Merry Memories Layout with Wild Whisper!

 Hello friends! I'm sharing a Christmas layout today on the Wild Whisper Blog, and I'm excited to share the non-Christmas supplies I'm using ;) I love looking back on old photos and these ones where my two youngest were so little make my heart happy!! They always had so much fun playing with the ornaments on the tree. It's funny looking at these years later I notice one of my girls has her treasured blanket close, as always, and the other has kicked off her socks - just like she still does, lol. I'm using the SCT365 2020 November layout sketch as my inspiration!

Don't forget to use the code DTKARLA to save 10% off at the Wild Whisper Shop!!

Supplies:

Nicole Wright Tinbit Travels Paper Pack

Nicole Wright Worn Graph Stencil

Play In The Dirt Sequin Pack 

One More Chapter Sequin Pack & Stamps

Back to Basics Capital Letters and Brush Script Stamps

Thanks so much for stopping by! Be sure to check out all the closeups and details on the Wild Whisper Blog, and have an amazing, crafty weekend!!

Scrapping Christmas & New Years with the Scrap Shotz December Kit!

Hello! I'm popping in today to share two more layouts using the December 2019 Kit featuring the gorgeous Kaisercraft Starry Night collection. I love all the gold accents in this kit and decided it wasn't just for Christmas... I needed to get my New Years pics scrapped too!

 Thanks so much for stopping by! You can find all the details, closeups and more on the Scrap Shotz Blog!! Have an awesome week friends.

Linked to:
SSS Monday Challenge - New (New Years!)
Creative Scrapbooker Magazine January Sketchy Challenge

With Sugar On Top Scrapbook Layout!

I hope all my US friends had a wonderful Thanksgiving Weekend! I had lots of fun playing in the 15 Minutes 2 Scrap with SpiegelMom Scraps this weekend. It is such a great community of creative, crafty girls, and one worth checking out! There were some awesome challenges and lots of inspiration going on as well as some great sales over at the SpiegelMom Scraps Store! I'll post a code below for the Cyber Monday Sale!

One of the challenges was to create an 8 1/2 x 11 layout using gold letters, a stencil, and mixed media. This was a bit of a challenge since I'm a 12 x 12 scrapbooker! But it was definitely fun, and I love how it turned out. I started off using a sketch from the October Sketchy Challenge on the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine website and adapted it to fit my page. Using an off white background I stenciled white snowflakes using a Dina Wakley stencil and white Ranger texture paste in three different clusters on my page and then splattered some pretty Christmas coloured mists on my page using Tattered Angels Mists in Sage and Wild Currant along with some Tim Holtz Mica Mist. I also used the Glimmer Mists to colour in the seam binding ribbon on my journaling tag.

I used the gumdrop stamps from the Pretty Cute Stamps Gingerbread House clear stamp set on some white cardstock that I had misted with the Glimmer Mists, as well as a couple sentiments - one stamped directly onto my photo. The diecuts are from the Winter Frolic Cricut cartridge, which was a free cut of the week. I created three distinct clustered areas on my layout with the stenciled areas, diecuts, stamps and sequins to create a visual triangle around my photos.

For the gold lettering element, I used Emerald Creek Charred Gold embossing powder on my diecut letters. This embossing powder is fantastic! I love the gold with pops of black in it.  I was so excited to recently pick up this embossing powder, Gold Confetti SpiegelMom Scraps sequins and amazing Holiday Style patterned papers from the new Canadian Wild Whisper Shop, and to use all these wonderful goodies on my layout! I had lots of fun using these pretty papers on my diecut images and fussy cutting out the pretty stars from one of the papers. I even added a bit of sugary Stickles to my letters for some extra detail.

Here's that code for the SpiegelMom Scraps Store if you feel like doing a little Cyber Monday shopping ;) 

Thanks so much for stopping by today! As December approaches we're looking forward to doing lots of Christmas activities and enjoying a happy Holiday season once again. I hope you had a wonderful weekend and have a creative and joyful week ahead!

