SpiegelMom Scraps - Hello Spring Layout!

Hi friends! I hope you've been enjoying your September!! I've been a bit busier than normal behind the scenes, so I haven't been around here as much the last couple weeks, but it'll be back to normal soon enough! Today I'm excited to share a beautiful layout on the SpiegelMom Scraps blog, where we are scraplifting our Guest Designer this month, Jenn Gagne! Here's a look at the pretty springtime layout I created:

I had a lot of fun creating this layout, and I love the shimmery watercoloured background and pretty sequins together! Be sure to head over to the SpiegelMom Scraps blog to see all the details and closeups!! And don't forget to use the code KARLA15 to save 15% off all your fabulous finds at the SpiegelMom Scraps Shop!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a fabulous week and weekend ahead. I'll be helping out at a couple booths at the Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnival in Calgary, Alberta on Saturday - and I can't wait to check out all the awesome inspiration there. 😀

Linked to:

FFC 206 - AG

DL Art - Thankful Thursday Sept Challenge

CNHC Patterned Paper - September Link Up

Word Art Wednesday - #300-301 AG

LM #362 - Plaids (plaid paper by PhotoPlay)

SSS Monday Challenge - Shimmer & Shine (Tattered Angels Iridescent Gold Mist & Sequins)

SpiegelMom Scraps - You Are Perfect Scraplift!

Hello friends! This month is all about Scraplifting at the SpiegelMom Scraps blog - and today I'm sharing my scraplift of the amazing Katty Miranda! If you've never seen her work before, be sure to check her out! Today I'm using the Wild & Free and Jaded Hearts sequin mixes from SpiegelMom Scraps as well as the Kaisercraft Nesting Circle Stitched Dies available in the shop.

Be sure to check out the SpiegelMom Scraps blog for all the details and closeups on this layout! And don't forget to use the code KARLA15 on all your purchases at the SpiegelMom Scraps store to save 15% off your order!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Wishing you a fabulous rest of your week!

Linked to:

DL Art - Thankful Thursday August Challenge
Word Art Wednesday - #294/295 AG

Jo's Scrap Shack - #200 AG

This Is Everything and Born To Ride Layouts using Fancy Free!

I am having way too much fun using the Fancy Free papers designed by Paige Evans for Pink Paislee! Here are two more layouts I've put together in the last couple days with photos from a camping trip I had printed as 5x7's a while ago. My daughter, Amie was 4 here - and now she's 9 - I can't believe how time flies. My youngest, Erica is now 4 and it's interesting to see how they are similar and different. This is one of my favourite reasons for scrapbooking - reminiscing about older photos and the fond memories they bring back!

For the first one I used this amazing butterfly cut file from The Cut Shoppe - you can find it FREE here on their blog post. They really do have amazing cut files! I backed it with paper from the Fancy Free collection - I love how the multicolour paper looks behind this cut file!

Here's a close up of this butterfly - so fun! I cut it large, but I think I'll do a few more smaller sized ones for cards. I used pop dots to add some dimension. 

The title is a cut file by Crafty Jen Schow - included with the Ready, Sketch, Go class. I used Prismacolor and Hobby Color Markers to colour my title and add a bit of shading.

Some Distress Ink coloured my wooden flower embellishment and I added a round puffy sticker dot to the center. I added some hand stitching using embroidery floss around my page by first piercing the paper and then stitching with a large needle and the floss.

The second layout was inspired by the May Sketch (below) over at the Scraproom Blog and the Die Cuttin' Divas challenge this week to use a bike. Everytime I look through the Fancy Free paper pad I see another paper I just have to use!

I used layers of paper strips and washi with stickers and some circles cut from the paper pad to create a layer of embellishments. Some more of that pretty embroidery floss is tied through my tag.

This cute bike is cut from the Cricut Spring Fling cartridge. I used papers from my 6x6 Maggie Holmes Crate Paper pad to cut it and coloured in parts with Distress Markers. A cluster of embellishments, washi and papers finish off my tag that I tucked in between the photos.

I wrote my journaling on the background strip and added a title 'Born To Ride' which I cut from a font in Cricut Design Space.

Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope you get some crafty time for yourself this weekend. It's a long weekend for us, but supposed to rain, so I will probably have to do a bit more scrapbooking ;)!

Linked to:

The Scraproom Blog - May Sketch Challenge using the right side of the layout

Die Cuttin' Divas - #266 Bike Month (bike cut from Spring Fling Cricut Cart)

FCCB #276 - Things With Wings!

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #276- Things with wings-create a card or project with wings

This Weeks Sponsor

Aurora Wings

The winner will recieve $10 gift certificates!

Create a project inspired by Mother's Day

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images.

If it isn't a card, you will get two entries into the drawing!

Here is my project:

I just loved this Whimsical Raspberry Sprite digi stamp from Aurora's Wings, and I thought she'd look so sweet inside a pretty wreath of flowers from the Dimensional Scenes Pretty Posies Cricut cartridge! I used a card base from the Cricut Sentimentals cartridge, which has a lovely scrolled edge. 

