What do you get when you give three designers – the exact same products from the MultiCraft Forever in Time collection? You get three completely different looks! I LOVE IT! Each designer started out with a variety of products from the MultiCraft Forever in Time collection including the following Chalk Classic paper pad Champagne bling sticker sheet Two sets of stamps – Butterfly Fancy and Sunshine Daisy Other MultiCraft Forever in Time products included was a set of gold foil alphabet and black cardstock They could add a few elements from some of their own stash. Here is what they came up with. Designer – Kerry Engel SUPPLIES: Creative Scrapbooker Super Stock, MultiCraft Forever in Time transparent stickers, gold foil alphabet stickers, patterned paper and stamps, Ranger ink and Glossy Accents, Chameleon pens, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L. Designer – Kim Gowdy SUPPLIES: MultiCraft Forever in Time stamps, cardstock…
Hello, Connie Nichol here today with a bright and summery scrapbook layout to lift our spirits during the dark days of November. This last week or two has been cloudy, dark and gloomy, not typical for the Canadian prairies where I live. Scrapbooking with bright colours and summer pictures helps keep my mood up. Can’t you just smell those roses? I started with a few pieces of FabScraps patterned paper. This Country Kitchen line is so pretty – I especially love the papers with sunflowers and gold finches. The papers are two sided so I used both sides of the two papers pictured below, Sunflowers and Tea Lovers. I moistened and then curled the edges of the photo mat to create some extra emphasis and stitched around the main part of the page with dark green thread. I fussy cut a few extra sunflowers and mounted them with dimensional foam…
Check out this layout Connie Nichol designed featuring products from Art-C, Clearsnap and Westcott! SUPPLIES: Art-C patterned cardstock, large alphabet stamps, stencils, texture cream and embellishments, Stampin’ Up! small alphabet, Clearsnap ink, Westcott paper trimmer and scissors. To create the chevron background Connie used an Art-C stencil and texture paste. She used Art-C alphabet stamps and Clearsnap ink to create the title. Connie cut everything out using a Westcott paper trimmer and scissors! Happy Sunday everyone and happy scrapbooking! Subscribe today to our quarterly publication; delivered right to your mailbox.
Hello, Connie Nichol here with a Halloween project featuring the Happy Haunting Collection from Simple Stories and two stamp sets from Quietfire Design. My oldest son went through the ‘ghoul’ phase when he was 9 and 10 – he wanted only to be a scary masked ghoul with a weapon. The scarier looking the weapon, the better. Sigh. Gone were the cute animal or super hero costumes. Here’s the Simple Stories mini-kit I used: This is such a great kit! Six sheets of double sided patterned paper and a 6×12 sheet of cardstock stickers is the perfect size to create a handful of Halloween layouts and cards without being overwhelmed. Here’s the Quietfire Design stamp sets I used – there are 9 stamps in the Crows set and even more in the Halloween Wicked collection! It’s nice to have so many stamps to choose from – big and little, crows facing right…
Hello, Connie Nichol here today with a fall layout featuring some gorgeous Momenta textured cardstock that has a dreamy water colour look. The cardstock comes in an 8×8 paper pad with three sheets of each design. The colours will go with almost everything. I put two of the 8×8 cardstock sheets in opposite corners on a sheet of 12×12 cardstock and then filled in the corners with some shimmery Art-C paint and a self adhesive stencil. Because hey, who doesn’t like to play with shimmery paint? This stuff is gorgeous. And the colour stops my heart. I filled in what was left of the gap between the stenciled paint and the cardstock with a piece of May Arts gingham ribbon, and then mounted my photograph. (P.S. By the way, especially for Canadians, I had this 8×8 photo enlargement printed at www.blacks.ca for 99 cents on a sale last month. I am super…
Hello, Connie Nichol here today with a layout featuring Bo Bunny, Elizabeth Craft Designs Way with Words dies and a Quietfire Design stamp. This layout was inspired by the September sketch in the Creative Scrapbooker Sketchy Challenge. It turned out looking nothing like the sketch, but hey. That’s the creative process. A sketch is a good place to start! Here’s the September sketch designed by Kelly Klapstein. Be sure to go check out the new Sketchy Gallery and upload your interpretation of this sketch. I love to see how everyone else’s projects turn out. The photos in this layout are of my friend Sue and her beautiful daughter Caitlin from 11 years ago. We used to take our children on all sorts of little adventures, and although the kids don’t remember any of them now, not a single one, the stamped quote is totally true. All the things we…
Hello, Connie Nichol here today with an 8 1/2 x 11 layout that I created when I was looking through older pictures and remembering Christy Riopel. I just love this stamped quote from Quietfire Design. It is so true and it made me smile and weep at the same time. Some people that come into your lives make such an impression that you are grateful that you have known them. The Remember word die and the stitched oval dies are from Elizabeth Craft Designs, while the papers and stickers are from American Crafts. I liked the brightness and the happiness of the patterns and the colours from this Rise and Shine paper line – perfect for creating a scrapbook layout about happy memories. Remember to always cherish your friends and family and hold them close because they might not always be there. Supplies Used: American Crafts patterned paper…
Hello, Connie Nichol here today with two simple shimmery cards featuring Always and Forever, two of the new dies released by Elizabeth Craft Designs and designed by Suzanne Cannon of Quietfire Design. You can use them separately as I did here, put them together with an ampersand or add hearts from the Calligraphic Elements 2 dies. These would be great for wedding or anniversary cards. These were very simple to make but I love the way they turned out. I started by dabbing Izink pigment ink (manufactured by Aladine and distributed through Clearsnap) through an Elizabeth Craft Designs stencil to make the ‘patterned’ paper. You could use any ink but I love the shimmer and the gorgeous colour of the Izink ink. Then, I dry embossed Shimmer Sheetz with a Close to My Heart embossing folder to give the sheetz some pattern and texture. The CTMH embossing…
What a yummy looking dessert!!!! and a darn tootin’ cute layout designed by Connie Nichol SUPPLIES: Heartfelt Creations patterned paper, border die and cherry stamps, Chameleon pens, May Arts ribbon, Clearsnap Smooch Spritz, Tombow adhesive, Sizzix Eclips 2 electronic die cutting machine. Connie created this layout using Heartfelt Creations stamps Chameleon pens for colouring May Arts Ribbon Clearsnap Smooch Spritz Tombow Adhesives Sizzix Eclips 2 for cutting out the title Now off I go to make that dessert! SUBSCRIBE TODAY to our quarterly publication – delivered right to your door!
Hello, Connie Nichol here today with a scrapbook layout that features Graphic 45 patterned paper from the Enchanted Forest line and the Dream die manufactured by Elizabeth Crafts Designs and designed by Quietfire Designs. This was a very simple layout to create. I just layered different pieces of Graphic 45 patterned paper from the 6×6 and 8×8 Enchanted Forest paper pads, putting some of the smaller pieces on with dimensional foam adhesive by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L and embellishing with machine stitching and bits of May Arts ribbon. The page title is a die manufactured by Elizabeth Craft Designs. Perfect for a page about a boy and his books. The beautiful calligraphic word dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs inspire me to create many layouts. I also added a couple of butterflies cut with the Sizzix Eclips 2 using from Quietfire Designs Butterfly Heart Card cutting file shown below. The file is…
