My Studio Featured At Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine!

Today on the Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine Blog, my studio is being featured.  Check it all out here!

WHERE YOU CREATE with Lee-Anne Thornton

Here are some random photos of my studio.  It still is a work in progress and I have another room in the basement that I am continuously adding to my new room.    

 My distress inks are all tucked away in some Ikea drawers that are on wheels that I have tucked underneath my table.

 My Silhouette Cameo is used so much that I have it placed beside my table with drawers to keep the mats, extra die cuts and card stock stored away.

 The cubes are all grey and there are two sets of Expedit from Ikea.  I can add fabric boxes as needed.  I also bought some black canvas boxes from the dollar store to store my embellishments.

 Raskog Carts from Ikea come in the colours grey and aqua.  I love them! One stores my ribbon for making Christmas Crafts and the other is for all my paints, mists, brushes and mixed media supplies.  I love that they roll to the table so I have access to them.

 This photo was my studio at Christmas.  I had a little pink Christmas tree on the Expedit and some star lights to give it a festive look.

 My studio isn't complete without my cat Sheldon hanging out with me.  He wants to know that I love him more than my scrapbooking.  He usually sleeps on a blanket at my feet.

 I have some shelves up and add my projects that I have just worked on recently

Thanks to my wonderful hubby for such a wonderful birthday gift.  He bought all the furniture from Ikea and assembled it himself and we are still married. Hahahaha.  It is a work in progress and I am yet to finish organizing it.  I still have the papers to organize in the closet and put my art on the walls.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Merry & Bright

Happy day my friends!  Today I am sharing a festive layout that I created for Stuck?! Sketches December 15 sketch designed by Laura Whitaker.

Stuck?! Sketches December 15 Sketch - by Laura Whitaker

I stayed true to the sketch and used the Heidi Swapp "Believe" Collection for the patterned papers and created my own ribbon tree with some gorgeous gold ribbon from May Arts.

Merry & Bright - by Lee-Anne Thornton

For the star die cuts and title, I used my Silhouette Cameo.  Christmas to me is all blingy so I took some sequins from my stash to use for the ornaments on the tree and also some little stars to carry through with the star embellishment design.

For the ribbon tree I hand cut a triangle shape out of card stock (about 2 1/2 inches from the tip of the tree to the bottom) and then cut 2" strips of gold ribbon, folded the ribbon in half and glued them together and then glued each folded ribbon piece to the starting at the top of the tree and continuing to adhere the folded ribbon strips until the card stock triangle is completely covered.  I then hand cut a trunk for the tree.  Before adhering the tree to the layout, I wrapped some twine around the tree, tied a little twine bow and added some sequins.

I recently got some new furniture for my studio and wanted to make it look festive for the Christmas season so I purchased a silver star light from Ikea as well as a strand of 38 star lights for my window.  It makes me want to hang out in there every night.

I hope you are inspired with the sketch and my layout.  Come play along and upload your creation at Stuck?! Sketches.  While you are there, come see what the other ladies on the team created with the sketch.

Thanks for stopping by.  Happy scrapping!