Making Memories & More on Monday

Welcome to another edition of Making Memories on Monday.

Today I am finishing up a layout from the Inspire Create Connect event I attended over the weekend that featured products from the Traditions of Christmas suite. 

I wanted to do it at home because the make n take was using one of the DSP sheets from the Traditions of Christmas DSP as the base and it was just too pretty on the other side to hide it behind a layout so I opted to use a Secret Sea two toned 12x12 instead at home. I stamped it with the Lasting Linen background stamp that is coming to the online exclusive in November with Versamark to give the texture of the DSP in the sample.  I also made my own Christmas word collage for the background layer stamping in Secret Sea. 

Layout design not only showcases the Traditions of Christmas DSP but also the Greetings for You ephemera, the sentiment’s and dies from Traditional Labels bundle and the Traditional Sparkling sequins embellishments for the extra bling!

For my coordinating pocket page I carried over the florals from the Traditions of Christmas DSP by fussy cutting them from the DSP as well as the Irresistible Designs DSP. 

A hidden gem in the annual catalog. What is so special about the Irresistible Designs 12" x 12" DSP is that it has UV-coated patterns that resist ink, making it perfect for emboss-resist techniques. Just apply ink to it and the pattern pops out. It's the easiest way to get a heat-embossed look—no embossing powder or Heat Tool needed!

I have used the criss cross pattern and inked brayer with Pool party and then used Secret Sea marker to colour in sections of the design. For the floral design I pulled the colours from the Traditions of Christmas DSP Real Red, Pretty in Pink and Pool Party to colour the flowers which I thought looked at lot like the poinsettias. This will hold some 4x6 photos from our past holidays.

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

Throwback Thursday!

 Having some fun over in the Scrapbook Nerd & Friends group on Facebook today in preparation for the weekend of crafty time!

 

This was one of my layouts from my first ever crop at the Scrap & Crop weekend retreats   at the Festival Inn in Stratford - I used a sketch from Pinterest to help get me inspired and love how it turned out - the little grids are a great way to show a sampling of papers and use up scraps!

 

Does anyone else have a photo of themself sitting on the toilet that their parents took - the good ole days when parents use to try to toilet train at like 14 months old by putting you on the thing every 10 minutes for a half hour thinking that was being trained!

 

Like you can even see my moms hand with a cup trying to force me to drink more fluids in order to get me to pee - hate to break it to you mum but it was YOU who were toilet trained at this stage in my life not ME!

 Happy Stampin' 

Margaret

Live,Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

Online crop - yes please!

 The weather outside is frightful but paper crafting is SO delightful!

 

So excited to paper craft with everyone this weekend over at the Scrapbook Nerd - Friends Group online crop!

 

As part of the design team I get to help create project inspiration challenges - so here is my project inspiration challenge - hope you will come join us and play along for a chance to win a Scrapbook Nerd Online store prize! 

 

Cannot wait to see you

 

Happy Stampin'

 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

 

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Scrapbook Nerd 'Stash busting' Online Crop Recipe Challenge

 Margaret here guest designing for the Scrapbook Nerds! 

This week we are having an online scrapbook stash busting crop - come join us over on Facebook for a chance to play along and use up some of your crafty stash and enter challenges for a chance to win FREE STUFF!

 This is my recipe challenge ....hope you are inspired to play along!

 

I had fun playing with the Ernest and Zelie Gnomes from Carabelle and coloring them with my Blends markers from Stampin' Up! They make coloring a breeze!

 

You can create such a fun background layer using the new oxide sprays from Tim Holtz ... mixed media so much fun! I than embossed it with a retired brick embossing folder. Added some bling with a Wink of Stella  and added some cute little star embellishments from my sequins stash. 

Finally I created a custom 'Gnome School's Cool' sentiment from my retired stash stamp set Skinny Miny Letters from Stampin' Up! I love alphabet stamp sets they are perfect for making custom sentiments! I have the Pink Fresh Adore alpha on my wishlist!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Orange Mixed Media Challenge for International Scrapbook Day tomorrow

Today starts the kick off of an amazing fun weekend because tomorrow is International Scrapbook Day

 

I am exited to be guest designing for the Scrapbook Nerds International Scrapbook weekend crop with a 'Orange ~ Mixed Media challenge' ~ join us over on Facebook Scrapbook Nerds & Friends to share your mixed media inspired layout! 

My layout today features products from the shop with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks, Concord & 9th Faceted stencils and Vicki Boutin's gorgeous Colour Kaleidoscope ephemera and a pop of Tonic Studios glitter paper!! 

Process video for those who like to see pages coming together! 

Happy Stampin'

Margaret
Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much
Be Totallyawake4-life

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Ornate Garden Scrapbook layout

Having fun with some scrapbook challenges over on Facebook with at Scrapbook Nerd -

 if you have not already please come join us Scrapbook Nerds - Friends Group for some crafty inspiration and fun!

