~ Val C. Designs & Cilenia Curtis: Fly With Me ~

Val did a collaboration with Cilenia Curtis, owner of Scrap Art Studio and came up with this fantastic kit called Fly With Me, available both at Oscraps & SAS.

AJ_Spread Your Wings

Fly High

What a fantastic collaboration! Really enjoyed playing with the kit. TTFN!

~ Angie Young: On Display ~

Oops! I've been so busy lately that I've neglected my blog. Anyway, time for some updates!

I'm absolutely in love with Angie Young's DARE series of art journaling kits. They are just so easy to play with. They are available at Scrap Art Studio and here's her store. 

Here are some pages done with DARE To Nurture Your Inner Self kit. 

I Am Enough

AJC13 Itinerary #06 Loved

This was also done for my Art Journal Caravan 2013 album.

 I also played with her next kit DARE To Believe In Something Bigger.

AJ_Believe

AJ_Boys

My boys had their portraits 'tooned' and I couldn't resist using them for this art journal. 

No doubt, I'll be playing more of her stuff. TTFN!

~ Traci Reed Designs: On Display ~

Here are some pages made using kits by Traci Reed Designs. Some of them are collaborations with other designers.

Here's a page using a collaboration kit between Traci and Julie Billingsley entitled A Simple Kind Of Man.

Supplies:

Traci Reed & Julie Billingsley: A Simple Kind Of Man
Font: Clipper Script Fat

Another page using a collaboration kit between Traci & Jenn Barrette called Get Artsy: Get It Together. I love it when these two do a collab kit!

Supplies:
Traci Reed & Jenn Barrette: Get Artsy - Get It Together
Font: Sue Ellen Franciso

Finally, a solo kit by Traci called F

Supplies:
Traci Reed: Fit To Burst, Clip It To Me Vol1, Blondies Vol1
Font: Pea BMad

The above kit is available at Traci's store in Sweet Shoppe Designs. TTFN!

~ Pink Reptile Designs: On Display ~

Some LOs done with Mirjam's products (Pink Reptile Designs), available at The Lilypad.

The first is a page done using 3 kits from Mirjim, Under A Glass Moon Papers, Mark My Words alphas and Naturally kit. I also used a template from Simple Tiffany Studios, Love's Delight Templates.

Supplies:

Pink Reptile Designs: Under A Glass Moon Papers, Mark My Words Alphas, Naturally

Simply Tiffany Studios: Love's Delight Templates 

Font: RutmerHand

In this page, I use a For You Mom kit.

Supplies:
Pink Reptile Designs: For You Mom

Finally, this page uses kits from Owl Basics, Owl My Love and Spring Talk wordart.

Supplies:
Pink Reptile Designs: Owl Basics, Owl My Love, Spring Talk
Fonts: Christiana & Chalk Hand Lettering Shaded Dem

All the above kits are available at The Lilypad in Pink Reptile Designs' store. TTFN!

~ Get It Scrapped Articles ~

A couple of GIS articles which featured my LOs. 

An article on scrapbooking the weather as seen here. Here's my page: 

Supplies:

Paula Kesselring: Purple Rain

Pink Reptile Designs & River Rose: Scraparazzi

Font: Pea Chickie Shannon

An article on using colours found in nature to deepen scrapbook pages as seen here. 

Supplies:
Anna Aspnes: Art Play Palette Poppy
Rosey Posey: Never Forget
Font: Pea Jazz Skinny

Another article on using square photos on pages as seen here. 

Supplies:
Viva Artistry: Confuscius Says, Sheng Xiao, Silk Road
Maya de Groot: Stamped Alpha
Font: Pea Jannda

TTFN!

~ Jenni Bowlin Studio: On Display ~

Backlog of LOs done using Jenni Bowlin products. 

Our Family as seen here.
Supplies:
Jenni Bowlin Studio: Mercantile Mix Paper Collection 4, Butterfly Rubons, Floral Hearts, Classic Border Shapes, Chevron Stencil Cut, Mercantile Labels, Memo Embellishment Kit, School Days Alphas, Chalkboard Alpha Red On Cream
Anna Aspnes: Doily Edge Overlays No1 (overlay)
Captivated Vision: I Became Someone Else (doily)
Font: Sue Ellen Francisco

Cheeky Li'l Boys as seen here.

