Golf Card

I'm not sure what inspired me to create this card. I don't play golf, so I don't anticipate sending this card to someone inviting that person to go golfing. I'm really not sure, but the idea popped into my head and I went with it. It all started when Shelley posted her GDT card challenge over at The Scrapping Turtle. She challenged us to create a card using something not normally used in scrapbooking. My first thought was "golf tee". Of course, not being a golfer, I didn't have any golf tees laying around. Off I had to go to Dollarama to see if they had any. They did. So my card is done and I am now the happy owner of 47 extra golf tees and no clue what to do with them.

The grass was created using a Quickutz die, as were the letters. The golf ball was cut using the Sports Mania cartridge from Cricut.

June Monthly Mystery Challenge

The June kit from The Scrapping Turtle was a bit of a challenge for me. I wasn't sure at first what I was going to do with the sports themed tag sheet that came with the kit. My little ones are into playing baseball or football quite yet. Then I remembered these great photos of Samuel and I had my idea. Everything on the layout is from the challenge kit with the exception of the alphabet stickers which are EK Success.

Technique Tuesday Classes Part 2

Remember this post? Those were the images from the kit for the first week. I now have some more images to post of the projects created using the Technique Tuesday class kits from The Scrapping Turtle.

I was able to locate some white twill, which I need in order to finish the layout from week 2. It isn't done so I can't post it yet. I do however have the lovely card that was created with the same kit. I really enjoyed stamping and creating the pretty flowers.

The kit for week 3 also involved creating a layout (double page thanks to the wonderful Lori) and a card. I am posting the layout without photos, since I am going to wait until the end of the year to add photos highlighting the entire year. The penciled squares indicate where the photos will go. It is my intention to make it a layout about both of the children and use a picture of them together from each month in 2009. This was my first experience stamping on twill. I was nervous at first, but I know it is something I will try again --- especially since I need to do it to complete the layout from week 2.

I altered my card very slightly from the example in the kit for week 3. I matted the words "love" and "everyday" then pop dotted them to the card. I think I know who I'm going to be giving this card to :)

As for the layout from week 2 --- I still need to stamp the twill and attach it (BTW: if you happen to need 1" wide white twill Len's Mill Store in Hespeler carries it), and find just the right photos to finish it off. I am hoping to have a photo shoot with the children on Monday, so hopefully there will be some perfect photos to complete the layout. Gary and I took the children shopping today and found some nice outfits for the photo shoot --- let's just hope things work out for doing it on Monday.

Technique Tuesday Classes

The Scrapping Turtle offered four weeks of Technique Tuesday stamping classes on Tuesday nights. I wasn't able to join the classes, taught by the fabulous Lori, but I did purchase all of the kits. So far I have finished putting together the first kit and I'm almost finished the second (just having a small missing product problem with it). The kits were nice enough on their own, but Lori went a step further for us -- thank you Lori!!!!! She adapted each layout in the classes from a single page to a double page!!!!! Isn't that awesome!!!!! Lori is the best!!!!!

The layout from the first class is titled "Together is a wonderful place to be". Photos are of Gary and Sara, Samuel and myself, and Sara and Samuel. Journaling reads: "It doesn't matter where we are or what we are doing, being together is the best thing in the world. Whether we are out at a restaurant, spending time at the park, visiting some exciting place, or even just hanging out at home, nothing beats the time we spend together as a family. Sara, Samuel, Mommy and Daddy -- it really is a wonderful place to be. June 2009". Here is the layout:

Here is the fantastic card from the first class:

Hopefully I will get the next kit finished soon so that I can post it in the near future. Thanks again to Lori for this wonderful kit!!!!

May's Mystery Kit

This month's Mystery Kit from The Scrapping Turtle was a beautiful one. The papers were lovely to work with and the embellishments were perfect. I hand cut some of the flowers from the paper, then used my Fiskars punches to creates some layered flowers. I inked two of the chipboard flowers and covered the third with paper before inking the edges. I painted the bottle cap to look like a lady bug based on a tutorial I found here. I highlighted the stems and leaves with a bit of doodling and doodled around the photo mat.

