Because You Are The Best

I have a tutorial on the Carta Bella Blog with this layout using their new collection, "So Noted", hope you visit me there!

































Have a great day!

Jan

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Boo!

Before I announce the winner of my Fa-Boo-lous prize package, here's a Halloween card:

I used Carta Bella's, "All Hallow's Eve" collection for this card.  The Boo die cut is Sizzix's Gothic Boo die cut out with chipboard and the Spooky Damask paper.  After covering my chipboard with the paper, I sanded the edges and inked them with Black Soot.  Next I covered the whole diecut with Crackle Glossy Accents and immediately sprinkled Clear Micro Beads on top.  I love this effect, it gives it a very vintage look. I used an EK Success punch on my orange paper, Craft and Glitz glitter on the black cardstock mat, and to finish it off, Prima black bling and stickers from the Carta Bella All Hallow's Eve collection.

Now on to my winner, which was selected using the random number generator: #4       

Ilda DiasOctober 2, 2012 10:34 AM

Stopping by from Tamara's blog... love this project! Am you're latest follower!

Congrats Ilda, if you would like to email me(jan.roxy49@gmail.com) with your address, I can mail out your prize package!

Thanks everyone for your comments, I really appreciate them and that you took the time to visit me here!  Hope you enjoyed Tamara's Fa-Boo-Lous week!

Happy Thanksgiving to all you Canadian Scrapbookers!

Until next time,

Jan

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June's Monthly Kit....

at Urban Scrapbook is on sale right now and here is my design team layout:

I haven't done a layout of my dog for awhile, usually she's the one I seem to take the most photos of!  My son got his dog, Eli, last summer and these two were instantly friends.  They are so funny to watch when they are together! This month, the papers were from Echo Park, a great collection called, "Note to Self".  I love this new border "ticket please" punch from Jenni Bowlin that I used on my navy cardstock.  The Design Team did an awesome job on their layouts, make sure you check them out on Urban's blog.
Until next time,

Jan

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Usually....

I hate gloomy, rainy days, but today I'm lovin' it!  I have the day off, I did all my running around, groceries, etc. on Tuesday, so I have my "cozy" clothes on and I'm not leaving the house!  My husband just got home from out of town this morning, and brought me my "Timmies" coffee, could it get any better?  I'm just scrapbooking (well, going to scrapbook, ... I better!) I've spent the morning looking for photos, playing with photos, checking out blogs, so now I should be inspired enough!  What to you do to get inspired?  If any of you have any great ideas or wonderful websites/blogs I'd love to hear about them.
For those of you that are searching for teacher gift ideas, check out Amy Heller's blog where she has made these cute apple shaped books:

Or, if you're really ambitious, check out what Roxanne has made for teacher gifts.  Seriously, Roxanne?  You must really love your kid's teachers!  These books are amazing!  I don't think I would want to give them up!  If you have checked out her blog, you will also notice the tag she has made for demo night at Urban Scrapbook.  If you have nothing to do tonight, drop by the store to make one!
Here's another layout for The Little Black Dress Kit Club June kit:

Yes, I know, I am obsessed with butterflies lately!  It was that "all over the page" Martha Stewart butterfly punch that got me started!  Then I saw the punch with two little butterflies and one larger one used by some of the gals at the store, so I had to get that one.  That filigree one started calling my name soon after, so I brought that one home too.  That's the problem with working at a scrapbook store, you end up bringing something home everytime you work!
Anyways, I'm just warning you, there will be more layouts with butterflies!
This photo is of my husband's grandparents, shortly after they were married.  I was contacted by a woman in Wales, from Ancestory.com (another obsession) asking if we were in some way researching the same family.  Turns out we were, and she invited me to look at her family tree and her photos.  She has researched my mother-in-laws' family back into the 1700's, and had lots of old photos.  One of them was this photo which my mother-in-law had never seen of her parents before(love how her mom is standing on the step to be taller, she was barely 5 ft. tall).  Unfortunately, her father died suddenly when he was around forty, she was only eight years old, so she doesn't have very many photos of him.  I gave her a copy of this one and a few of him when he was a boy, she was so excited!  After looking at old photos, there's one thing that I noticed.  I love the ones that are taken informally, they might not be the greatest photo but you can see more of the person's personality.  I like looking at their surroundings, it makes for a more interesting photo, I think.  I wonder what our families will think when they look at all our photos years from now?  I know mine will be laughing hysterically at some of my hairstyles, that's for sure!
That's it for today, I'm off to my scrapbook room.  Have a great day!

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It's been....

a quiet week.  After the last two weeks, I really needed it!  It's funny how you can function at a fast pace, accomplishing lots, (especially when you are on a deadline) and then as soon as it stops; it hits you!  Do you ever ask yourself, how did I get all that done?  Because this week, nothing was done!
 I did finally receive my March "Little Black Dress Kit" on Tuesday.  It was mailed February 12th, more than a month ago!  I wonder where it's been all this time?  See, nothing or nobody wants to come here, with this miserable weather!  For those of you that don't live here in Alberta, it's been snowing all week and still cold.  I have never seen so much snow in all my life.  I think we are all starting to wonder when it will ever melt and if  we will see the grass again.
March's kit is called,"Black Tie Love Affair".  Love this kit, lots of new Glitz!

