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Hello and welcome to another SOTM BlogHop with some awesome CTMH Consultants! There are almost 60 Consultants participating so you should be able to get some pretty fantastic inspiration using this month's Stamp of the Month!

If you've arrived here from Judy's Blog then you are on the right track...you could refer to the list at the bottom of this post if you've lost your way.

This is one of those stamp sets that are a great investment because you can get multiple uses out of this one over several different seasons.

I wanted to use the Christmas stamp as I always have photos to scrap on this Holiday...

I took these photos in 2007, my Yorkie Chloe is super cooperative and sits nicely for her picture to be taken!

 I didn't have enough of the CTMH silver glitter alphabet stickers so I used the zeros for my 'O's and I added our CMTH green glitter to some chipboard alphabet pieces to make 'xmas'

 I have oodles of tags I purchased at Staples and I punched a 1⅜" Colonial White circle which fit perfectly to cover the bright white tag base.

Banners are all the rage currently, and adding some more of the red and green glitz glitter gel to these stamped images adds just the right amount of bling!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Now off you go to Maureen's Blog to see what she has created with this great stamp set!

List of Bloggers

Helen Onulak http://www.hookedonstamping.com

Kathleen Androlewicz http://BowlOfStamps.blogspot.com

Kami Welter http://www.scrappin4memories.blogspot.com/

Nikka Geers http://www.nikkageers.blogspot.com

Haley Dyer http://inkyscrapper.blogspot.com

Doreen Guilfoyle http://whereisyourhappyplace.blogspot.com

Michelle Loncar http://michelleloncar.blogspot.com

Traci Godbee http://www.createwithtraci.com/

Melinda Everitt http://www.ifyoublingit.blogspot.com

Pamela O'Connor http://reflectionsofmyartandsoul.com

Adeline Brill http://www.adeline-brill.blogspot.com

Pamela Ellison http://pamsclearlycraftycorner.blogspot.com/

Georgia Hauglid http://inkygeorgia.blogspot.com/

Amy McVey http://www.clearlystamping.blogspot.com

Mary Eisen http://mestamp2.blogspot.com

Laurie R. Newton http://www.scrapsfromthebeach.com

Wendy Coffman http://www.stampingrules.blogspot.com/

Krista Ritskes http://simplycreatingtogether.blogspot.com/

Wanda Riley http://Creatingwithwanda.blogspot.com

Beth Naumann http://www.bethscreativeblock.blogspot.com

Maria Meyers http://www.stampmomma.com/

Angela Tutton http://www.tuttonstreasures.blogspot.com

Judy Burger http://www.makingtimeformemories.blogspot.com

Jen Rubio http://JenRubio.blogspot.com

Lalia Harris http://www.craftylalia.blogspot.com

Gina Brandstetter http://gmbscrapper.blogspot.com/

Katy Taylor http://www.scrappinkaty.blogspot.com

Susan Brooks http://stampingintheopen.blogspot.com

Jen Patrick http://roxybonds-scrappin.blogspot.com

Melissa Laverty http://www.fancymelissa.com/blog

Sheila Bennett http://sheila-bennett.blogspot.com

Michelle Jones http://www.michellejonesva.blogspot.com

Angel Sawyer http://RunningwithScissorsDesignCo.blogspot.com

Allisa Chilton http://rockymtnpapercrafts.blogspot.com/

Dawn Ross http://iamahappystamper.blogspot.com

Lisa Sargent http://www.lisasargent.net

Brae Montgomery http://thebrae-er.blogspot.com

Krista Hershberger http://kristascraftycorner.blogspot.com/

Tamra Pope http://tamrascraftypapercreations.blogspot.com/

Dawn Heuft http://stamptildawn.blogspot.com

Jill Lucas http://scrapwench.blogspot.com

Elizabeth Mindemann http://www.ejoym.blogspot.com

Teresa Scrivens http://www.creatingwithinkypaw.com

Lori Brown http://www.savingmine.blogspot.com

Carla Ironside http://carlacreates.ca

LeAnne Dudley http://www.dudleychickdesigns.blogspot.com

Annette Green http://AnnettesCreativeJourney.blogspot.com

Shirley Ross http://www.momnmescrap.blogspot.com

Sarita Schraeder http://www.blessedscrapper.com

Karen Fullam http://www.enrichingmemories.com/

Vicki Price http://priceofpaper.blogspot.com/

Jean McNulty http://stampinmaui.blogspot.com/

Joy McHargue http://www.studiowowjoy.com/

Terry Ann Diack http://terryanndiack.blogspot.ca/

Judy Faye Garner http://judyfaye.blogspot.com

Kristine Ponte http://kponte.blogspot.ca

Maureen OSullivan http://somethingtoscrapabout-maureen.blogspot.com/

Tamytha Jenkins http://www.paperheartist.com/

Michelle Johns http://www.myflightsoffancy.com

Fast and easy sketch

Good morning!

