Welcome DT Diva, Melissa Pablo

It has been FOREVER since I have blogged here (or on my own blog)!  But, today I am excited to share some work of one of our new design team Divas, Melissa Pablo.  Melissa has been a long time participant  of the Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker blog here and we are excited to have her on the team this term. 

The Divas are waiting on the new collections to arrive, but Melissa had some of the older collections and sent me three layouts while I was away at CHA.  I was so excited when I got these in my inbox from her!

For the first layout, she combined the following collections:  

My Friend Birdie, Gingerbread Land, and Tree Love.  

And they all worked together perfectly!

For this layout Melissa used:  

Will He B the 1, Flaming Butterfly, and Sugar Cookie

And for the last layout Melissa used these collections:

Sugar Cookie, We Are Family, My Friend Birdie, and I think there is a little Gingerbread Land in there also!

I love that she combined at least three different collections on each layout, but they all went seamlessly together!  Be sure to visit Melissa's blog, 

creative isay. 


Also, don't forget to grab one of the new collection badges over at the side to add to your blog.  I have already picked one winner this week!!!

A Fun Layout from Jodi Wilton And Challenge Winner

Ok, I am horrible, I admit it.  I just wanted to get that out there in the open.  My head is going in circles and I know I said I was going to post the challenge winner...and well, I didn't.  TOTALLY my fault, so please forgive me.  I have just been in a creating fog and it was one of those things that got put to the side.

So, without any further hesitation, let's see who our "Scrap Your Cell Phone Pics" challenge winner is..........

Lydia Siegel!  

And here is her page that she did!!!

So, Lydia, please email me at cardipaws@sbcglobal.net with your shipping address and your choice of the collection kit you would like from what we currently have available.  We will get your prize out to you ASAP. 

We are going to wait for the next challenge, as we have new Divas and we are lining things out on the schedule!  As soon as we know, you will know, so stay tuned.

And our "not so new" Diva Jodi Wilton emailed me this layout last week and I couldn't wait to show you her wonderful work!  We are so happy to have Jodi back on the team!

I love what she did with the We Are Family collection!  That sun is so FUN!  

Be sure to visit Jodi's blog to see all her other amazingly creative work that she does.  You might just get an idea or two!

Another new thing, for those of you on Pinterest, we have a PIN IT button on each post!!  So, you see something you like you can hit the Pin button and pin to your little heart is content!  Thanks to our blog coordinator, Julie Tucker-Wolek for figuring out how to add it to our posts!

And are you loving the new collections?  I am that's for sure!  I can't wait till all the Divas start creating and inspiring you with the new collections!

That is it from me today.  I will be crafting my little heart out until I leave for CHA on the 27th.  I am not sure what Nikki has up her sleeve for the blog, but I am sure it will be full of some fun sneaks of the new collections.  

Have a Scrappy Kinda Day!!~~Katrina

CHA COUNTDOWN:  11 DAYS!

(ekk...I need to get busy!)

Welcome our Guest Designer.....Erin Yamabe!

We have a wonderful Guest Designer with us this month, Erin Yamabe.  She has created some amazing things with our collections "We Are Family" and  "Summer".  Here is a little more about Erin.

Erin Yamabe is a sahm, to 2 beautiful little girls, who are the subject of most of her work! She is very excited to be Nikki's guest designer for July!  She is active in her daughter's schools and their church. Outside of scrapbooking, she enjoys taking Zumba and Yoga classes, family road trips, and date nights with her hubby! She started scrapbooking a few years after her oldest was born, and that was about 6 years ago! The passion she has for this wonderful hobby has turned into many opportunities for which she is very grateful for! As a DT Coordinator, Designer, and Instructor for My Little Shoebox, she finds her job to be alot of fun, at times challenging and very, very rewarding!  Her work can be found in magazines, both in the U.S. and in Japan, on QVC UK, and on the Scrapbook Memories TV Show.

Now that we have gotten to know Erin, let's see what she created for us with the Summer collection! 

First up is a layout.  I LOVE how she did the details on this. 

She took the banners and wrapped them around one of the faux stitched border strips, using it as a pole to hang her banners on.

