Scrappy Times

October:
Patterned Paper: Echo Park - I Love Family
Diecuts: Echo Park - I Love Family
Stickers: Echo Park - I Love Family
Woodgrain paper: Simple Stories
Staples: Close to My Heart


November:
Patterened Paper: Bazzill - Mac
Cardstock: Bazzill
Twine: American Crafts
Diecuts: Echo Park
Heart Punch: EK Success
Photo Credit: the boy's mother or maternal grandmother


December: 
Patterened Paper: SEI - Noel
Stickers: SEI - Noel
Sparkles: Darice

July:
Patterened Paper: Simple Stories - Good Day Sunshine
Chipboard: Simple Stories - Good Day Sunshine
Stickers: Simple Stories - Good Day Sunshine
Cardstock: Bazzill
Photo Credit: Steven Brennan

April:
Everything: Authentique - Promise
Ink: Stampin Up


May:
Patterened Paper: Diecuts with a View - Scripts and Music Notes
Cardstock: Recollections
Photo Credit: Steven Brennan 

June:
Patterened Paper: Teresa Collins - Collector's Edition
Stickers: Teresa Collins - Collector's Edition
Cardstock: Recollections
Lace: Recollections
Photo Credit: Steven Brennan 

For the past several years I've made my Mom a calendar that includes family photos.  I would buy a BASIC GREY calendar kit, put it together and add the photos where they belonged.  Easy peasy... Well BASIC GREY is no longer making or selling paper products so I bought a blank 8x8 calendar made by SRM Press Inc. and started from scratch.

We had a family wedding this year, so lots of nice family photos from that event. 

Here is the first 3 months.  Please excuse the quality of the photos. They were taken on a dull dreary day so they aren't the best.

Cover:
Cardstock and patterned paper: Bazzill
Twine:  American Crafts


January:
Everything: BoBunny - Whiteout
Photo Credit: Steven Brennan 


February:
Patterned Paper: Echo Park - Yours Truly
Stickers: Echo Park - Yours Truly
Cardstock: Bazzill
Grungeboard (ink with markers): Tim Holtz
Paint: Close to My Heart
Ink/Markers: Tim Holtz
Brads: ???
Twine: ???
Photo Credit: Steven Brennan 


March: 
Patterned Paper: Kaisercraft - #ME
Cardstock: Bazzill
Dimensional Stickers: Michaels
Staples: Close to My Heart
Punch: EK Success
Photo Credit: Steven Brennan 

Card Base: Recollections
Embossing Folder: Sizzix
Snowman Stamp: Inkadinkado
Ink: Close to My Heart
Blue Cardstock: Recollections
Twine: Darice
Snowflake punch: EK Success
Border punch: Fiskars

Amanda's challenge is all about layers - a minimum of five layers, 2 of which cannot be paper.

Here's my Christmas card:

Card Base: Recollections
Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: Graphic 45 - Holiday Time
Washi Tape: Recollections (green) and Cavallini and Co. (red and black)
Lace: Recollections
Staples: American Crafts
Embossing Folder: Sizzix Tim Holtz
Ink: Close to My Heart


Now let's see what the other talented DT members came up with at USE YOUR STUFF. 

Christmas is fast approaching (only a couple of weeks left) and Beth has come up with a Christmas challenge. So I made an ornament.

White Wooden base: Celebrate It (Michaels) - It was already painted white and distressed.
Bird Stamp: Close to My Heart
Washi Tape: Cavillini & Co.
Holly Stamp: Impression Obsession (stamped on patterned paper and then fussy-cut)
Red Marker (to colour berries): Tim Holtz distress crayon
Sentiment Stamp: Stampin Up
Ink: Stampin Up and Close to My Heart
Twine: American Crafts

Note: the back of the ornament looks like a chalkboard so I used white ink for the year. 

Ripley's Aquarium - Toronto, ON - 2015

Base Pages: K&Company
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey - Adrift
Fish Stickers: Basic Grey - Adrift (cut from border)
Other Stickers: Basic Grey - Adrift
Pen: Pigma
Dew Drops: The Robin's Nest
Logo: Downloaded from the internet
Sketch: Scrapbooks and Cards Today magazine - summer 2015





Check out what the talented members of USE YOUR STUFF have created. 

A Thanksgiving card for an American friend.

The products used were from the goody bag we got at Crop and Create. The idea for the card was in there too, but I did change it up somewhat.

Patterned Paper: Pebbles and Simples Stories
Stickers: Simple Stories
Chipboard leaf: Pebbles Inc. - Jen Hadfield
Rhinestones: Recollections
Sequin: Studio Calico

Note: the kraft paper around the card is not part of the card.


Now let's see what the rest of the talented Use Your Stuff design team members have come up with here.

After I left Crop and Create, I didn't go straight home but spent some time at my Mom's.  While there, I finished up the 2 layouts I hadn't completed.

A friend and I in front of tulips in May.