I glued each layer of this pretty wreath directly on top of each other, and there's still a lot of dimension, but you could easily add more by adding some foam dots. 

I coloured this sweet sprite by using Prismacolor and Hobby Color Markers (alcohol based) after printing her out on a thin white cardstock. I put the cardstock through my printer just as I would a piece of plain paper, only changing my ink settings to Fast Draft so there was a bit less ink on the paper. I added some Wink of Stella to the flower, Glossy Accents to the eyes and flower center, and Stickles to the rest of her. She's just so cute!

I pulled a diecut butterfly from my stash and ran it through an embossing folder before adding some Distress Inks to it. A foam dot gives it a bit more dimension and some Wink Of Stella adds some shine!

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to hop on over to the FCCB blog to see what all the other Design Team members have come up with, enter your own project, and have a super awesome week!

Color Burst Feminine Card!

I am really loving playing with my new Color Burst powders! They do such fun things when you add water to them, and I love the vibrant watercolours they make. I had fun making some background papers using them last week with my 4 year old. She thought it was really cool too! Having that pretty background already done made this card quick and easy.

I used a face stamp and words from a Dina Wakley stamp set to stamp on my Color Burst background before cutting my face out with some Spellbinder's nesting dies and then popping them up over my script paper background and washi tape.

I love the words that come with the face stamps! The butterfly stamp is from a Prima set that a friend recently sent me. After stamping I hand cut around them and glued them down in the middle only so I could pull up the wings to add some dimension.

Inside, I used this sentiment from a stamp set I love from Pink and Main - Believe Script, and used a strip of the background paper along with another butterfly.

Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope you get some crafty, inky time this week!

Linked to:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Butterfly Beauty

FCCB #249- Welcome Spring

Welcome to another Challenge Me Monday...

Challenge #249 Welcome Spring
Make a project using whatever reminds you of Spring!

This Weeks Sponsor:

Winner will receive one Craftin Desert Diva's stamp set of their choice!

(USA address only)

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images.

For my project this week I decided to make an art journal page. I used the Home For The Holidays Spring & Summer cartridge for the 'Spring Has Sprung' cut and the Florals Embellished cartridge for the flowers and butterfly. I cut everything from watercolour paper and then used Dylusions sprays on them to colour them in bright spring colours. I spritzed with Perfect Pearls spray mist over top of the Dylusions sprays to blend and add some shine - I love this effect!

My background pages were pages that I just had previously rubbed left over sprays on after stencilling other pages. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with these pages, and this turned out to be the perfect opportunity! I used a Heidi Swapp stencil and a shimmery gold spray over top of the background to spray the sunray stencil. I added Dylusions stamps and sentiments and then coloured them in with Dylusions sprays using a paint brush dipped directly into the spray. My diecut flowers are lined up down the middle of the first page, right in the middle of the sunray!

I used Mod Podge to layer the watercolour diecuts on my background after stamping and sponging the new Pistachio Distress Ink all over my pages.

 I hope Spring really has sprung here in Alberta, Canada! I'm ready for sure!!

Thanks so much for joining me today! Be sure to head over to the Fantabulous Cricut Blog and check out what all the other talented Design Team Members have done - and enter your own project with at least one Cricut cut! I hope you enjoy your week :)

Linked to:

Little Scrap Pieces -Show It Off Saturday

613 Avenue Create - AG (1st entry)

Create & Inspire - #18 AG (2nd entry)

Inspiration Destination - #28 AG

Party Time Tuesdays - #197 AG (1st entry)

4 Crafty Chicks - #241 Die Cuts (2nd entry)

Jo's Scrap Shack - #83 Florals & Butterflies

Little Red Wagon - #284 Spring Is In The Air

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - In the Middle (on my first page - diecut flowers)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - April Showers/Spring Flowers

Sister Birthday

It's my beautiful sister, Jann's birthday this week and of course I needed to make her an awesome card!

I recently picked up the February 2013 issue of a UK magazine Craft Stamper with some beautiful card ideas in it, and it came with a butterfly stamp included from Darkroom Door and then a bunch of ideas for using the stamp. I just loved this card and thought it turned out quite close to how it was pictured.

I stamped off the ink once before stamping onto the background to get a much lighter impression and then blended my Distress Inks over each layer. For the very top butterfly layer I stamped and cut an extra butterfly and attached it with foam tape to give it dimension and then covered it with Glossy Accents.

I also wanted to share a Kobo Touch case I made as a gift for her. I got the pattern from the Quilt Knit Run Sew blog. This is the second one I've made and I'm so pleased with how well it turned out and how easy it was to whip up!

 

I sewed on a piece of fabric and button hole/button to keep it closed.

 

This is what it looks like open, and you slide the Kobo Touch inside the pocket on the left

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend with lots of creative inspiration!