Creative Scrappers Reveal

It's reveal day at Creative Scrappers, and I have a new layout to share with you.

I loved this grid sketch, and found it super easy to work with, especially when mixed with the December Scraptastic Kit (I must add that this kit is already sold out, but the Jan kit is now shipping. You can see it here.

Mr Robb is such an inspiration to my girls, and many others of Kick It Dance Studio.  He is so talented, but even more so caring of all his students.  He takes such pride in each of them, especially when he sees them working hard to perfect what he has taught them.  I just love watching him teach my girls, and will forever be thankful for all that he has poured into them.

The papers and embellishments are so gorgeous. The kit features Teresa Collins You Are My Happy Papers, and embellishments.

I created that frame using my Silhouette, I found an ampersand that was similar to the one in the sketch.

Sketch by Kristine Davidson

We are fortunate to have My Creative Scrapbook as our sponsor this month, they've offered up this great kit for one of our lucky readers.  

To be eligible all you need to do is create a layout and enter the challenges using our inlnkz widget at the end of the reveals for Sketches 259-260.  Now please pop over to the Creative Scrapper blog and see how the rest of the team has put the sketch to use.  

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Top 13 of 2013

Happy New Year friends!

If I've counted correctly I managed to create 104 layouts, a handful of cards and a couple of altered projects in 2013.  Not to mention my Moments In Between Album.  I started in May and have documented stratight through to the end of the year (well there are still 5 weeks that need to be embellished with journaling added, but the photos are printed, and in their respective pockets).  It was a good year srappy wise.  I participated on 8 different design teams, 4 of which I am still on, filled a couple of guest blogger and guest designer roles, and had a blast working with everyone.  I consider it a real privilege to share my work with you, and connect with other scrappy peeps from all around the world.

I wanted to take just a moment to share with you my favourite 13 layouts of 2013.  Here they are in no particular oder.

Created for Chic Tags using Pink Paislee products

Created for Cre8tive Cre8tions 

Created for Scrapbook & Cards Today using Crate Paper products

Created for Scraptastic Kit Club using the September kit

Just for fun using BasicGrey

Created for Scraptastic Kit Club using the October kit

Created for Scraptastic Kit Club using the June Kit

Created for Creative Scrappers using Teresa Collins

Created for Chic Tags

Created for Paper Secrets using Teresa Collins

Created for A Flair For Buttons using my stash

Created for Scraptastic Kit Club using the October kit

Created for A Flair For Buttons using Scraptastic Kit Club November kit

And there you have it.  I love using 1-2 photos mostly, usually placed towards the center.  I gravitate to either a white or patterned background, love lots of layers, and white space, and sew, either by hand or machine on most layouts.  My creative style in a snapshot of the year.

How about you, have you blogged your top picks of the year?  Link me up, I'd love to come and have a peek.

Thanks for stopping by today, and for a great year together.  I look forward to many more scrappy adventures with you in 2014. Pin It

Ringing in 2014

Happy New Year's Eve friends!

Today I celebrate 18 years with this guy.

Our favourite pass time: cheering on the Winnipeg Jets

We've had our share of the awesome, and the not-so-awesome of marriage, but at the end of the day we are good together.  We make eachother better.  We get eachother.  We have fun.  We play hard.  We have 3 beautiful girls together.  And all together we fill our home with loud voices, lots of laughs, and loads of love for all we've been blessed with.  It is in all honesty that I say I look forward to another 18+ years with this guy.  My life just wouldn't be the same without him.  I have been richly blessed.

Wishing you a Happy New Year tonight.  Be safe, and have fun ringing in 2014!

I'll be back tomorrow to share my top 13 layouts of 2013.  See you then! Pin It

Just Sharing

Happy Friday friends!

I hope you've all had a wonderful holiday.  Hopefully, many of you are still holiday-ing.  We had a wonderful time here with our little family.  Church service, an evening with family and games, a family gathering, and three very "happy with their presents" girls here, make that 4 if you include me, haha.  I just love this time of year.  Unfortunately I'm back to work already.  It's the first time in 8 years that I've had to work over Christmas and I'll be honest, it's taking some getting use to.  Thankfully I enjoy my job, makes everything that much easier.

I thought I'd take some time today to share with you a couple of layouts I've had up around the blogosphere lately.

First up is this one using some of my favourite Fancy Pants Designs papers, and the gorgeous Water Colour Flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons.

Here is a close up of the Water Color flair:

Next is this one that I created for Chic Tags using the Good Tidings Collection, and another AFFB flair.

Numbers and Letters Flair 

 This one was created using the Scraptastic Home For the Holidays kit.  

The last share is the first page of my December Moments album.  It's the same idea as a December Daily only modified as I knew I would not only NOT be able to capture a photo everyday, but I also would not be able to keep up with completing it on a daily basis....so December Moments it is.  I used my sewing machine to sew extra pockets up top so that I would be able to have a sequin/star/flair/snowflake pocket.  

