Simple Scrapper Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY | May 2013

07 Tuesday May 2013

Posted by Sara in ScrapBook, Simple Scrapper

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Scrapbook Layout, Simple Scrapper, Sketch Templates

The story starters and templates were amazing this month! I love them every month but there was something special about this set that I really enjoyed. Maybe it’s because I got to have fun with one of Gabe’s crazy pics or maybe it’s because my Mom did the journaling for the other. Either way, this is a great month to be a member!

And we’re doing a giveaway so make sure you use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter for a one month trial membership at Simple Scrapper! This is an awesome way to test the waters if you’re not a member yet. There are three ways to enter and three winners will be selected. To be eligible, you must enter by 11:59pm CDT on Wednesday, May 8.

My first LO is from this month’s templates and uses one of Gabe’s crazy face pics.

Since the picture wasn’t the main theme of this LO – his funny quote was! – I chose to minimalize the photo and make the title/quote really stand out by using an Amy Tangerine Stitching template. I was iffy while making it (and it was a lot of work to be iffy about!) but I love how it turned out:

I used a bunch of layers to mat the photo and make a space for my journaling tag:

The second LO was inspired by one of this month’s Story Starters and my mom provided the journaling and the title:

I used an awesome paper by Pink Paislee for this one – it’s a resist and when I misted it with some Heidi Swapp Color Shine the pattern popped and shimmered like crazy! I also used the mist on some Heidi Swapp hearts to get the same colour embellies with a different resist pattern, plus added enamel dots and glitter paper for more bling:

I had some awesome glitter letters but they didn’t show up on the background so I tinted them with the Color Shine as well:

And here’s my mom’s journaling – she was at home so I had to print it on the computer but I’m planning to get her to hand write it and add that to the LO:

Want some more inspiration? Check out the rest of the team – as always, they blew me away with their creations!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)

Lisa Corbin-Polak

Ronnie Crowley

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

Sara Case Strickland <– that’s me!

And finally, don’t forget to enter for a chance to win a free month of the Premium Membership!

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The Premium Membership at Simple Scrapper provides skills and shortcuts to help you simplify and find more meaning in your memory keeping. Each month members receive a new collection of sketch templates and Story Starters, story-focused prompts for pages and projects. Want to work with our collections for FREE? Simple Scrapper is having a call for new team members.

The Undones aka Layouts ala KP

01 Wednesday May 2013

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Dina Wakley, Kelly Purkey, Scrapbook Layout

Today I’m channeling Cathie and posting some “Undones.”

While I was at The Paperie retreat this past weekend I finished up the LO’s we did while Kelly Purkey was here teaching in March. They’re super simple but all done!

Apart from adding some washi tape (Thanks Cathy!) this is pretty much the LO that Kelly did in class – a bit of misting through a stencil, some awesome Dear Lizzy glitter alphas, and fun beaded adhesive strips:

I completely changed up the next one because… well just because I wanted to!

I stamped the stencil after misting through it, changed the colour of the flowers and the placements of the pics, added a tear strip under the photos to ground them, and punched a border on the edges. However, I did keep the flowers centres – the dots from the i’s on the sticker sheet, pure genius:

Finally, I went kind of in between – this started out as Kelly’s LO and then I just kept adding blocks so it’s a little fuller than hers was but has the same base:

I love the clear embossed resist ampersand:

And I added the popped up “happy” diecut from the Dear Lizzy pack:

This was a super fun class and Kelly used some awesome papers, stencils, and mists. I think it’s safe to say that we all had a great weekend when she was here!

In other news, The Paperie finally announced this weekend that Dina Wakley is coming in August to teach for a whole weekend! If you live in Atlantic Canada, plan a trip to NL for mid-August because this is going to be an incredible opportunity to learn from one of the best in the industry with regards to Art Journaling and Mixed Media. To say I’m excited would be an understatement – vibrating might be more accurate!

and then there was you…

23 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by Sara in Mixed Media, ScrapBook

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Mixed Media Layout, Scrapbook Layout

This is the second LO I made at Cathie’s 7 Layer LO’s class. Loved this one right from the start – I mixed my own paint colour (using Silks, of course!) and we played with monoprinting, molding paste, gesso, and stencils.

I took this pic of Gabe when he was only a few days old – the pictures are deceiving but he was so teeny tiny here! And that white hair – it kills me.

I added InkaGold to the molding paste once it had dried and the shine is awesome sauce:

Some doodling with my black pen:

And layers of stickers and doilies and things to finish it off:

I had originally planned to have one picture of Gabe and one of Molly but the colours were both so perfect for his pics that she got left out this time. I guess that just means I’ll have to make some for her at the Retreat this weekend!

