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

Colour INKspiration CI#193

 Loving this week’s colour inspiration from over at Colour INKspiration group on Facebook! Cloud Cover, Balmy Blue and Highland Heather … it’s just so delicious!

I decided to use this colour challenge to play with a new fun fold card I found from Susan Campfield’s YouTube channel called The Flying Finch for a card swap I signed up for in the Canadian Cardmaking group on Facebook. To go with the flying theme I paired it with the Beautiful Bokeh kit from Stampin’ Up! 

This bundle is SO stunning - came with the stamp set, coordinating dies, hybrid embossing folder, 6x6 Bokeh inspired paper pad and sparkly gems.

The Flying Finch fancy fold is aptly named because it looks like a flying bird when opened.

I coloured the focal butterfly with my colour palette coordinating Stampin’ Blends - so relaxing to colour with! Colouring is my craft therapy.

I used the Bokeh DSP for on top of the front panel and side strips. For one set of strips I embossed the white cards stock with the coordinating hybrid butterfly folder and then sponged with Balmy Blue to help the images pop.

To finish the assembly of the card I added some ribbon, sparkle gems and a Happy Birthday sentiment.

View from the top of the “flying wing” look.

This fold still fits into a regular envelope for mailing - although might need extra postage due to weight of layers.

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

Weekend Challenge #6

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 #TA4L006.

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

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 
Live, Laugh Love 
Be Totallyawake4-life 

Weekend Creative Challenge #4

 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 #TA4L004 

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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 little video of how quick my card came together.

Happy Stampin’ 

Margaret 

Live, Laugh Love 

Be Totallyawake4-life

Seas the Day!

This stamp set is so darling! 

 

How stinking cute are these two card inspirations? 

 

 

 

Artisan team member Karine Lison created these two projects using the Seas the Day Bundle.

She says: “I used Sponge Daubers and two inks on my stamp to get a nice gradient on my octopus.”

 

 

 

Happy crafting .... looking for weekly crafty inspiration, self care and clean living inspiration come over to Facebook and join us in Totallyawake4-life & Nailin' It Together community!

 

Margaret

Live. Laugh. Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

Can we get a WOW?

OMG how stunning are these cars creations from Stampin’ Up! Artisan Team member Yvonne? 

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I love the turquoise colour combo with the pops of gold and definitely nailed her challenge of creating structure and texture - just 💗💗💗

Want more details check out her blog - there’s a translate button up at top if needed. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret
Live, Laugh, Love
Be Totallyawake4-life

Are you creating for YOU?

I often hear card makers expressing frustration that they worked for over an hour creating a card for someone in their life and the receiver tossed it aside like meh and moved on oblivious to the time, love and care that went into it. My response is that you are gonna burn yourself out and stop enjoying if your relying on others to validate your crafting! IMO the passion needs to be in the experience of the CREATING and all the benefits that gives YOU in the DOING of the things more so than any potential accolades the receiver might give in appreciation of your byproduct. 

Does it make me feel good when someone tells me they love the card or project I gift them? ABSOLUTELY! Seriously who doesn’t like positive reinforcement!  But that’s just an added bonus when that happens because I already got my return on investing and internal positive reinforcement in the  creating! In the lowered stress and calmness and energy that creating brings me! 

I create for ME and it’s an added bonus if I can pass my creations on to others and they get some joy too! 

Or that I make money from people who want to commission a project or attend a technique class cause they want to learn to create for themselves too! 

When the doing of something brings you peace, joy and energizes you it doesn’t matter if others care! And when you’re more focused on external validation it looses all those things and becomes “a chore” where your more worried about pleasing someone else than you are about enjoying the process of creating. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life.com 

The Month of Love is Coming!

Introduce more love into your life with these adorable products! Make sweet treat packaging, valentines, cards, and more with the Sweet Talk Suite Collection. 

Plus with Saleabration running  right now but the full Suite and add some adhesive and you qualify to choose TWO free Saleabration items!

Due to Covid I have had to unsubscribe to my personal online website with Stampin’ Up! However I am still an active demonstrator so if you’d like help order just give me a shout via email or Facebook link and I can place an order via my back office for you! 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life 

 

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Technique Tuesday- Masking

Masking is such an easy technique that can provide a total pop of elegance to any card! 

I am loving the combination of the masking with the pop of white embossed  images. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret
Live,Love, Laugh
Be Totallyawake4-life 

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Happy stampin'

 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

 

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Happy Birthday Bouquet

 Margaret here guest designing for the Scrapbook Nerds & Friends over on Facebook! 

Today I am offering a cute little Birthday Card featuring the Winter Wonderland collection from Doodlebug Design Inc.

 
The Winter Wonderland Odds and Ends Snowflakes has so many fun little 'winter flowers' which were perfect to form a collage for this birthday card!

I used the Happy Birthday from the Altenew Hug Me stamp set.

Happy Stampin' 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

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SBN Sunday Sketch

 Margaret here guest designing for the Scrapbook Nerds & Friends over on Facebook! 

 Today I am offering up a SKETCH CHALLENGE of my own for everyone!

I choose the gorgeous plaid paper the Winter Wonderland 6x6 paper pack from Doodlebug Design Inc. and paired with with a coordinating Highland Heather purple cardstock from my stash!  

I cut out the My Favorite Things Photo Strip in the purple.

Again making use of the 6x6 paper to choose cute little squares to insert into the photo strip.

And for a pop of sparkle the Winter Wonderland Glitter Sprinkles from Doodlebug Design Inc.

 

Finished it off with some Baker's twine!

 Happy Stampin' 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Let's Snuggle!

 Margaret here guest designing for the Scrapbook Nerds & Friends over on Facebook! 

Today I am playing with a Slimline card design! The Pinkfresh Studio Essentials makes a great starter die for slimline cards! 

 

I just love the larger work surface for designing with on the slimline card! 

I again chose paper from the Winter Wonderland 6x6 paper pack from Doodlebug Design Inc! This paper stack is SO CUTE and great for winter birthdays and Valentines alike! 

 The little Bingo card paper is perfect for these little square accents! I chose the Let's Snuggle and Hot Cocoa weather squares and than the back side squares that spelled S N W that I wouldn't use!

 I also love the Winter Wonderland Odds and Ends Snowflake from the Doodlebug Design Inc!

 You get so many adorable little snowflakes and accent pieces in the package - amazing value!! I love that there is a mix of texture too from paper to acetate designs! The snowflakes added a perfect added pop to my squares!

 Happy Stampin' 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Are you Yeti for Valentines?

 Margaret here guest designing for the Scrapbook Nerds & Friends over on Facebook!

I chose my little Yeti from the Winter Wonderland 6x6 paper pack from Doodlebug Design Inc! One of the papers has a 'grid' like a Bingo card which is perfect for cutting up and using as focal points!

I made my collage behind by using the Winter Wonderland Odds & Ends from the Doodlebug Designs Inc. 

I also added some accent hearts from the Winter Wonderland Shape Sprinkles Stickers from Doodlebug Design Inc. 

Such and adorable Valentines card or for just because card this winter! 

 Happy Stampin' 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

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