Happy Halloween

This year I decided to decorate my fireplace, like I did at Christmas last year.

So the kids and I filled the firebox with pumpkins and haunted houses.

 

 

Look what I found at Home Sense last week.

Don't these glass pumpkins look like

 

Don't they remind you of the work of Dale Chihuly?

I really love this one above.

 

I got this blue one last year.  It has a light built in the bottom. 

 

Here's a look at the display during the day.

 

And here it is at night.

I love the orange Christmas lights.

 

 

I've been collecting these pumpkins for my classroom for years.

Last year I brought them home.  My kids love them.

 

I hope that you and your families have a wonderful night.

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

 

thanks again for stopping by.

 

Sandra

Colour Q Challenge #213

 

 

This cute little photo is of my hubby and my son when he was a few weeks old  I've never really scrapped it before because its such a small and slightly out of focus photo.  And the colours are a bit funky in it.  But I put it through Pixlr and gave it an instagram type look.

Hop on over to the Colour Q and check out the samples from the Royal Court.

 

 

I used these kits and templates to create this page.

 

 

 

 

Another Mason Jar

 

Just a quick post today.

Here's another of my Mason Jar cards.

It's all cut from paper by American Crafts and the sentiment is from Stampin' Up! 

Another Quick Birthday Card

Happy Birthday Fun

Here's a quick and easy card I whipped up with a cute kit from Crate Paper - I will post more of the cards in the future.  Enjoy!

thanks for stopping by!

Sandra

Simple Cards

 

I bought this beautiful paper pack (from American Crafts) last year from Target, when I was in California.  Recently I found the matching blank cards at Winners - the Canadian Ross store.  I put them together and came up with this cute card.  The card stock is from Stampin' Up and the Die cuts are from Nestabilities.

 

 

 

More Thank You Jars

 

Here's another cute card with that pack and paper from American Crafts.

 

Halloween Decor

I have these shabby chic frames that I've been collecting to decorate my Crafting Room.

So I finally got organized and whipped up a few quick 3D collages.

And when I say quick, I really mean it.

Like 15 minutes...

 

 

This image was made from a piece of patterned paper from My Mind's Eye

And that banner is a 3D sticker from K&Co. 

 

This frame has two banner stickers from K&Co on some DSP from K&Co. 

 

 

Here's a frame with a banner from the same K&Co kit and the

Halloween die cut from My Mind's Eye

Make A Wish Birthday

 

Here's a cute little birthday card I whipped together a few months ago.

The stitching is made using a paper piercer and using a white Signo gel pen.

 

I'm entering this over at Seize the Birthday.  Hop on over and check them out.

The Moxie Fab Stickers and Tape Challenge

 

This card was made with this fantastic paper from Crate Paper.

I used the stickers to add detail and I mounted them and popped them up on dimensionals.

Then I added glitter for more detail.

 

I'm entering this in the Stickers and Tape challenge over at Moxie Fab.

 

I'm entering this over at Seize the Birthday.  Hop on over and check them out.

 

 

The Moxie Fab Colour Media Challenge

 

 I love this paper.  It's from Crate Paper, and this pack includes some die cuts and stickers.  I used the most vibrant page from the pack and then added some glitter glue to match.  The sentiment is from Stampin' Up! and I stamped it in Basic Black ink and carefully cut it out to make the banner.  The flower and the Girls Just Wanna Have Fun stickers were placed on black paper and then cut out by hand and mounted up on pop dots.

 

I'm entering this in the Moxie Fab Color Media Challenge. 

 

I'm entering this over at Seize the Birthday.  Hop on over and check them out.

The Ready Made Embellishment challenge from Moxie Fab

 

I used some preprinted cards and the matching paperstack to create this card.  It's all from American Craft.  The flowers are stickers and die cuts that I made into a bouquet.  I cut the jar our of the paper and popped it up on pop dots.  The sentiment is from Stampin Up! and I carefully cut it out so that it fit on the jar like a label.

 

I am entering this in the Moxie Fab Ready Made Embellishment Challenge.

 

Colour Q Challenge #210

 

This week we have a bright combo for you over at the Colour Q.

I decided to scrap this beautiful photo of my daughter.

I just LOVE her expression.  You can see just how excited she is to be playing soccer.