Drop by The Scrapping Turtle forum to see the wonderful things that the other ladies did with the mystery kit this month.

Bisous PDQ Layout

PDQ stands for Pretty Darn Quick. It is a great line of papers that you can either use as is and simply attach your pictures or you can cut them apart to create fun layouts. The paper is a product of Bisous and you can visit their website here. 

Mom and I were lucky enough to take a Bisous PDQ class at The Scrapping Turtle a little while ago. We had a lot of fun with the teacher, Suzanne Carillo. I still have to add photos to one of the layouts we did and finish the other one, but I do have one of the layouts completed so far. Blessed is my version of Suzanne's Lucky layout that she taught us in class. 

Quickutz Anonymous Projects

I've been a little behind with finishing up my Quickutz Anonymous projects and getting them posted. For the most part that means just adding the photos. I realized tonight that I haven't posted any of them since January, so I managed to get some photos added to a few. The projects were all designed by the very talented Lori at The Scrapping Turtle. I love the ideas that Lori comes up with for us every month.

Here are the calendar pages Lori designed for February and March. Now that I have photos on them I can put them away in the album.

Keys To My Heart was one of our February projects (I still have another one to add photos to). I thought it was perfect for these pics of us on Valentines' Day.

Splish Splash was a March project. I love this layout!!!!!! It is so fun!!!! I love the difference the Glossy Accents made on the die cuts and letters. It was the perfect layout for these action shots of the children playing in the puddles out back during the rain.

More to come as soon as I get pictures done. Hopefully I'll get them up before the June Quickutz Anonymous class LOL.

QA Homework From April

Last month Lori at The Scrapping Turtle gave us homework to do after our Quickutz Anonymous class. We were supposed to create something with the scraps that were left over from the projects we created. I used the rainbow pieces to create my Rainbow Wishes card. I love the embossing that I did on the clouds. 

May 5x5 Challenge

I created this card with the wonderful goodies Carolyn sent out for the May 5x5 challenge at The Scrapping Turtle. Thanks Carolyn!!!!!

Layout Based on a Sketch

I created this layout based on a sketch challenge by Anne Marie at The Scrapping Turtle. I used the Nonsense line from We R Memory Keepers and American Crafts Thickers. I made the pinwheels. The photos were taken at Harvest Moon in St. Jacobs.

Quickutz Spring Gift Sets

Have you seen the new Spring Gift Sets from Quickutz? They are awesome!!!!! I wish I could get them all, but I have to be happy with one for the time being. 

Last weekend for National Scrapbook Day, The Scrapping Turtle offered make and takes using the new Gift Sets. Throughout the day you could create a card using one of the four new sets. The cards were designed by Lori - she is so creative!!!!

I love the font for Relax!!! It is a fabulous summer set for all of those wonderful beach layouts. I love the turtle and the crab.

I can picture so many girly layouts with Sara when I look at Flirt. If I get permission from hubby to add another set to my collection I think this will be my choice.

Enjoy is a great summer set too, perfect for those BBQ layouts and cards. I personally love that ant.

My favourite set is ReUse. That is the one that Gary agreed I could add to my personal Quickutz collection. I love all the trees on it. 

If you noticed, each of the cards is also embossed. Those are the new Quickutz Embossing Folders and they are fabulous. Check them out at Quickutz here.

All of the Spring Gift Sets and the Embossing Folders are available at The Scrapping Turtle. If you like what you see you might want to hurry over there and pick some up.

***Images are from Quickutz and The Scrapping Turtle***

National Scrapbook Week at Two Scrapbook Friends

The lovely ladies at Two Scrapbook Friends hosted a week long online celebration for National Scrapbook Day. Each day from Monday until Saturday challenges were posted in the forum. There were a lot of fabulous challenges. Thankfully they allowed us to combine challenges, so I was able to get more done.