Then she cut out some of the cloud shapes and popped them up.  She also used some dimensional adhesive on some of them to make them shiny and stand out!

Next up, she created an altered canvas piece.  She sneaked a peek of this on our Facebook page and I couldn't wait to see what it was all about!  The shimmer and shine go great with this!

And lastly we have a mini album in it's own little container!!  This is an adorable idea for a gift!

A trick that Erin used was covering the metal tin with some gesso and then using mist on it to give it some color!

 I love how she did the banner across the front!

 And here is the mini that is inside.  Erin provided us some close ups of the pages!

Now let's see what fun stuff she came up with for the We Are Family collection!  

Here is a layout.  I love how she paper pieced the background.  It reminds me of a quilt.

Next, she created a "Thinking of You" card.  And a neat way to use those border strip papers as a full sheet!

Then there is this amazing banner!  I am a sucker for banners and this one is no exception

And a little closer look......

I hope you all enjoyed Erin's projects as much as we did!  It is so fun to see what people come up with using Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker products.  Erin definitely did a wonderful job and gave us some fun ideas!  You can also visit Erin's blog HERE.

Thank you Erin for being our Guest Design Team Diva for the month of July!  We are so happy that you joined us and hope you had fun creating with Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker products!  

One more thing, Nikki has a CHA Contest on Facebook, check it out! You'll need one of these to possibly win though...

Have a Scrappy Kind of Day!!~~Katrina

Layouts, a tree, and ScrapaPalooza

I have got some fun stuff for you today from Mimi, Jennifer, and me too!  I also have some pictures of some new scrappers that Nikki and I met at ScrapaPalooza yesterday!!!

A local radio station and our local store, Scrapbook Generation, puts on a 

13 hour mega crop 3 times a year.  Each time the crop seems to get bigger!

Nikki sponsors the free mini classes that are done thru out the day.   Here are some pics from yesterday.  I didn't get very many, I was too busy having fun!!!

Yeah...she really is that cute!!

Nikki and I...I was getting tired by this point!

Nikki with Leola Sally and Angie Langwell after they finished their mini class.  I know that this was the first time that Leola has scrapbooked and she did GREAT!!!!!  (Hi girls!!!)

Now, let's get to the projects!!!!

Diva Mimi Leinbach created this fantastic layout!!  She used the We Are Family collection, Cute as a Button Burlap buttons, her Cricut Expression with the Storybook cartridge and bling from Want 2 Scrap!!!

Next up is Diva Jennifer Yates who has done a super cute two page layout with It's Your Day! She also used the Cool Cord Brads!

Last up from me is an altered tree made from Beatrice!  I am not going to lie, this thing took a while to create!

That's it from me this wonderful Sunday morning....I think I am going to go enjoy the day!!!

Have a Scrappy Kind of Day!!~~Katrina

It is officially Summer...need some project ideas?

Well, yesterday was officially the first day of Summer! 

I spent it working all day and then getting this blog post ready!  

If you find that in the summer you are so busy that you just can't seem to get any projects done 

(or your mojo goes on vacation along with everyone else!) 

maybe these projects from some of our 

Divas will help you out!

First up is Linda Beeson with a couple of cards! She used Summer and We Are Family. 

Close up of that adorable banner she did!

Linda used her Cricut Expression to cut the watermelon!

watermelon cut from Doodlecharms cartridge at 3 inches

Next up is Lea Albers. Two page layout lovers check this out!   This diva has created a couple of two page layouts from Allison Davis' Sketches for Scrapbooking! And I love the fact that she also included close ups of each page for you to look at!

Using the Summer collection

And using Beatrice

And then we have Rae Barthel.  She has done amazing cards for you again.  She has taken the same basic design concept, but used two different paper collections.  

Using It's Your Day for the first one!

And using Summer for the second one!

Well, that's it for me!  Nikki and I are attending a local mega crop put on by a local radio station and Scrapbook Generation, our local scrapbooking store.  We will be teaching three mini classes for the attendees.  I will try to get some fun pictures from the event and post them this week!