Celebrating Crate Paper

I was cropping with some friends at the beginning of May and to make packing light, I just brought the Brook and Paper Dolls collections with me. I had great fun with the playful die cuts and great stickers that came along with the kits. I absolutely love these yellow American Crafts Dear Lizzy Thickers. I think they go perfectly with the Brook collection. Crate Paper has an awesome DT call out right now for all you interested girls. I would totally be interested if I didn't have my hands full already! I was however really excited to stumble across this post on the Crate blog recently!!!

Bounce: Larissa enjoying her 'new to her' trampoline last fall. I was just waiting for some fun and playful pattern paper to go along with these photos and I was quite pleased at how well the Brook papers worked for this.

I spent a good amount of time fussy cutting that branch/twiggy thing from the pattern paper. I attached Kaisercraft pearls to some of the branches for a little added dimension.

There she goes: my big girl got herself all dressed up and ready to move away. She told me that she was off to the big city to get a job. She also told me that she was going to make her own lunch everyday and it was going to have popsicle in it and she was going to eat the popsicle first, before her healthy stuff :D

Pictou, NS: Every summer we make sure to get at least ferry ride back to PEI . We usually stop in Pictou on the way to take a walk around the waterfront front, check out the local tall ship, visit some merchants and most importantly, get an ice cream cone ;)

Thanks for visiting today!

One Sweet Day

I created this sweet little mini album using My Creative Scrapbook's June Album kit. I had so much fun working with these products. The little wavy edge album is by Maya Road and the paper in this kit is from KI Memories. All these pictures are from an Easter celebration day that my sisters and I put on for our children. We made spring crafts, baked and decorated easter bunny cup cakes and played spring games. The children has a blast and ate way too much sugar!


When I make a mini album, I usually use a whole bottle of Stickles on it. I use the Stickles to decorate all the edge of my book as well as the embellishments and flowers on it. I often use it to accent the pattern on papers as well. I will usually do one side of all the pages and let them dry overnight and then come back in the morning and glitter up all the opposite sides. My most favourite stickles are Crystal, Stardust, Diamond, Cinnamon and Fruit Punch.

my eyes are turning green

I made this layout for Monochromatic Monday at Pink Paislee this week. I chose green for this monochromatic layout because I knew the title was going to have the word green in it and I thought it would be a nice little touch. I had a lot of fun mixing elements from both the Queen Bee and 365 Degrees lines.

I called this layout “My eyes are turning green”. Larissa has beautiful blue eyes. She was lucky enough to get those from her Daddy. Well, since Mommy has green eyes, she wants to have Mommy’s eyes and she keeps insisting that her eyes are going to turn green. When she eats broccoli she thinks the more she eats, the greener her eyes will turn. (I don’t say too much about that because I do want her to eat lots of broccoli!)

Barbie Jeep

Larissa was gifted this Barbie Jeep from one of Jason’s coworkers who had daughters that outgrew it. She just loves it. It has a little stereo in it that plays little Barbie tunes and she drives it all over the yard, waving to us like she’s the Queen.

I had a lot of fun making this layout. I was inspired to create it when I was dismantling some old kits and came across some Bella Blvd goodies and huge page of fun and PINK supplies. To get the background, I used a piece Martha Stewart lace cardstock as a template and sprayed Glimmer Mist over it. I use transparencies to create layers. It was bit of a different use for transparencies than I a normally use. I have a new little detail that I am adding to my page.... from now on, all my buttons will have thread in them! I used to never thread them but then I did it for a recent sewing layout and I loved the extra little touch it added. Of course, then Cindy said she can't stand when buttons aren't threaded so that just convinced me it is the right thing to do!! My other new favourite thing is Ranger Liquid Pearls. I love to use them to accent fussy cuts, edges, flowers...just about anything that you would use Stickles on. I'm going to have to hunt down more of these little precious bottles becuase I know that I will be going through a lot of them!

PRIMA!!

Ok, I just have to share my very exciting scrappy news!!!!! Oh yes, PRIMA!!!

This is really a dream come true for me!!! I am so excited to be working with such a great group of designers.

