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Simple Scrapper | February 2016

12 Friday Feb 2016

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As promised, I’m back with the February work I did for Simple Scrapper!

I had a blast with my Story Starter LO – I was playing around with Prima Water Soluble Oil Pastels while working on my Favourite Things class and the colours seemed perfect for these pics:

funny things

The title is made up of two different puffy Thickers in awesome  colours:

funny things title

And there’s a ton of texture with the rolled edges of the paper, the washi tape, the Thickers, the oil pastels, and doodling on the embellishments:

funny things texture

My template LO this month is also one of the LO’s I’m teaching at The Paperie for the February Kit Class. It’s a great class if you want to make some LO’s and it uses some of the supplies from their February page kit. Of course, there will be tons of product left over to play with later too!

i am

Lots of fabulous words and phrases on this one:

i am words

And my fave, lots of shimmer and shine from the metallic words, embellishments, and washi tape!

i am foil

Don’t forget to check out what the rest of the team did this month and remember, there’s always lots of inspiration on our Pinterest board!

Cheers!

S.

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hello best smiles!

14 Monday Dec 2015

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This past Thursday was the last class of the year at The Paperie and it was the second last class of My Favourite Things for 2015 (we’ll finish up the album in January).

I knew I wanted to use watercolours, specifically my favourite Twinkling H2O’s, but was unsure how to incorporate them until I saw Kristina Werner do a simple masking technique to make some trees. I simply extrapolated to a larger size and made what might be my favourite pages for this class ever! The colours are amazing!

As a head’s up, if you want to try this, it works just as well with regular (and super cheap) watercolours. You won’t get quite the intensity of colour, or the shimmer, but they still work perfectly – I demoed with regular watercolours for class just to see!

21 - love this xoxoThis was the simpler, but still impressive, first LO. We used black gesso for the center and the Twinks around the border.

For the title we used Heidi Swapp watercolour paper words and coloured them with the same paints. I also added some Dear Lizzy gold foam Thickers.

21 - titleThe second LO used a ton of masking but it was worth it!

22 - hello best smilesHow much fun are all those colours?!? Looks just like stained glass, especially with the shimmer!

This time, we used black gesso on the watercolour words, plus some more of those Thickers:

22 - titleAnd just look at the sparkle from those paints!

22 - shimmerSeriously, these shine and shimmer like crazy!

Do you love them? We all did – it was a fun class and worth the masking work – please tag me if you try it out because I’d love to see!

Cheers!

S.

Best Ever

10 Thursday Dec 2015

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It’s December and there’s snow falling on my blog! I love that feature of WordPress – so awesome!

I’m teaching the last Fave Things class of the year tonight (we have one more class in January to clue up 2015) and it occurred to me that I hadn’t shared last month’s metallic goodness with you all!

The base layer and texture layers for both of these LO’s were made using Dina Wakley Media metallic paint. In class, someone used red for the base instead and layered the metallic over and it looked incredible!

19 - happyWe also punched circles from Tim Holtz Metallic Kraft Core and sprinkled on some Stampendous embossing enamel.

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My most favourite thing are these Dear Lizzy Thickers – they’re gold foil over foam and all kinds of awesomeness.

19 - titleThe second LO uses the Gilt paint which is an orange-y gold:

20 - best everYou can see we dripped paint for texture in this one, but we still used those awesome Thickers – with a twist!

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I showed everyone how to make their own silver ones! The best part? It looks like they were made this way!

I’m hoping to be back tomorrow with the LO’s we do tonight – they just may be my most favourite ever!

Cheers!

S.

