Little Red Wagon #4

Deanna's challenge at Little Red Wagon this week is to use buttons on our creation. Yippee! Buttons are one of my all-time favorite items in paper crafting!

Since I almost always use buttons on my projects, I decided I would dig into my wagon of buttons and try to use them in a new way. I looked at all my buttons (hundreds of them in different sizes and colors) and a few ideas went through my mind. After a couple of false starts, I decided on this Christmas tree design.

Supplies: Cardstock - American Crafts, Prism, Doodlebug Designs; Patterned Paper - PTI; Rhinestones - MAMBI; Ribbon and Buttons - from my wagon.

Be sure to check out Little Red Wagon and give this weeks challenge a try!

I am also posting my card to the Cards Blog as their challenge is to create a card with 5 or more buttons on it. I think mine qualifies :)

Little Red Wagon #3

For this week's challenge at Little Red Wagon, Karan challenged us to distress our creation using an ink blending tool and our favorite ink color.

Luckily my wagon has lots of Tim Holtz Distress Ink, especially in my favorite color - Vintage Photo! It was easy to incorporate this into my card by inking the edges of all my papers.

I used some leftover scraps of paper from the Time to Travel line from TPC. I just love this color combination and the brown ink worked perfectly with it!

Thanks for the challenge Karan. Now let's see what you come up! Just create something special, post it on your blog and leave a comment on Little Red Wagon.

Have a great day!

Bellarific!

I had the wonderful privilege of attending a Stamping/Coloring Class at Stamping Bella this past Saturday and none other than the one and only Linda Heavens taught our class and she is absolutely amazing. Her artistic talent is something that I could only dream about having.

We worked on 3 images in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. I almost finished coloring 5 of them and I am slowly creating cards as I put the finishing touches on each image.

With my first image, I decided to play along with this week's challenge at Cards Blog. We were challenged to use 'big ol’ ribbon bows' on our card!

I wanted to keep the focus on the colored image and bow so I just matted the image with red cardstock and mounted it on white cardstock embossed with Swiss Dots. Then one big, red bow was my finishing touch! I just love the simplicity of this card.

Supplies: Cardstock - American Crafts, Prism; Embossed Cardstock - Doodlebug Designs; Stamp - Stamping Bella; Markers - Copic; Glossy Accents - Inkssentials; Glitter - DecoArt Glamour Dust; Ribbon - my stash.

Thanks for looking!

Blog Award

Yippee! I received a blog award.

A big thank you to Deanna from the Little Red Wagon challenge blog. She sent one out to everyone on the design team and I am sending it to each of them as well!

Cards Blog

When I went to the Cards Blog to see all the great creations for the challenge this week, I was so surprised to see my place card featured! Very exciting!

Be sure to stop by their blog to see the different ideas for making place cards and maybe you can add some to your table for your next holiday dinner.

Blessings ~

Our Retreat Weekend

We are back from another fantastic weekend at the Oakwood Inn Golf Resort and Spa in Grand Bend, Ontario. Carolyn and I were joined by 140 scrapbook friends along with Carolyn's mom, Audrey, and my sister, Mary.

There is always so much that takes place during our weekend that it is almost impossible to take as many pictures as I want or to blog about everything that happened, but I managed to capture a few snippets of the fun we had.

Carolyn, Mary and I arrived on Thursday to unload and set up the store. That takes the most time and we were glad that we had an extra day to spend doing it. On Friday morning, we went into Grand Bend to pick up a few things and we stopped down by the beach for a fun photo shoot.

A kind gentleman came by just in time to snap this photo of the three of us. It was a beautiful day, very sunny and fairly warm, and we had fun with this little diversion before our guests arrived.

I always enjoy when Mary joins us because the only time she can scrapbook is when she comes for a visit. Plus, she gets all excited about any new products we have. This weekend, her biggest thrill was the Copic markers and Stamping Bella stamps we had. When our friends, Deanna and Regan, came by to do some demos with them, Mary was hooked!

She took in every bit of information she could and even came away with a sample that Deanna gave to her. She was thrilled!

The food was exceptionally good, especially the desserts, and we were surprised by a special treat on Saturday night - a chocolate fondue!

Everyone loved it and yes - I did eat dessert first! I couldn't help myself! But, I made sure I went back for the roast beef, vegetables and salads.

Besides scrapping and eating, we had some silly fun with 'Steal, or No Steal' a game Carolyn and I made up, plus some fun with the plastic pumpkins we had on each table. At the end of a warm-up exercise with the pumpkins, each table had to decorate theirs.

One of my favorites was Fannie, the Scrapbooker. Isn't this clever? Sporting her hip-hugger jeans and tattoo, she is totally absorbed in her scrapbooking magazine. Too cute! You can check out the Two Scrapbook Friends blog to see more photos of the crazy fun we had and the winning entry.

The weekend came and went all too quickly, but it was another great time of sharing our love of scrapbooking with everyone who attended. I can't wait until next time!

Card Trends Challenge

The Card Trends blog has a challenge to make a place card so I decided to give it a try.

I used some scraps of paper I had from MME and I thought it would be fun to add a little pocket for a tea bag. You could also put a wrapped candy in the pocket or a personal note!

Supplies: Cardstock - Prism; Pattern Paper - My Minds Eye; Alpha Stickers - Pink Paislee; Decorative Pin and Twine - Dollar Store; Buttons - my stash; Tea Bag - President's Choice.

Thanks for looking.