Layouts from our Weekend at Linda’s

I've finally uploaded more photos of layouts I created back in January when we were lucky enough to spend a weekend up at Linda's cottage. It was beautiful and inspired all of us to get creating! I printed two photos that represented Evan's eternal love for Lego. The top photo shows him with his Black Friday buys.
I enjoyed creating this masculine page using the amazing Blissful line from one of my newer favourite manufacturers, Authentique. The materials for this layout were included in the September 2011 kit bundle I bought from Up The Street Scrapbooking. For the title, I wanted to use the current V+3 symbol to represent a heart. I cut the V and the 3 from some American Crafts brown Chit Chat Thickers to create the heart in the title.

I used a sketch from the 2012 Page Maps Sketch calendar for this layout, which focuses on the wonderful friends and inspiring scrapbookers I met though the spending a year on the Just Cre8 Cre8ive Crew. Journaling talks about what a wonderful experience it was designing with this "gr8" group!


Even though the site folded in 2009, we still continue to stay in touch and I am still so inspired by the talent and energy I found in his group of amazing friends. I still try to see these ladies at least a few times a year. This photo was taken at a National Scrapbook Day crop at my house a few years back. We'll have to do that again sometime soon, won't we ladies!


I started this layout at the Crop & Create Markham back in January at a class delivered by Becky Fleck, and finished it afterwards. I really loved the vibrant colours of the papers as well as the rolled die-cut flowers, so wanted to do something special with this page.


I decided to use this layout to document my feelings about simplify - my One Little Word for 2012. The journaling here talks about my plans for using this word to guide my year.


The photo on this layout is of the title page of the Me: The Abridged Version album which I created last year based on the Big Picture Classes' workshop by Cathy Zielske.



Life is moving at the speed of sound lately, so I haven't been able to spend much time documenting memories and scrapbooking. I've been working on compiling a slide show of the Allure of the Seas Western Caribbean cruise we took in February, and it made me realize that I still hadn't finished a slideshow of our trip prior to that, the Bahamas. So I'm hoping to get some of that done soon.

I'm so excited, though, to have the opportunity to scrap at Scrapfest! I'll be cropping with Sharon, Leanne and Nancy, and am looking forward to seeing Sue, Jen, Virginia, Lancia, hopefully Lori, and so many others!

Are you going? Drop me a line and we can plan to scrap together or meet up for lunch or coffee!

A Peek at a Few More Layouts

There are still more layouts I haven't yet posted from my weekend at Linda's and Crop & Create. I have a few to photograph, but should have that done in the next few days. Here's a peek at a page about Evan's love of Lego. I'll have this layout, and the remaining few, posted in the next day or two.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great March Break!

Recent Scrapbook pages

Here's a quick peek at some of the scrapbook pages I created during the two weekends I scrapped in January. The first one is on Bo Bunny Etcetera Watermark paper. The paper is gorgeous - it's so ethereal and dreamy. I used it for a photo from the girls' ballet mock exam.

I also used my favourite new punch on this page - Stampin' Up's Petite Pennant Builder punch for the little banner in the upper right corner.

This one of my favourite dance costumes. I loved the pretty lilac colour, the beadwork and the sweet little tutu. The girls were astronomers in this costume and carried magic wands with little stars on the ends. I decided to carry through the star theme.



Some of the supplies from this page and the one above are from the September 2011 kit bundle from Up The Street Scrapbooking. I love finding a great Canadian scrapbook kit company, and Up The Street is one! I wish I had time for a monthly kit membership, but sadly time is rare around our house the past few years, so I haven't subscribed, but if you're in the market, check them out!




I saw this layout by the ultra talented Danielle Flanders quite a while back on the Studio Calico blog and wanted to lift it immediately. I used photos of each of the members of our family punched into circles and pulled this together rather quickly. To be honest, I'm not sure that it's finished, but here it is as it stands right now.



I've been using up one of my favourite paper pads from K & Company for ages now, and only have a few sheets left. I thought the papers I used on the next two layouts were perfect for Christmas themed pages. It wasn't my original intent to create a 2-pager with these, but part way through I realizes that they worked really well side by side, so ran the strip of Graphic 45 Christmas paper and the pleated ribbon across them both.

The photos here are two of my favourites from Christmas 2010 - one of the kids enjoying a few last Christmas carols before bed on Christmas Eve, and the second is of them eyeing the empty place of cookies Santa left behind on Christmas morning.

I used another favourite new punch from Stampin' Up on these two pages. It's the Large Lace Ribbon Border punch, and it's so easy to work with, it's a dream!

I still have pages from Crop & Create to post, so I will follow up with those as soon as I can. And yes, it's true - we just arrived home last week from a Western Caribbean cruise, and it was absolutely wonderful! I'll hopefully have at least a few photos of that trip to post soon.

Thanks to all those who have e-mailed or Facebook messaged me to check on my Mom's status. She is settled into a rehabilitation hospital now, and her prognosis is quite good. Unfortunately, she won't be able to move back into her apartment, but at 86 years old, it's best that she have nurses nearby more frequently than her old building was able to do. I hope to head out to Edmonton again this spring or summer to visit with her.

Since my last post, I reached a few milestones that came and went without much fanfare - my blog turned 5 years old on March 7th, and I reached 20,000 views as well. I'll have to get some giveaways going one of these days to celebrate! DOn't worry, I'll let you know when!

Thanks for stopping by my little corner of the world despite that I haven't been updating very often. Your visits and comments mean a lot to me, and I hope to get back onto the blogging and scrapbooking bandwagon again soon! Cheers!