Be Yourself

Here are some photos of the project I did for my last video using an American Crafts Clipboard and the On Trend 2 collection from My Minds Eye.

I love the colors and icons in this collection especially the cute flamingo.

I love using wood to embellish and this collection has some cute wood veneer pieces.

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Friday Inspiration - Quotes

Welcome to another instalment of Inspiration Friday. Today Joy and I are taking our inspiration from quotes. I decided to make a decor piece for my craft room and wanted to use the fun On Trend 2 collection from My Minds Eye which is full of my favourite things.  My favourite colours, flamingos, pineapples, cactus, flowers and gold.

First I scoured Pinterest and found these fun quotes about flamingos:

I love this I might have to do a layout or Midori page and use it lol.

Yep - who gives a flock!

Love this one...

I settled on this one:

I used my American Crafts Clipboard as the backdrop and created this fun piece to hang up.

You can see the video showing how I created it on my channel here 

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Inspiration Friday - Sketches

This week Joy and I are taking our inspiration from a sketch. I don't usually work with sketches so this was a little out of the comfort zone for me but I actually found that it made the process a lot quicker and because of my limited time these days I might need to use them more. We used this fun sketch from Scrapfriends.com I found online.

I wanted to use this photo from the past month from my son's first competition, they did amazing and two routines made it to the top 10 overall for the competition which is awesome.

I have heard the term "Squad Goals" quite a bit on-line and thought it would be the perfect title for this layout. I used the Finders Keepers collection from Amy Tangerine I love the colors.

I followed the sketch pretty much bank on and added some black ink and rub ons.

I had a lot of fun making this layout, you can see the video here...

And don't forget to check out how Joy was inspired by this layout on her channel.

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Wizard of Oz Midori

I finally got the Wizard of Oz Midori for my son finished. There is nothing quite like knowing a project is complete. I think that's why I have always loved mini albums and now Midori's they are little treasure troves of pretty paper, cute embellishments, fun pictures and life!

I love this picture on the little charm I made, how cute are those Munchkins.

The cast had a Cabaret to celebrate how well the show was going. It was a blast.

Sneaking backstage to take photos of his costume rack.

They had a performance on New Years Eve so Linden and I got the kids noise makers, party hats and sparkling apple cider.  The last show was so bitter-sweet. 

A wind up cast party and the cutest gift from the Director Barb.

Look at all this goodness, I love the washi tape on the edges!

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What?!

My oldest son made his first App from scratch - he's only 15! What?! He is so crazy talented and determined I can't wait to see what else he does in his life. This photo is from a photo shoot he had for our local newspaper which ended up on the front page of our local paper The Optimist.

I made this layout for a challenge on the Scrapbook Nerd Forum. It's a little outside of my comfort zone layout wise but I had fun making it and that's what matters!

I am doing more stash busting here using some old Simple Stories paper, some old Crate Paper letters and American Crafts buttons. 

I hid a photo of the article in the newspaper under the other photo.

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Hello Cali

We are taking a quick visit to California/Disneyland soon and I decided to use up my stash and make a mini album with the Pink Paislee flamingo and gold Instagram album, it's so pretty.

I am using the Amy Tangerine Finders Keepers collection for the inside, it's perfect for this Cali girl.

I am keeping the inside simple as I will need room to journal and add photos.

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Wizard of Oz - Part 3

Here are the final pages of the first book, up to Opening Night - the show was fabulous!

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Wizard of Oz - Part 2

Here is a link to the video where I show you how I made the books and a quick look at all the inside pages.

Here are some of the pages from the audition and call back.

 I will be sharing more pages on the Blog next week.

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Wizard of Oz - Part 1

Well the Wizard of Oz has wrapped up which makes me sad and happy at the same time. I loved seeing my son in his element doing his thing and loving every minute, but I am happy that things will hopefully get a little quieter and less driving for a while.

I have been doing a Midori for each of Linden's shows and finally got around to starting this one over the holidays.I am using this fun leather Midori from Foxy Fix, it reminded me of a rainbow like the song from the show, Somewhere over the Rainbow.

I am using the Amy Tangerine Finders Keepers collection to make the books. I made three books to go inside the Midori, one for audition/getting ready, one for the actual show and the last one will be for the cast autographs.

I layered some journaling cards, paper and embellishments on the cover of each one.

I will be sharing the inside of the book and how I created these Friday on my YouTube channel.

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2016

Hi all, Happy New Year!

Every year I join Ali Edwards in picking One Little Word to use for the year and this year I have chosen FOCUS.

Focus is defined as:

To concentrate, to direct one's attention or efforts, the centre of interest or activity

This year I want to FOCUS on my family and to help them achieve their goals and dreams, I want to FOCUS on my own goals and dreams and figure out what they are and how I can get them, I want to Focus on being happy and living in the moment and I want to Focus on getting healthy.

Every year I make a visual reminder of my word and put it somewhere I always see it. This year I made a little canvas with the Amy Tangerine collection that I know she made just for me, I mean those palm trees love!

Did you pick a word for 2016?  If so please share it.

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December Daily

I love doing the December Daily it's one of my favorite projects to do and I look forward to it all year long.  This year I am using the Simple Stories 6x8 Christmas binder and I plan on video taping my process and sharing it on my YouTube Channel.

Here is the video for how I decorated the album and did my cover page.

Here are some photos. I really love how the rub ons turned out.

 I added a photo from our Christmas photo shoot to the inside of the album.

For the cover page I used some vellum with gold crosses and some gold Thickers along with an old snow globe chipboard that I have been hoarding from Crate Paper.

Stay tuned for more December Daily pages coming soon.

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Fall Is in the Air

This month with my Scrapbook Nerd Crate Paper Wonder collection I was definitely in the fall scrapbooking mode.

First up I made a fall Clipboard for my craft room, I am going to switch out the page with the seasons.

I hand cut the leaves from the patterned paper 

I also did this fall layout, such a beautiful time of year.

I fussy cut out the fall letters from patterned paper and made a border with the chipboard and die cut words.

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