My first page I had created as part of the March Layout tag ... if you have not played Layout tag you MUST come join us - it is so much fun!  The premise is that you form a group of people who want to participate in the game. The organizer sends the first person in the group a private message to tag them with a layout as inspiration to create their own with. They have 3 days to complete their project take a photo of it and return the photo to the organizer privately. She passes or 'tags' the next person with that photo as inspiration and it moves on each person getting tagged privately with the last persons inspiration. When everyone has been 'tagged' and had a turn to play with the person before thems photo inspiration than the organizer 'reveals' the tag layout progression ... it is AWESOME to watch how the layouts progress through each persons interpretation and inspiration of the layout they were given! 

I used the Ornate Garden Suite from Stampin' Up ... the DSP is just gorgeous with the copper embossing threaded through the designs on several of the papers and well look at the imagery in the stamp set and the intricate dies! I had a blast coloring with the Stampin' Blends!

 

 I paired it with the Beauty Abounds and the Prose Alphabet dies .

 

I did sneak some retired fun in there too ... the Grapefruit Grover Foil paper from last years Sale-abration from my stash goes perfectly with this suite - I really wish they would bring that one back! It looks amazing with the Ornate Embossing Folder! 

Happy Scrappin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Lovely Day Paper Pumpkin Scrapbook Edition

Lovely Day Paper Pumpkin Scrapbook edition! 

Using up all the pieces including dissecting the lined envelopes! Paired with the Poppy Moments stamp set for my sentiment titles and Painted Poppy stamp set image along the bottom!

As always I need to print so photos to fit my mats ... one day I might have to spend a crop doing JUST that!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Queen of Hearts CASO Crop fun!

 Had an amazing time today at the Queen of Hearts Crops fundraiser for CASO station!

As a vendor I had a lovely place to set up my goodies to showcase Stampin' Up! As well as a second table from which to 'destash ' some of my retired product that was looking for a new home to be loved in to make room for some newer product for me to play with!

 My $5 Blow Out sale table was a huge hit - between the selling off of retired merchandise, scrapbook kit sales and orders I was able to donate 10% from those sales and helped to raise an additional $63.00 for the CASO station!

In the Welcome bags I sponsored I had played a little contest game with the croppers that the first 3 people to bring up a complete project showcasing a few of the retired items I had shared in their package would win a prize!  

Jas was the first completed page - and she won our lovely Honey Bee DSP from the Sale-abration catalog.

 Our next winner, if my aging memory serves, was Connie and she won the Lily Pads DSP

The final entry from Anne offered the first double layout option and so she was awarded the Lady Bug Hostess set for her entry plus she even used her pillow box, ribbon and tag from the welcome kit! 

We also had two close contenders hot on the first threes tail with a card entry and a lovely single page layout!  My apologies I did not write down your names and now I am drawing a blank - however they were both lovely uses of the welcome kits contents!

Part of the festivities included Make N Take classes ... I introduced the croppers to the benefits of the card kits from Stampin' Up! 

 

The Lots of Happy Card kit is a great kit for both new and avid stamps a like! Comes with 5 card designs and enough materials to make 4 of each card design. Or you can dissect your kit as I did and use some of the materials to make scrapbook layouts or alternative projects!

 

All 24 slots for the make n take were snatched up which made my heart so very happy! Everyone had lots of fun colouring the floral imagery! Water colouring with pencils and our blender pens is so relaxing! Stampin' and putting together the cards were a nice quick and simple process and I loved how some of the ladies were able to think outside the box and create cards with their own flare!

To add to the fun of the event I had hidden a 'winner' ticket inside the catalog in the Welcome kits and congrats to the lovely Heather for being the first and only person to find a winner ticket ... we ended up drawing names for the other two since no one had come forward to claim them!

 For those out of town who were wanting to create an online order to support the fundraiser please shop my online store www.totallyawake4.stampinup.net and use the following hostess code below before February 29th. Thank you

Thanks for a great day to all!

Margaret
Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much
Be Totallyawake4-life.com

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Paper Pumpkin Outside the Box cards

Two cute cards created from 1 card base and a couple kit embellishments from January's 'Bee Ours' Paper Pumpkin kit.

I used the Heart pack punch duo to punch the two  hearts from the centre of the front and back of the 3x3 card base and than used my mini paper cutter to carefully cut the two parts of base apart along the crease and than shaved off a wee bit from the white side of base to create two different layered looks for the cards!

Than I used the mint macaroon and coordinating rose rococo inks to stamp images from stamp set. Plus the Blends are perfect for colouring rhinestones to create coordinating gems for any project 💕

I also reused my Hey, Friend sentiment stamp set from the Something for Everything December Kit - the Paper Pumpkin kits can be used over and over again and are a great way to build your stamp collection!

Current Paper Pumpkin subscribers are invited to bring their kits along come play with their box at January’s kit class ... those wanting to check out Paper Pumpkin without the subscription are invited to come play with one of my kits - check out the event page on my website for more class details!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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