I've got a super fast and easy sketch here courtesy of Scrapbook Challenges and I was able to fire off one more layout in Olivia's Travel Album, so I'm that much closer to getting her up to date...with the help of some Project Life sleeves...she will just need to add some journalling to the pages I've done and onto the note cards and she'll have a completed album from her travels so far!

This page was fun to do because of the silly photos of her and her gal pal posing with the giant stuffed bears in the Calgary Airport...she had a couple hour layover, waiting to continue onto Quebec for her school trip to begin!

I had lots of fun designing the title to cut from my newly purchased Silhouette...it is fun trying to figure out new tech'y things like melding words to cut all as one!

I used the stickers from this Simple Stories paper line and just popped them up onto 3D foam tape for the airplane and then carefully cut out the scrap/negative off the sticker sheet to get the outline you see on the top of the layout...a little fussy, but I was happy with the way it turned out! Note: I used my little Xyron to adhere the tiny letters, makes it less messy to turn these guys into stickers and easier to position them :)

You could easily get the same look by using different alphabets to create your title and cut arrow shapes from patterned paper to mimic the sketch if you wanted :) Have a great Monday and thanks so much for taking the time to stop in here :)

I've done the single of this sketch but you could have fun with the double too!

more Hexagons!

This is one fun sketch, it uses my favourite photo configuration and it has octagons! I already had this 5x7 printed out and it is a bit of a stand alone photo from my daughter's Paris trip as there aren't any other photos so I've used it instead of the sketch photo suggestions...you can do that you know! 

Look at a sketch for it's basic design and make it work for your photos! Don't get hung up on the presentation of it in the sketch, if it's showing you a landscape 4x6 and all you have is a portrait 4x6...go for it! Make these sketches work for you and your photos as they are a great starting off point and don't need to be taken literally, just use them to get your creativity flowing!

I found this Jenni Bowlin 'Vintage Finds' paper collection and stickers at my LSS last week and when I did I thought of this sketch, even though it's was Team A's sketch...I just had to play along with it too!!!

All of the hexagon shapes were from the sticker sheet I purchased to go with this paper collection and then I matted them on black card stock.

Aren't these wood veneer hexagons by Studio Calico awesome!?? I inked them a bit with some Brown Bag ink from CTMH and layered them around my page :)

Thanks for stopping in today!

Nostalgia

Good Morning!

I have been enjoying the My Mind's Eye 'Nostalgia' collection lately and a couple of great sketches I thought I'd share with you this morning!

First up is Scrapbook Challenges sketch from Monday and some older photos from my childhood, these are slides that I have scanned and then tweaked on iPhoto and printed. There aren't that many of me as a younger child as we didn't take that many photos back in the day of 35mm film...

This paper collection is aptly named Nostalgia as it really worked well with these old photos...

I still need to journal on these layouts but I will need to talk to my parents and see if they remember where these photos were taken and the approximate year etc.

Not sure if you can make out what we are eating in this photo, but we were camping with my Dad and he figured that a cold can of pork and beans was good enough for dinner with some bread and butter!

I'm loving my Silhouette machine and these cut arrows, so cute!

Here's the single and double sketch from Scrapbook Challenges

Now moving onto today's Let's Scrap sketch I wasn't quite finished with the 'Nostalgia' papers and stickers yet and this was literally a ten minute layout, easy peasy....I just used the RHS of the sketch as it worked with my photos :)

Now the great thing about getting paper packs is that they usually include a sticker sheet and a die cut sheet, so when you are working with these paper packs, your layouts can always come together nice and quick...

I simply raised my 'memory' die cut with 3D foam tape for added dimension and found some pre-made tags from another paper collection (Pink Paislee's new 'Portfolio') and that was that! Still need to journal on this one too...gonna need to bring these over to my parents house and have a coffee and some conversation!

the pink scalloped strip was from the border sticker sheet that came with theses papers, did I say this one was fast and easy?!

This is today's sketch from Let's Scrap...

Thanks so much for stopping in today and I hope you have a chance to play along with these great sketches!

up for a Challenge?

Good Morning!

It's my turn over at Scrapbook Challenges to host a November Gratitude challenge. I got to pick 'Wildcard' which means it's my choice to design my own challenge...so head on over the Scrapbook Challenges site to see the post!

This is my layout that I created and the rules are pretty simple, create a layout using four (4) different pieces of patterned paper using one of our sketches...include one (1) piece of fiber, like ribbons or twine, at least two (2) bits of some kind of metal, I chose studs...use at least one (1) technique like sanding or inking and include one (1) stamped image...as you can see I've stamped the flowers and leaves and I've sanded the edges of my photos and inked my paper!

Now these are things that most of use do in our day to day scrapbooking, but in the theme of keeping my life simple these days...I thought this was challenge enough for our Scrapbook Challenge members and for you as well!

I've put to use some REALLY old papers from Close To My Heart and the stamp set that coordinated with it...both are discontinued now but if you are anything like me...you probably still have papers from years and years ago that you should be using up! So dig into your stash of stuff...that you still like! and get playing with some paper and glue! Happy Wednesday everyone! Thanks for stopping in today :)

Treasure Found!

