Well, I think it's about time to celebrate some card making!!!!

Hey everyone, Katrina here with some FABULOUS work from the Card Team and the Local Design Team!!!

I have so much to share, that I am just going to get right to it!

First up is Rae Barthel....and she has gotten a little Boo-tiful for her projects!!!!  Be sure to visit Rae's blog for all sorts of inspiration and wonderful cards....She makes these look so great and easy!!!!

 How cute is that???  Rae used a piece of the Ghost Chipboard album on the front of this card!  All of Nikki's chipboard albums are 6x6 approximately, so you could use any of them for the front of a card! 

 And this card uses some of the Cutie Cut-Ups.  The Cut-Ups make fast work of making a card or embellishment for a page!

  Let's just say I am a sucker for some gingham ribbon!!!! 

 This house doesn't look too spooky do you think?! 

Next up, I think it's beginning to look like Christmas!!!!  The talented Linda Beeson is already getting started for the Christmas season with a couple of Christmas cards for us!!!  And Linda's blog is full of all kinds of ideas, so be sure to visit her too!  These are from the Happy Holly-Days Collection.   Take a look at these.....

 Who doesn't love nutcrackers??  Linda also used Cut-Ups on her cards!!! 

And Linda took the Holly Wreath circle die cut and used it for her scallops....no border punch here!!!  How great, you could take a bunch of these circle die cuts to a crop and not have to haul your entire border punch collection....not mentioning any names on who might do that.....(me!).

I am going to jump in now...because believe it or not, I have made some cards recently!!  It was World Card Making Day after all!!!  I used some of the newer collections, but I also used one of the older ones,

Ellie's Day Out.

This is a shaker card....they are pretty easy to make and fun to shake!!!

The Ellie's Day Out collection makes sweet birthday cards!

This is from the Tree Love collection...this is one of my FAVORITES!!!  Try using a simply tag on your card as an embellishment, pop dot it for added dimension!

Blueberry Hill is so bright and cheery.  Perfect paper for a pick me up card!

Now we have Karen Taylor from the local team. Just a little more Boo-tiful going on here!!! She has created a tag and a card this time!  Karen's blog is located here.  Be sure to visit her too!

I LOVE this card!!!  That flower almost looks like it needs some water don't you think?

And what a cute vintage tag!  This would be neat to stick a gift card in for that special trick or treater!

And last, but certainly not least is Lea Albers.  Lea is from the Netherlands and she creates some amazing stuff!!  Her blog is here.
Lea has created some "PocketCards" as she calls them...now why can't I think of things like this?!  These are super cute and really easy to do!!! She used the My Friend Birdie Collection for these!  She also mixed the 12x12 papers and the 6x6 minipads!!! 

Both of the cards only took a half of one of the Chirp Chat circle die cuts!!

This first card she took the half die cut and sealed it to make a pocket, then used one of the minipad sheets for the card to slip inside!

For this one, Lea took the other half of the die sheet and folded into thirds.  Super Cute!!!!  And then she used another mini pad sheet to make the card!  Lea has also used the Cute as a Button Buttons on her cards also!!!

Well, that's it from me and the girls!  I hope we have inspired you to get some Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker paper and start creating some of these fun projects!  That's it for us this month...we will see you next month with some more fun stuff!!!

Have a Scrappy Kinda Day!!
Katrina Hunt

Making history with Nikki Sivils...

Yep. That's what I'm doing. I'm gonna make history with Nikki Sivils by posting my blog entry today... September 28th. Throughout history, big things have happened on September 28th. For example:

September 28, 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes king of Scotland

September 28, 1928 - 1st recording session in Nashville

September 28, 1932 - New York Yankees win World Series

September 28, 1956 - RCA Records reports Elvis Presley sold over 10 million records

September 28, 1968 - Beatles' "Hey Jude" single goes #1

September 28, 1970 - Anwar Sadat replaces Egyptian President Nassar

September 28, 1994 - "Cats" 5,000th Broadway performance

And now today...

September 28, 2010 - Julie Howard posts two totally random layouts on Nikki Sivils' blog

It's truly a day for the history books. I believe this post calls for paid time off work, cookouts and, dare I say it? Fireworks.

Yes. I *am* one strange bird. I make no excuses for it. In order to survive the craziness of day to day life, I attempt to find the humor in everything. If I can't laugh at the absurdity of some situations, I could just as easily find myself in tears. So in my life, I've learned to keep a light heart and to laugh!

Oh... and if it wasn't obvious, I used the My Friend Birdie
collection for this layout. The letters are from some other manufacturers which I will not mention here. Bwah!

Now for the next layout, you'll be very surprised at the two collections I mixed. I decided to use:

Boo-tiful and Blueberry Hill

See... I told you I was a strange bird. But seriously! Don't they look fabulous together?!

This is my niece, Chelsea. Clearly, she has a flair for the dramatic. Nooooo idea where she gets that from. Whenever she visits her Grandma's house she always leaves behind a new message on the chalkboard in the kitchen. This "I will be discovered" note was left for her Grandma this past May. Years from now we'll all be able to look back on this and say, 'We knew her when.'

Just as years from now you'll be able to look back on this date in history and say, 'Hey! September 28, 2010 is the date that Julie Howard posted two completely random layouts to Nikki Sivils' blog!'

I have a "treat" for you!

Hey everyone, it's Katrina here!!!  Nikki and few of the local design team went to Scrap-a-Palooza put on by Scrapbook Generation here in town.  We had a blast! Here are a couple of pics!

Nikki and Laura Parks shopping for some paper!

Chocolate Foutain...yeah, we visited it...TWICE!