The Doctor & Ms. Longstocking

28 Saturday Nov 2015

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Molly asked for almost a year to be Pippi Longstocking for Halloween and Gabe, as usual, just wore what I brought home for him and loved it!

the doctor and ms longstockingWhile I was at the Paperie Retreat I just wanted to play a bit with some pastes, powders, and sprays – This was the outcome. It’s not exactly what I wanted but it was still fun to play! I do love the texture of the bubbled paste and embossing enamel, especially when mixed with Prima ColorBloom Sprays and Freckled Fawn silver puffy hearts:

the doctor and ms longstocking textureAnd these gold Thickers are my new faves!

the doctor and ms longstocking embelliesPlus, look at the sparkle on the wood veneer from the Wink of Stella pens – I’m a big fan of the white one, it’s so cool!

Have you had fun just playing lately? What products are you using these days – I’m always on the lookout for new ones!

Cheers!

S.

Simple Scrapper | November 2015

05 Thursday Nov 2015

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The templates for this month are super cool because, although there are five different ones, they’re all based on one original sketch! Here’s my take:

school picture bluesI had fun with Dylusions Ink Sprays here! I masked off outer area with wide washi tape and then used skinny washi to make the squares:

school picture blues maskedAnd then I used four shades of spray to ink it all up:

school picture blues mistPull off the washi and done! I went a little crazy with the Freckled Fawn embellishments:

school picture blues titleLove that little camera! And the wood veneer words are fabulous:

school picture blues wood veneerPlus, I’m all about those teeny, tiny enamel word dots.

The story starters this month were so much fun and gave me the chance to scrapbook this funny picture of Molly:

lobster loverLots more Freckled Fawn goodies, including gold arrows:

lobster lover embelliesAnd I used my typewriter for the journaling:

lobster lover journallingMake sure you check out the Pinterest page to see all the other LO’s from the Creative Team – they’re all kinds of awesomeness!

Cheers!

S.

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Sweet Sunny Smile | My Favourite Things 2015

29 Thursday Oct 2015

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edit: Ack! I forgot to hit post yesterday! Sorry!

You know how you have products you love but sometimes they get laid aside so you kind of forget about them until you’re looking for something new and/or different to use and suddenly hey! there they are and you fall in love all over again?

Yeah. That was me and Dylusions Ink Sprays this month. The colours. Seriously people, the colours. Yum.

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Look at that face. First day of school and she (actually they) let me take pictures even though it was cold outside.

I added rub-ons, iridescent sequins, and those amazing gold feathers from Little B:

17 - title embellies

For the second LO – hello sweet little face –

18 - school boy charmI punched it up a notch with overspray, ghosting, and overheated molding paste.

I still added the same embellishments to tie both pages together:

18 - embelliesAnd I love how the titles worked out on both! Those alphas are from October Afternoon’s new holiday line, Under the Tree, and I love how it can be totally Christmassy, or not.

18 - titleAs always, it was fabulous seeing how everyone used the exact techniques and products I did and yet they are all so different. Gorgeous and amazing pages were made, as usual! If you’re a regular who missed the class this month, you really did miss out! #sorrynotsorry Lol!

Cheers!

S.

Roar! Everything is Awesome | Kids Card Class

18 Sunday Oct 2015

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This coming weekend I’m teaching a Birthday Card Class for kids of all ages! We’ll be making ten cards and getting messy in the process – my favourite way to create!

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Although I’ll be teaching a bunch of different techniques, all the cards can be decorated in almost any way. I’ll have some stamps available but they can be mixed and matched as people want.

2015-09-08 15.49.02We’ll be playing with Distress Stains, Crazy Birds stamps, Inktense watercolour pencils, embossing powders, alcohol inks, Ranger Shrink plastic, and more!

2015-09-15 11.43.25Plus, we’ll be making fun and crazy monsters:

2015-09-09 14.03.10And a few space alien monsters with crazy eyes!

2015-09-08 11.59.33If you’re in need of some creative time and/or some birthday cards (or just fun How are you? cards) then come and play on Sunday at The Paperie. You can even bring your favourite little or big person to join you!

Cheers!

