One more day.....

I could not be more excited about tomorrows Hard Core' Crop my desk is piled high with cardstock, ribbon, gems and adhesive. I really hope that you'll all be joining us, it is gonna be one heck of a party :)

 My youngest was off to a little girls birthday party  this weekend, so I put together this birthday card using one of the Core' Cards from the pastel collection and some goodness from Bella Blvd.

Other goodies are the flowers and ribbon from maya rd, gems from queen n co, labels die from spellbinders and sticker from SRM

See you tommorrow { i hope}

TTFN

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One more day.....

Layer it

Here is a quick card that I put together for my SIL's birthday,  I used some lifestyle craft circle dies, I can't believe how many sizes came in one package. I love my new spellbinders butterflies too!!

Just sharing

TTFN :)

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Layer it

Strawberry Sweet

There are a whole bunch of birthdays coming in August and I have no idea how much time I will have to devote to creation with a new baby, two boys home from school, a house in the works, and the small reno in our current home to make room for a nursery. I know you must be thinking, "is that all?" Ha ha ha!!

Any ways I had some quiet time this morning, so I made this quick card for my sisters upcoming birthday.

I love my Core'dinations cards, I can just grab a base and get started no measuring required :) 

other cool stuff on this card is my all time favourite ribbon by may arts and this wicked cool embossed cardstock from the Pink Paislee Core'impressions line.

Any ways off to do something for Fathers day

TTFN:)

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Strawberry Sweet

Peachy Keen and Core' Blog hop

Welcome to the peachy keen and Core'dinations Blog hop. Check out this ADORABLE little skunk from Peachy Keen, not only is he a die.....but the peachy keen stamp face is soooooo marvelous. 

I'm still trying to catch up on my sons first year album. I think i'm almost there!!!

Speaking of almost there.....you're getting close to the end of the hop, hope you have found something crafty to inspire. Thanks for stopping by

Peachy Keen Stamps Blog http://peachykeenstamps.blogspot.com
Lauren Brewer http://laurenscreative.com
Char Dobson http://vanillabeancreations.blogspot.com/
Kristi Bennett http://littlepapersprinkles.blogspot.com
Ellen Sosnoski http://closeyourears.blogspot.com/
Heather Hoffman http://housesbuiltofcards.blogpspot.com
Lydia Jackson http://lidibids-scrapnotions.blogspot.com/ {you are here}
Glorajean Beardall http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com

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Peachy Keen and Core' Blog hop

Happy NSD

Good Morning Everyone, this morning I am feeling scrappy, it is so good to feel the mojo flowing again. I am continuing to work on my sons first year 8x8 album and here is the latest addition. Just a note: Anyone who has bought or is buying the new Jillibean Soup Game Day Chilli collection, should buy the Kraft Core pack. SERIOUSLY every colour is perfect it was like they were made for each other.

I took a challenge to "lift yourself" and so I chose one of my all time favourite layouts to use for inspiration.

This one!! I had to remove a photo and simplify a few element because of the size difference, but I love the end result. 

Have a great day, hope you do something scrappy!!! 

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Happy NSD

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 :)

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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 :)

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My greatest Journey

Dreaming of warmth

Well the first day of spring has come and gone and this gal is still freezin her tuckus off. It was -2 this morning and my car had a thick layer of ice when I went to take the kids to school. BRrrrr. This months color insirations over on the Core'dinations Blog was this wonderful spring\summer pallette.

So while I dreamt of summer, I created this layout.

The bright and marvelous flowers are from Petaloo, Core'dinations has teamed up with them to create flowers that match perfectly to our papers. Did you notice that the pearls match too?? That is because Core'dinations is also teamed up with Queen n Co :) Wicked Cool eh!!!

TTFN:)



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Dreaming of warmth

Petaloo and May arts

All week long Core'dinations has been hooking up with May Arts and Petaloo, now anyone who knows me, knows I like to switch it up when it comes to flowers, I use them as pretty much anything but a flower, I've used them as wings, clouds, dresses and today I have turned them into a Christmas tree, covered in Queen n Co pearls.

To set off my title I have used this bright and playful ribbon by May Arts, it goes well with some spotted red Core paper!!

Pop over to the Core'dinations blog and get wrapped up in ribbon and floral inspirations

TTFN :)

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Petaloo and May arts

Channeling my inner Kim

I took these pictures the other day of my kids playing Robin Hood in the back yard and when I saw them I knew I wanted  the photos to have an antique feel. When it comes to this style, nobody does it like my friend Kim Jeffress, so for this layout I used her techniques for inspiration.

When I was in Australia with her, I remember her telling me she never uses a ruler, so the first thing I did was put away my ruler. I then went through my stash and pulled out a variety of paper and embellishments that I thought went well together.

I included things that Kim usually has in her signature style, like Whimsy pins, raw chipboard,ribbon, buttons and pearls. Actually some of the things she sent me :)

Then I pulled it together and added just a POP of red to play up the photos

Lastly a splatter of smootch to give it that artistic touch.

Thanks Kim and congrats on making the basic grey team. You are Fab, and I am totally missin yah!! 

