Thinking of you! - AHSC #235

I loved this sketch with the scalloped edges. It made for a sweet dainty card. I used the Mason Jar from our Cricut collection and added some flowers I cut out on my Silhouette Cameo to bring this super easy card together.

 

 

Products used:

 

Paper:

- Falling for you

- Goldrush, Saffron, Fern and White Daisy card stock

 

Ink:

- Fern

 

Stamp:

- D1708 Sending Smiles

 

Die Cutters:

- SIlhouette Cameo

- Cricut Cartridge - Artistry

 

 

Thanks for stopping by to check out my work. I appreciate any and all feedback. We would love to have you join us at AHSC here!

 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Friends make life fun - BTF Challenges

Today is another challenge post and another project from my Dreamin' Big workshop. Today is a layout that I made and is inspired by my girls and their friends. It is so fun watching the girls grow and learn about themselves through their friendships.

Products used:

Paper:

- Dreamin' Big

- Saffron, Poppy, Glacier, Black, and White Daisy card stock

Embellishments:

- Black and White dots

- Black Shimmer Trim

Silhouette Cameo:

- Various fonts for the title

- arrow

Stamps:

- D1702 - Capture This

I had a lot of fun working on this layout and cant wait to add one of my girls and her friends to this page. I welcome any and all feedback on my projects.

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Play like no one is watching - BTF Challenges

Hi again...two days in a row that I have new art for you. Today I bring you my design team work and a layout I did for my Dreamin' Big workshop.

The title of the layout goes across the two pages and is "Play like no one is watching" which is a play on the popular saying of Dance like no one is watching. I just love watching my kids play and there are many times they are busy playing and creating away in the basement while I am working on my CTMH projects and they think I am working but I am really watching and listening to them and are amazed by their creativity and talents...and they have no idea just how closely I am paying attention!

I also know my customers all have kids and grand kids that they scrapbook so this play theme worked well for all of us. I am sorry for the lack of pictures, due to some privacy concerns, I do not post pictures of my girls who will ultimately end up on this layout.

Products Used:

Paper:

- Dreamin' Big

- Saffron, Glacier, Poppy, Black, and White Daisy card stock

Embellishments:

- Dreamin' Big sequins

Stamps:

- D1702- Capture this

Ink:

- Black and Poppy

Silhouette Cameo Cuts:

- The title was cut using some fonts but I do not recall; I will be more detailed next time!

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my project, I hope you like it and I always welcome feedback so I can make my workshops and projects better!

Until next time, happy scrapping!

Brandi

Wild & Free - H2H Challenges

Whew, here we are at another Monday and I have survived my 3rd straight weekend of workshops! I love having people over and helping them to share their memories and their pictures so I love it but it has required a lot of creative time on my part...I know huh horrible that I have to scrapbook and make cards, oh shucks...cant make dinner, these cards will not make themselves....lol Ok so I might have milked it a bit with the hubby and kids but I do a lot for them. So any hoots over the next few days / weeks you will be seeing a lot of the work I have been working on all these weeks. 

Here is project 1 - a layout featuring the Dreamin' Big paper pack. I know I say this all the time but OMG I loved playing with this paper, these pages went together so easily for me. I am so happy I have more to play with!

Products Used:

Paper:

- Dreamin' Big

- Slate, Glacier, Saffron, Poppy, and White Daisy card stock

Embellishments:

- Black Shimmer Trim

- Sparkles

- Itty Bitty Sparkles

Electronic Cutting

- Cricut Artistry

- Silhoutte Cameo

Ink:

- Saffron

Stamp:

- It's your day (retired)

Thanks for stopping by and visiting! Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

TBW - Throwback week at H2H challenges

This week at Heart 2 Heart Challenges the theme is throwback! It is time to dust off those old retired CTMH stamps, papers, ribbons, embellishments, or inks and show them off again. You can also bring back an old favourite which is what I am doing. I am throwing back to one of my all time favourite layouts which is using one of my all time favourite paper packs which is retired!

Hop on over to H2H and join us, we would love to see what you have in your stash that your hiding away!

Thanks for stopping by!
Brandi

Frozen - H2H Challenges

Let it go.. Let it go....

Oh sorry, I saw Frozen was this weeks challenge at H2H challenges and instantly I heard Elsa singing away, actually it was the 3 little munchkins singing at the top of their lungs but it is the same thing right?

In all seriousness, the theme is Frozen. Do you have a little Elsa, Anna or Olaf? Are you buried in snow and ice? Or do you like Frozen frothy drinks by a pool? We want to see what comes to mind when you think of the word Frozen.

For me, it is cold, winter weather that I am not a fan of. Growing up in a tropical environment has given me a love / hate relationship with these Canadian winters. I love having snow on the ground, I don't even mind the cold weather.....in moderation. Lets not get all crazy now, a month or two, fine, but 4-6 months of it, not such a fan of it. 

