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Flourish and Grow – with Close To My Heart Cardstock Strips

June 20, 2017 1 Comment

Hi there, Connie Nichol here today with a bright and colourful layout featuring one big photo and some strips of CTMH cardstock. I love this cardstock – it is smooth and just the right weight for electronic die cutting and card making and has a white core, meaning it looks stunning when dry embossed or distressed. Anyway, I had bits and scraps left over from other projects lying around, most of it from the Whimsy cardstock line, and they make an absolutely perfect background for this photo of my son in front of a height chart. The inspiration for this layout totally came from the photograph. I simply mimicked the coloured stripes on the height sign with strips of similarly coloured cardstock. Tto dress up the cardstock a little bit, I punched some little cloud shapes out of the same colour of cardstock on a few of the rows…

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Sunflowers – with the Sizzix Eclips2 and Quietfire Design Electronic Cutting Files

March 26, 2017 3 Comments

Hello, Connie Nichol here today with a very simple layout that uses minimal supplies – basically just cardstock! If you have an electronic die cutting machine like the Sizzix Eclips2, you really don’t need much else. This layout is totally about the Sunflower cut file from Quietfire Design. I fell in love with it when I saw it, and what better page embellishment for sunflower photos? I was so excited last year when a friend told me about a nearby sunflower field. You can of course customize the colours and size of the flowers as you see fit so it is a very versatile file. I cut the flowers and the title out with a Sizzix Eclips 2. I opened the svg file, ungrouped the shapes and cut them out of different colours of cardstock. They were so pretty I didn’t want to add a lot of other ‘stuff’…

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Baby Love – with Elizabeth Craft Designs, BoBunny and Quietfire Design

February 12, 2017 2 Comments

Hello, Connie Nichol here today with a layout featuring a selection of dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs. I used the Butterfly 1 die from Elizabeth Craft Designs and the Believe patterned paper collection from BoBunny to cut a swarm of winged insects from bits of patterned paper (a great way to use up scraps)! This was about the fourth layout I’ve created with the Believe collection. I just adore the colours – they are so bright and happy and versatile! As an aside, here’s a layout I did for the Quietfire Design Digital blog using the same papers. Totally different look. Anyway, for the Baby Love layout, I started with a plain piece of white cardstock and just spritzed a little Dylusions spray ink from Ranger on kind of a diagonal line to add a bit of interest to the background. Then I added the title cut using a brand new…

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Day #4 – A Taste of CHA

February 2, 2017 519 Comments

CHA (Craft and Hobby Association) holds one of the biggest crafting trade shows in the world. At these shows many crafting companies release and display their latest and greatest products – the winner of this prize package will receive a little taste of the latest products from 45 different crafting companies!!! YAHOOOO!!! It is DAY#4 of a Taste of CHA featuring Quietfire Design, Canvas Corp, Magenta, MultiCraft and Technique Tuesday How it works 1. This contest is all about giving our sponsors some LOVE! 2. During the next 9 days (Jan 30 – Feb 7th) you need to visit 45 of the HOTTEST scrapbooking manufacturers on facebook LIKE their pages or FOLLOW their blogs. Joining their communities will keep you informed of all things good in the scrapbooking industry! What will you win – A TASTE OF CHA sample pack worth over 1000.00$ of the latest product released by each of…

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Day #8 – 12 Days of Giving

December 19, 2016 706 Comments

12 DAYS OF GIVING! WIN WIN WIN!!!! Let the party begin! Each day for 12 days in a row we will be sharing three prize packages with you. Leave a message under the blog post for each post in order to be entered for all 36 Prize Packages. Visit the prize sponsor on facebook and say hello from Creative Scrapbooker Magazine or CSM. NOTE do not use the same comment everytime you post on facebook – Facebook thinks you are spam and may block you. Names will be drawn randomly and you can win more than once if you enter your name under more than one blog post! Winners will be announced on Dec 24th. Just in time for Christmas! Day#8 of 12 Starts NOW! Our first prize is from Quietfire Design This package from Quietfire Design is filled with an assortment of their classic cling foam sentiment stamps – absolutely perfect for both scrapbooking and…

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Merry & Bright Christmas Layout

December 2, 2016 No Comments

Hi there, Connie Nichol here today with a Christmas layout featuring the Believe Way with Words die from Elizabeth Crafts Designs, the Merry & Bright Christmas collection from Bo Bunny and a Quietfire Design stamp with a beautiful quote. My kids are getting older, but even as gawky teenagers, they still adore Christmas and all the special traditions that come with it. Make sure that you take a few pictures to capture the memories this Christmas, even if it is not ideal. This past Christmas we were still in the middle of renovations and the flooring had all been ripped up. Plywood is not a very conducive environment for Christmas decorating but it is still a special time of year and I’m glad to have these photos to remember it by. I actually started with the December sketch from Creative Scrapbooker Magazine’s sketchy gallery. It’s a card sketch, but there’s no…

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The Earth Laughs in Flowers – with Chameleon pens and FabScraps paper

November 25, 2016 No Comments

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…

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A Ghoulish Halloween with Simple Stories and Quietfire Design

October 27, 2016 No Comments

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…

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Autumn Memories with Bo Bunny

October 2, 2016 No Comments

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…

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Some people leave footprints on our hearts….

September 25, 2016 No Comments

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…