Sketch time over at the Nerds!

 Hey there Margaret here guest designing for the Scrapbook Nerds over on Facebook - we are excited to share a wonderful Made by Melina sketch with you this week! Hope you come along and play! She has both scrapbook layout sketch and a modified card sketch for us!

 For my take on the sketch I did both a landscape and a portrait layout featuring one of my favorite Salted Background techniques! You can get the reinkers , watercolour paper and aqua brushes needed for this technique from the Nerds too!

I paired my technique with background with scraps from my Vicik Boutin Wildflower and Honey papers and the Sticker sheets over on the Scrapbook nerds online store!

Love how no two backgrounds turn out the same with this technique - but the colors blend perfectly together!

Happy Paper Craftin'

Margaret

Live, Laugh, Love

Be Totallyawake4-life

Scrapbook Nerd Sketch Challenge

Having fun this week playing along with the Scrapbook Nerd & Friends Sketch challenge by the lovely Milena!

I just can not get enough of the Picket Fences BFF My Tribe stamp set! So many uses for this stamp set ... I think they would be perfect for a bride to be to use to make as their 'Please join by bride tribe' invites for bridesmaids!

I paired it with leftover scraps from the lovely Vicki Boutin Wildflower & Honey patterned paper! I love these grid papers because they are prefect for both pocket scrapbooking AND quick card making!

 I just love how it came together. I added the sentiment 'We are Better Together' from the Altenew Sentiment set Better Together. I am kicking myself for being a lazy stamper and not pulling out my stamperatus to stamp the sentiment because I did not get the crisp stamped sentiment that I wanted in my first try nor my second flip it over and try again so had to choose the best of the two rather than waste paper ... alas one of the ways you know it is hand made is those little imperfections!

Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life  

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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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Inspired by Cool Treats Sketch

Happy Canada Day!

Playing along today with a couple sketches from over at Inspired By Challenge

Inspired By 'Cool Treats' Challenge Inspired By - Cool Treats

Sketch Challenge

Used the Altenew Hug Me stamp set from Scrapbook Nerds coloured with my Blends from Stampin Up - went with the Flirty Flamingo, Coastal Cabana and Daffodil  Delight colour palette!

The little fox is just adorable and I love colouring!

Happy Stampin’

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

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June Sketch challenge of at Scrapbook Nerds

Playing with June's Sketch over at Scrapbook Nerds and Friends!  Head on over to Facebook and join the fun ~ sketches are a great way to get your creative juices flowing plus well Joy gives lots of fun prizes in her group!

 This is my take on the sketch playing with the Vicki Boutin - Colour Kaleidoscope - So Fun Stamp & Die Set and coordinating ephemera and Brutus Monroe Watercolor galaxy paper and a Wish die for the sentiment.

 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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Ornate Garden Suite JUGS challenge

Using my Sunday Social Distancing to have fun doing some card challenges - the Just Us Girls trend stretch #527 is “black background”!

I am playing with my sneak peek Orante Style stamp set and Ornate Layers dies from the Ornate Garden suite by Stampin’ Up! This amazing suite will be available to customers April 1st!

 

I have created a nice clean simple any occasion card with a tiny pop of color on my daisies 💕 I used the Ornate Layers die for the black background. Stamped with versamark. colored the leaves in solid with a versamark pen and than embossed it with white emboss powder. I coloured the stems and the middle of the flowers with Old Olive and Daffodil  Stampin' Blends.

 Happy Stampin'

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

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March SBN Sketch Challenge

Back with my Scrapbook Nerd Design team hat on playing with March’s Scrapbook Nerd and Friends card sketch! 

Showcasing the gorgeous Vicki Boutin Colour Kaleidoscope suite products available on the Scrapbook Nerds online shop!

Stenciling is so much fun and a quick way to add a nice pop of colour and dimension to a card!

Today's card also uses the So Fun Stamp Set with versamark on the blue squares - the photos did not do a great job picking up their subtle textures, the sponged the background with the coordinating Botanical stencils and I used both the Colour Kaleidoscope Ephemera Pack and Colour Kaleidoscope stickers with silver foil accents for my embellishments and sentiment choice. 

This card came together to make a quick yet stunning “Celebrate” card .... perfect for a birthday, wedding or anniversary!

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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