Celebrate the Season with Scrapbook Nerd!!

Good Morning Bloggers!! 

Have you started getting into the Christmas spirit yet? I have for sure! If you haven't, you need to join us at Scrapbook Nerd for our Celebrate the Season  Holiday Inspiration!!! We're starting off the Christmas Season with 12 days of Christmas! You can join in too! If you link up your Christmas project in the Forum, you'll get a RAK from the fabulous ladies at Scrapbook Nerd!!!

I can't wait to start working on my December Daily Album this year, but until then I thought I'd whip up a few easy and cute Christmas cards. Gasp! I know! Me! Making cards! Who woulda thunk it?! HA!

I couldn't help making some cards when I saw this Simple Stories Cozy Christmas line! The cut apart papers and the little die cuts are just perfect for making some quick and easy cards!

I was so excited to break out my Tim Holtz Woodgrain Stencil on this card! I love how it turned out! I really love the Iced Spruce Distress ink on the Kraft cardstock!

These cards came together so quickly! The most time spent was on looking for a stamp that I never did end up finding! HA! Guess I should start looking for a new way to organize my stamps! lol

I hope you join us and link up your projects to the Nerd Forum! Can't wait to see what you create!

Blessings

Birthday Card Using Project Life Cards

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great weekend! I've been getting into Spring Cleaning mode here! I love that all the snow is almost gone!!! 

I wanted to make a birthday card for a friend of mine, and if you're anything like I am, once you start using a certain kind of product or doing a new thing (Project Life) you have to buy EVERYTHING related to it! Which is what I have done! I probably have enough PL cards to do 5 years worth easily! So I thought I'd show you a way to use them other than on your PL spreads!

I started out choosing a 4x6 card that I liked for my base and just chopped 3/4 of an inch off the end so it wasn't quite 4x6 anymore. I then took a piece of kraft cardstock and cut a 4 inch strip off of it, folded it in half then chopped that same 3/4 of an inch off and folded it in half.

I then took out my trusty corner chomper and rounded all the edges ( btw, if you think they're indestructible, you're wrong! My 4 year old managed to break it while using it to go "fishing" lol go figure!)

I adhered the PL card to my card base, then inked the edges with black Distress Ink.

Then I picked out a few 4x3 cards and did some fussy cutting...

And then I layered them all to create this card! Finish it off with some twine and a "happy birthday" stamp and you're good to go!

I used another 4x3 card on the inside and some of the left over scraps from the polka dot card on the inside and stamped a cute sentiment. I thought it went quite well for a 30th birthday card :)

well there you have it! This card came together quite quickly too, I think including all the "tutorial photography" it only took about 20 minutes all together :)

I always like ideas to stretch your supplies so you don't have to buy more (even though it's really fun to buy new stuff too!!)

Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving some love!! 

Blessings

Playing with Fancy Pants

Good Morning Bloggers!! 

I wanted to pop in to show you the projects I created this month with the goodies the fabulous ladies over at Scrapbook Nerd gave me to play with. 

This month they gave me the Fancy Pants collection "Collecting Moments". I really love the vintage vibe of this collection. They have some really fun retro embellishments!

I've been really into 8.5x11 layouts lately. I love how quickly they come together. I knew that these photos of Ethan would be perfect for this paper and I was right! Love how they go together :)

My second layout is also of Ethan. This picture was taken when we went on a sleigh ride this winter. I just love how it shows off his freckles...they're my favourite!  I am totally in love with the Amy Tangerine Phrase Thickers! I think I might need to get another pack of them! They're almost gone!

This was another photo from our sleigh ride. This picture of Kieran just makes me melt! I love that kid so much! 

I also put together a couple cards with this collection. I love the frames and die cut pieces! The flair pack is perfect for embellishments for cards too! 

I almost forgot! The Nerds are hosting another online crop starting this weekend! It's going to be a ton of fun because it's inspired by one of my favourite authors....DR. SEUSS!! There's going to be Seuss inspired challenges and games and lots of prizes to be won, so don't forget to stop over and register in the forum so you can play along! You're not going to want to miss this!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Blessings

Cards?! Whaaaa?!

Good Afternoon my crafty Peeps!! 

I just love my husband!! He took the kids all day on Sunday so I could get together with my girlfriends and play, and then this afternoon he took our only son that wasn't in school with him to his union meeting so I could have a break before he goes back to work tomorrow! I think he's a keeper don't you?! 

So since I had some time this afternoon to play, I got out what I had left of my Paper Bakery Scrapbook kit and Capture 365 kit, and made these cards! These kits are AWESOME!! I love the vintage flair they have to them! Not to mention they are totally FULL of goodies!! With these two kits I've made 4 layouts, 2 project life spreads, and 3 cards and I still have TONS of supplies left over! 

Alright, on with the cards! They're mostly generic cards that can be used for anything, which is what I like! It's good to have a bit of a stash of cards on hand so you can quickly pop a "happy birthday" or "wish you were here" sentiment on them and throw them in the mail!

 This one isn't so generic, but I just love that vintage girl and I thought the "you & me" sentiment went perfectly with this one!

I think this card would be so cute to send to a girlfriend!

These cards came together so quickly and easily! That's the beauty of using a kit! There are still some of these kits available at the shop, but if you want to guarantee that you get your favourite kits when they come out, be sure to sign up for a subscription!!

