Creative Scrappers: Sketch 269

Hi Everyone...it's reveal day over at Creative Scrappers!!  Sketch 269 is a Project-Life-like sketch...take a peek:

 

And here's my take on the sketch...using lots and lots of goodies from Chic Tags Let's Go collection, and a couple of items from their March kit.

Let's Go was the perfect collection to showcase these pictures from my daughter's recent French Trip to Montreal.  About thirty-five kids from her high school took the bus up to Canada and spent 4 days running around Montreal.  They saw just about everything, including a Cirque de Soleil Show!

I LOVED the gold accents in the collection including the map from the World Traveler Vellum sheet .  I decided to cut out North America and geotag Montreal!  I added more gold by stitching with some fun gold thread. I also love the "places" wood veneers and used a few of them throughout my layout.

 

The Canada Luggage tag from the Destination paper was so perfect!

 

That's it for me today...I'll be back tomorrow with a Doodlebug project featuring the all new Patriotic Parade Collection.  Make sure to stop by the Creative Scrapper's Blog to check out what the Design Team created!  Link up your take on this sketch and you could win a fun prize from our June Sponsor, Noel Mignon!  Thanks for stopping by!

 



Creative Scrappers: Sketch 266 Reveal

Hi Everyone!  It's reveal day at Creative Scrappers for sketch 266.  Take a peek at this fun sketch!

 

I decided to turn the sketch to the left for my layout.  Here's my take:

 

 

This picture was taken last fall.  It's my parents, husband, daughter and I at a family party.  My mom used it for her Christmas card.  I thought that Bella Blvd's Family Forever was the perfect match to my picture!

 

 

The fun flair is from the Chic Tags April Kit.  The flowers were fussy cut from the Bella Blvd. Sunday Brunch Paper.

 

To complete my layout I created this fun butterfly using some new Ladybug Sprinkles Vellum from Doodlebug Design.  In place of the circles on the layout, I stitched some swirls using some Solid Midnight Blue Twine from The Twinery.

 

We'd love to see your take on this sketch!  Link up your creation and you could win a fun prize from our April Sponsor Scraptastic Club

 

 

Make sure to stop by the Creative Scrapper's Blog for more inspiration from the design team!  That's it for me today.  I'll be back tomorrow with a fun project for Paper Issues.  Thanks for stopping by!

 

Paper Issues: Pocket Full of Sunshine

We have a new Issue up over at Paper Issues called "A Pocket Full of Sunshine." You can link up your pocket/Project Life pages, projects with suns, sunbursts, sunny days, pockets...  Here's what I created...
 

 

This is my "extra large" kitty Daisy.  We grow them big around here... I am completely in love with the new Lawn Fawn Collections Hello Sunshine and Let's Polka.  The colors and prints make me so happy!  And the sequins.....!  I combined them with the March kit from Chic Tags and some custom flair from our sponsor Panda Eight Designs.

 

 

 I found this sun in the Silhouette store and it reminded me of the adorable sun in the April Showers Die set from Lawn Fawn...had to use it!

 

 

The journaling card and other tags are from the Chic Tags kit.   The Good Day Sunshine flair is from our sponsor Panda Eight.   We'd love for you to play along with our Pocket Full of Sunshine Issue!  Link up your projects here and you could win 5 sets of flair from the Panda Eight shop!  In addition, Martha of Panda Eight has provided a coupon for 20% off  (SUNSHINE20) in her store. Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to link up!

Creative Scrappers: Sketch 264 Reveal

Hi Everyone, it's reveal day for Sketch 264 over at Creative Scrappers!  It's a fun sketch, check it out:

 

I wasn't really sure where to begin with this...but I have to tell you, I'm very happy with how everything turned out!  I really stuck to the sketch as is and came up with this layout:

 

 

This is my fluffy kitty Rosie...in a basket as usual.  We call baskets, bags and boxes cat traps around here.  I decided to go with a playful theme and used Doodlebug's Kraft in Color collection and some of the new Doodlebug Washi Tapes.  This is probably one of my all time favorite collections EVER!  So bright, happy and versatile!!

 

 

The fun flair is by Panda Eight...this button was perfect!  I couldn't resist creating some paw prints with the Doodlebug Sprinkles as well!

 

I pulled out some of my OLD Bazzill Stitching templates and found this kitty face...it was Purr-fect for my layout.  (ok, I'll stop with the cat puns...)  I used some Solid Midnight Blue twine from The Twinery to stitch it up! 

And finally my title... #MEOW.... a little joke we have over at Paper Issues... they know I'm a crazy cat lady and support me fully.

