Scrapping Our Stash February 2015 Blog Hop

Hello friends! I hope you are enjoying the February Scrapping Our Stash Blog Hop so far.  You should have arrived here from the very talented Suzanna Lee.

Scrapping my stash is easy. I am such a paper hoarder that it isn't funny.  I decided to do a summer layout of my daughter and son in law from their vacation last year in their new to them RV.

 I used some Bella Blvd. Summer Squeeze patterned papers and stickers and also Bella Blvd.'s  crochet hearts and a crochet flower.  On most of my layouts, I like to add some sewing machine stitching  and some flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons.  

I have a one inch square paper punch so I went crazy and punched out lots of squares from two different papers and adhered the blue cloud squares to the top of the layout to imitate a sky and used the plaid paper to coordinate and added that to the bottom of the layout.  I then added some patterned paper strips from the same collection.  This completed the background.  Then I went crazy with embellishing.

I am so glad you visited my blog and I appreciate my followers.  Thanks for hopping and next up is the amazingly talented Jennifer.

Practical Scrappers June Blog Hop - Use Your Stash

Hello everyone!  Welcome to the June Blog Hop at Practical Scrappers.  For this month and every month we are scrapping our stash.  I don't know about you, but I know as a scrapbooker I have lots of stash so it's great to use it up.

Here is a list of the hoppers for June.  

Practical Scrappers http://practicalscrappers.blogspot.com

Audrey http://audreysreflection.blogspot.com/

Wendy C www.stampingrules.com 

Erin http://girlpaperscissors.blogspot.com

Majken  http://chocoscrapaholic.blogspot.com/

Christine http://scrappingwithchristine.blogspot.com

Ruth  http://paperandmusings.wordpress.com/

Lee-Anne http://lee-annelovethejourney.blogspot.com  YOU ARE HERE

Bobbi http://vintagemusedesigns.blogspot.com/

Kerri http://kerrikr8tions.blogspot.com

Alison  http://alisondaydesigns.com/

Lisa http://www.snappinandscrappin.blogspot.com/

Cheryl http://patchesandscraps.blogspot.com

Laura http://scrapaddict4life.blogspot.com/

Deborah http://scrappinthelittlethings.blogspot.com/

Suzanna  http://lifestrivialities.typepad.com/

You should have arrived here from Ruth's blog but if not you can begin at the Practical Scrappers website.  This is the monthly blog hop where the design team members and anyone else that wanted to join the hop can use our scrapbooking stash.  The rule is that the scrappy items have to be in your stash pre CHA.  That means that any scrappy items that came out before January 2014, which was the last CHA (Craft And Hobby Association Show) qualifies for this blog hop.  This is a great way to use up old paper collections and embellishments as I don't know about you, but I have enough stash for two lifetimes. LOL.

For my layout, I have several mists in my stash that I used to make the watercolour effect on my background of white card stock. I then took out some leftover patterned papers from the Carta Bella Cool Summer Collection and matted my photos and also cut an accordion flower and the word "beautiful" on my Silhouette Cameo.  The pink chipboard letter stickers and pearls have been in my stash forever.

I hope you enjoyed your visit.  Now hop on over to the talented Bobbi to see what she has created.  Thanks for stopping by!

Practical Scrappers May Blog Hop - Use Your Stash

Happy Friday friends!  You should have arrived here from Christine's blog, but if not you can start at the beginning.  Here is the full list of the participants in the hop:

Practical Scrappers http://practicalscrappers.blogspot.com

Christine http://scrappingwithchristine.blogspot.com

Lee-Anne http://lee-annelovethejourney.blogspot.com  You Are Here

Melissa http://theprofoundbrunette.com

Bobbi http://vintagemusedesigns.blogspot.com/

Majken  http://chocoscrapaholic.blogspot.com/

Marcia  http://www.onescrapatatime-bymumsie.blogspot.com/

Suzanna  http://lifestrivialities.typepad.com/

Cheryl http://patchesandscraps.blogspot.com

Krissy http://krissyclarkmckee.blogspot.com

Wendi R  http://scrappydayinparadise.blogspot.com/

Erin http://girlpaperscissors.blogspot.com

Kelly www.kelsterjean.com

Monica http://scrapinspired.com

Laura http://scrapaddict4life.blogspot.com/

Deborah http://scrappinthelittlethings.blogspot.com/

Wendy C www.stampingrules.com

Today is the May Scrapping Our Stash Blog Hop at Practical Scrappers and some of our followers are also participating.  Scrapbookers always have lots of stash and this is a perfect way to dig into the stash and create a project.  The only stipulation is that the stash used must be before the last CHA release. 