Check out the first LO from that class here!

Love You, You Rock, You are the Best

19 Friday Apr 2013

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

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Mixed media, YearLong Album class

This is – inadvertently – my second post today. I had scheduled my Art Journal post for yesterday but it didn’t go live. Apparently, it wasn’t scheduled after all! Oh well, it just means you get two lots of eye candy today!

For the first time, I finished the LO’s I made for the YearLong Album class. I always leave these blank so people can add their own spin – organize the pictures, add embellishments, etc. – whatever way they want. The difference this year is that the class participants are doing their own thing anyway and I love it! It’s amazing to look around and see how different everyone’s interpretations of the same instructions are.

Anyway, I made my mixed media layered backgrounds and finished them off with pics of Molly and Gabe from March. My finishing touched for Molly’s were extra paper from the starter kit, wood veneer, a doily, hidden journaling, and stickers:

I wanted Gabe’s to flow with hers, make them look like they belongs together in the album, so he has many of the same elements:

I love the technique to make this background so I will definitely be using it again. Crossing my fingers that everyone is going to love doing them on Sunday and think they’re worth the inky fingers!

One in a Million but only 7 Layers

17 Wednesday Apr 2013

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

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Mixed Media Layout, ScrapBook

On Saturday I took an awesome class with Cathie. I normally only use mixed media on my canvases (though I’m working on bringing it to my LO’s too) but Cathie’s a genius at the mixed media LO’s. This particular class was all about layers – 7 to be exact!

I only have one completed, due to flicking white mist all over the picture for the second LO, but I managed not to destroy the picture for this one and love the colour and movement in it.

I really love all the layers, especially the doily to pull your eye through all the layers around the picture:

And this really is One in a Million:

My Gabe, the day he was born. He came super fast so was pretty bruised and beat up in this picture, hence the darkness to his normally very pale complexion!

Cathie has blogged both LO’s from the class here, and Krista, our very clean and simple friend, also blogged her experience with the class here. I love it when we can bring another one to the dark side of messy hands!

I’ll post the other LO as soon as I get it finished, but I do have lots of other work to do this week for upcoming classes and for Simple Scrapper.

One of the things I’m finishing off is my LO for the Yearlong Class this weekend. After Cathie’s class I came home, looked at what I had done and started counting layers – 6! Think I can get another on there before Sunday? 🙂 The funny thing? They’re completely different layers than hers – isn’t mixed media fun?!?

Well, Hello There…

09 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by Sara in Family, ScrapBook

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Family, Midway, October Afternoon

A while back I took part in another tag LO – love those! – and since I was number 1 on a long list of people, I kind of forgot about posting it here once the tag part was done.

This actually turned out to be one of my fave LO’s ever. The picture cracks me up, the kit from The Paperie is my favourite one from them since they started, and the way it all came together worked better than I envisioned. A rare, rare occurrence!

The picture of Gabe was taken at the cabin last year and as soon as I saw the expression on his face all I could think of was my grandfather, Edgar Case – he had the same look many times! The thing is, Pop had glasses and a moustache and well, Gabe is only 3, the moustache is not something happening on his face right now!

Enter the kit. It had some October Afternoon Midway paper, including strips that had glasses with moustaches. And by some fluke of the universe, they were the right size for the picture that had been printed for months. It was just all meant to be!

How seriously funny are those glasses?!?! Can you even believe how perfect they are?

I added a bunch of banners and some flair at the top:

And cut out one of the “LOVE” words on the bottom to make it stand out more:

When I finished this one, I showed my dad and the first thing he said was, “You really need to show this to my siblings.” Yes, he actually said siblings, it’s just his way! But really, it’s uncanny how much Gabe looks like his great-grandfather here – I wish they could have met.

Back tomorrow with an awesome blog hop full of projects to get you in the spring mood – I know I’m ready for a warmer season!

Summer Life

26 Tuesday Mar 2013

Posted by Sara in Mixed Media, ScrapBook

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Martha Stewart, Scrapbook Layout, Simple Stories, Tim Holtz

I was doing some organizing – or attempting it anyway! – when I came across this LO and I’m pretty sure I’ve never shared it here. Plus, it’s a sunny and warm picture and I could cry right now I want warm weather so badly!

