Welcome Our Guest Designer Kerryn Lawson!

Help us give a huge welcome to Kerryn Lawson, our guest designer for March.  You can check out more of her amazing work at her blog AsterixLawson.  We are really excited about sharing Kerryn's work with you this month.  We love her sweet feminine style.  I think you will as well!  Let's see what Kerry has to say:

Hi, my name is Kerryn Lawson. I am beyond thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Nikki’s fabulous products this month.

I live in sunny.. soggy... well these days it’s hard to know, but I come from the land down under. South Australia to be exact. I have been married to my high school sweetheart for over 10 years and we have 2 gorgeous kids, a son who is almost 6 and a daughter who is almost 8.

My poor long suffering husband is the reason I caught the scrapbooking bug. He brought me a scrapbooking kit as a birthday present so that I could record memories of our first family holiday. Little did he know the chain reaction that would come as a result of that innocent birthday gift.

I do love recording moments and memories but really, for me, scrapbooking is just about being creative. I love the process of bringing photos, paper and embellishments together to celebrate a special memory or showcase a special photo.

While I don’t have as much time for scrapbooking as I used to, I still make time every day for this wonderful hobby of mine.

We are thrilled to share with you these beautiful projects that Kerryn has made for her guest spot this month.  Just take a look at them!  Can you see all the fabulous details in her work?  Kerryn used a variety of Nikki Sivils products i.e. cord brads, burlap buttons, bread(less) tabs and of course, one of Nikki's latest releases It's Raining, It's Pouring.  There is not one thing I don't love about this layout!

Now how about this layout? It is still Nikki's It's Raining, It's Pouring papers, but Kerryn has added those yellow tags and dictionary paper giving it a totally different and unique look.  Again, what a fabulous layout!

Ok, how about a card and a tag for you? 

 Again Kerryn used the yellow tag pulling out the yellow in Nikki's papers.  I like how she took that little element and made something her "own".

How cool is this card!  Look how Kerryn did the umbrella and boots!  The 3D effect is amazing, and then the glitter on the raindrops was just the perfect touch!

Wow, Kerryn, your work is great!  How lucky we are to have you guest design for us this month!!  Again, be sure to check out Kerryn's blog link above for more of her beatiful work.

Well, check back with us again to see what else is going on in the Nikki Sivils world.  Have a great day, and

Happy Crafting!
Susan Dupre

mixing up!

Hi, I am Wendela from the Netherlands and this is my very first blogpost here at Nikki's blog! How cool! I'm so happy to work with those beautiful papers. I LOVE the colours and the Retro Style of it.

Today I mixed 3 lines.....did you find them??

Here in this layout I used Boo-tiful, a small scalopped piece, My friend Birdie and Tree love...

 Look at my home made flowers! Do you like them? It's really easy to do! Grab some embroidery thread and wind I think 5 times around 3 of your fingers. Use five fingers when you love to make a large flower, and two or maybe one finger when you love a smaller one.Then make a knot in the middle, add a brown corduroy brad in the middle, shape the petals and your flower is ready for use.

And here again the three lines Boo-tiful, My Friend Birdie and Tree Love. I LOVE the small blue burlap buttons, they are so CUTE!

Thanks for stopping by,

with love from the Netherlands,

XOX Wendela

Boo-tiful!!

Hello everyone!

It's me again, Lea from the Netherlands. Although we do not have Halloween, I have made some Halloween Cards. I love the colors, pumpkins and dressing up as belonging to a Halloween party, a great pity that we do not celebrate. I have used the Halloween Line Boo-tiful from Nikki Sivils, both the normal sheets and the minipad.

On this card I used 2 different pattern sheets nicely screwed together, then gently tear again. I used also some chipboard letters for the title. The ghosts come from the Boo-tiful Cutie Cut-Ups.

On the next card I used the 'Boo-sheet', I cut the corners of the sheet and make a new small squared. The spider is cut from Boo-tiful Cutie Cut-Ups, and I stuck it on a Bread(less) Tab. I also used an burlap button. Don't you think the spider looks real? ieeeeeeeeeeeee

                                                   

I love making matching envelopes, here I have some matching pictures cut out and pasted on black envelopes

Halloween candy can't go without. So I made this treat. To create a window, I used a nestabillitie.

