Love

This is the first layout I created with my ScrapnwithFlair June Kit.  It is beautiful and full of products from FabScraps Line!  There was no shortage of ideas so stay tuned for more fun ideas I came up with.  I will also be doing a tutorial and posting it later this week! Be sure to check out the other store blog  and the other design team's work too!

I have been working on my friends wedding album and I had to use some of this paper for her book the colours matched perfectly!  All of the products in the layout were from the kit!  I coloured the flowers with Lindy's stamp gang mist, soooo pretty!  The word Love was cut out with the cricut!

Close-up of the flowers, ha I love them!

Proud of My Hockey Star

Challenge #5 at Color-me-scrappy.blogspot.com has some great colours for you to try.  This one was not my "go-to" colours so certainly a challenge to make it work!  I used a couple snips from an old batch of Authentique.  Most of the paper and the brads are Karen Foster, JillyBean Soup chipboard letters and a hockey stick all from a BoysRule hockey themed kit I picked up at Scrapfest! LOVE IT!  I added some ribbon from my stash some CTMH twine, stamp and tag.  I hope you can all be challenged too at Color-Me-Scrappy, try out a challenge and win a prize, it is seriously fun to try to work with a colour palette, so try it out!

Flower Swap

OHHH this was fun!  I am participating in my first ever flower swap run by Elysia at http://mischievouscrafts.blogspot.ca/.  She matched me up with a partner Amy Yingling at http://amythecraftybooknerd.blogspot.ca/  I am new at this so I was a bit nervous, yikes!  Anyway put the flowers in the mail today I hope she likes what i made... Here they are:

made with cricut

I dyed the white zipper trim to get the other colour!

This is my new signature piece!

ha fuzzy trim I love it, i bought alot of this gotta love a sale!

There are two of these

made with cricut 

I did not make a box to put them in, i was pressed for time, sorry Amy, but I did make more than the 12 that were required!  I have to say this was all really fun and I will for sure to this again.

What can you do with leftovers?

I had a ton of scraps leftover form the Boys Rule May kit.  I decided to make something fun for my son who needed a lil'bit of encouragement to want to do homework!  I enjoyed working on the Boys Rule kit as a Guest Designer the gals over there are very talented bunch and have a great line of stuff for boys!  Be sure to check them out.

I pasted the snips of paper onto the wooden pencil holder from the dollar store with deco-page and sponge brush.  Once all the pieces were in place I covered the whole thing with deco-page for protection....this was going to belong to a 7 year old right!

Then I added some boy-bling and a little love note! So muchy Mom!

Carter said "Wow Mom thanks, now I can do homework in my room at my desk"  he was very excited to hopefully my little plan worked!  and it looks cute too!

BoysRule May 25th Sketch

It was really fun being a Guest Designer for BoysRule Here is what I came up with for the May 25th sketch

More fun with Zipper

I love this little butterfly!  I had some leftover zipper strip and I am not much of one to keep bits a pieces laying around I like to use it all up!  This was made quite simply with some hot glue and zipper strip cut into 2-1/2 and 3-1/2 inch pieces.  I added some pins for a antennae and ribbon for a tail!  Perfect little butterfly to go with all the pretty flowers for the last post!

Happy Scrappin!

Scrapn with Flair

Embellishment Idea Binder!

Oh wow this is exciting this is my first post for Scrapn’ With Flair!  I am even a bit nervous…wow!  Anyway nice to meet everyone I am a new member of the fabulous design team.   The team has all been diligently working away on some fun stuff with the FABulous June kits but I cannot share that with you yet!  Shhhh!

I attended Scrapfest in Kitchener, ON and took an Embellishment class taught by Caroline Lau.  Caroline is the the co-founder of Maya Road, and I just love everything they touch!  In Caroline’s class we created an embellishment idea binder using Maya Road products.  The binder came with 6 pieces of chip-board but we only used 4 (both sides) for the class.  Using the two leftover pieces of chipboard, the snips of leftover supplies and a touch of inspiration from Caroline, the following pieces are what I came up with!
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Above is a side view of the binder, it is made of acrylic and stands on its own, the pages are made of chip-board so they are sturdy and easy to work on.

If you have ever worked with zipper strips, then you will know they are a ton of fun, if not I highly recommend it!  Basically you use hot glue and a round piece of chip-board approximately 1″ to 2″in diameter, the larger the circle the larger your zipper flower will be.   You make a small spiral at the end and pince it with your fingers (this will be your centre of the flower) then hot glue that to your chip-board.  Then continue to wrap the zipper around the centre gluing it every 1/2 inch.  When you have completely covered your chipboard you tuck the end under and done!  So easy!  Watch your fingers on the glue…ouch!  I mounted this to a crouched flower and then to kraft shape.  Added some vintage pins….love those and done!

For this page I used some leftover vintage measuring tape and created this flower in a very similar way as I created the zipper flower ( seriously ouch on the hot glue tho, be careful!).  Then I added some other fun stuff I picked up at Scrapfest!  I coloured the “xoxo” chip-board with Smouch accent paint and also drew the heart on the wood shape in the paint as well.  Then I added liquid glass to the letters (ha – make your own epoxy’s WOW) The best part is that with the metallic shine of the Smouch paint the liquid glass ( or diamond glaze…. tomato – tamato) really makes it shine!!

And now it gets crazy…I decided to create another flower using the same basic technique as with the measuring tape flower, this time with burlap.  The burlap looked a little yucky in the centre so I wrapped a wood shape in burlap to create a burlap button and placed it in the centre.  Sooo much fun making embellishments, but I still had one more page so…

I had been saving bread tags (just one of those weird things you think you might need when crafting) so off to my stash!  I arranged them and hot glued them down…um ouch! I added a button and a Maya Road flower, and some ribbon to complete the look.  I like this one the best!

Until next time… Happy Scrappin!