At The Park BoBunny Layout!

Well, here in Canada it was the Victoria Day Long Weekend and our family enjoyed it at home, but we did lots! I spent Friday with my 8 year old, Amie, cleaning and reorganizing her room! We cleared out a lot of stuff - some garbage, some goodwill, lots of old clothes... Then, we had a mommy-daughter date and went to a couple home stores where she picked out some special items for her room. It was so nice to just spend some time together and she was so thoughtful with what she wanted to put in her room. We had a lovely time and her room looks fantastic!

Later Saturday it actually snowed here! So, we stayed in and did lots of crafty stuff on Sunday, and then today we enjoyed a full morning at a local amusement park, Calaway Park. The kids had so much fun and it was so amazing to see how much they had grown and what rides they could now go on! Erica, who's 3, was super excited to be able to go on the planes and the swings!

Of course, I had to get in some scrapbooking! I wanted to do a layout with these sweet pictures of Erica in the baby swing. She's getting so big now that she really doesn't fit in it anymore and I know it's probably one of the last few times she's even going to want to get in it.

I used the BoBunny Primrose 12x12 papers that you can cut apart into journalling cards for this layout - I just love the browns, greens and pinks in this collection - and I layered the cards and pics into a grid pattern following the May Sketchy Challenge over at Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine.

I added some paper diecuts from a Maggie Holmes Crate Paper pack - her Open Book collection. I love, love, love these pieces! The 'e' included in the pack was perfect to add to the page, especially since Erica thinks anything that starts with an E spells her name!

I layered on the diecuts with the Primrose paper to create little mini pages within the grid - I love how they turned out! These would be perfect to do with pocket pages as well!

Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope you enjoyed a relaxing and crafty weekend and have a lovely week ahead! And be sure to check out some awesome Canadian Shopping with Scrapendipity!

Linked to:
613 Avenue Create - AG
DL Art - Thankful Thursday May Linky  Challenge
Inspiration Destination - #33 AG
Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge - #239 Gratitude (so thankful for Erica and this time she's little)
Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine - May Sketchy Challenge

Pretty Cute Stamps Feature - Watercolour Gnomie Card!

Ohhhh, the stamps included in this Gnomies set by Pretty Cute Stamps are sooo cute! They make me smile every time I see them! I found a scrap of wood grain white cardstock in my stash and thought it would be perfect as the background for this watercolour card. I love the look of top folding cards and rounding the bottom edges just seems to add a fun element. And, in case your wondering, this very pretty paper in the background would be a piece from the Brushed Collection from CTMH!

I used a 'no line' watercolouring technique here - I stamped my images with Antique Linen Distress Ink onto watercolour paper and then used Distress and Tombow Markers to watercolour in the images. Because the Antique Linen is water reactive and a light colour it simply blends into the colour marker I used and you don't see a rigid stamped line!

I stamped the 'clouds' with a speech bubble from the Let's Talk stamp set from Pretty Cute Stamps - another of my favs! Then I used a white gel pen to draw stitching lines around the edge after watercolouring and stamping with a couple adorbable Gnomie sentiments.

Taking a cue from Raven, another one of the talented Pretty Cute Stamps Design Team members who is always doing something incredibly crafty, I used Shrinky Dinks plastic to stamp on the mushroom house and coloured it in with Prismacolor Markers before shrinking it with my heat gun. How cute?!! Wouldn't this make a cute charm for a bracelet?!

Inside, I stamped the speech bubble and added the Hello sentiment using the Let's Talk set. A few sequins adds the finishing touch.

 Gnomies

Let's Talk

 Thank you so much for stopping by today! I hope you're inspired to do something crafty today :) The Pretty Cute Stamps store is always open and you can see what inspires you to create!

Linked to:
613 Avenue Create - AG
DL Art - Thankful Thursday May Linky  Challenge
Inspiration Destination - #33 AG
Little Scrap Pieces - Show It Off Saturday

Project Life Weeks 12 & 13!

Wow, can't believe it's the May Long Weekend already (here in Canada)! The school year has flown and we are in the home stretch. It is true that as you get older the time seems to fly so quickly. I think that's one reason I'm really enjoying PL this year - I can focus on the little details each week that I would otherwise forget.

I used the Project Life app to print a lot of the journalling cards using the 'Playful Edition' set. On the bottom left I've layered one of these cute animal cards over a CTMH Picture My Life card and added some handwritten journalling on the side. I love the layered look of the PML cards!

I used another CTMH Picture My Life card in the pocket in the top left of this page, layering on some Maggie Holmes die cuts. Some text from the Rhonna Designs app adds a little playfulness to my photos as well. The thin CTMH washi tape on the bottom left card is so awesome!

