A Vintage Charm Home Decor Project

Hello Everyone! Hope you are all doing well. I'm jumping on the blog with a quick post. I'm up on the Noel Mignon Blog today with a new project using this month's "Vintage Charm" Daily Diary Kit. The design team challenge this week is called Our House. We were to incorporate our house in our projects or create a home decor piece. I created a home decor project using an embroidery hoop. Here's my creation.

I have close ups and details on the Noel Mignon Blog so please stop by and say hello! 

Have a nice week and thanks for stopping by. 

Project Life Page and Amen to Friday!

Hey ... It's FRIDAY!! Amen and Halleluiah to the work week being over! It's been very busy at work which is tiring me out as my hip is really hurting. I'm planning on surgery soon - the chronic pain is not welcome!! It's time to relax, spend time with my family and work on some deadlines - all in two days LOL!!

I worked on a Project Life page in between Design Team Projects using Maggie Holmes Open Book. Here's my whole page...

Here's the title card - I layered a frame, die cuts and a few other elements to add depth.

I used the rub ons that coordinated with the Open Book collection and a few of the cards.

My photos this week feature my love of coffee and were printed with the Collect App...

 

Here's the last few cards ... I LOVE the layered tags in the collection!!

The confetti pockets were already created from the prior week.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you too can relax and enjoy family and friends this weekend! See you next week, rested and ready to tackle another hectic work week!!

Vacation, Pet Sitting and Project Life

Happy Wednesday! It's been so incredibly nice having this week off in between the holidays. It's lovely not getting up at 5:00am, and not commuting and especially not working!! I think I'm ready to retire, unfortunately I have a way to go before that happens.

I've been pet sitting a VERY ENERGETIC, very anxious dog for my neighbor.

He's a 2 yr. old rescue dog and I'm not sure what his background is other than he was rescued from a tornado situation in Mississippi. He's sweet but quite anxious. Each day is a little better but every little noise sets him off. He's a snuggle bunny at night and it's nice having him since my recent loss of my sweet girl Simba.

I have been catching up a bit on project life and I want to share another page with you today. This is a fun page that came together quickly. I used Maggie Holmes Open Book Collection, including lots of die cuts that coordinate with the collection. Here's the whole page ...

Here's close ups of the cards. I layered the die cuts with some fabric brads.

The cardstock stickers are Chit Chat stickers by Tim Holtz. I love these and use them on ALOT of my projects! They are pretty perfect for project life pages!

 

I love the gold in the Open Book collection! A quick easy page to catch up!

Thanks for stopping by and I'll be back tomorrow with another PL page! Enjoy your day!

 

Project Life: Week 35|2015

Hey There - Happy Tuesday! Hope you are all doing well!

I'm hopping on to share my latest Project Life page using Noel Mignon's October Daily Diary Kit "Blue Moon". This kit is so full of awesome papers, cards and embellishments. For this page, I focused on the Maggie Holmes journaling cards from the kit. I'm a HUGE fan of Maggie Holmes so this page came together soooo quickly!! Love when that happens! Here's the whole page ...

Love the softer color palette of these cards! For close ups and details, stop by the
Noel Mignon Blog today! Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned for lots of project coming up in November! Have a great week!

12 Days of Holiday Inspiration - Day 2

So, are you ready for more Holiday Inspiration? The "Inspiration Crew" is back today with Day 2 of the 12 Days of Holiday Inspiration! For details on this event check out my post HERE.

 

 

I created a simple card for today's inspiration. I used Lawn Fawn's "Peace Joy Love" petite paper pack again for my card. I love the bright Holiday colors in this collection!

 

 

I cut a few strips of paper, notched out a banner at the ends and layered them under a simple tree. I embossed the sentiment on white cardstock and layered that over the tree. The scalloped dictionary vellum is from Maggie Holmes "Open Book" collection. I added a few sequins as ornaments and a star sequin for the top of the tree.

 



 

Easy peasy, right?! Below is a list of all the crafty ladies participating in this event. Be sure to visit all the blogs each day for loads of fun holiday crafts AND a chance to win some prizes!! See you tomorrow!!

