Triangle Love With Bella Rouge

The Bella Rouge Collection has got to me one of my favourite most recent collections. The colour combo and patterns are perfect for all my girlie photos, but I can see the black that's mixed in offering excellent options for more male themed layouts also.  I was excited to to combine several of the patterned papers with the Rad Triangles free cut file created by fellow DT member Jen Chapin.

You can grab the FREE Rad Triangles Cut file here in the Paper Issues shop.

The die cut ephemera packs have become my new favourite embellishments.  Such great value for your dollar with over 80 pieces in a package, and so much variety with both cardstock and acetate designs included.

I am thinking that it's time to put together a mini album documenting my baby girls emergency surgery a couple of months ago, and this collection should be the perfect for it.  The circumstances may have been scary and emotional, but the bright cheery colours of this collection will help to highlight all the positive that came out of the whole drama filled week.

Speaking of the happy collections of Pink Paislee have yu seen that they are having a DT call?  I've gathered my courage and finally applied.  Every year when the call comes around I chicken out of actually submitting my application.  Well this year that all changed.  Would love for some scrappy friends to join me in the nerve wracking process of putting it all on the line and waiting the long torturous wait :)  Good luck to all those who apply.

You can still get your hands on much of this collection in the Paper Issues shop.  Use my code at checkout and save yourself 20% off everything in your cart.

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NYE with Paper Camellia

The January Main kit from Paper Camellia was just packed with gorgeous soft pinks and greens, with touches of blue and gold; just perfect for this girl.  I find it so easy to pull pages together using soft tones, and this page using the only Main Kit was no exception.

The full 6x12 sticker pack that was included in the kit had so many gorgeous stickers with gold foil. Both the flower stickers and the scalloped border sticker are from this package.

I cut a strip of vellum and put it directly into my typewriter to document what I wanted to say, and simply used a little white glue to adhere the wood veneer.  See those gold puffy stickers?  Once again there was an entire package included in the (now sold out) January Main kit.  Just look at how gorgeous they are

Ever see a sticker that you want to use, but don't want the text that's on it?  Simple solution use another sticker to cover it up.  This teeny tiny gold puffy heart sticker was perfect for covering up the "date" that had been printed on the blue flag sticker.

How have you been using your January main kit?  We would love to see.  You can link up to our gallery here.  You can even tag us on Facebook or Instagram using #papercamellia. Can't wait to see what you've been working on.  And if you are ready to start start getting in on the fun that is a monthly delivery from Paper Camellia check out the subscription details here.

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Favourite Projects of 2014

It's always fun to look back over the year and pull out some of my favourites.  I completely a little over 200 layouts last year, a couple of mini albums, and a handful of cards, in addition to the odd altered project.  I thought I would share with you 14 of my favourite projects over the past 12 months.  Since they've all been blogged and detailed on my blog throughout the year I'll spare you more chatter and just let the photos speak for themselves.

Enjoy!

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Paper Camellia January Sketch

My very first project for Paper Camellia was to work with the January sketch.  Kristine Davidson provided us with a fun one to kick off the year. I grabbed a couple of cell phone 'daughter selfies', and set to work.

How gorgeous is this Beautiful Chic wood grain paper, combined with the luscious gold of the Dear Lizzy embellishments?  And that gold title, it's foam!  I was curious how these gold words would look being foam and not chipboard.  I am a fan, so easy to work with, easy to peel away from the backing, and easy to re-position (especially for non commital scrappers like myself, hats off to all of you who use glue on your pages!)

This kid is forever grabbing my phone and capturing her silly moments with it.  I secretly enjoy finding these little treasures on my phone, they always make for fun scrappy pages. I chose to keep the journaling hidden, thinking that having 3 photos on the page would leave me little room once I added all the embellies that I wanted.  The tag peeking out add to the design and that fun little cluster and also holds the story behind the photo.

Here is this month's sketch.

Did you know that playing along with the sketch, and linking up to the Paper Camellia gallery here, or even the sketch blog post here could earn you a $10 gift certificate to the Paper Camellia shop?  We would love to see what you create.  And don't forget you can also share your work with us anytime on social media.  You'll find our Facebook Page here, and our Instagram account here.

Thinking about getting your hands on a Paper Camellia kit next month?  Hop over to this page and sign up now, these kits don't last long, January is already all sold out.

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Christmas Smiles

Over the past couple of years I've have become more diligent about including more "real life" pages into my scrapbooks.  I want my scrapbooks to reflect a good sense of what life was really like for us through these years.  So often it's easiest to scrap the happy occasions, and fun moments and memories.  But, that's not all life is made up of over the course of the 365 days of the year, and I really want to be able to look back over the years and remember all that life was really made of: the good, the bad, and everything inbetween.

This photo of the Darwin and I brings a mix of emotions to my mind and my heart.  This past year was not all that we had envisioned for our family.  There were some ups, and many downs for both of us, but especially in his world.  This photo of us standing strong alongside one another, at this emotional time of year is such an example to our kids of what a healthy marriage is all about.  Not perfection, but love, and respect, and support in all seasons. It doesn't mean everything works out perfectly in the end, but is sure helps to sail the rough waters.

This photo and all the emotions it holds will find it's place among my Christmas pages. The joy of Christmas is ultimately found in HOPE, great big LOVE, and FAMILY, and I am so happy he's a part of mine.

The Silver & Gold Christmas set is such a beautiful compliment to the colours of the Pink Paislee Merry & Bright collection.  

I love how classy, and elegant they are.  The others in the set will likely find their way onto a New Year's Eve page in the very near future.

You can get your hands on these and other Christmas flair, including several new vintage styles in the A Flair For Buttons Etsy shop right here.

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On The Slopes

Who would have ever guessed that the Funks would have become a ski family?  It's only too bad that we live so far from the mountains?  It's one of the major reasons why living in Calgary is a dream we have.  To be able to wake up and be on the slopes in just over an hour would be such a treat.  Not sure if it will ever happen for us, but we can always dream.

I found a way to use us some older A Flair For Buttons badges and combined them with the Oh Deer Collection by Fancy Pants and created a winter themed layout.

Seeing this photo makes me even more anxious to get my gear on and get back out there. here's hoping that we may be able to get back to Banff at some point this year. 

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Inspired by Webster's

I had a couple of layouts up on the Paper Issues blog last week using the Ocean Melody collection by Webster's Pages.

This collection is so soft and whimsical, it was super easy to pretty pages quickly.  This is Belle with my mother-in-law just before her Grade Nine grade ceremony at the school last June.  I mixed in a little Chic Tags Get Happy Collection, and buttons from an older Webster's Pages collection, and voila, page complete.

This one is of my niece and her finance on the afternoon that they got engaged.  Super easy, to create a sweet page when you have a couple as sweet as they are.

Love this collection as much as me?  

Have you seen the new Storyteller Collection?

What about the Beautiful Chic Collection?  

This gorgeous sheet is vellum.

You can see all the new Webster's collections in the Paper Issues shop here.  Use code:SHERRI and you'll save yourself 20% off your entire purchase.

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