Holiday Coffee Lover Bloghop!!

Welcome and thanks for stopping by today. I'm so happy to be playing along with the Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

Here's what I made for the hop, using Pebbles' Winter Wonderland collection:

This collection has the perfect die-cuts to create cards for this hop!!

Here are the details for the Holiday Coffee Lovers Blog Hop:
If you want to play along all you have to do is create a new winter/holiday coffee, tea and/or cocoa themed project and then head over over to the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog to link it up and to check out all of the details. Anyone is welcome to link up any time between Friday, December 11th at 6 am pacific and Friday, December 18th @ 11:59 pm pacific. There are no limits to the number of entries. The more the merrier! By linking up your project, you become eligible to win a prize from one the amazing Super Sponsors! I hope you'll play along and thanks so much for stopping by today!

During this hop, we're also celebrating our Cocoa and Tea loving friends. As I mentioned above, December 13th is National Cocoa Day and December 15th is International Tea Day. There will be Flash prizes awarded on December 13th and 15th! To be eligible all you have to do is link up winter/holiday themed tea and/or cocoa projects before 7 pm pacific on each of those days to be eligible. Winners will be posted in the Coffee Lovers Facebook Page by 8:00 pm pacific.

So if you feel creative why not join in and create a coffee/tea/cocoa card?!

For now, thanks for stopping by and enjoy the hop!

Warm (coffee) hugs!
Monique

Pinterest Inspired - Scraptastic Club Feels Like Home kit

Hey everyone! Last Monday Victoria and I had a Pinterest inspired post on the Scraptastic Blog. In case you haven't seen it I'm sharing here it too.

This is the Pinterst pin we chose:

Here’s what I did with this image, using the November Feels Like Home kit and add-on and a photo of my hubby and I in Venice, Italy, last month:

I was inspired by the size of the ampersand from the Pinterest image and decided I wanted to use one large ampersand on my layout as well. I used the Feels Like Home cut file with all the ampersands and cut only one from this (I might have had a little help there, lol. Thanks Daniela!).

The “you & me” journaling card (a Scraptastic exclusive) and the sheet of patterned paper with all the ampersands (also a Scraptastic exclusive) was just perfect for my page!

And I just love the Pink Paislee puffy stickers and wanted to include those too:

Thanks for stopping by and hope you're having a fab day!
Hugs,
Monique

Pebbles Winter Wonderland - Guest Designing!

Hi everyone, here I am again, with some fun projects I created for Pebbles with their beautiful Winter Wonderland collection. I adore the colors of this collection and I love all the glitter accents!

For yesterday's blog post at Pebbles' blog I created a layout and two cards. As I really love those huge glitter die-cut snowflakes I decided I wanted to create projects showcasing those. Here's what I did for my layout:

I started this page by cutting huge snowflakes out of a sheet of white cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo:

Next I chose the sheet of patterned paper with the little white dots on it, which kind of gives the impression it snows on this paper and adhered it behind my cardstock:

The 4 beautiful glitter die-cut snowflakes came next:

Using 5 different patterned papers I created a horizontal strip for my photo:

Which I then adhered more or less in the middle of my page:

Choosing which embellishments I should use came next. This was rather difficult as there are so many fun die-cuts to choose from. This is what's in the "Chips" bag:

I always make sure I glue my papers and photo only in the middle so I'll be able to tuck in lots of embellishments later on, like I did here:

Last but not least I added a little journaling and a title and I was done! Hope you like it! And here are a few close-ups of my page. Aren't the snowman and fox the cutest?

Supplies:
Winter Wonderland Snowfun patterned paper SKU: PBWW-33005
Winter Wonderland Winter Walk patterned paper SKU: PBWW-33007
Winter Wonderland Snow Day patterned paper SKU: PBWW-33008
Winter Wonderland Bundle Up patterned paper SKU: PBWW-33013
Winter Wonderland Flurries patterned paper SKU: PBWW-33011
Winter Wonderland Chips Glitter Snowflakes Die-Cut Shapes SKU: PBWW-733027
Winter Wonderland Chips Ephemera w/Glitter Die-Cut Shapes SKU: PBWW-733028
Winter Wonderland Glitter Stickers Icons SKU: PBWW-733019

Next I created these two cards, which measure 6" x 6" each.