Well, that's all for today! I'll stop in tomorrow to show you the layouts I made today too, but I've got to go and do some laundry before it starts to take over my house!! Laundry and I definitely don't get along, and a family of 6 definitely creates a lot of it unfortunately!!! Thank God for giant front loaders! It's almost like having a laundry mat in my basement!! lol

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to leave me some love!! 

Blessings

Scrapbook Nerd January Reveal!!

Good Morning all my lovely scrappy peeps!! I hope this morning finds you well!! Today it is my second son's 5th birthday!! I cannot believe it's already been 5 years since my sweet little Caleb was born!! It makes me feel excited that he's starting to grow into a new little era of his life, but also sad that he's growing up! 

Yesterday was the day of my reveal over at Scrapbook Nerd of all the goodies they gave me to play with this month!! I just love that group of ladies! If you haven't already been over there to the Forum, you really should! They are so wonderful and it's a really great place to hang out! And you DEFINITELY need to go check out the store! It's FULL of FABULOUS products and anything they don't have, if they can get it for you, they will! They're quite AMAZING over there! 

I was given products from the Pink Paislee Hey Kid line. I absolutely LOVE this product line! It's bright colours and patterns are so fun, and there was so much product I STILL have a lot of goodies left over, even after making 4 layouts (I still have one that I'm stashing away to show you later!) and 3 cards! The ephemera pack is LOADED with goodies!!

I also used the We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy Circles for this layout, and I've gotta say, it's quite awesome! It helps you poke out holes for stitching circles in no time! Love it!

Eeek! This layout was a first for me!! There is a lot of adorable little girl products in the Hey Kid line, and as you know, I am a mother of four amazing boys...none of which these very girly products would work for! So I borrowed a friend of mine's picture of her and her girls and made a layout for her! I can tell you that it's probably the first and the last time I will ever use this colour of pink cardstock!!  lol

This was a month full of firsts with my first 8.5x11 layout ever! I made this on Christmas day! I was too excited to scrapbook the first picture I took with my new Instax camera! It actually only took me about 20 minutes to make! I wanted to show off all the different patterns in the Hey Kid 6x6 pack, so I punched out a million different squares and cut them in half to make triangles then I glued them to my page and ran them through a sewing machine for some added interest! A messy layer of gesso and a fussy cut element from another one of the patterns of the 6x6 pad completed this layout super quickly! 

UPDATE: I was just scanning my pinterest boards and I came across the layout that inspired this one!! Do you ever see layouts and think that you'd love to scraplift it, pin it, then forget if you did or where you saw it? That's what happened here! And the funniest thing is, I had pinned this layout, and just now realized that it was a layout made by a fellow DT member from the Paper Bakery!! You really do need to check out Gina's layout! It is FAR better than this one!! ;)

I also made a few cards: 

The first one was my son's 8th birthday card. I am definitely feeling old now that I have an 8 year old and a 5 year old!!

This one was my sister in law's birthday card. (there's a looot of birthdays in the months of December and January in our family!) I found a sweet tutorial on Pinterest. Here's the link to the tutorial. It's using the We R Memory Keepers Evelope Board Punch. It's such a fun and easy technique and I absolutely LOVE the bows it makes! So much, I had to make another card!! 

                                        

I didn't have any reason to make this card except that I really wanted to make another bow! lol 

Don't forget to join us this weekend for the Olympic Crop at Scrapbook Nerd! It's going to be awesome!!

Blessings

O.M.GEE It's a Christmas Card!!!

 I'm so excited that December is finally here!! I don't know about you, but I do a lot of prep for December, thinking about and making my December Daily album, and planning kids crafts and this year Santa even brought us an "Elf on the Shelf"!! So, now that it's December I'm excited to get these activities going and get into the Christmas Spirit!

Today we did our annual gingerbread decorating! One of the churches in town puts on this event every year where you pay 7 bucks for each house, and they're already put together, you get a bag of icing and a ton of candies to decorate your house! We look forward to it every year and it's getting more and more fun with each year as the kids are getting older! 

Caleb made this fabulous snowman! His name is "Caleb the Snowman" lol

This year Ethan's best friend Ethan's family was there decorating their houses at the same time, which made it extra fun :)

This afternoon after we got home from Church, the boys found something from Santa on our hearth! He left us a little elf that the boys named "Buddy" to take care of. Santa says he can be a little bit naughty, so he has left Buddy with us so that the boys can teach him to behave! I wonder what mischief he will get into?!

And to top it all off, I actually made a Christmas card!! Those of you who regularly follow my blog know how often I make cards ;) But I had this idea in my head and I wanted to see if it would actually turn out, so I thought I would try it on a card :)

I used my MFT stamp set:

and made it into a Christmas tree. Then instead of using traditional ink, I painted the stamps with Heidi Swapp Color Shine and stamped it. I really like the way it turned out!!

                                          

I dried the tree with my heat gun to make sure it was all dry, then I stamped the sentiment on top of the tree and embossed it in gold. I added a few sequins here and there and a washi tape stem and voila!! Super easy card :)

I'm going to link this up over at Paper Issues for the "It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas" challenge.

I hope you're enjoying getting into this holiday season as much as I am!! What are your family traditions for the Christmas season?

Blessings

Sarah