Fun Friday with LBBS!

Today is Fun Friday and I was playing with Miss Lilly Pretty Lady - what a pretty lady!!
I made a cute little file folder mini album - I say file folder because it was made from a pink manila file folder - all the papers are from Heidi Swap.  To see the decorated pages please see the video posted on my youtube channel - the link is on the side bar =)

If you would like to get your hands on some of these super cute digi images or even some Rubber stamps please check out the Little Blue Buttons store.  And to see the other wonderful projects from the other design team members please head on over to the LBBS Blog.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Release Day - October Digi's for LBBS!!

Today is release day for digi stamps at Little Blue Button Stamps.

I got to play with Happy Charlie - and she is very happy!!  She reminded me of school so I decided to make a mini album in a tin for school memories.  I used the Old School stack from DCWV and a CD tin from my Stampin Up! days.

I wanted to make her a little more "geeky" so I added some die cut glasses from impression obsession - so cute!!

Here is a quick look at the mini in on the inside, it is just a simple mini to keep it thin.  Take a look at my youtube channel for a look at the rest of the mini.

And head on over the the LBBS Blog to see all the new digi's released for October =)  And hop on over to the store to buy your own =)

Copic colours used:

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Nature Mini in a Box

I was playing with some things that I found while I was cleaning up my craft room.  I found a couple of paper mache boxes with mini's inside so I thought I would dress one up!  I used the Green Stack from DCWV and coloured up Nutsy Kaylee for the outside of the box.  She is so super cute!!

I added some bling and felt flowers from the Michaels $1.50 bin. and sequin butterflies from my stash.

Here is a little sneak peak of the mini inside.  To see the whole thing please head over to my youTube channel for the whole mini.

Here are the copics that I used to colour Kaylee!

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Halloween in Wonderland and Room Tour!!

 Good Morning!

I finished my last halloween project which is this amazing paper bag album made with Graphic 45's Halloween in Wonderland.  I was so excited I had to make a video (note to self - wait until the sun comes up for better quality video)  Oh well!! 


I used white paper bags and sprayed them with Glimmer Mist in Peach Delight and Fully Purple - so pretty and shiny but I used a lot of glimmer mist for only seeing such a tiny part of the bags.  You'll have to take a look and see what you think. 

I really love the way the binding turned out on this one - very nice and clean with the burlap covered with spider web netting - which is flocked.  Gotta love the dollar store!

So check out the video HERE and I also uploaded a video of my room tour - so exciting! 

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

IT'S A GIRL!!

Very exciting news!!  My brother and his wife had their first baby yesterday.  Arianna was 6 lbs, 6 oz and 18 in long.  So tiny!

Well I won't get to see her just yet but I finally finished her mini album.

 I've been working on it for a while and was stumped on the cover.  I knew I wanted it to say "it's a girl" and have some flowers but didn't know how to do it. 

I found this resin crown in my stash and knew I had to use it!!

 The inside pages are all made with envelopes and I attached flaps for additional photo space. 

Check out the video on you-tube HERE to see the rest of it.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Haunted Halloween

I love Halloween.  It is one of my favorite holidays and I have to say that I think the colors is one of the things that makes it my favorite.  I love orange, purple, green and black and especially all together.  I really love dressing up too!  Although I do not like "scary" - I can't watch scary movies or go through a haunted house - it freaks me out!!

But I LOVE Halloween! 

I pulled out all my halloween paper, stamps and embellishments and got down to business this week.  I'm going to have more to share but for now I have a mini album that I did with My Minds Eye - Haunted paper and some left overs from last year.  And yes I bought some new Halloween paper this year even though I had some left over from last year - I told you I love the holiday!

This is a close up of the three tags that are inside the mini - did I mention I love googly eyes - I think I have an addiction.  These little guys are from the Michaels $1.50 stamps last year.  I colored their cheeks with Copic marker and then colored the orange and purple with nail polish (makes it shiny and see through) and the skeleton was with a silver sharpy - one of my new best friends (great mummies)!


Head on over to my you-tube channel to check out the whole album - don't forget to subscribe to my you-tube and my blog - I'm thinking that I'm getting close to 5000 visits on my blog so there might have to be some blog candy - spooky blog candy :-)

I'll leave you with a close up of the unfortunate spider that got stuck in some hot glue on the back cover - he's so cute!! NOT.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Family is Everything!

Okay, so now I'm thinking I should have taken some still shots for the blog but I couldn't wait and I wanted to share this video right away.  This mini album has been almost a year in the making.

When I got my hands on Tim Holtz distress inks and my non stick mat I just had to make some manilla shipping tags with inking, embossing and inking again.  I pretty much watched Tim's video and then went crazy with the colours that I loved.  I was lucky enough to find some paper in my stash that matched and then pulled out some teal envelopes which just screamed - make me into a mini!!

And here is the results...Family is Everything.

Check out the video and let me know what you think.  It's just a random mini that wasn't made with any order in mind.  I used Cloud 9 stamps that were Memories themed.  So much fun.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Two Exciting Things to Share

I am so excited to share that I was chosen to be on the design to for Color Me Scrappy.  I'm so excited!!!  Can you believe it, my first design team.  Yaah me!  So stay tuned on the 1st and 15th of every month for a new color and alphabet challenge.  So very exciting.

