January Layout Workshop - Roxie

I hope you had a very merry Christmas and the happiest New Year yet! I have been crafting away getting ready for my next workshop, so I hope you can join me on Sunday, January 29th at 6pm to craft the night away. We will be using Roxie papers and a variety of fun embellishments and stamps. For $20, you will create 3 gorgeous 2 page layouts.

I will need confirmation and payment by January 15th, so contact me today to reserve your spot!

And don't forget the fabulous Rock the Block campaign going on through the month of January! See my post below for more information about this great deal and contact me to order what's left on your wishlist!

Happy scrapping!

December Stamp of the Month

With a minimum purchase of $55, this cute set could be yours for just $5.50. Add that to Rock the Block, and you will have some adorable projects to complete! Contact me today to order yours.

Merry Christmas and Happy Scrapping!

Rock the Block

Join the craze! When you place a minimum order of $25 from the Autumn/Winter 2011 Idea Book, you can get two new products for just $15: the My Creations® Collage Cubes (a Spring/Summer 2012 sneak-peek product!) and the exclusive My Acrylix® Rock the Block E-size stamp set. That’s a retail savings of almost $30! You're going to love the Collage Cubes and the Rock the Block stamp set, which work together for interactive, 3-D fun.

Contact me today to place your order! Happy scrapping!

Elemental Workshop: December 4th at 6pm

Join me to create 2 double page layouts using this fun and versatile paper pack! You will have lots of paper left over to create additional layouts or cards as well. I will walk you through the layouts, and show you how to use the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge to create some of the fun shapes found on these layouts.

To create the layouts exactly as I have, your shopping list should include the following items:

Elemental Level 2 Paper Pack (X7141B): $10.95
Decor Journaling Spots (Z1461): $6.50
Colour-Ready Cork Alphabet (Z1450): $6.50
Designer Ribbon Red Collection (Z1615): $6.50
Milepost Shapes (Z1464): $4.50
Love Life (D1482): $19.95

Of course, you are welcome to use my stamp set at the workshop, and feel free to omit or substitute embellishments for your own personal style. Once I have an idea of the number of attendees, it will also be possible to split some of the embellishment packages between you to reduce the cost, but still enable you to purchase all of the fun embellishments I used! I love my embellishments, and it seems I used a little bit of everything on these layouts!

Contact me today to reserve your spot! I will require confirmation and payment by November 21st to ensure I have enough time to order your kit.

Happy scrapping!

Cute Halloween Tags and Treats

I made some simple Halloween tags to attach to bags of cookies that I baked for my boys' classes at school. I cut the ticket shape of the tag using my favourite tool, the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge and Mischief bulk paper, and then attached rectangles of black and barn red cardstock to the ticket. I stamped with black on the barn red cardstock using the Wicked stamp set. The result was simple but cute tag to dress up the cookies.

While I was busy bagging and tagging the cookies, my 6 year old son was hard at work on a card of his own that he made all by himself. The front is a picture of me wearing a crown (since that is my typical accessory of choice, of course!). Inside the card, he wrote, "I love you. Thank you for walking me to school" and on the back, he wrote, "I love mom. To: mom, From: Hugh." These boys consistently remind me of the importance of preserving our most special moments, and I can't wait to incorporate this card into a layout!

Have a safe and Happy Halloween! Thanks for looking, and happy scrapping!

Holiday Wishes Come True in November!

When you place a minimum order of $25 in My Acrylix® stamp sets in November, you can purchase a new D-size Holiday Wishes stamp set for only $5! That’s significant savings off the full retail value of $19.95. And here’s a bonus: many of the images in the set coordinate with our Cricut® Art Philosophy cartridge for added cutting and stamping fun!

Contact me today to place your order and receive this stamp set in time for the holidays!

Heart 2 Heart Challenge - Layout

The challenge this week over at Heart 2 Heart is a layout that includes journaling, or telling a story. This layout is from my Dreamin’ Workshop, and is my take on the secondary layout. I flipped all the papers so I would get the other side of the patterns. The pictures are printed in sepia, and that seemed to go perfectly with the colours in this paper pack.

I don’t seem to be able to get a clear close-up of the journaling, so I will just tell you the story here...

My grandparents started the family tradition of taking my cousins, my sister and me, to the pumpkin patch to choose our Halloween pumpkins every year. It was always a much-anticipated event, something special that we looked forward to for months in advance. Now that I have my own children, and live across the country from my own parents, the trek to the pumpkin patch is even more meaningful. I love to watch their delight in choosing their pumpkins, going on a hayride, visiting the petting zoo, and all the other fun things that family farms in our area offer. This year, we trekked to Abbotsford, BC, to the Apple Barn and had a great time despite the pouring rain. This page is one of the many about our day at the patch, and the pictures are of the boys on the hayride down to the pumpkins. Funnily enough, after I completed this page, I spoke to my dad on the phone and he had just taken my nieces and nephews to the patch back home in Ontario! Thank you Gramma and Grampa for starting this wonderful tradition!

Thanks for looking, and now I am heading over to Heart 2 Heart so I can check out all of your stories! Happy scrapping!