Vicki Boutin Storyteller creations

Margaret here - its been a while since I have been in the craftroom -  apprently I managed to compress 3 disc in my neck and one of them keeps hernating anytime I have a flare in my arthritis which has made doing anything that involves holding my head up for too long excrusating painful - but we finally have a medication mix that seems to be working and I am having my first good day in months! 

So I am back in the craftroom guest designing for the Scrapbook Nerd and their Facebook group - if you are not a member please come on over and click the join for lots of creative inspiration!  We have fun challenges each week from the design team and there are regularly prizes from Joy the owner of the Scrapbook Nerds online shopping website!

This week I am playing with Vicki Boutin's Storyteller collection because I just love all her designs!

Makes my heart happy that she has a grid paper as part of her collections - they are amazing inspiration for both quick cards and pocket scrap-booking!  

I also used the TGIG challenge #TGIFC309  to jump start my creative juices!

I used the Concord & 9th Little Love Tags stamp set to create my own DSP background on the whisper white cardstock base in Pool Party.

I than cut out one of the grids from the Storyteller DSP and mounted in on Bermuda Bay cardstock, wrapped that with teal bakers twine and mounted it with dimensionals onto the base. I added a little 3D popped up butterfly from the Storyteller Butterflies layered stickers.I left the inside blank so I can use this card for any occasion when the time comes.

I also made a second card to use up the other half of my base paper cause I tend to create in 'twos'. For this one I used the Storyteller stencils to create a textured background on the base by sponging Pool Party ink. Chose the sentiment Happy Birthday to ... from the My Favorite Things - All About You stamp set placed perfectly in the banner and than adored with a retired sparkly ribbon and some iridescent pearls to complete the card front.

 

Inside I stamped the bold You in Pool Party to finish the card. 

In my humble opinion this stamp set is a must for both cardmaking and using in scrapbook layout titles as it is so versatile for sentiments included fitting so many of life's moments!

Thank you for stopping by to check out this weeks designs! 

 

Happy Stampin' 

 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

 

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Quick and Simple Christmas card!

 Designing today for the Scrapbook Nerds & Friends over on Facebook and I think I found a new addiction - Doodlebug Designs!

The whole line of everything is just ADORABLE!!!!

I loved the little Mrs. Claus and paired her with some shape sprinkles and the Concord and 9th Seasons of Cheer sentiment dies! Also got to play with my Pink Fresh Studios Slim line Stitched Rectangles Essentials dies

 

The Slim line stitched rectangle dies are just so fun - a staple for every crafter!

The Concord and 9th Seasons of Cheers is going to make a lot of fun cards!

Together they helped to make a quick and easy yet, in my humble opinion, a totally adorable holiday card in less than 5 minutes!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life  

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Who loves an unboxing?

 Who doesn't love a good unboxing?

I love being a part of the Scrapbook Nerd Design team - choosing our quarterly goodies to showcase is so much fun! Check out all the goodies in my unboxing video! Make sure to head on over to Scrapbook Nerd's & Friends on Facebook and join in the on fun weekly challenges to help jump start creative juices and for chances to win free stuff!

 So what do you think I should play with first?

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

Scrapbook Nerd Sketch Challenge!

Margaret here guest designing for the Scrapbook Nerds and Friends! 




My turn to play along with this weeks sketch by Milena - card edition! If you want to come play along you can join us on Facebook!

I had so much fun with this one I made two different takes on it! 

This was the perfect sketch to use up some scraps from my stash along with some of the Vicki Boutin paper and stickers for this little whimsical 'love notes' card! 

My second card instead of using scraps I did some stenciling with my Concord & 9th faceted gems stencil for the 'lines' ... make sure to check out the line over on the Nerds website. 

If you have not gotten yourself some Picket Fences blending brushes from the shop - you must! They are perfect for stenciling!

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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Guest Designing for the Scrapbook Nerds

Good morning!

Hope everyone is doing well keeping safe from all that is going on in the world right now! It has been a roller coaster for me over here ~ was hoping being home in islolation mandate would mean more time for crafting however my auto immune system had other ideas and the past month has been ups and downs with a struggle between hives and digestive issues! 

However today seems to be a manageable day so havingg fun today finally able to spend some time in the craftroom catching up on some challenges and doing a guest design post for the Scrapbook Nerds!

I used a The Cupcake Inspiration #492 combined with the Inspire. Create. sketch challenge #068 to get my creative juices flowing to make my projects today!

I also wanted to play with the Concord & 9th Faceted Gems stencils available in the Scrapbook Nerds online shop as well as some of their fun Tonic Studios glitter papers!

I loved the color combo inspiration and chose to combine Pool Party, Bermuda Bay, Pretty Peacock with Gorgeous Grape for my stencils! 

 The turnabouts are so easy to use! Here is a little process video from Concord & 9th

 I used my Stampin' Blends to colour the basic pearls for a coordinating pop of colour on my sentiment! 

Just love love love this colour combo however I can see that this stencil will look amazing in an array of colours and cannot wait to try out some more of them!!!

 Have an amazing day!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Vicki Boutin - So Much Fun with Florals

Having fun guest designing over at Scrapbook Nerds!

