SSD: Nice Day for a Drive

I have to admit, I am loving this new series.  I get so inspired by all of the layouts I see on the 50 Projects Facebook Page.  When Tiffany puts of the Motivation Monday, my brain starts spinning as to how I can incorporate that into my Saturday Stash Dive.  I love seeing everybody's layouts and cards.  It amazes me how everyone's style is so different. 

For this weeks SSD, I started by looking for inspiration.  I was looking on Printerest and message boards for inspiration but nothing really jumped out and grabbed my attention.  It wasn't until I was moving some things around my scrap room where I came upon my binder of Shimelle Lain classes.  I just thought for the fun of it I would open the book and just look at the pictures and see if anything spoke to me.  Then, there it was.  The layout just jumped off of the page and I knew I had to use this design.  It was perfect.  I loved how you could used several papers so you could get a hint of each pattern.  So now I had my plan. 

Next came inspiration.  It is so true when the say inspiration can happen anywhere and that is exactly what happened.  Sandra (ohsnapgonzo on YouTube) and I were having a Skype scrapbook crop one night and I showed her what the modeling paste, that I had made, did.  She loved how it got all puffy.  Then she said I should do a layout using clouds on the top of a page.  So I was keeping this in mind while I was picking my papers.

I chose a paper pad that I purchased from Studio Calico for March, called Neverland.  I loved how their was some cloud paper and city skyline paper.  Now that I had the paper, I knew what photo I wanted to use.  I kept that in the back of my mind while I was pulling the rest of my embellishments.  I placed everything down on my desk and then put the picture on top.  GENIUS!!!!  It looked brilliant!

I couldn't wait to get started, so I got to it right away.  The farther into the layout I got, the more awesomer it got.  (Awesomer, is that even a word.)  I just loved how it turned out.

The process video is below:

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Japanese temple layout

Here is a quick layout I made using 2 pieces of cocoa card stock from close to my heart. I used the couch potato paper from Bella blvd. (brown check pattern), root beer barrels from October afternoon (light brown spot pattern as well as the embellishment circles), 2 patterns from sassafras lass girl's best friend (diamond pattern) the other pattern i can't locate the name on but it's old an they don't make it anymore. I also used some cocoa ribbon and juniper buttons from close to my heart. The alphas are from thickers. (I'm not sure of the names)

As you can see the layout is fairly simple. I used all 4x6 photos and then just trimmed some of them down to give a better feel to the page. The sketch wanted to use all 2.5x2.5 pictures for the collage piece on the right. My pictures didn't suit this very well, so I instead took one of my bigger images and cut it into 4 blocks to add more Interest.

I had quite a bit of scrap paper left over. And I didn't want it to just sit in my scrap pile for another year, so I decided to make a couple of cards. I just used some ivory card bases from American crafts Christmas cards stack. I used my close to my heart art phillophosy cartridge. I cut out the image square 3 at 2" in colonial white cards stock and then again at 2-1/4" in the black. I put that on one of the "b" sides of the patterned paper cut at 2-1/4". After I assembles all of the paper to the sizes I liked, I hot glued some I am roses pink roses. I also used some prima swirls to accent the swirl stamps. The stamps are from hero arts "thinking of you" and Hampton arts "family". These are really old stamp sets that I had in my stash.

I hope you enjoyed and don't forget to leave a comment.

Flu season is here!

Well it is official. The flu season is here. I think everyone is sick. I'm even sick. I don't think it is the H1N1, but I really feel like crap. It is hard enough to lift my head up off of the pillow. I know there are getting to be quite a few H1N1 cases around town. That is why I made this card. I figured with everyone sick, it would be nice to have some "Get Well" cards. Now I feel like I need a "Get Well" card.

I'm not going to go into too much detail on the card I made. It is made with the Crate Paper Orbit collection. The stamp is the Orbit stamp set. And I'm sure there are other details I should list on the card but my brain has stopped functioning.

Thanks for looking, and don't forget to leave a comment.

Take a Spin - Mojo Monday

This week I have had so many challenges thrown at me.

