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Friday, February 12, 2016

Exciting Sneak Peek!

Sneak Peek!! I am soooo super excited to be a guest designer on SHIMELLE's blog today! I can't believe it! You can see...
Posted by Creative Love Affair - Handmade Cards and Memory Keeping on Friday, February 12, 2016

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Waiting Scrapbook Layout!

I recently joined the Mercy Tiara's 27 Day Scrappy Challenge Facebook Group, where Tracy Banks, aka Mercy Tiara, posts a challenge each month and you have 27 days to participate. Even if you aren't participating in the challenge there is lots of inspiration and ideas. I've been watching her videos for quite some time - they are really great! Full of lots of tips and I just love her layouts and pocket pages. The challenge this month is to use an old collection kit, and you can find the video where she explains everything here.

I've been meaning to make up a few kits from older papers and supplies I have had for quite a while, and this was just the inspiration I needed. Of course, I love buying new goodies, but I also want to make sure I'm using what I have too!

For my 'old kit collection' I pulled out some old Pink Paislee papers from the Sweetness Collection which includes a sticker sheet and alpha stickers.

Then, I added in a really old CTMH collection because I liked the B sides and felt they would match well with the colours in the Pink Paislee collection.

And, lastly, I grabbed some October Afternoon ephemera, some Maggie Holmes diecuts and Glitz paper layers. I felt like the papers, stickers and diecuts I gathered together gave me enough to pull from and liked the way they coordinated together.

So.... Here's my first page using my kit! I wanted to keep working on my youngest daughter Erica's baby book so these are the photos I'm going to focus on using this month. I love this background paper and didn't want to cover it all up, so I just chose to add some layers and leave the pretty background edges showing.

I used a waterbrush and Distress Ink to create a brushed lettering title for my page. Then, I took a black pen and highlighted areas of the letters to make it stand out a little more.

I wrote my journaling right on the page. I realized I forgot to erase my pencil lines for this photo... oops!

Thanks so much for joining me today! I'll definitely be back with more pages I create with this kit, and I feel like I'll be pulling more kits together to use up a lot more of my stash!

Linked to:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Have A Heart

DL Art - Thankful Thursday February Linky Challenge

Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge - The Blues using this colour combo below.

Saturday, February 6, 2016

Chinese New Year!

Hello friends! I just wanted to share a gift set I created for some friends to celebrate Chinese New Year, which begins on Monday. We wanted to show we were thinking of our friends and did a little research to find out what would be appropriate to help them celebrate this time of year.

I first made a card using the Cricut Explore, choosing a symbol that represents Celebrate in Design Space. I used a gold washi tape sticker roll to add a glittery element to the edge of my card and then layered on my Cricut cut. Behind the Celebrate cut I added a paper that I heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

Inside, I cut Happy from a Cricut font and then used a diecut in Design Space for my Chinese New Year sentiment. For the envelope I layered the inside cut of the Celebrate symbol over a stenciled image using a Tim Holtz stencil with red and yellow Distress Inks.

For the children I cut a bag from the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More 2 cartridge to cut this neat little boxy envelope. I then added a diecut symbol that represents Fortune. I made two and we filled the envelopes with some money and candy.

We wrapped some fruit in red wrapping paper and my husband delivered the gifts. Even though it was just a small gesture our friends appreciated it and knew we were thinking of them.

Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope your weekend is full of love, friends, and some creativity!

Linked to:

Little Scrap Pieces - Show It Off Saturday

DL Art - Thankful Thursday February Linky Challenge

Friday, February 5, 2016

Paper Pieced Tea Cup Girl!

I just love this sweet little Gorjuss Girl!! So much so that I simply had to make another card, this time paper piecing the tea cup and dress and adding some watercolouring with Distress Markers. I have been meaning to sew on my paper forever!! and I finally did it! It was really so easy - I'm not sure why I didn't do it before, lol! After I stitched around my edges and applied the papers to my card I gently bent the edges up to give the card some dimension. I will definitely be doing this again :)

I followed the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches (shown below). Here's a close up of this sweet girl!

Inside I stamped this sweet little bunny and coloured him in with coloured pencils. I added the end of the banner I had hand cut from the front of the card. I added the cute tag that comes with this stamp set onto the Gorjuss Girl preprinted envelope and added a bit of shading with coloured pencils. All ready to give to a friend!

Thanks so much for joining me today! If you want to see another card featuring this cute stamp set click here. I hope you had a great week and get some crafty time for yourself this weekend.

Linked to:

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge blog- Feb Link Up

DL Art - Thankful Thursday February Linky Challenge

Paper Play Sketches - AG with a sketch

Tuesday Morning Sketches - #337

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Drink Me, Tea Cup Card!

I'm posting over at the Scrapendipity Way of Life Blog today and thought I'd share a card made with a sweet stamp I picked up from the Scrapendipity Truck at the make 'n take last week. I just love the Gorjuss Girl stamps and had to have this little one in a tea cup!

I stamped on watercolour paper with Archival Ink and then used Distress Markers to watercolour my image in and used some Teresa Collins papers for my background, matching my markers to the papers.

Inside, I added this single sweet little bunny, which I also watercoloured. A little Abandoned Coral Distress Marker adds a little touch of pink to his ears and cheeks.

This card and the colours remind me of Spring - and I seem to be thinking more and more that I am ready for winter to be over!

Thanks so much for joining me today. I hope you have a lovely, crafty week!

Linked to:
Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge blog- Feb Link Up

DL Art - Thankful Thursday February Linky Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - AG

Monday, February 1, 2016

FCCB #269 - Valentines Day!

Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #269-Valentines Day
Make a project with a Valentines Day theme.

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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!

For my project today I decided to combine this Valentines challenge with the new card sketch challenge for February over at the Scrapping Everyday Miracles blog and my Design Team post for the Pretty Cute Stamps blog!

Here's a look at the fun SEM sketch:

For my card I used my Cricut Explore to cut two heart borders from the Elegant Edges cartridge out of black and pink cardstock. I used the Love Struck 2010 cartridge to cut out the banner heart. I wanted to create an ombré effect on my heart banner and borders, so I layered on two pink Prismacolor Markers and the Colorless Blender pen. I love the extra depth this gives the diecuts!

In the background on my white cardstock I used the Be Mine stamp set from Pretty Cute Stamps. It has so many awesome sentiments and images that are not just for Valentines! I used Worn Lipstick Distress Ink to stamp a light background. I absolutely love the lips!! Since these are clear stamps I was able to easy bend the Always and Forever to fit my diecut banner. I simply placed it on my clear acrylic block in a semi circle and it stayed in place perfectly! The two tiny hearts are from the set as well.

Inside, I stamped a sentiment along with another kiss.

Here's a look at this lovely stamp set:

Be Mine

Thanks so much can for joining me today! Be sure to head over to the Fantabulous Cricut blog to enter your own diecut project as well as visiting the Scrapping Everyday Miracles Blog and the Pretty Cute Stamps blog. There is lots of Design Team Inspiration waiting for you! Have an awesome week!

Linked to:

Little Scrap Pieces - Show It Off Saturday

Paper Play Sketches - AG with a sketch

DL Art - Thankful Thursday January Linky Challenge