International Scrapbooking Day 2018!

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Happy International Scrapbooking Day!  Or weekend! Or even week!

I love participating in all the online challenges that websites and stores come up with for this weekend. This year, I used challenges from Paper Issues and Shimelle Laine's Facebook pages. 

The first challenge is a combined one using Paper Issues' "Tools of the Trade" and Shimelle's "Use words over a floral".

The supplies for this page are from Pink Paislee Pick Me Up.  The cut file is from Paige Evans and I backed it with strips from the papers. Then, I used my sewing machine to add some stitching along some of the cut lines.
I wanted the egg to have a place to sit, so using my fringe scissors, I cut some "basket" grass and using the smooshing technique, I distressed the paper with Distress Oxides and gesso. The embellishments are also from the Pick Me Up collection, and the word "love" is from One Canoe Two.

For my second layout, I used the Paper Issues challenge of "S.P.R.I.N.G.". That is to use something from each of the letters in the word spring.

For the challenge I used a Stencil, a Paper clip, Ribbon, Ink, Nuvo Drops and Gold accents.

This is also made using the Pick Me Up collection.  I love how this collection can be made to look differently by how you use it!

If you are a scrapbooker, I hope you had a chance to celebrate International Scrapbooking Day.  But, it's never too late to play along with the challenges.  It's a fantastic way to be inspired.  Thanks Paper Issues and Shimelle!

Thanks for looking!
Sylvie

We (heart) this place

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Here is the last page for our Cuban Vacation album!  Woohoo!  And ironically, when this post goes up, we will be on a new vacation to the Dominican Republic.  HA!

Recently, I took Shimelle Laine's online scrapping class, Clear the Desk.  I love all things Shimelle and this layout was inspired by one of her pages.

Once again, I used Crate Paper Oasis collection, but the anchor papers are a very old Fancy Pants Anchors Away paper. I really liked the navy blue with the aqua and green papers.  This page is pretty simple, but I was trying to use up some embellishments from the Oasis Collection and get stuff on the page and stored in my stash.

Thanks for looking!
Sylvie

Baby, It's Cold Outside!

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If you have followed my blog for a while, you know I love Shimelle Laine's classes.  Her recent class is Clear The Desk.  I was too busy to sign up when the class started, so I'm a few lessons behind, but here is my first project from the class.

The theory behind the class is to make your own kits from older supplies and use them up.  Since I was already starting late, and I had the Graphic 45 Sunkissed collection from Scrapshotz still on my desk, I just went to work with what I had. Everything is from Graphic 45 except the enamel dots are from Shimelle and My Mind's Eye. The title is cut from a Paper Issues cut file.

I just love how this page turned out. Hopefully, I will be back with the next page from Shimelle's class tomorrow!

Thanks for looking!
Sylvie

December Daily 2017

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I can't believe that I am sharing my completed December Daily album for 2017 on January 7th.  Not too shabby since I didn't start working on my album until December 27th!

This bones for this album were started in October when I created it for Scrapshotz.com.  You can see how I made the album here.

I didn't buy any supplies for my album, this year. Goodness knows I had plenty of stash to do more than one album.  ;)  Most of the supplies are from Shimelle Laine, Simple Stories and Kaisercraft. 

Here are a few of my favourite pages.

To see the complete album, I created a Flipagram.  The video is so fun!

I love doing this album. It was pretty moving to watch my grown children and some of our friends flipping through all the albums I have done through the years. It really is worth all the work.

Thanks for looking!
Sylvie

Just our Luck and Explore Holguin

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I'm up today with another couple layouts for my Cuba vacation album.  I have just a few pages left to do in this album. Have to say, I'm starting to look forward to working on something new.

In the interest of getting this album finished, the pages are pretty simple. The papers are from Shimelle's Go Now Go and collection.

On this next page, I used some  black paint and mist to distress the background and embellished the page with some die cuts from Crate Paper Journey and some Silhouette cut files from Lori Whitlock. I dug through my stash to find the car stamp, which is a very old Studio Calico stamp. I think it's so cute!

I had been saving this map paper from Go Now Go for these photos. The colours matched perfectly with the buildings in the photos. Since I had so many photos and the paper was so busy, I mounted them on a piece of white tissue paper.  You can still see the background pattern, but it gives the photos a place to rest.

The page is embellished with Go Now Go diecuts and stickers and some very old rub-ons from Marah Johnson.

I would love to get this album finished before December so that I can concentrate on December Daily.  Not sure if I'll be able to accomplish that feat, but I am gonna try!

Thanks for looking!
Sylvie