Saturday, February 6, 2021

Happy Street!

Hi everyone! Thanks for stopping by today!

I have a fun, brightly-coloured treat to share with you all. I found a picture on my desk and was able to combine it with some CTMH paper from a recent order. This LO is the result. 

The layout was based on a 12x12 sketch  created by "Organized and Creative Mom", Noreen Smith, as part of her SYS 2021 Mission: Possible class. 

Hope you enjoy it!



This is our little granddaughter, Lilia, when she was 2 1/2 years old. :) Such a cutie!

Journaling: 

Lilia really loved the ‘Little Tikes’ cars we’d found for her through the local online yard sale site. We always enjoyed seeing how much fun she had “driving” them around the  backyard! She loved to pretend, and it was so cute! When Lilia got too big for the cars, we donated them to the daycare centre she attended so that the smaller kids could have fun playing with them!

Photo- Nov 30, 2018
Our backyard- Kingston, NS
Lilia- 2 1/2 yrs old

Supplies:

Crystal Blue Cardstock- CTMH (retired)
Mix-in paper collection X9019  (retired)
Stamp set: S1606 "The Long Way Home" - CTMH (retired)
CTMH Exclusive Inks: Thistle, Pear, Topiary, Crystal Blue and Lagoon 
Car Border: On the Road Border Maker Cartridge- Creative Memories (CM)
Repositionable Adhesive- CM
Quick Dry Glue- Scotch
Mounting Squares- Scrapbook Adhesives by 3M

Tools: 


Trimmer: Fiskars

Thanks for looking, and hope to see you back here again soon! :) 

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Thursday, February 4, 2021

"A Delightful Place"


Well, "hi there",  and thanks for popping in to my blog today!!! So happy you're here. It feels good to be back at blogging again. :) Hope 2021 has been safe and healthy for you and your family.  
I'm not a gal who makes "New Year's resolutions," but I do set a few goals in my scrapping hobby. I think those are MUCH more fun!
One of the most important things on my "scrappy goal list" this year is to finish Daniel's first year album.
 As many of you know, we have four kids--who are BIG KIDS, now! Daniel is our third child, and his is the last of the four baby albums to be completed. There is no reason for this, except maybe that Daniel had more toddler layouts made about him than any little kid on the planet! We used to call him "Dan-Dan Houdini-Man", so you get the idea. He was a hoot: a going- concern! That translated into lots of scrappy pages! ;) 

Anyway, I have been working on Daniel's baby book now since 2017, when I wrote a great deal of the journaling and filed it in my computer. I also decided on a colour-scheme for the album, and made page kits to go with the pics I planned to use. I have quite a few pages done to date, and this is the latest. I still have many pages left to create. :) 

While I am on the topic of accomplishing goals, I am taking a course called "SYS 2021: Mission Possible", from my CM friend Noreen Smith. The course's over-arching goal is using up stash. I am taking this further- using up the page kits I had made for this baby book!

This LO is a 2-pager that uses one of Noreen's SYS 2021 sketches. I am sooo pleased with how this turned out!


Here are the pages separately.
Left page:  

And right page:   


Journaling: 

When Daniel was 10 months old, we moved from the PMQ on Base to our newly purchased home on XYZ Drive in Kingston. The bubblegum-pink bedroom that would be Daniel's was quickly painted white. (That was our first "project" in the new house!) The wallpaper border we put up in Daniel's new bedroom was the same one we'd lovingly chosen and put up in his PMQ bedroom in July 2000 just before he was born! Daniel's new bedroom was much larger than the tiny PMQ bedroom, and here, there was space for more furniture. We were able to have Daniel's change-table right there in the bedroom, which was extra-convenient. We were also able to add a bookshelf, toy box and the rocking horse Grandma and Grandpa gave Bryan when he was little.

The window was a different shape than the one in the PMQ, but we were still able to use the curtains I'd made-- I just sewed a little "bib" of matching fabric to slide onto the rod, visually connecting the 2 panels. "Problem solved!"  In these photos, you can see Daniel's matching handmade baby comforter plus the change table cover and mini-pillow that I'd sewn. I'd had so much fun creating all of it!

The baby bedroom we'd decorated for Daniel looked beautiful and had turned out exactly the way we'd hoped it would. We were so pleased!! 