#Winter Flair

If you are way ahead of the game and already planning your New Year's Eve/day pages you should check out the brand new flair Shelley has created.  

Hello 2014 Set1

 Hello 2014 Set2

Lastly, if you managed to make it to the end of this post, and you entered my giveaway on this post I have good news for you.  I've not heard back from the winner, so rather than go through all the work of writing down and drawing a new name, I'm simply going to offer it to the first person to leave me a comment saying they are interested.  If you want it, and you're quick, it's yours.  Leave me your name and your email addy, and you may just be hearing from me later today.  I really don't want this fab kit to go to waste.  As a bonus I'll even throw in the Add-On kit for you.  That's a sweet prize, hope I'll be sending it out to someone soon.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Here's hoping you've been inspired to create something wonderful soon!

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Winner, Winner

Thank you to everyone who took the time to stop by my blog and enter the giveaway.  I especially loved hearing how everyone documents Christmas.  Seems to be split down the middle with December Daily type albums and and assortment of layout ideas.  I kind of like the idea some of you do, in keeping all the Christmases in one album.  It would be fun to see the transformation from year to year of people, gifts, and home decor.

Once again a big thank you to Jessica from Scraptastic for sponsoring this giveaway.  I had 26 entries, including doubles and in some cases triple entries for those who shared on Facebook as well as Instagram.

The lucky winner according to Random Generator dot Org is.......

Big congrats Kristin.  This is all yours...

Please email me your snail mail to sherrifunk@gmail.com so I can get it off to Jessica, and she'll get your goodies out to you asap.  If I do not hear back from you by Friday, December 27 I will draw a new winner.

Thanks again everyone for playing along.  Be sure to follow me on Instagram.  I'll have a second giveaway before the end of the year.

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Creative Scrappers Reveal

Good morning friends,

It's that time again.  I was lucky to work with another fabulous sketch this week at Creative Scrappers.   I chose a photo of Darwin and I at our last Winnipeg Jets hockey game together.  Never in a million years, as a young adult would I have thought that I would love watching this sport as much as I do.  I can remember working with crazy Jets fans, die hard fans even during the many years the team was away in Phoenix.  And now, I'm proud to say I'm one of them.

Here is the layout I created for this week's reveal, using the new Echo Park Keeping Cozy collection.

Those white alphas are by BasicGrey, and I believe one of the oldest items in my stash.  It's one of the reasons I love playing with sketches so much, it allows me to use any product I choose.  It's a great way to use up your scrappy stash.  Sketches like this one are especially great for helping to use up scraps you've been saving too.

That awesome flair is from this set in the A Flair For Buttons Etsy shop.

The freebie snowflake file is from Daniela Dobson.

Since I didn't leave myself any room to journal inside the squares, I substituted the dotted lines in the sketch with some handwriting, and included some prima alphas to help the subject of my journaling stand out from the rest.

And this is the fab sketch Jenny created for us to work with.  

There are some really great takes on the sketch.  Be sure to hop over the the Creative Scrappers blog to see how the rest of the dt used it.  You'll also have until December 31, to link up a project using this sketch, and/or sketch #257, for your chance at awesome Twinery gift certificate.

On my blog, don't forget that you have a few more hours to get on my Scraptastic Giveaway.  You may still enter for a few more hours here.  Good luck to all.  

I also want to take this time to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas, and all the best for a wonderful holiday season.  I'll be back after the holidays with more scrahappiness to share.

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Sketchy Thursday with Scraptastic & a Giveaway

It's that time of the month at Scraptastic...when Susan inspires us to think outside our comfort zone and work with one of her her sketches.  I really loved this months' sketch, it was so easy to work with and allowed me to use several of the gorgeous papers in the Home For The Holidays Main kit, as well as the stamp set.

silhouette cut file by Juliana Michaels

This kit is gorgeous, perfect for this time of year.  The Fancy Pants Merry Little Christmas collection is my favourite Christmas Collection, and paired with Teresa Collins, Echo Park, and Carta Bella it's all that much more beautiful.

Embossed one of the stamps in the set and used red glitter Zing, the green tree is also from the set.

I raised the letters off the page using 3D tape.

Aren't those ornament wood veneers the cutest?!

 And how about an early Christmas gift for you?  Jessica has graciously offered me both the kit and stamp set to give away to one lucky person.  She will even take care of the shipping, she's that great!
All of this, could be on it's way to you to scrap your own Christmas/holiday memories.

Home For The Holidays Main Kit

Home For The Holidays Stamp Set

Here's how to enter:
1) Hop over to this post on the the Scraptastic Blog and leave Jessica a little love for the giveaway.
2) Make sure you're following my blog.
3) Leave me a comment letting me know how you document your Christmas photos (Dec Daily, Mini Album, a few scrappy pages says it all?  I'm always curious to know how others do it, I tend to jump around from year to year.

Want a bonus entry?  Simply share the link to this blog post on your FB page and leave me a comment telling me you've done so.

I will use Random Generator to choose a winner on Sunday at 6 pm CST, and post the winner on my blog on Monday morning.

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