Happy New Year

Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season! 

Santa a.k.a Scrappin' Sheila brought in some great coloring books! This is the one that I picked out. 

KaiserColour Perfect Bound Coloring Book - Mystic Treasures

I decided to try my hand with my 

Prima - Mixed Media Watercolor Pencils - Spring & Fall

Each child received a coloring book for Christmas so we relax at the end of the day before bed with a little coloring together. 

From the Sheila and the Diva's at Scrappin Great Deals all the best in the New Year! 

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Hocus Pocus

Happy Sunday! 

This weekend I was finally able to play with some fabulous papers! 

Here is a double layout I created with the 

Echo Park - Hocus Pocus Paper collection! 

I loved the sticker sheet! 

It had all the perfect elements for my layouts. 

Added some sequins too! Craft Medley Dazzling Metallics

Look for this kit coming soon to Scrappin Great Deals! 

Thank you for looking! 

#hscapturelife

My heart broke reading Heidi Swapp's blog post concerning the lost of her son. Crafting and being creative does heal. And in the next chapter of her life she is encouraging all of us to document those moments. 

Take a look at this video which describes how she will capture life. 30 DAYS. 30 PROMPTS. 30 REASONS. 

I was late reading my blog post to start on the first day. So below I have captured some of these great prompts to get us going. 

Here are some products you will find helpful on this journey.

Project Life Sunshine Cloth D-Ring 12x12 Album

Project Life Kraft Collection Core Kit Becky Higgins

Project Life Becky Higgins Photo Pocket Pages Design

Project Life - Inspire Die-Cut Card Pack

Project Life - Heritage 3x4 Textured Cardstock

Don't forget our amazing 12 hour sales and the Paper Blow Out! 

Those Crazy Birds

Last weekend at the 12 hour crop I had the chance to sit and craft! I got a few craft projects done. Here are two that I created. 

First up is my Pop up box with the Tim Holtz Bird Crazy Cling Rubber Stamp Stamp Set. 

And even more excited to have the Tim Holtz Sizzix Bird Crazy Thinlits Die Set currently on pre order! 

Trust me you are going to need  love them. :) 

** box inspiration is from crazy birds and coffee By Carol Wenker and box instructions from Splitcoaststampers.

I used the Simple Story So Rad Collection. 

I am pretty thrilled with my double layout with the same collection. 

Hope you are enjoying this beautiful long weekend! 

How to make pinwheels

Lynn here with a tutorial on pinwheels!

I loved making these cute pinwheels! 

Here is how I made them. I cut a 3inch x 3 inch square.

I drew lines in the corners about an inch

I then cut up the lines

Fold one corner and attached a button or you can use a brad! 

Voila! A simple embellishment :) 

Please make sure to stop by the site to check out all the amazing tips and tricks! 

Gelato,stencil and stamps oh my!

Hello my crafty friends. Lynn here today sharing a few pictures of my fabulous vacation with the kids. 

We love crafts! This week was so very hot in Southern Ontario we worked in the shade or indoors during the afternoons. 

We made our own shirts! But if you see in the center of the table are stencils. I pulled out my stencils for the kids to follow the design. 

I have collected a few stencils over the years. But my daughter really enjoyed making the small hearts on her t-shirts. 

I also love the Faber Castle Gelato's for the kids.

For so many reasons! 

I laid a craft mat out and make small color circles. I then gave the kids water brushes and they used their own gelato colors. 

The kids loved the gelato's because of their bright colors. Each child had their own section with their own color so no arguing. they picked colors that suited them. And the clean up!!!! WoW

I also used some of my Prima and Tim Holt stamps too!!! 

Don't forget the 12 hour sale! It's Tool Time at SGD!  Jump on over to our Tool Gallery and save 20% on oodles and oodles of fabulous tools!!  Includes: Memory Box, Spellbinders, Cheery Lynn, IO, Frantic Stamper, Sue Wilson, Tim Holtz & sooo much more!!  Excluded: special orders, pre-orders, orders already placed, clearance, sale items.  Hurry, ends Thursday, July 30 at midnight. Our next Tool Time Event will not be until Fall, so don't miss out!! 

