Throwback Thursday

Welcome to another edition of Throwback Thursday where I show some inky love to ole favourites from my stash.

My design was inspired by playing along to a few challenges. 

Double Trouble for the 3 colours, 2 patterned papers, 1 dry or heat embossing plus the Twisted Sister 3 too include a favourite food.

Try a Sketch on Tuesday and their sketch #TSOT689.

Tic Tac Toe Challenge #tttc286 - I have included florals, ink blending on the one floral design, sentiment strip for a middle row win.

 

I’m getting inky with an old February 2020 Lovely Day paper pumpkin kit, Rocco Rose, Old Olive, Lost Lagoon ink and markers and rhinestones and unbranded bronze twine. 

Final designs - I ended up creating 3 different cards. The first one using the #TSOT689 sketch plus the other challenge elements. The other two have their own layouts but all all the other elements. 

Happy Stampin’

Margaret 

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

Weekend Creativity Challenge #2

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! 

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 #TA4L002 in this case but I will change the number with each new prompt. 

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 💗

Need some inspiration to get you going? Here are a few butterfly mandalas from Pinterest to print off and colour of paint! 

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 

Peaceful Christmas Paper Pumpkin - alternatives

 OMG how stinking adorable is this month's kit?

 

Like Laura I love maximizing all the materials in the kit including the leftover pieces. This card uses the leftover vellum die cut tree pieces as the focal point for this beautiful Christmas/Holiday handmade card.

 

 These ones from Rachel are awesome as well!

 

 

Next months is adorable too! 

We all love to see piles of presents on Christmas morning. Make that your reality with the Gifts Galore Paper Pumpkin Kit! With classic Christmas sentiments, bright and festive colors, a sweet snowman, a tree with all the trimmings, or a playful pile of presents, you’ll have everything you need to make eye-catching treat packages that are sure to spread Christmas cheer. Each Gifts Galore box contains enough supplies to create nine treat packages—three each of three designs—and nine food-safe bags that are adorably styled for easy Christmas gifting. There’s plenty of joy to share with Gifts Galore!

Plus if you do not need all the contents for the intended treats demonstrators like myself love to share lots of alternative ideas for cards, scrapbook layouts and more!

Sign up for yours here before November 10th to get in on it!

 

Happy Stampin'

 

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life  

 

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Sending Hearts!

 January Paper Pumpkin is on the way - I am so excited to get playing with this one!

 

Plus you get lots of support from the design team and myself on out of the box alternatives like these by adding on some materials from stash to augment the kits!

There are also refill kits and this kit's Little Love boxes add ons with this months kit while supplies last! Order either the refill or add on set here:

 

 

Happy Stampin'

 

Margaret

Live. Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

 

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It’s Paper Pumpkin time

 I am so excited each Month waiting for my Paper Pumpkin subscription - the Jolly Holly is on it’s way now - reminds me of being little and getting $1 to buy candy at the store and choosing one of those “surprise bags” that you rushed to get home and dump out all the penny candies inside it!

Except the Paper Pumpkin won’t rot your teeth 🤣

Sign up before the 10th of November to get the Jolly Gingerbread Kit! Here’s a little sneak peek!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

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June's Paper Pumpkin has arrived!

So excited when my Paper Pumpkin arrives each month! 

This month's Paper Pumpkin is all about #sharesunshine and this is the exclusive stamp set that comes with the kit!

If you love a good unveiling watch it here with my process video on Youtube! 

These are the 4 card designs that come with the box - perfect for new crafters or those in a hurry that do not want to have to think up their own designs - quick and easy yet totally adorable!!!!

 And these are 4 designs I came up with using the supplies from in my box but thing 'outside the box'!

I cut the sunshine card base in half for this card. Used the smile sentiment from the exclusive #sharesunshine Paper Pumpkin kit with versamark and black embossing powder and mounted on a new whisper white card base, basic black card front and embellished with some metallic pearls!

For my second card I cut a strip of the one card front and than mounted on white card base and used a black polka dot sticker, die sun die cut and a label and embellished with the kits bling!

 Card number three I cut the stripped card front in half and mounted on black card front on a white base and embellished with items from my kit! 

 Final outside the box design for today - again made use the card front by cutting it in half diagonally and than used kit embellishments to finish it off!

 Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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Global Design Project #235

Playing with the Global Design Project challenge which gave me a perfect excuse to use some more of my March No Matter the Weather Paper Pumpkin from Stampin’ Up! 

Made 6 alternative options in a Spring or Floral theme using the envelope liner as patterned paper for additional accents.

The first one I used a small strip of the So Saffron envelope on a So Saffron card base with layering in black card front with very vanilla and than used a retired embossing folder from Stampin' Up! for a pop of texture and than added some embellishments from the March kit to finish it off.

The second one used the remaining envelope liner paired with some basic gray card stock on a white card based. I just love the little rain drops that came with this kit they are adorable!

Third card is done with a Petal Pink card based paired with a Grapefruit Grove card front and a white layer ... how adorable is the little bunny stamp that came with this kit???

Fourth card made use of lots of scraps from the envelope liners and than added some stamping and embellishments from the kit and a sentiment from a retired stamp set!

Fifth care is on the Petal Pink cardstock based with a white front, the green striped envelope liner accent and stamped images from the kit with the little 'heart' popped up as flowers. I also did a hand stitched around it to try to pair the green DSP into the design cause I felt it was kinda just lonely! 

Sixth card is in the Petal Pink and Grapefruit Grove palette with the Swirly die from a retired set with some leaf punched leaves and than the floral embellishments from the kit and a little sequins add ons.

The Paper Pumpkin kits are SO much fun - perfect for new crafters who are just getting started as everything you need to complete your projects as outlined in the kit are included. Also a great add on for the avid crafter to help get the creative juices going with the base kit and than like I did here 'adding on' to the kit to create additonal projects. 

The cut off to join us for April's Paper Pumpkin is Friday .... sign up for a great little crafting escape delivered right to your door!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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March Paper Pumpkin - Outside the Box Scrapbook edition

I am SO loving this Paper Pumpkin! The embellishments and stamp sets are just adorable!

Plus for their 7th Birthday we also got an additional stamp set in this months kit! 

I was so excited to share my sneak peek when it arrived I did not even bother to edit my video and just uploaded it to Youtube! 

 

 I was eager to whip up my 3 trio design cards in the kit! I mean see how I was not kidding on how adorable are the embellishments here?

Today I have been working o on my Paper Pumpkin Alternatives today for Paper Pumpkin customers virtual class support over on my Totallyawake4-stampin' - double layout! If you are looking to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin please make sure to choose me as your demonstrator so I can support you with lots of 'outside the box' options!

I focused on one traditional with mat for a 5X7 layout - I cut up the card bases and envelopes and on this particular layout I used envelope pieces to create the banners along the top here as well as the stamps from the stamp set to create imagery along the white background and than card kit embellishments to add dimension. 

And than did one pocket with 4 mats for 4x6 photos! I had used the 3x3 cut outs from the card bases for the focal imagery along the 3 4x4 squares in the middle and stamped and fussy cut using the coordinating Under the Umbrella imagery on this layout It’s such an adorable little set 💕💕💕

 

Happy Stampin'

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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