October & Halloween 2017

October is always an epic month! This year has been no exception! All of these photos, plus about 200 more, are going into my October Occasionally mini album! Halloween displays started going up in.... August. Now, don't get me wrong, I LOVE Halloween more than I can even describe, but August? Really?! Nothing spooky until October 1st is my mantra hahaha. Still, the kids were excited! And yes,...

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BTW You're Pretty Great Layout

Here is the 3rd of 4 layouts from Paige's Pages 14 at Big Picture Classes! Since I spent so much time and worked so hard on the hand stitched background (free stitching template available in this lesson!), I used a smaller photo and kept the embellishing super simple: just a cluster under and around the photo and a bit of journaling with a white pen on the side and this layout was done!  The...

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Love You Big Title Layout & Process Video

Here is one of the pages we made at She Loves Color 2017 and Crop & Create Thunder Bay! Once again, a short & simple process video so you can see exactly how this layout came together! I love creating BIG titles on my pages because I think they make a BIG impact! Plus, you get to use lots of colorful patterned papers that make my heart go pitter patter :) Like I mentioned in...

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Silhouette Design Team Projects #4

Time for another round of awesome creations from my Silhouette team! Audrey Yeager says, "I used the Pumpkin Trio cut file to make a large pumpkin stencil for my background and used some inks and water to fill it in. Then I cut the Bats Background from a purple Take Me Away patterned paper and trimmed them out. I cut more pumpkins from the Pumpkin Trio using Oh My Heart patterned...

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Butterfly Cards by Flóra Farkas

Design team member Flóra Farkas is here today sharing a pair of "flutterly" beautiful cards! Hi friends! I am back with two cards created with Turn the Page collection. This week we are featuring butterflies on our projects, which is my favourite element to add to my projects. You can never go wrong with butterflies! First I fussy cut many lovely butterflies from Paper...

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Crop & Create Thunder Bay 2017 Recap

I landed in Thunder Bay, Canada in the afternoon of Saturday October 14th, ordered some room service for dinner, and then taught a class! Check out this huuuuuuuge room full of scrapbookers! I am in awe!  I barely had a voice to teach, luckily there was a microphone and all the girls were super nice and understanding! Crop & Create teachers and organizers! Vicki Boutin takes the best...

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