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Yer Best Kind, b’ys!

18 Wednesday Feb 2015

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Hahaha! Are all the non-Newfoundlanders confused yet? Roughly translated, that means, “You are all the finest of people!” Want to know some more traditional Newfoundland phrases and words? Check this out!

There’s actually a reason I started this post like that and it all has to do with Valentine’s. A local company here, Newfoundland Chocolate Company, made special Love Bars this year and they were hugely popular. As in couldn’t keep them in stock and they have been sent all around the world popular. And they’re delicious – milk chocolate (normally not my thing) filled with salted caramel. Seriously yummy!

They made several different labels – Luvs Ya, Kiss me Luh, Me Trout, and of course, Best Kind (side note: the most popular was Arse on Dat, hahaha!). I grabbed a bunch of Best Kind bars and made cards for the parents of the kids I look after.

valentine's cardsI had some watercolour paper I had painted and embossed and demoed on so I used that for my punched green hearts. Then I used old glitter wrap for the other hearts:\

valentine's cards closeupAnd inside, a sweet treat!

valentine's cards insideI love how they turned out – they still make me giggle, lol!

Cheers!

S.

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December and Final Page | YLA2014

13 Friday Feb 2015

Posted by Sara in Classes, Mixed Media, ScrapBook, Yearlong Album

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This is it! The last Yearlong album class ever and the last LO’s for 2014.

12 - decemberThis one used loads of Simple Stories stickers for the banners along the top:

december bannersAnd the words along the bottom:

december wordsAnd the circles around the photos:

december stickersThen we finished everything off with October Afternoon chipboard stars and gold mist spatter:

december starsThe last page of the album mimicked the first with the paper choices and colours:

13 - final pageBut we added in a subtle crayon resist with Prima Color Bloom spray:

final page resistAnd we used the spray for regular misting plus a spatter effect:

final page splatterAnd that’s it! I filled two complete albums, which Β means I need to do another cover page and final page, but there is another year in the books.

I’m super excited and stoked for the new class this year, My Favourite Things. I’ll be posting sneaks on Instagram and Twitter with #FaveThings2015 and there’s already a couple there, like this one:

FaveThings2015 sneak1

Hope to see some of you there, it’s going to be awesome!

Cheers!

S.

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12 on Twelve | February 2015

13 Friday Feb 2015

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02 - february1. storm day!

2. unusual selfie – I. Am. Freezing! (and not happy about it!)

3. What to do on a snow day? Make words from cork letters, of course!

4. And drink hot chocolate with marshmallows.

5. And make giant double chocolate cookies with Reese’s Pieces.

6. Some members of this family are crazy and like being out in the storm…

7. Taking Valentine’s pictures of bad boots.

8. And silly pictures of Kayleigh-bug.

9. And crazy face pics of Mister Gabe in his Lego bowtie.

10. Working on the cover page for My Favourite Things 2015.

11. And making Valentine’s cards.

12. Matthew and sweet baby Maya.

Cheers!

S.

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November | YLA2014

11 Wednesday Feb 2015

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We’re almost at the end of this album and for once I thought I’d do a fairly monochromatic layout. There is a bit of colour but it’s all fairly light and tone on tone.

11 - november

There is a super fun, and messy, technique on this one using stickles. If you look closely you can see glitter all around the small squares I punched out – Stickles!

november shimmer

I love the sparkle it brings, highlighting just those pieces. Of course, I did go in with my favourite Sakura Stardust pen to outline the title and chipboard hearts, plus add some shimmer to the wood veneer stars – you can’t have too much sparkle after all!

Cheers!

S.

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October | YLA2014

10 Tuesday Feb 2015

Posted by Sara in Mixed Media, ScrapBook, Yearlong Album

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I sat down to do my final Yearlong Album post and realized that I hadn’t done several months – my mind is leaving me, obviously! So, rather than post the last one, I’ll catch up here this week and have them all in order for you. If you want to see what we’ve done this year just type YLA in the search bar and/or check out the Flickr album.

Here’s October:

10 - octoberWe had fun with one of my favourite techniques – Distress Ink and water for a blendy, watercoloury background. I also added another favourite in there, shimmer!

october shineAnd of course, layers of paper, die cuts, pop dots, stickers, Β and embellishments:

october layers

We finished off the page with some doodling and a cluster of stickers with the date:

october clusterCheck back tomorrow for November’s page and don’t forget to check out (and sign up for!) my new yearlong class – My Favourite Things. We’re starting this month and it’s going to be all my favourite techniques and products, plus some of my tried and true journalling tips. Trust me, some of the new product ordered in for this class is amazing! I can’t wait to get started!

Cheers!

S.

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A present for our beautiful Maya

03 Tuesday Feb 2015

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One last Christmas present to share and a confession – this one hasn’t actually been sent yet. Oops. It’s going in the mail this week though, I promise! #worstauntandsisterever

Anyway…….

I did another name for another gorgeous baby, my awesome niece Maya:

Maya frame

I found a frame big enough for this one but since you can see my fabulous crazy hair in the glare of the glass I thought I’d show it to you out of the frame too:

Maya unframedI like to keep these pretty simple so the letters themselves actually stand out. I do normally back them with patterned paper but the colours of these looked so good on the black fabric background that I left it as is.

I added enamel dots and hearts, plus wood and enamel buttons from Freckled Fawn to the “M”:

Maya frame m

And to the “Y”:

Maya frame y

The “A”‘s have cork stars layered with gems and cork arrows:

Maya frame a

At the last second I also added little vellum phrases from Freckled Fawn to each letter as well – I love how they look, all vintage-y and translucent.

That’s it! Super simple and pretty for my pretty girl! Hope her parents like it when all their presents finally arrive! πŸ™‚

Cheers!

S.

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