New CHA!!!

Well it is that time of year again and the new CHA product is rolling in!!!!
New Sassafras Lass, Fancy Pants, Prima, Cosmo Cricket, Jenni Bowlin. Gorgeous product!
You must not miss out. Come check it out instore and online!

A challenge for mementos

This week, I challenge you to use non-scrapbooking mementos to accent your layouts. The two layouts above are from a family vacation to Florida. The top layout features the hole-in-one free game token that our son won, along with the score card from our game. The bottom layout features bording passes and the airline logo from the envelope that held our boarding passes.

The slice

by Trace Geworsky



I wanted to show you how versatile the slice design cards really are.
On the layout "Bloom where you are planted" I used the fa la la design card(which is a Christmas themed one) because I liked the tree designs on there, and wanted to prove to myself that those trees could be used for projects other then Christmas projects.
I cut out two, 2'' trees from patterned paper, sanded the edges, and messily outlines around them.
For the title I cut the letters 1 1/2'' and then outlined the letters using stickles.
I also took a thin white piece of paper from My son's paper stash and rolled it through my cuttlebug (using the swiss dots embossing folder)

Journalling Pages

Art is an extension of my thoughts and being. I'm trying to provide as many possible outlets for my creativity as possible. I've been playing with visual journalling as an extension to scrapbooking and part of the process for me is to create background pages. These ones were created with various toys including Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Mini Misters with Reinkers and Perfect Pearls, Paint Dabbers, bubble wrap, rub-ons and more. The journal itself is a 4x6 Accordian Moleskine that I am slowly altering.

xo Jen

Cuttlebug cards

I had some fun this weekend experimenting with my new cuttlebug dies, and created a few cards to add to my stash! All cards are from a pack of Bazzill cards and envelopes from Rhubarb Roots.

The top left card (pink) was created using a butterly die, which is embossed with swirls. I added two Cherie Art rubons trailing the butterfly. The butterfly is adhered with foam adhesive to dive the card more dimension. I used a Fiskars punch along the bottom edge of the card.

The top right card (blue) was created using the dots embossing folder for the background of the card. I added two strips of Basic Grey paper before embossing. The butterfly is embossed with dots as well, and rubbed with chalk ink.

The bottom left card features an embossed pattern, which I accented using chalks.

The bottom right card has a distressed diamond pattern embossed, a piece of Basic Grey paper, and an embossed baby buggy stamp at the centre.

simple card

This week, I wanted to show you how you can use very minimal supplies to make a cute, little card.
I used a piece of patterned paper, a strip of Gaffer tap, and one shape-o-rama(Prima)
I folded the paper to make the card base, handcut 3 colourful flowers, and added a pop dot to each for added dimension, added the sheer photo corner above the gaffer tape, and using a hi-lighter, I coloured in the H and the I to spell Hi(without having to use any alphas)