I always love combining different patterns and so that's what I did. I started with the darker pattern, which measures 5.5" x 5.5". Next I added a lighter color on top, measuring 5" x 5" and for the "Hot Chocolate" card I even added another layer, measuring 4.5" x 4.5". The machine sewing came next (before adhering everything to my cardstock base), followed by the horizontal strips of paper and again a bit of sewing. On top I added a little kraft bag, a glitter die-cut snowflake and a little card, which I cut from the "Snowfun" paper.

A detail photo of the "Hello There" card:

Supplies:
Winter Wonderland Snowfun patterned paper SKU: PBWW-33005
Winter Wonderland Blizzard patterned paper SKU: PBWW-33006
Winter Wonderland Toasty Warm patterned paper SKU: PBWW-33010
Winter Wonderland Flurries patterned paper SKU: PBWW-33011
Winter Wonderland Chips Glitter Snowflakes Die-Cut Shapes SKU: PBWW-733027
Winter Wonderland Wahi Tape Booklet SKU: PBWW-733029
Homemade Mini Kraft Pocket Tags w/Gold Glitter Accents SKU: PBWW-732620

And a detail photo of the "Hot Chocolate Time" card":

Supplies:
Winter Wonderland Snowfun patterned paper SKU: PBWW-33005
Winter Wonderland Toasty Warm patterned paper SKU: PBWW-33010
Winter Wonderland Flurries patterned paper SKU: PBWW-33011
Winter Wonderland Chips Glitter Snowflakes Die-Cut Shapes SKU: PBWW-733027
Homemade Mini Kraft Pocket Tags w/Gold Glitter Accents SKU: PBWW-732620

And these were my first Winter Wonderland projects! Hope you liked them. I'll have a few more later on in the month! Thank you so much for visiting my blog today and I hope y'all have a fabulous day!

Hugs,
Monique

December Daily & some Planner Love | Pretty Little Studio

I finally found the time to create the first page of my December Daily!! It's also up on Pretty Little Studio's blog today! Have you all got started on your December Daily’s yet? I didn’t as we had so much going on during the first few days of December, but as of now my weeks are quiet and I plan to catch up quickly! Here’s the first page of my December album, using the fabulous Merry & Bright collection from Pretty Little Studio:

The two text squares at the top of my page are actually cut from a clear sheet ... awesome, right?? Pretty Little Studio designed a whole lot of them (I counted 56! different sheets)! Have a look here. And aren’t those die-cuts faulous?!

Pretty LIttle Studio products I used: Merry & Bright collection: paper: Wishes Green, Trifle; Clear: Be Merry; Die-Cuts: Fir Tree mini, Snowman #5 mini, Twenty-Five Gold Metallic; Number Tags: Fruit Cake; Clear Word: Christmas.

And because I was really having fun with this collection, I thought I'd do a week in my planner as well! How I love to decorate my planner, although I have to take care not to decorate too much as I do need room to write something down! Here’s what I did

The mini die-cuts are so perfect for planners!! and I love to add little strips of vellum and a few of those cut-out words.

PLS products used: Merry & Bright collection: Die-Cuts: Fir Tree mini, Candle Shoppe mini, Christmas Town 4″, Jingle mini, Snowman #6 mini, Twinkle mini; Number Tags: Fruit Cake; Clear Word: Magical; Cut-Aparts: Mini Words Merry; Vellum Tape: Be Good.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today!
Hugs,
Monique

I made Doodlebug's 2016 Design Team!!!

Wohoo!!!! I'm so happy to be able to tell you I'm back on ......

DOODLEBUG's Design Team! 

I had such an awesome time being on their team from October 2011 till December 2013. I really felt part of the family and had a hard time saying goodbye. 

But, here I am again!! 

Cheers to this amazing team: 

And just for fun a few of my older projects:

I almost can't believe I'm back! I've been pinching myself the entire week!! 

Thanks for letting me share!! 

Hugs,

Monique

Doodlebug Christmas layout for SG CREATE Magazine issue #17

Today I thought I'd share one of my projects created for the November issue of SG CREATE Magazine #17. For the Christmas theme I created this layout using Doodlebug's Sugar Plums collection. I love the non-traditional colors of this collection.

In the photo you can see my daughter and her Dutch friends taking part in a Christmas parade with all the other foreign exchange students.

Supply list: patterned paper, stickers, enamel dots, die-cuts: Doodlebug Design; cardstock: Bazzill Basics; pen: K&Company

To see more projects created for this theme, hop on over to the Scrapbook Generation Create Magazine November 2015 issue. Have fun reading!!

Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs,
Monique