Scraptures Finally Friday - April 22, 2016

Last week's Finally Friday was a layout of Joel and I at the Garth Brooks concert last month.

This week's layout is Kevin and I from January 27 of this year. We went to see Alan Doyle & The Beautiful Gypsies in St. Catherine's

Poor Kevin, he is very patient with all my selfie requests

My lovely in-laws gave me the tickets as a Christmas gift - lucky girl huh??

I may have seen Alan Doyle once, twice or twenty times...his live shows are awesome and we had great seats in the front row of the balcony!

And yes, that is an Alan Doyle guitar pic you see in the corner!

Friends of ours who were also at the show (who are teeny tiny in front of the stage in the picture) snagged it for me!! Thanks Charlene and Alex!!!

Shite I used to make this layout:

• Max "Shark Attack" design paper (Bella Blvd)
• Be Different Sticker Fundamentals (Fancy Pants Designs)
• Be Different Ticket Roll (Fancy Pants Designs)
• Washi tape

Scraptures Finally Friday - April 15, 2016

This week's Finally Friday layout for Scraptures is Joel and I getting up to no good downtown Hamilton after the Garth Brooks concert.

There were so many people and so many cars downtown (and road blocks) that it took us over an hour to meet up with Kevin for our ride home.

Not sure when I told Joel to make a "mean" face he decided to do fish lips...clearly he does not spend as much time downtown Hamilton as I do...that's just not very intimidating LOL

I love the sketchbook design paper and thought it made a good background for this layout and funny picture of the two of us.

SHITE I USED TO MAKE THIS LAYOUT:

• Max "Text Me" and "Rockstar" design paper (Bella Blvd)
• Max "Treasures & Text" (Bella Blvd)
• Letter stickers

Scraptures - Finally Friday - April 8, 2016

I took Joel to his first concert on March 26 

We went to see Garth Brooks at the First Ontario Centre in Hamilton

It was an AWESOME show. I've been a fan of Garth Brooks for a very very long time and I was so excited to finally have a chance to see him perform live!

This week's SCRAPTURES Finally Friday layout uses a couple of pictures I took at the concert (not bad considering I took them on my phone)

Please admire our matchy matchy CAMO Garth Brooks hats LOL

SHITE I USED TO MAKE THIS LAYOUT:

• Max "Text Me" and "Rockstar" design paper (Bella Blvd) 
• Max "Treasures & Text" (Bella Blvd)
• Max "Trinkets" (Bella Blvd) 
• Max "Die Cut Cards" Letter stickers
• Letter stickers

Scraptures Finally Friday - April 1, 2016

I have a bunch of pictures printed that I want to scrap. My goal for the SCRAPTURES Finally Friday projects this month is to do at least one layout a week.

Here's what I made this week using the September 2013 kit which featured "Well Played" by Carta Bella.

We play a LOT of board games in my family, sometimes we are even good sports about it (but not usually).

The picture in the layout this week is my brother, son, dad and nephew playing Star Wars Monopoly in December 2015.

The picture of the layout isn't great, it was pouring rain out when I took it. And, for the record, that is a leaf on the table...not poop...even though that's what it looks like!

SHITE I USED TO MAKE THE LAYOUT:

• Well Played design papers and stickers (Carta Bella)
• Informal - Formal Half a Bitties letter stickers (ProvoCraft)

Scraptures Finally Friday - Feb 26, 2016

WOW, it's the already time for the last SCRAPTURES Finally Friday for the month. 

It's been fun making cards and layouts with the July 2014 card kit which featured "We Are Family" by Echo Park.

This week I decided to make another 8x8 layout from our trip to PEI last summer to "match" THIS ONE I did a few weeks ago.

Yep, I am one of those people that LOVES selfies!! They are so much fun!! Joel and I took selfies all over the island.

This picture was taken on one of the awesome beaches in Prince Edward Island National Park, can't wait to go back there this summer!!

On this particular day we sat on the beach and watched the sunset, soooo beautiful!!

Shite I used to make this layout:

• We Are Family design paper (Echo Park)
• We Are Family element stickers (Echo Park)
• We Are Family alpha stickers (Echo Park)

Scraptures Finally Friday Feb 19, 2016

I am having a lot of fun making Finally Friday cards and layouts for SCRAPTURES this month using the July 2014 kit featuring "We Are Family" by Echo Park.

I love the bright colours and designs in the paper pack kit.

Back to cards this week, another two quick and easy ones using the paper pack kit and some insta squares.

I think these would work well as Valentine or anniversary cards.

Shite I used to make these cards:

• We Are Family paper pack kit (Echo Park)
• SN@P Insta Squares (Simple Stories)

Scraptures Finally Friday - Feb 12, 2016

Switching it up a little this week for the SCRAPTURES Finally Friday with an 8x8 layout with my fave pic of the fam from our trip to PEI last summer.

