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

A big Hello from France !

Hey there ! It's Michele Beck, from France !
I am here to share with you some pages. One of my fav item from Nikki Sivils, well, in fact, i love them all, but the scalloped papers are just gorgeous, and it offers soooo many ways to use it on our projects!
So, here we go :)
For this first one, i used Henry's Brilliance. I cut the scalloped paper named "Smarty Pants" and reassembled it to make a frame:

For the second one, i wanted something extremely feminine as it was a page about me. It's so rare i make that kind of page as i don't have lots of pictures of myself. It's a mix of Elie's Day Out and Dan the Record Man. 
I really love the paper "4 the Record" but i only wanted something blue... So, i cut out the part i wanted, and punched some little circles. Then, i cut in in two parts. Some butterflies and flowers stamps, a little of sewing, and here we have a feminine page :

And the last one, the line "My friend Birdie" was perfect for this picture of my dd Camille and our dog Elysa. I think this photo represents them in the most perfect way, always in movement, one behind the other, the other behind one, playing etc. It's a pic i took with my I Phone so the quality is not perfect, but it's so easy to keep that kind of moments of everyday life...

I love these stickers, it matches with every thing:

Et voila :) that's it for today !
i hope you enjoyed this post !
have a wonderful month every body !
love,
Michele Beck

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

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

Ellie's Day Out

Hi Everyone,

Anna here with today's post. Here in the UK is glorious and I am enjoying the beautiful English Summer we are having here at the moment.

Today I am sharing some projects using Ellies Day Out. As with all Nikki's collection, "Ellies Day Out" comes with a shaped pattern paper. I love my shaped papers, which is why I "heart" Nikki Sivils!!!

On this layout of my daughter "Blooming" I used a half sheet of "Ellies Day" and layered on to 2 strips of paper; Pure Shopping, Pink is Pretty.

I love the delicate doilies out at the moment, so added a small doilies for a feminine touch.

My photo of my daughter has been mounted onto "Ellies Shoes".

I love to cluster embellishment on my layouts. I had fun cutting out lots of embellishments from the diecut sheet, "Ellies Cutie Cut Ups".

Handbags, tickets and circles were layered and clustered with chipboard flowers, pretty mulberry flowers and a chipboard birdie.

Finally I used some chipboard to make my title and layered this onto the tickets from the diecut sheet.

Here in the UK, we still have a few more weeks of school left, and all us Mum's are thinking about Teacher gifts.

I made a Thank you card and a cute giftbag that I will definitely use as a Teachers Gift this year; add a few homemade sweets/cookies and a gift card and my present is complete!

Thanks Card

I cannot waste any of my scraps, this card was made using the scraps from my layout. I cut the scallop semi circle from "Ellies Day" and added a few scrap strips onto my card with 3d foam pads. A couple of diecut shapes and a jewel adds the finishing touches.

Gift Bag

These gift bags are a staple in my house for making quick thank you gifts with a couple of homemade cookies in.

1 sheet of paper is all you need to make 2 bags! I have added a diecut handbag, a scrummy corduroy brad and a flag. Just add some pretty coordinating ribbon to tie your bag together.

Instructions :

• Trim your 12" x 12" sheet into 6" x 12"
• Now score 1 1/2" in from each side
• Next score 5" up from the bottom and from the top
• Score 2" down and 1 1/2" in, on all 4 sides
• Cut along the line to the 5" score line, and cut the 2" x 1 1/2" out.
• Ink if you want all edges at this stage
• Using double sided tape, adhere 2 of the flaps and stick to from a box
• Now lift up the 2 sides, you now have your basic cookie bag.
• I now made a flap to pop over the top of my bad, using a scalloped punch.
• I stuck the scalloped circle onto one side of the bag, and punch a hole and thread ribbon through to keep the bag closed.
• Decorate your bag as you wish :)
  
  

Enjoy your Summer, keep scrapping!

Anna x

http://www.scrappingtonight.blogspot.com/

Mixing patterns and products

I find my greatest inspiration for creating from challenges. A challenge this week at Moxie Fab is to create with a bicycle as part of the design. I love to use my own photos on cards whenever I can so this photo I had just taken of an adorable little house with a cute little bicycle sitting along the fence was the choice I knew I wanted to use.

With the colors in the photo, I could just see these papers from these two different collections matching just right. I love to use a collection of papers because they are made to go together so well, but I also love to pull together patterns from other collections that make it all work. The background paper is from the Will He B the 1 collection and the soft, green scallop circle is from the Ellie's Day Out collection. This piece is actually a larger circle but I cut just the green part out of the larger circle so it would fit on my card and so I could use this color.

My little flowers were created with punched out circles from the Date Night Strips patterned paper. I used those punched out circles as the base of my flowers with a little punched flower placed on that and a self adhesive button in the middle. These buttons are the BEST - self adhesive and cute with the little burlap look on them and the stitching already in place. How does it get any easier?

I cut out one of the little tickets for an accent and what is funny about that is that we were driving down the 101 in California when we stopped in this cute little town with Victorian houses everywhere and that is where I took this photo.