Photos- July 14, 2001
XYZ XYZ XYZ, Kingston, NS
Kate (7 yrs), Bryan (6 yrs) and Daniel (11 months)
Journaling by Mom- September 16, 2017

PS: a PMQ= "Private Married Quarters", which is one type of military housing on a base here in Canada. We are a military family. :)  

Supplies: 

Floral patterned paper (pp): CTMH (retired)
Pale Cream dotted paper: BasicGrey "Basics White" collection (retired) 
"Jacaranda" cardstock (CS): Bazzill
Kraft CS: CTMH
Almond CS: CTMH
Small & Large Brads: CTMH 
Moon & Stars Border Maker Cartridge (BMC): Creative Memories (CM)
My Acrylix stamp set (CTMH): B1228 Solos “D” (small hearts, the words “dream” & “delightful”) 
My Acrylix stamp set (CTMH): C1620 Baby Zoo (horse)
Exclusive Inks (CTMH):  Almond, Saddle, Brown Bag, Sapphire & Indian Corn Blue
Scraps of CS and pp used for tiny flowers & butterflies- CTMH 
Tiny flowers made w/ Sizzix Sizzlit die- “Hawaiian Flowers”
“Memories” tiny word banner: made w/ a CTMH roller-date style stamp
Baker’s twine and blue label: CTMH
Kraft ticket-shaped cluster base: CTMH
Tiny Kraft alphabet stickers used in title: CTMH (retired)
Tiny hearts: CTMH Thin Cuts Z3347
“DCM” circular monogram stickers: All My Memories
“Love” tiny word: Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type sticker
“Memories” tiny word: Echo Park "Fine and Dandy" collection sticker
Tiny butterflies: Impression Obsession dies DIE046-A
Painted wooden sheep: unknown- from my stash 
"Home" wood veneer- Dollarama
Adhesives: Glue Dots, Tombow tape runner, Scotch Quick Dry, Mono Liquid Aqua glue
Journaling font: Arial

Tools:

Scalloped circle punch: EK Success
Provocraft Silent Setter (used to punch holes for brads)
Creative Memories Border Maker System
CTMH  Non-stick micro-tip scissors (for fussy-cutting horse)
CTMH "My Acrylix" clear stamp blocks 2x2" and 3x3" sizes 
Sizzix Big Shot

Thanks for peeking at this new double-page LO. Have a great day, and a lovely weekend! Hope you get lots of time to scrap! 

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Monday, February 1, 2021

Birthday cards!

Hi everyone! 
I have a couple of birthday cards to share with you today!
My 2 nephews, who are brothers, have February and March birthdays, and I wanted to make them each a card. I also wanted each one to be a little different!
The first is for William,  who will be 11 years old. :) 

Supplies:

Card base: Almond CS- CTMH 
Patterned paper (trees)- CTMH White Pines collection (retired) 
Patterned papers with orange accents: scraps
Leaves stamped on French Vanilla CS with CTMH stamp set C1504, Fall Harvest (retired)
Exclusive Inks: Autumn Terracotta (retired) and Goldrush - CTMH
Deer stamped on French Vanilla CS using CTMH stamp set D1703, Nature's Wish (retired)
Exclusive Ink: Desert Sand (retired)
The deer was popped up using  Thin 3-D Foam tape - CTMH
Edges of cardstock and papers inked with both Desert Sand and Almond Exclusive ink
Grass coloured with Copic sketch marker #G82-  Spring Dim green 

Inner greeting is: "Every day is an adventure!" from CTMH stamp set CC1020, It's Your Day (retired) and stamped in Chocolate ink (retired) 

The second card is for my nephew Zachary, who will be turning 9. :) 
 

Supplies:

Card base: Saddle CS (retired) - CTMH 
Patterned papers: BasicGrey (scraps) 
Leaves stamped on French Vanilla CS with CTMH stamp set C1504, Fall Harvest (retired)
Exclusive Inks: Autumn Terracotta (retired) and Goldrush - CTMH
Chipmunk stamped on Almond CS using CTMH stamp set D1703, Nature's Wish (retired)
Exclusive Ink: Chocolate (retired) - CTMH
The chipmunk was popped up using Thin 3-D Foam tape - CTMH
Edges of CS and papers inked with Saddle, Chocolate and Goldrush Exclusive Inks.

Inner greeting is: "Every day is an adventure!" from CTMH stamp set CC1020, It's Your Day (retired), stamped in Chocolate ink (retired). 
 
Tools used on each card:

CTMH  Non-stick micro-tip scissors for fussy-cutting
CTMH "My Acrylix" clear stamp blocks 2x2" and 3x3" sizes 

Hope you enjoyed these cards! They were fun to create. :) 

...Hubby got them mailed to New Brunswick this morning. :) 

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