Anyhoots, we took our girls to a local lake that they often spend time swimming in during the summer and to their surprise it was Frozen in February. They loved actually running around on the "water" the ice and knowing that in the summer that is where they would be swimming. For me, it was surreal to see snow on sand, frozen water with lighthouses in the distance. It was a fun afternoon outside even though it was bitterly cold!

Products used:

Paper:

- Snowhaven (retired)

- Glacier and Cranberry card stock

Stamp:

- D1658 #makesmehappy

Silhouette Cameo:

- Lake Erie is Frozen hand created by me with free fonts from my computer

Embellishments:

- Frosted Sequins by Stampin Up

We would love to see your creations and your take on our Frozen theme, to play along, visit us at H2H challenges!

Thanks for stopping by!
Brandi

A H2H rewind

This week at Heart to Heart we are taking a look back and picking on project we wanted to show off again. I have chose to show off this one page layout I made for a selfie I took with my oldest daughter. 

This layout was super fun to do, it came together so easily, I used the wee bits I had left of a favourite paper pack and I just love everything about it. To see the original post with how it was made, click here!

We will be taking a break from the Heart 2 Heart design team for the remainder of the year to focus on spending time with our families. I hope to get some crafty time in even in the crazy busyness of the holidays. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Brandi

Making Cookies for Santa - H2H Challenges

One of the things I love about the holidays is that there are so many things to do and activities, it is such a fun time. At the same time, it can be cumbersome and overwhelming when it scrapbooking, there are so many wonderful activities to scrapbook that it feels a bit like where to start. 

I was at a weekend crop and decided to start, just jumping and for it and start some with something and it was my girls making their cookies for Santa. 

Products Used;

Paper:

- White Pines

- Cocoa, Champagne, Cranberry, Fern, Glacier, and White Daisy card stock

Die Cutting:

- Silhouette Cameo

- Making Cookies for Santa by Miss Kate Cuttables

- Christmas Cookie set by Miss Kate Cuttables

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my project this week! We would love to see what you come up with, please join us over at Heart 2 Heart Challenges (H2H). 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Grateful - a H2H Challenge

This is the time of year when we slow down and think about the blessings in our life. I am truly blessed because I have a family that I love more than anything in this world. I have a family I adore and love so much and they are just the kindest, nicest and funniest! I have family all over the place and I love and miss so many of them every day. 


I made this layout to showcase a great picture my father in law took at Thanksgiving! We celebrate it in October up here in Canada but being American I always celebrate both!

 

Products used:

Paper:       

- Sangria

- Cashmere, Eggplant, and Pomegrante

Silhouette Cameo

- For this family...by Lori Whitlock

Trending Now - Niagara Falls! - H2H challenge

#family, #love, #makesmehappy, #ctmh, #bestjobever...ahhh hash tags! Remember when this # was a number sign? I do! (obviously since I typed it...lol) Times have changed a lot since I was a kid. The new hip thing is to see what is "trending" aka making news, getting noticed, the hot topic (and yes I realize I sounded super old saying the hip new thing...lol)

For this weeks challenge I decided to do a layout. Now I do not know if #niagarafalls is a trending topic on social media but in our house it comes up often. Niagara Falls was one of the first road trips we took our girls on and they LOVED it and still talk about it all the time. We have been back one other time and it is always a favourite topic so it tends to trend in our house. I also used some different things you can find on social media such as a locate arrow and a hashtag stamp for #makesmehappy.

Products Used:

Paper:
- Zoe
- Glacier and White Daisy card stock

Ink:
- Glacier and Sweet Leaf

Stamp:
- #makesmehappy

Embellishments:
- Zoe Compliments
- Zoe Assortment
- Bitty Sparkles

Silhouette:
- Sketch Pens
- Clean up your mess Font
- Build a Banner Set by Sarah Hurley

Nothing but Blue Skies - AHSC 122

I had so much fun playing with Splendour for the layout for I did yesterday for the You are my sunshine page that I had to keep playing with it more. I grabbed some of the scraps and put this together. Splendour is truly one of those paper packs that I wish I had bought about 15 of, I adore this one and I am almost out of it, I may just cry when it is gone. 

Products Used:

Paper:
- Splendor
- White Daisy and Goldrush card stock

Ink:
- Moonstruck
- Heavenly Blue

Die Cuts:
- Clouds by Studio Illustrado (not CTMH)

Stamp:
- D1426 Over the Rainbow

Thanks for stopping by. Please join us at AHSC and show us your take on this sketch.

Happy Scrapping,
Brandi

Working it! 0 H2H challenges

This week at Heart 2 Heart Challenges our theme is Working 9 to 5! We want to see how you interpret this theme. I chose to scrapbook some pictures of my then 3 year old daughter working hard to make her own lunch. She is so desperate to grow up fast and will do and try anything. On these layouts she was working hard to make her own lunch. 

