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 Wild Card Wednesday - March 30, 2016

Time for the last SCRAPTURES Wild Card Wednesday for March.

I've had fun making birthday cards this month with the "Let's Party" collection by Simple Stories. I love the bright colours and the designs of the papers.

Because it's the last week of the month (and I can't count) I made two cards this week.

The first card will be for Kevin's aunt who has a birthday in early April. She is in her 70's so there will be lots of candles!

This second card is for my dear old pot & pan (my dad) who is turning 70!!??!! on April 26.

Shite I used to make these cards:

• Let's Party "Make a Wish" design paper (Simple Stories)
• Let's Party "It's Your Day" design paper (Simple Stories)
• Let's Party "Pocket Pieces" (Simple Stories)
• Let's Party "Bits n Pieces" (Simple Stories)
• White cardstock (Fireworx - not in kit)

Scraptures Wild Card Wednesday - March 23, 2016

Thanks for visiting today to check out today's Wild Card Wednesday for SCRAPTURES.

April is a month of a LOT of family birthdays so it's awesome to be able to make some quick and easy birthday cards to add to my stash.

Shite I used to make the card:

• Let's Party "Woo Hoo" design paper (Simple Stories)
• Let's Party "Journalling Card Elements" (Simple Stories)
• Let's Party "Clear Stickers" (Simple Stories)
• White cardstock (Fireworx - not in kit)
• Washi tape (not in kit)

Scraptures Wild Card Wednesday - March 16, 2016

Happy Wednesday! Thanks for coming by today to check out my newest SCRAPTURES Wild Card Wednesday project.

The Journalling Card Elements in this month's kit make it quick and easy to put together some super cute birthday cards.

I love how the words fade away in spots on the "It's Your Day" paper.

When I saw the pickle, I knew that would be for a co-worker who has his birthday in April, he's a practical joker so I know he will appreciate the "big dill"

Shite I used to make this card:

• Let's Party "It's Your Day" design paper (Simple Stories)
• Let's Party "Journalling Card Elements" (Simple Stories)
• Let's Party "Bits n Pieces" (Simple Stories)
• White cardstock (Fireworx - not in kit)

Scraptures Wild Card Wednesday - March 9, 2016

This month's SCRAPTURES kit has been great for increasing my stash of birthday cards. I love that the papers would work for anyone, not too girlie, not too masculine.

I absolutely adore this lime green polka dot "Yippee" design paper. I used to have a pair of lime green shorts with white polka dots that looked just like the paper. I loved those shorts...how I miss them!!

Shite I used to make this card:

• Let's Party "Yippee" design paper (Simple Stories)
• Let's Party "Journalling Card Elements" (Simple Stories)
• Let's Party Bits n Pieces (Simple Stories)
• White cardstock (Fireworx - not in kit)

Scraptures Wild Card Wednesday - March 2, 2016

Happy first Wednesday of March!

Hope you are keeping warm wherever you find yourself today! Here in Southern Ontario we are under a winter storm watch, I knew that warm December weather was going to come back to haunt us!

This month I will be making Wild Card Wednesday projects with the March 2016 kit from SCRAPTURES which features the "Let's Party" collection from Simple Stories.

As soon as I opened the March kit I knew this cow journalling card was going to be my first card for the month. I even had a dream about adding the black polka dot washi tape (yes I am a weirdo)

Shite I used to make this card:

• Let's Party "Woo Hoo" design paper(Simple Stories)
• Let's Party "Journalling Card Elements" (Simple Stories)
• White cardstock (Fireworx - not in kit)
• Washi tape (not in kit)

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 Wild Card Wednesday - December 30, 2015

Can you believe it's the end of December already??

Here's the very last Wild Card Wednesday of 2015.

Shite I used to make this card:

• Dear Santa design paper (Bo Bunny)
• Dear Santa chipboard (Bo Bunny)
• Crimson cardstock (American Crafts)
• White cardstock (Fireworx - not in kit)

Scraptures Wild Card Wednesday - December 23, 2015

Quick and easy Wild Card Wednesday this week.

With the holidays QUICKLY approaching it's nice to have some extra "just in case" cards on hand.

I love how the sticker perfectly matches the snowflakey design paper.

What I used to make the card:

Crimson cardstock (American Crafts)
Dear Santa design paper (Bo Bunny)
Dear Santa chipboard (Bo Bunny)
Dear Santa combo stickers (Bo Bunny)
White cardstock (Fireworx - not in kit)

Scraptures Wild Card Wednesday - December 16, 2015

Having a lot of fun playing with this month's kit, here is this week's Wild Card Wednesday card for Scraptures:

The SN@P cards are a tad big for a standard size card, so I cut it up into pieces and used the bulbs and sentiment separately with another piece of design paper. Cute huh?

Shite I used to make this card:

• Dear Santa "Wonderland" design paper (Bo Bunny)
• SN@P Christmas Cards
• White cardstock (Fireworx - not in kit)

Scraptures Wild Card Wednesday Dec 9, 2015

I loved Christa's layout last week so much I used it as my inspiration for this week's Wild Card Wednesday for Scraptures

This month's kit features the Dear Santa collection by Bo Bunny

Here is Christa's layout:

And here is the card I made based on the layout:

Shite I used to make this card:

• Dear Santa design paper (Bo Bunny) - Wonderland & Gift Tag
• Dear Santa combo stickers (Bo Bunny)
• Dear Santa chipboard frames
• Marine cardstock (American Crafts)
• White cardstock (Fireworx - not in kit)
• Fishtail / Banner die set (Your Next Stamp - not in kit)

Scraptures WCW - Sept 30, 2015

Happy last day of the month - tomorrow is October!! How did THAT happen so fast??

Here is my Wild Card Wednesday project for this week. This month's SCRAPTURES kit features "Color Vibe Bold" and "Summer Vibe" from Simple Stories.

Loving the bright bold colours in the papers in this month's kit. I'm still trying to use sketches to alter up the designs of my cards a bit, started with a pretty simple sketch for this card, pleased with how it came out with all the different colours.

I started with Sketch #5 that I found HERE.

Shite I used to make this card:

• White cardstock (Fireworx)
• Color Vibe Bold design paper, "Peacock" and "Olive" (Simple Stories)
• Summer Vibe SN@P cards (Simple Stories)
• Summer Vibe Tidbits (Simple Stories)

Let's see what you can come up with using a sketch and this month's kit!!

Scraptures Wild Card Wednesday - Sept 23

My crafty friend MICHELLE has been feeling a bit under the weather and asked me to step in this week and do Wild Card Wednesday using the SCRAPTURES kit for September which features "Color Vibe Bolds" by Simple Stories.

Here are the two cards I made with the kit:

Shite I used to make these cards:

• Color Vibe Bolds design paper (Simple Stories)
• Summer Vibe Sn@p cards (Simple Stories)
• Summer Vibe chipboard stickers (Simple Stories)

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)