Throwback Thursday - Rooted In Nature

Celebrating Throwback Thursday is my chance to play with some of my old favourites and showcase them in new ways. Pretty stamps aren’t made to just be collected they are meant to get inky! It’s also a fun way to revisit older product while playing with new goodies! 

Playing along with a few challenges to help get the mojo flowing.

Shout out to The Global Design Project for the sketch inspiration #GDP514. Love the arches they are perfect for the Everyday Arches.

Over at Sunday Stamps challenges for the colour palette inspiration #SSC369 - I chose Secret Sea, Misty Moonlight, Cloud Cover, Pecan Pie and Crumb cake.

Inkspirational has the Word prompt of Trees. So perfect excuse to play with my retired Rooted In Nature stamps and dies.

And finally Tic Tac Toe challenge #tttc279 where I almost got a full card covered with the rectangle shape of my A2 card, Die cuts for my trees and the stripes in the mini corrugated embossing of my Secret Sea layer. Plus a second line with 3 or more colours and metallic gold in my twine.  4th line with stamped image and using an embossing folder.

All these elements came together to create a lovely Birthday card for a nature lover! I’ve used a sentiment from my retired Sending You Thoughts stamp set for my birthday greeting. 

I wanted to use Rhinestones as my embellishments so used the alcohol ink trick to make some Secret Sea rhinestones by colouring them with my Secret Sea Blends marker. I love a good frugal find tip and this one is a great way to have coordinating embellishments at your fingertips without having to buy a bazillion different embellishment packs. Rhinestones and Pearls are definitely my go to for embellishments these days. 

What’s your favourite frugal crafting tip? 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Welcome Baby

Today I am playing along with the Sunday stamps colour challenge SSC336

I’ve chosen the following 3 colours from my Stampin’ Blends collection: Summer Splash, Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie.

Combined the colour challenge with the CAS colours & sketches sketch challenge #556

As well as the CAS on a Friday Challenge #315 - Baby

I’ve chosen to use the Turtley Cute stamp set and dies and Full of Life 6x6 papers from Stampin’ Up! Along with a retired sentiment set We’ll Said.

Creating a cute little welcome card for an up coming baby shower for a coworker.

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

Weekend Creative challenge #8

It’s Happy FriYAY! A brand new month to conquer!

Nurturing one’s creativity is SO key to helping to ensure a healthy mindset … human beings are all born with an instinct to express themselves through creativity but sometimes external factors impede peoples abilty to engage in creative expression and so their full healthy mindset is also impeded! We need to get back to ensuring that everyone has at least ONE creative outlet for expressing themselves. 

So here’s another instalment of the Weekend Creativity Challenge - each week I will post a photo prompt that you can use to get your creativity mojo going! 

Choose from the photos colours or imagery or just the general feeling/emotion that it brings to your heart! 

You can create with whatever medium speaks to you and inspires you! There are so many ways to nurture one’s creative soul! 

What’s your favorute way to nurture creativity?

Here are just a few of mine:

• Colouring 
• Mixed media / Painting
• Papercrafting
• Fun Nail designs
• Poetry/Short Story/Blog writing

Snap a photo of your creative work and share it in my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' it Together community group by the following Thursday night at midnight to get your name entered into the draw! 

Bonus entry if you share the creative prompt and your entry on your own social media in a public setting and tag my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' it Together group and use the hashtag #TA4L008.

I will be doing a monthly prize draw inside the group from all the creative entry’s shared and that show up tagged outside the group (remember the settings needs to be public otherwise I cannot search the hashtag to see them)  … let’s help spread the joy and benefits of creativity together 💗

Come join us over on Facebook 

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life

Weekend Creative Challenge #7

 Happy FriYAY and Long Weekend to boot! 

Nurturing one’s creativity is SO key to helping to ensure a healthy mindset … human beings are all born with an instinct to express themselves through creativity but sometimes external factors impede peoples abilty to engage in creative expression and so their full healthy mindset is also impeded! We need to get back to ensuring that everyone has at least ONE creative outlet for expressing themselves. 

So here’s another instalment of the Weekend Creativity Challenge - each week I will post a photo prompt that you can use to get your creativity mojo going! 

Choose from the photos colours or imagery or just the general feeling/emotion that it brings to your heart! 

You can create with whatever medium speaks to you and inspires you! There are so many ways to nurture one’s creative soul! 

What’s your favorute way to nurture creativity?

Here are just a few of mine:

• Colouring 
• Mixed media / Painting
• Papercrafting
• Fun Nail designs
• Poetry/Short Story/Blog writing

Snap a photo of your creative work and share it in my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' it Together community group by the following Thursday night at midnight to get your name entered into the draw!

 

Bonus entry if you share the creative prompt and your entry on your own social media in a public setting and tag my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' it Together group and use the hashtag #TA4L007.

I will be doing a monthly prize draw inside the group from all the creative entry’s shared and that show up tagged outside the group (remember the settings needs to be public otherwise I cannot search the hashtag to see them)  … let’s help spread the joy and benefits of creativity together 💗

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life

Weekend Creative Challenge #5

  Happy FriYAY! 

