Crop and Create Moncton sneaks!

Good morning! Tonight is open registration for Crop and Create Moncton - an event put on by Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine! I am happily teaching 2 classes at this fun event!

My first class is all about COLOUR!

Colour Matters

Life is colourful, and so should our preserved memories! In this workshop we will learn that colour matters!  We will use a kit full of colour and pattern to combine different colour combinations into a double page layout and a single page layout using beautiful products from Fancy Pants Designs, Crate Paper and Dear Lizzy!

If you read my blog, you know that I love patterned paper and in this next class we will be creating some fun items with paper! You can do SO much with paper!

Playful Paper 

(SOLD OUT SORRY!)

If patterned paper is your first love, you will love Playful Paper! In this workshop, we will combine patterned paper with some trendy embellishments to create a double page spread and a single page layout. You will love learning modern and fun ways to use patterned paper - Get your trimmers ready to trim, fold and layer paper and embellishments using the Pink Paislee Memorandum collection!

I love the class kits for these 2 classes - the color class is my favorite :)

If you are attending, I would love to see you in my classes! These should be good ones :)

Hip Kit Club September kits!

I have one last project to share using the September Hip Kits Club kits!

I used this free cut file I created for the Hip Kit Club (check out their website, register and download)

I added the pink background paper from my stash and layered it behind the cut file that was added over some white and gray cardstocks.

I trimmed down the cut apart sheet in the kit by Amy Tangerine and layered the tops of the cards along the top edge of the layout, adding some watercolour paints behind the cut out words.

I also used the leftover flowers from the cut file and added them to the center of most of the open pieces, adding some foam adhesive to the back and a small enamel dot to the centers.

I will be back next weekend with another Hip Kit Club project, using the fun fall October kits!

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by my blog :)

September Hip Kits!

YAY!  It's the weekend again, which means it's my turn on the blog with a new project using the September Hip Kits!


 

 I really love that fun purple/pink striped Dear Lizzy paper in the kits and wanted to use it BUT it was too much for me to use the whole page. I trimmed it down a bit and started layering across my page with different strips of papers from the kits. I added a "hello" diecut tab behind the photo and then some of the Dear Lizzy rub ons to the empty areas.

 

 I finished off the page by adding a bunch of the Dear Lizzy rub ons across the other side of the page to carry the design straight across, adding some chipboard hearts and wood buttons from the kit too.

 

 That's it for me today ! Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!    

Hip Kit Club - cards!

Good morning!! I am always happy to be on the blog bright and early on the weekend - this week I have a couple cards made with the September Hip Kit Club kits! I really wanted to use some of the yellow Dylusions paint from the color add-on and decided I would try to add some splashes of color to some quick cards!

 

 I simply added some swipes of yellow paint to the cards where I wanted the sentiments to be placed. I ended up adding a little more around the edges to balance out the color a bit.

   

On this first card, I added the paint over part of a messed up rub on and it helps hide my boo boo a bit :)

 This cards is all about color ! I wanted to use the balloons from the Amy Tangerine Rise  and Shine Ephemera pack and layered it over some dry paint with a stamped sentiment from my stash.

 

 I fell in love withe the kraft and woodgrain papers in the kits this month and used them on all my cards too. I diecut a pattern from my cut file store (Pie Chart Lace) and added some papers to the back side with papers from the kits, adding the whole thing with foam adhesive to the kraft card base.

 

 On this last card, I used all my leftovers, adding in some torn washi tape from the booklet and a floral diecut that I cut in half tucked under a strip of woodgrain paper.

 

 Well, that's it for me today! Thanks for stopping by the blog and see you next weekend!

Hip Kit Club - September kits!

hello hello!!! Just sharing a quick weekend project using the September Hip Kits!!! LOVE this month's kits - they are truly awesome and packed with NEW goodies! I love not having to wait for good stuff in the kits each month.

Here is the first page I made with the kit and the Funky Rectangles Diecut from my digital cut file store JustNick. It is one of my favorites! I cut it out with my new Artistic Edge diecut machine by Janome - so quick to cut on!!! (more on this coming )

I love the combination of the alphas in this month's kits and used a mixture of wood veneers, puffy alphas and cork - oh, man I love those cork alphas!!

The kit also comes with some fun Amy Tangerine Wood slice embellishments. I used one here and added some of the Dear Lizzy Rub ons in the kit directly to them! SO easy, although you can see I did rub a little too hard ;) Will remember that for next time.

That's all for today! Check out tons of projects daily on the Hip Kit blog!

August Hip Kits!



YAY for long weekends... well, it is pouring rain here, but I still don't  have to work on Monday :) I take that as a win!

