Today I have two cards that are very similar to share with you. They both use the same supplies but the orientation is slightly different. I call them a front flap card but I don’t know if that’s accurate or not. They don’t open like a regular card, there’s a smaller piece on the front that opens to reveal the…
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Memory keeping is my passion – I love to document life in many different ways. As my kids have gotten older, I’ve realized that I’ve forgotten more than I would like to admit. I didn’t think that I would forget that funny thing they said or the way I felt when they cuddled when they were sick or that we…
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As we near the end of the current catalogues, I am focused on using up some of the patterned paper I have on hand. The Happiness Blooms suite is the one we are focusing on for my Memories and More club so I’ve had it set aside for that purpose. But April is our last month and the pages have…
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I hope you all had a fabulous weekend! I’ve got another favourite layout to share with you today. This one is for my daughter’s first year album. I’ve been holding on to these two photos for years waiting for the right time and products to scrapbook them with. I’m so happy I waited. These papers are perfect and the older…
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Back at the beginning of March my friend Kathy did a demo on spectrum pads and I fell in love with them. I ordered one of ours and then it sat on my shelf for a few weeks before I was brave enough to commit to colors I wanted it to be. When I finally decided on a color combination…
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I’m so excited about this new product line that SU! just announced yesterday. Anything to do with organizing has a special place in my heart (and my craft room)! Storage by Stampin’ Up! is designed is designed to store and showcase your ink pads, blends, markers, water-colour pencils and other accessories. Why do you need them? they keep products organized,…
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If you are a regular visitor to my blog or Facebook page, you know that I LOVE the Painted Seasons bundle!! I love it so much that I want to keep using it after it’s no longer available. I’ve decided to host a Painted Seasons Scrapbook Class on Friday April 26th featuring this beautiful bundle – ALL of it –…
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One of the problems I come across because I scrapbook both traditionally and with pocket pages is that I have a need for a pocket page when there’s only the back of a traditional page or vice versa I want to create a traditional page when the next page in my album is the back of a pocket page. We…
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I love sketches and often use them for memory keeping but you can also find sketches for card making, travellers notebooks etc. And who’s to say you can’t use a sketch that is intended for scrapbooking as a starting point for a card? That’s what I’m doing today! I used this sketch that I found on Pinterest and scaled it…
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Welcome to March’s Scrapbooking Global blog hop. Our theme this month is Mixed Media chosen by this months guest designer Nature Gibner. If you are a scrapbooker, be sure to join the Scrapbooking Global Stampin’ Up! Facebook group. There’s so much inspiration in that group it’s wonderful. Mixed media is WAY outside my comfort zone lol. Stampin’ Up! does sell…
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Just returned from a fabulous retreat out at Bittern Lake. A weekend full of crafting – can’t get any better than that! I thought I’d share a few photos from the weekend. Here’s the room all set up and ready for crafters to arrive. I went with a pineapple theme for the gift bags and tags this year. They turned…
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