Alyssa McGrew - http://alyssasscraps.blogspot.com

Anabelle O'Malley- http://anabelleom.blogspot.com

Birgit Koopsen- http://birgitkoopsen.typepad.com

Candice Reszko- http://truedivinehand.blogspot.com

Daniela Dobson- http://danieladobson.blogspot.com

Jaime Warren- http://jaimewarren.typepad.com

Jamie Dougherty- http://jaylynnscraps.blogspot.com

Janine Koczwara - http://www.janinekoczwara.typepad.com

Julie Fei-Fan Balzer- http://www.balzerdesigns.typepad.com

Ingvild Bolme http://www.ingvildbolme.com

Karola Witczak - http://karolakraftuje.blogspot.com

Leena Loh- http://findingnana.com

Liana Suwandi- http://maples-lianasuwandi.blogspot.com

Nic Howard - http://nichoward.typepad.com

Stacy Cohen- http://stacycohen.blogspot.com

Trina McClune- http://www.trinamcclune.typepad.com

Cari Fennell- http://meandmymaryjanes.blogspot.com

Iris Babao-Uy- http://irisbabaouy.typepad.com/creativecorner

it's been a while!

Hey everyone, sorry for my long blogger absence. I have been a busy bee. I have oodles to share but have just been so busy that I haven't had much time to get online and keep with with sharing scrappy goodness.

I just have to show off this amazing June Limited Edition kit from My Creative Scrapbook. It is a beautiful mix of Girls Paperie and Prima....WOW!! I made four layouts with it and still have a ton of product left to play with. Check out what my fellow DT gals have created with it as well.

Adore: There is just something so cute about kids playing in laundry baskets don't you think?



This girl loves to colour: Oh boy, does she ever. She was playing in the park and then just plopped herself down on some grass and pulled out her colouring kit. I think Mama's crafts may influence her just a bit ;)

Lucky (to have you two) This is a photo of DH and Larissa playing Dora memory cards on a Sunday morning on the livingroom rug :)


I just love when Larissa folds her hands like this. I swear she was born this way...since day one she has clasped her hands together like that, especially when she is sleeping. She is being so sweet in this photo because she was actually begging for candy.... go figure eh? heehee


Stay tuned because there's lots more scrappiness to come over the next several days!

Let's Capture Our Memories

I wanted to share another kit with you. This is the March kit from Let’s Capture Our Memories. I was really excited to working with the Material Girl papers from Cosmo Cricket.. Oh and this is aqua Coredinations cardstock with the dot print... oh la la.... this was my favourite part of the whole kit. I used my Making Memories sanding block to give the entire sheet of cardstock a good sanding so that the pattern would show up even better. I really need to get my hands on more of this paper. There are still a few kits here if you want to grab one!

Larissa has been wanting to learn how to sew. She had been asking me for some time but we just didn’t seem to have the time. Recently, she had a hole in one of her little shirts so we sat down and I taught her how to sew. I just couldn’t believe what a natural she is. She threaded the needle by herself and after I showed her a basic stitch a few times, away she went. She sewed the hole in her shirt completely by herself! I am so proud of her. Now she is wanting me to find more clothes with holes in them... I was actually a little paranoid that she would be making holes in her clothes just so she could sew them up. She has big aspirations for a 5 year old. She wants to learn to sew on a button and make a blanket too. My sewing skills are pretty elementary. If she keeps this up, she’ll surpass my sewing abilities by the time she reaches 6 years old.

This Crafter's Workshop is one of my most used scrappy tools. I use it on almost every layout. It sure beats running around the house and looking for plates and lids of various size LOL (I just know you have all done that at one point). If you don't have one of these templates, I suggest click on over to Scrapbook.com and order yourself one. You won't be disappointed. Yes, you have to draw your circle and cut it out but that is easy peasy! The template is see through enough that you can see what you are doing. It's light-weight, flexible and easy to take on the go. I total must have in my books. I used it to draw the circle on this layout before I stitched it.

abc, 123: This is my little miss sitting down at the kitchen table and doing her 'school work'. This is something that we have been doing since she was 3 and she absolutely loves it. We do abc's, 123's, beginner reading, critical thinking and reasoning skills, colours and shapes. It's something I started just to get her used to sitting still and concentrating on her work. We used spend about an hour a day when I was staying home with her. Now that I am back to work, we just squeeze it in when we have time here and there.

I used a new product on this layout. Smooch Spritz is another another misting product. I would compare it best to Maya Mist as the pigment is very strong. It has a lovely shimmer and it is a great quality product but I found the price point to be a wee bit too high. The other small drawback is that the bottle is actually glass and I was warned they are do easily break., although I haven't managed to break mine yet. That is not a mess I would fancy cleaning up after. I think I would buy it again if I found it for a more reasonable price. (I paid $9.00 for my bottle... and now that I see it at scrapbook.com for less than $4. I feel like I was jacked!)

Crafty Kid: Well of course I have a craft kid! I know you expected nothing less. This girl has a craft supply to rival most adults and usually dips into her supplies on a daily basis. Some days her Daddy even sits down with her and helps her out. Lucky girl I say :)