I am up on the Hip Kit Club blog today with a simple page using the August kits.

I really started with the fun grid/journaling card paper in the kit by Pink Fresh Studio... I cut it apart and added the cards to my background... I used the Dear Lizzy tape in the kit to add a row of "stickers" across my page and added on a few simple embellishments and a diecut title using one of this month's exclusive cut files!





It is a pretty simple page for me, but I do love how those stickers look across the page- so great for easy layering!  Stop by next weekend, I will have another page up on the HKC blog, hopefully with the September kits!

It's August Hip Kit time!

Good morning!! I had a chance to rip into the August kits this week and can't wait to share! My first project is super simple. I really wanted to make good use of the different alphas in the kits, so focused on that for this page.

 

Truth is, I am not great with clean and simple pages. I always feel the need to add more of this or that. In this case, I really wanted the title to be the main thing (other than the photo of course), so did my best to leave things be once the title was there.

 

I love the mix of the woodgrain Thicker with the two different gold alphas - such a great and easy mix! Kimberly really takes all the guess work out of your projects by doing it for us :) I had to add a few of those great Freckled Fawn chipboard glitter hearts - perfect for this page about my girly leaving her girly evidence around the house.

 

 That's it for me today! Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Silhouette | Free shape of the week!!

It's my turn to use the free shape of the week over on the Silhouette America blog.

 Here is what this week's free shape looks like:

I am normally not a big flowery person so I thought I would embrace the flower child within and create a floral background on half of my page with the daisy like flower in the cut file to create this page:

I added some small cut circles using different patterns of paper and stitched the whole thing together. I also cut parts of the banner from the free shape and used them as side anchor points to my photos.

 To download the free shape - a new shape is free every Tuesday! - just head over to the Silhouette blog HERE

Enjoy!

Scrapbook & Cards + another freebie!

I have a new page up on the Scrapbook & Cards Today blog and wanted to share it with you today!

The freebie has a few 3x4 cards in it, along with some back to school themed items. I used a combination of both for my page:

These cards work great on a page, and would definitely fit into your PL album too!

I added in some basic A+ and the number 5 for the grade my son was attending in the photo.

Here is the freebie:

 and to download it - just click HERE ! Hope you enjoy it!

Scrapbook & Cards Color Suite!

Each month on the Scrapbook & Cards Today blog, Summer Fullerton posts a Color Suite challenge!

When Summer asked me to play along with this month's challenge, I happily accepted. Color challenges are one of my favorites :)

Summer sent along an inspiration piece to use with this color suite - I used the strips and unique chevron for my page. I started my page by cutting patterned papers with each of the colors from the Color Suite and then layered a little over top with some different elements.

I used the chevrons I cut with my Silhouette Cameo, some stickers, buttons and even some punched butterflies from some patterned paper

I layered lots of papers in my main photo grouping, with more tones of the colors in the challenge in various papers, tags and stickers:

I cut my title with my Cameo, using some Dear Lizzy patterned paper and a neutral metal gray

 POW glitter paper in a different font.

To see this month's Color Suite, Summer's and my completed page -- and to play along - check out the Scrapbook & Cards Today BLOG!

My Favorite Things

I am super excited to share a couple projects I made using my friend Laina Lamb's stamps and dies sold by My Favorite Things!

I was sent the March release from Laina Lamb - which were these super fun and high quality designs:
  

Super cool right? I couldn't wait to get going, so I started out with a couple masculine cards - we go through them like crazy in this house:

I think that hand is THE most awesome thing! 

 The star dies are awesome ! The largest one has a circle rivet embossed design all around the edge (it is really hard to see in this pattern of green)...and I adore those small stars stamps!

 

Next, I created a page using a lot of these stars and some Jillibean Soup with my oldest. I got his to write down what his top 5 fave songs were right now and went from there:

 

So, after I did this boyish page - which this release is perfect for - I thought, "hey self, I should really do something girly with this boy stuff!"

( I talk to myself all the time...lol )

I broke out the guitar pick die and my 6x6 Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm paper pad and went to work cutting a lot of guitar picks to make this background:

 I have to say - I love how it turned out - it is such a "me" page - I love all those little bits of paper!

It did take quite a while to make all those flower shapes... the sewing was the easy part ;)

And, since it was about me - I had to add somee sparkle in the form of sequins and gold metallic thread (my new fave thing). I also used a Crate Paper photo overlay as patterned paper on my page:

That's it!! I have to say that I am very impressed with the dies and the stamps - I would definately order them again - in fact, I already have a few in my cart ;)