Creative Scrappers - Sketch #257

It's a fabulous day for a reveal wouldn't you say?  Creative Scrappers has a new sketch for you to play with this week.  Here is my take on it using Fancy Pants, one of my new favourite manufacturers.

This is Eden and her little buddy Sarah immediately after after Sarah's crafty/dancey birthday party. They were getting a little nutty with the bling.  Of course being me, I had to snap a few photos.  I love that they 'get' each other.

the star is a Chic Tags rub-on, and the flair is A Flair For Buttons

The sketch was so simple, and easy it felt a little weird to not add a bunch of layers and embellishments, but it did feel great to complete the layout so quickly.  That's the best thing about sketches, and the Creative Scrappers challenge site.  They allows you to experiment with designs that are out of your usual area of comfort.

And here is Kristine's original sketch.  You can see that all I did was flip it to the left. 

Our sponsor this month is The Twinery.  

And they have a fabulous prize pack up for grabs from one lucky winner.  The winner is drawn at random and you may enter as many projects as you'd like, the only requirement is that we can still see the original sketch in your creation.  Hop over here to get all the details and see all the scrappy goodness our DT came up with for you this month.  And don't forget to link us up on Instagram and Pinterest, we love to see your work on the web, and you never know you might just be our featured layout.

Thanks so much for popping in today.  Happy Sunday.  I'm most looking forward to getting our Christmas tree today.  I just doesn't feel like Christmas yet, decorating and adding that wonderful Christmasy scent to the house will quickly change all that. Pin It

The Lovely Miss Jody

I created this layout for the A Flair For Buttons blog a while back.  Thought I'd share it with all of you here too.  I used the gorgeous Fall Themed October Scraptastic Kit.

Miss Jody has been such a source of inspiration for Théa, without her passion for teaching and challenging the kids the way she does, I'm not sure that Théa's love for Tap Dance would have ever evolved to the level it is.  

Journaling reads: Miss Jody - by her passion & humour and plain love for the discipline ignited a passion for Tap in Théa.  The girl is forever tapping: at the sink, while brushing her teeth, in her desk while working, in the shower!  Everywhere...I just love to watch her little feet make music.  I will be forever grateful to this great teacher.

I added a little visual interest to my background by stitching diagonal lines across the white cardstock, and misting a little over top of my mini chicken wire mask.  The quote I used I discovered on Pinterest somewhere (sorry I forgot to save the link for credit).

Hope you're feeling inspired to go and create something great.  You can see more of the Lovely Words sets in the shop here.

Thank you so much for stopping by today friends!

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Scraptastic Club's This Life Noted Kits

I have 2 Scraptastic pages to share with you today.  The first is from the October This Life Noted Kit

This has been my favourite kit to date.  I just loved the colours in this one.

I created that "love" frame on the bottom right using my Silhouette Cameo.

Notice that date card?  It was my favourite card in the kit, it has this cool linen look to it.  I also loved that like all of the cards in the kit  it is double sided. (all This Life Noted cards have BOTH landscape and portrait orientation)

I had originally glued the arrow to the wrong week on the card, but because it's double sided my error was quickly corrected simply by flipping card over and starting again.

My next page is using the November This Life Noted kit.

Another great colour combo in this one.

Used the stamp in the kit to create the hearts on that bottom left card.  Same with the zig zags, and tiny hearts on the cards below.

 

Pulled a couple of alphas from previous kits to complete my title, and secured all the alphas by stitching them to the cards.  Also pulled in a couple of pieces for the Home Add On Kit, and one tag from my stash on this page.

Using kits makes the documenting process fast and enjoyable.  I used to use just my scraps to create my Moments In Between album.  This is so much faster, as everything is already colour coordinated and prettied up for you.  All you need to do is add your photos (and if your like me a few ebellies too), and you're done.  You can see what's coming up for December's kits here.  They are Ah-Mazing, I can't wait to receive mine.  This is the first month where I could not decide which kit to go with, so I chose both :)

Have a great day friends, and thanks for stopping by!

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My Thankful Tray

Happy Friday friends!

Here is a project I shared over on the Scraptastic Blog earlier this week.  I have never done a Printer's Tray before, but knew I wanted to attempt it when I saw Jessica's fabulous Fall kit.

That "thankful" die cut was just begging to be used on this project.  The bling behind the cardstock sticker is one from my stash, as is the teeny tiny bling on the sentiment.

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the Dr. Suess quote out.  

I borrowed a card from the November This Life Noted kit to add to my tray.  I thought it was perfect for documenting the date of the photo session.

And here is how my first attempt at a printer's tray turned out.

please excuse the glare I was having trouble finding just the right spot, where glare, nor shadow would affect my photo

For more inspo on using the Home Main, and Add On Kits, you should pop over to the Scraptastic Gallery, both the dt and our super talented members have great projects to share.  And to see what's coming up for December hop over to this post, but I'm warning you, be prepared to have your socks knocked off, Jessica's put together more amazing kits to get your mojo going.

