Birthdays and Babies

This weekend we are off to two more birthdays, this time for two little boys. So here are a couple of quick cards that I whipped up for them. I used stuff from October Afternoons Rocket Age Collection and this was a great use of my Tim Holtz embossing folder with some beautiful Saphire blue Core'

I then used the Rocket Age Miscellany kit,  SRM stickers and more Core' to create this

Then since my girl friend is expecting sometime around the same time as me, I thought that I would just create this card from the scraps that were on my desk. Do you ever do that instead of cleaning up, LOL, just use what's there? All the sticker elements are from Bella Blvd and the Card is all Core'

TTFN :)

◦

Birthdays and Babies

Almost there

There is nothing quite like a new photo and a color challenge to inspire me to sit down and scrap. The last couple of days I have been having the feeling like this pregnancy is not going to last much longer and I am feeling the need to capture it, document it..........like all amazing moments, when the time is gone, there is no getting it back and no faking it. So with this layout I am baring the bump and showing that I am proud to be round {for the moment}

I printed my journalling over 2 Core' Tags and used elements and papers from October Afternoon's new cake walk collection. The Chevron button is from Greatest View

and had some fun making my own Chevron with Core'Essentials

I guess I am just on the band wagon with this trend.....but really how can I resist, they look so cool!!

I will keep you all posted.......

TTFN :)

◦

Almost there

Wonderful Weekend Crop

What a great weekend..........I had a blast participating in the first ever Hard Core Crop It was a huge success, so if you missed it, keep your eyes peeled cause this is something that I think we will do again.

I made time to participate in a few of the challenges and I used them to work on my December daily album. It was so liberating to not work with photographs for a change. Here are some of my pages

So the first one I did was inspired by Jen's Strip Challenge, this was a fabulous challenge for using those left over strips of paper.

The second one I did was inspired by Ellen's pinterest challenge, I just used rectangles instead of squares

This one was inspired by Kim's Trendy things challenge, who knew I had sequins in my stash? I didn't!!

This one was inspired by Char's Tag challenge, Mmm I love tags!!

Lastly this one was just for fun, but I was inspired by October Afternoons Sketch challenge.

My plan is to put polaroid style photos into this album and make a serious effort to get my camera out everyday in December. I have a rough idea of what kind of photos will go in each one...but I like how flexible it is and I can make it work any which way. I will be sure to share the projects as it is completed in December but I still have some work on the body of the book. The crop allowed me to get it over three quarters done, so for me this was FABULOUS!!

Thank you to all the magnificent and crafty ladies who joined in our challenges!! Winners will be posted soon!!

TTFN :)

◦

Wonderful Weekend Crop

Hard Core' Colour Challenge

Friends Welcome to day 2 of our fabulous and fun Hard Core' Crop

If you were not with us yesterday here are all the links you need on how to

Join in the fun on Facebook

 Be a guest designer with Core' for 3 months

See Official rules

Now on to my challenge, This is a Core'dinations Colour challenge  I want you to create a project with all of these colours. Anything goes, cards, layout, home decor, you name it.

Yes!! you can use more colours if you like.

As for what I have created, well it is a bit of a work in progress!! You see, right now I am scrapping with you and using all the other challenges for inspiration.

Every year for the past 3 years I have said," I really want to do a December Daily"......but October is overwhelming and November flies by and before I know it December is here and I don't have the time to work on such a big project with all the other things that we do. 

This year with the new baby I know it will be no different, so I am doing right now with my CHRISTMAS in July Colour challenge. Here is what I have got done so far.

You will see there are lots of blank spaces, and lot of places for photos 

There are circles everywhere because I will use them with the Custom Core' numbers {like the one in this layout} that I am cutting out with my Klic n Kut

and since I don't know what photo will go where until I take them, I have left plenty of space for titles and jounalling.

Have you SPOTTED a theme yet???

If you notice, I have used the Spotted collection for the whole project, the colours are perfect and you can sand the front and the back for an embossed and debossed look.

So guess what? If you participate in my challenge, that is what I get to give away. My ALL time fave!!

 All you have to do is link up your creation to THIS blog post using Inlinkz before midnight on July 22 2012

Winner will be chosen for best, most creative use of Core'dinations

Ready, Set Go!!!

◦

Hard Core' Colour Challenge

I love tags!!

I am so tired, this week has been the week that my pregnant body has said, "I quit!!! " So I am taking a little time to Scrap. Twopeas has a little manufacturer challenge with October Afternoon, so I put together this layout. 

I am in love with my Core' tags. I know it sounds silly but it is just so handy to have them sitting right there ready to use.

I also whipped up this card just for fun. Again, me and my tags :)

Also there are less than 2 weeks until our Hard Core Croppers Event, I am getting so excited!!!!

I hope you will come and play along!!

TTFN :)

◦

I love tags!!

Having fun

This weekend I am taking a little time out from construction to participate in the Sunshine Crop, with Creative Scrappers. If you love sketch's, this is a marvellous blog with a number of talented sketch designers sure to inspire. This weekend is a special event where they have challenges and prizes and all sort of fun stuff going on. So if you wanna join in the fun check it out, we've got a great facebook page going.

I took my inspiration from this sketch, I had a ton of journalling cards from OA so for a fast and easy layout I used a bunch of them in place of the blocks.

I have this brand new embossing folder by lifestyle crafts, that had this star pattern that mimicked one of the pattern papers that I used, so on my Core'dinations cardstock I used my embossing folder and hammer trick.

