Let's Capture Our Memories NSD 2013 Blog Hop!!

Hello fellow scrapbookers and sketch lovers!  It's May 4th and today, Let's Capture Our Memories is celebrating National Scrapbooking Day!  It's a day when all the fellow paper crafters of the world come together to create in the name of paper!!!  Hooray!!

Today, you may HOP along with some of our designers and gather some clues to our sketch reveal today! As you hop along, each of our 5 designers will have a "piece of the puzzle" to the LINK that will take you to our fun sketch reveal today.  So follow along with our list of designers in this exact order in order to receive your clues in the correct order:

Aurélie Cormier (http://rusticscraps.blogspot.ca/) YOU ARE HERE

Jocelyne Roy (http://chezjocelyne.blogspot.ca/)

Melissa Williams (http://missmelissaw.blogspot.ca/)

Shirl Tait (http://shirlsayslookwhatsnew.blogspot.com.au/)

Isabelle P. Doucette (http://isabelleperreaultdoucette.blogspot.ca/)

The easiest way to collect your LINK letters is to copy and paste them into a document until you have all the pieces!  Then copy the link into your browser and take a gander at our sketch! Have fun!

Here is my clue for you...

http://two.flash-gea

Here is what I made with the sketch you will discover by hopping along the marked path.

Lots of Echo Park on here with dashes of Tattered Angels, Studio Calico, October Afternoon, Stampin' Up, Kaisercraft, We R Memory Makers, DMC floss and a Staples paper clip. I had a blast fussy cutting all those flowers from one of the pieces of patterned paper! Playing with paper is SO much fun!! ;)

Now that you have visited my blog today, please hop along to Jocelyne Roy's blog to get the next clue to discover this week's LCOM sketch.  Oh! And please leave a comment on each one of the designers' blogs along the way... You never know when or what you might WIN!  Yes, that's right! I will be drawing a name from all those who leave a comment on this blog post before May 12, 2013. The happy winner will score an awesome scrappy prize from my very own scrap stash. Scrappiness guaranteed! :)

Finally, please feel welcomed to join in on the fun at the LCOM forum NSD online crop where the design team has come up with great challenges to celebrate this wonderful day that commemorates our wonderful hobby/passion of scrapbooking.

Happy NSD DAY! And happy scrapping!

Let's Capture Our Memories: Sketch #17

Has it ever happened to you that you see a sketch for a scrapbooking layout and instantly say to yourself, "I have to scrap with that!"? That's exactly what happened to me when I saw Allison Cope's sketch over at the Let's Capture Our Memories blog. Here is it:

Isn't it great? I was instantly drawn to to the strips of paper in the background as well as the, no surprise here, stitching prompts all over the layout. Here is what I did with it:

Fun, eh? This is a photo of some palm trees I fell in love with when I was in San Diego in April 2012. It was the first time I ever saw some and I was so drawn to their tropical feel. I always kept wondering about the things they've seen through the years... :) For this design, most of what I used is from Basic Grey's PB&J line, but I also added some MME, Pink Paislee, American Crafts, Tattered Angels, Kaisercraft, and some good ol' DMC floss and the ever so faithful paper clip from Staples.

Oh! And tomorrow is National Scrapbooking Day which means that LCOM is having a party!

Please come and visit again tomorrow as I will be part of an awesome blog hop at LCOM where you'll be able to win awesome prizes; even one from my very own scrappy stash!! Woo!Hoo! Can't wait!!

Happy scrapping!

Crop & Create Moncton 2013

WOW! It's been a long time, hasn't it? Honestly, I haven't been scrapbooking all that much since mid-February. Let's just say that I've been feeling under the weather... some might even call them the baby blues... ;) But all that changed over the past weekend when I attended Scrapbook & Cards Today's Crop & Create Moncton 2013 event!!  What a blast! Being able to be in the presence of some of the great scrappy greats out there to hanging out with scrappy friends to shopping in three on-site scrappy stores to being spoiled rotten by the event organizers through awesome sponsors to being silly in the photo booth... WOW! REALLY! WOW! I even got the chance to take a few classes with Vicki Boutin (replacing Sean Edgar - I always love Vicki's no-nonsense teaching style!), Kelly Goree (still one of my all-time faves after all these years!) and Kelly Purkey (who celebrated her birthday with us!). Here are some layouts I made while I was hanging out in the crop space in between classes.