 

We'd love to see what you create with this sketch.  Make sure to link up your layout by March 31st and you will be entered to win a fab prize from our March Sponsor Chic Tags. 

 

Make sure to check out the other layouts by the CS Creative team on the Creative Scrappers Blog.  That's it for today!  Thanks for stopping by.

Creative Scrappers: Sketch 263 Reveal

Hi Everyone... I have a reveal today for Creative Scrappers Sketch 263.  It was a fun sketch...take a peek: 

 

 

And here's my take on the sketch.  I twisted the sketch to the right for my layout to accommodate my picture.  This is my daughter and her friends posing for Homecoming pictures last fall.  It's sad that they're shy.... 



 

 

The papers, tags and wood pieces are all from Elle's Studio's Love You More collection. 

The LOVE THIS clips are from Freckled Fawn.

 

 

I added some Heidi Swapp Colorshine in Primrose to the wood hearts and ampersand to make them pop a bit more.

 

 

Check out all of the reveals for this sketch on the Creative Scrappers Blog.  Make sure to link up your take on this sketch to our linky party and you could a $30 prize pack from our fabby March sponsor Chic Tags!!!!!  You have until March 31st to link up!

 

 

 

That's all for today...thanks for stopping by!!!

Using some Left-overs

Hi Everyone...just a quick post today to show you a project I created using some of the left-over goodies I had from the Paper Issues/Chic Tags Happy Place Issue.  Chic Tags sent us a huge amount of goodies to work with on this issue, and I couldn't let it go to waste!  Here's what I came up with:

 

I've been dying to scrap this picture of my daughter from the first day of school...just hadn't gotten to it yet!  Instead of a page, I decided to create a shadow box frame using a Lori Whitlock file from the Silhouette Store.

 

 

I made the shadow box from some Limba paper I got in the Paper Issues Store...If you've never seen it...it's awesome.  It has a great wood grain texture and it's really heavy and thick. 

To decorate the shadow box, I first covered the front and inside with the Science Lab paper from ChicTags's School House Collection.  I then added a bunch of tags from both the School House and Happy Place collections.

I fussy-cut the 10 from the Arithmetic Paper and used the "Proud Nerd" Rub-on to embellish it.

Some more tags and a fun badge from Evalicious to finish it off.  Love how this turned out!  Thanks for stopping by... I'll be back next week with a bunch of new projects!

My Happy Place at Paper Issues

Hi Everyone...it's time for a new Issue over at Paper Issues today...."My Happy Place!"  Of course this is a title near and dear to me since it's the name of my blog so I just had to be a part of it!  We got to play with some goodies from our sponsor Chic Tags for this issue...I mixed up some papers and embellies from the School House and Happy Place collections.  Take a peek:

My happy place is my new craft room!  I took some pictures of the newly redone room to show some of my favorite things!  It's not 100% done yet...I have fabric for curtains and some goodies for the walls still, but it's a fun place to hang out!

My most favorite thing in my craft room is the desk...it is 5'square and seats 4!  Of course I still find a way to take up all that space!  The love this right here tag is from Chic Tags School House collection...the puffy stickers are from Evalicious.

Since we still needed room for overnight guests...we got a new sleeper sofa for the room as well.  You can see who uses it most!

More tags, from both collections... one of my favorite things about Chic Tags papers is the manufacturer strip along the bottom of the paper.  They all have one side that you can use as tags!!  The "love this" tag is from one of those strips. 

So what is your Happy Place?  Make sure to link up your projects featuring your favorite places to the current issue!  You could win a fab prize pack from Chic Tags!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Paper Issues at Creative Scrappers!

Hi Everyone...two of my favorite places are teaming up this week...the Paper Issues girls are sponsoring the Creative Scrappers Sketch!  Kristine Davidson sent us this fab sketch to play with...

And...here's what I came up with...

These selfies were taken during an AP US History class....they're obviously studying hard.... In place of the triangles in the sketch, I created the symbol for radiation using my Silhouette...I figured it went perfectly with the Photo Bomb theme! Most of the goodies on my layout are from the Chic Tags Our Happy Place Collection from the Paper Issues Store. 

The heart speech bubble clip is from Maya Road, and the Epic wood piece is from Freckled Fawn, colored with my new favorite Teal Color Shine from Heidi Swapp.

 

The click flair is from PandaEight and the glasses flair is from Doodlebug.  Link up your takes on this sketch on the Creative Scrapper's Blog and you could win a $30 gift card to the Paper Issues Store! 

Thanks for stopping by today and make sure to head over to the CS blog to see the fabulous creations from the PI girls!