Change of Season (The Crafty Maven Getaway)

Hello friends!  I was up on the The Crafty Maven Getaway YouTube Channel today for Sketch it up Thursday.  We had a gorgeous inspiration piece this week, and I choose an amazing sketch by the lovely and talented Laura Whitaker.  Make sure you head on over to her blog and check out her sketches.

The mood board immediately reminded me of my November Clique Kit "Tapestry", featuring We R Memory Keepers "Wildflowers" collection and Pink Paislee's "Cedar Lane".  I choose an Instagram photo of Azaria looking at a tree in early Autumn 2014.  I stitched around all of my squares and then lifted up the edges for dimension and interest.

This cluster would have to be one of my favourites ever!  I just love how it came together :)

I was so happy to use one of the cream pleather bows from We R Memory Keepers.

And after hoarding that beautiful butterfly paper I finally fussy cut some of them and added them to this page as embellishments.  I love it when paper becomes an embellishment!

Here is the sketch:

And here is the beautiful Mood Board for this week:

This was my last video for The Crafty Maven, I've decided to step down from the team.  They had a DT call recently, and I'm looking forward to seeing inspiration from the new team.  I wish them all the best.

I'll be posting the video I made on my channel too, so head over here to check it out.  At the end of my video is a look at all the pages I created whilst on the team.

Thanks so much for looking!

A Baby Sister? (The Crafty Maven Getaway)

Hello! Yes three posts in three days! I'm on a roll in 2016!! I was up on Saturday on The Crafty Maven Getaway YouTube channel with a video for Scraplift Saturday.  I decided to scrap another photo for my pregnancy album, and I used papers that I got from a paper add-on pack from The Hip Kit club last year, and embellishments from my stash.  I was on with Mari Clarke, and we decided to scrap lift a layout by Jana Koranic.

My layout features a photo of a picture that Azaria drew when she was 4 of her and I with a baby girl in my tummy.  She really wanted a baby sister!  The photo isn't that great, but it is a record of the story.

Here is a close up of my layers.

Here is the original layout that we lifted.  It was completely different to my style, and I loved the challenge of making it work for me.

Our inspiration piece for this week.  I was inspired by the colours of the cupcakes and the rope.

You can watch my video here.

Thanks so much for looking!

Love & Fun (The Crafty Maven Getaway)

Hello!  I was up on the Crafty Maven Getaway YouTube Channel in the weekend for Scraplift Saturday.  I decided to scraplift myself, and choose a really old layout from Azaria's monthly baby album.

As always we had a mood board to work with, and I loved the heart on it so I cut a heart on my Silhouette Cameo with a cut file from The Cut Shoppe.  I was very challenged by the purple, but once again I was surprised to find it working!  Once again I shopped my older stash!  I scrapped two photos of Sam and Azaria from 2012.

I used lots of vellum to soften my layers.

A close up of the heart cut file popped up and layered over a Dear Lizzy Project Life card.

These silver thickers were perfect for my title.

I wrote my journaling on a PL card and tucked it into a glassine bag.

You can see my video in the channel link above.

Thanks for looking!

My Sunshine (The Crafty Maven Getaway)

Hello again!  I was up on The Crafty Maven Getaway on Thursday for Sketch it Up Thursday with the lovely and talented Danielle Brown.  We decided to use a sketch that someone shared on a Facebook Group, and unfortunately we didn't know the source.  

I was inspired by the orange and blue in this months mood board, and used a really old Paper Bakery kit that featured Studio Calico Atlantic and Lilly Bee.  The photos are of Brielle being super cute in Sam's old Cars Movie towel after her bath.

Instead of a 4th photo I embellished a glassine bag to hold my journalling.

I loved doing hidden journalling on this one, I used a card that had prompts on it, which made it super easy to get the story told!  I'm not the state of my handwriting on this one, all due to my pen running out...

I created my title with a cut file from the Silhouette store.  I cut it on white cardstock and water coloured it to match my layout.

Here is the amazing sketch:

And here is the beautiful mood board:

And lastly, of course here is my video:

Today & Everyday (The Crafty Maven Getaway)

Good evening lovely people!  Its Friday evening here and while the kids watch tv I'm catching up on writing this post.  Yesterday I was up on The Crafty Maven Getaway YouTube Channel for Free Flow Wednesday.  Free Flow Wednesday is all about Traditional layouts in the style of the creator, so perfect to show my style!

I made this layout about Azaria and Brielle entirely from scraps and older embellishments from my stash!  When I first saw this week's mood board I was concerned that I wouldn't have enough goodies to use, so I was pleasantly surprised.  Love it when that happens!!  Just like the mood board I wanted grey, black and white to be the main colours, with pops of aqua (or is it teal?).  

I wanted the ampersand to be a huge feature of the layout, and I fussy cut out a really old Glitz Design card.  The "today" is from an old packet of Heidi Swapp ephemera that I "just had to have" at a crop.

Of course any opportunity to add a bow, and this black and white stripe was perfect!

The quote of this Dear Lizzy Project Life Card is perfect for my layout about the relationship between my two girls.

And of course here is the process video:

Thanks for looking and have a blessed weekend!

Hello Snow (The Crafty Maven Getaway)

Hello!  I nearly forgot to post on here that I was up on the The Crafty Maven Getaway for Twerk it Thursday (where we work with a sketch).  The sketch that Dannielle Wright (Banning Lane) and I choose to work with was an older one by Ashley Horton.

I decided to scrap these super cute photos of Shaun and Brielle that I took one snow storm.  Sam and Azaria had gone outside to play and of course Brielle had to go out too!

I used my August Hip Kit, and hand cut my hearts because I wanted imperfection to go with my messy stitching.  I stayed true to the sketch, but added extra embellishments on the heart, and added corner triangles which I punched with my scallop punch.

Isn't this sketch so beautiful!  The hearts were definitely what drew me to it!

You can watch the video below.

Thanks for looking!

The Crafty Maven Getaway - Scraplift Saturday

Good evening!  Yesterday I had my first video up on The Crafty Maven Getaway YouTube Channel . The Crafty Maven is a channel started by the lovely and very talented Hannah Lemieux, who had an idea for a channel just like the old Two Peas in a Bucket, with videos 7 days a week.  She put the idea out to us on the nicolejones911 Facebook Page, and a group of us responded saying we were keen.  The channel features a weekly inspiration piece, daily videos and a different theme each day.  I was on for my first video for Scraplift Saturday, and paired up with the very talented Lina Monaco.  

We chose to scrap lift Melanie Blackburn, and you can find her blog here.  The inspiration piece for this week is below, and my starting point was the colours, which lead me to a paper designed by Ashley Goldberg for Studio Calico.  Then I went into my scrap bag and pulled mint green, pink and red papers.  The navy in Azaria's top was perfect too.  My layout is about Azaria and her first missing tooth.

I hand cut my tittle letters, I've been wanting to do that for a while now, but keep forgetting!

A fun embellishment cluster, using a flair badge, Epiphany Crafts star, enamel star and wood veneer feather.

More wood veneer, a star and gold Colourshine.

Here is the inspiration piece for this week, I was totally inspired by the colours:

And here is Melanie's layout that we lifted:

Here is my video:

Make sure you subscribe to the channel to see new videos everyday from such lovely ladies who are all passionate about scrapbooking and making videos.

Have a blessed Sunday