Already can't wait for next year's edition of SCT's Crop and Create Moncton!! 'Til then, happy scrapping!

Creative Scrappers: Sketch #249

It's another reveal day at Creative Scrappers! Here's the Heather Leopard sketch we played with:

And here is what I created:

Lots of Crate Paper with some dashes of Bo Bunny, Kaisercraft, Pink Paislee, Bazzill Basics and Studio Calico. I'll actually be giving this layout to a friend of mine who went to Africa last Summer to do some humanitarian work. When she showed me these pictures, my heart went out to them and I asked her if I could do a few layouts of her trip for her. It's like scrapping with a cause!

Happy scrapping!!

Creative Scrappers: Sketch #247 and Scrap for Help's February 2013 Challenge

Holy! Has it even been storming in our neck of the woods!!  There's a good foot and a half to two feet of snow in the driveway!!  Thank God we have a snowblower!! And the wind! It's really like being in Cape Breton... except having my Maman's home cooking... ;)

This week at Creative Scrappers, we had a Kiki Halbert sketch to play with:

Isn't it great? So simple yet full of possibilities. My kind of sketch. Here is what I came up with:

Yes, that's Louis-Olivier just this past December. He is growing up SO fast. And he is growing up to be so much like his Papa, it's not even funny! Which is really fine by me because I've always considered myself to be such a lucky woman to have Mathieu in my life. They are quite the pair!! Hee!Hee!

I used some My Mind's Eye, Fancy Pants Designs, October Afternoon, American Crafts, K&Company SMASH, Basic Grey, Studio Calico,Tim Holtz, DMC floss, and regular ol' paper clips from Staples. Inspired by Scrap for Help's February Challenge, I also punched some star shapes from some plastic packaging I had lying around and stapled them to my layout. And that journalling? I doodled the lines myself! WOW! I would never, I repeat N-E-V-E-R, have done that before. It's so much fun trying new things. Woo!Hoo! Photo by Philippe Dumas.

To see what the other Creative Scrappers girls did with the sketch, hop on over to today's CS reveal. And to win a prize package from its February sponsor, upload your creation(s) using sketch(es) #246-247-248-249-250 to its(their) respective reveal(s) by March 1, 2013.

Happy scrapping!!

Creative Scrappers: Sketch #246 and LCOM's Gimme All Your Lovin' Online Crop Challenge #2 - No Pinkies Here!

Hello, everyone! It's been a rough week here with a bad flu taking over our household, but I feel so much better that I've been scrapping a LOT over the weekend which is awesome. This week, the Creative Scrappers girls were inspired by this Juliana Michaels sketch:

Also inspired by LCOM's Gimme Your Lovin' Online Crop Challenge #2 - No Pinkies Here!, I grabbed this very recent pic of my husband and me and created this love-themed layout with no pinks, no reds and no hearts.

For this layout, I used some Cosmo Cricket, Fancy Pants Designs, Pink Paislee, Queen & Co., Bazzill Basics, DMC, Tattered Angels, Liquitex, American Crafts, and a good ol' Staples' paper clip. I loved making those layered circles with my new EKSuccess circle cutter... OMG! It's the best little gadget around!! A friend of mine gave it to me as a gift and I am truly so thankful. Goodbye circle punches! Goodbye die-cutting machines! Woo!Hoo!

Ready to see another set of amazing layouts? Head on over to this week's Creative Scrappers reveal and see for yourselves! Oh! And to win a prize package from CS' February sponsor, complete at least one layout from sketches #246-247-248-249-250 and upload it using the inLinkz at the bottom of each reveal. The deadline to submit your layout(s) is March 1, 2013.

Happy scrapping!

LCOM Gimme All Your Lovin' online crop!

Guess what I'm doing this weekend... Let's Capture Our Memories is hosting an online crop this upcoming weekend and I'll definitely be popping over for some cropping inspiration. See you there!

Gimmie All Your Lovin' Online Crop!

February 2 & 3, 2013

In the Let's Capture Our Memories forum! 

Happy scrapping!