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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 Jackie

Scrap Our Stash Challenge

Okay so I am still working on blog challenges and today I created a layout for the Scrap our Stash Blog challenge. Well this was really from some old stash because I for my papers I chose Basic Greys 29th and Pine, I think I have had these papers forever. LOL  As usual, after I cut my papers I distressed them and layered them using cardboard in between to give dimension. Then I gave the base layer a coat of clear Gesso so it would hold my paint well.  After that I sprayed it in some areas with Lindys Stamp Gang inks. When that was dry I used a stencil and texture paste to add more dimension and a bit of a pattern on my background.  Then I layered on my other patterned paper, and added my photos. I fussy cut the ornaments from another sheet of the 29th and Pine paper and popped them up with some foam dots and put some Stickles on them to give them some glitter, they reminded me of some ornaments we used to have when I was a kid. :)  I added a bow, some Liquid Pearl drops a title and I was finished.

This is the sketch we were given to work with:

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Products used:
Basic Grey Papers
Tim Holtz Distress Ink
Tim Holtz Stencil
FinnaBair clear gesso
Lindys Stamp Gang ink
Stickles
Liquid Pearls
Simply Texture Paste

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