The CropFest weekend ...

I had the amazing opportunity to attend my first CropFest in Kingston Ontario with some amazing gals that I originally met at Crop & Create in Ottawa two years ago, we became great scrappin' buddies, they are two of my Peeps!  I also invited a long-time friend who has recently gotten into scrapbooking.  The theme was Garden Party - and we were encouraged to get into the theme, which we did with our garden hats, fascinators and tea party dresses.  It was an amazing time;  a full weekend of scrapping - challenges and games but no interruptions, no classes, no schedule; very different from what I had been attending recently.  And don't get me wrong, I love the intensity of full day classes, but I also love to be doing my own thing too.

I got a lot accomplished; 3 layouts, two cards and a mini album.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

March Build-A-Page challenge from Prima

Whoa - how did I miss posting this?  It was sitting in my Draft box the whole time ... well here you go!

The March sketch for Prima's BAP was very Pocket Scrapbooking inspired.  I used the Engraver collection and followed the sketch closely without taking too many liberties.

 

Here is the sketch....

 

 

 

Leave a comment - it may just win you some RAK when I get to 40,000 page views!

 

Lucky Girl

Happy St. Patrick's Day today!  I near forgot to dress the kids in green, I had to change their shirts last minute.  I did up this little 6x6 card front with one of the Bloom Girl stamps from Prima, along with an ATC card from the Something Blue collection and Prima flowers.  The shamrocks I used the same ledger pad paper as the background but I painted with Tattered Angel's glimmer glam in Dirty Martini and freehand cut them out.  I coloured the girl on watercolor paper with distress markers - and really am liking how that turned out; I've not been using my distress markers to their full potential - but I must say that having the right paper is the secret to success - I used heavyweight watercolor textured paper 120 lbs from Carson.

 

This is my entry into the Prima Product Picks challenge for the month of March.  Below is the inspiration page.

 

How do you think I did?  Be kind - leave a comment - it may just get you some RAK - I'm getting close to another big milestone 40K!

 

 

Prima - challenges - Build A Page and Prima Product Picks

So, maybe going to Art Venture Anaheim has given me an advanced opportunity to share with you some of the new Prima products - The BAP is using the Something Blue collection as well as the background is from the Script stack  The PPP is on a canvas board and I used some of the new resins and a tassel from CHA 2014 release.  The last layout is using the Princess collection - and I'll just mention here how much I love the new Say It In Crystals - they are fantastic - they look like moonstones or iron pyrite to me!


Prima Product Picks

Prima Build-A-Page

Princess Collection
 

Anything goes....

Kraftin' Kimmie has a Anything Goes challenge on their blog right now - and I thought that this little creation would fit right in - this stamp is an oldie but a goodie - I love it!  I used Copic markers to colour it up.  Isn't it STINKIN' Cute?

 

 

 

Totally Tilda - gettin' seedy!

The challenge over at Totally Tilda right now is gardening and you must use a seed package or gardening tool on your card. 

I love the French Country collection from Graphic 45, it is totally right for this challenge.  This time I used my distress markers to watercolour my Tilda - she turned out pretty good if I do say so myself.

 

 

Prima Build A Page July 2013 entry

Using Lyric collection and the Prima Build-a-Page sketch for July.  I used heavy weight gesso, color shine, stamping, and of course Prima flowers and embellishments.

 I squeaked this under the wire.  Prima has a new way of submitting your BAP entries now, you have to do it right from their blog post, instead of emailing the.  I kinda liked the old way, because it meant that someone was actually looking at the entries and selecting which ones to feature on their blog.  Now, unless you scroll to the bottom of the blog post you won't even know the entries are there.  And they are only thumbnail sized.  So, I have provided you a larger view of my layout.  I also posted it on my Facebook (and tagged Cari LOL) 

 

Photo Bomb, Cari Fennell of Prima.  It was a humorous moment actually.  I was posing for a photo and Cari jumps in behind and makes this teethy grin - I love the spontaneity of this photo, the quality is not really there, but it was cute nonetheless.  I wonder if she will even see it?  What is even funnier is the very next photo was Emma trying to photo bomb Cari photo bombing me ... and all you can see of Emma in that photo is a blurry shot of the back of her head and not much of Cari or I - not scrapworthy, LOL

Totally Tilda Challenge

The challenge on the Totally Tilda Blog; link here is TomBoy Tilda, Tilda doing something boyish, or un lady like.  Well my Magnolia stamps are very limited, and anyone who knows me, knows that I'm a girly girl, and love pink.  This challenge was so hard for me.  The closest to boyish I have is Tilda walking a dog ... so here goes, this my entry!

 



 

 

Challenge me!

