You are my sunshine

Today I am sharing a canvas I created for the Creative Embellishment May Challenge.

The above photo was the inspiration mix with a sketch. 

I love the bright flowers in the beautiful sun. And if I was standing in that field with my kids, they would be running through all the flowers. Charlie would be doing his super speed. My youngest is always full of energy. 

I used the Mini Brick Panel from Creative Embellishment. I cut pieces of the panel, painted it black and added a light coat of Viva Decor Gold. The Paper is from Echo Park  This & That Charming. I mix Tim Holtz Wild Honey ink with Dreamweaver embossing paste and used Memory Box Stardust Mini Stencil.

I used Viva Decor Gold paint on the star and on the edges of the canvas. 

Love this sticker, Charlie's favorite song. 

Thank you for stopping by. 

Lynn xox

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day. 

A quick post today. I made this box for my mom for Mother's Day. I had the chance to spend the weekend with two of my favorite friends/scrappers. They inspire me on so many levels. 

I received my Creative Embellishment order a few days ago and could not wait to play with the beautiful pieces. A few weeks ago, Tammy a Creative Embellishments DT member made an amazing Steampunk decorative OTP project. 

Here is what I created. 

Love my Prima Color Bloom Spray Sparklin Pastel Cotton Candy which I misted over my BoBunny Paper. I then primed my Creative Embellishment Page Corner chipboard to oposing edges of my box. On the top I added various flowers from Prima and Petaloo. Butterflies and hearts using my punches. Prima wood buttons. Added Pearls and a key from K & Company. 

Please forgive my gesso hands in the picture. 

Enjoy the day!

Today at SGD enjoy free shipping! Details can be found here.

Lynn xox

You fill my world with Sunshine!

Last month I participated in a sketch challenge at My Creative Sketches and won!!! That post can be found here. The prize, this beautiful kit pictured below.  

 

It has been a crazy two weeks, but finally today, I had the chance to play with this beautiful kit. Today, is also National Scrapbook Day, Free Comic Book Day and the start of our family movie marathon of Star Wars. (May 4th - is International Star Wars Day. May the fourth be with you.). We truly are a geeky family. A few months ago at an  SGD class I took a canvas class. I am now loving making canvas layouts. This is one that I made for my daughter. 

I first started using this yummy kit on a layout but soon glanced over and saw the canvas just waiting! Using my CW stencil and my Dreamweaver paste added texture. 

Loved the over sized flowers.

Using the sticker sheet, I fussy cut some of the elements from journaling cards and layered them. 

Butterflies are my favorite and the kit was filled with beautiful wood butterflies. 

Hope you are having a great weekend. Happy National Scrapbooking Day. 

Lynn xox

Joy

Happy Monday. Today I am sharing a layout made with my new Prima Bloom Color Sprays and the Prima Princess Papers oh so yummy at SGD.  My layout is based on Creative Scrappers sketch 267. 

 A few close ups

Hope you are having a great start to the week. Don't forget!

Happy

This past Friday Creative Scrappers celebrated 6 years! It was a fun and amazing bash! Great sponsors and I discovered an amazing new company Creative Embellishments which I placed an order for some yummy new embellishments. On Saturday, I spent the day at Scrappin' Great Deals 12 hour crop. I also got my hands on the new Prima Bloom sprays and Tim Holtz mini inkers. Can you tell it has been an amazing creative weekend for me?

My layout was inspired by this amazing sketch. I love the layer look. Instead of triangles I choose butterflies and stamp shapes.

As I wait for my new order of embellishments to come in, I decided to play along with Creative Embellishment April Challenge.  The Challenge was to be inspired by the below image the twist is to use at least 4 of the 10 items in the list  below on the project. 

When I saw the bright colors and balloons I thought of my sister Michelle. My sister is one amazing woman, full of life and spunk. She loves celebration and cake making and when we are together, it always feels like a party. 

In my layout I misted my Prima paper with the new Prima Color Bloom sprays, and I used Dreamweaver paste on the edges with my chicken wire stencil. Gesso gel on my butterflies will give them a glass finish. I heat embossed my vine. My classy sister loves her pearls, so I decorated the butterflies and vine with pearls. 

I love the colors of the Prima Bloom Sprays. 

Have a great week!

Lynn xo

Movie Night

Happy Monday. I took the day off work today.  It felt so nice to stay home with the family. I also had some scrap time for myself. This project actually started off in making kits for the SGD retreat next month, and turned into this double page layout. I did not realize how much Christmas paper I had. So I decided to see what I could create with my Christmas paper that did not look like a winter theme. 

I based my layout on two sketches from Let's Get Sketchy  Week one and Week three. 

Week One sketch.

Week Three

I actually flipped week three sketch so that I could make the double layout work with my wording. 

We love family movie nights. I used a mixture of Simple Stories and Fancy Pants paper. I cut all hints of Christmas from the papers. 

On each side of the page I included a little journaling pocket. 

I also had the chance to use my new Tim Holtz hashtag stamp.

Stars and film strip worked well with my title theme. I scored an amazing star punch from the SGD garage sale. Who am I kidding?! I love stars. 

 Thank you for stopping by. Have a great week. 

Lynn

Blossom

Happy Thursday. This past weekend I decided to try and get ahead of my project life and create the following week's page.  With the new Imaginisce Welcome Spring line and a little help from Creative Scrappers Sketch I created this double page layout. This sketch is awesome! 

I absolutely love journaling cards, with this line. 
I love the mix of darker and light spring colors. For my page I loved the navy and forest green. Well I have to cut today's post short as Sheila is enabling my love of paper with a 40% sale!

Have a great Easter Weekend.

Week 10 PL

Hello.  Saturday,  on the SGD blog and Andrea posted a great video for project life. Today I am sharing my own adventures for project life. I have always kept a journal of sorts for the kids and their moments. When I started scrapbooking, it was to record those moments. Then scrapbooking became so much more than just documenting. The more my passion grew for the creative aspects, the less documenting I did. Project life lets me tell that story. 

I purchased the Midnight Collection Core Kit.

I picked this kit for the black, grey, white and gold colors. My thought was that I could pre-slot my cards and make it a faster project in my album. I had also purchased the corner rounder punch.

 and the Square Corner 3x4 Picture Punch.  These two tools are real time savers!

Perfect punch out.

During the week I keep a little journal. Then I would  fill out the journal cards and decide on my photo's. I do love the uniformity of the kit, but maybe the scrapper in me wanted to add a little color.  This is my 'work in progress' picture. 

So I went through my sticker sheets and paper scraps and added some color. 

I am thrilled with how this week turned out. It really does represent me and my little family. 

Sticker sheets are sometimes tricky for me so I love that I can put them to good use. With my star border punch, I added some fun elements. If you look at the bottom right picture you can see the negatives of the stars from the border punch. 

With my Square Corner 3x4 Picture Punch I was able to punch out the Lego Land brochure. I also found a cool documentation stamp. 

Here are more close ups of details. 

How do you work with Project Life? I would love to know. Have a great week. 

Lynn