 

Hop on over to the Colour Q and check out the fabulous work by the Design Team.

 

 

 

Thanks again for stopping by!!!

 

 

Sandra

 

 

 

 

Colour Q Challenge #209

This week at the colour Q we have a bright summery combo for you.

I decided to go back to my summer photos and scrap some of my cuties on the beach.  Here we are at the local beach and the kids were playing on the lifeguard chair.  I used to play on this same chair when I was a little girl.

 

 

Below are some of the kits from Pixels and Co that I used. 

I also used a few digital stamps from Stampin' Up

 

 

Colour Q Challenge #206

Sorry I'm a few days late with this post - life has been CR-aaazy this week.

You might know that I'm a teacher and school started last week.

You probably don't know that my husband is also a teacher and he started last week.

AND my children are both young (grades one and two)

And this week after much deliberation we decided to pull our children out of the school that they have been going to, and send them to another school close by. 

It was not an easy decision, but we've been debating about it for a few years.

 

Anyway, today I am finally getting around to posting my page for Colour Q

 Here's the palette.

 

 

 

I used the kits below - all from Pixels and Co.

 

 

Colour Q Challenge #205

 

I picked through a variety of kits from Pixels and Co to put together this page.

We went to the Okanagan last month and had a blast splashing around in the lake as it was sooooooo hot.  I really like how the pink in the layout accents the pink in the photo.

 

Stampin Royalty Challenge #191

 

Welcome to Wednesday and another challenge from Stampin' Royalty.

This week our challenge is fairly simple.

 

The Shape of Things...

Circles, circles, and more circles.

 

I pulled out all my circle punches and went to work.  I've seen tons of pages and cards done with the Silhouette machine, and I was really tempted to dust mine off and get to work, but then I pulled out the punches and was really happy with what I came up with.  So I pulled out some of my new In colour Card Stock and mounted up those circles to make this card.

 

 

The background is Coastal Cabana.  The sentiment is stamped in Early Espresso from the Kindness Matters stamp set.

Colour Q Challenge #204

Wow, 204 challenges.  It just hit me, how many challenges I have been a part of.  When I see combos like this week, I realize just how much I LOVE colour combo challenges.  Although these are all very  bright colours, I knew I wanted to scrap these photos from a recent Friday night in my local neighbourhood.  Although the colours don't match completely, I really think they compliment the bright colours of the clothing in the pictures.  I used Pixler.com to edit the photos to make them look like Instagram edited photos.   The title and the date were printed out from My Digital Studio and the long journaling is from a set of pocket pages from Me and My Big Ideas.

I live in the Community of North Vancouver, which is a suburb of the city of Vancouver.  In my neighbourhood, which is a small part of the district of North Vancouver, there are many neighbourhood events which are perfect for people with younger children.  Although Vancouver is one of the larger cities in Canada, and the city core is only a 10 minute drive away,  North Vancouver feels like a whole new world.  If you saw any photos of the Winter Olympics in 2010, then you'd realize how close the North Shore (north and west Vancouver) are from the city centre. 

The photos above are of my friend Kirsta, her daughter and my kids.  Every Friday night in the summer months there is live music.  People bring chairs, eat from the local eateries, and listen to the music for a few hours.  The children dance, and dance, and dance.  It's a ton of fun.

Colour Q Challenge #203

I couldn't believe it when I saw this week's colours.  The colours in these photos of my son were perfect for this challenge.  The bugs were part of a Shrinky Dink package from Little Yellow Bicycle.  I made a few of them, and shrunk them and really didn't like the way they shrunk, so these ones are not shrunk.  I just coloured them to match the challenge and then cut them out and attached them to white cardstock and cut them out again.  This way they show up nicely against the patterned background - like that little bumble bee.  The stamped sentiments are from Close to My Heart, and the title stickers are from Basic Grey.  The woodgrain stickers and the cute little bugs are from Little Yellow Bicycle and the rest is all Stampin' Up!  Don't forget to hop on over to the Colour Q and check out all the samples from the Design Team.

 

 

Happy 10th

 

Here's a quick card I whipped up for my brother's 10th anniversary party.

The paper is from American Crafts, the embellishment is from Basic Grey and everything else is from Stampin' Up!