Well this was a pleasant discovery...a couple of days ago in my efforts to put things back into my storage room, after needing to unload it for renovation stuff, I discovered a handful of random photos from 2000, Fall I believe.

Photos of my son at 2 years old...no special occasion by what I can make out, but a super cute photo just the same :) 

I figured this week's sketch from Scrapbook Challenges was perfect for this and it was super easy to whip up! 

The colours look a little off but this new paper collection by Kaisercraft seemed nice and boy'ish and digging into my old stash of punches turned up my great leaf punch! 

I was able to work in another Polaroid mat for my Let's Scrap challenge too! 

Here's the single paged sketch and the double pager too for those of you that just can't do a single!!!

Polaroid Challenge

Good Morning!

It's my turn to host a two week challenge over at Let's Scrap and seeing as my life has been crazy busy these past few months and I haven't had a chance to participate in many challenges myself, I thought I'd throw a nice and easy one at everyone!!!

Polaroids! Yup, ones that you re-create because I'm pretty sure there aren't many folks out there that still have one, but the look is fun...so that being said here's the challenge:

Incorporate a 'Polaroid' looking photo into your layout...check out this link for the details of this month's challenge and some helpful tips to get you creating Polaroid looking photo mats for your photos and layouts!

I've been hanging onto these photos for a couple years...you know when you scrapbook some photos from an event and then you don't finish?!! Well that's me with many things in life, but in the end, this sketch and challenge was just what I needed to get these pics into the album!

All scraps from my Footloose paper packet and the sun and clouds were leftover cuts from my BC Crop for Kids classes...so this layout was crazy easy! Which is nice for a change :)

Thanks for stopping by here today and have a fantastic weekend, hopefully you'll have a chance to play along for the chance to win a RAK from me!!!

Spring BREAK adventure

Good morning!

I am almost seeing the light at the end of the tunnel at Casa Ponte...the deck renovations are pretty much complete, Halloween party-done, Olivia's weekend return from UNBC and family dinner-done...now it's time to put things back and tidy up the house after the weeks and weeks of different contractors have been in and out of the house!

In addition to that, it's time to get back to some preserving of memories and recording them here on my Blog!

I am never short of sketches with the two Design Teams that I am on and this week at Let's Scrap we are featuring a sketch by the wonderfully talented Enikö DeLisle! Please take a moment in your BlogHopping to look at her wonderful blog! Enikö always has helpful tutorials and tips and shows you the process she takes with creating her beautiful artwork...something you don't always see here!

As you know I love the small details, in life and in scrapbooking! this little zipper pull seemed like a frivolous purchase, most of my scrapbooking purchases really are! but I just HAD to get them...wasn't sure what on earth I'd actually do with them but Prima's new collection called 'Junkyard Findings' are just awesome!

I was so surprised to see that Bazzill Basics had a patterned paper line! It has a great texture of course and a lot of the papers in this collection were pre-printed like you see below...I've just added the pink pieces across the layout!

Now some of you might say, 'Who needs another cutting machine?' and I said to myself that I certainly don't! BUT I've been eyeing the 'Cut It Up' class over at Studio Calico and I have also been admiring the cut title and embellie work throughout the Web and over at Lets Scrap...so I thought...'What the Heck!' right!?? because for those that know me, know that I LOVE to make my own embellies from papers/fabric/felt that coordinate with my layouts and as much as I get sucked into really cool embellies like those Prima zipper pulls...I love the feeling of creating an embellishment instead of paying for one!

After signing up for the class at Studio Calico AND ordering the Silhouette Machine from them as well...I have to say that I am 200% happy with my decision! The fact that I can design my own titles, with the fonts I already have on my computer, download designs instantly to use right away! SOLD...if you didn't already know, I'm an extremely Impatient person and if I want something, I wanted it yesterday!!! Finding the right colours for my title was as easy as looking through my cardstock! and so much cheaper!!!

I love this photo of my hubby giving my eldest daughter a hug (kinda fake, like he's worried, which he wasn't I might add) before we took her to the airport on her first ever trip without her family! Her French Immersion class went to Quebec, Canada in her Grade 8 year of Middle School, super fun for her, super scary for Mom having her fly without me at 13 years old! Don't you just love those arrows! I cut those out !!!

I couldn't completely break from my alphabets so I just cut the 'Spring' out from a handwriting font on my computer...took all of two minutes to type it, size it and cut it!!! LOVE my new Silhouette!!!

Here's this weeks sketch before I forget!

Have a great day and I hope you have a chance to play along this week!

Haunted Mansion

It's late but I keep meaning to post my single layout from Scrapbook Challenges Monday sketch!

A different sketch that could work for team photos, parties or just random pieces of patterned paper!

This is what I did....

  

I've used some chipboard bits, journalling pocket and patterned paper and cardstock from Close To My Heart's Moonlight collection...great pack which works for Halloween or Fall photos :)

Here's the single sketch...

and the double sketch...

Thanks for stopping by!