Scraptastic Club Sketchy Thursday

Yesterday the new sketch challenge went up at Scraptastic Club and as the "Sweet Child O' Mine" kit had just arrived I quickly created something for it!

Here's a layout of my hubby and our youngest more than 10 years ago (how time flies!!!). I used the Sweet Child O' Mine kit together with the Boys Add-On:

Love this kit, filled with lots of Crate Paper and Scraptastic exclusives. I chose both add-ons this month as I just couldn't make a choice between the boys and the girls add-on.

And here's the sketch Susan Stringfellow created for us:

And a quick look at the kits before I end this blog post:

Sweet Child O' Mine main kit:

Kit contents: 

12x12 Patterned Paper:

1 Sheet of Crate Paper Little You Little Toes

1 Sheet of Crate Paper Little You Little Nose

1 Sheet of Crate Paper Little You Precious

1 Sheet of Crate Paper Little You Cuddle

1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Crazy Heart designed by food/family/story

1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Hey Mister designed by Kaitlin Sheaffer

1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Hey Sister designed by Kaitlin Sheaffer

1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Ribbons & Bows designed by food/family/story

12x12 Cardstock:

1 Sheet of American Crafts Peach

1 Sheet of American Crafts White

1 Sheet of American Crafts Bubbles

Embellishments:

1 Package of Heidi Swapp Gold Puffy Alphas

1 Sheet of Crate Paper Little You Sweet Dreams Gold Foil Vellum

1 Package of Maggie Holmes Bloom 6x12 Accent Stickers

1 Package of Studio Calico Gold Enamel Dots

1 Exclusive Set of Die Cuts

1 Exclusive Set of Flair

4 Exclusive Vellum Clouds

3 Exclusive Wood Veneer Banners

2 Exclusive Glitter Foam Words - him and her

5 Exclusive Acrylic Hearts

Sweet Child O' Mine Boys Add-On: 

Boys Add-On contents:

1 Sheet of Crate Paper Little You Perfect

1 Sheet of Crate Paper Little You Sweet Boy

1 Sheet of Crate Paper Little You Little One

1 Sheet of Maggie Holmes Bloom Adorable

1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Forever My Boy designed by Kaitlin Sheaffer

1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Playtime designed by food/family/story

1 Sheet of American Crafts Robin's Egg

1 Sheet of American Crafts Honey

1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Journaling Cards designed by food/family/story and Kaitlin Sheaffer

1 Package of Crate Paper Little You Starlight Turquoise Puffy Thickers

1 Package of Crate Paper Little You Boy Ephemera

1 Package of Crate Paper Little You 6x12 Boy Accent Stickers

1 Package of Crate Paper Little You Boy Mixed Embellishment Pack

1 Exclusive Set of Teal Foiled Die Cuts

Sweet Child O' Mine Girls Add-On:

Girls Add-On contents:

1 Sheet of Crate Paper Little You Baby Girl

1 Sheet of Crate Paper Little You Counting Sheep

1 Sheet of Crate Paper Little You My Sunshine

1 Sheet of Maggie Holmes Bloom Blossom

1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Forever My Girl designed by Kaitlin Sheaffer

1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Playtime designed by food/family/story

1 Sheet of American Crafts Stone

1 Sheet of American Crafts Rosebud

1 Sheet of Scraptastic Club Journaling Cards designed by food/family/story and Kaitlin Sheaffer

1 Package of Crate Paper Little You Starlight Pink Puffy Thickers

1 Package of Crate Paper Little You Girl Ephemera

1 Package of Crate Paper Little You 6x12 Girl Accent Stickers

1 Package of Crate Paper Little You Girl Mixed Embellishment Pack

1 Exclusive Set of Pink Foiled Die Cuts

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today! Wishing a happy Easter!

xoxo

Monique

Love Here + Now | Pretty Little Studio

Hello everyone!! Today I want to share this page I created for Pretty Little Studio's blog using the brand new PLS designer collection from “Hello Heather” called "Here + There". And what an awesome collection this is! I adore the colors, the designs and all the gold elements. I used this fun photo of my daughter and her host sisters from last year. Because of all the blue colors in this photo I thought it was a perfect fit for this collection.

To create this layout I painted the white cardstock with pink watercolor paint and added a few drops of paint as well. While the cardstock dried I selected papers, a clear sheet and a 3×4 journaling card and layered these on top of each other. Using a small attacher I stapled these together and adhered the photo on top. Next I chose the large heart cut file from my own stash and adhered this too. When the cardstock had dried I adhered the little pile of papers with the photo & cut file and started decorating using some die-cuts like the flower, the flair, the word etc. and also added some handwritten journaling. Next came the little cluster in the bottom right corner and last but not least I added the machine stitching.

