Love me a giveaway!

Do you love giveaway??? I sure do!!!

There is a great giveaway over at Studio 49 Deals. They are a new daily deal site for crafting goodies! Info is on their blog here.

                                  

Such an awesome prize!


*fingers crossed*

I'm on a roll!

Look at me go! I was able to focus and do 3 layouts today! They all feature Fancy Pant's Down by the Shore collection. I'm really focusing on using up some of the product in my stash. Not necessarily so that I can get more, more so that I can put more of it away! I've made a really good dent in this collection. Not too much left!

All three of these layouts were done for the Scrapbookin' Adventures facebook page challenge #14, which is to scraplift an entry from a previous week's challenge. If you want to see where I got my inspiration from, go check out my entries on their wall. I provide the link to the originals there. There are still two more layouts that I hope to get to today or tomorrow.

This first layout was also done for the CropChocolate.com's weekly challenge which is to use washi tape on a project.

The layouts all use papers from Down By the Shore. Other items used include AC kraft cardstock, Um Wow Studio chipboard, Doodlebug alphas, thickers, LYB canvas tags and cork butterflies, Michael's brand starfish brads and wooden anchor, and twine.

Scrap Liftin' Fun!

I love to get ideas and inspiration from all the amazing scrapbooking and cardmaking work that is out there for all us to enjoy! Sometimes I just take away an idea but sometimes I just have to recreate the project!

I have quite a few layouts and cards pinned that I hope to recreate at some point and this week I knocked two off of my to do list!

This first layout is pinned from the My Mind's Eye blog. You can see the original here.

And here is my version:

The Fancy Pant's Design line, Down by the Shore is just perfect for these pictures of my son from 2011. Love his chubby legs and crabby bum!

The card I scraplifted can be seen here.

Here is my version:

Such a fun birthday card!

Um Wow July Sketch

If you have not had the pleasure of checking out UmWow Studio and their awesome chipboard pieces, then you must! They have now also added new FLAIR pieces which are so nice. I love the quality of them! You never know what they will come out with next (she's already added some more flair sets that I love)!  UmWow Studio also has a blog with a monthly sketch challenge. Since I have a couple of orders of delicious chipboard and a set of flair (wildflower, if you were curious), I decided to join in.

I had seen DeeDee post a layout not long ago and loved the design of it so I was excited to see that the sketch was based off of that layout!

This is the sketch:

And this is my layout:

I love how this looks! As you can see, I used a much larger photo than the sketch called for. I decided to make that center white paper from the sketch into a photo. But then my photo wasn't quite tall enough so added patterned paper to the top and bottom to fill in that same space. I also shifted the title and embellishment down and to the right. I think keeping the side paper parts and the vertical strip embellishment really gives my version the same feel as the sketch.

Here you can see my Um Wow Studio embellishments. I used the layered butterfly frames and backed them with paper and added two tiny hearts from the heart confetti. I used a polaroid frame also with some confetti hearts inside. And I used a flair from the wildflower set.

The papers and other embellishments used are all from the Pebbles 'Sunny Side' collection. One of my current faves. I can't wait to use it some more!

Layout Fun!

Happy Saturday everyone!

It is a long weekend here in Canada (Happy Canada Day long weekend!!), and I am happy to report that the We(s)t Coast is finally seeing some June sunshine and blue skies! What a wet, cold start to summer we have had!

I thought today would be a good day to share some layouts I made with the Scrapbook and Card's Today Summer Crop & Create Delivered box that I received a couple of weeks ago!

The box was packed full of fun papers and embellies and even an exclusive stamp set!

 These first two layouts were made following the sketches and instruction sheets included with the kit. It's fun to follow these and make a layout or two that maybe isn't your usual style.

This beachy layout I have shared already. I used a sketch that was in the kit and added the super fun Kraftin' Kimmie Summer Fun stamp set to it. I'm still really wishing I had cut those 3 vertical strips to have a banner notch in the end. I wonder if I could carefully do that without ruining the whole thing.....

This last layout I made using my own sketch that I drew after playing around with the paper pieces that I had left. These two sheets (the navy dot and the yellow hearts) are my absolute favorites from the kit so I wanted to use as much as I could. The other paper strips are scraps and those little bottom border strips that some double sided papers have. I covered some Maya Road chipboard hearts that were included, with washi tape from my stash. Love how they look! And I also added those beautiful Bella Blvd feathers and tied them with some yellow paper twine from the kit. I really love how this turned out but I feel like could add a brad or something at the the top and/or bottom 'love you' paper strip area. Hmmm, I received my order of UmWow Studio chipboard yesterday, with some confetti hearts included. I think I'm going to have to play around and see how that would look!

Did anyone else out there order the Crop & Create Delivered kit? I'd love to see what you have created if you would like to leave me a link!!!

A Krafty Challenge

Oh happy days! I received my Scrapbook and Cards Today Summer Crop & Create Delivered box with the mail on tuesday. I decided yesterday that I would focus on making the layout projects included with it and really put the goodies to good use. I finished my third layout with it today (I made two yesterday). Yesterday's layouts really stuck to the plan that was included in the kit, but today I used the sketch to create and layout and decided I needed to use a few goodies from my stash with it. So I pulled out my Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and got busy with their new Summer Lovin' set (which is so awesome! If you are in the market for a new stamp set, get it!!).

Here is what I came up with:

Super cute! I just wish had trimmed the 3 paper strips to have flag ends, but this is how the sketch had them. I had 3 different photos that I wanted to use on this LO so I may have to do it again with that change.

The sandcastle and the bucket with shovel are from the Kraftin Kimmie Stamps set. I had a set of cute flip flops cut and coloured for the LO too but they just looked too big next to the sand castle. I also used my clear glitter pen and added some to the sandcastle and the sand in the bucket (and the polka dots on the flip flops).

An update!

All has been quiet around here. I haven't been doing a lot of crafting lately. Mostly been working on house and yard stuff :P

BUT, I did have a chance to join in on May Arts Ribbons latest ribbon challenge. When I saw the theme of it, I just new I had to get a spot! The post is up today so go on over and check it out!

I just love how this banner turned out! I mostly used bits and pieces from Fancy Pant's By the Shore collection. Love it! Plus the great May Arts ribbons that I chose and a few other bits and bobbles.