Next I wanted to share with you the project that Madison and I have been working on all week.  Yes all week.  I've been on holidays for March Break and spending every day with Madison in the scrap basement even though the weather outside has been absolutely gorgeous.

Madison actually picked the project.  She was on YouTube looking at spring albums and came across Paper Phenomenon's spring explosion basket.  She fell in love with it and asked me to make it with her.  She made her own of course but I had to come up with a design for her because Kathy's U-stream videos have been deleted, boooo.

Okay so it took me three tries to upload the video but you can take a look here.  You are going to love it, sorry about the lighting I did it late last night in the kitchen.

Happy Scrapping!
Sarah

Scrappin Great Deals and Bo Bunny!!

This weekend JoAnn from BoBunny came all the way from Utah to Scrappin Great Deals in Kilworth.  I decided to sign up for the Sunday afternoon mini album class.  I have to say that I was there for three hours and came home with the base of the pages covered and that's it!!  It was intense and for me to say that is something cause I'm usually the first one done.  It didn't help that I wanted to distress every little piece.  But I stayed up for three hours on my own last night bound and determined to get it done and at 11:30pm I came up from the scrapping basement with a fninshed album.

 The front cover is an acrylic sheet - I haven't done anything with it, not sure if I'm going to stamp it maybe.

 Of course I deviated from the pattern to make it my own.  I didn't really like the sticker they used on the front cover so I picked a layered chipboard piece.

 On all the stickers and chipboard pieces I sanded and inked to age them.  I didn't really like the look of fresh stickers :-)

 This page has a pocket - the tag pulls out from the top.  Pretty much the only moveable item on the album.

 Sorry about these pictures - not sure why they are coming in this way but I can't rotate them for some reason.  This pink page was my favourite.  I added some extra bling to it and did my paper upside down cause there was writing all over it and they had the writing upside down the way they laid it out.

 Not much to say about this one - it was my least favorite.  The flowers were polyester so not much you can do with them, I still tried to add some ink to them so they weren't too bright.

And then these two were the ones that I messed up on.  The two pages before and these two pages were supposed to be one pattern paper on the background of each but I messed up on the first two so I did my own thing with the next two.  I know - crazy.

The back page I did all on my own, the patter was for just a plain page with no photos at all but I couldn't leave one whole page for nothing so I went to town.

All and all it was okay but I guess I'm more cut out for teaching than learning :-)

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Hockey Scrapbooking

Okay so I dropped off the baby album that I just posted and someone asked if I can do that with a Toronto Maple Leafs theme.  So you bet your booties, I can do anything!!

Don't tell Jeff - he doesn't like the Leafs!  Caught him napping during the game today.

 Here's the tin - I kept it simple but added a little maple leaf in the centre of the flower - made with coffee filters and sprayed with Glimmer Mist - I'm addicted to them now.

 Here's the cover - I used some metal alphabets on leather strips spelling out "Our Little Fan".  Then I printed the logos off of the computer - with Jeff's printer - he didn't like that very much.

 These are all the tags that go into each of the pages.  If you want to see the rest you'll have to watch the you tube video here.  Sorry the filming was a bad one today.  The navy cardstock is really thick so it was sticking inside the pockets - very hard to take them out with one hand while you're holding the camera in the other.  I'm going to have to get a tripod.

Well hope you enjoyed - I'm sure the next time I scrapbook hockey it will be for the Jets.  Have some great pictures from the day they announced they were coming back to Winnipeg.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Baby Mini in a Tin

This isn't the mini that I mentioned in my last posting but it is the first one I got finished.  I used one of my cherished Maya Road Coffee Break tins that I've been hoarding.  Of course it's for a boy.

 On the inside of the lid I've used a memory box that can hold a lock of hair or baby teeth or any other memorabilia that you want to see.  Very cute.

 Each page is toilet paper roll style but made with paper.  Each tag has one side for journaling and the other side is blank for photos.  I even made some super cute and easy coffee filter flowers sprayed with glimmer mist.  I even used my Cricut - so happy!!

Well if you want to see the rest you'll have to head over to YouTube and watch my video here!

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Paris Album

I've been working on this album for a bit.  My mom wanted an album for my cousin Sarah who went to Paris this summer.  We found the super cute box at HomeSense and just knew we had to make an album to go inside of it. 

You'll have to go over to YouTube to see the full album.  In the debut of my 2nd youtube video :-)  Make sure you leave a comment to let me know what you think.  I took a close up of the inside of the box, you can't really see it that well in the video.  It was mom's idea to add some stuff on the inside - and especially a feather!

I'm sad to give this one away but I'm sure Sarah will love it.

Happy Stamping!

Sarah

Halloween Mini

So I have been stalking YouTube lately for some inspiration and found this super cute mini by creations by christie and thought "I can do that".

So here's my version. Of course the cover is not complete (I'm starting to think that my blog should be called Elliott's Incomplete Creations) but I wanted to share. When the cover is done I'm going to do a video of it to upload on YouTube.

Here is the overall view. Front and Back page have danglers, middle pages are pockets and then the ones in between have fold out tabs for more photos.

The base of the album is made with black cardstock and then the patterned paper is last years Hooligans line from Bo-Bunny, part of my stash that I have been hanging onto.

You'll have to wait until the video to see the rest. You'll be excited to see that I pulled out my cricut to cut out some letters - that was fun!

Happy Stamping!

Sarah