Sunday Sketch March 18th

It's another Sunday!  And that means it's time to play with another sketch.  I think I may be a little stuck on pennants, but it seems like maybe I can keep moving them around until I exhaust the idea - LOL.  Hope you can humor me for another week or so, until my brain moves on.  However, still trying to get more photos scrapped, so I thought this was a fun take with three photos.

This is a page of my daughter with our dog.  The dog is now 12 years old and still doing so well and really attached to the kids.  I know wood grain paper, twine and accordion flowers seem to be all the rage, so I tried to include all of them together on this page created with Echo Park's This and That - Graceful Collection.  OMGoodness, the colors are so fun! And, I love the way the bright pinks and teals look against the natural wood.

I added some of Little Yellow Bicycle's Paradise Paper Flower Kit because it was a perfect match and added some nice dimension to the page.  I layered the flowers from the kit and added the twine.  Totally love how these pop off a page.  I highly recommend Tombow Mono Aqua Glue for the twine.  It sticks immediately and dries totally clear.

This title is from the This and That matching Chipboard Pieces.  I added some of Nikki Sivils' Burlap Buttons for some added texture, plus I cannot get enough of those buttons.  Going to need to figure out what I am going to do when they are all gone.

Had to get the old typewriter out again this week for some journaling.  It seems as if every manufacturer has 3 x 4 journal cards, which are really easy to type on.  I like the way the old school typewriter font looks with all of the colors and textures on this page.

I hope you find some inspiration from the sketch and please leave me a link if you use it so I can stop by and admire your interpretation.

Have a creative week!

Much to Celebrate

Today is my birthday and my husband surprised me with some beautiful earrings (silver loops - my favorite) and the Chaco Sandals below.  The earrings will dress up my casual Colorado life style, because honestly I would wear the Chacos to a business meeting if I could - LOL.

I am also celebrating that tomorrow the Fall issue of Scrapbooking and Beyond Magazine will hit newsstands and my little Maddie is featured on the cover! What a wonderful birthday to have so much to celebrate.

I was lucky enough to have three pages featured in this issue.  The cover page is from the Gadeget Girls series featuring cool new tools from the industry.  You can actually sign up to win the GCD Chipart Tools that I used to create my page.  Just follow the link HERE.   My page features Jillibean Soup, Little Yellow Bicycle, Nikki Sivils and GCD Studios.

My friend, Robbie Herring, and I wrote a really cute column called Krafty Friends which tells how we met and began our wonderful friendship.  We each have a few pages featured using the ever popular kraft paper.

This page features some awesome corrugated kraft paper from Creative Imaginations and Little Yellow Bicycle's Pack Your Bags collection.  My son had such a great time choosing a pumpkin last fall and I love how this collection captures the colors of the season and the sentiment of the excursion.

This page of my daughter features some Jillibean Soup staples kraft paper and the Elementary Collection from Simple Stories.  I love reds and kraft paper always seems to make it pop without going overboard.

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Nikki Sivils Cardset

I think I totally forgot to share these cards created with Nikki Sivils Blueberry Hill collection and featured in Summer issue of Paper Creations 2011.  I used the same materials with each card, but a different main element to create these three fun birthday cards.  I created the sentiments for each card in a textbox on my computer and printed them white cardstock.  Then I cut them out and added them to the backgrounds.  The cards are each 6x6.

I made this one in honor of my son turning 3 this summer.  I used my Cricut Country Life Cartridge to cut the banners.  I like how the primary colors pop with the blue gingham papers.

These balloons were fun to make and the handstitched strings add a lot of personalization to the card.  Just added some bling to the hand drawn border.

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CHA Sneaks - Nikki Sivils

Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker has done it again with some brilliant releases for CHA Summer.  This page was created with her BRAND NEW School is Cool collection which has fun, vibrant colors and motifs.  Nikki has also added more stickers and punch outs to her already fabulous formula.  Please check out her collections at her newly updated website!

I love how Nikki kept her die cut idea but added it to a 12x12 paper.  The colors for this collection are so fun!  I had to do some pages about my daughter playing on the playground, because recess is her favorite part of school - LOL.

Nikki decided to do something a little different and created a Sympathy collection called Get Well Soon.  The colors are really fun, with just enough grunge to keep it interesting.  I used the collection to create this layout of my son napping, since he needed it to get over the dreaded grumps that a two-year-old struggles with - LOL.

