Inspiration on Thursday and a Great Big Thank You!

Hello there!

For today's dose of inspiration we are featuring some layouts created by our croppers at our recent ScrapPink, crop for the cure, event!  We have so many people / organizations to thank for helping us to make this event so super successful.  With your help and the help of our croppers, we managed to raise over $1600. in a single day or scrapbooking!

This is a list of the people / companies that donated food or prizes etc. to make this day so successful for us:

Salvation Army Church

Sophia's Bakery & Cafe

Shoppers Drug Mart

Jack Rabbits Clothing

Emma Ivemey

Joanne Johnstone

Tracy Fuchs

Laura Shaver

Michelle McFarlane

Julie McNeely

Notions Marketing

The Cut Shoppe

First Choice Hair Cutters 

Strodes Delhi

Sunset Grill

Nicols Florist

Kidtastic Adventures

Grand Wellness Centre 

Laura Whitaker

Julie McCreary

Sabrina Crimeli

Hamilton Paramedic Service

Carola Blain

Nancy Klapperbein

Marlene Charters

Lisa Furtney ~ ScrapFest

Get Movin' Fitness

Elaine Urbanowicz

Eileen Mead

ScrapMuch?

Classic Party Rentals

St. Gabriels School

Tim Hortons

Crop and Chat Retreats

Dee Hamoen

IATSE LOCAL 58

Chantalle Barkovich

Home Baking by Carolyn

Sophias Bakery

Now without further ado, take a look at some gorgeous 2 page layouts that were created at this event shared with us:

Bonnie

Brandi

Carolyn

Chantalle

Dee

Dalia

Heather

Irene

Julie

Rhonda

Rhonda

Sandra

Thank you ladies for sharing your creations with us!  We had a many prizes to give away and lots of winners, but even if you didn't win a prize we hope you had a happy heart and lots of finished pages for your albums to take home!

Thank you to all of you for visiting today - we will have more creations from our ScrapPink event to share with you soon!

DIY Plaid Technique with Tiiu | Tutorial

Hi there!

We have a real treat today DT member, Tiiu,, is sharing a super awesome tutorial with us!! Take it away Tiiu!

"Hi everyone! Today I'm sharing a super cool technique I learned from the awesome Paula Cheney at the Ready Set Create event in Burbank in August. For those that don't know, Paula is the Creative Coordinator for Tim Holtz brands. And if you haven't been fortunate to take a class or workshop from her, you'll just have to trust me that she is awesome!! I've been very fortunate to take a few from her over the years, even going as far back as to when she was with 7Gypsies (another one of my fav scrapbooking companies). The technique involves making a DIY plaid technique using a Tim Holtz stencil, "Stripes", as well as 3 Tim Holtz Distress Mini Inks of your choice. You will also need some water to spritz as well.

When we first did this technique it was with a shipping tag. This time I opted to first try it with some Ranger watercolor paper. The first step is to ink up your stencil with the minis in a random pattern. I recommend going with 2 dominant colours and one accent colour.

Then you are going to mist your stencil to make the inks bead up.

Next you need to place your stencil on the paper. I cheated and put the paper on the stencil.

 Then you need to turn your stencil, or the paper horizontally.

And you will wind up with this: I went a bit too heavy handed with the spritzing, but I definitely love the way the inks all dreamily ran together. While I set that one to dry, I decided to try another with different colours and smooth cardstock. This time I actually did it the "right" way by moving the stencil not the paper.

You'll see that the ink sits differently on the smooth cardstock vs the watecolour paper. The lines are also significantly more distinctive. After some drying time, here are the 2 finished products side by each.

So now I decided to make some journaling tags, but you could definitely use this to DIY some custom backgrounds on your cardstock for layouts, or as matting for your photos. I just stamped directly on the paper.

And here is the end result: I hope I've inspired you to try new techniques with your stencils and inks. If you are looking for more inspiration with using Tim Holtz products I highly recommend following Paula Cheney's blog. She is amazing!!!"

Thank you so much Tiiu, this is a fabulous tutorial and a really great technique!

Thanks for visiting us today!

Kit Club Tuesday

Hello there!

Have you ever thought to scrap-lift when you break out your new monthly kit?  It's a fun way to pay homage to designs that you love from around the web, and use your kit too!  Elaine did just that with this week's Kit Club layout, have a look:

Her inspiration was this pretty page by Echo Park DT member Tania Willis.

A layout similar to this would be a great way to use up your scrap and squeeze out one more page from your kit!

So glad you stopped by today!

Manufacturer Spotlight | My Mind's Eye

Hello firends!

Since I used the super fun Halloween collection called "Something Wicked" by My Mind's Eye for my reveal this month, I thought you might like to see more inspiration using this collection.

just a peak at the collection

So why don't you have a look here and here for more great projects using this colelction!

Thanks for visiting!

Sketch-y Friday with Team A | October 16 2015

Happy Friday!

Mid October already, how does that even happen?  Are you scrapping this weekend?  WE hope you decided to play along with us! Here is your sketch....

And here is your lovely Team A DT inspiration!

 Anna

Barbara

Danie

Sandy

  Sharlene

Tiiu

Here is a run down of our Sketch-y Friday rules.  Just link up your creations in our sidebar to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize.    You have until October 29th, at midnight to participate in any of this month's sketch challenges, each linkup tool will remain open until that date!  You may take some artistic license with your adaptation of the sketches, however if you choose to use a double page sketch for a single page layout you may only enter once per sketch, not once per side.

If you are playing along with more than one challenge you will need to link each of them up via a separate blog post for the link up tool to work. (International participants may be required to pay some shipping fees.)  Good luck, we cannot wait to see what you create!

*note - If you are playing along using Flickr the team will no longer be leaving comments, due to changes in Flickr policies and passwords.  However, we will be checking out your entries for sure and you are definitely eligible for the prize draw. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thanks for visiting!