Thanks for stopping by today, hope you're feeling inspired to create something great.  Oh, and you still have a couple of days to get in on my Hidden Element challenge, for your chance at a Scraptastic Shop gift certificate.  You can check out the challenge details here.

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Moments In Between Pages

I used the Dear Lizzy 5th & Frolic Project to document the week of October 20-26.  Went with more of a pinky brown colour scheme for the week.

The was the weekend of Triple Threat Winnipeg.  The girls and I spent all day Saturday and all day Sunday at the convention centre.  They: danced under the instruction of some of the best choreographers in the industry.  I, on the other hand kept busy walking from one room to the next watching them do what they do best.

Notice anything wrong with that 1st photo on the left?  haha.  Missed that one.

Darwin and I started the week with a Date Night at the Jets vs Predators game, where I finally got my Pavelec jersey.  My hubby bought it for me with a little bonus cash he earned at work, he's a keeper. You can barely tell that I have it on in the photo, haha.  This bottom photo on the right, has some Amy Tangerine stencil stitching on it, love that.  The blue you see next to it, is a smudged photo.  I no longer remember what I had stamped, but now it's gone.  I had used a Ranger's Ink thinking it would be smudge proof on my photo, but I was wrong.  Anyone have a good ink for stamping on photos they can recommend?

I'm happy to report I'm only 2 weeks behind in my album.  I actually prefer it that way, it gives me the freedom to use a Becky Higgins kit or a Sraptastic one when it arrives.  When I'm caught up I don't have that option.

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Her Best Day Ever

Ever have an idea pop into your head for a layout design, and you just have to get it out asap?

I had the idea for this background on the way home from dropping the kids off at school on Thursday last week, and just had to come home and get it out.  Thanks to the lovely greyness of the skies here, and working Friday and Saturday, I was unable to get a photo of the layout until this afternoon when I got home from work.  I loved the Fall paper combinations, and colours in the November Scraptastic Home kit so much, I wanted to showcase them all at once on the same layout, and thought that something like this would be a great way to do it.

You can still see how completely thrilled she is to have opened her new 5c.

Pulled in some of the embellishments from the November This Life Noted kit, as well as the Add-On kit here also.  Really love the colours of the sequins this month.

 Took the smile sentiment and used 3D foam tape to pop it off the page.

The brown letters were from the This Life Noted kit also.  And I typed the "14th birthday surprise" onto a scrap piece of cardstock, and popped it off the page, layered over top of one of the cardstock stickers in the kit.

We celebrated Belle's 14th birthday last Wednesday.  Belle was shocked when she opened this iPhone.  If there is anything we've learned as parents it is to never say never.  As much as we thought we would never buy our kids a phone, we certainly changed our tune.  With the amount of time this one is at school late, or out with friends, or late at the Dance Studio, we found it would certainly be worth the extra few dollars a month to be able to get ahold of her whenever we need to, and vice-versa.  All that to say we caved, and she's one happy girl.

Thanks for stopping by today friends.  I sure appreciate it.

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eta: my friend Nicole just posted these gorgeous layouts on the Scraptastic Blog today.  Seeing them again today, I remembered that she shared them on FB awhile back, when she first completed them.  As much as I thought the stitched triangles were my genius idea, I think my sub-conscience might have remembered seeing them on her project.  Bummer, I thought they were my idea, but she obviously used the idea first so I want to give credit where credit is due.  You can see more of Nicole's gorgeous work on her blog here.

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Creative Scrappers Reveal

It's that time again.  Another reveal at Creative Scrappers is up today.    

Here is my take on Jenny's cool sketch.

I used scraps of the School House Collection I had laying around from the last Chic Tags layout I created.

I think these Amy Tangerine Thickers may be my favourite ones ever.  I sticked through them allowing me to achieve the design I was after.

Isn't that wood grain paper so great?  I stitched the banner on, then layered a few Studio Calico wood veneer shapes onto it.  I also added a few Chic Tags gold star rub-ons around my journaling.  They are really great quality.  I love using them.  

Here is Jenny's sketch.  Pretty funky right?!

We are lucky to have the Paper Issues girls joining us this reveal.  All this week they have been giving us plenty of inspiration to take in using this sketch.  Cassis has offered to sponsor us this month also.  Playing along with this sketch, or our previous sketch may get you a $30 gift certificate to the Paper Issues Shop.  There is so much to choose from in there, anyone would be thrilled to score this prize.

Hop over to the Creative Scrappers blog  to have a peek at the rest of the dt examples, and link up your take on the sketch for your chance at this month's prize.

Thanks for stopping in.  Enjoy your Sunday!

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