Below are all of the collections that Nikki is releasing.  They are so fun.  Hope you will visit her website to see what they include.

 

Tomorrow I will share some Little Yellow Bicycle.  Thank you so much for stopping by!

Nikki Sivils and her friend Elmer's

The Design Team at Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker had an opportunity to pair up with Elmer's to make some fun projects!  They sent us all kinds of fun adhesive to create with for our blog hop today.  If you hop to all the Design Team Diva's blogs, leave a comment and then hop back to Nikki's blog, there is a prize opportunity.  Hope you will join in the fun!

First up is a page with Nikki's We are Family collection.  I just love the kites on the background paper and of course the ribbons.  I was going for an eclectic look for this photo of my daughter, so I added one of Nikki's crown album sheets that I covered with some red fabric using Elmer's Fabric and Paper Glue.

The tree is from Nikki's We Are Family Cut Up Sheets.  I used some of Elmer's Foam Tape to pop it up and then added some of Nikki's stickers and ribbon for good measure.

I think Nikki's Burlap Buttons are my all time favorite.  They are so unique looking and easy to apply.

I had to make a two-page project with Nikki's Beatrice collection.  I love the whimsical feel and the little rolling hills made a perfect background for my project.  I cut up her square die cut page to create the scallops at the top of my project.

Follow the hop to the next Design Team Diva's Blog.

Leah Farquharson

Mimi Leinbach

Rae Barthel

Liz Qualman - You are Here

Julie Tucker-Wolek

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Extra Class Kits For Sale

I have a few class kits left and would be happy to send them out to anyone who would love to play with some of this absolutely yummy product! Each of the kits come with two project ideas (page and card) with complete instructions and all of the materials needed to create them. Each kit also has an exclusive sketch, which I will not post on the internet so only kit holders have the ideas. I have a paypal account and will get them shipped quickly. Please contact me at lizqualman@gmail.com if you are interested. I will be happy to ship international with the best rate I can find, if some of you international girls are interested and especially if it is hard to get these two manufacturers.

This kit is loaded with Little Yellow Bicycle's Elizabeth Park collection. I would be happy to part with it for $27 plus shipping. Below are the two project ideas, but can easily be modified with the many embellishment choices in the kit. There is enough product to create these two project and a few more.

This Spring Page has two sketch ideas for how to modify the page to include multiple photos and can be made with these same products or with other papers and color choices in the kit since it includes all of the Canvas Border strips in the kit.

This Mother's Day Card can easily be changed to another sentiment since the entire package of Fresh Verse stickers is included in the kit.

This kit is loaded with Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker Summer collection and has enough product to make the two projects below plus a few more. I would be happy to part with this kit for $18 plus shipping.

This two page layout design fits 7 photos and was a lot of fun to make. The bright cheery colors are perfect for summer.

Totally adore these mini clothespins with the banners in the Summer collection. Such a fun card to send someone. There are other sentiments included in the kit and can be easily changed to suit your mood.

If you would like to have both of the kits, I can send them to you at a bit of a discount for $40 plus shipping. Just let me know...

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Operation Re-Scrap Classes - Continued

It's a busy day of getting ready for my classes next weekend at Operation Re-Scrap and it's all about Nikki Sivils at my house today.  Cannot wait to share the two-page project I have planned with Nikki's gorgeous Summer collection.

 

This is such a fun collection with lots of yummy elements that are perfect as we move into warmer weather.  I love the notebook die cut paper and have special plans for it in the two-page project.

Buttons, Ribbon, Chalk Ink and more fun little doodads are included in the kit which we will use to create a two-page project and a special card with envelope ready to mail.

Putting together a kit is a lot of work, but I am lucky to have "child labor" living in my house and little hands that are perfect for putting small supplies in tiny zip-loc bags.

See what I mean???  If you look close, you can see that someone was trying to paint her own fingernails today and decided to give up after one hand - LOL.  Oh well, one glamorous hand is all you need for packing scrapbook kits.

What parent could ask for more dedication than this?  I am so lucky!  Below are some sneak peeks for the project that my "mini me" is packing the kit for....

 

Love to use Nikki's cardstock sticker letters in a playful manner and the quality of the stickers is really good.  Look at the little design elements that she included on the stickers, isn't it cool?

A little peek at some of the fussy cutting we will be doing with Nikki's cut out page.  I love this rainbow! 

For more details on this class or the Little Yellow Bicycle class I will be teaching, please click HERE.

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