We just found out on Wednesday that my Brother-in-law has to go for heart surgery in November. He's only 37 years old. And seeing how my dad had died from heart complications, we are all very stressed out. We are probably not as stressed out as my brother-in-law though, who is not taking the news very well. I am hoping that the surgery goes well for him. I am hoping that I can go out to Manitoba and help my sister out when he does have the surgery.

And of course, I have my regular stresses with the swim club and hockey practises. I find that I am only home to sleep lately. Wade, my DH, even said that he hardly sees me anymore. This weekend, I only have one hockey game in town so hopefully we can do something as a family this weekend.

I did manage to get another Mojo Monday card made in the midst of all my chaos. This is a standard 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 card. The card stock base is from American Crafts Christmas collection; patterned paper: Basic Grey Figgy Pudding Collection; ribbon: Making Memories Passport Collection; stamps: Close To My Heart; sticker: Love Elsie Noel.

As you can tell by the sketch I didn't follow it exactly. I put my own spin on it. I had a hard time with how the sketch was layed out. So I moved thing around a little bit. I really like the results.

Let me know what you think of it. Did I go to far out it left field with this card? Does it follow the sketch design? Let me know.

Thanks for looking. Have a great week.

Lights, Camera, Action

I have been doing tons of videos on YouTube lately. I bought a web cam and it makes putting the videos together so much easier. I have posted quite a few on the Workshop on the Go Program offered by Close to My Heart.

I haven't been doing the Mojo Monday cards lately. I guess you could say I lost my Mojo!! I have found the last few sketches were a little to complex. They are fantastic designs, don't get me wrong, but I look at them and have no idea where to start. Therefore, I have been making a lot of videos to fill my time.

Please be sure to watch some of them. Click on the link below and it will take you to my latest video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTFueneyYvA

Back on the Mojo Train

Well I am back doing Mojo Monday. This week I actually knew what I was going to do. I am very pleased with the results.

This weekend I was in Michael's and bought this adorable paper pack. It is from SEI and it is called "Playday." It is absolutely too cute for words. I was going to use the giraffe and the elephant images from the paper, but I found that they were just too big.

The supplies used for this weeks card are of course the SEI Paper Pack, for the patterned paper and some of the card stock. I also used the Core'dinations card stock. The stamps are from Hero Arts as well as Close to My Heart. The Ink is Versamark and Close to My Heart. The scallop circle and the white circle were cut out on my Cricut using the Mini Monograms cartridge. The ribbon is from an unknown source.

Hope you enjoy the card for this Week's Mojo Monday (Episode 101.) Don't forget to leave a comment on my blog.

I am still trying to figure out how to edit a video and what type of software is the best. If you have any suggestions, let me know as well.

Mojo Monday

Well, this is the card for the week courtesy of Mojo Monday. I can honestly say that this one was a tricky one. It even kept me up at night thinking about how I was going to lay everything out or the paper that I was going to use. Finally, I just told myself pick your favorite piece of paper and go with it. I can say that I am happy with how it turned out.

I used the same Crate Paper pack as I did last week. (I would have to say that it is one of my more favorite paper packs now. The card base is from a source unkown. The stamps, ribbon, ink and brads are all from Close to My Heart.


I won't be doing any Mojo Monday for next week. I am off on holidays to go visit my sister. It will be the first time I am taking my hubby out to where I grew up. We have only been together for 4 years. (I guess better late, than never.)

Don't forget to leave your comments on my blog, both good and bad.

My first blog post

This is my first blog post!!! Yay, for me!!! I have joined the blogging revolution.

I am hoping to bring videos and pictures of cardmaking, scrapbooking and anything crafty to my blog. I am open to opinions and would love feedback.

This is the card I made for Mojo Monday. It is a standard 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 card. The card base is kraft cardstock from Stampin' Up. All of the other paper is from Crate Paper. The brads and ribbon (yes it is there, it just got covered up by all the paper.) is from Close to my heart. The sentiment and flower are the die cuts that are offered in the Crate paper pack. I also added a hemp bow to the flower. (I got this from Walmart, not sure who makes it.)

Let me know what you think! Both positive and negative! Have an awesome week!!!