This month’s Star Stampz challenge is all about nature! I used one of the Star Stampz digis to create an art journal page. I really felt like playing with mixed media and making a mess. It is always a relaxing thing to do! I have some go to stencils and stamps in a basket that I use… Read More »
Oh how I love to play with ink! This month’s challenge for the Challenge YOUrself scrapbook challenge is to get messy! Of course I wanted to play with some splatter! I had some scraps from the Flea Market scrapbook collection that I had used for the Crop & Create event over the weekend and decided to use… Read More »
Have you seen the newest edition of Scrapbook and Cards Today magazine? The spring issue is packed full of lots of beautiful inspiration. I couldn’t wait to scraplift Nathalie DeSousa’s double page layout! It was covered in florals with lots of empty white space on the pages. I also recently received the Close To My Heart Cosette Scrapbooking… Read More »
We have an Anything Goes theme this month for the Star Stampz Challenge. The design team is using new release digis for our creations! You can check out the challenge HERE. This fabulous digi is the Flower Fairy Daisy digi. Isn’t it dreamy? It’s perfect for spring and summer as well! I love a beautiful digi. I… Read More »
I am sharing cards created with SKETCH #2 today: #KCC10GiveawayHop Details: I used papers, a stencil, and a die set from Scrappy Tails Crafts. I so love the scene building stamps and dies that Scrappy Tails Crafts carries. The designs are always beautifully created and detailed. This may be my new favorite stencil. This is the chevron… Read More »
You have two more weeks to join Kendra’s Card Challenge #9. This challenge ends on March 31 and then challenge 10 starts! There are so many great prizes available to challenge winners. You can participate by joining Kendra’s Card Challenge Facebook Group. Make your 15 cards with the FREE Cutting Diagrams and Card Sketches and share them with… Read More »
This month’s theme for the Star Stampz Challenge is an encouragement or friendship theme. As always, it is an anything goes challenge, so I created an art journal layout! The challenge starts now and ends on at the beginning of April. You can find the challenge on the Star Stampz Blog. I really enjoyed creating this. I… Read More »
The theme for this months scrapbook Challenge YOUrself is to create a sports themed layout. Remember that YOU have to be in a photo on the layout! For my layout, I used the Close To My Heart Flower Shoppe scrapbook kit. This kit came with a fabulous variety of patterned papers, lots of great embellishments, and a nice… Read More »
It’s the start of a new Saturday Challenge over on the Three Room Studio blog! This week’s theme is WATER! IusedI used the It’s a Ponderful Life stamp set along with the Believe in Fairies stamp set from Three Room Studio. I heat embossed my images so that I could add some distress oxides to my background. … Read More »
This month’s theme for the Challenge YOUrself February challenge is meditation. I don’t meditate per se. I do activities that I find meditative. I often find that as I’m riding my bike I focus on the sights and sounds around me and the feeling of freedom and relaxation that I have while riding my bike. I find… Read More »
I feel in love with the Seas & Greetings Scrapbook Workshop Kit as soon as I saw it on the Close To My Heart site. This set was a December and January monthly special. It has a snowy winter theme on one side of the paper and a tropical beachy winter theme on the other side. It seemed… Read More »
I was very excited to be invited to be a guest designer for the Not 2 Shabby shop for February! Jamie sent me the stamp and die for the month of February called Spread Your Wings and I was very excited to play with it today. I created 5 cards in total using this set with 2… Read More »
I’ve been doing a lot of research and I’ve taken several classes on scrapbook layout design. I’ve come up with 5 key elements that I like to include on all of my layouts or in each double page layout. These 5 items include: Photos Canvas (layout background) Ephemera (the “jewelry”) Title Journaling I scrapbook to tell my… Read More »
I have really been enjoying the scrapbook workshop kits that I have purchased from Close To My Heart. I have been playing with the Now & Forever Scrapbook Workshop Kit. I got the kit with the stamp and thin cuts set included and I’m so happy that I did that! I’ve made a ton of my own ephemera… Read More »
Today, I was playing with a small set of word dies that I purchased from Close To My Heart last month. It actually has 4 words that can be used in a variety of combinations to make card sentiments or titles for scrapbook layouts. I decided to use it to create an elegant background on a couple of… Read More »