Donna Bowman

Rachel Kleinman

Ceal Prichett

Ardyth Percy-Robb

Jennifer Cuthbertson

Lynn Kopas  <<<that's me>>>

Misty Buck

A Sweet Layout

Hi Everyone. This is my fourth post this week - can you believe it?!?! This is thanks to a very productive and super fun weekend at Crop on the Cape. I brought my Maggie Holmes "Styleboard" kit and created a sweet layout. I have a wicked sweet tooth and we stopped at a local bakery awhile ago and I had to take a pic of the sweet treats. The Styleboard collection coordinated perfectly with the photo! So I whipped up this layout ...

I used a large doily as my first layer and built up other layers of patterned papers under the photo. I LOVE using frames around my pictures especially at an angle. Here's a close-up ...

 

To finish up my page I sprinkled some Doodlebug Design Sequins here and there ...

 

I will definitely be using more of this gorgeous kit. Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend. If all goes well, I'll have Project Life Week 11 ready to post on Monday!

A new sketch and a new layout!

Hi Everyone. I wanted to share a layout I did this past weekend at Crop on the Cape. I love the latest sketch by Creative Scrappers. I used October Afternoon's "Travel Girl" and Elle's Studio to create my page. Here's CS Sketch #264 followed by my layout ...

 

 

 

 I love this picture of Joshua and Lilly walking hand and hand. It is so sweet and innocent. The orange and pinks in the collection are perfect for this picture. I added some messy stitching, a few stamped cheverons and some fun embellishments.

 



 

Thanks for stopping by and I love to hear from you! Have a great day and I'll be back this week with ANOTHER layout I did this past weekend with

Maggie Holmes "Styleboard" collection!! It's a sweet layout ...

Project Life: Week 6

Happy Wednesday! I wanted to hop on and share my Project Life Week 6 with you all!

Last week was spent tending to Simba who is practically 100% back to normal!! She had a recheck visit today Feb. 11th and is great. Another two weeks of antibiotics and done! Yeah!!

So for Week 6 I used my Maggie Holmes Edition Core Kit and Photo Pocket Design G. I've been trying to keep my pages simple so I can get them done and stay on track. If I have a slow photo week I've been using smaller photo pocket pages. Here's the whole page ...

 

 

Here's some close ups of the cards. The enamel dots are from a thickers collection which I used on the title card ...

 

 

 

Last week ended with a fun Doodle class at Right at Home Scrapbooking with the awesome Stephanie Ackerman. I learned a lot about lettering and her FAV markers - Prismacolor Art Markers.

 

Thanks for checking out my PL page and I'm off to finish up some ATC's for my next swap - themed: Fairytales!! I will share them this weekend!! Enjoy the rest of you week!!

Project Life: Week 5

Hello and Happy Monday! I wanted to share my PL Week 5 with you and let you know it wasn't the best ending to a week. My sweet lab Simba became suddenly lame last Saturday and my mind went to the worst case scenario. After two Vet visits, X-Rays, Lab work and several exams she was diagnosed with cellulitis on one of her toes on her rear leg. Simba will be 13 years old in April so her back legs are already weak from arthritis and normal nerve degeneration. Being very lame was quite a challenge for both of us and the snow didn't help. She is so stoic - typical Lab - but I knew she was hurting. After a few days of antibiotics she was no longer lame and acting like her normal sweet self. While she was limping, I moved my laptop and a few projects to the kitchen so she wouldn't have to climb stairs and so I could keep an eye on her. My whole craft space is two flights up in my loft so I wasn't up there the whole week. We are back to normal and she able to do the stairs and is much more comfortable. She is honestly the sweetest dog - loves EVERYONE, especially kids and has a heart of gold. I'm so relieved she's better.

For Week five I used Maggie Holmes Edition Core Kit I purchased at Michael's. I said I wasn't going to purchase any more big core kits, but I love Maggie Holmes products so I couldn't pass this up - especially with a coupon!! I used Photo Pocket Page Design F. The pocket page design allows for lots of photos and/or journaling depending on the week you've had. All of my photos were printed from my iphone pics to my Canon Selphy. The title card is layers of ephemera from Maggie's Flea Market Collection which coordinates well with her other collections. Here's the title card ...

The cabochon is also part of the Flea Market collection! The journaling cards are all typed - still LOVIN' my Mom's typewriter - such a great addition to my crafting!! I also added some stamping to fill up the journaling cards. Here's the whole page followed by some close-ups ...

So, that was my Week 5. Glad it ended well and excited to be moving on. For Week 6 I continued with Maggie's edition from Michael's and used page Design G. I'll return Wednesday to share Week 6. Thanks for stopping by and I'd love to hear from you. Have a great Week 6!!