Me…a GG

I can finally share my most amazing secret!!! I've been invited to join the 2014 DT for Two Peas in a Bucket! What?! Someone pinch me!!! I still can't believe it, this is all so surreal. I am so very honoured, thrilled and excited to be part of this awesome team of ladies. 

When I first started scrapbooking some 8 years ago (has it really been that long?!)  I googled scrapbooking and what came up…2Peas. Ever since then this community has always been there to provide endless amount of inspiration. I am so happy to be able to give back to the community that helped me start my scrapbooking adventure.  

Congrats to my fellow DT members, I just love each one of these girls. I've admired their work for many years and I look forward to seeing all the new projects they will be creating for 2Peas. Dreams do come true!!!!

Today with Hip Kit

Today I'm sharing a layout that I created for Hip Kit club using the November kit. Even though the November kit was Christmas theme, some of the papers and embellishments work very well for a non-themed layout. 

I prefer using a white background but I do love this shade of Kraft paper by American Crafts. It coordinated very well with my picture and my choice of pattern paper. I did add some stitching around the edges, it just adds a fun whimsical touch to the layout. 

2nd Merry Christmas with Hip Kit Club

Can you believe that I still have some Christmas inspired layouts to share!? I went all out this year with my Christmas themed projects, I've never created so many layouts about this wonderful Holiday. 

The inspiration for this layout was the awesome Crate Paper velum paper, I just adore the gold doilies and knew they needed to be the focus of my layout. I adhered the velum on white cardstock and stitched some extremely uneven whimsy circles in the centre of the doilies. 

I layered my picture using a lot of die cuts from the Crate Paper collection. I started with the mat for my picture then just randomly added layers until it look right to me. Lately I find that I've been spreading my layout over the page, always ending with a small embellishment, like I did to the right of this layout. I find this style creates a nice flow on the layout. 

So as you have noticed, I haven't created a 12x12 layout in a long time and i'm not sure I will again. I find I am able to be more creative with the smaller format. Which is an odd thought because the 12x12 format just offers more options but for some reason I often struggled to find balance between filling up my page and still leaving white space. This smaller size just works for me and honestly, it speeds up my process by 50%. Its a win win situation for me. 

Good Stuff NYC

Hello friends! Hope you all had a beautiful Holiday Season with your friends and family. I've been meaning to share this layout for a while now, it was created for Hip Kit club using the October kit. Loved the green stripped paper but it was too bold to use as a full background so I toned it down with  misted cardstock. Love how just a bit of cardstock can bring balance to a layout. 

The tag that was part of the kit was ideal for my title, I layered alpha stickers on the speech bubble for a bit more fun. 

Using my Fiskars arrow punch I added a bit of detail to the 3x4 card, just a little fun way to add punch to any card or pattern paper.

Happy Holidays

Hope you have a beautiful Holiday season with your loved ones. 

All the best to your family from my family. 

So Very Loved with Jillibean Soup

That she is!! My sweet baby girl is so loved by her big sisters, sometimes even a bit too much. They love to make her laugh, make sure she has all the toys she needs, she is very lucky to have such awesome big sisters!! So grateful that my girls have each other.

This layout is created for Jillibean Soup and features the Christmas Cheer Chowder and the chevron placemat. I had some leftovers of my favourite placemat and decided to cut it up and use as a focal point for my title. The title was cut with my Cameo, I used a font called SP Purkage that I got many years ago. 

Fa La La with Chic Tags

With Christmas just around the corner I am more than ever inspired to create Christmas themed layouts. Today I'm sharing a layout I created for Chic Tags which features the Good Tidings collection.This layout is for our Sunday Sketch challenge. Ashley has created another stunning layout, it was a blast to play along. All the details are on the Chic Tags blog.

The sketch features a banner along the bottom of the pictures, I decided to use the photo toppers from the Good Tidings collection to create the banner. I find that adding more details such as snowflakes, sequins and stars, always make things more interesting. 

I used white Mister Huey to add splatters to the woodgrain but in doing so I made a mess and it didn't look right. So I used the wonderful gold star rub-ons from the Good Tidings collection to hide my mess, in the end it worked out.