Showing posts with label Emporium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emporium. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Publication!

 I'm so excited to share my layout which appears in the Spring 2013 issue of Canadian Scrapbooker.  The Spring issue will be in stores on March 1st.  







Thrilled to be included in this issue and also thrilled to see so many familiar names - - lots of my online scrappy friends featured in this issue as well!    Congrats to all of you!

Materials Used:
Sketch: CTMH book "Make it From Your Heart Volume 1"
CTMH Patterned Paper: Cruisin' and Emporium
CTMH Harvest Bakers Twine
CTMH Holiday buttons
CTMH Black Waxy Flax
CTMH Dimensional Elements Monograms Chipboard Alphas: (A,B,C,E,G,I,K,V)
CTMH Cardstock: Cranberry, Slate, Black, White Daisy
CTMH stamp set: Cricut Artiste
CTMH ink: Twilight & Black
Die Cuts: Cricut Artiste and Cricut Sports Mania cartridges
Journal Tag: Sharing Memories Scrapbooking



Friday, November 23, 2012

HOME - a layout!

We have a brand new song on the playlist today at Scrap it with a Song.
In keeping with the US Thanksgiving weekend - our pick this week is "Keep it Together" by Madonna.  

My layout is certainly about family & home - - on a recent trip 'home' to the farm where I grew up & where my parents still live, I snapped some Iphone photos of those last few miles and the feelings that come upon me as we get closer.  

I used Sketches in Thyme Sketch #91.

Here is my layout:

Materials Used:
CTMH Patterned Paper Packs: Wings & Emporium (both retired)
Cardstock: CTMH Colonial White, Vineyard Berry
Olive Mini Medley Accents
Garden Wooden Shapes (butterflies)
Title cut with CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge
Licorice Opaques (black pearls)

Hope you'll have a chance to play along with us at Scrap it with a Song - - all of our November song choice challenges are open until November 30th!  And we have a great prize to give away this month - be sure to check it out!


Wednesday, December 29, 2010

A gift for my neice!

My 10 year old neice has really taken an interest this year in scrapbooking and cardmaking, which, of course, I am so excited about!!  As part of her Christmas gift this year, I made her a box to keep the cards that she makes.   Not the greatest photos - I snapped these quick on my work desk before getting them wrapped & under the tree -- it was kind of a last minute project :-)   But, despite the last minute rush, love how it turned out!



Materials Used (all Close to My Heart):
Daydream Level 2 Paper Pack (retired)
Emporium Level 2 Paper Pack (retired)
Nature's Ambience Rubons
Love Letter Rubons
Dimensional Elements Monograms - 'C', 'A', 'R', 'D', 'S'
Colonial White Designer Brads
Perennials Dimensional Elements
Organdy Ribbon
Cardstock: Black
Ink: Black
My Creations Memory Keeper Box (retired)

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Altered Clipboards

Scrappin Becky B. has a great tutorial on her site on how to make these cute altered clipboards! I think these would be a great little Christmas gift idea!
Here are two I recently put together using Becky's tutorial:



Materials Used (all Close to My Heart):

Clipboard #1:
Emporium Creative Basics Paper (retired)
Playful Flourishes acrylic stamp set
Love is in the Air acrylic stamp set
Ribbon - various from my stash
Brads - Crystal Blue from the Winter Collection
Ink/Cardstock: Vinyard Berry, Twilight

Clipboard #2:
Bella Level 2 Paper (retired)
I Am acrylic stamp set (from the Tickled Pink collection kit)
Bowl of Cherries stamp set (leaves) (from the Cherry O Workshop on the Go kit)
Inks/Cardstock: Hollyhock, Smokey Plum, Olive
Ribbon - various from my stash
Brads - silver from Metal Assortment

Friday, April 30, 2010

CTMH May Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to the Close to My Heart Stamp of the Month Blog Hop for May - featuring the stamp set "Cherish the Moment"!  Along the hop you'll find dozens of fabulous creations using this stamp set - all brought to you by a very talented group of CTMH Consultants!

To continue along the hop, just follow the link at the end of each post to go to the next site. We hope that following the hop will give you lots of inspiration and ideas for using your "Cherish the Moment" stamp set, as well as the many other great CTMH products you'll see in each post.

My creation today is a 12x12 wedding layout.  This stamp set has many obvious uses for cards - but the more I play with it - I'm also really excited about what a great set it is for journalling on your scrapbook layouts!


This layout features lots of distressing - both scissor distressing, as well as ink distressing.  I used the CTMH Corner Rounder to create the scalloped border.  And I used one of my favourite tools - the CTMH Soft Set Eyelet tool to set the eyelets that the ribbon is strung through on the top of the layout.   I also highlighted the journalling tag from "Cherish the Moment" by double matting it with cardstock, and then popping it off the page with foam tape.  The layout design is "Main Frame - Backdrop" from the CTMH How-to Program Book, Reflections.

