Canada Day 2019

With most of the 2020 Canada Day celebrations cancelled, I took the opportunity to scrapbook last year`s Canada Day parade photos.  Which means I am now caught up with Canada Day, in one album at least!

I won`t mention about the other 10 years of events and precious moments that I would still like to complete one day!

For this page I used paper and journal tags from Scrapbook Customs.  I love all their travel papers and customs printed items with the beautiful distress elements, and it is perfect for a young man with the whole world ahead of him.  I added maple leaves cut from a Tim Holtz die set and stamps from Photo Play`s O Canada stamp set.

  Yep.  All Caught Up!

See all our Scrapbook Customs products.  

Miss you guys.  Hopefully things will get back to near normal soon and we can organize get a crop organized, or somehow get together!

Family Reunion Memories

Yes, we were there, in the heart of Saskatchewan, and a good time was had.  There are lots of photos, and more to come, so the challenge for me was how to artistically arrange lots of photos on each page.  It looks simple, but was a bit of a process...  Here are the first pages to go in one of our albums.

I chose Kaisercraft paper, a mix of papers from the collections Memory Lane and Island Escape.  They have some great quotes and journal tags.  I also used cut outs from Scrapbook Customs Canada Chic paper.  The photos spoke for themselves!

Here are a few more pages:

The golf ball and tee were cut with a die from Tonic Studios and I used nesting circles from Lifestyle Crafts as well.  Lettering from American Crafts ad Basic Grey....

That's it for this batch of photos.  I will let you know when the next pages are completed.  Hope this gives you a bit of inspiration to get your family event photos scrapbooked! 

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Supplies?  Yes, you can order them at www.scrapperscoveinvermere.net

Tropical Flamingo Cards

Oh, how I love making cards with flamingos.  They are such regal looking birds, yet so much fun to work with.  Here are two different takes.  One a birthday or thank you card, the other a wedding or anniversary card, or maybe even a retirement card.  

What I used to create these cards:

Card bases made from Card Shoppe Cardstock from Bazzill Basics

Background is the Fern Background stamp from Scrapbook Customs.  I stamped on some fabulous paper from Alexandra Renke (blue watercolor basic cardstock).  I used Artist Blending Pencils from Spectrum Noir to color the fern.  There is a little walkway in both of these cards that came from a bit of Island Escape cardstock from Kaisercraft.

Flamingos are from a layering stamp and die set from Hero Arts.  I used Hero Arts ink to stamp the flamingos.  The legs of the male were filled in with alcohol ink (Studio 71) and he was edged with distress ink (Tim Holtz).    The "fabulous" sentiment is from the flamingo set; the hat and crown come from another Hero Arts Stamp set.  The little flower pots and the orange flower are die cuts (not sure where I got them; I have had them for years!).  The flowers in pots in the couples card are from Prima Marketing.  The " congrats" sentiment is a die from Marianne Designs.

The fern background has become my new favorite stamp.  You are sure to see it many times if you follow my blog!

Supplies available on the website:  www.scrapperscoveinvermere.net

O Canada and the Great Outdoors

Here are some fun tags, just in time to celebrate Canada Day

A few great products and "voila", it's Canada, Eh!  I used the fabulous The Great Outdoors paper from Carta Bella as the base of these tags.  The graphics are perfect and the paper is nice and thick with lots of texture.  Then I stamped the beavers and moose; they are part of Photo Play's O Canada collection, which includes true Canadian slang sentiments...  The stamps were coloured with alcohol inks and cut with the coordinating die set.  The journal tags are cut from the Canada Chic cardstock, which is made by Scrapbook Customs.  I love them, you betcha.  Hope you do too!

Other products used:  Bazzill Basics Card Shoppe cardstock, Tim Holtz for Ranger distress inks, alcohol markers from Letraset, Chameleon and Studio 71, Worldwin Papers translucent vellum, Maya Road twine and American Crafts ribbon.

Find Canada themed scrapbook products and so much more on our website,

and create your own version of Canada.  

The options are endless.

www.scrapperscoveinvermere.net

Making cards and thinking outside the stamp

 Anyone who knows me also knows that I always look at a stamp and consider the versatility before it becomes part of my stash.  I hope these sweet cards help you think outside the box with your stamps, because cardmaking isn't about making the "perfect" card.  It is about having fun and creating something that feels good.