I don't scrap nearly as much as I should, I have TONS of pictures that need to find happy little layouts of their own and once I get into it I do really like doing them...just that cards (for me) are soooooooo much faster!!

I'm hoping to do a "match" to this layout with another funny selfie we took at the same time.

Everything in the layout came in the paper pack kit (July 2014).

Shite I used to make this layout:

• We Are Family paper pack kit (design paper and stickers - Echo Park)

Scraptures - Finally Friday - February 5, 2016

I like when Christa asks me to do the Finally Friday projects for SCRAPTURES because it's anything goes!!

It's an excellent motivation to go back to some older kits to make cards to add to my stash.

This month I am going back to July 2014 to the card kit which featured "We Are Family" by Echo Park.

I made two quick and easy cards this week, both of which I think would work well as Valentines or thinking of you cards

Sorry the pictures are a bit wonky, it was actually dark outside when I took them! 

Shite I used to make these cards:

"We are Family" design paper (Echo Park)
SN@P "Homespun" Insta Squares (Simple Stories)

White cardstock (Fireworx - not in kit)

Scraptures Finally Friday - July 31, 2015

Last day of the month and here is my last Finally Friday project using the "Well Played" collection from Carta Bella that was the SCRAPTURES September 2013 card kit.

I've had fun this month building up my collection of dude cards!!

Shite I used to make the card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx - not in the kit)
• Real Red cardstock (SU - not in the kit)
• Well Played "Tic Tac Toe" design paper (Carta Bella)
• Well Played Element Stickers (Carta Bella)
• Fishtail & Banner die set (Your Next Stamp)
• Barn Door distress ink & mini ink blending tool (Tim Holtz - not in the kit)

Scraptures Finally Friday - July 24, 2015

Before I get to this week's SCRAPTURES Finally Friday project - I bring you this small announcement!!

That's right, today is the Kevinator's birthday!! OK, back to business...

Here's my third card for the month using the the September 2013 card kit for this month's Finally Friday projects. The kit featured "Well Played" by Carta Bella.

Shite I used to make the card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx - not in the kit)
• Well Played Element Stickers (Carta Bella)
• Well Played Border Strips (Carta Bella)

Scraptures Finally Friday - July 17, 2015

Still working with the SCRAPTURES September 2013 card kit for this month's Finally Friday projects. The kit featured "Well Played" by Carta Bella.

Shite I used to make the card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx - not in the kit)
• Well Played Journal Cards (Carta Bella)
• Well Played Border Strips (Carta Bella)
• Barn Door distress ink & mini ink blending tool (Tim Holtz - not in the kit)

Scraptures - Finally Friday - July 10, 2015

Going back to the September 2013 card kit from SCRAPTURES for this month's Finally Friday projects. The kit featured the "Well Played" collection by Carta Bella.

The papers are great for more masculine types of cards, which I never have in my stash...so that's my goal this month for Finally Friday...make some dude cards.

Here's the first card I made using the kit:

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx - not in kit)
• Dominoes design paper (Well Played, Carta Bella)
• Element stickers (Well Played, Carta Bella)
• Barn Door distress ink & mini ink blending tool (Tim Holtz - not in kit)

Scraptures Finally Friday - July 3, 2015

This week's SCRAPTURES Finally Friday is a quick and easy card using the June 2015 kit featuring "Notable" by My Mind's Eye

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Firefox - not in the kit)
• Notable design papers "Memo" and "Silly" (My Mind's Eye)
• Savor canvas border (Little Yellow Bicycle)

Scraptures Finally Friday - June 26, 2015

Yepper, it's Finally Friday time! My last one for the month - can you believe June has flown by so quickly??

No 8 x 8 layout this week - my printer is out of ink and I didn't have time to go elsewhere to print pictures...so...instead we are going back in time through the SCRAPTURES card kit archives to the April 2014 card kit which featured the "Hello My Name Is" by Teresa Collins.

I really loved this collection...the design papers and accessories...I love the colours, the designs...just awesome for cards and layouts if you are so inclined!!

So here's two cards I made with scraps of what I have left from the card kit:

Shite I used to make these cards:

White cardstock (Fireworx - not in the kit)
Burgundy cardstock (Worldwin)
Hello My Name Is design papers, stickers and tags (Teresa Collins)
Scallop border punch (SU - not in the kit)

Scraptures - Finally Friday - June 12, 2015

Last week's Finally Friday layout was Joel's grade 6 school picture...this week's layout is this year's school picture from grade 7.

Looking at them side by side I can really see how much he has changed in the last year!

Today (June 12) marks a very special day for our little family, we are going to court today to finalize Joel's adoption!! Hard to believe it's been almost two years already since he became part of our lives!!

This week's layout also features the "Be Different" collection from Fancy Pants, which was the May 2014 card kit.

