All You Need Is Love

Hello followers! I hope you are having a good Sunday.  Today is Super Bowl Sunday and although I'm not much of a football fan, I love watching the halftime show.

Today I would like to share my first layout that I created with the February Main Kit at My Creative Scrapbook.  

My parents will be married 58 years in July and I definitely wanted to document and scrap this milestone.  

I went with a grid design for this layout. Easy peasy.  I love doing grid design layouts.  It's like little mini canvasses on each square of paper.  For this layout I added stickers, clips, die cuts, a bow,  a flower,  a wood veneer arrow and the wood veneer  "Love", which I colored with Gelatos. 

Thanks for stopping by.  The February Main Kit can be purchased at www.mycreativescrapbook.com.

Celebrate 7 Years Layout

Hello friends! Today I wanted to share a layout of these two lovebirds. My son and daughter in law recently celebrated their 7th wedding anniversary.  When I was visiting them last month, I snapped this photo and knew I had the perfect paper for a layout.

 I had recently guest designed for My Creative Scrapbook using the September Main Kit and I had some leftover papers. The patterned papers, stickers, flair button and die cuts are from the new My Mind's Eye My Story Collection.  I loved the hearts so I cut them out with scissors and stitched them to my layout.

I added some ephemera and fussy cut the butterflies and spritzed with some Heidi Swapp Colorshine in Gold, Black and Blush on the white card stock background.

I usually trim the threads after I sew, but for this layout I wanted to give it a whimsical look so I kept the threads long.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a great day!

My Third Layout For My Creative Scrapbook August Reveal

Hello friends!  Happy Friday! Today I am excited to share with you my third layout as guest designer for August at My Creative Scrapbook using the lovely August Creative Kit.

August Creative Kit

For my third layout I created more of a traditional layout of my husband and I on our fifteenth wedding anniversary last year. I did some fussy cutting, machine stitching and layering on this layout.  I loved one of the 3X4 cards sentiment so I cut it and made it a title for my layout.

Here are some more closeups:

 

Here are the other kits for August.  There is one for every scrapbooking style.

August Main Kit

August LE Kit

August Album Kit

Also, My Creative Scrapbook is on Facebook and Instagram so be sure to check them out. Come back tomorrow for my fourth layout.

Have a wonderful day!

Lucky

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! Thanks for stopping by.  I was playing around with my Silhouette Cameo and my watercolors and thought I would create a layout of my husband and I on our 15th wedding anniversary last September so beware, this layout is mushy. LOL.

I was inspired by a layout by Nicole Nowosad recently and loved the way she used a Silhouette Sketch Pen and created a background.  I decided to go with it and put my own spin on it.

This took a while to create but I was in no hurry.  It was simply fun!

I heat embossed some Creative Embellishments Chipboard and also used my Silhouette Cameo and a black sketch pen to create the "Lucky" background and then used several shades of blue and green watercolours to fill in the letters.  I cut the title "Lucky" on my Silhouette as well.  This cut file is from The Cut Shoppe.  The shamrocks and the hearst were also cut on my Silhouette Cameo but first I added several washi tape strips over card stock and cut it out on my Cameo.  The top section of the white card stock background was simply watercolored with watercolor paints and water.

I don't journal very often on my layouts, but added some journaling strips that I printed out with my printer.

Thanks for visiting my blog and hope you have a wonderful day!

Happier At Home Art Journal - October

Hello friends!  Today I wanted to share an art journal page I created in the Happier At Home book for October.  This is a monthly class that I have been taking this year by the talented shabby chic artist Lynn Thune.

Left Page

Right Page

I applied some Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass Distress Stain as the base of the pages and then some Tim Holtz Brushed Corduroy Distress Stain and spritzed it with some water.  I tinted the ribbon with the same colours and also added some modeling paste, stamps, washi tape,  old book pages for flowers, some ribbon and lace and cut some word strips from words in the chapter of the book.

The chapter for October is about marriage. The photo is of my husband and I on our 14th wedding anniversary this past September.  The handwriting says "I need to be happy with myself so that I can be happy at home".  I truly believe in order to love we have to love ourselves first.  I know as a mother, we put all our family's needs before our own and we have to take time for ourselves. Art journaling is my way of nurturing myself as well as scrapbooking, mixed media and photography. It's just been the past two years or so that I'm not afraid to take time for myself, whether that is creating or getting a pedicure, a manicure or a little vacation alone.

I hope you enjoyed my art journal and thanks for stopping by my blog.  I always appreciate your visits and really love and welcome your comments.  Have a great day!

A Thousand Years

Hello friends!

Today I wanted to share a layout that I created for Challenge #8 at Scrap & Music.  I love this song and thought it would be great to play along.

I created this layout of my husband and I on our anniversary with the Andrea Victoria Collection from My Mind's Eye papers in my stash from a few years ago that I wanted to use.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great day!

Scrap It With A Song - A Thousand Years

Today the Rock Chicks are rocking to the song "A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri.

This is such a romantic song and since I'm a hopeless romantic, I thought this layout of my husband and I on our recent wedding anniversary would be the perfect thing to scrapbook.

A Thousand Years 

I used an older collection of My Mind's Eye called Andrea Victoria for the papers and my mom gave me some vintage buttons that she has had in a jar forever.  I also used some pearls from Queen and Company and also a jewel flourish from Prima.  The sketch is courtesy of Page Drafts.

Wouldn't this be a perfect song for a wedding dance or a 50th wedding anniversary?  Enjoy and link up your layout over at Scrap It With A Song by October 31, 2012.  Looking forward to seeing your creations!

Twisted Sketches Sketch #155

Today's sketch over at Twisted Sketches is about celebrating Twisted Sketches third year anniversary.

Anam Stubbington has done a great job and I tip my hat to her as she has put so much of herself into her passion and contributed so much to the scrapbooking industry.  She is so talented and I am very flattered that she asked me to design layouts for her Twisted Sketches blog.  This is my second term designing for Twisted Sketches and it was also my first design team that I have had the opportunity to participate on.  I'll always be grateful to her giving me the chance to explore my creativity further and to do what I love to do and that is to inspire and create.  Just because.

On this layout, I chose to do a layout for Father's Day that is coming up this Sunday, June 17.  My husband and youngest son and I were celebrating my husband's birthday last month so I thought it would be great to create a Father's Day layout for my better half.  I like to take a photo of them every year as my son grows and changes so much every year.  This night was such a fun, happy night.  We laughed and laughed until we had stomach aches.

Father and Son

I used the Echo Park "Times and Seasons" collection and the twist was "3"  so I used the 1 2 3 mini banner on my layout.

Thanks for stopping by and check out Anam's awesome sketch.

Have a great day!

Twelve Years Ago I Married My Best Friend...

Twelve years ago I married my best friend.  He means the world to me and he has shown me what true happiness is.

Lee-Anne and Rick - September 5, 1999

I look forward to many more wonderful years with my bestie.

To celebrate our twelve years together, I made a layout of our wedding day:

I know it is quite girly, but I wanted to portray a garden layout with all the flowers and butterflies.  I wanted the layout to have lots of dimension:

Now I will have to decide how to frame it and where to display it in our home.

Have a wonderful day!