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!

Sketches In Thyme Sketch #107

Hello everyone!

Today at Sketches In Thyme we are revealing Sketch #107.  It is a fun sketch and I liked working with it.

Sketches In Thyme #107

I chose to do an layout about Easter and the task of coloring eggs.  My children are too old to enjoy this, so I still color some eggs for my dad who loves hard boiled colored eggs for his breakfasts.  I chose a new collection by Doodlebug Design that is named "Flowerbox".  I also added some brads, from my stash, that are also from Doodlebug Design dated 2009.  It's great to mix new products with old products.

This layout is out for publication in Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine Spring 2014 issue!

On this layout, I used some washi tape and stickers, also by Doodlebug Design, as well as some diecuts that I created with my Silhouette Cameo for the title, the eggs, the grass border, and the scalloped oval shape behind the title.  Finally, I finished the title and eggs with some Stickles in Thistle, Orange Peel, Waterfall, and Yellow to give some glitter to the die cuts.

I hope you like my layout and I also hope that you are inspired to create a layout with this fabulous sketch.  Be sure to stop by Sketches In Thyme to see what the other designers have created with this sketch and also to upload your creation for this sketch for a chance to be our May guest designer!  How cool is that?

Thanks for stopping by and have a creative day!