Most of this came from a Paperie kit – the snippets of Simple Stories paper, the Dear Lizzie tag, the alphas stickers, but I added the gold Martha Stewart doily:

the Ali Edward’s for Technique Tuesday stamp:

and some awesome Teal Silks and Tim Holtz filmstrip ribbon:

Love the white space in this one, empty of even mist spatters. Sometimes, it just needs to be a little cleaner than usual!

Hoping to get my YLA2013 LO’s done this week so I can post what I’ve done with them. I’m also working on finishing up the February LO’s of Krista’s Keeping Track of Life (KTOL) class. I have the main one finished off with silver thread, now I just need to do the pocket pages and they’ll be ready to share as well!

Cross your fingers you see something completed and posted in the next couple of days!

Simple Scrapper Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY! | March 2013

05 Tuesday Mar 2013

Posted by Sara in Blog Hop, Mini Album, ScrapBook, Simple Scrapper

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Blog Hop, Giveaway, Mini Album, Scrapbook Layout, Simple Scrapper

Another month, another Simple Scrapper blog hop and giveaway! We’re doing the giveaway a little differently this month so make sure you scroll to the bottom of this post and use the Rafflecopter link below to enter a giveaway for a one month trial membership at Simple Scrapper. There are three ways to enter and three winners will be selected. To be eligible, you must enter by 11:59pm CST on Wednesday, March 6.

I used one of the Story Starters this month – the theme is Adventures – to make a mini album of Pirate Day on my dad’s boat a couple of summers ago.

Super quick and easy to do when using a kit and one template!

I gave a peek of this album on my guest post over at Simple Scrapper last week and you can check out all the inside pages over at 2peasinabucket.

For the template sketch, I made a letter size, interactive LO of Miss M who actually wanted me to take her picture for once!

Adding the additional pictures behind the top one allowed me to keep them all at a large 4×6 size while still keeping the LO fairly simple and uncluttered. Plus, there’s loads of space for journaling too!

Again, you can see additional pictures in my gallery over at 2peas.

Make sure you check out what the other design team members have done – they have some amazing LO’s this month! The list is below if you have lost your way or want to start at the beginning. And don’t forget to enter to win the giveaway!

a Rafflecopter giveaway <–click here to enter!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

Sara Case Strickland <– That’s me!

Crop Circles Blog Hop! | March

01 Friday Mar 2013

Posted by Sara in Blog Hop, ScrapBook

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Blog Hop, Crop Circles, Sketchbook365

Welcome to the first ever Crop Circles blog hop!! We are a group of ladies who share ideas and inspiration on all kinds of scrappy projects. Most of us are either Newfoundlanders or have a link to the Island. We thought we would share our inspiration with you and have decided to use a sketch from Sketchbook365 to showcase our many different styles. You have until end of day March 3rd to complete this hop. For every comment you leave along the way your name will be entered to win a Stampin’ Up! bundle valued at $75! You’ll also have chances to win some blog candy along the way from individual bloggers. And I’m one of those bloggers so make sure you leave a comment here! contest is now closed

Here’s my take on the sketch:

Lots of flicked white and shimmer mist:

And of course, twine again, but with brads instead of eyelets this time:

Some real and some faux stitching:

And layers of lovely goodness:

Remember, you have three days to complete the hop and your name is entered to win the grand prize for every comment you leave along the way! Plus, you have a chance to win some Tim Holtz / Ranger blog candy here if you comment! contest is now closed.

Also, this sketch is the March Challenge on the Scrapbook365 blog and it’s open until March 15 so you should play along and maybe win a prize over there too! Leave me a link in the comments if you use it – I’d love to see what you do.

For now, hop along to Lori and give her some love!

And if you get lost, here’s the full list:

Cheryl Ashworth – (partners with Shar Strahan & Brande Strahan)
Kelly Klapstein
Rhea Skomorowski – (partners with Natasha Connolly)
Catherine Stockley
Michelle Marks
Darlene Head Whalley
Corina Mayo Thorne
Sara Case Strickland <– That’s me!
Lori Smith – (partners with Elaine Lambe Beck)
Liz Davis
Cathy Caines – (partners with Rexene Lockyer)

Simple Scrapper Guest Post

27 Wednesday Feb 2013

Posted by Sara in ScrapBook, Simple Scrapper

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Scrapbook Layout, Simple Scrapper

I’m the guest blogger over at Simple Scrapper today. This month the theme is Faster Scrapbooking and my post is all about my method to get a LO done fast.

As my friends can attest, I’m sloooooow so they’ve been amazed lately to see me pull together a completed project in an hour. And I’m going to tell you how I do it!

Go check it out and let me know what you think.