Everything: BoBunny
except
Cardstock: Bazzill
"friends" sticker: Tim Holtz
Pen: Pigma
Sketch: Scrapbooks and Cards Today Spring 2016

Done at Crop and Create

This apothecary has been here in Niagara-on-the-Lake since 1869.

Photo credits (the "foot" and front of store): my sister

Patterned Paper: BoBunny
Chipboard: BoBunny
Feather: BoBunny
Kraft Cardstock: Close to my Heart
Butterfly: Prima
Ticket: Tim Holtz
Alphas: American Crafts
Brads: Prima
Sketch: www.SketchSavvy.blogspot.com




Now let's see what the other Use Your Stuff team members have done. 

Done at Crop and Create

Sitting with the people that used to work in my division.


Patterned Paper: Recollections
Cardstock: Bazzill
Pen: Pigma
Sketch: www.SketchSavvy.blogspot.com

Done at Crop and Create.

There are no trains anymore on Prince Edward Island. This train station has been converted into a shop for locally produced hand crafted items and an art gallery.

Patterned Paper: Die Cuts with a View
Alpha Stickers: Jillibean Soup
Ink: Close to My Heart
Pen: Pigma
Sketch: www.SketchSavvy.blogspot.com

Done at Crop and Create.

A couple of days away as a birthday treat in July included Alexandria Bay, NY on the Thousand Islands.

Patterned Paper: Jillibean Soup
Burlap: Die Cuts with a View
Tags: Jillibean Soup
Ink: Close to My Heart
Pen: Pigma
Tape: Jillibean Soup
Arrows: Studio Calico and American Crafts
Sketch: Stuck?!

Done at Crop and Create.

This is the statue that is situated in my home town of Ottawa, Canada.

In the City of Apeldoorn (the Netherlands), The Man With Two Hats monument symbolizes many dualities. The two hats in and of themselves represent a time when to come through the war with one hat was something of a feat. It represents the end of the horrors of war but in the same vein the peace and freedom that continue to elude many countries today. It symbolizes the two countries of Canada and the Netherlands. The outstretched arms symbolize the liberation of the Netherlands and also the reaching out of country to country, people to people. The visage, one of sadness and deep meditation and also one of serenity and peace. With the donation of this monument, the Netherlands pays a lasting tribute to Canada. A statue identical to this one stands in Ottawa, Ontario. The twin monuments symbolically link Canada and the Netherlands, forever close friends.

Cardstock: American Crafts
Patterned Paper: Fancy Pants - Swagger
Ephemera: Fancy Pants - Swagger
Buttons: ??? (from my stash)
Alpha Stickers: Jillibean Soup
"with" sticker: Tim Holtz
Ink: Close to My Heart
Sketch:  Sketchsavvy.blogspot.com

Done at CROP AND CREATE.  My cousins camped over the weekend of the wedding shower.

Black Cardstock: Bazzill
Kraft Cardstock: Close to My Heart
Washi Tape: Tim Holtz; Recollections; Studio G
Twine: We R Memory Keepers
Wooden Stars: Studio Calico
Wooden Hello: ?? (maybe bought a Michaels?)
Patterned Paper: American Crafts - Pebbles
Staples: We R Memory Keepers
Tickets: Tim Holtz
Sketch: Stuck?!

Done at CROP AND CREATE - my and my mom sipping margaritas at Margaritaville, Niagara Falls (Canada) in June.

Patterned Paper:  Little Yellow Bicycle
Diecuts: Little Yellow Bicycle (I added the black outlines)
Cardstock: Blue - My Colors Cardstock; white: Recollection
Pearls: Little Yellow Bicycle
Pen: Pigma
Sticker: Little Yellow Bicycle
Sketch:  Stuck?!

Before I went away, I was involved in a layout tag over at SCRAPSHOTZ.  I couldn't post the layout here until the tag was finished which happened while I was away.

These photos were taken at the BIRD KINGDOM in Niagara Falls (Canada)

So here it is now:

Everything: Basic Grey - Archaic (it's archaic all right - I've had this FOREVER!)
except
Tortoise stamp: Close to My Heart
Ink: Close to My Heart
Pen: Pigma

I haven't been posting lately because I've been away dealing with family matters.  Some good and some not so good but getting better...

During this time I did go to a three day scrapbooking weekend put on by the Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine called Crop and Create.  I think this is my 4th year?  As always, it was tons of fun and I got quite a few layouts done.  Stay tuned.....I will be posting them in the next day or two.

Our fellow DT member, Shirley, has come up with this fabulous mood board inspiration.


Here's the card that I came up with.

Patterned Paper: MME
Fancy Frame and "Queen" stamp: Pink Paislee
Wing Stamp: Prima
Zipper Finding: Prima
Flowers: Prima and Creative Elements
Rhinestones: Recollections


Check out what the rest of our talented DT members have come up with at USE YOUR STUFF.