Supplies:

Jenni Bowlin Studio: Magpie Paper Collection, Magpie Embellishment Kit, Feather Stencil Cuts

Mary Ann Wise: Painted Overlays (overlay)

Ju Kniepp & Jenn Barrette: Seas The Day (paint)

Katie Pertiet: Painted Flourishes No2

Maya de Groot: College Years (paint)

Pink Reptile Designs: Note (paint)

Mye de Leon: Off We Go (stitch)

Fonts: Sue Ellen Francisco & Tangie AJF Mock Turtle

Glamping as seen here.
Supplies:
Jenni Bowlin: Mercantile Mix Paper Collection 2, Jeweled Butterflies, Journaling Basics, Chalkboard Alpha
Anna Aspnes: ArtPlay Palette Easter Bunny, Doily Edge Overlays No2, 12x12 Edge Overlays No5
Font: Sue Ellen Francisco

I simply luv JB products! They are so easy to use and play with and even easier when combined with grungy textures, paints and overlays! Just realised I used the same font (Sue Ellen Francisco, free @ dafont) for all 3 of these LOs. Can't help it as it's currently one of my favs. TTFN!

~ 365 Cards: Day 106 ~

Today's challenge is 'Welcome Spring'. You need the word 'spring' in the card. Here's mine:

Supplies:
Simple Crafter: Spring Subway Art
Rebecca Mcmeen: Waverly
Val C. Designs & Cilenia Curtis: Fly With Me
Own stash: ribbon

Found this wordart in my stash and decided to make use of it. The rabbits signify Easter. 

~ Back Home! ~

Took a week's break and headed to Cornwall to stay in this:

We went 'glamping'. Rather than stay in a tent, we lived in a tipi. It was big inside but due to the chilly weather we have been having, it was kinda cold. Luckily there was a wood burner inside which we used to the max! There was a cooker inside too which we cooked for most days. There was also a double bed and two 3 more single mattresses (so you can imagine the space inside). We didn't hang around during the day as we went exploring different parts of Cornwall. We visited quite a few places such as Falmouth, Newquay, Padstow, Penzance and St Ives. My favs were St Ives & Padstow. We even did the Camel Trail from Wadebridge to Padstow on our bikes (yup, we brought 4 bikes with us).

The tipi is located on a farm and the farm has also another site, Orchard Yurt, again equipped with the necessary stuff for camping. Hence the word 'glamping'... camping with glamour! There is an indoor area with electricity and all the mod cons inside. We could get wifi too but it was extremely slow. Don't even try to download anything! 

Would I recommend it? Most definitely but in much better warmer conditions. When we arrived, that night we stayed, it was extremely cold. We survived and we had a lot of fun. I didn't think I could stand extreme cold but my body coped! Thank god for thermals! TTFN!

~ 365 Cards: Day 99 ~

Today's challenge is called 'Shapely' i.e. making a card which isn't a square or rectangle. Well, inspiration struck and I came up with this: 

Supplies:
Beth Rimmer: Junque Journal
Font: Hole Hearted

I had this image in my digi stash and though it would make a great shapely card! TTFN!

~ 365 Cards: Day 92 ~

Today's challenge is "Blog Inspired". Which blog.... 365 Cards blog of course. I was particularly inspired by the yellow background so here's my card: 

Supplies:
Val C. Designs & Cilenia Curtis: Fly With Me
Anna Aspnes: Birthday Wordart No1

TTFN!

~ 365 Cards: Day 85 ~

Today's challenge is called 'Throw Back'. Basically think back when I started papercrafting and use a trend from there. Well, when I started card making in particular, I was introduced to stamping. I fell in love with it and started an enormous collection of stamps (which I hardly touch now!!!) I was also interested in mixed media and came across the Zettiology dolls and got myself a few of them. So my card combined both of them! 

Card created using Angie Young's Dare To Nurture Your Inner Self kit and doll image from Zettiology. Font: A Wolf At The Doll.

Have to admit, it was fun to get back to stamping! TTFN!