I finally found my Tim Holtz tape and used a ton of it in this layout.  It is a two-pager, but nothing really matches in it, kinda quirky.  I used the Cosmo Cricket line, Circa 1934.

I am usually a two-page layout girl, but have found them becoming a bit boring lately so had to really think about how to tie this one together!  I also found the new coffee filter shapes from Fancy Pants and tried them behind the red and white flowers on the left-hand side.  They are really neat to work with, but at $6 for 9 small shapes, I am wondering if I wouldn't do better with actual coffee filters and some of those old school edge scissors?  Something to think about... My spray inks looked so cool and even mixed well on the coffee filter paper.  Love it!

Now, off for a weekend of camping!  Not a paper cutter or stickle in sight!  Cry!

The Creative Winds are a Blowin'!

Two very different layouts!

The top one is with the Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934 line. I love red. I love scrapbooking with red. As Oprah would tell you, people look best in red on film. But it is hard to scrapbook two little girls with red, since they are always in pinks and purples.  Luckily, my youngest was wearing her favourite sweatshirt on this day. I used a bit of tape on this page.  Deserres (the craft store) sells this cool new Japanese masking tape in all sorts of different colours. A better choice may be the Tim Holtz tissue tape, as you can ink it whatever colour you want, but I COULD NOT FIND MINE! Argh!

The second one is my final attempt at using the Dilly Dally line. I got some mirror butterflies from the dollar store that really look cool, as they match the crystal and pearl swirl. I also sprayed two of the flowers. The lettering is foil (American Crafts thickers in green foil). I honestly think I own every type of font sticker out there, but these are always my favourite. Not enough stores stock them though, at least my local store doesn`t.  Online is great though, http://www.scrapbookingfanatics.com/ is a great place to go to get them.  Inexpensive too!  And if you live in St. Albert, Sandy can sometimes arrange delivery! You can`t beat that!

Happy Mother's Day!

Although I absolutely love to scrapbook, I know I am a horrible, or at least very bad, photographer.  I do not know whether it is my camera (not likely) or my lack of talent, but either way, I do not take very many great photos.  Including of this beautiful new paper by Making Memories called Dilly Dally.  Birds and butterflies, two sure signs of spring!  Mother's Day is the other sign of spring for me, but never have I been so spoiled as I was this year!  A dinner out, a lunch brought to me, a great day at the lake with family, I feel so lucky to be a member of this privileged group! 

Before I had kids I never brought a camera anywhere (although now people wish I didn't still) and never scrapbooked a day in my life.  Through wanting to document my kids' lives I have discovered the best hobby and made some amazing friends!

Here are two more layouts from the Simple Stories Me Documented line.  As I said before, I just love it! And doing layouts of those pictures that you never scrapbook because they are just part of the day-to-day... I love it!
I love these flowers from Prima with the tulle. So girly, yet so...rugged!

I used the Webster's Pages Sweet Season for this Layout.  It is hard to find a Christmas/Winter line with pink in it, but this one had a bonus... teal and purple too! Well it is more like seafoam...

I do have a boy too, and another girl, I swear!

The new Echo Park girls line again! I love it! I love the bright colours! I am so tired of scrapbooking winter and am ready for spring, but all my photos are at the WalMart, waiting for me to come for them...

Can't wait for some spring LOs!  I have big, big plans for Basic Grey's Marjolaine line. I am thinking it will go with everything spring and/or camping this year, and I love the boldness of it too.  I love everything by Basic Grey. I am always a bit skeptical when I am first starting to work with it (like a 70s Ukranian couch or really bad sweater my friend Michelle once said of Pyrus and I agree) but it just comes off so beautifully. Usually... Some layouts no amount of brads, trinkets, or flowers sprayed artfully with glimmer mist can save.

My new scrapbooking blog!

I have been scrapbooking for a number of years and really have evolved from using only Creative Memories page kits to doing more of my own thing.  It helps that I have a couple of friends that are really into scrapbooking... well buying scrapbooking stuff at least!

For this layout I took the only picture of me from this whole year (one of my kids took it) and scrapbooked it with the wonderful Simple Stories line. I wasn't really all that crazy about this line initially, but once I got it home I found it went with absolutely everything and was really easy to work with. I cannot believe I used two whole pristine papers to do this layout!  Usually I am a pretty frugal scrapbooker, but I loved the dimension that the two papers gave the page.

This is the new little girl line from Echo Park which I should have bought more of since I love it and it goes so well with everything my girls wear! And this is the first time I used the Tim Holz tissue tape to cover chipboard! It doesn't really absorb the ink that well, which is actually a good thing, since otherwise the colour would turn out too intense.
I also used the Sook Wang tape sheets to make the die cuts and glitter them with Okotoks' own Craft & Glitz glitter (buy Canadian, eh!) I met Liz, the owner, recently when she came to my LSS (local scrapbooking store) and opened my eyes to the amazing world of fine glitter. Did you know you should rub it in again after you have rubbed it and shaken off the excess the first time? It really brings out the glitter's dimensional properties! Go figure!