Classique Elegant

Happy Thursday! Only 57 days till the SGD Retreat. Well actually I never sleep the night before as I am always so excited so maybe I can say 56?

Today I am sharing a page I made with Authentique - Classique Elegant papers. I am normally a one page layout kind of girl but this time tried a double page. 

Love the Petaloo flowers, especially the white one's that you can ink up to match your layout. I used Tim Holtz Wild Honey ink for the flowers and paper edges. 

I love flower clusters and using all the various pattern papers. 

I also decided to do a little mix media by using Dreamweaver embossing paste. I colored it a little before applying to my stencil to have a color match. 

Here are a few more close ups of this amazing paper collection! 

Have a great week.

Lynn

Smith - Marion Smith

  Good morning! 

Today I am sharing my family layout created with the Marion Smith line. I love the soft color pallet of this line. 

 There are so many possibilities with this paper.( I love pretty papers)

I had a ball inking, distressing and stamping. I will also show you how to achieve the distress look with the Prima Distressing Tool.  

Working layers upon layers. Hope you can join me on Saturday March 15th.  You can register here! 

Have a fabulous day! 

Lynn 

Oh Sweetheart

Good morning! 

Hope you are having a fabulous day. First,  I will admit that I have an addiction to paper! I can't hide it! Yes, Valentine's Day was a couple of weeks ago but who could resist this line  by Doodlebug-Designs. This line is a perfect mix for journaling and capturing those sweet pictures of your valentine's! 

I love the valentine's tickets! These tickets are double sided, if you are not into the mushy, the reverse side will be perfect for you! So many possibilities! 

  

        

Does Love really go out of season?!? I know my love of paper doesn't! ... and well I also had the chance to try out my new Tim Holtz Mini's! 

I love these Distress Inks! You will need these! Just sayin'

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day

Lynn

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It is all about Love ...

It was a busy week at work. Last night, I came home to hubby having dinner on the table. I was so exhausted that I was in bed by 7. No surprise that I was up at 430 this morning. All was quiet in the house and I had some crafting time. Love the new Jilibean Soup - Heart Healthy Red Bean Soup collection and used two of the yummy papers from the collection, along with black, white and Kraft card stock. I also used Crate Paper Love Notes chipboard pieces {which I LOVE} to my layout.

The theme was inspired by Colorful Creations: It is all about Love challenge. My layout is based on Creative Scrappers sketch 261. 

Using my Cricut I cut out hearts on Kraft card stock and stamped them with various background stamps. 

Clustered hearts and arrows everywhere. Framing my favorite picture from Barb Weir Photography.

Love these tickets which I've popped up.

More layered hearts.

Love matting and matted all elements and thought the black card stock would help pop up the pictures and elements as I used a lot of patterned paper.

Do you want to build a snowman

The kids and I love the new Disney Movie Frozen. I think it is safe to say we've watched it every weekend. We love the songs! Here in Ontario we have had a lot of snow and really cold days. I decided to play with Fancy Pants Timbergrove. I love the colors! They remind me of hot chocolate and building a snowman from when I was a child. The pictures are from the fabulous Barb Weir Photography. 

Using my cricut I cut out various sizes of flags and snowflakes. 
 


I layered and popped the flags. Added gems in the snowflakes
 


Inked and distressed with Tim Holtz inks. 
 

The plan was to lightly emboss with some pears and well that didn't work out. So I know have a snow effect on the page. 

Thank you for stopping by 

You, Me, Love ....

Last Friday I went to the SGD Friday night crop! A couple of hours with those ladies and oh my my ... the inspiration! Everyone was working on a February aka Valentine's project and I decided to give it a whirl. I picked up the new Crate Paper line and used January Sketch 1 from Let's Get Sketchy for my page.

I decided to add the deeper color cardstock to help give it a pop. 

I am in love with the chipboard elements

Inked and popped the banner

Love love love the look of the stamped date. 

Thank you so much for stopping by <3 i="">

LOVE Crate Paper

Winter is definitely here! We are all stuck in the house today! Sadly I am missing the SGD Saturday crop but Sheila does have a great deal on today!  I am THRILLED as I got to play with some new papers from Crate Paper the Love Notes collection and Let's Get Sketchy January Week two sketch! 

I normally have a hard time with working with multiple patterned papers but adding a matt at the bottom of all my pieces helped the page pop. 

Always love my Tim Holtz Wild Honey Ink... Everywhere.

The chipboard pieces that are with this collection are adorable

Love this collection!

Say Cheese

I had a fabulous weekend! On Friday night I got to scrap with the Diva's of SGD! It is amazing what a couple of hours with the Diva's will do! I am thrilled that I will be joining the SGD team! Dani introduced me to the 

Simple Stories - Say Cheese 12x12 Collection Kit, and I fell in love! Although the paper pack is mostly geared towards a trip to Disney I put my own spin to it. My design was based on Creative Scrappers Sketch 259. 

I layered a lot of the pieces and created dimension with popping up the stickers. I also used my Crafter's Workshop Mini Star Fall 6x6 Template for the added effect of the stars. (they are more visible on the edges but there are some in the middle --- that is how much fun I was having) 

Love popping up and layering. 

I gave myself a little pocked for journal cards. 

Thank you for stopping by! Have a great week! 

B-I-N-G-O

Things have finally started slowing down at home & work. I now have a little more time for me and have been getting in some scrap time. I have been able to play along at Let's Get Sketchy and some of their challenges. Right now they have a Bingo Challenge! 

I sat down this morning and started at the challenge, my plan was to go diagonally from top/right to bottom/left. Then the kids ran in, dishes, laundry and a few phone calls sat back down and continued working. A little distracted I then started my line following the O column. I have two lines... lol... My layout contains, misting / 3 photo's / Christmas Paper (Fancy Pants Timbergrove) and Fancy Pants Doily. I also have tags, 3 Patter Papers from the Timbergrove line, used my circle punch & tag punch and the Crafter's workshop Mask. 

These pictures were taken by Barb Weir Photography. I love how the dynamic duo always manage to capture my daughter's fun spirit. 

I used Crafters Workshop Capricious mask, Mister Huey's opaque white from SC.

Here is to the first layout of 2014. 

Happy New Years my crafty friends.