Scrapbook Challenges Sketch #340

Hello everyone!

Today is Monday and that means that Scrapbook Challenges has another sketch reveal!

Scrapbook Challenges Sketch #340

I thought this was a great sketch to use up those paper scraps that you have in your stash.  I chose to do a layout of a summer vacation from 2010 where we went to Osoyoos, British Columbia, which is the wine capital of Canada,  and also has a very hot climate that makes it perfect for fruit orchards.  Picking cherries on a 35 degree celscius day was quite the experience!

I bought a little cherry stamp from Michaels and stamped on the cardstock using my Faber Castell Big Brush Pitt Pens to colour the outline of the stamp in green and red and then placed My Mind's Eye Enamel Dots inside the cherries to add more interest and dimension.

There is also lots of washi tape to fill in those spaces to keep the layout balanced and used some twine and also a calendar sticker to place the date.

I used a journal sticker and wrote the journaling with a red gel pen.

I love this photo of my husband and son heading out to pick some cherries.

I placed another journal sticker of our location

I wanted to create a unique title to my page so I used some twine and a fine glue pen and placed the twine down and spelled "picking" and then added an enamel dot to dot the "i".  I then used some letter stickers and faux stitched around the word "picking". The colours green and red were used because of the colour of cherries.

Finally I finished off the layout with some twine and buttons randomly on paper squares.

I hoped you like my layout.  Please check out what the other design team members created at Scrapbook Challenges here.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I really appreciate it!

Scrap It With A Song "Lovefool" by The Cardigans

Hello!  Happy Thursday!  Today on the blog I am sharing a layout that I created for Scrap It With A Song called "Lovefool" by The Cardigans 

I took the lyrics "love me, love me, say that you love me" and ran with it.

I used the new "Trendsetter" Collection from Fancy Pants and a sketch from Liz Chidester.  The flower  was made by yours truly with a fabric softener sheet and some Stickles.

Thanks for looking and it would be nice if you played along with me and the entire team at  Scrap It With A Song for a chance to be a guest designer in May.  Have a great day!

Practical Scrappers 10 Things With Baker's Twine

Hello friends!

Today I wanted to share with you a layout of my only daughter and I and how to use baker's twine in a different way.

I created my layout, with help of my Silhouette Cameo, to cut out flower diecuts and leaves and then took my glue pen and glued around the outside edge of each flower petal and immediately placed the baker's twine down before the glue dried.  I used several different colors that coordinate with the cute papers from Doodlebug Designs "Fruit Stand" collection.  I also framed the outside edge with baker's twine.

Here are a few more closeups

I hope you enjoyed my layout and are inspired to create with baker's twine.  Please check out nine other ways to use baker's twine with the other ladies on the Ten Things Team at Practical Scrappers.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Scrapbook Challenges Sketch #339

Good day to you all!

It feels good to be back creating and today at Scrapbook Challenges we are revealing a sweet little sketch for you

Scrapbook Challenges Sketch #339

Below is a layout of my daughter that I photographed in March.  I love the challenge of circles and used circles in my title.  I cut the flower, camera and the title "Grateful" with my Silhouette Cameo on vellum.  This is the first time I have attempted to cut vellum with my Cameo and I think  it turned out really well.

I used some patterned papers, stickers, buttons, and letter stickers from the Park Bench Collection from Fancy Pants Designs for this layout and also some enamal dots from My Mind's Eye.  Here are more closeups of my layout

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and I hope you find time to be creative in some way.  You can see more of the design team layouts for Sketch #339 here.

Have an awesome day!

April Sketchy Challenge At Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine

Hello everyone!  I hope you are enjoying a relaxing Sunday.

Today I am sharing a layout I created of my daughter and son in law, who will be celebrating their third anniversary in May.

This layout was created for the April Sketchy Challenge at Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine where the challenge is to use some Canadian product on a project.  Did I mention that I am so honoured to be published twice in the Spring 2013 issue and also the upcoming Summer 2013 issue? Smile.

Here is the cool sketch that Canadian Scrapbooker's Sue Sykes created:

and here is my take on the sketch

So Happy Together

I had so much fun using all different techniques for this layout and also love the new Fancy Pants Designs Park Bench Collection of stickers, buttons and patterned papers.  Here are some close ups of the layout:

 I just love this little camera pin from My Little Bit Of Whimsy, which is the Canadian product I chose for this layout.  I also diecut some vellum hearts from my Silhouette Cameo.

I placed some ink drips from my Heidi Swapp Color Shine Mists in Mint Green, Black Velvet, and Mustard.  I love those mists!  I also took some Baker's Twine and made a little curly accent and also used three different coloured strips of washi tape for the bottom of the layout and added some flair and buttons and some more vellum diecuts from my Cameo

Here I machine stitched the entire background to look like a quilt.

Here is an arrow I cut out of vellum.  Vellum and arrows are my favorite right now! 

Aren't they a handsome couple?

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I hope you have a wonderful Sunday full of things you enjoy!