I would appreciate it if you show your Halloween cards.

Thanks for coming along today.

With a scary greeting, Lea

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

Perfect for fall, nephews and so much more.

Hello from a local girl! I'm Stacey Atchley, member of Nikki's Local Design Team and I'm thrilled to have the chance to show you a couple of projects I've finished using some of Nikki's awesome new paper lines!

Having worked in our family scrapbook store for nearly six years now, one thing I'm constantly amazed by is the lack of papers that will fit a "boy" themed page very well. For a girl with two of the most handsome little nephews on the planet, I'm always struggling to find just the right papers to enhance the thousands of amazing pictures we have taken of them over the past five years. (Thousands is probably an understatement. If Drew & Jackson understood what the word paparazzi meant, they would probably think they were surrounded by them at most times). Lucky for me and all of you looking to create "boy" themed pages, two of Nikki's newest lines - Tree Love and My Friend Birdie - fit the bill perfectly.

"Drew and Me"

For this layout, I used papers and stickers from the My Friend Birdie line. One of my favorite additions to Nikki's collection are the tiny letter stickers. So versatile and easy to use, and most importantly...plenty of vowels! And of course, another added bonus is that the Bread{less} Tabs, Craft Flags and Canvas Buttons seamlessly tie into all of Nikki's lines!



My next layout features papers and stickers from the Tree Love line.

"Every Second Of Every Hour..."

Again, I think I've proven that I am madly in love with the tiny letter stickers! They make incorporating a large title into a small space not only easy, but eye catching. I think it's probably safe to say that this is my favorite line to date. Love the colors, love the Cut-Ups, love how easy it is to use!

With summer winding down, and autumn right around the corner, these two amazing lines can help make any of your fall projects a breeze.

mixin' it up .......

hello everyone -

Jill, here, on my first-ever assignment as one of the newest Dog house divas......WooooHooooo!!!! Am I ever lucky!!!!!

You will learn very quickly that I lllooooovvvvveeeeee to mix things up a lot and use as many product lines from a company as possible. In other words -- if Nikki were to ask me what product line she should send me to design with....I would have to tell her, "send me ONE pattern paper from every line you've got......I don't want anything too matchy-matchy."

That's me......the girl who can't seem to get herself to purchase more than one paper from a line. Anyone else like this....or is it just me?!?

Anyway.......I wanted to share two layouts that I have recently created with Nikki Sivils products (no ONE particular line highlighted).

Hooray for School:
products used: Flaming Butterfly: Butterfly Games, Willow Bee: Day Dreamer, My Sweet Cherry Pie: Cherry Tree, Will He B the 1: Date Night Strips, Ellie's Day Out: Ellie's Cutie Cut-Ups.
Lots of painting, stitching, layering, pop-dotting, inking, hole punching, sanding........the list goes on. Oh yeah....and lots of f.u.n.!!!!!

fishin' 4 tunes:

okay....in this layout, I tried to go completely out-of-my-comfort-zone and create a layout using more than one paper from a line (going completely against what i just told you about myself). Must admit, this is REALLY hard for me to do........I just naturally (normally) go for pattern papers that don't match AT ALL!!!!!!

products used: Flaming Butterfly: Butterfly Tag, Butterfly Eggs, Butterfly Strips; Dan the Record Man: Record Man; Bread(less) Tabs.

I used the Bread(less) Tabs to create these cute, little fish by cutting them in half, length-wise. I added a hand-cut oval from the Butterfly Eggs pattern paper. A google eye & smiley face seals the deal.
To view any of these products, click here (pattern paper) and here (Bread(less) Tabs).

Hope this stretches your creativity to grab those Nikki Sivils papers that aren't necessarily in one product line, and create fun & bold layouts with multiple papers. Now, go create something with "one from each" line. I know you'll love it!!!

smiles to all,

jill