 I used more of the 'Playful Edition' cards for Week 13 and the Rhonna Designs app for the combo card/picture of the March Tim Holtz Tag I created. I like being able to collage the two 3x4 pics in the Project Life app and have the option of cutting them to put into my smaller pockets or leaving them as a 4x6.

I used a whole page for my St. Paddy's themed pics - I had a vintage looking photo that I cut to fit into my pocket, layering it on a green piece of patterned paper from the Forever Young BoBunny collection. The green heart paper in the bottom left pocket is from the same collection - one of those paper packs that you know you should probably get two of!

I used some older patterned paper from my stash in the top pockets of this layout and tried to separate the two different events that were happening on this page - Our dino visit at the mall on the top half and a family dinner on the bottom half - by keeping my patterns and colours separate. This gorgeous journalling card on the bottom right is from the 'Laughing Lola' Picture My Life CTMH set - I think this is one of my fav sets!

Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope you have time to do what you love this weekend - take some time for yourself, relax and make yourself happy! Don't forget to check out the Bimini Moose blog current challenge going on right now - and enter your own anything goes scrapbook project for a chance to win a super sweet cut file!

Linked to:

DL Art - Thankful Thursday May Linky Challenge

Cookin' & Craftin' - Thursday Link Up 

Word Art Wednesday - #183 AG

Inspiration Destination - #33 AG

Jo's Scrap Shack - #87 AG

Exciting News and Coffee Card Set!

CLICK HERE for the current ScrapbookerPhD challenge
CLICK HERE for the current FCCB challenge

I am sooooo excited to announce that I am now designing for my friend, Selena who runs the Scrapmobile here in Calgary, Alberta and has an online store you can shop from!! Her blog is Scrapendipity Way Of Life  and you can also follow her on Facebook at the Scrapendipity page to find out all the new and exciting things that are going on!! You can find me posting here and there every Tuesday!

This week I wanted to share a card set I made featuring the Tim Holtz coffee blueprint stamps. I coloured them with Prismacolor Markers, which are alcohcol based, and gel pens. After colouring my images I cut them out with Spellbinders Nestabililities dies and my Cuttlebug and then layered them on some papers from the Echo Park Made From Scratch Collection and some Gorjuss Girl paper.

I wanted to make a coordinated set of greeting cards that my daughter could give as part of a teacher gift at the end of the school year. Holy cow, that's coming up soon!

Inside and Envelope - 

I stamped a Tim Holtz sentiment stamp inside using Faded Jeans Distress Ink and then used a CTMH coffee stain stamp to add details. The sentiment on the envelope is from the same CTMH set. I still wanted to keep the inside and envelope fairly clean and simple, but wanted to tie it together with the 'coffee' theme. And, of course, I had to add a little Distress Ink ;)

Thank you so much for joining me and sharing this exciting news!! Please sign up to be a follower in the sidebar, and you can also find me on Facebook - I'll be having a giveaway at 100 likes and I'm almost there! You can check out the Scrapendipity Way Of Life Blog too so you are sure to not miss out on any exciting news!!

Have an awesome week and be crafty!

Linked to:
Deconstructing Jen- Sketch #200

Sister Act Card Challenge - AG cards

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Blog - Use a Sentiment

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - AG w/ patterned paper

Scribble and Scrap Crafts - AG

613 Avenue Create - AG

Bimini Moose Scrapbook Challenge - AG with optional twist: Family Favourites!

Happy Tuesday! I'm back today to bring you another Pocket Scrapbooking challenge over at BIMINI MOOSE!

Our challenge this time is...

Pocket Scrapbooking - ANYTHING GOES

with an optional twist Family Favourites!

For the next 2 weeks, we want to see pages all about your FAMILY FAVORITES. You could ask each member of your family a list of questions like: Fav Color, Food, Friend, etc. OR you could pick one Favorite Category and then show pictures of each member of your family showing or doing their favorite. Like, What's your Favorite way to spend Saturday? Husband - Fishing; Wife - Scrapbooking; Son - Playing XBox; Daughter - Sleepovers with friends. These are just examples. We want to see how you interpret this Twist and what kind of page you create! Can't wait to see your FAMILY FAVORITES!

Our challenges run for 2 weeks. This one will close on Mon, May 25 @ Noon Eastern time - giving us time to pick a Top 3 for the post the following day with our Next Challenge.

We will also be choosing one winner per challenge to win a cut file from our amazing sponsor - 

KaDoodle Bug Designs!

These files are perfect to include in your Pocket Scrapbooking Layouts and in your other crafting as well.

For the challenge this week I've created a traditional scrapbook layout to go along with my Week 11 pages showcasing our family's fav ice cream treats! I just had to get out my Gelatos and 'sprinkle' some Dylusions sprays on my page - so I chose to use my PL pics and supplies on a 12x12 page.

