Color Me Scrappy - Challenge #2

 Okay, so Challenge #1 was a success over at Color Me Scrappy.  There were 25 entries for the first challenge which is amazing.  And it's the 15th of the month so guess what that means - Challenge #2!!

This one was a little hard for me because of the darker colors, I think I still rocked it though :)  Here are the colors for challenge #2.....

 Now I have to tell you the story of this layout.  I started out with this awesome sheet of double sided paper (can't remember the brand) it is textured like linen - really cool and the background is all just basically the patterned paper.  So to start off I wanted to add some acrylic paint cause everyone else is using it and really how hard can it be.  Oh yah - very hard!!  I hated it so I ripped it right out of the paper and then - voila!!  I picked up a second sheet of patterned paper that had the darker tones to it and sat it behind and then just fell in love.

 The butterflies were part of the background paper and I added some crystal effects on to make them pop.

 The picture was not great quality - I think it was actually just a color copy that I printed on my printer but it was something that I want to remember - me graduating grade 8 - oh yah that's me in the blue, what a cute little girl - hehe!

Don't forget to head over to Color Me Scrappy and join in the fun!

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

SYAO 10

 Well it's down to the wire for week 10 of Scrap Your Ass Off over at Paper Secrets.  It's definately been challenging but it is really helping me get some scrapping done.

Again there is a sketch provided and you have to choose 4 of the 8 embellishments listed and one technique.

The sketch was really nice but I decided to flip it because of the size of my photos.  This is when you take your computer screen and turn it to the right - giggle.

 I chose twine, stick pin, chipboard and 3+ patterned papers as my embellishments and then my technique is distressing - you may start seeing a pattern here week after week - distressing, distressing yes and distressing.  I really wanted to use acrylic paint as my technique because I've seen alot of layouts with acrylic paint - but alas I do not have any primary colours - only pastels.

And Voila!!

Don't forget you still have some time to get in on the fun over at Color Me Scrappy.


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

Happy Easter!

The Easter Bunny showed up at our house last night and hid some eggs for the kids so I thought I'd share :-)

 These are post finding photos - the search was all recorded on video.

Jonathan just loved finding his eggs and then opening the all up to find out what was inside.  He even found some of Madison's but never picked them up.  The Easter Bunny was nice enough to hide polka dot eggs for Jonathan and flower eggs for Madison.  Smart Easter bunny eh?!

 Madison wasn't as excited (she's a little under the weather today) but she was all for some free chocolate.

 Madison loved to point out that the Easter Bunny was smart to shop at the dollar store - some times she really cracks me up.

 Jonathan was very meticulous with his eggs - took his sweet time opening one by one and laying everything out in piles....

 Even lined up his eggs in a neat and tidy line...

 Gotta love that face - look at those tidy rows and no he did not have any assistance with this.  I did mention he is very particular about things.

And please don't judge me but yes that was 8:51am when he was chomping on a chocolate egg.  It's one day a year and you should know that he didn't even finish it.  :-)

The Easter Bunny also brought the kids Mickey and Minney bunnies from the Disney store.  It took a little while to get the cat to stop licking them last night when the Easter Bunny dropped off their baskets.  They were so cute, their little hoodies come down and their mickey ears are hiding underneath.

Happy Easter!  Hope everyone has a great weekend.
Sarah

Bling it Out!!

Okay, so I found some new friends :-)  

The are the new mini size 1 oz Glimmer Mists - I had the opportunity to grab quite a few at a local scrapbook store that was closing.  How could I leave any of them behind.  I wanted to play with them so badly that I just took out a couple white flowers and started to spray away.  

 So I started of with Denim Blue and forgot that I had sprayed a chipboard bird the night before with Pomegranite and didn't use a baby wipe to clean off my matt.  So, needless to say that my Denim Blue flowers were trimmed with Pomegranite - it actually turned out really cute.

After that I went crazy and sprayed two and three in each color.