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend

TTFN:)

◦

Having fun

First Dip

So for today's layout, I looked to the sketch from October Afternoon for inspiration.

It is another 8x8 but this sketch was nice and simple and easy to change to fit my needs.

I used their Seaside collection

I also got out my Core and paired it up with a little spellbinder fish!!

TTFN :)

◦

First Dip

My greatest Journey

 For the next little while you are gonna be seeing 8x8's on my blog. Yesterday my son wanted to see baby pictures of himself, so I pulled out his first year album. Naturally my youngest wanted to see his and I realized that I have not finished it and I have not done some of the journalling in it. So before this new baby arrives I think that I will try and get a bit more into Levi's first year album, starting with this layout.

I used October Afternoon's Rocket age collection, some beautiful Core'dinations Colors and Queen n Co Gems. Lastly I created this little pin set to match, I will admit to being inspired by the My little bit of whimsy set.

TTFN :)

◦

My greatest Journey

Green Concern

This month there is a huge focus on our planet in my community, our school has gone green, reducing garbage and encouraging more reusable products. In my home we celebrated Earth Day Last week by turning down the heat and using less lights. I planted several new trees and started a veggie garden. On top of these things I still worry about what other ways I can change my life to work better for both my budget and mother nature. That is the focus of this layout.

I used a variety of lines from October Afternoon and this beautiful embossed Cardstock from the Basic grey  Core'Impression line. Other goodies like this adorable black bird are made by My little bit of Whimsy, and the sun burst button by a marvellous company in Australia called Greatest View.

 I hope I have gotten you thinking about some of the changes you could make to help out our planet.

Have a wonderful weekend

TTFN:)

◦

Green Concern

Hey Baby

This is my happy thought today!!! I got my ultrasound photos :) Here is my little baby whomever :) I don't know if it is a boy or girl, I guess that we will find out in August!!

I have had this October Afternoon Collection for 3 years waiting for just the right page and finally here it is. I paired it with 3 different core'impressions lines, basic grey, cosmo cricket and jenni bowlin

Right now this is my new favorite page :)

TTFN

◦

Hey Baby

Today's Whimsy creations

Today is my day to post on the My little bit of whimsy blog, while I was creating this month I needed to change to shade of pink on the heart and butterfly. Both the butterfly and heart were a baby pink color and so by adding straw color with my copics, it changed it to a darker shade of coral to match the Tim Holtz Core'dinations.

Here is the close up of the butterfly, I also added a little teal to the texture of the butterfly to make is stand out more!

Next up is this layout, Part of my Disney album, love that border by October afternoon see how it Mimics the light in the background of the top photo :)

I used my favorite Whimsy button, the woodgrain

and a little orange lady bug!!

With only a few more days of summer I am out and about enjoying the sun and getting all my outdoor work finished. Fall will so be here and I have some great rainy day projects ahead. Until then I hope you are all enjoying your summer too!! {except my good friends in Aus.......hope you are enjoying your cool winter LOL}

◦

Today's Whimsy creations

To lie or not to lie....

Well the sad news is that I had to put the family cat down, she was such a wonderful cat with such personality and was my eldest son's best bud. So now what do I tell him? The truth is gonna break his heart and I really just want to tell him she went mouse hunting and has not returned. But I suppose kids need closure just as much as adults right?? {sigh} Not sure what to do! I think today might be a good day to sooth their souls by the sea and my own. Fill the day with good things.

Here are some good things that I posted with My Little bit of Whimsy this month.

Some great texture buttons

and using a cloud button in a unique fashion

Products used: Rocket age by October Afternoon and Core'dinations and button by My little bit of Whimsy

◦

To lie or not to lie....

Crafty Monday

Ok friends as promised today I've got some fun to share with you!! The Core'dinations gals and I were challenge to do a project with as many embossing folders as we could fit. I have never counted how many embossing folders that I have, like most of us I just bought ones that I love along the way. I was shocked to discover that I own almost 70, Oh my!! So I set to work creating this fun filled layout that uses, count em, 30 embossing folders!!

The best thing about this was that is was a FABULOUS use of scraps, the whole thing was created with bits and pieces from my scrap pile, the only whole piece of paper was the back ground.

This was also a great use of all those OA Stickers that I have, as you all know I have a weakness for OA. My collection was getting a little out of hand so I am making an effort to reach for them and not horde them.

What are you challenging yourself with right now? Give this challenge a try it was so much fun!!

TTFN :)

◦

Crafty Monday

Happy Fathers Day

Today will be a relatively easy day seeing as I had a bit of a mix up and celebrated fathers day last weekend. I was sure that last Sunday was fathers day. Our family had a wonderful day celebrating Dad and it was not until the end of the day when found out it was not actually fathers day. I got some great photos during the day, so I scrapped the story with this one.

Products used Core'dinations cardsock and Pattern paper and stickers by October Afternoon. Hope that you all have a wonderful and happy Fathers Day!

TTFN:)

◦

Happy Fathers Day

Feeling Challenged

This month I decided to find some challenges to kick start my mojo so I hopped around to some of my favorite manufacturers blogs, the first one was October Afternoon, where they have a color challenge happening and it inspired me to scrap this photo and pull out all my blues.

My Whimsy bird, bug and buttons were a great match, I just went around pulling out everything out that was blue!! So much fun!!

I love the color combo of orange and blue,  so I used that as my accent color.

When it was all finished I had used OA's Schoolhouse, Seaside, 5 & Dime, Road Trip and Report Card Collections.

What Challenges are you working on??

TTFN :)

◦

Feeling Challenged