I already had this piece of Date Night Strips sitting on my desk so I cut out a portion of it to create my little birthday card.

The pink heart is part of the strip, I cut out an additional heart to layer over that and I also cut out tickets from the You're the Ticket paper.

I cut the strips apart in the piece of paper I had using scallop scissors and then I tucked the circle piece under the other so just a portion of the circles peek out.
Thanks for visiting, Linda Beeson, Design Team member

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - PARTY card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Date Night Strips/Well He B the 1/Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Self adhesive buttons – Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Circle punch – Papershapers
Sandpaper
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Foam tape – 3M
Alphabet stickers – K&Co.
Scallop scissors – Family Treasures
Machine sewing


FLOWERY BICYCLE card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Hot Lips/Well He B the 1 and Ellie’s Day/Ellie’s Day Out/Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Ticket – Date Cutie Cut-Ups/Will He B the 1/Nikki Sivils Scrapboooker
Punched circles – Date Night Strips/Will He B the 1/Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Self adhesive buttons – Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Circle punch – Papershapers
Sandpaper
Self adhesive pearl flourish – Zva Designs
Foam tape – 3M
Alphabet stickers – K&Co.
Corner Rounder punch - Fiskars
Ribbon

How about some layout fun?!

Hey Everyone!!! It's Katrina and I have a couple of projects to share with you. The first one is with the Ellie's Day Out collection. This collection has one of my FAVORITE papers in it. The pink "Ellie's Shoes/Pink is Pretty" paper....LOVE IT! The pink side just reminds me of lamps! This is a layout that I was going to share last month, but with work happenings, Michele Beck graciously took my blogging post!!! THANK YOU Michele! Ok, here is my layout that I didn't get to share yet!

And now....for a little something TOTALLY different than that sweet, pink, and pretty page! Spring/Summer around here calls for festivals of all kinds. The one that I ALWAYS attend since discovering it is ArtsFest. It's always in May, usually rains....BUT I always have fun! Lots of different sites and sounds to take in...although, I don't recall any scrappy stuff....mmm...we may need to work on that! If you love handmade jewelry it's THE place to go. AND a great way to scrap lots of pictures of any event is to use a collage type mask or overlay. You can do this if you have Photoshop (or Elements) or on sites like Picnik.

I love all the bright colors that seem to be around ArtsFest and when I went thru the pictures I took, I realized the good pictures had orange in them....WELL...hello Mr. "Dan The Record Man collection"!!!! These papers were PERFECT to scrap this event. And yeah....they are "music" papers, but you know us scrapbookers we love to use paper for different themes! So...here we go......I used the Cute as a Button buttons for accents on things....LOVE THEM...did you know they are self adhesive?? How neat is that...you don't have to try to figure out how to attach them. (secret...I have a tendency to get glue dots EVERYWHERE!) I made the little hangers out of some floral wire, it took a little longer than I thought, but I like how they turned out! And I also used some of the Cut Up's on the shirt! Here's a close up.....

And I have ONE more layout with the Dan the Record Man collection!!! This is a mural that I found downtown and thought it was just too pretty of NOT to take a picture...then I decided to ham it up a bit for the camera! ha ha ha!!! And remember, you can always CUT UP those pretty round die cut papers and use them as accents. It took me awhile to get over that I had to use them all as one piece and was never able to come up with a layout!



That's it from me today! I hope I inspired you to create, Create, CREATE!!!!!! And don't forget the NEW DESIGN TEAM will be announced soon!!!!!!!

Have a Scrappy Kinda Day!!~~Katrina

Sweet Ellie's Day Out!

Hi everyone, it's Ria Mojica again! Today I am sharing with you 3 LOs I made using Ellie's Day Out. I so love the sweet pastel colors...makes me feel so girly.

The 1st LO is my Mother's Day LO, titled "I am....Mom".

• I used my Crop-a-dile to punch holes in the scallop die-cut paper to match the border on the cardstock photo mat.
• I also enjoyed playing with my border punches to create different ribbon strips. The green rikrak was made using the Treading Water punch, while the pink strip was made using the Apron Lace punch.
• I used the heart stamp from "Will He B The 1?" and heat embossed it in white to finish my LO.

The 2nd LO is titled "Bag Ladies" featuring a photo of me with my mom and 2 sisters.

Years ago, before I was married, we used to spend whole week-ends shopping together. But now that I'm married (e.g. less shopping time and cash) and my 2 sisters live in New York, this is something we can't do anymore. Until last Jan 2010 when my mom treated our whole family to a trip to Hong Kong. I am so lucky that my hubby agreed to stay with the kids and let me shop with my mom and sisters like we used to do.

The 3rd LO is of my daughter Nadya. She is growing up way too fast for me and is getting more and more into clothes and fashion (even if she insists that she doesn't like fashion!)...she can't help it, I guess, after all, she does take after me.

That's it for today. I hope you enjoyed looking at my LOs and are similarly inspired by this sweet collection from Nikki Sivils.