 I've been hanging onto these really cool pictures that Madison had done at school which are holographic.  They are really different - you can kind of see the colors in the last photo that I took from the side.

These pictures really don't do justice for the bling factor but to see them in person they pop.

Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Sharing a little blog candy.

Ok so you have to check out Hydrangea Hippo.  I'm a big fan and she has an awesome Etsy store.
She just shared her first project from her new design team and is giving away one of her DIVA kits that she sells at her store.   The best part is that if you post more than 10 comments with all the different ways you are following or shared her candy then you will be entered into a $100 gift card for her Etsy store.

Can't tell you how much I want to win this!!


Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

Color Me Scrappy - First Challenge

Oh - so exciting.  It's the first Challenge over at Color Me Scrappy.  You ready for it...here are the colors for the first challenge.  So very pretty!!

 All you have to do is create a layout using all of the colors shown above and link it to the Color Me Scrappy blog.  By doing this you are entered to win a prize (Canada and US residents only).
Here's my layout with some great pictures that we took at Grand Bend just a couple of weeks ago during our early spring weather.

 The background is K & Company patterned paper that came with all the glitter on it - gorgeous.  I added in some photo mats and some super cute handmade paper flags from some Fancy Pants patterned paper from the About a Girl paper line.  The blue punched border was popped up for some texture.

Ok so head over the challenge blog, get crafty and link your layout over there.  Check out all the other talented ladies on the design team and see what wonderful creations they've made.
This is going to be such a wonderful adventure - I am so excited to be part of this great design team.


Happy Papercrafting!
Sarah

SYAO week 9

Well it's week 9 and I'm still going strong.  It's very challenging to pick out four items for embellishments and one technique when you are trying to match colors and patterns.  :-)

So for week 9 I picked these old pictures from when Madison was just a wee little baby.  We drove to Wiarton to take in the sights and found this really cool Willie statue.  Willie is the albino groundhog in Wiarton that likes to tell us how long we have to wait for spring.

I used some filter paper embellishments from Fancy Pants along with a really gorgeous patterned and die cut paper that I picked up at Lens Mills.  The paper had a ton of shiny glitter all over - so pretty.

Isn't this statue cool - hehe.
Stay tuned for tomorrow when the first challenge is revealed over on Color Me Scrappy.  Head on over the website now and look for the design team bios - really cool!

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Celebrating 35 Years

I have a co-worker that is celebrating her 35th anniversary with Intact Insurance tomorrow.  I wanted to make her a little keepsake that she could keep on her desk so I asked around for some pictures of her from the 'good ole days'.  I really loved the photo from one of their Hawaiian days when everyone was dressed up so I used that as my theme.   

 I made an 8x8 easel scrapbook page.  I will have to do a tutorial for you, it was really simple and pretty cool.  The bottom actually folds up inside for flat storage.

I used my Cricut to cut out all the flowers (sophisticated) and the congratulations (everyday pop-up cards).  The leaves are from Michaels Recollection brand.

The paper is also Recollections brand from Michaels - did I mention I picked up 5 new 12x12 paper stacks the other day.
 :-)


I love the way it turned out and I'm thinking that I will definitely be making more of these in the future.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

SYAO Week 8

I'm on a roll this week.  I finished my layout for my first design team challenge (you'll just have to wait until April 1st to see that one).  And I finished week 8 for Scrap Your Ass Off over at Paper Secrets.






Here is the sketch for week 8....

 The embellishment list was different this time around.  I saw the doily and stick pins and new right away that I was going to do a valentines theme.

doily
twine
stick pin(s)
3+ flowers
rub ons
washi tape
3+ patterned papers
bling

TECHNIQUES
punches (border/corner)
fussy cutting
distressing

 I used doilies, flowers, stick pins and bling.  Added a little distressing on the paper and doilies and did some fussy cutting to get the smaller doilies.  I really love the way it turned, simple yet sweet!

Paper is daisyd's, flowers Prima, bling was MMBI and the doilies were my favorite dollar store.