I've been trying to take part in more challenges recently.  I love the sketch challenges from Prima Marketing, and have entered twice.  This month I've entered not only the sketch challenge (Build A Page - or BAP as they call it) I've also entered the Prima Product Pick - or PPP as they call it.


Build-A-Page (BAP)

This month's sketch is kind of interesting - I couldn't tell if they wanted two photos stacked on top of each other, but I just used one, and framed it out.  I loved the implied texture with the stamping and stencilling and ink splats.  I used some paper from the Annalee collection - is it very pretty and girly, and was perfect for this photo of my daughter digging into the toy box at a friends cottage.

 Bottoms Up
 

 

 

 

 

Prima Product Picks (PPP)



This month its all about GREEN - I assume for St. Patrick's day coming up.  I'm a fan of green, it's my favorite colour (right after pink of course) but I tend not to scrapbook much green, especially green flowers.  Its a great colour to do either a boy or a girl page, but you know me, I picked my girl again!  I kept this page full of natural elements, canvas, hemp twine, feathers and that adorable little bird nest that Prima makes.  I even got to use my Jamie flower!  I was so excited about that, I have been hoarding it for a while, for the right project - this was it!

 

 

 

 

 
 
 Well there you have it folks - two challenges.  There is still time for you to enter these contests, you have until the end of March 2013 to send your layouts into Prima.

Leave me a comment and let me know what you are thinking!

What's a little challenge amongst friends?

At Auntie Em's Scrapbooking we are all about the challenge.  So when Emma asked me to put together as many projects as I could out of 8 sheets of patterned paper I was all for the challenge.  What's even more challenging is the fact that she gave Sara (fellow Design Team member) 8 sheets of patterned paper too! *rubbing hands together* I love it!

I received the Prima line En Francais - filled with cool grey/blue, rusty brown and taupe ... very boy, but very French as well, and well ... I don't have anything French about me, unless you count the mean French toast that I make periodically on a Sunday for my family LOL!

I also have entered this into the Prima Marketing - Build-A-Page contest, each month they supply a sketch and you build a layout using Prima product based on, or inspired by the sketch.  Email it off to Prima and wait to see if you are featured on their blog or better yet, win a prize package!  I did this last month as well, and was featured on their blog!!

So ... here we go!  The sketch was this:Prima's BAP January 2013

 

And here is my entry!!

 

 

So, tell me what do you think?

 

 

Stretch a sketch

Stretching a one page sketch into a double is something I've been doing more frequently recently.  I have such a difficult time using multiple photos on a single page.  I think I like my photos too much and don't want to crop them so small that you don't see everything.  Emma provided the Design Team the Winter Fun collection from Carta Bella for this month's challenge.  The challenge portion of is to use the reverse negative from a die-cut title.  Typically we use the paper we cut *out* by a die cut machine - so, piecing together different papers underneath the negative can be a great way to add dimension and colour into your layout.

 

 

 

If you would like to see this layout in person please come to visit Auntie Em's Scrapbooking.  We would love for you to play along with the challenge simply bring your layout using products you have purchased at Auntie Em's based on this sketch to the store!

I would love to see your interpretation!

Craftsman Layouts & Little Ray's Reptile Zoo

Prima has long been synonymous with floral and very pretty papers and embellishments with me.  When I saw the Craftsman line by Prima I was very excited to get my hands on it, so different, so grungy, so vintage, so BOY.  I love everything about it!  So, I bought pretty much one of everything that Emma had in stock!

 

This summer we took a trip to the Little Ray's Reptile Zoo with the kids.  My son was in his glory!  All these creepy little things, he just stared at the snakes for 20 minutes without taking his eyes off them!

 

 

This layout remains untitled.  I did this for the Prima BAP (build a page) challenge.  I'm not afraid to put flowers on my boy pages as you can see, I love flowers, and so does he (currently).  I have used some cogs and wheels that I picked up at a scrapbooking store in Kignston - Marchent Stamps, I have had them in my stash for years it seems.  I finally got to use them on a project.  I wanted to give them a rusty patina - so I did several layers of pewter heat embossing over the whole wheel then I took Aged Mahogany Distress powder to them.  The Distress powder is a neat product if you haven't had a chance to play with it; it has what Tim Holtz calls 'release crystals' which is Ranger speak for selective coverage.  It is perfect for this because I wanted the shiny pewter to show through and give a rusty look.  I'm so happy with how they turned out!  The bling I have coloured with Sharpies as I found the clear was just too stark for this layout, I dulled it down with black and blue.

 

 

 

 

If you would like to see these layouts in person, they are on display at Auntie Em's Scrapbooking in Cornwall.  Well that is if Laura can ever hang the snakes one ... she hates snakes and by hates, I mean HATES - they gross her right out ... poor thing.