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!!!

Lots of goodness on a little card or two!

I love to make cards. I am not sure why exactly, maybe it's the smaller space that you get to work with. Anyway, I am going to share two cards with you today that include all kinds of goodness in their little spaces.

This first card uses all kinds of pieces of the NEW Blueberry Hill collection. It just says, "sunny shiny day"! On my card, I just started combining all kinds of pieces from this collection, not too sure of my destination and then I thought the finishing touch would be a little figure of a person, walking, looking like they were enjoying the day. THUS, a cute photo of my youngest grandson. He is about 2 1/2" tall. My little scallop hills are cut from a piece of the round patterned piece in this collection.

The sun and clouds are cut out of the die cut piece. I added the sunshine and the little cut out fella with foam tape so there was added dimension. You can barely see the little glitter accents on the clouds and sunshine where I used Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip.

This next cards uses all kinds of pieces cut from the Will He Be the 1 collection. I just loved how a piece of this and a piece of that fit together so nicely. That red, dot embossed piece along the top is a piece of Core Impressions by Core'dinations. It comes with the dots already embossed in it.

My flower is three circles punched from cardstock. I just made clips into the circles and then crumpled and folded the edges up. Could there be any better finishing touch to a flower then this pink corduroy brad! LOVE these things.

Did you know that each collection by Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker comes with a mini pad? That means that the patterns are smaller in these 6" square pieces. I have used some of those on both of my cards. The smaller patterns are great for cards and the smaller work space of a card.

Thanks for visiting, Linda Beeson, Design Team member

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

SKETCHES AND NIKKI SIVILS

This month, I am so happy to share that I am guest designing over at Sketches: Creatively Yours. SCY has fun and awesome sketches to inspire you in creating your pages. For the first two sketch challenges this July, I am bringing Nikki Sivils' yumminess with the layouts I have created.

The first one uses Henry's Brilliance and features my nephew Lance :

(Click here to see sketch by SCY's Team Leader Ali MacDonald)

This owl is super cute!!!!!!!!!!!! I made him sit on the tree sticker from Pocket of Stickers - Blue Bees.


The second one uses Will He B the 1 and features my dear daughter Nat enjoying her iced tea:

(Click here to see sketch by SCY Team Leader Ali MacDonald)

I made it look that she's sipping from the sundae/shake cut-out. ;o)


Hope you can play along with us over at SCY!!! Until next time!!!

Have fun creating,

janis

OWL always have fun creating with Nikki Sivils' products...

I was in the mood to make something silly recently. I'm not sure that an owl with big pink kissy lips was initially on my mind, but that was my result! My daughter's friend told me it looked more like a cat with those lips, but humor me & go along with the fact that it's SUPPOSED to be an OWL!

Want to see how I made it?

I started with my OWL mini chipboard album...... and painted it white...



I used a circle punch on my Bella, Bella paper & punches out the flowers to begin making my "feathers" (or... it could be a dress... you decide!)

I flipped up the edges of each circle to add texture...

... and then added some Burlap Buttons for the eyes, some pink lips & some more pink for the ears. Although the pink lip "cut-ups" from the Will He B The 1 line is more commonly used for love-themed pages, there's versatility in everything!

I hope you've been inpsired to create something new, in a not-so-obvious way!

OWL be back next month!

Hugs...

Deana

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

From a favorite movie to a Father's Day project...

Hello, it is Nathalie here today sharing with you my latest projects with Nikki's collections.

I created this 6X12 page (one of my favorite format) using the fun Will He B the 1 collection. With its yellow tickets, popcorn prints and pink papers, it was perfect for this page that I have been meaning to do about a family favorite:

You can click to enlarge

You see, in our family, we are often caught laughing out loud when quoting silly sentences from the Pink Panther (which has been viewed many times) and I am very glad to have made a page about it so that my kids will remember that!

Loving the yellow and grey combo of many of the patterned papers in Dan The Record Man, I was super inspired to use it for a Father's Day project I had in mind for my husband. I asked my kids to come up with a few sentences about their dad (like "I love it when you take me fishing" or "You're awesome Dad!") and printed them to make paper strips. I then created fortune cookies using the 6X6 mini paddie inserting the strips as I folded them.