I've just got one layout done, so far.
Here it is:

I used my new Martha Stewart all around the page punch, Wild Flowers.
Love this punch! On the left side, I stamped Tim Holtz's new book plate stamp on patterned paper and embossed with clear powder, so I got that embossed resist look.  I then inked over it, wiped away the ink from the embossed part, and then just the parts in between are left inked.
I'm still working on the rest of my projects, hopefully those will be done this weekend!
Take care and have a great weekend!

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Just a quick post...

and my last one for February!  It's hard to believe that it's March 1st on Tuesday and still cold and snowing!!  It's been snowing for two days and the temperature has dropped again.  I'm so glad that I have this hobby to keep me busy.  I've been scrapbooking with summer, garden and flower photos to get my mind off this awful weather.  Here's another layout I've done with The Little Black Dress February kit.

The photos are of my mother-in-law's garden.  She can make anything grow!
I was going to make some rosette flowers, but instead used the folded paper around my circle.  I stitched around the circle first before I adhered the accordion folded paper behind it.

I also made a birthday card with leftover paper. I used a Martha Stewart punch on the purple paper and my Slice for the happy birthday, scalloped ovals and flower.

Here's my layout for the March Urban Scrapbook  kit.  Our technique this month is all about punches.  The layouts will be up at the store on Tuesday, so come and check them out!  The paper and embellishments in the kit are from Little Yellow Bicycle.


I punched out the edge of my paper before I made my rosette flower with the Martha Stewart Crown punch.  The blue border was punched out with a border punch on both sides.  It ended up being about an inch wide.  There were two rows of small holes so I placed the thin ribbon in the middle and laced the twine across.  This photo is from when we lived on Vancouver Island.  There were lots of trails around so on hot days, I would call my friend and tell her to pack a lunch and we would head off with our kids to hike in the cool shade of the huge trees.  The kids had such a great time, as you can see by this photo, and have great memories!

That's all for now, have a great week!  And for all of you here in Edmonton, keep warm!

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This month...

seems to be flying by for me! (that's my excuse for not posting in awhile!)  I have managed to get a few projects done from the February kit for The Little Black Dress Kit Club.  It's called Patterns of Class and here's a photo of everything in the kit.

The butterfly paper from GCD was one of my favorites, and this is what I did with some of it:

I thought of making a paper flower bouquet, but after looking at all the butterflies, I decided to do this.  For the box I used an empty japanese tea box, which I had saved because it was a nice heavy cardboard.  It already had a nice yellow rim on top so this paper from Crate was perfect for covering it.  I used the turquoise ribbon and felt flower from my kit to decorate it.  I then cut a block of florist foam for the inside.  I attached wire to my cut out butterflies with a hot glue gun and stuck them in the foam.  I cut up some white tissue with my Martha Stewart fringe scissors and crumpled it for the filling on top.  Right now it's sitting on my desk, so when I look at it, I forget about this cold and all the snow we have here.

How can you tell, I'm anxious for spring and summer!  A photo of an Allium from my mother-in-law's garden.  I cut out some of the tags and the title using my Slice and the lock and key is cut from a Tim Holtz die. With the lock and key, I cut out several using book pages and layered them with the patterned paper on top.  I then wet the edges, curling them up and then inked.  This close-up photo isn't that great but you can see what I mean.  My hand stitching was done using my We R Memory Keepers stitching tool.  This tool is so easy to use!  I know there are a lot of scrapbookers waiting for it to come in at the store, but unfortunately it won't be until the end of March.  They are releasing some new pattern attachments, which I am looking forward to using.

I found these old photo booth photos in a box the other day,  so I had to scrapbook them.  I don't even remember when the kids posed for these!  I wish we had done this more, they are so funny to look at, now that the kids are grown up.  It's funny to see what faces they made, when given a limited time to pose.  I wasn't sure how I was going to use the pompoms on a string (Glitz) that were in the kit.  One fell of the end, so I used it as the center of my pinwheel flower(cut from my Slice), and I tied the string around the photo and paper.  The cards were cut out from a piece of Crate paper, the little brown birds are Studio Calico rub-ons.

That's all I've managed to get done, I'm in the middle of another layout, so hopefully I can finish that tonight.  I really want to get these projects done, I have some wonderful new Prima product that came home with me today and I can hardly wait to use it.  Urban also got in some really cool vintage pocket watch pieces and watch parts in today.  I feel another configuration box idea coming!!  At least this cold weather is great scrapbooking weather!
Take care and have a great weekend!

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I think I'm addicted....

to Martha Stewart punches.  I love her "Around the Page" punch sets and I have just purchased one of her "All Over the Page" punches.  These punches come in two pieces; the base, which goes under your paper, and the top piece.  The two snap together with magnets when the notched sides match, and you press down to punch.

I purchased the butterfly punch and used it on this layout.

I adhered "Glitz Love Nest" patterned paper underneath the negative spaces.  The background paper is from Pink Paislee's Anthology line which I inked and misted.

The flower and leaves were cut out from the Love Nest paper, as well as the rosette center.  The "beautiful" sticker is from KI Memories (it was black but I used Sequin Stickles and went over it). The heart journaling spot is from Girl's Paperie.  It's hard to believe that beautiful baby girl of mine will be 29 next week!
Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!

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