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Channeling my inner Kim

Caroling King

The inspiration continues over on the Core-dinations blog, we have 2 more days of great projects from both the Core Design team and Helmar. Today my layout was featured. This is my son all dressed up for his first Christmas concert, I was so proud of him for standing in front of all those people, singing his little heart out.

I used the Helmar zots to get some great dimension and used their runner to adhere the rest. 

Products used Core-dinations Cardstock, Jillibean Soup Pattern paper and spots, pearls by Queen n Co.

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Caroling King

Finally feeling better

Well it seems like it has been forever since I last posted. After 3 months of dealing with the constant stream of colds and bugs my son brought home from Kindergarten, my body ran out of fight and succumbed to pneumonia. I have spent the last week on the couch keeping warm and taking anti-biotics and dealing with a cough so harsh it would stop me in my tracks. Today I am finally feeling a little more normal, still a little on the slow side but things are looking brighter.

Before I got all laid out, I was working on this layout of my super cute niece. That red hair just gets me every time.

Most of this layout was done with the very merry collection from October Afternoon, the cute little pup is from Fancy pants and I love love love how this Cosmo Core-impressions matched the papers perfectly.

Also I customized the teal button, with a technique that I love, I use paint and my stylus to make perfect dots, in the shape of a heart.

Thanks for all the well wishes last post, I am really hoping that my house hold has now been pre disastered for the Holidays.

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Finally feeling better

Feature Guest

Today I am the feature guest DT'er over at Creative Scrappers, this is an awesome sketch website. This place has a something for everyone. I love that it has several contributing sketch designers that way if somethings not quite your style, the next one is sure to grab you. Plus thier design team always have a ton of marvelous and creative examples.

For my layout I used the strip paper in Imagince's apple cider line. {Man I love that paper} Also used some Core Chocolate box and used my fiskars paper crimper to create the pumpkin leaf. A little sparkle from queen n co was the finishing touch.

Thanks for having me creative scrappers :)

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Feature Guest

Rainy Day Play

It has been pretty quite around here with the exception of the coughing. We are all still laid up with colds. So it makes for good indoor play, trains planes and auto mobiles, Movies and warm liquids. I created this layout to document some of the great one on one time that I have had with my youngest.

I made this little paper airplane to mimic the paper. I knew those notes in class would come in handy. LOL!!

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Rainy Day Play

Doing the happy Dance

So for all you gals dieing to know who won the Elmers Crafting Challenge the announcement has been made here. and the winner is....................

ME!!

YAHOO!!

Thank you so much Elmers.

 Plus they found a charity to assist in my original cause of choice. I am so excited, The 1000.00 prize is going to the Diabetes Scholars Foundation.

On the crafty side of things, I am so busy but I just can't share most of it just yet!!
What I can share is this month you can find this layout in Scrapbooks and Cards today.

and you can find this one in Octobers CK.



More to share soon!!

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Doing the happy Dance

October has arrived {and winners}

As I have mentioned a time or two before I love fall, and there is just something so much fun about being given a day every year just to dress up as something else. I am talking about none other than Halloween. It is not just for kids, I love getting dressed up. I especially love putting on wild make up and sparkles.  When I got my hands on the *NEW Graphic 45 Core-Impressions I knew that I wanted to create something Halloweenish, the black and soft grey the marvelous textures, how could I resist!!

This was my costume last Halloween, I went as a monarch butterfly!

To create the title I stamped the word halloween onto the cardstock and then heat embossed it with gloss black embossing powder, to make it really stand out. The black and orange rox by Queen n co are such a great touch, love there eerie look.

And now for the news you've all been waiting for............the Winners are
drawn from a hat by my 4 year old son.

Tanya who said " Great project, I didn't realize they had so many products! Posted on my blog."

Leah the orange who said" okay, WOW! first of all, found you through Andrea's (apologetic) blog post, and was TOTALLY inspired by your project (i wanna do something very similar, and now my head's swimming with wonderful ideas - thanks!), and the fact that they're donating to a charity on your behalf! that's just AMAZING, and i hope you win it!

and, well, i hope *I* win your goodies, because i promise i'd do them justice! "

and last but not least

Patty K who said "wonderful wall hanging --very pretty "

Ladies if you would please send me your addresses I can get the packages sent out right away. {email me is in the side bar}

Thank you to Everyone, I cannot tell you how incredibly excited I am to "see" so many new faces. It means so much to me that so many of you chose to follow this little blog of mine. I hope something here Inspires you to create. I love it when people share there creations.  {{{{{BIG HUGS}}}}

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October has arrived {and winners}

It's beginning to look a lot like..........

Christmas????? Ok don't shoot me, but I was at my local scrap store and they just got in the new Cottage Christmas by Imaginisce. I love this line, traditional colors, clean lines, and adorable creatures. Right up my alley!!! I always find new stuff inspiring so I dug through my photos and found these pictures of my sons, when we went to get our Christmas tree. 

 I bought the i-top button maker on sale at Oh my crafts a little while back {I love that it is black} and I used it to create the little reindeer button, the scallop stamp is one of the snag ems, and what would a Christmas layout be without a little queen n co sparkle.