Flowers are not my “go to” embellishments, but I happily made an exception for these … aren’t they awesome?!

I’m a huge fan of flairs and use them on almost all of my layouts and this one is so fabulous!

I so adore the gold dipped die-cut hearts!!

PLS products used: Hello Heather, Here + There collection: paper: Here+ There 8×8 pack, Louvre, Jadore, Gold Metallic; Clear: Hello Pink; Die-Cuts: Bonjour Words, Heart of Gold, Here; Flair: Adventure;   Journaling Cards: Beau 3×4. Other: "love" cutting file: Studio Calico.

Thank you so much for stopping by our blog to take a peek at my project!
Hugs,
Monique

Paper Issues Spring Crop | March Into Spring Challenge

With all the new collections in my possession, I wanted nothing more than to use those! So I decided to do another layout for one of Paper Issues Spring Crop challenges, this time for the "March Into Spring" challenge and use the "Everyday" collection from Pebbles.

The photo was taken not last weekend, but the weekend before when I was away for a couple of days with 2 of my best friends to do nothing more than scrap, read, laugh, shop, eat and sleep. Bliss!! I want more of those weekends!! 

Pebbles' Everyday collection is so beautiful with all the golds, awesome die-cuts and fabulous colors! 

And at the moment I have a thing for using watercolor paints. I love the look of it! 

Thanks for stopping by today! Wishing you a wonderful week!

xoxo

Monique

Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

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

The Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop started today Friday, March 18th and will run through Friday, March 25th. The theme for this hop is Spring and the Spring Garden collection from Doodlebug seemed just perfect to use to create a card. I pinned this digital coffee stamp long ago and knew straight away I wanted to use this as well! So here's what I created:

To create this card, I stamped the image and the sentiment onto white cardstock and then colored in the image of the woman using Stampin' Write Markers and Copic Markers and used a glitter brush to give the coffee cup a bit of a sparkle. Finally, I fussy cut the image and adhered it to the card front.

Here are the details for the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop:

• To play along all you have to do is create a new Spring 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, March 18th and will run through Friday, March 25th at 11:59 pm pacific. 
• There are no limits to the number of entries.
• 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!
xoxo
Monique

Paper Issues Spring Crop!

Hi everyone! Today is my day off and I decided to join in Paper Issues' Spring Crop! One of the challenges that caught my eye straight away was the "Tic-Tac-Toe" challenge. So I grabbed the Fancy Pants "Happy Place" collection that just had arrived and got started. I chose the tic-tac-tow row "cardstock - stamp - paint/mist" and here's what I did:

I love using paints and inks, but hate the wobbly cardstock it creates. So when my page had dried I adhered it to another (very sturdy and straight) piece of cardstock and machine stitched it as well and that helped some.

Here's the "Tic-Tac-Toe" image we got:

And here are a few detail photos of my page: btw, the flair is from a much older FP collection (Memories Captured).

I love that this Fancy Pants collection contains so many ephemera and die-cuts!!

I loved playing along and hope I'll find the time to join in a few more of the fun challenges. If you've got the time then don't hesitate and play along too! You'll find the challenges on Paper Issues {Friends & Fans} Facebook Page.

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a great day!
Hugs,
Monique

Doodlebug Bunnyville Projects

Hi everyone! Last Monday it was my turn to share my Bunnyville projects on Doodlebug's blog. I had such a great time creating these projects that I can't wait to show them to you here as well.

First of all I made this shadow box using lots of the Bunnyville stickers. The stickers are so cute I just needed to use as many of them as possible and so I came up with this shadow box idea:

I love decorating my house for Eastern, so this box is just perfect!

The shadow box comes from my own stash and wasn't of a very good quality, so I wanted to do something to cover that up and adhered Doodlebug's washi tape on all sides. I think it looks much better now!

And aren't those birdies adorable?! (I have a soft spot for Doodlebug's birdies... )

And then on to my next project ... here's a layout of my youngest who came home from school with a huge drawing of an Eastern egg. He was so proud of it that I had to scrap this (even though the photo is from a couple of years ago)!

Here's a detail photo of my title: "you" was cut using my Silhouette Cameo and adhered with little staples. For the words "make me" I used the Tangerine colored Teensy Type letter stickers and the word "smile" comes from the Spring Garden collection.

Have I already mentioned how I love all the super cute stickers? Yes? I thought so, but I really do! And just look at that mini carrot sprinkle! So awesome!

To check out the entire Bunnyville collection just click HERE to hop over to Doodlebug's catalog on their website.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today! And I would love to learn what you think of my projects! Wishing you a wonderful day.

Monique
xoxo