.: 2014

Craft room tour

I will be a guest over at Kraftin Kimmie for the month of January, Ive been working on cards for the month :) Totally excited!

While I'm working on the cards I will leave you with a quick tour of my craft room. Its nothing fancy but its organized enough where I can actually find crafty things when needed.

If you have any organization tips I would love to hear them!

Thanks for peeking in,
have a good New Years eve!

Merry Christmas

The big day has finally arrived! Wishing you a wonderful day spent with family and friends.

A very merry Christmas to you.

This little tag is made with Penny Blacks Red Star stamp. I love the old school vintage feel to this stamp.

I splattered lots of white paint to look like snow...

Close up

The main street of our local town is lined with Christmas trees decorated by school children. Such fun, I love it!!

Tag made for Simon Says Anything goes challenge found here.

Made with ..

Penny Black Red Star

Hampton Peace Love Joy

Vintage photo distress ink

white acrylic paint

misc tinsel and bells

Christmas Stickles

watercolour paper and paint

snow writer Dansen

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Still making tags for gifts under the tree, just a few more to be made! The Christmas lights is actually a necklace from the dollar store which I think is a fun addition to the tag.

Close up :)

Thought I would share the ad in front of our local Tim Hortons. Totally yummy Christmas treats! :)

Merry Christmas.

Made with ...

Tim Holtz Tag die

Your Next Die file tab

dollar store light necklace

misc tinsel & bell

Studio G Winter Sentiment

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo

Snowman from a friend :) thanks Dar

Made for Simon Says Challenge found here

One Crazy Stamper Anything goes Challenge found here.

Jolly old St Nick

A few creations made for High Hopes Anything goes challenge found here. & One Crazy Stampers Anything goes challenge found here These Santa's make me smile :)

close up....

Thanks for peeking in. Only a few more sleeps until the big day! :)

Hope Santa got your letter in time!

Have a great evening :)

Don't worry I'll come back again some day!

Another quick tag, been playing around with this awesome Tim Holtz Snowman die cut.

close up...

And a vintage photo to share. Gotta love that awesome mushroom hair cut (how embarrassing lol) !

Made for One Crazy Stampers anything goes Challenge found here!

Simons Wed Challenge found here

Merry Christmas :)

Made with ..

Tim Holtz Tag Die

Tim Holtz Snowman Die

Twine

Michaels plaid ribbon

MSE Frosty Sentiment Quote

Dollarstore bell and lights

Snow Writer Delta

Janome Ser mini

Coats button thread

Glittery gems (from Greta)

dollarstore ribbon tinsel blue

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo, Black Soot, Spiced Marmalade

Numbered Tag (From Bibiana)

Its been a busy few days getting ready for Christmas. Been making some holiday tags which I plan on adding to the gifts under the tree. This gal is from Tim Holtz's Christmas Carol die. The added chipboard "Christmas Cheer" was sent to me from Bibiana.

Added a bit of tinsel and the washi tape used is from a Christmas card envelope I received from my friend Rosemary :)

Tag made for One Crazy Stamper's anything goes Challenge found here

Simons Wed Winter Inspiration Challenge found here

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas. Here is images from this years Christmas Wreath on our fromt door.

The Santa and reindeer is a vintage number found at our local Salvation Army store!

Made with ...

Hero Arts Music Stamp

Tim Holtz Tag die

Tim Holtz Carolers die

Tinsel

washi tape & bell

Janomi Sew Mini

Burlap rope

misc bell

Christmas Chipboard

chalkboard Christmas jars

Hi, thanks for peeking in tonight. I've been busy craftin up some festive jars. I found some great tips and craftin ideas from a lady on youtube (Roxyfur) found here.

The jars are from dollarama and they have been painted with chalkboard paint. 2 coats in either direction letting the layers dry in between. Once the layers are dry I seasoned the chalkboard surface by rubbing a layer of chalk on it.

Since the caps are clear on the jars I decided to add Kraftin Kimmie stamped images for some added fun. Plus also some red glitter tape from my friend Linda :)

added some Candy Cane cups to the jars (they are super yummy) !!

Copic coloured the images and added them to the caps along with some trimmings and bells.

and that's about it!

Thanks for stopping by!

made for Kraftin Kimmie's wonderful Wed found here! & Simon's Monday Anything Goes found here

Merry Christmas :)

Made With...

Kraftin Kimmie Christmas is Love and Wilber stamps

CraftSmart chalkboard paint

white chalk

festive pipecleaner

Candy Cane cups from Dollartree (super yummy)

Creative Bag Twine

copic markers

recollections glitter tape

Michaels green ribbon

Momento black ink

Ho Ho Ho

Happy Sunday, hope you are doing well today :) Had some time last night to play in the craft room. My Cricut imagine (which is a machine that prints and cuts) needed calibration which I completed and printed this two layer Santa image. So I decided to make this little tag since I had already printed this Santa test image! :)

One crazy stamper is having an anything goes challenge over on their blog so I will be entering this little tag in their challenge this month found here

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy your day!!

Made with ..