Linked to:
Emerald Creek Dares - AG (You can get 10% off your order at the Emerald Creek Store just by entering!)
Lasting Memories December Challenge - Glitter and Glam
DL Art - Nov Linky Challenge

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Nov Link Up

CHNC - #309 Use a Sentiment - Christmas themed

CHNC Challenge Extra - Nov Link Up AG Christmas

Sunny Day Crafting - AG

Little Scrap Pieces - Show It Off Saturday

PDE Linky Party - Anything But A Card

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Christmas To Die For (diecut & Christmas)

SSS Monday Challenge - Trio Tastic (3 clustered areas of embellishments)

DCD - AG

Creative Scrapbooker Magazine - October 2016 Sketch

Scrapping Everyday Miracles - January Challenge!

I can't believe it! The whirlwind of December is behind us! We had an awesome Christmas, but sometimes trying to fit in all those things in one month can be a little tiring. I had a lovely holiday, and now I'm looking forward to the new year and having a little more me time ;)

It's time again now for the challenge over at the Scrapping Everyday Miracles blog, and this month I am doing the sketch layout challenge. I actually turned the sketch on its side to do my layout. That's the great thing about sketches - you can use them as a starting point and go from there! I had an extra 3x4 photo of my girls on the day they visited Santa and I had gotten a little gift from a Christmas Tag class I went to which was these beautiful Graphic 45 postcards/journaling cards. I love the colours in them and they worked perfectly for layering.

I cut the Santa Hat with my Cricut Explore and used another Cricut diecut - the holly leaves and berries to layer in the corner. I added some Glossy Accents on to the berries and then sprinkled on some glitter while it was still wet. I cut the prongs off this sweet Christmas tree brad and added it to the center of the snowflake with a foam dot.

I dug through my stash of Christmas papers to find this pretty woodgrain paper that have some silver snowflakes along with the printed colours. I thought it worked perfectly with the Merry Christmas diecut that someone had given me in some Happy Mail!

I was just so happy with the candy cane outfits I found for the girls this year - and of course these were what they had to wear for their special visit!

Here's a look at the layout sketch this month - 

Don't forget we also have a card sketch and bible verse to challenge you as well! You have all month to enter - just visit the Scrapping Everyday Miracles blog to enter your project on the January 1st blog post link up.

Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope you had a lovely holiday and very Happy New Year!

Linked to:
DL Art - Thankful Thursday January Linky Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Winter Wonderland
Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge - AG Christmas
CHNC - Christmas Challenge Extra January Link up

613 Avenue Create - AG

CHNC Patterned Paper Challenge - January Link Up

Crafting From The Heart - AG 

PDE Linky Party - AG!

Project Life App!

I hope you all have had a lovely Christmas! I have really enjoyed the past week and I'm really getting into my daughter being home for Christmas break - but it seems that bedtimes are creeping later and the girls are sleeping in - so I guess over the next few days we'll have to adjust that!

Have you been keeping up with all the amazing pocket page projects Janis from Bimini Moose has been sharing?! She's been working on her 2014 year in review layouts and they are so inspiring!!

I've been having so much fun playing around with the Project Life App on my iPad! I thought I'd share a few layouts I've created over the past few days featuring some holiday moments.

I'm going to try printing these out & I'll let you know how that turns out! I think I'll use an 8x8 format and put them in an album. I'm still trying to work out how I will structure my 2015 paper Project Life album, but like anything else, I guess it will be a work in progress and I'll just dive in!

Hope everyone has a happy and safe New Years! Be sure to check back as I will be posting more pocket page scrapbook pages and next week we will be posting our first ever Bimini Moose Pocket Page Challenge!!

Linked to:
DL Art - Thankful Thursday December Linky Challenge
Little Scrap Pieces - Show It Off Saturday Dec 27
613 Avenue Create - AG
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - AG