Happy Wicked Halloween

Well I thought I would celebrate the fact that we can now stamp with Purple Posy ink! Yay! It is finally available! Actually truth be told, I needed to make a Halloween layout for one of my monthly groups and was running low on my 12x12 card stock options. I wish so badly that Stampin’ Up! would offer all of our amazing colors in 12x12! Alas, they do not so I was forced to be a little unconventional in creating this page. Challenge accepted! Yay! I used all of the new Halloween stamp sets at my disposal on this layout; Boo to You, Wonderfuly Wicked, Spooktacular Bash and my favourite new set To Every Season (see that bitty bat punch? It is a part of the Every Season Punch Pack! 150670) it is a MUST HAVE! I decided to design this page so you can fit a number of 4x4 photos onto it. Sometimes my group members only create one Halloween page so I like to give them an opportunity to add a lot of photos. The Basic Patten Decorative Masks were also a ‘must use’ as they are so versatile and add just the right amount of dimension and texture the card stock. I am also loving the Word Wishes dies (149629) which are in our Annual Catalogue —they are a scrapbookers best friend as they have so many holiday words in the set! Hope you and your crew have an awesome Halloween Season!

Do you love Memories and More?

Have you crafted with Memories and More? If you have shied away from memory keeping, I truly encourage you to give this product line a chance. I scooped these retired Big Plans cards up on the Clearance Rack a few weeks back. I almost have regret that I didn’t order them when they were current product! I turned them into this AAAAMAZING mini Memories and More album! Here is my secret—-look at each panel like a card front. How would you design and embellish a card? I also put a lot of embellishments on the OUTSIDE of the pocket pages! want to be able to see and touch them when I flip the pages. Dimensionals work awesome to keep stuff stuck down. I love the color combo of these cards too. Calypso Coral, Pineapple Punch and Grey Granite were the perfect pairing for my album, which is my summer 2019 highlights album. I am offering this as all day stamping’ class on Saturday, Nov 23rd from 9:30-5. My stampin’ friends will come and create this album that holds at least 26 photos and has lots of sparkle as I embellished like crazy with rhinestones and Wink of Stella. I do have a couple spots left in this class, so if you are interested in more details please reach out to me! I hope this little snippet encourages you to give this product line a try!

Let it Snow!

Have we met? If so, you probably know that I don’t love winter! Haha! I mean I love things that happen in winter, like Christmas and my birthday, and Valentines day! I do love pretty snow and I try and get out to skate with my kids once a season. I think I was born on the wrong continent…I really should be living in the sunshine and heat 24-7 but its not how it is! So one of the ways I come to terms with my white reality is to create cute winter themed pages like this one! How adorable are these cute snowmen?

Hawkins is my bestie!

The dictionary defines bestie as a person’s best friend. I think Hawkins is one of my best friends. Friends bring you joy in its simplest form. Looking at Hawkins makes my heart happy. He deserves is own scrapbook pages don’t you think? Along with my life long goal of scrapbooking my kids (I say lifelong as I will never actually be finished as I will never be finished taking pictures) I am going to add scrapbooking my Frenchie to the list.

This picture of him was actually the perfect fit for this fall page! Here are some of the fun elements on this page—-copper re inker mixed with white embossing paste! I used the new _____stencils or masks from the Holiday catalogue to create this random background pattern. I created the leaves inking the leaf dies on the copper, gold and sliver Delicate ink pads and then running them through the Big Shot. These dies can work like a stamp. They are designed to emboss and cut at the same time which is pretty darn cool! And of course a little foil paper never hurt anyone, and they

Who is your bestie?

Mine is my Hawkins :)

Fall stampin'...

Creating fall scrapbook pages are actually my favourite! I love the colors of fall and the feelings of gratitude that accompany this type of year. In Alberta, fall is a magnificent gorgeous time of year. The changing of summer into fall, the return to routine and just the beauty of it all gets me into a completely creative zone. I love to design pages and cards that feature leaves as there are so many different ways to stamp and develop them for my work. On this page I used the new ___________ stamps set along with the Colourful Seasons framelits. My favourite trick is to take the leaf die and press it into an ink pad and then zip it through the Big Shot. The die acts like a stamp and transfers the ink Ito the grooves of the die. It is an amazing effect!

There are so many ways to give leaves texture including different background stamps, inking framelits before running though the Big Shot and using Designer Series Paper. The possibilities are actually endless!