Creative Bag ribbon

Misc dollar store tinsel

Cricut Imagine Santa's Village

Tim Holtz Tag & 25 die cuts

Merry definition stamp set (TBA)

Maya Road twine

vintage photo distress ink

red barn distress ink

misc wooden star and chipboard & bell -- unknown

forever in time pop dots

Kraftin Kimmie Christmas card exchange & Guest Design challenge

Thanks for stopping by tonight. I participated in Kraftin Kimmie's Christmas card exchange over on Facebook. This is the card I sent along with some Christmas Twine and Christmas Ribbon. I hope the gal that receives this card likes it!! :)

Kraftin Kimmie is currently having a guest design contest and she is accepting entries until the end of the week. Totally love her stamps and design team so I will be adding my card into the challenge :)

In other news I have been tinkering around on Twitter trying to figure out how it works. Please let me know if you use Twitter and I will follow you. My twitter handle is @luv2scrapnat :)

Made With ...

Kraftin Kimmie Hark Angel

Heidi Swapp star stencil

Copic Airbrushing

Copic markers

Copic spica gold pen

misc music sheet

Xpress paper

Maya Road Tree Ribbon

Maya Road Gold Ribbon (Thanks Greta)

Vintage Photo distress ink

Tim Holtz star die cut

Recollections brads

cotton balls

Maya Road Twine

misc gold bell

90 Minute Scramble -- Hero Arts

Cards made for the 90 minute scramble that I was lucky to host today. Such a fab bunch of ladies, love them all!

The theme was to use your older Hero Arts Stamps and boy did they ever. Truly awesome creations, check them out here

and a wee little video of hubby picking the winners ...

Thanks for stopping by, I'm pooped as that was some heavy duty crafting today!

I will have lots of time to rest up as this is the first day of my holidays and I go back to work in the new year! :)

cards made for simon says challenges found here & here

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Hero Arts 90 minute scramble Saturday Dec 6

The next 90 minute scramble is on Saturday December 6th at 2pm EST

On the Hero Arts Flickr Group

Please see the time in your area here

So basically the way it works is the host will provide a theme and you have 90 minutes to post a creation made specifically for the challenge using a Hero Arts stamp.

(You will need to have a Flickr account set up and have 5 or 6 photos posted on your account a week or so before playing so your account is reviewed and approved by Flickr)

Please play along, I will be offering a little prize :) and would be happy to help any newbies (just let me know). You can see my Flickr account on the side bar of my blog if you want to check it out.

Hope to see you on Saturday!

Endless Possibilities

The majority of cards I make are more girly, so this one is a little out of the box.

Tried to keep it simple by using elements such as Hero Arts woodgrain

background, black & kraft.

This stamp set would be good for Movember too :)

Made for One Crazy Stampers Anything goes challenge found here

AtoZScrapbooking Anything Goes Challenge found here

Dollarama had a coordinating gift bag which I thought would be a good match. Its actually a bithday card and the inside reads "...on your birthday, enjoy!"

Happy Black Friday. Have fun out there:)

Made with...

Hero Arts Woodgrain Background

Recollections Mustache stamps

MMI Letters/Words

Black and Kraft card stock

misc gems & button

Maya Road Twine

Vintage Photo Tim Holtz

Next 90 minute scramble -- Dec 6th Hero Arts

I was able to play along in Theresa's 90 minute scramble today on the Hero Arts Flickr site. Her theme was Snow so I came up with these reindeer playing. Check out all the awesome entries found here.

So basically the way it works is the host will provide a theme and you have 90 minutes to post a creation made specifically for the challenge using a hero arts stamp.

(You will need to have a flickr account set up and have 5 or 6 photos posted on your account a week or so before playing so your account is reviewed and approved by Flickr)

I will be hosting the next challenge on ...

Saturday December 6th

2PM EST

Here's a link to the Event Time Announcer to figure out the time of the Scramble in your area

Well Christmas is in the air. I came across this sign on my way to One Crazy Stamper last weekend. Yes, Santa will be in the Caledon area Dec 6th lol the same day I will be hosting the Scramble!! :)

So if you are going to the parade you still have lots of time to get home for 2pm EST and play along over on Flickr!

I pulled over on the side of the road to take this picture when I saw the sign. Some guy driving was laughing (At me I guess) LOL!

Oh well at least I made him laugh?!?

made for A to Z scrapbooking challenge found here

One Crazy Stamper's anything goes challenge found here

TBT Christmas Ornament ATC

Original post found here.

Bibiana has one last Throw back Thursday until the new year and I wanted to share an ATC ornament

made a few years back.

This was part of a trade I made over at Swap-Bot. Wish I had made an extra one for myself but never had the time to complete that. So I thought I would make another today and show you how I did it with a little tutorial.

The supplies ...

Used a Hero Arts music background stamped with distress ink along with a cut out Angel ...

Back of the ornament stamped with a ATC ART stamp ....

added tinsel ribbon around the ATC with hot glue...

Cut the picket fence with wire cutters. The fence is from Dollarama our local dollar store. I found it in the Christmas display/village section of the store

Added a bell and hot glued the base of the atc to white cardstock then cut around the fence...

some music ...

Added Christmas carol text paper which has been distressed with Vintage Photo....

airbrushing with Copics ....

plus some stickles too.

Finished !

close up :)

Thanks so much for stopping by. Check out Bibiana's TBT found here. She's super talented and I find lots of great crafting tips on her site!

Thanksgiving Fall Tag

Thanks so much for peeking in today. Super quick post of a Thanksgiving tag made with Hero Arts CG288 Little leaf cling. I used crackle accencts on the leafs for a weathered look.