Finally, I purchased a chinese take out box (less than $2 at Michael's) and covered it using two sheets of Hear the Beat. Added a tag (from the Record Cutie cut-ups) and there you have a fun and personalized gift for Father's Day!

ETA: I have added a tutorial for my Father's Day project (including the fortune cookies) on my blog: HERE.

Sometimes...

... I like to challenge myself :)
Hello there ! it's Michele Beck here today...

Sometimes i absolutely want an item, it can be a paper, a flower, a stamp... and when i get it, i don't use it.
I am sure it's the same for you !
Think about this wonderful paper you bought a few days (weeks?!) ago, this amazing brads you were dying for... and that you have never used!

Me, it's stamps.
I love stamps. I really mean it. How could i not love it? look at this one, or this one... aren't they toooo cute ?
what is too cool with stamps is that you can use it in so many ways...
Yes, i know that, so why i don't use it more often?
I don't know...
But today, i have challenged myself to make a page with lots of stamps!
So i take my Nikki Sivils Stamps, and i did it !
For this page, i used the line "Will He B the 1"



This alphabet stamps is just perfect for our title :




Now, it's your turn ! I want you to challenge yourself to make or use something you did not use to :) you'll see, it's fun !
thanks for stopping by :)
be creative!
Michele Beck

TWO BABIES, A MOM and A WEDDING

Hello everyone!!! This is Janis your blog hostess for today. I have several projects to share with you - - and I'm starting off with a layout that I have made for my super cute nephew Jester using Henry's Brilliance papers (for close-ups/detail shots, please see my blog post HERE).


I was also able to play with Ellie's Day Out papers and came up with a layout of my big baby Nat. I super love that the papers match the girly cuteness of my dear daughter. LOL. Here she is showing off her blue nails!!! (For close-up/detail shots, please see my post HERE).


I also made a card for Mothers' Day. The Ellie's Day Out Line is perfect not just for little girls but also for big girls like mommies!!!! :o)


Last Saturday, I attended the wedding of my officemate. Since she and her hubby will migrate to Australia after the wedding, my other officemates and I decided to give them money as our "good luck" gift. It's not much but just to show that the gift was still personalized, I decided to make her a pocket card using Will He B the 1 papers and the Red Crosshatch Pocket of Stickers. ;o)


Here's the inside of the card - - I inserted our gift money inside the pocket!!! This Pocket of Stickers is really a brilliant and versatile packaging that you can use on your projects!!! ;o)


Hope I inspired you to bring out and play with Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker's yummy products!!! Until next time!!!

Have fun creating,
janis

Will He Be the1?

Hi there! Michelle Lanning here. Just want to share with you some work I did with Nikki's Will He Be the 1 line.

I then couldn't resist making a little card - perfect to give a gift card to a happy couple.

That's it! Have a lovely rest of the week!

Michelle

A Little Road Trippin' and a Mini Album

Hi everyone! It's Katrina here with another post. Hope everyone is enjoying all the mojofiric projects you find here on Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker!!! The design team is just overflowing with lots of good stuff to get that mojo moving!

And don't forget to leave our guest designers some love. They are all AMAZING!!! And we are so excited that they get to play along with us also. And how lucky, I get to have a day on the blog next to them!

Alright on with the my projects. The first one is from the "Will He B the 1" collection. Now, this is a date themed line, but remember you can use themed papers for other things also! Here is a layout I did, without a date theme, but a Road Trip theme! And notice...no title??? Well, I decided the journaling said it all and it didn't need a title! (and hey, at least those movie tickets aren't speeding tickets!!!!)

And next I have a mini album that I made for Nikki to take to a trade show last month. This album came together so quickly. It is made from the Bella Blue and Oscar Too collection and the House Chipboard mini album. I just made a collage of a few of the pages...but look really close...see those pull out tags??? WELLLLL, I made those with Nikki's "Pocket of Stickers" sleeves!!! I just covered them with some paper, painted the edges, and viola...a nice little pocket to include in a mini album! How fun is that?!

And if there is an additional piece for the roof, those all fold up to reveal journaling underneath. This was super fun to do! There are more pics of all the pages on my blog. The link is to the right!!

That's it for me this time. I have been super busy with work, but so glad that I could share my projects with you! Hugs!

Have a Scrappy Kinda Day!!~~~Katrina