Christmas 2019

Christmas was an exciting time for me this year.  I finally got to visit with all five of my grandchildren.  This is something I don't get to do very often.  My oldest is in University in Ottawa and is also in the Canadian Armed Forces so even when University is not in session he doesn't necessarily get to come home.  The next oldest is attending the University of Western Ontario in London so I rarely get to see her.  The next two usually work on the weekends so if I get to see them it is a quick pop into the store where they work and that is the limit of my visit with them and the youngest one tends to go to Simcoe on the weekends to visit her other Nana.  So it was a real treat for me to get to spend the day with all five of them.

My wonderful daughter and the family gave me an Apple iPad air for Christmas so now I am able to finally activate my Instagram account and upload my layouts to that part of social media.  Not to mention that I just love playing around on the iPad. :)

My darling husband gave me a boom tripod and now I am finally able to shoot process videos when I am creating layouts.. I am so excited that I can finally do that.  I have been wanting to do that for a long time but being able to get my camera in the right position has kept me from being able to do it.

Creative Impressions has their Christmas mini crop going on right now and one of the challenges is to do a family Christmas layout. This is the layout I created for that challenge.

Products used:  Paper -  Basic Grey Aspin Frost

Chipboard - Creative Embellishments

Frames - Forever in Time

Flowers - Silhouette cut file

Title - Silhouette cut file

Stickles

Liquid pearls 

Lace - unknown

cheesecloth

Here is the video of the process.

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 Thank you,
 Jackie

Remember

I created this layout using the Simple Stories Heart collection. I really love this collection, it has just about everything you need to create many stunning layouts.  The paper is fabulous to work with. I loved working with it, the feel to the fingers was fantastic.  First I cut a couple of slits in my paper in the top and bottom and distressed them. Then I added some contrasting paper to the back. I tore the edges of the top sheet of paper and distressed those.  Then I just basically added my elements. The only thing that didn't come from the collection was the flowers and those I just pulled from my stash and they are unknown. I added a bit of cheesecloth for an added bit of texture. The bling is from Forever in Time. The Washi Tape and Title are both from the collection.

Product used:

Simple Stories: Heart collection

Forever in Time bling

Heidi Swapp Edge Distresser

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Flowers unknown

Cheesecloth

Some challenges

Well I decided to join up with some challenge blogs and today I did a challenge for the Lasting Memories and the White + 1 blog.  The Lasting Memories challenge is to scrapbook a Christmas tree or about Mittens, I choose to do one about a Christmas tree.
The White + 1 challenge is use white with green.. the sketch provided is:

I really had a lot of fun creating this layout. I started with paper from Craftsmart's Evergreen Cabin. Because I was creating a page about trees I loved the feeling of birch trees that the paper gave.

I then sliced a few slices into the paper and distressed the edges.  I inked the edges with distress ink. I tore off a piece of the green paper and distressed the edge of that and inked it and adhered it to the background. Then I adhered my photos with foam tape to pop them up. Next I cut my pointsettias with my Silhouette Cameo. I gave them a bit of colour with my Faber Castel Gelatos and drew some veins with a Tim Holtz Distress marker, next I gave them a bit of shimmer with some Pearlescent mixing medium, then added some centers with Stickles. I added a bow with some unknown ribbon. To add a bit of "sawdust" to the birch bark using Flower Soft in ivory. After adding my title with wooden alphas from Forever in time I finished of with some Nuvo pearl drops in white.

Product used: Craftsmart paper.

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

Tim Holtz Distress Marker

Silhouette Cameo

Faber Castel Gelatos

SargentArt Pearlescent mixing medium

Stickles

Flower Soft

Nuvo Pearl drops

Forever in Time alphas

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 Jackie

Sweet

I had so much fun creating this layout.  I started with KaiserCraft's Enchanted Garden paper and Recollection's Rose Garden paper.
First I cut into the sides of the Enchanted garden paper and then sprayed it with water to make it easier to pleat the paper. I used Distress Ink in Frayed Burlap to ink my edges after I had used my Heidi Swapp distresser to destress them. I primed my paper using DecoArt Gesso, then using Lindy's Stamp Gang's Starburst Alpine Ice Rose and Icy Primrose Gold I misted the paper. I used a stencil from Folkart and Liquitex Matte Medium to create a pattern around the page. Using an unknown text stamp I made a bit of a pattern on the page by stamping here and there. I tucked a bit of lace into the V.  I cut my frame with a Silhouette cut file, gave it a gesso coating and then covered it with Luminarte H2O Burnt Umber and added some Viva Pearl Pen drops in Iced White.
The flowers are Prima's St.Tropez, I tucked in an antique floral tag from Forever in Time and some pearl loop from A Bride's Wish.  Some bits of cheesecloth, some pearl beads and a title and the layout was complete.

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Jackie

New Layouts

Today I did some layouts for challenges at Creative Inspiration  The first one was  for a challenge to use lace on  your project. I used lace under the photo and lace in the flowers.  The papers are from Echo Park's Just be You paper line. The flowers are from Forever in Time.The floral tag is also from Forever in Time. The chippie is from Creative Embellishments.  I used a  My Favourite Things stencil to add a bit of dimension using some blended fibres from Liquitex.  I also did some faux stitching with a Sharpie.

The second challenge was to use a punch or two on a project. On this layout I used a Recollections punch to create the flowers, and an EK punch to create the edges on the vertical piece of paper.  The paper I used here was a brand I had never used or heard of before, Scrapbook Customs. I used the Navy Mustard line. I was rather impressed with the quality of this paper.  The lace is unknown. The pearl centers are Forever in Time.  The heart embellishments are PinkFresh.

I was rather pleased with the way these layouts turned out.
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Jackie