I used the Pretty Cute Stamps set Just Chill to stamp and colour all of these 'sweet' treats! This is one of my favourite sets!! They look so yummy :)

 This pocket page card is from the Picture My Life Collection 'Laughing Lola' from CTMH! Isn't it awesome?! I stamped a sentiment from the PCS Just Chill stamp set along with some drips directly onto the card. In the background I scribbled on Gelatos and wiped them with a baby wipe to smudge them a bit without getting my cardstock too wet. Then I dripped on some Dylusions Inks by taking the spray nozzle out of the bottle and flicking it onto my page in a few different colours. I love this effect!

I coloured the popsicles with Distress and Tombow markers right onto regular white cardstock and then used a bit of white gel pen to add highlights. After everything was done I used some Stickles to add shimmer to the drips.

Here's a peek at the awesome Pretty Cute Stamp set I used - just in time for summer!

Just Chill

And, on to my Week 11 pages! I printed out some of the Project Life cards from the app when I printed my pics and added some text to my photos with the Rhonna Designs app. 

The sentiment on the photo of the octopus balloon is from the Sea Life Sentiments from Pretty Cute Stamps. I also added lots of paper diecuts in little areas around my pages.

I added in a paper mask I had cut on my Cricut for a birthday party prop and used more 'love' stamps from Pretty Cute Stamps on the green banner at the bottom of the page (Little Llama & Be Mine). Since I had lots of birthday pics to include on my page I collaged them in the PL app and printed them into two 4x6 prints. 

Be sure to pop over to Bimini Moose and check out the rest of the DESIGN TEAM and what they have created to inspire you to play along. There will be several posts on the Bimini Moose blog during our challenge, so if you want to see the current challenge, click on the CHALLENGES tab on the blog. If you want to browse through all of the posts with ideas, tutorials, and some personal layouts, click on the HOME tab on that blog

Thanks so much for joining me!! I love seeing and hearing what you are up to!

Linked to:

DL Art - Thankful Thursday May Link Up

Little Scrap Pieces - Show It Off Saturday
Create & Inspire - #21 AG
613 Avenue Create - #123 AG
Crafting From The Heart - #59 AG

Stuck On You Sketches - May Layout Sketch (turned sideways)

FCCB 251 - May Flowers!

CLICK HERE for the current Bimini Moose challenge
CLICK HERE for the current ScrapbookerPhD challenge

Welcome to another Challenge Me Monday...

Challenge #251 May Flowers
Make a project using flowers!

This Weeks Sponsor:

$25.00 Gift Certificate

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 used flower diecuts from Florals Embellished Cricut cartridge. I cut them out of watercolour paper and sprayed them with Dylusions Spray Inks, then added some sponged Distress Inks and Stickles for glitter. 

I layered the flowers on a handcut tag that I wrapped with twine and added Distress Ink around the edges. The background paper I used already had a distressed print on it!

Inside, I used another

Thanks for joining me today! I hope you're inspired to create your own floral project with at least one Cricut cut on it; and be sure to hop over to the FCCB blog to see what the other DT members have created!! Have an awesome week!

Linked to:

DL Art - Thankful Thursday May Linky Challenge

Sister Act Card Challenge - AG cards

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Blog - Use a Sentiment

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - AG w/ patterned paper

Scribble and Scrap Crafts - AG

613 Avenue Create - AG

Little Red Wagon - Distress It

Abandoned Coral Card!

I was so inspired by the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog this week and their challenge to use one of the new Distress colours, Abandoned Coral, that I simply had to pull out my supplies and make this card!

I added some CTMH washi tape (love!!), which you can see in the image below - it comes in a 3 pack "Carnival Collection" set and some of the enamel 'Flamingo' dots again from CTMH!

Distress Stains were used to colour the background of my card using a piece of watercolour paper, which I spritzed with Perfect Pearls to give it some shine.

I stamped a Tim Holtz Blueprint crab stamp on this Picture My Life journalling card from CTMH in the Surf's Up Collection and then stamped it again on a piece of white cardstock. I coloured the white crab with the Abandoned Coral Distress Marker and then layered it on top of the Surf's Up card with a little shiny gold thread between. I absolutely love the colours in this collection!

Inside, I stamped a Tim Holtz sentiment stamp with Abandoned Coral Distress Ink.

Thanks so much for joining me today! Be sure to pop over to my friend, Sheri Ballantyne's Close To My Heart site  to have a look at all the fun products available, and have an awesome, crafty weekend! (p.s. Happy Mother's Day to all you moms too!)

Linked to:

DL Art Thankful Thursday May Linky Challenge

Simon Says Monday Challenge Blog - Use Coral

Word Art Wednesday - #182

Inspiration Destination - #32 AG

Little Scrap Pieces - AG

613 Avenue Create - #122 AG

Little Red Wagon - #288 Distress It

Cookin & Craftin - Linky Party #18

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #267