Enjoy your life

Good Morning Bloggers! I hope you're having an awesome Saturday! I'm heading off to have some scrappy time with my girlfriends, but I wanted to pop in and share this layout first!

I made this layout the other night after I got my fancy new Big Shot! I traded my aunt for my Vagabond...She bought me this brand spankin new Big Shot, for my Vagabond! I know, she got a great deal, but I just never use it because I have to plug it in and I don't have a lot of outlets in my house, so this is way more practical!

I bought this Tim Holtz alphabet die a long time ago! I can't even remember right now which one it is, but I love it because it's a bigz die and it can cut through some pretty thick material! I had a paper pad from My Mind's Eye that I got from the Clique Kits store (which is only 3 bucks right now!), and I wanted to use it to cut out the whole alphabet to make my background! I love the way it turned out!

How stinkin cute are these little crochet bows?! I just love how they add some added texture and dimension to my layout!

I've had these Basic Grey Highline Chalkboard embellishements for a while now and I just pulled them out. I really love how they look on this layout! I think I'm going to have to dig into them some more! I used another one on a different layout that I will share with you on another post! They're kind of my new favourite thing! 

I love these 3x4 project life cards for layout titles! They make a quick and easy eye catching title!

I'm playing along with a boys only/girls only challenge over at Scrapbook.com too!

Well, I'm off to go scrapbook with my girls! Have a Crafty Weekend!!

If you're doing some shopping and stop by the Clique Kits Shop, don't forget to use my discount code  SARAH10 for 10% off your order!!

Blessings

February Scrapbook Nerd Reveal

Hey there my fellow Nerds! I'm up today at Scrapbook Nerd with my kit reveal! This month they gave me Crate Paper's Bundled Up collection to work with. This is one of my favourite holiday collections so far! I love that you can use it for winter layouts, Christmas layouts and everyday layouts too!

For my first layout, I used this fab sketch from Creative Scrappers. 

"My 3 Snow Angels"

I wanted to try the Ferro metalic texture paint on this layout, so I got out my Tim Holtz star stencil and a putty knife and painted it on in a few different places on this layout. That was the first time I had ever tried this stuff, and I tell you, I'm totally hooked! I LOVE it! The texture it gives is amazing and it just looks so cool!

For my second layout, I scraplifted another one of Juliana Michael's layouts! I absolutely LOVED this one and I really wanted to add my own take to it! 

You would never even know that this was a winter/holiday paper line from this layout! I really like that you can stretch your stash with this line and use it for more than what it's made for!

"Early Morning Kisses"

Again I used a different colour of the Ferro Metalic Texture paint here and the Tim Holtz clock stencil. Sooooo loving it!

For this last layout I used a sketch from Stuck?! Sketches

"Sleigh Ride"

Last weekend we took the kids for a sleigh ride and I couldn't wait to scrapbook these photos! This paper was perfect for it I do believe!! 

I do hope you stop by the Scrapbook Nerd forum and check out the rest of the design team's reveals! There are some fabulous layouts and tons of inspiration!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!! 

Blessings, 

Crate Paper - Bundled Up - Bundled double sided paper	Crate Paper - Bundled Up - Noel double sided paper	Crate Paper - Bundled Up - Fa la la double sided cut apart paper	Crate Paper - Bundled Up - Jack Frost double sided paper	Crate Paper - Bundled Up - Stockings double sided pattern paper
Crate Paper - Bundled Up - Winter double sided paper	Crate Paper - Bundled Up - Sledding double sided paper	Crate Paper - Bundled Up - Photo Overlays	Crate Paper - Bundled Up - Ephemera pack	Dear Lizzy 5th & Frolic Schumtz Letter Stickers
LMT - 15 mm Small Blue & Red Hearts washi	Trendy Tape - Pink Skinnie Minnie washi	Simple Stories - Snap Letter stickers	Lawn Fawn - Peace Joy Love - Mixed Sequins	Tim Holtz - Layering Stencil - stars
Tim Holtz - Layering Stencil - clockwork	Glitz Design - Raven - Giant roller doodle stamp - Triangles	Heidi Swapp - Color Shine - Primrose	Heidi Swapp - Color Shine - Tropicana Teal	Claudine Hellmuth Gesso

InLinkz.com

Scrap our Stash Guest DT!

Good Morning! This month I was asked to be a Guest Designer for Scrap Our Stash!! They've got some great challenges this month, so I really hope you play along!

Their first challenge is the S.W.A.K challenge!

S.W.A.K - Create a layout with 50% of your layout being RED and/or PINK and include the following stash items:

S. - Stitching (machine, hand or faux)

W. - Washi Tape

A.  - Arrow

K. - Kraft paper/embellishment

Here's what I made: 

As soon as I knew about this challenge I knew I wanted to use this paper from Crate Paper's Bundled up Collection! I also knew I wanted to use this adorable picture of my son Kieran wearing one of his boots and one of his brother Caleb's boots! They went through a bit of a phase were they shared a boot each! They're so close in size that they can get away with it for now ;)

 For my Kraft paper I used my Cameo to cut the arrow background and tucked it in behind the photo. I used a little washi as a layer in there too, and also some on the top right hand corner.

  

I stitched a few messy circles around my layers before I added my photo.

 and I did double duty on my arrows. I used the die cut arrow background and there's a little vellum arrow by the title too...it's hard to see...but it's there ;)

 

Now it's your turn! Head on over to Scrap Our Stash to check out the rest of the DT's fabulous inspirational designs and then get crafting and link it up for a chance at the prize!!

Don't forget to 

Blessings,