All products are retired CTMH with the exception of the title, I created that using a font and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich SVG file from the Silhouette store. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Brandi

You are my sunshine....H2H Challenge

Yippee! Another layout, I am really loving that I have been spending more time in my scrapbook area, I am getting layouts done and I love that. I love making cards, but I have so many pictures to develop. I am not that far behind compared to some, I am scrapbooking 2013 right now, but I take an obscene amount of pictures, so I am behind. While I am behind, this layout is actually for a picture I took just last week. I got a self photo (that is what us old people call Selfies) of my daughter and I. There was just something about the look on her face in this picture that I knew this challenge was just perfect for it. I have not developed the picture yet and since I can not publish her image anyway, I am leaving the picture off. 

Products used:

Paper:

- Splendor

- White Daisy and Goldrush card stock

- (the green and blue card stock is actually White Daisy, inked with Heavenly Blue, Moonstruck and Topiary ink)

Inspiration Book:

- Pattern 26 from the Make it from your Heart vol. 2 inspiration book

Die Cuts:

- Artbooking (the sun)

- Silhouette (not CTMH)

     - You are my sunshine quote by Kollette Hall 

Thanks so much for stopping by, I would love to see your take on out "Good Day, Sunshine" theme this week. 

Making Playdough - AHSC #89

Hello! 

I am starting the new year off right, at least in my own mind, 2 challenges down, 2 layouts done. While I do love making cards, it is stressing me out big time at how far behind I am getting in my scrapbooking so I want to make that a focus when I can. I am just starting to scrapbook 2013 and 2014 just ended...eeks! Now I do realize that I am not as far behind as many but I really do not want to fall further behind either. 

Products Used:

Paper:

- Lucy (retired)

- Colonial White card stock

- Creme Brûlée

Ink:

- Creme Brûlée (retired)

- Gray Wool (retired)

- Cotton Candy

- Sweet Leaf

Stamps:

- D1222 - Tiny Typewriter

- S1411 - It's the little things

Electronic Cutter:

- Silhouette Cameo

Misc:

- American Crafts Mini Marks Kate rub-on 

Thanks for stopping by and visiting; until next time!

Brandi

Happy Everything - AHSC - Sketch 84

I have been on a roll lately and the cards have been coming together so easily for me. This week I did have some help, I have a little helper in my scrapbook room with me. My oldest daughter is 7 and loves all things creative and crafty so I she got her hands dirty with me and did some creating with me. 

Having the sketch made that part easy as to what elements we needed but what the rest was up to us to come up with. I chose the Dotty for you papers and she chose the stamp set. I told her to pick one with flowers and she chose D1284 With Love. 

We popped up the main flower to add a bit of dimension, my daughter is all about the pop dots these days. For the flower pot and the main flower we used an ink pad and the water blending pen. My daughter was so impressed that I stayed in the lines on the flower pot. I started the flower to show her how to use the water blending pen and off she went finishing off the flower. My daughter also chose the colours for the "Happy Everything" sentiment and it was her idea to the dots in the pear ink, something I never would have done. She also asked me to distress the edges in Sunset ink, so I did. My daughter definitely has a style all her own and our design ideas do not always see eye to eye and she always pushes me out of my comfort zone and it always seems to work, at least in my opinion. 

Products used:

Paper:

- Dotty for you (retired)

- White Daisy card stock

Ink:

- Sweet Leaf, Creme Brûlée (retired), Lagoon, Sunset, and Hollyhock

Stamp:

- D1284 With Love (retired)

Misc. 

- Water Blending Pen (retired)

- Silhouette Cameo

We would love to see what you would do with this sketch, join us at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and show us how this sketch inspired you!

Thanks for stopping by!

Brandi

Canada Day T-Shirts! A H2H Challenge

Happy Canada Day!

One of our family traditions is to get new shirts each year for Canada Day! As a scrapbooker I always stage pictures of the girls and make sure I get pictures of the girls in their shirts. I made this layout for the pictures I will take this year (I already scrapbooked last years) and the theme for this months Heart 2 Heart Challenge scrapbook challenge. This layout will hold a 5X7 and 3 4X4 pictures and I left a bit of space for some journaling. 

The Challenge this month is a Colour Challenge - Red and White!

It’s not a coincidence that this color combo corresponds with all of the flags of “Close To My Heart countries” and that both Canada and the United States celebrate their independence this month.  

You can any shades of blue and any neutrals to your project, but please keep the focus on Red (Ruby or Cranberry) & White Daisy.  Your project doesn’t have to be patriotic, but it certainly could be!  You must mention which CTMH colors you use in your scrapbooking project.  You must also have some SPARKLE (red shimmer trim, sparkles, or base & bling, anyone?) AND sewing too!  Real or faux, it’s up to you!

