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To all my American friends – enjoy your Thanksgiving! I hope you all have lots of fun and laughter, tons of friends and family, and too much turkey!
Cheers!
S.
Happy Thanksgiving!
27 Thursday Nov 2014
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Monthly Archives: November 2014
Seasonal Canvas | A Year of Mixed Media
26 Wednesday Nov 2014
Posted in Canvas, Classes, Mixed Media
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A while ago I posted that I taught my last Seasonal Canvas class – the fall one – and so now I have a full set of four. I have to say, this might be one of my favourite classes ever! The finished product of each canvas is beautiful but to have all four together is just awesome.
Don’t they look great? I did a little kitchen rearranging to fit them in on a wall that doesn’t get direct sunlight. I used Luminarte Silks for the paint on each of these and unfortunately, they’re not light stable. 😦
That being said, it was ok in this case because they fit perfectly here just above my scrapbooking island in the corner of my kitchen.
If you want closeups all the canvases are in my Flickr gallery and your can also check out the blog posts for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.
Cheers!
S.
Distress Renewed – Alcohol Inks
21 Friday Nov 2014
Posted in Classes, Mixed Media, ScrapBook
My love for Alcohol Inks has been seriously reinvigorated after designing this class! As a matter of fact, it was so much fun that I played around with some of the techniques on a Secret Santa gift – a canvas – that I’m making:
I actually had to go buy more colours I’m that excited to play with them again!
We had such an awesome fun time last night at class one participant was even giggling with glee as we spattered Ink about. I think if we spent two hours flicking different colours on page she would have left happy!
The first page is pretty simple – some Translucent embossing paste and then a layer of Alcohol Ink:
We added lots of layers with book paper and stickers:
And then we added some more!
The second LO was the most fun to do:
Awesome drips:
And texture:
And splatter texture:
I wish I had photos of the LO’s the class did because they were amazing! The colours they picked were gorgeous and the way everything blended was awesome. Unfortunately for me, that means I have a lot to live up to for the next Renewed class, gulp!
Hopefully, some of you will join us – it’s fun, creative, and a great night out with friends.
Cheers!
S.
Christmas Card kit – Special Guest Designers!
19 Wednesday Nov 2014
Posted in Card Kit, Kid's Crafts
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The Paperie has a brand new card kit out and it’s geared towards kids! To be honest though, I love it and had a ton of fun creating with it so trust me, it’s also adult friendly!
The best thing about this card kit? My kiddies were “guest designers” for it and they were thrilled!
Since I wrote a couple of blog posts for The Paperie showcasing all the projects we made, I’ll send you over there to check it all out – enjoy!
Like what you see? They’re for sale now and they can also ship if you’re not in the area!
Cheers!
S.
Alcohol, fall, and kids…
17 Monday Nov 2014
Posted in Classes, Mini Album, Mixed Media, ScrapBook
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Yes, I’ve been MIA the past week or so. Everyone has been sick and it’s all viral so there’s nothing to do but deal and wait it out. Sigh.
Anyway, I wanted to pop in really quick and fill you in on my classes at The Paperie from now until Christmas – there’s a couple of fun ones coming up!
This Thursday night I’m teaching another Distress Renewed class and it’s all about Alcohol Ink!
Look at the texture there – fun, fun!
Of course, I have the Yearlong Album class the end of this month and again in December.
During the November class I’ll be talking about the changes for next year – and I think you’re going to like them!
The second Seasonal Mini Album class is December 4:
The great thing about this class is that you can take all four throughout the year  or you can pick and choose. This fall one is looking pretty cute so far and has some new fun elements that differ from the Summer one.
On December 6 I’m teaching along with some of the other members of the Paperie Creative Team at the annual Holiday Hoopla. This year it’s all ornaments! I don’t have a picture of mine, I forgot to take one before I handed in the project, but it’s cute!
Finally, I’m teaching a kid’s class on December 7 so any parents who need some shopping time, this is a great time for that! Drop the kiddies off, they make a great project and you get all your stuff done!
I taught this to some Paperie Retreat participants last weekend and I’m super excited to see what the kids do with it – they always have the best ideas!
There are loads of other classes happening over the next month and a half as well so make sure you take a look!