In addition to the challenges below, I completed the following non layout/card challenges:

Carolyn's Before and After challenge ~ see earlier post

Karan's Gallery Crawl

Patti's Word Scramble

All Of Us: I purchased this little mini kit at Two Scrapbook Friends for this challenge. Everything that I used on the layout was in the kit except for the title "All Of Us" which is a Soft Spoken embellishment and the marker I used for the doodling and journaling. The pictures are of us in front of Turtle Jack's on Easter Sunday.

Challenges: Karan's Product challenge

Happy Birthday Card: A fun little card using orange and lime green (which are the favourite colours of Patti from The Scrapping Nook).  I love that little stamp!!!

Challenges: Laura's Orange challenge

*** I combined this with a challenge for Patti's birthday crop at The Scrapping Nook. 

O' Canada: This is a patriotic Canadian layout about why I'm proud to be Canadian. I forgot to note the paper manufacturer before gluing it down. I think if might be Karen Foster, but I could be mistaken.

Challenges: Cheryl's Oh Canada

Easter '09: I used Reminisce Easter papers for this layout and alphabet stickers from American Crafts. I love these photos of my brother Stephen with my children at Easter.

Challenges: Patti's 8675-309 challlenge

Spring Bling Card: I used Kaisercraft papers and bling to create this card. I added some flowers from my stash and used my Fiskars border punch.

Challenges: Joanne's Spring Bling challenge

I Wish I Wish To Be A Fish: I love the Snorkel line from Cosmo Cricket - the bright colours, the little fish -- cute cute cute!!!!!  I outlined some of the fish with my gold glitter pen. I added Stickles in Crystal and Tiara to the circles. I also used Stix2 Seed Beads and Fine Glitter on some of the circle. 

Challenges: Laura's Glittery challenge

Patti's Beach challenge

Carolyn's Circle challenge

*** I combined this challenge with the Product Highlight at The Scrapping Turtle because it uses Stix2.

If I Could: Paper from Pink Paislee, Jillibean Soup and KI Memories. I added a chipboard arrow, chipboard brackets, chipboard letters (Thickers) and a chipboard clock (Heidi Swapp).

Challenges: Karan's Chipboard challenge

Joanne's Number challenge

Karan's Time challenge

Sweet: I used purple (my favourite colour) Daisy Bucket papers for this layout. I added faux stitching around the outside of the layout, around the photo mat and around the circles. I used Bazzill In Stitch'z to sew the word Sweet.

Challenges: Carolyn's Favourite Colour challenge

Laura's Sketch challenge

Patti's Stitch Me I'm Yours challenge

Family Thing: Paper is from We R Memory Keepers Grandma's Kitchen and Sassafras Lass Bungle Jungle. I added Thickers, a Quickutz vine border, and flowers from my stash. Love this photo of Sara demonstrating one of our family traits.

Challenges: Karan's Distressing challenge

Karan's Sketch challenge

Cheryl's Quirky Habit challenge

Laugh: I used the wonderful Jillibean Soup papers and a We R Memory Keepers Pinwheel paper to create this layout based on Laura's sketch. I made the pinwheels into flowers and used the word Laugh for my title.

Challenges: Laura's Sketch challenge

Patti's Word Specific challenge

Joanne's Pinwheel challenge

You Hold The Key To My Heart: I wasn't able to use any patterned paper on this one so everything is cardstock. I dressed it up by using several of my Fiskars border punches. I added the metal key, heart and photo corners. The photo was a poor quality one that I lightened, but it is still grainy and the colours are off.

Challenges: Patti's It's All Metalistic challenge

Cheryl's Patterned Paper Be Gone challenge

Laura's Bad Photo challenge

My Love 4 U Is Outta This World: I used two Quickutz dies on this one - Saturn and Rocket Ship. I also used a Daisy Bucket stamp for the world, some brads, chipboard stars, two different fonts from Thickers, a foam star stamp, and lots of circles, rings and squares.

Challenges:  Carolyn's Square challenge

Patti's Stash It challenge

Patti's Solar System challenge

Mom's Day Cards: The card on the left was embossed with my new Quickutz Embossing Folder and coloured with a Copic marker. The card on the right was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder and chalked with Colorbox Chalk Ink.