Nurturing one’s creativity is SO key to helping to ensure a healthy mindset … human beings are all born with an instinct to express themselves through creativity but sometimes external factors impede peoples abilty to engage in creative expression and so their full healthy mindset is also impeded! We need to get back to ensuring that everyone has at least ONE creative outlet for expressing themselves. 

So here’s another instalment of the Weekend Creativity Challenge - each week I will post a photo prompt that you can use to get your creativity mojo going! 

Choose from the photos colours or imagery or just the general feeling/emotion that it brings to your heart! 

You can create with whatever medium speaks to you and inspires you! There are so many ways to nurture one’s creative soul! 

Here’s my inspiration 

What’s your favorute way to nurture creativity?

Here are just a few of mine:

• Colouring 
• Mixed media / Painting
• Papercrafting
• Fun Nail designs
• Poetry/Short Story/Blog writing

Snap a photo of your creative work and share it in my Totallyawake4-life community group by the following Thursday night at midnight to get your name entered into the draw! 

Bonus entry if you share the creative prompt and your entry on your own social media in a public setting and tag my Totallyawake4-life & Nailin’ It Together group and use the hashtag #TA4L005 

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I will be doing a monthly prize draw inside the group here from all the creative entry’s shared and that show up tagged outside the group (remember the settings needs to be public otherwise I cannot search the hashtag to see them)  … let’s help spread the joy and benefits of creativity together 💗

Come join us for more Self care, motivation and clean living fun and tips as well! 

Here’s a few google images for adult colouring if you need an extra prompt to get your creativity flowing.

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life

Bright Baubles

OK I already loved the Bright Baubles Bundle but seeing this Artisan team member inspiration and now he layered them to really make them POP I want it even more!!! 

So intricate and elegant! They’d look lovely hanging on a tree too! I just love making paper ornaments for my tree! 

Tombow glue is perfect for intricate gluing and dries clear. A little trick I use if I need a really intricate dab of glue is make a puddle in my silicone mar and use the paper poker to dot on OR I use a sponge and dab the glue onto sponge and than dab onto the paper dies for a nice even application.

 

Here is the entire Bright Baubles bundle!

 
Photo credit and full details here: 

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love
Be Totallyawake4-life

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Love to paper craft and looking for ways to save money while you do it? 

 

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Would be happy to have you join my team - sign up online via here:

 

Shoot me a message by email if you have any questions! 

Happy stampin'

 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

 

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Relex Don't Do it ...

Margaret here guest designing with the Scrapbook Nerds! This week were are creating around the theme 'Relax'! 

If you have not already joined make sure to come on over and join us in our group so you can play along too - the group is fun and Joy has great contests and prize giveaways!

For me relaxing is playing with mixed media and getting messy in the craftroom - so I am offering a few cards featuring mixed media background using Alcohol inks and metallic paints for a faux Mother of Pearl technique! 

I paired my mixed media with the My Favorite Things All About You Stamp and Die set to create some Missing and Thinking you inspired cards to send out to those whom I have not been able to see over the past few months to know I am thinking of them!

I am just loving this stamp set - so many fun options for it and perfect for lots of occasions!

Happy Stampin'

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

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Global Design #246 and Inspired by Challenge card

Margaret here guest designing for the Scrapbook Nerd - if you want to come play along join us Scrapbook Nerds & Friends on Facebook! 

For those who prefer to watch verses read I created a little process video over on my Youtube channel

 

Today I am using two challenges for inspiration for my card design! 

The Global Design #246 Challenge and the Inspired By Fresh Morning Challenge

I created two cards featuring Vicki Boutin's Color Kaleidoscope line with some of the 12x12 paper and the coordinating stencil pack and the Wild Flower and Honey cardstock stickers. 

I used the blender brushes and a color palette featuring Flirty Flamingo, Balmy Blue and Rococo Rose from Stampin' Up!

 Finished products ....

 Everything About You ... Loved Beyond Words

 Adore Everything About You!

Happy Stampin'

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

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Join us for an Adventure Challenge this month

Margaret here guest designing for Scrapbook Nerds and Friends! 

Feels so good to see the light at the end of the tunnel and have a handle on my immune system once again which means more energy allowing me some left over to get back into the craft room and get my hands inky!
 

This month's theme is Adventure with a bonus color challenge! 

 I opted to choose my inks from Stampin' Up! The Blushing Bride, Flirty Flamingo, Grapefruit Grove, Petal  Pink and Soft Sea Foam were a perfect match in my opinion! 

My idea of an adventure is being out in nature with the flowers so I opted to play with the Vicki Boutin color kaleidoscope stencil and coordinating cardstock stickers for my sentiment and paired with the color challenge palette!

I am just loving the Picket Fence Studio brushes - the come in all sorts of sizes on the Scrapbook Nerd website!I l love how the varied sizes allow you to get into tiny spots and provide a lovely blend!

 Here is my finished card - a perfect card for either retirement, bon voyage or just because!  

 If you would like to see it come together check out my process video over on YouTube! 

 Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life 

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