The give away for the Elmers Crafting challenge is still happening just scroll to the post below, and leave a comment on that post for a chance to win. I also want to say a BIG THANK YOU

to all of you for joining me here, I have read each and every comment and it has brought me such joy these last few rainy days. I am trying to touch base with each of you in some way. Bare with me if it takes a little while as there are more of you than I imagined. {{{{{Hugs}}}}}

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It's beginning to look a lot like..........

Elmers, not just white glue!!

Ok friends this is gonna be a lengthy post with lots of pictures so you may want to grab a cup and pull up a chair. A little while ago someone from Elmer's contacted me and asked if I would like to participate in a Crafting challenge. My first thought, like I am sure many of you, was "hhhmmm glue eh?" I agreed thinking "well you can never have to much adhesive right?". Then they sent me this list of the products that I had to work with and I was blown away..........things are always better explained with a photo, so here is what arrived at my doorstep.

I had no idea that Elmers made so many products!!! I have always had a stash of there glue sticks kicking around because they are perfect for my large surface gluing needs and they are not so expensive so I can let my kids use them too. As I told you all yesterday, I just got my hands on the *new* Core-Impression by Stacy Jillian and I wanted to create something bright and inspirational for my scrappy space. So I set to work creating this...............................

Let me walk you through the process

I glued my cardstock down to my chipboard with my glue stick

then once the cardstock was stuck down I used this FABULOUS {and I say that because the shape of this is so comfortable to hold} x-acto swivel blade to trim around the outside edge.

I used the trimmer to cut down my photos, I have never owned a guillotine style trimmer and I have to say this rocked for cutting my chipboard as well. Plus the best part is the storage underneath the cutting deck. It fits the glue sticks, scissors and x-acto knives. Very cool!! 

I used the scissors to cut all my really small embellishments. They were super precise and had a great comfy soft grip.

I used the Elmer's glue runner to stick down my photos and other elements. It glides so smoothly and is super sticky, {plus I love the orange color LOL}

For the first panel, I used the x-acto circle cutter to cut the brown circle and used the fun decorative edge scissors for borders. Also I want to be able to change the pictures so for all the photos I used the Elmers photo corners.

For this one there is subtle layering of all the decorative edge scissors on the left, just adds a little interest and texture.

For the third panel {my favorite} I used more decorative edges and I used the x-acto to cut out the branches. I used Elmer's wonderful gel pens to add a little extra details to the cardstock leaves by October Afternoon.

I then used the foam mounting tape {another product that I love} to pop them up a little, I used the glue dots for my buttons, it was nice not to have to wait for my glue to dry with this product. Very efficient!!

Lastly, for this panel, I cut out a collection of circles with the circle cutter, then cut them in half to create a place to hold my title.

So there you have it, my entry for the Elmer's Crafting Challenge!

 

So what is the prize you ask? The prize is $1000 dollars towards my favorite charity. If I won, the money would go towards juvenile diabetes. This is cause near and dear to me, as a few of my friends have little ones struggling with this disease. I can't imagine having to inject myself every day, let alone a 3 year old.  I need to amend this, I went back through the rules and it stated that is must be an educational based charity, so I don't think that this qualifies, so then my next choice would be a literacy foundation, because I truly believe the gift of reading can change your life.

and the best part is

I also have prizes for you, that's right. I get to give away three Elmer's prize packs!!

These prize packs will include:

X-ACTO:
4-pack Decorative Edge Scissors
Self Healing Mat
Retractable Craft Knife
Craft Swivel Knife

CraftBond:
Scrapbooking Tape: Repositionable
Extra Strength Glue Stick
Wet & Dry Dual Tip Glue Pen
Permanent Tape Runner

Talk about a give away WHooooo HOooo!! All you have to do is either post about this and link it back to me on your blog, if you don't have a blog, link it up on facebook and if you you don't have any of these, just become a follower.

When you are done leave me a comment!! I will pick a winner on Friday October 1st
Good Luck and Happy Crafting!!

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Elmers, not just white glue!!

Me Digital??

For those of you who may be concerned that I would go digital, fear not!! I tried it once and found that I need to feel my paper, get ink on my fingers and rip, tear and sand to feel like I am scrapping.  However a great friend of mine and digital designer, Day, asked if she could use some of my paper designs for her digital challenge. I am amazed at the marvelous creations happening over at Scrap Matters. It is awesome!!  Even if you are not a digi scrapper you really should check it out.

Also the party continues over at 3 Scrappy boys, there are a ton of great challenges both simple and easy. Here is one of the creations I whipped up last night. I only have two ball games left and then we are into dodgeball season, so I thought this would be a good time to scrap about it.

I am so super proud of this hand stitched baseball, easy just took a little time.

This baseball was a flat sandylion sticker that I put over top of a white button, it has great dimension now

and october afternoon's fly a kite collection had some perfect words for the page too!

Top it all off with some Jillibean Core-impressions and some queen n co bling and you've got one happy gal. 

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Me Digital??