Challenges: Laura's Card Sketch challenge

Laura's Embossing challenge

Thanks for all the great challenges ladies!!!!! I had a lot of fun doing them!!!

A Card For Jack

On Earth Day a new little Turtle entered The Scrapping Turtle pond -- adorable Jack Thomas made his way into the world. He already has a huge fan club!!!!! Congratulations to Hannah and Bob!!!!! He's super precious!!!!

Dee posted a card challenge for this week and I jumped on it as an opportunity to create a card for Turtle Jack. Her challenge was to use a die cut, use green, and to emboss (heat or dry). I decided to try both heat and dry embossing on my little card. The turtle, egg, label and letters are all Quickutz.

Card Sketch Challenge

This week is my final week as Guest Design Team member at The Scrapping Turtle. I've had a great time working with the girls on the team and hanging out with all the wonderful Turtles in the pond. Even though I am wrapping up my month, I will be hanging around and participating in all the wonderful things that the Design Team will be doing. 

This week is also my week for the challenge. My challenge this week is a card sketch -- my first ever card sketch to be honest. Here is what I created:

And here is my sample card. I used 3 Bugs in a Rug paper, American Crafts ribbon, Bazzill cardstock, Dew Drops and Ranger Stickles.

April Mystery Envelope Layout

The Scrapping Turtle Mystery Envelope this month contained some beautiful Scenic Route paper and chipboard, a piece of edge cardstock, ribbon, photo corners and brads. As soon as I saw it I knew that I would use it to showcase Sara and Samuel hunting for eggs at Springridge Farm. I chalked the white edge cardstock to suit the layout and handcut the pretty flowers. I used my new Quickutz Strawberry font and my new Label die. The photos were all taken on Easter Sunday. 

Chipboard Challenge

This week at The Scrapping Turtle Mellissa is challenging everyone to use chipboard on a layout AND to alter that chipboard in as many ways as they can. 

I created My Sweet Star for her challenge. The big star is covered in glitter. The blue stars were sanded to distress them. The letters in "My Sweet" were inked and doodled on. The letters in "Star" were inked, then coated with Glossy Accents. The house was painted with Crackle Paint, then stamped. The tree trunk and bird were painted. The tree top was flocked. Papers are from the Homegrown line by 3 Bugs In A Rug.

The photo is of my Sweet Sam at Easter this year. Isn't he a cutie?

Scrapfest Make and Takes

Another wonderful Scrapfest is now over -- and what a great one it was too!!!! I got to spend some fun time with my Mom, I helped out my great Turtle friends, had lots of laughs, a fun dinner on Saturday, spent way too much money (no surprise there lol), and managed to squeeze in a few make and takes.

 

This gorgeous mini album was designed by Lori at The Scrapping Turtle. I helped run this one for a little while, until the much more capable Teresa took over.

This adorable owl card was designed by All About Scrapbooks. I am so delighted that I was able to do an owl card!!!!!!

This cute little stamped card is a Creative Memories card.

This beautiful card was designed by Melanie at The Scrapping Bug. I thought I'd missed my

 chance to create in on Friday, but Melanie brought it back out on Saturday. I was so happy!!! Thanks Melanie!!!!

This wonderful Spring layout was from Lucy at Simply Scrapping and was led by the very wonderful Louisa.

This cool waterfall card was Saturday's make and take at The Scrapping Turtle. I was able to create one while helping to run the make and take for awhile. I love this idea and hope to use it again.

Here it is opened:

Mom was able to get a few more make and takes done, but still didn't get to do all of them. We saw some really awesome ones as we were walking around, but neither of us was up to standing in the long lines to wait our turn to do them. I was sad that I didn't get to do the make and takes offered by Two Scrapbook Friends and The Learning Factory, among others. I also forgot to get a ticket for the little mini class offered by Simply Scrapping at the Go Scrapping classroom. 

I had a blast, especially hanging with my Turtle friends!!!! I'll try to post some Scrapfest pics later.