So remember, show your CTMH pride, scrapbook-style with:

-Any red and White Daisy

- sparkle

- sewing

- optional blue

Some details about my layout here, I do have sparkle on it but it is not showing up very well in the pictures, I have bitty clear sparkles in-between each of the banners. The swirly lines across the bottom are faux sticking using the Simple Stitches stamp set and are stamped in Ruby and Black. The stitching line was straight but I laid it out wavy on my block for a unique look. 

Products Used:

Paper:
- Ruby card stock
- White Daisy card stock
- Black card stock

Stamps:
- D1291 Celebrate Canada (retired)
- C1234 Simple Stitches (retired)

Embellishments:
- Z1263 Bitty Sparkles (retired)
- Moments Alphabet stickers (Not CTMH)

Silhouette:
- Canada (by Loni Stevens)
- TSHIRTS (font on computer, unable to find name at this time)

Thanks for stopping by!
Brandi

H2H - Rhapsody in Blue

This week at Heart 2 Heart Challeges the theme is Rhapsody in Blue and the goal is to Create a predominately blue project (bonus if you include a musical motif). As always I have a plan in mind when I see one of the challenges and 99% of the time that plan in my head gets tossed aside for something different as I begin. Today I was going to work on my hinged display tray that I got a while ago and had no where to put but as I began looking I remembered I had this bracket frame and thought it would look awesome on our new built in book cases. I wanted to use this saying that I found in the Silhouette online store because it speaks to me as we are in the process of becoming a forever family with our 3 girls we are trying to adopt. This will serve as a reminder to all of us that we are in this family thing forever and none of us are going anywhere! Also, like 99% of my projects I have a plan in my mind for what papers and colours I will be using and I had every intention of using way more blue but when I got putting it together it just would not work with my decor so I while the primary colour is not blue the focal points are blue and the most important words are blue...family and forever!

Everything on here is from CTMH with the exception of the saying, which I got in the Silhouette online store, it is from Kolette Hall. The paper is a retired paper pack called Grace. 

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out the other great projects at H2H!
Brandi

Daddy Rides! AHSC #57

I had a bit of time to prepare this weeks sketch so I decided to try to get back to my goal of scrapbooking my projects instead of cards, t that I do not love making cards but I am also trying to work on getting my pictures scrapped and into my scrapbooks and out of boxes. I am super close to finishing up my 2012 pictures and moving into 2013. Typically, I only scrapbook in double page spreads but I have a handful of events that just do not have enough for two full 12 X 12 pages so I am breaking from my comfort zone of two matching pages and allowing myself to break out of the mould. 

Todays layout is inspired by the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (AHSC). My girls and husband were having so much fun goofing around and playing horsey rides, my poor husband was the horsey! He was such a trooper, each girl wanted multiple rides and they were never long enough for them, his poor back disagreed. 

I really enjoyed working on this layout and it came together so easily with this sketch. So join us over at AHSC and get some pictures out of the box and onto the pages and into your albums!


Products Used:

Paper:
- Stardust
- White Daisy card stock
- Moonstruck card stock

Stamp Sets:
- C1575 True to Life
- C1595 Hello Summer (sneak peak not available until August 1, 2014)

Misc:
- My Crush Best Day Ever Assortment (stickers spelling out rides)
- Epoxy Bubbles green & blue
- Silhouette Cameo (Arial font for Daddy welded together)
- Washi Tape - Gold Dotted 


Thanks for stopping by!
Brandi

Have a Ball! - AHSC #56

A very beautiful and kind young lady I know (and love) is starting soccer this week (we hope, she has been rained out once already!) and to encourage her on her new venture and to let her know that our family loves and supports her I wanted to make her a card (I will also be working on some signs this week for my girls and I to hold up to cheer her on!) She has had a very difficult year for a 9 year old so anything we can do to show some love and support we are on it!

Here is the card I made for her, I used the sketch from AHSC 56 as my inspiration. This is actually my second card for this sketch, my post for the H2H design team took my original attempt as that theme was garden and it had flowers on it and I did not have any additional time, super busy weekend here. Any hoots, I digress, So with this card I tried to mimic a soccer field, green grass (Olive card stock) white sky (White Daisy card stock), Blue clouds and the sun (Stamp D1426 Over the Rainbow and ink colours Sky and Sunny Yellow). The soccer balls were cut using my newest toy a Silhouette Cameo and while I love my Cricut, I LOVE my Silhouette so far. The cuts were so detailed, I could not even believe it, look at those little black lines, that is black card stock. The patterned paper on the banner is a scrap I had, I do not remember what paper line it is from, sorry!

Please join us over at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge (AHSC) and join the fun! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Brandi