1. The Paperie is having a *huge* day on Saturday! It’s their anniversary so almost everything will be tax free, the May club kit is going live (and I have it on good authority that it’s amazing this month!), there will be a fabulous bake sale, and there will be a Mother’s Day card Make ‘n’ Take! You should definitely all go – it’s going to be a great, and yummy, day!

2. Speaking of the bake sale at The Paperie, the person doing it is none other than Krista! Along with being a talented scrapbooker, she’s also an incredible baker! I bought some things from her shop, Taffety, at Christmas and they were to die for! For instance, I am not a caramel fan, too sweet and sticky for me, but she made these Salted Caramel Shortbreads and I think I ate the whole container myself – oops! She’ll have those there on Saturday, along with Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies, and more. Yummy!

3. Check this out. Goes along very nicely with yesterday’s post and is an awesome technique that I have to try!

4. And speaking of the Spring Seasonal Distress Inks  – they could not be much better. An awesome yellow, a beautiful lilac, and the most incredible teal, called Peacock Feathers! Going to be my new fave for sure!

I swiped each across Specialty Stamping Paper, then pressed down the ink pad at the top to show the more intense colour. Love! Check out this great video showing how these colours fit into the existing palette.

5. One of the best tools I have in my scrapbooking arsenal was free. You can go to the Ranger website and, for most of their products, you can download label sheets and Colour Charts. I use these all the time and people are always asking me where I got them – here they are! The charts are great for knowing what colours you have left to buy and for knowing what colour ink to use; the labels make is super easy to  find the ink colour you’re looking for!

Have a good one – back tomorrow with a couple of easy cards using the new Distress Ink!

S.

1. Love these girls! Have one piece and am saving for more. Fun, quirky, colourful, and oh so Newfoundland! My piece is called Uncle John’s Longjohns and it has a pair of onesie jammies hanging on the line. 🙂

2. G likes monsters these days so if we ever get around to a birthday party for him, I think his cake will be something like this – hilarious! I have big plans for the addition of cake pops too.

3. Seriously? This is genius!

4. You know I love a good tutorial, no matter how quick and easy, so here’s a good and trendy one – make your own chevron!

5. I have such great, talented, and fun local scrapping buddies – go check out Krista, Cathie, and Colleen and leave them some love! Can’t wait to see you all this weekend!

I’m off this evening for 3 nights and 3 days of scrapping fun – I can’t wait! Hope you all enjoy your weekends whatever you may be doing!

S.

So, this week just gets busier all the time! So much for a regular week to do this project – then again, is there any such thing as a regular week?

I thought I might be on top of things yesterday, but then I got an email from Meghan wondering where my biweekly Paperie Picks blog post might be…. So much for being caught up!

M had kinderstart yesterday morning and didn’t want to finish her milk (daily fight; she hates it, I say too bad for her), M and G spent the night at Nanny and Poppy’s house so there was the rush to get them there, then D and I went for dinner, and once we were back again, I had a post to write but ended up falling asleep on my keyboard (literally, it was pretty bad!). Now, how’s that for a run on sentence!

Here are some pics from the day (I have others that are great each day, but they’re of the kiddies I look after. This project is wonderful for their parents, picture wise!):

Back tomorrow with some more!

S.