Materials Used (all Close to My Heart):
Cherish the Moment - May 2010 Stamp of the Month
Building Block Alphabet Acrylic Stamp Set
Twilight Bitty Brads from the Winter Cozy Brad Assortment
Cardstock: Twilight, Colonial White
Ink: Cocoa

Thanks for stopping in - to continue on the hop - visit Melissa's Blog to see what she has created!

If you get lost along the hop, or come across a broken link, feel free to refer back to the complete list of May's Blog Hop participants HERE.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

CTMH Emporium Clean and Simple Birthday Card

My offering for this week's sketch at Clean & Simple Stamping:


Materials Used (all Close to My Heart):
Emporium Level 2 Paper Pack
For Every Occasion Acrylic Stamp Set
Adorning Corners Acrylic Stamp Set
Basic Craft Buttons
Cocoa Grosgrain Ribbon
Chipboard Flower from Dimensional Elements Perennials
Inks: Twilight, Crystal Blue, Cocoa
Cardstock: Twilight, White Daisy

Friday, March 26, 2010

CTMH Emporium Happy Easter

A quick Friday card for you . . . a great sketch this week from Clean and Simple Stamping.

This card also qualifies for the Paper Cutz Challenge #34, which is to make an Easter card without chicks or bunnies!

Materials Used (all Close to My Heart):
Butterfly Wings Acrylic Stamp Set (previous SOTM)
March Word Puzzle Acrylic Stamp Set (retired)
Sweet Leaf Brads (from the package of Cottage Edge Anchors collection)
White Daisy Ricrac from the RicRac Ribbon Collection
Cardstock: White Daisy, Sweet Leaf, and Textured Petal
Ink: Petal, Sweet Leaf

Have a great weekend!  We are off to my daughter's last hockey tournament of the year!  An out-of-town tournament - should be fun!

Saturday, February 13, 2010

CTMH Emporium Mumps Memories

Yes - this is probably the most un-flattering picture I have ever taken!!  I was 8 years old and I had a REALLY bad case of the MUMPS!! Yikes!!  Luckily the Summer Olympics (L.A. - 1984) was on at the time - so I spent my hours in isolation happily watching the summer games!  (I love the Olympics - summer or winter, doesn't matter.  And I'm not an athlete (at all!).  I just love the patriotism - everyone cheering for their country - and the spirit of it all! I've had my TV on all day catching the first events of the Vancouver games!  Go Canada Go!) 

I love this week's simple Design Dollies sketch and thought it worked perfectly with my photo.

Materials Used (all Close to My Heart):

Monday, December 28, 2009

CTMH Event Calendar to get ready for the New Year!

Here is a CTMH Event Calendar that I recently made.  These are perpetual calendars you can use year after year to make note of birthdays, anniversaries and any other dates you don't want to forget.  Decorate them as you wish! 

Mine was inspired by one done by Jen Rubio.


























I used all CTMH papers & stamps on this project - but there are so many different ones, I am not going to list them all here.  If you have any questions about any products I used - please just send me an email (csironside@shaw.ca). 

So happy to get back in my craft room this week now that all the festivities are over.  Feels great to be creating again.  Will have more new artwork to post soon!!

Monday, November 30, 2009

CTMH December Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to the Close to My Heart Stamp of the Month Blog Hop for December! We have dozens of talented consultants participating this month - - which means tons of fabulous artwork ideas to inspire you! This month we are showcasing the daytimer inspired "Notice the Details" stamp set - a set of 41 images! Enjoy!

This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

My project this month is a fun little gift item (think hostess gift, teacher gift, coworker gift or stocking stuffer). You can click on the photo to view a larger image.

This fun desk accessory is a decorated acrylic picture frame. My project uses a 5x7 frame, but they come in various sizes. I'm sure you have a few of these hanging around the house that can be re-purposed, or else take a look at your local dollar store. Simply decorate a sheet of paper to fit your frame & insert it where the picture would go. Then peel the back protective sheet from a pad of sticky notes and stick them to the top of the acrylic frame. You can further decorate the top of the frame with additional embellishments, if you wish. In my case I added ribbon around the top and used glue dots to secure the ribbon to the frame. Sit the frame upside down on your desk and your post-it notes sit at a handy angle and within easy reach on top of your desk.

Materials Used (all Close to My Heart):

Now hop on over to Cindy's Blog & check out what she has to share with you!

And if you get lost somewhere along the hop or come across a broken link, feel free to refer to the complete list of December's Blog Hop Participants Here.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

CTMH Emporium Father's Day Cards

Several weeks ago I held a "Crazy for Cards" Workshop. The Workshop is based on the "Crazy for Cards" episode of Art & Soul on CTMH TV. I used the Emporium paper pack for the workshop and each participant got to make 20 all-occasion cards. The card design is "Pretty Simple" from Originals. Everyone chose their own sentiments for their cards based on their own needs - I chose to make 2 of my cards Father's Day cards to give to my Dad and my Father-in-Law. I'm just getting ready to pop them in the mail - so thought I'd take a quick photo in case you are needing some last minute inspiration for a quick and easy Father's Day card!

Materials Used (All Close to My Heart):

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