Design Team Assignments

I got to work with some incredible sponsors over the past two months at Imagine, Create, Scrap! I worked with SEI in October and Fancy Pants and Transparent Touches and Tags for November. Many thanks to all the sponsors for the wonderful products!


I just love these photos. It was so much fun watching her look at herself in the mirror and make all the funny faces. When I saw the SEI paper, I knew right away I wanted to use it with these pics. The accompanying iron-ons are a wonderful product and made an excellent addition to the journaling. This one was also "Layout of the Day" earlier this month.

Scrap Gala was AMAZING!

I am still reeling from the awesome weekend we had at Scrap Gala. I can hardly believe we had such a big event in this area. Scrap Gala was hosted by the Scrap Shack and Debbie and her team are to be commended for bringing such an event to the martimes and for running such a smooth weekend.

Christy Tomlinson, Carol Wingert, Tena Sprenger, Debbie Hill and Kah-Mei Smith were the instructors and each and every one of them are hugely talented and personable women. The manufacturers and teachers were all very generous with give-aways.

Carol Wingert:












I took two classes from Carol Wingert: an inking class and an accordian chipboard book. I learned many new inking techniques as well as the best glue to use on mini books. Would you beleive it's the UHU glue stick in combination with a brayer? The glitter on this project is also made from glass. It is a wonderful product.

Christy Tomlinson:

I took two classes from Christy: a Faux Paper bag book and Oodles of Doodles. The faux paper bag book was an easy and practical project, one I would definitely make again. The highlight of the doodling class was the doodling genie and would you believe one was inlcluded in the class kit? I don't even think these are in stores yet but since Christy was part of the team who designed these I guess she had some pull. The Scrap Shack also had all of the different styles in stock so I got a couple of extras because I loved them so much. I really like Christy's style and picked up a few tips on using things like decorative scissors, pins and paper clips as inexpensive ways to embellish a project.

Debbie Hill:

Debbie is the Design Team Leader for Junkitz and she ran what I call a Ruler Book marathon class. We used alcohol inks, transparencies, jump rings, ribbon, tons of stamps and inks and created an incredible project that I just love. She really motivated me to make each and every page of my mini books a masterpiece with all the little extras.


Tena Sprenger:

The first class of the weekend was with Tena and we made a mini book using a Bazzill kit. The combination of Bohemia paper, the hand stitched binding and the "danglies" hanging from the spine of this book made it a definite crowd pleaser. I really liked using the Fiskars eyelet border punch. It really gave the pages that little extra something that made them great.

If all this wasn't good enough, there was a layout contest judged by the teachers and I got the third prize for my "Thankful" layout.

Top Tips & Techniques from Scrap Gala

Since so many have been asking me to share what I learned over the weekend, I thought I'd post a list of tips and techniques I took away from the weekend.

- Alcohol inks can be used to transform unused embellishments into custom page accents.
- The best glue to use on mini books is a glue stick in combination with a brayer.
- UHU is the best glue stick.
- No mini book is complete without "danglies".
- Pins and paperclips are inexpensive and effective page embellishments.
- Decorative scissors should NOT be left in the back of the scrap cupboard.
- Apply distress inks over masks with a stipple brush.
- Doodle Genies are AWESOME!

Happy First Birthday

Here are some pics from the big first birthday. She was so cute tasting the frosting. She put one finger in at a time and then worked up to three and four fingers. Overall she didn't make a big mess, like I expected. It was really cute to watch her. I don't know where the last year has gone!

We're Back!!!

We had the most wonderful week in Florida. The baby could not have been a better traveler. Noone would have even known she was on the plane. I think her favourite part of the whole trip was the water. She had a ball playing in the ocean, in the sand, and in the pool.

She's doing really well at walking when we hold her hands. I just love this photo of her and her daddy.

The weather was really warm and we only had one day of rain and one really cool and windy day. Since I was the was the only one who had never been to Florida before (besides the baby), everyone made sure I saw orange trees and aligators in the wild. That was an experience. Good thing my husband has a keen eye. We saw three different gators before we finished, several manatees and many, many different species of birds.

On the plane ride back, it was so clear that we could see much of the country side. Most places I did not recognize but we did know the CN tower and Niagra Falls when we got closer to home. On the descent it was really neat to see the shadow of the plane follow us. I took several pics as we got closer and closer to the ground.

Great Scrap News

I got the nicest phone call the other day from Christina at Scrap Lovers inviting me to join her 2007 design team. I am beyond thrilled. This book of cards was part of my submission. It is made from Kraft envelopes and is held together with screw posts. There is one envelope for each holiday or occasion in 2006. I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

I also won a monthly contest at Paws on Scrapbooking for my "Thankful" layout.

October Design Team Assignments

Here are some of the projects I made with the amazing October Daisy D's kit from Nicole at Scrapbooker's Clubhouse.

Since I also had the ribbon technique kit, I made this ribbon book to showcase some of the wonderful American Crafts ribbon.

Piggy Tales was our manufacturer sponser and they were very generous. I just love this line of paper.