 For my layout below, I wanted to scrapbook my three children.  I used the Fancy Pants Designs Trendsetter Collection of patterned papers and also some twine, ribbon and wood embellishments from my stash.  

Here are some more closeups of my layout

Thanks for stopping by my blog.  I hope you have some time to be creative.  Next on the hop is the talented Melissa.  

Practical Scrappers April Blog Hop - Use Our Stash

Hello friends!  You should have arrived here from the talented Audrey Yeager, but if not you can start back at the top of the list which is the Practical Scrappers blog.

Practical Scrappers http:practicalscrappers.blogspot.com

Jennifer Haggerty http://livethemoment-jen.blogspot.com

Audrey Yeager http://audreysreflection.blogspot.com/

Lee-Anne Thornton http://lee-annelovethejourney.blogspot.com YOU ARE HERE

Suzanna Lee http://lifestrivialities.typepad.com/

Monica Bradford http://scrapinspired.com

Brenda Ragsdale:  http://granddivasscrappyplace.blogspot.com/

Nicole Laha http://www.shezigzags.blogspot.com

Susie Bentz  http://mytime2play.blogspot.com/

Wendy Coffman: www.stampingrules.com

Erin Morehouse: http://girlpaperscissors.blogspot.com

Bobbi Smith: http://vintagemusedesigns.blogspot.com/
Wendi Robinson: http://scrappydayinparadise.blogspot.com/

Lisa Peeples: http://www.snappinandscrappin.blogspot.com/

Alison Day: http://alisondaydesigns.com/

Majken Pullin:  http://chocoscrapaholic.blogspot.com/

Cheryl Wegener Freet http://patchesandscraps.blogspot.com
Laura Cox:  http://scrapaddict4life.blogspot.com/
Christine Meyer: http://scrappingwithchristine.blogspot.com
Kerri Yarus: http://kerrikr8tions.blogspot.com

Today we are scrapping our stash and scrapbookers always have some goodies that haven't been used so now it's the perfect time to pull out your stash and create something.  For some inspiration, come hop along.  

I have created a layout on my Hawaii cruise that I went on in November 2012 with about 100 other obsessed scrapbookers and photographers.  What an experience!  We went to four islands.  This photo was at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii.  I used the Lucy's Crab Shack Collection of papers by Bazzill Basics Paper, my Silhouette Cameo to cut the tags, title and wave border and my ancient sewing machine.  I finally finished it off with some enamel dots, some fussy cut flowers and some wood embellishments.  

I was inspired by a sketch by Susan Stringfellow.

Thanks for stopping by and now it's time to be inspired by another talented scrapper, Suzanna Lee.

Have a creative day!

Practical Scrappers December Sketch And Layout

Hello friends!  Today at Practical Scrappers we have a lovely sketch for you.  It was designed by my fellow design team member Liz Chidester.

Practical Scrappers December Sketch

Here is my take on the sketch:

Snow Pretty by Lee-Anne Thornton

and some more detailed photos

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock - American Crafts 
Chipboard Letters - Maya Road
Circle Cutter - Kreaxions 
Distressing Tool - Distrezz-it-all
Doily Diecut - Silhouette America
Ink - Tim Holtz
Letter Stickers - Authentique
Modeling Paste - Liquitex
Patterned Papers - Fancy Pants Design (Blissful Blizzard)
Pearls - Prima Marketing
Spray - Tattered Angels (Cranberry Zest)
Stencil - Crafter's Workshop
Wood Embellishments - Studio Calico

Thanksgiving Plastic Canvas Display

Hello scrappy friends!  Today is my individual feature over at Practical Scrappers and I wanted to share something a little different than what I usually blog about and that is plastic canvas.  Before I discovered the world of papercrafts, I created many cross stitching projects and plastic canvas.  It was a great way to keep my hands busy while watching television.

For this Thanksgiving display, I used several pieces of plastic canvas, a wool needle, several colors of acrylic yarn some google eyes, embroidery floss for the mouths and a plastic canvas pattern that I bought from a craft store.  The above display took me quite a while to create, but I was happy with the result and it will be displayed in my home at Thanksgiving every year.

Do you have other creative hobbies that you enjoy?  I would love to hear about them.  Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a creative day!

Practical Scrappers Halloween Layout

I hope you are having a good week.  Happy Friday!  Today I am sharing a Halloween layout that I created of these adorable kiddos for Practical Scrappers.  I used some papers from the Bella Blvd. Trick Or Treat Collection and lots of embellishments from my stash.  I love the cute owl paper in this collection.