Card Number One features Vicki Boutin's Color Kalidescope - So Much Fun stamp set with the floral stamps used to create a versamark collage embossed in gold on the crumb cake cardstock and than water colored with white pigment ink. 

Card number Two was a quick and simple card with the floral collage stamped in gold ink and than layered card fronts in the white, crumb cake and black ... just love this color combo! The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Concord & 9th Birthday Basics stamp set!

Seriously are these not two adorable quick clean and simple cards that pack a lot of punch? 

 

Made a fun little process video of the card I made for the Floral Challenge this week - you can play along too head on over to their Scrapbook Nerds & Friends on Facebook and join the fun! 

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life 

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Vicki Boutin Wildflower & Honey Card 2

I am back with another installment in this months guest designer posts for Scrapbook Nerds with another DSP insipired card - continuing to play with the Vicki Boutin Wildflower and Honey DSP, So Fun Stamp set and Concord & 9th Triple Step Thank You to make a quick and simple under 5 minute card!

Created a quick little process video to showcase just how quick and easy this card came together!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Vicki Boutin Wildflower & Honey DSP card one.

Sharing my guest designer post for Scrapbook Nerds with another DSP insipired card - playing with the Vicki Boutin Wildflower and Honey DSP, So Fun Stamp set and Concord & 9th Triple Step Thank You to make a quick and simple under 5 minute card!

I am still trying to figure out how to edit videos to give you all a more professional view but in the meantime this is my process video for making this quick and easy card!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Don’t toss your scraps!

I am back with another challenge from over at Scrapbook Nerds and Friends featuring the Concord and 9th Birthday Basics turnabout stamp set available on their website. 

I had a little scrap leftover from my last 100th Birthday card I made earlier this month!

 

My motto is never throw out your scraps because I used it to make this adorable second birthday card! 

Paired the scrap with some sponged glitter paper, Nuvo drops and Wink of Stella for a quick and simple sparkly card!

Happy Stampin'

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

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Scrapbook Nerd Challenge

For this weeks Scrapbook Nerd and Friends challenge I created this card! 

This card challenge gave me a chance to play with the Vicki Boutin Texture Paste, her colour kaleidoscope- Botanical Stencil 3 pack and combined with her Wildflower & Honey - Mingle DSP which are available on the Scrapbook Nerd website! 

These 12x 12 mingle pages are awesome for both scrapbooking as well as cardmaking! One piece of designer series paper can bring you 6 or more focal points for your projects!

 For this card I cut the 4 x6 heart section out and than cut it down to 3x4 size to make 2 little heart focal points for the card. They are mounted on a blue cardstock to form a frame for them.

I than used the stencil on vanilla cardstock with the Vicki Boutin textured paste. Scoop and spread a thin layer with a palette tool. Let dry before assembling your project. 

For my sentiment I paired it with the Joy die from the Concord and 9th Joyful Tiles bundle cut out in red foil cardstock.

Perfect quick and simple less than 10 minute card for you letting your loved one know they bring you joy this Valentines Day!

 

Happy Stampin'

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

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Scrapbook Nerd Design Team Challenge

Another card showcasing how the Vicki Boutin Wildflower & Honey Mingle paper can be used not only for Scrapbookers but cardmakers as well!

These sheets are awesome for when you need a quick card although don’t rush the stamping. I was silly and didn’t use my Stamp positioner and when I needed to restamp my sentiment to get a clear image it didn’t line up perfectly on me so it’s not as crisp as I could have gotten had I taken the time to use a stamp platform! Even seasoned stampers make mistakes!

This one I used the 4X6 banner pocket card and trimmed it down so it would mount onto 5.25x4 blue cardstock and mounted it onto white cardstock card base. 

I dressed it up with some Mustard Gold Nuvo drops for the banner hooks and Wink of Stella on every other banner for a pop of bling!

I added a sentiment from Concord and 9th Tripe Step Thank you stamp sets and added a few hearts in flirty flamingo and pacific point inks from Stampin’ Up! Created a coordinating envelope because no envelope should go out naked 🤣

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Happy 100th Birthday

My take on the Scrapbooknerd sketches from Instragram or you can play along over Scrapbook Nerds and Friends on Facebook! 

 For this challenge I opted to use it for a card vs scrapbook layout. 

 

This card features the Concord and 9th Birthday Basics turnabout  and coordinating die set both are available on the Scrapbook Nerd site.

I chose a color palette of black, turquoise and silver for paper, turquoise and silver inks one the turnabout, turquoise ribbon to hide my vellum glue mark.

The birthday sentiment is stamped with versamark and heated with white embossing powder and than you can colour  the embossed part with an alcohol marker to make it pop off black cardstock. I used my Bermuda Bay Stampin’ Blend however any alcohol markers will work too for this embossing technique. I also coloured my rhinestone gems with same marker to create coordinating coloured gems.

The scallop heart is the Stitched Be Mine die from Stampin Up and the 100th is from a retired Numbers for You bundle also from Stampin Up!

This card is going out to Fred Arsenault a Vet in Toronto who turns 100 this March - saw a post that he wants 100 cards for his 100th birthday and wanted to help make his wish come true! Hope you can join me in sending out a card to Fred! 

Happy Stampin' 

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life 

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