Shite I used to make this layout:

• Be Different design papers "Oh Boy," "Be Different Strips" and "Silly" (Fancy Pants)
• Be Different label stickers (Fancy Pants)
• Be Different sticker fundamentals (Fancy Pants)
• Red cardstock (Worldwin)
• Gumball Green cardstock (SU - not in kit)
• "Swimming Pool" Hopscotch cardstock stickers (Doodlebug Designs - not in kit)
• Fishtail & Banner die set (Your Next Stamp - not in kit)

Here's a quick look at the two layouts side by side...amazing what a difference a year makes!!

Visit the SCRAPTURES store to see all the cool kits available, the kits are awesome for both layouts and cards!

Scraptures Finally Friday - June 5, 2015

I love when Christa asks me to do the SCRAPTURES Finally Friday projects - it's the only time I ever attempt some wee layouts - yes it takes a LOT to tear me away from making cards!!!

I am totally delinquent in doing "Joel" layouts...so that's the focus for my Finally Friday projects this month.

My other focus is to go back and use up some of the stuff from previous kits, rather than hoard it all in my craft room.

So here's my first 8x8 Finally Friday layout for June:

This layout features the "Be Different" collection by Fancy Pants - it's perfect for boy themed layouts. This was the card kit in May 2014 (yep about time I used it huh???)

The photo is his grade six school picture...so it was taken in the fall of 2013...LOOK AT THOSE CHUBBY CHEEKS!!!!!!

Hard to think that two years ago this month I had never met this kid!! He's grown and changed so much in the short time since he joined our family!

Shite I used to make this layout:

• Be Different "Silly" design paper (Fancy Pants)
• Be Different ticket roll (Fancy Pants)
• Be Different ephemera pack  (Fancy Pants)
• Red cardstock (Worldwin)
• "Swimming Pool" cardstock stickers (Doodlebug Designs - not in the kit)
• Stapler (not in the kit)
• Fishtail / Banner die set (Your Next Stamp - not in kit)

Scraptures Finally Friday - November 14, 2014

Happy Happy Friday! Hope you are staying warm as the weather gets colder, we've seen a few more flurries in the Niagara Region this week...good excuse to bundle up and stay in the craft room!!

I finished off another 8x8 layout this week for my Finally Friday challenge. Still trying to use some of the pictures I already have printed. This one is a mish mash of two different SCRAPTURES card kits, I thought they worked well together.

I used the March 2014 kit featuring Bella Blvd. "Max" and the May 2014 kit featuring Fancy Pants "Be Different"

This picture was taken last fall...and I can't for the life of me remember if Joel took it of himself or if I took it...either way it's a pretty cool picture...nice eyelashes for an 11 year old boy huh???

Shite I used to make this layout:

• Yellow cardstock
• Be Different "Personality" design paper (Fancy Pants)
• Be Different Ephemera Pack (Fancy Pants)
• Max "Borders" design paper (Bella Blvd)
• Max "Treasures & Text" letter stickers (Bella Blvd)

Scraptures - Finally Friday - November 7, 2014

I'm on tap for the SCRAPTURES Finally Friday challenges for November.

I am determined to get caught up on some 2013 layouts before 2015 arrives!!

I have a bunch of 8x8 scrapbooks (SU) that I need to fill, for some reason I don't find 8x8 layouts as intimidating as 12x12 layouts LOL

This week's Finally Friday layout is from our visit to Howell's Family Pumpkin Farm last October.

It's crazy looking at these pictures of Joel with Grandma and Grandpa de Jong and seeing how much he has grown / changed since last year. He doesn't have those cute chubby cheeks anymore!

I used the September card kit which featured "Harvest Lane" by Simple Stories for the layout. It has fantastic fall themed design papers and embellishments.

Shite I used to make this layout:

• Acorn Hollow design paper (Little Yellow Bicycle)
• Harvest Lane 12 x 2 title strip elements (Simple Stories)
• Harvest Lane fundamental stickers (Simple Stories)
• Harvest Lane expressions stickers (Simple Stories)

• Cherry Cobbler cardstock (SU - not in the kit)
• Washi tape (SU - not in the kit)
• Corner rounder punch (SU - not in the kit)

Scraptures Finally Friday - August 29, 2014

Here we are for week 5 of SCRAPTURES Finally Friday projects using the December 2013 card kit which featured "December Documented" by Simple Stories.

Here are the last three of the 15 cards I made with the kit!

I made all of these CAS (Clean and Simple) cards using just the December Documented Fundamentals Sticker Sheet and Simple Stories 3 x 4 Sn@p Cards

All I added to make these cards was white cardstock and some washi tape.

Scraptures Finally Friday - August 22, 2014

Week 4 of SCRAPTURES Finally Friday projects using the December 2013 card kit which featured "December Documented" by Simple Stories.

I made all of these CAS (Clean and Simple) cards using just the December Documented Fundamentals Sticker Sheet and Simple Stories 3 x 4 Sn@p Cards

All I added to make these cards was white cardstock and some washi tape.