Never a dull moment

Happy Day my friends, 

Today I am sharing my tutorial on my background for my "never a dull moment"

This has to be one of my favorite pictures of my youngest! You can tell he is so full of energy! 

You know when they say that there are no oops in scrapbooking only creative adventures?!?! 

We'll this was my creative adventure! 

My original design was going to be splashes of red around the photo. I was to use clear gesso and then blotch away. Apparently, the coffee was not strong enough and I grabbed my white gesso. I started painting it on with a paintbrush and realized "oh wrong one". 

So began my creative adventure! I randomly started streaking the pattern paper!

I still wanted to have the red! 

I mixed some of Mister Huey's ink with Dreamcatcher paste! 

And then we had pink! So I kept adding red till I had my color! 

I applied the paste to my stencil and started spreading my colored dreamweaver paste. 

Unfortunately I did not use the right ratio of ink to paste and it was a little watery.

But it left me with a fabulous look!

I had still managed to achieve my splashes! 

Using some of the fabulous embellishments and layering I matched everything up very nicely.

I then added a few splats of dark ink to show layer! 

Have a fabulous day!!!

So many reasons to be happy

Presenting the My Creative Scrapbook June Creative Kit

This is one of my favorite pictures of my sweet little boy. He loved his bear. 

This kit is packed with wonderful goodies! Included are 

June 2015 Mini/Creative Kit Kit Contents:

12×12 Double sided papers

words of wisdom

punch strandz

months

Ice

smiles

splatter

Dots

Script

Daily details

pickle juice

stars

diamonds

arrows

starshearts

12×12 journaling sticker sheet with frames

12×12 Treasures and Text sticker sheet with ABC black

ciao chip borders

ciao chip flowers and clouds

trinkets sticker

pkg of buttons red and polka dot

black and white swiss dot ribbon

I will be back in a few days with more layouts created with this fabulous kit!

Love these photographs

Presenting the My Creative Scrapbook June Creative Kit 

words of wisdom
punch strandz
months
Ice
smiles
splatter
Dots
Script
Daily details
pickle juice
stars
diamonds
arrows
starshearts
12×12 journaling sticker sheet with frames
12×12 Treasures and Text sticker sheet with ABC black
ciao chip borders
ciao chip flowers and clouds
trinkets sticker
pkg of buttons red and polka dot
black and white swiss dot ribbon


June 2015 Mini/Creative Kit Kit Contents:
12×12 Double sided papers


I will be back in a few days with more layouts created with this fabulous kit! 

{notes from our daily life}

Presenting the My Creative Scrapbook June Creative Kit 

words of wisdom
punch strandz
months
Ice
smiles
splatter
Dots
Script
Daily details
pickle juice
stars
diamonds
arrows
starshearts
12×12 journaling sticker sheet with frames
12×12 Treasures and Text sticker sheet with ABC black
ciao chip borders
ciao chip flowers and clouds
trinkets sticker
pkg of buttons red and polka dot
black and white swiss dot ribbon


June 2015 Mini/Creative Kit Kit Contents:
12×12 Double sided papers

Here are some close ups of my layout! 





I will be back in a few days with more layouts created with this fabulous kit! 

Stencils, texture and dimension

Hello,  Lynn here today sharing my creative process for creating my Rainy Day layout. 

I love my stencils and they are just not for misting. 

Stencils can be inked, misted, used to apply molding paste and I like to use them as templates. I love the dimension that stencils add.

With a pencils I traced around the stencil. 

Cut out the extra pieces. 

I used a stencil with circles to add extra elements. 

I love using stencils. 

In my hello sunshine layout I used my hexagon stencil. 

Rainy day layout I used my stars and script stencil. 

I love my shattered glass stencil. Adds such great texture. 

Using two colors with one stencil adds extra dimension. 

 Enjoy your kit!!!

Have a great day 

Lynn