National Scrapbooking Day

Hello!

Happy National Scrapbooking Day everyone! I have been a VERY busy girl today!
I went to an all day crop at Stamping Bella, where worked very hard on not a whole lot of stuff. Mostly I just spent money on fantastic new products that I just, HAD TO HAVE! You know how it is.
I did get a few layouts done, and then came home to catch up on the Pink Stamper's NSD Challenges. I am far too tired to photograph and upload my creations tonight, so I will do that some time tomorrow, however I just wanted to wish everyone a great day (even thought it is almost over!).
I am looking forward to checking out everyone's blogs to see what they created today!
Hope everyone had fun!



Lisa

Scrapfest

Hello!

I spent this past weekend in Kitchener, Ontario participating is SCRAPFEST! It was two full days of scrapbooking fun! I was not NEARLY as productive as I thought I would be, but I had a great time. On Friday I arrived later than the start - I had to work until about 2 and then drive about an hour to get to Kitchener, but I met my tablemates, and they were a HOOT! Some very fun ladies who I hopeto see at the next Scrapfest event in October. We scrapped on Friday until 12pm - which required uncalled for amounts of Peanut M&M's to be eaten (they were delicious)! Saturday started at 9am, and I had two classes this day.

The first was a 'Not Your Ordinary Paper Bag Album' class with Kelly Panaci. It was a good class, but I had a hard time focussing due to the earlyness of the day, the lateness of the previous night, and the lack of extra caffeine to get me going in the morning.

The second class was 'Technique Tags and Portfolio' (I think) with Vicki Boutin. I learned SO MUCH in this class, and promptly left the class at the end and headed straight to the marketplace to purchase some of the supplies we had used in that class (Ranger Distress Inks mostly).

Speaking of the Marketplace. DANGEROUS. I spent uknown amounts of money in that place. I don't want to calculate the actual total. It is too frightening. I bought a lot of fun kits for some no-thinking required scrapbooking...I am hoping this will help me get some of my overdue stuff done! And I bought paper. Ooodles of paper. I loooooooove paper. It makes me SO HAPPY! I also bought a LOT of thickers alpha sets. My table mates were in hysterics by the end of Friday evening becasue it seemed that every time I went over to the marketplace (which was often) I came back with some new alpha sets. They were very pretty. And hard to resist. :)

Here are a few of the layouts I worked on this weekend. The last one is not finished yet. I have several other half-finished projects as well, but will post those (and this last one probably) when they are done.

Hope all is well with everyone!

Lisa

Oh Deer - Scrapbook Page

Hello!

My bloggy friend Janis posted a fantastic card that she made, and I thought that they layout would be perfect for a scrapbook page.

Here is her original post: Sunny Days


And here is what I came up with based on her card:

Hope you enjoy! Please leave a comment, I love to hear from you!

Simple Album

Hello!

Over the past few days I have put together a quick album for my husband's aunt. She recently became a new grandma! It is very simple, not a lot of frills at all. The album is 8x8 - this was my first 8x8 album, and I think I REALLY like this size! I normally do 12x12, but this was so quick and simple to put together. Here are the pages. I love a matted picture, so I have mats in place for all of the picutres, and have them labelled so she knows what size to crop her pictures to. Let me know what you think!  Cricut Cartridges Used: New Arrival, Pooh Font Set, and Sentimentals.

Lisa

Babies! - Scrapbook Pages

Hello!

I have been working on some scrapbooking pages (why does it seem like the more pages we get done, the more I still have to do?), and wanted to share a few of them with you. These are from last summer, of two of the tinies in our lives.

The first page is of a friends baby girl - the first friend in our group to have a baby. The second is of our little cousin. Both girls are too cute for words.

Both background patterned papers are from the new Stampin' Up! sweet pea collection. I LOVE this patterned paper. there are so many bright colours and coordinating pages! The felt pieces on the second page are also from Stampin' Up! and coordinate with the Sweet Pea collection too.  I used my Mickey Font, Sentimentals, and Simply Sweet Cricut cartridges.

Hope you enjoy, and talk soon!

Please leave a comment. I love to hear from you! :)

Froggy Scrapbook Page

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I did a little bit of scrapbooking today and wanted to share this page. This is just a cute picture I took during the summer. I happen to have a thing for frogs. Teeny tiny ones. Although my husband keeps telling me this is a toad. Oh well. Talk soon!

Lisa

Caribbean Cruise

Hello!

Sorry for my lack of posts, however I had to go home for an unexpected family thing, and then was busy preparing for and enjoying a Cruise in the Caribbean with my husband and ten friends. It was AMAZING! Beautiful beaches, warm sunny weather...fantastic. I would go back in a second if I could, especially St. Maarten, which was our last, and my favourite stop.

We started in San Juan, and then hit a different place each day after that:

- St. Thomas

- Dominica

- Barbados

- St. Kitts

- St. Lucia

- St. Maarten

FANTASTIC! We went with Carnival, and the price was amazing, as was everything else.

Becky Oehler's 'Compose a Card' Challenge #4

Hello!
I am participating in Becky Oehlers 'Compose a Card' Challenge again this week...I LOOOOOVE the colour combo she picked out. The challenge guidelines are as follows, and she has a video up on her blog as well demonstrating her card.
Here is my card:

Cardstock: True Black, Ripe Avocado, Stamper's Select White - All PTI

Stamps: Fancy Flourishes (lg flourish), Recipe Box (White Swirl), Mega Mixed Messages (Mother) - All PTI

Ink: True Black - PTI

Ribbon: Ripe Avocado Luxe Satin - PTI

Hope you enjoy! Please leave a comment. I love to hear from you!

Must Love Dogs - Scrapbook Page

Hello! I finally did some scrapping ... and just for fun!! It felt fantabulous! I made a super sweet page featuring my family's favourite pets...our puppies. Title: Cudmore's Must Love Dogs. The Cudmore's are my mom's side of the family, and this is pretty much our belief. These are a few of our dogs together at a family function this summer. My puppy is the beautiful black lab...she will be 15 this year and her name is Lady.

Hope you enjoy! Please leave a comment. I love to hear from you!

PTI Embellishment Challenge

Celebrations continue over on Nichole Heady's blog for Papertrey Ink's 3rd anniversary, and today Nichole issued a phenomenal challenge! If you frequent the PTI design team blogs, I am sure you have seen the many Embellie posts Dawn McVey and Michelle Wooderson have had showcasing the acetate sheets they fill with oodles of fantastic handmade embellishments. If you haven't seen them, I suggest you check them out....fantastic fantastic fantastic!

Nichole's challenge for us today was to take inspiration from these ladies and come up with our own handmade embellishments. We were to use one embellie on a card, and make up our own acetate sheet of coordinating embellies to send to a crafty friend.

Here is what I came up with (warning...oodles of pics - haha):

The process:

The Card:

The Embellies:

Supplies

Cardstock: PTI Vintage Cream, PTI Sweet Blush, PTI New Leaf

Cricut: Plantin Schoolbook (Flowers and Leaves), Jasmine (Vintage Tag and 'friend')

Stamp: PTI Life set

Buttons: PTI Lemon Tart, and some random pink buttons I had lying around

Glitter: SU! Dazzling Diamonds

Hope you enjoy them!

Please leave a comment. I love to hear from you! :)