Too Cute To Spook
Adhesive - 3L, Scotch
Diecut Leaf - Silhouette America
Embellishment (cork arrow) - Fancy Pants Designs
Embossing Powder - Stampendous
Flair Button - The Paper Bakery
Journal Tags - Maya Road
Letter Stickers - Bella Blvd., October Afternoon
Patterned Papers - Bella Blvd. (Trick Or Treat, Daily Chevies)
Rotating Stamp - American Crafts
Wood Embellishments - Studio Calico
Machine Stitching
Photo Courtesy Of Rockwood Photography

I machine stitched through some of the letter stickers in the title.

For the twine heart, I placed a bead of glue in the shape of a heart and adhered the twine with a little wood embellishment in the middle.

I found this great little twine that had the halloween colors and wrapped twine around the cork arrow.

Flair buttons are so popular right now and I love using them on many of my layouts. The leaf was cut with my Cameo and then heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

These cuties are my daughter's niece and nephew and I smile when I see them.
There are lots more layouts and cards at Practical Scrappers to check out and don't forget that Paper Issues is having a giveaway on their blog.  You can check it out here.   Have a great day!

Practical Scrappers Pinterest Friday

Hello!  Happy Friday.  Today at Practical Scrappers, a few of the design team members are sharing some of our Fall projects that were inspired by the highly addictive Pinterest.

I love to pinning craft ideas and I especially love to create wreaths.  This wreath was inspired by a glitter wreath I saw by Homemade By Jill.

With the leaves falling from the trees here in Canada, I thought it would be nice to decorate my home with a warm, rustic Fall wreath with four different glitters, Helmar Craft Glue, a hot glue gun, a 10 inch circular styrofoam wreath form and my Silhouette Cameo.

First I chose a leaf shape #33054 in the Silhouette Online Store and sized the leaves to be 3 inches high by 2 inches wide and cut out, on my Silhouette Cameo,  four 12X12 sheets of kraft card stock with 20 leaf shapes on each sheet to make a total of 80 diecut leaves.  I applied Helmar Craft & Hobby PVA Glue with a brush and brushed the leaves with an even coat of glue and then immediately sprinkled glitter on the leaves.  For the glitter I used four colours of glitter.  I then layered the leaves applying hot glue to the bottom of each leaf and worked my way around the wreath form.  Finally  before I applied leaves to the top of the wreath, I formed a loop with some jute twine to hang the wreath of a wreath holder.  For my wreath, I didn't attach a bow.  I thought it looked fine to me without one.

I definitely had some glittery fun and my advice is to make sure you use a craft mat and have a shower after the wreath is complete.  Oh, and make sure it is before housecleaning day as a good vacuuming will be in order.

I hope you enjoy my wreath and hope you are inspired.  Thanks for looking!

Practical Scrappers October Sketch

Hello scrappy followers!  Today I wanted to share a layout I created with the October sketch over at Practical Scrappers.

My son in law is such a great guy and wonderful with children.  I loved this photo of him and his nephew Quinn having some good quality time together.

For this layout,   I wanted the page to be spontaneous and fun so I reached for the new Kreaxions 4 In 1 Punch #312 with insert A and punched the middle bottom and top of the navy polka dot paper as well as the outside corners of the orange patterned papers.  I also used some stencils and got messy with some modeling paste and also splattered some gesso.  I love the new roller stamps so I inked it up with some Stormy Sky Distress Ink by Tim Holtz and rolled it around the photo to give the layout some movement and make the photo the focal point.  As you can see, I really didn't go for perfection in this layout.  There are lots of fun mistakes with the stencils and the roller stamp was not stamped perfectly straight but I am fine with that.  I just wanted to create some good, messy fun to this layout.  Oh and what layout isn't complete without some fun wood star embellishments and a flair button?

Uncle Rob And Quinn

Acrylic Stamp - Technique Tuesday
Cardstock - American Crafts, Michaels
Diecuts - Silhouette America
Distressing Tool - Distrezz-It-All by Zutter
Flair - The Paper Bakery
Gesso - Liquitex
Ink - Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Stormy Sky)
Letter Stickers - American Crafts
Mini Letter Stickers - Echo Park
Modeling Paste - Liquitex
Patterned Papers - Fancy Pants, Echo Park, SEI
Pen - Faber Castell Pen Big Brush (indanthrene blue)
Punch - Kreaxions 4 In 1 Punch #312
Roller Stamp - Glitz Design
Stencils - The Crafter's Workshop
Wood Embellishments - Studio Calico

Here are more up close photos of my layout

Here is the sketch that I was inspired by to create the layout.  It was designed by Liz Chidester.

Practical Scrappers October 2013 Sketch

Kreaxions 4 In 1 Punch With Inserts A, B, and  C

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you take time to do something you love!  Have a great day!