S.

amazing dear | My Favourite Things 2015

16 Friday Oct 2015

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I’m super duper late today but it’s still Friday so it counts, right? 🙂

Here’s the latest Fave Things LO’s – some of my personal faves from this year! We did a quick wash of Distress Ink – of course! – and layered. layered, layered!

For the first one, we only used Simple Stories diecuts:

15 - amazing dearI make the diecuts work by cutting and/or hiding the pieces I don’t want to see, like this banner:

15 - layers

We also used Crate Paper cork stickers from a previous month and added some metallic pink phrase stickers to the mix:

15 - title

For the second LO we used a lot of Amy Tangerine paper scraps and then added a few diecuts to finish it off:

16 - fun summer vibesI love all the levels and depth in the layers!

16 - layersFor both, we added a finishing touch of a few sequins and stars for some shine:

16 - starsPretty simple, but so fun to do – I love sitting down and layering up diecuts and paper scraps!

There are extra pictures at Flickr, including pics of the envelopes we matted the photos on – we used them to hold mini albums of extra pictures, a favourite trick of mine, since I’m a one photo per page lover!

Hope you enjoy!

Cheers!

S.

hello love | My Favourite Things 2015

14 Wednesday Oct 2015

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I think the August class of My Favourite Things was one of the most popular so far – everyone loved the technique (which I originally got from Jennifer McGuire) and everyone’s turned out so beautifully but all so amazingly different.

13 - hello loveI love how the ombre turned out on this one! Molly’s favourite colour these days is blue and since the Distress line has so many incredible blues, I decided to use a bunch! What better way than ombre? You can’t see it, my photography skills are just not up to the challenge, but the shimmer of Perfect Pearls over the Distress Ink is amazing!

We embellished up the LO’s this month with cork stickers from Crate Paper, some paper strips from Amy Tangerine, and more rub-ons from a few months ago.

13 - titleThe second LO is the exact same technique but with a different shape, ink colour, and Perfect Pearl colour.

14 - smileStill more cork and rub-ons for the title and journaling work – I love how those pieces all came together!

14 - titleWe also mixed a few colours together on this one; you can see the blend if you look closely. It added great depth without breaking up the visual of one colour tone.

And now we’re almost there – on Friday I’ll have you all caught up with My Favourite Things so make sure you check in for that!

Cheers!

S.

Sweetness | My Favourite Things 2015 (& Happy Thanksgiving Canada!)

12 Monday Oct 2015

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Back in June, a local photographer, Stacy Breen-Crane, was offering mini photo shoots with the proceeds going to charity. I jumped right on board and got some amazing pictures of Molly and Gabe at the park on one of the only nice days we had that month! They were perfect to use in our July class with lots of  Prima Color Bloom sprays.

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We layered mist through a stencil, then modeling paste through a large stencil, then more paste through the same, but smaller, stencil. All of that was heated in between to overdry and bubble up the paste, making lots of gorgeous texture. Then, we sprayed and sprayed and sprayed. And dripped. And tossed on some Stampendous embossing enamel while the spray was still wet. Look at the awesome texture!

11 - textureAs if that wasn’t enough shine, we dusted Perfect Pearls over the spray to take down the stickiness (thanks to Cathie for that fabulous tip!)

You can see there’s also gold thread under the photo, and we finished with some sticker labels and rubons:

11 - rubonsBelieve it or not, the second LO is almost identical, including the sprays. Just to show how different these colours can look depending on how much you spray and how you layer them, I used the exact same colours but in different order and intensity:

12 - buddiesWe also sprinkled the embossing enamel on the paste before we dried it, which allows it to cover a completely different area than the first LO.

There’s still tons of shimmer and texture, just done in a slightly different way:

12 - textureWe had a ton of messy fun doing this one, and it was incredible to see how different all the LO’s were, even when people used the same products and colours.

For my fellow Canadians, it’s Thanksgiving – enjoy, eat lots, and have fun doing your thing!

Cheers!

S.