Cheers!
S.
12 on Twelve | November 2014
14 Friday Nov 2014
Posted in 12 on Twelve, This & That
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1. Student of the Week – 5 Incredible Days!
2. heading off to school
3. playing trains and watching the street
4. pomegranate seeds
5. time to break out the winter boots
6. porch selfie
7. hot chocolate for my sore throat
8. these guys are still looking good!
9. homework time
10. all labeled – these three WITL albums make me happy
11. the things you find out shopping
12. Instaweather is messed up – apparently it’s 9:20am and night time…..
Cheers!
S.
September | YLA2014
07 Friday Nov 2014
Posted in Classes, ScrapBook, Yearlong Album
The September LO was a fun and interesting one this month – I had a lot of letters to try and fit on the page (September is a long word!) and I wanted to show how to use the Simple Stories Sn@p Photo Flips in a different way – I love how it turned out!
I chose to use patterned paper again, simply because the icon paper seemed to fit with the Back to School theme that is September around here!
This time I layered the paper on watercolour paper to get a border. I added the usual grey Project Life arrows and some extra stickers, along with a doodled border, around the edge:
And, believe it or not, these pages hold 10 pictures! I specifically made sure to add both landscape and portrait orientations so everyone could see that either would work.
And it’s a super fun interactive element, especially when you add all the great Simple Stories stickers to the pics:
See that picture of Mister Gabe? That’s his best friend Hannah – we kind of like her a lot, and her little sister (who I take care of) is the cutest thing you ever saw. Just for proof:
I mean, seriously. She kills me. Hannah is the hilarious Gingerbread Man behind her – love these two. But Halloween is for another day……
Anyway, that was September – hope you liked the fun tip about Photo Flips!
I’m off this weekend to The Paperie Fall Retreat and I. Can’t. Wait. Really. I’m writing this the day I’m leaving and I woke up at 5am. It’s like Christmas to a 5-year-old. 🙂
Hope you all have  a fabulous weekend and come back early next week to check out the Halloween craziness that happened here!
Cheers,
S.
August |YLA2014
06 Thursday Nov 2014
Posted in Classes, Mixed Media, ScrapBook, Yearlong Album
Well. I was just going to post my September Yearlong Album LO’s and realized that I haven’t shown you August yet. Oops! So, to keep these in some type of order, here’s August – you’ll get September tomorrow! 🙂
This month it was fun with strips and drips! We cut a bunch of papers into different length strips which we layered behind photos and diecuts:
You can see I added my signature doodling to the diecuts to make them pop a little more.
The drips were made with three different shades of Heidi Swapp ColorShine mist. We made a pool of mist behind the photos then let it drip to either side:
The shimmer and the slight colour variation, plus the bit of added texture and dimension from the strips is pretty awesome.
We finished the LO with the usual arrows and some bits and bobs:
Have I mentioned how much I love those cork hearts and gold stars? Love. Them.
See you tomorrow with the September LO!
Cheers,
S.
Simple Scrapper Show & Tell | November 2014
04 Tuesday Nov 2014
Posted in Mixed Media, ScrapBook, Simple Scrapper
I don’t know where the year is going but here I am again with new Simple Scrapper material. The rest of the Team, as always, knocked it out of the ballpark so make sure you check out the November Team Gallery. Also, we just announced some new Team members so go give them a big hello!
My Story Starter LO for this uses a picture that I’ve scrapped before but it’s one of my faves and it was perfect for this LO:
The sketch was so much fun to use and I love how my old, hoarded Basic Grey paper worked for the circle element:
I also got to break out some Prima alphas that I love and, of course, I added my usual black pen work to them:
My template LO was a fun mixed media one:
The picture of my kiddies from this fall cracked me up – Molly makes it looks like Gabe is choking her to death, she’s such a drama queen – and I wanted it to be a fun LO to match. I used a different resist technique from my normal faves and traced a stencil with a glue pen:
And then I mixed alphas for my title:
Now it’s your turn to play! Go check out all the Show & Tell links and then add your own – I love seeing what everyone makes each month, and it doesn’t have to be Simple Scrapper material so go share whatever you have!
Cheers!
S.
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