the Main kit as well as the Creative kit. They are both equally gorgeous. My Mind's Eye has always had my vote with such beautiful collections ever since they began in 1999. The Hello Gorgeous collection is no exception.

My mother is someone that I look up to and I always love to honor her with scrapbook layouts.  I took this photo last year on Mother's Day.

The grid design is one of my favorite designs for a layout. I love to pile on the embellishments and use up my paper scraps.  For this particular  layout, I began with a 12X12 piece of cardstock and took several Tim Holtz Distress Inks and went crazy dabbing them onto the cardstock to create this very colorful background.  It may have been overkill, but I still am happy how it turned out.  Later this month, I will be sharing a tutorial on how to create several backgrounds by simply using distress inks so keep checking back.

Here are a few detailed closeups:

Thanks for taking the time to stop by.  I really appreciate it.  I always welcome comments to see that people are reading my blog.

Have a great day and be sure to check out all the kits for March at My Creative Scrapbook.

My Creative Scrapbook December Sneak Peaks

Hello friends! Happy Thursday! I'm sure there are plenty of folks preparing for the holidays, but I wanted to stop in a let you know that the sneak peeks of all the December 2015 kits at My Creative Scrapbook are here and I am excited to be guest designing again for December.  I was given the December Main Kit to create with and let me tell you that it is absolutely gorgeous! Here are four sneak peeks of my four layouts.

Here are the design team's sneak peeks with the December Main Kit:

My Creative Scrapbook has four kits each month so there is one for every paper crafter's style.

Have I piqued your interest?  The big reveal of all the December 2015 kits at My Creative Scrapbook and the design team gallery will be on December 5 and I know that you will love what all these talented paper crafters have created so do check back and be sure and order your kits.

Have a great day! Happy creating!

You Are Lovely

Hello friends! Happy Saturday! Today I am sharing a a clean and simple layout of my daughter that I created for A Flair For Buttons using the Love Gold Foil Flair.

I created my bows with the We R Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board and added a Love Gold Flair Button on the top left bow.

Love Gold Foil Flair

Thanks for stopping by! Get these and hundreds more flair including some new Halloween, Fall and Winter Flair in the A Flair For Buttons Shop.

Let's Celebrate Layout

Hello friends! Happy Friday! Today I wanted to share my last layout using the September Main Kit as a guest designer at My Creative Scrapbook.  This layout came together in no time at all.  I used the journal cards from the kit, some flair, stickers, and hand stitched the heart in two different colors of embroidery floss that coordinated with the papers.  

I had such a great time working with this kit and I wanted to thank My Creative Scrapbook for having me.  It was a pleasure.

Have a great weekend everyone and thanks for stopping by!

Stuck?! Sketches March 1, 2015 Sketch Reveal

Hello everyone! Today I wanted to share the March 1, 2015 sketch reveal at Stuck?! Sketches.  I really love the gold trend at the moment and thought I would create a layout with gold, black and white.  I love the softness and elegance of vellum and My Mind's Eye has some nice vellum paper.  Gold doilies and gold buttons finish the look.

Here are some detailed photos

  Here is the sketch:

Come and play along with us at Stuck?! Sketches and link up your take on the sketch for a chance to win some prizes. All of the team's layouts and details on how you have a chance to win are found here.  I am looking forward to see what everyone creates. Thanks for stopping by! 

Stuck?! Sketches Team Up With Scrap Around The World

Hello friends!  Today is the December 15 Sketch and reveal at Stuck?! Sketches and for this sketch we are teaming up with the amazingly talented ladies over at Scrap Around The World.  Here is the fabulous sketch designed by Laura Whitaker that the design team created with:

and here is the Scrap Around The World Moodboard that was provided

I stayed very true to the sketch and pulled out some older papers from My Mind's Eye All Is Bright Collection for this challenge.  I was inspired by the colours and shapes of the mood board and thought this collection was perfect for the challenge.

Now for the fabulous giveaways.  If you uplink your layout based on the above sketch at Stuck?! Sketches AND ALSO link up to the challenge at Scrap Around The World, you are eligible to win a $30 gift certificate from Big Picture Classes and the winner can use the gift certificate for a class of their choice, but remember you have to enter both challenges.

If you link up your layout to Stuck?! Sketches only, you are edible for a $15 gift certificate from My Scraps And More

I hope you are inspired to take some time out of your busy holiday preparations and play along.  Have a great day!

Published In Let's Get Sketchy Get Inspired Magazine Issue 4!

Hello and happy Saturday!  Today I wanted to let you know of a digital scrapbooking/papercrafting magazine that I'm sure you will enjoy.  It's called Let's Get Sketchy Get Inspired Magazine and it's jam packed full of inspiration to get your creative juices flowing and get those photos scrapbooked.

This is the fourth issue of this digital magazine and it features creations from scrapbookers worldwide.
Check it all out here.

I have two layouts on Page 61, Page 105 and a card on Page 151 if you care to check them out.

All four issues of this digital magazine are available online and can be viewed on your desktop or laptop computer.  At the moment, it is not available on a mobile device.

Have a wonderful day and happy scrappy reading!

Cute As A Button Layout

Hello scrappy friends!  Right now gold, sequins and texture stamps are very trendy in the scrapbooking industry and today I am up at Scrapbooker's Paradise with a layout.  Please come check it all out here.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Grandmother And Grandaughters Mixed Media Layout

Happy Thursday!  Today I wanted to share a mixed media layout that I created of my daughter, niece and mother at Christmas time.  It was the first time my entire family was together to celebrate Christmas in about ten years and I had to take advantage of that time and take some photos.

There is something so freeing about mixed media.  I love the "no rules" type of play.  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Supplies

Acrylic Stamp - Bo Bunny
Cheesecloth
Chipboard - Creative Embellishments
Drywall Tape
Flowers - Petaloo, Prima
Gesso - Liquitex
Metal Bookplate
Metal Embellishment - Maya Road
Mists - Heidi Swapp Colorshine - Black Velvet, Peach, Blush
Molding Paste - Golden
Pen - Marvy Uchida
Patterned Paper - Bazzil Ambrosia Collection and My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Heirloom Collection
Sequins
Stickers - My Mind's Eye