This first card is made with a cute stamp from a Crafter's Companion stamp set: "The tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck" by Beatrix Potter.  I stamped and coloured Jemima with Letraset Promarkers.  Then created a fun background with ripped paper (this is Maggie Holmes Hawthorne paper on the top and Scrapbook Customs Sand paper on the bottom).  The sentiment is from Fiskars birthday stamp collection and a few little gems were added for sparkle.

This owl stamp is one of my favorites.  I have used him for many a graduation card - this time he will send a birthday message.

I stamped and coloured the owl on white cardstock, then tucked a die cut branch under his claws (cut around the feet with a craft knife).  I did not have a stamp for "another year" so I had to print from my computer - if you have nice printing you could go without the computer.  "Wiser" I took from a Basic Grey alpha sticker set.  Hard to see, but I popped his eyes out with Glossy Accents and left everything else simple and clean.

Supplies used for this card:
Heritage makers stamp set
Lifestyle Crafts and Elizabeth Crafts dies
Bazzill Basics cardstock
Letraset Promarkers
Basic Grey stickers
Ranger's Glossy Accents

Hope you are having a super May long weekend. 

Go to our website to order your supplies (Jemima is available on the discount site, 

which is accessible through the main website:

www.scrapperscoveinvermere.net

Celebrating Canada 150

Two cute layouts for you today.  We shared a fabulous Canada Day with our family.  The highlight, of course, is being able to spend time with our grandsons!  Marshall celebrated his first Canada Day at the age of 6 months and in true Canadian style, complete with maple leaf tattoos, sunhat and t-shirt.

I like to put lots of photos on each page and sometimes it's a bit challenging to fit them in and add embellishments too!  This was not my original thought, but once I started moving the photos around I was able to make it work.  Three of the photos are printed in a 3x4" size, thanks to my handy Epson photo printer.  I would recommend one to any scrapbooker, for sure!

Products used:  Paper from Bazzill Basics, Scrapbook Customs, Echo Park and BoBunny, the cute number stickers are from Bella Blvd, and the maple leaves cut from Sizzix dies.

******

Here's the page I did for my older grandson who played in his Grandpa's band as part of the Canada Day celebration.  Hard to see him in the photo, but he's there.  Also sporting red and white and tattoos everywhere!

Sometimes all you need is the right paper.  This paper is from Scrapbook Customs.  All I did was add some letters (these are Basic Grey alpha stickers), and my photos... There was nothing else I wanted to add.  I used a craft knife to cut around part of the maple leaf so that I can tuck the photo behind it.

Hope you have had a chance to scrapbook your Canada Day.  If not we have lots of Canada papers, embellishments, stickers, even maple leaf brads...

www.scrapperscoveinvermere.net

July Page Challenge - To the Top

A month late and a dollar short perhaps, but I needed the planets to align so that I could finally create my July challenge page.  While there is a place called "Top of the World", the photos used here are of a hike to Jumbo Glacier in the East Kootenay.  I wasn't able to attend, but everyone did make it to "the top".  These are only two of a pile of photos, so many pages still to come...

I used a bit of each item from the kit, then added a few fun bits, like the Heidi Swapp die cut tag, the elephant cut from Kaisercraft paper and the arrows cut from Elle's Studio paper.  The hearts along the side of the photo were from one of the chipboard doors (The doors will find their way to one of the other pages on this hike).  I added a few strips of washi tape along the side as well and smudged it with a bit of distress ink and a spot of gold stickle.  Cute; I like it.

Items in the Kit:  Paper and cardstock from Scrapbook Customs and Bazzill Basics, Embellishments from Maya Road, embellishments and ribbon from American Crafts
Items added:  Cardstock and embellishments from Kaisercraft, Elle's Studio, Heidi Swapp and ink and stickles from Ranger.

Shop for these items at www.scrapperscoveinvermere.net

We invite you to join our group of monthly participants - some are starting to post on our pinterest page www.pinterest.com/scrapperscove/page-challenges-and-other-stuff/