And for my project...well, I got a little "misty" over it!  hee hee. I took half of one of the Blueberry Party die cut circles and used it as a mask for my misting!!  I used the back side while misting, so I could still used the front...that way I still have half of it to use on another project!   I got a little more "mist" on the cardstock than I had planned, but I think it all worked out ok!

And I tied some bakers twine thru the "how sweet it is" sticker from the Cardstock Sticker sheet.  I attached it to make it look like it is hanging off the letter.  I love this sheet of stickers, so fun and SO MANY stickers to do fun things with!!!!!

And then, my title was just going to be "Cool Treat" but then I got to playing around and really, really really wanted to use those small letter stickers in the layout somewhere.  That is how the "Enjoying a Cool Treat" title came about.  To accent the A, I just placed it on top of one of the Cute as a Button Burlap Buttons that I used.  And then I just used the letter stickers to spell "cool" but place them on the ribbon to make them stand out!

Just remember...stickers are not just "stickers", you can do things to accent them and make them stand out.  Just like the bow above on the tag and like the "ribbon" word strip!  Play around and see what you come up with!!

Get out there and create, you never know what you will end up with!!!! 

Have a Scrappy Kinda Day!!~~Katrina

All mixed up

Hey everyone,

It seems like I've been waiting for my post FOR-EVER!!!!  My last post was way back in August, and I won't be posting in October, so.............I thought I better give it to you with both barrels this month.  I decided to create several different layouts for this post, showcasing as many Product Lines/Collections that I possibly could & mixing things up a bit.

Here goes....................

12:  Boo-tiful & Pocket of Treats {title tag}.

Backyard Lessons:  Tree Love, Willow Bee, My Sweet Cherry Pie, Victoria's Street, Burlap Buttons & packaging (title tag), Cardstock Stickers (title).

fall glow:  Blueberry Hill, Ellie's Day Out, Tree Love, My Sweet Cherry Pie, Victoria's Street, Cardstock Stickers & Pocket of Treats.

Touch football:  Tree Love, My Friend Birdie, Cardstock Stickers & Burlap Buttons.

 Wide Open Spaces: Tree Love, Boo-tiful, My Sweet Cherry Pie, U R My Favorite & Pocket of Treats.

Hopefully I have inspired you to dip into ALL the Nikki Sivils Scrapbookers product lines that you own and begin to use them altogether in your layouts, cards & projects. 

Have fun trying to find these layouts in the gallery -- I'm not quite sure WHICH COLLECTION I will be showcasing them in {??!?}. 

Now.......get out that fabulous NS paper you've been saving for a fun day of scrappin'.........and don't forget to mix it up a bit!!!!!!

Have fun.
- jill

Bluberry Hill

Have you tried Nikki Sivils mini 6" x 6" ? they are so versatile. Each mini pad has 3 sheets of each pattern paper, all full sized patterns reduced to 6" x 6"!
Perfect for making mini books, cards and altered picture frames!

Picture Frames I hear you cry! I love Ikea and on a recent visit I picked up a few of these square picture frames, measuring 51/2" sqaure the mini pads were perfect for me to work with.

I chose Bluberry Hill to work with, selected some of my favourite papers, the diecut sheet and a few embellishments to work with. Simple layering, strips of paper and a few diecut shapes popped and I had a mini work of art!

start with a simple picture frame



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add paper layers and embellishments







Supplies : Ikea picture frame, Nikki Sivils Blueberry Hill mini pad, Nikki Sivils diecut sheet, Nikii Sivils bread tag, ribbon, button and chipboard bird.

I love how this picture frame has turned out and will defintiley be making a set.

Hope you enjoyed my project, hope to see you at my blog for lots more Nikki Sivils projects.

Anna x

Inspiration

Hi girls, here I am again and this time I have something to inspire you.

When I'm working I love to look for  inspiration in decoration and handmade items and today I thought of showing you some creative curtains, made from a variety of materials, from tiny shells to CDs, as you can see in these images below taken from the Internet.

Observing the Blueberry Vines paper, from Nikki Sivils Blueberry Hill's collection, the association between it and those materials was imediately and I wanted to created something inspired by these patterns. 

 

First, I did this layout "Priceless", where I used the Bluebery Hill collection taking advantage of my cutouts and Nikki´s fabulous stickers:

 Second, an altered item using the same brightful collection:

I hope these images help and inspire you all.

See you soon,

Larissa

Spring smiles

Hi there, it´s Monika here from chilly Sweden where fall is quickly approaching. Today I´m hoping to inspire you with a few layouts and a bottle full of love.

This is a really quick and easy layout with a photo from taken day after midsummer, I have used the Blueberry Hill collection and just added a few ribbons to it.

I really love some of the simple and clean layouts I have seen lately, but making one myself is a real challenge for me. Here I have used papers from the Boo-tiful line, I flipped the scalloped edge paper to reverse, white, side to make the border under the photo. The journaling is about my beautiful nice whom I love dearly.

This is my last layout, here I have used digital layouts as inspiration to achieve the layered look. The road sign decoration is a printed digital element and the bar code thingy was on my mascara. Al the papers are from the Tree love line.

This month I will have to spend two weekends away from my daughter. It´s very rare that I´m not home when she goes to bed and I will definitely have a hard time to be without her. I know she will to. That is why I made this little milk bottle for her and filled it with kisses, hugs and “I love you-s”. I explained to her that every time she misses me, she just takes out a note, reads what is on it and knows that she got a kiss, hug or “I love you” from me because that is what I have put on each piece of paper.
I have used the Pocket of Stickers-Red Crosshatch to decorate the jar.