Some Exciting News To Share!!!

I have some exciting news to share and it totally surprised me.

Every morning,  I read the Calgary Herald Online Edition, which is my hometown newspaper.  The city of Calgary has a population of over a million people and you can understand how flattered and honoured I was  to read  today's edition, when I saw my blog listed under "Calgary Top Bloggers".  It is categorized under "Calgary Lifestyle Blogs"  You can see it here.  It is listed under "Calgary Lifestyle Blogs" as Love The Journey.

Wowsers! This really made my day as I spend a lot of time with my blog and thoroughly enjoy blogging, but had no idea about this.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you stop by often as I plan on blogging a lot in 2013.  Have a good night!

What Is Your Scrapbooking Style?

What is your scrapbooking style?  Do you know what your style is?  Are you:

Graphic

Artsy

Classic

Grungy

Shabby Chic

Whimsical

Sophisticated

Cutesy

Clean & Simple

Maybe you are a combination of two or more?  Practical Scrappers has a nice little feature on finding your style.

My style is whatever my mood is and what mood I want to create with my photos and layout.  It can change from one layout to the next.  Yes I am moody! LOL.  I love trying different styles and buying many different colours of patterned paper.  I love trying new techniques and textures.  I sometimes like to focus on the photo and keep the layout clean and simple.  It's fun for me to try changing my photos to black and white or sepia to create a mood or style.  For me, I love colour and am inspired by colour a lot!

In 2012, I created many different styles of layouts, or at least I think I did:

Classic or Sophisticated?

Shabby Chic

Artsy

Artsy

Whimsical & Artsy?

?

Sort of Classic and Shabby Chic?

I am not sure LOL.

After a while, I think my layouts sort of have a similarity to them even though they are different, if that makes any sense LOL.

I have also come to the conclusion that my style can be different with each layout and I do know that I prefer to scrapbook one photo and use a clean design.  I also think I tend to choose the same paper manufacturers over and over again but I love all the different companies.  Two pagers are a challenge for me, but I try to push myself to work outside my comfort zone sometimes.  I definitely do know that I am not really a grungy girl.  One thing I do know for sure is that I like to have fun with my scrapbooking and walk away knowing that  whatever I created felt good for me.  Art to me is something that should make a person feel good.  There are no mistakes in art and a person should not compare their art with others.  It should be soothing to your soul.  

Thanks for stopping by and please feel free to leave a comment on what you think my style is.  I would also love to hear what your style is.  Have a great day!

Scrap It With A Song - Favorite Christmas Carol

Do you ever get the great feeling inside when you feel that what you created touches you deeply?  That's how I feel about this layout.  Today at Scrap It With A Song, both Team A and Team B have shared our creations on our favorite Christmas carol.  The song I chose is "Silent Night".  It is very calming and spiritual to me.

Silent Night

I used lots of different mediums for this layout and this is of a photo I took last winter on a very calm winter's night at dusk.  This layout was inspired by the December 2012 sketch at C'est Magnifique and Keren Tamir.

I hope you play along with us and that you are inspired.  Come along and join us at Scrap It With A Song and scrap your favorite Christmas carol.  We are looking for new design team members as well.

Have a great day!

Sketches In Thyme - Sketch #97 Team A & B

We are having a blast over at Sketches In Thyme and both teams A & B are participating in this week's sketch reveal.

Sketch #97

Two page layouts are not my favorite thing to scrap, but it takes me out of my comfort zone and that is a good thing sometimes.  My layout is of some wintery photos that I recently took out in the country on a frosty day.

The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

I used the new Blissful Blizzard Collection by Fancy Pants Designs, some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, jewels by Queen & Co. and my Silhouette Cameo to create the barb wire photo borders, the title and the bottom two borders of the layout.

Have some fun with us and upload your creation at Sketches In Thyme by December 31, 2012.

Have a great day!

Scrap It With A Song - Shaking Up Christmas

For this week, we are Shaking Up Christmas by the band Train.

and here's my cat Sheldon

Sheldon Shaking Up Christmas

I couldn't help but scrap my cat Sheldon, who is a rescue cat and came to us last April.  He was in bad shape but now he is healthy, full of energy and settling in and making himself right at home.  He looks evil in this photo, (lol) but he is actually watching me type on my laptop.  I had my camera handy so I took a snapshot of him.

This layout was created with the Fancy Pants "Home For Christmas" Collection and my Silhouette Cameo.

Hope you get inspired to create a layout on how you "shake up Christmas" and upload it by December 31 at Scrap It With A Song.

Happy scrapping!