Don't forget to get over the Color Me Scrappy and follow the blog so you can find out when the first challenge starts - you won't want to miss it.

Play along with the challenge and watch here for exciting things to come - my followers are growing and views are increasing like crazy - looks like I might have to have some blog candy soon :-)

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

SYAO week 7

 Today was the deadline for week 7 of Scrap Your Ass Off.  I got mine done with 6 hours to spare til the deadline.  I was rushing last night when I posted it to the forum just before I ran off to emerg with Madison to get her foot checked out.  Madison tripped at school yesterday and had been limping around.  Well after 2 hours in emerg we came home with Madison's new friend "The Boot".  Yes she broke her foot.

I felt bad because I kept asking her to wait while I finished uploading the picture because I didn't want to miss my deadline.  But I just thought she had twisted it, not actually broken.








The challenge for week 7 was a sketch which was really cool.  I loved it.  I decided to finally pull out some of my photo's from Vegas and immediately thought of My Mind's Eye Lost and Found.  I think I've been hoarding this paper, afraid to use it.

I really love the way it turned out though.  I used Bling, Trim, Staples and 3+ patterned paper for the embellishments and then distressing for the technique.  That leaf trim has been in my stash for a while also, really, really love how it turned out.

All the patterned papers are from the Lost and Found paper stack.  Trim was just miscellaneous.  The flourishes are from spellbinders and then some bling from Want 2 Scrap.

Happy Stamping!
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

Playing Catch-up and a Start to a Crazy Week

Okay so after I did my post from Saturday morning I closed up my computer went about my day, did alot of fun scrapbooking.  Even spent the day with my mom, my daughter and good friend Judy to do some machine stitching on paper.  Came home with a sewing machine all for me so I can sew on my stuff whenever I want and then finished a beautiful layout, took pictures, sat down.  Opened the laptop and starting FREAKING OUT!!!

It kept shutting down, restarting and shutting down.  Can you believe it, I was going crazy.  So needless to say it is now with the Geek Squad at Best Buy for a couple of days and I'm sitting here at my daughters ancient desk top trying to figure out how to do stuff all over again.

Anyways - I realized that I forgot to post SYAO week 5 here on my blog - yes I got it done and posted to Paper Secrets but I forgot to show it here for everyone so here it is.  Again same situation they give you a layout and you pick 4 embellishments and 1 technique.  I don't have the sketch saved here because of course - it's on my laptop!!  Hehe - deep breaths but I'm sure you'll enjoy the layouts and you can always take a peek over on Paper Secrets Forum.

Here's a little close up - this one used bling, paper punches, photo corners and rub-ons and the technique was distressing.

 I would have resized this for you but photoshop is ON MY LAPTOP!!   (deep breaths)

 And here is week 6 - SYOA - I love, love the way this one turned out.  I was actually trying a layout that I was shown from Amarilys's Scrappy Corner but I took it and used the layout sketch from our challenge keeping her background circle which was punched with a corner punch and then stitched by machine to the background paper.  I really love it.

 Embellishments were bling, flowers, trim and 3 different patterned papers and of course the technique was stitching.

 My little Madie was so cute in these pictures, she is growing up way to fast.

Well hope you enjoyed.  Next time I hope to have my laptop back and not so much stress involved.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah

Color Me Scrappy

I found this new challenge blog Color Me Scrappy and guess what??  They are looking for a design team and get this, they are looking for people that have never been on a design team before!  Hello!!  Me, me, please me.  hehe

Well yes I did send in an email so we'll see how it goes.  I have to get week 6 done for the Scrap Your Ass Off challenge.  Oh and I am so excited, my mom and I are going to Mega Meet in Novi, Michigan this year - May 2012.  We have already registered for the Round Robin mini classes and four other classes which I can't wait to do.  It's going to be a great year this year!

Stay tuned for more exciting scrapbooking and card making.

Happy Stamping!
Sarah