Oldies and Goodies

Last week, I shared this layout on LCOM, featuring uses for old and new product. I have tons, and tons of raw chipboard that I bought when I first started scrapbooking, and never had the patience to paint or alter to use on projects. I've got few new tools in my arsenal that make that raw chipboard user friendly. One of those is washi tape!

Check out the step by step instructions here.

Materials:
Cardstock: American Crafts
PP: October Afternoon
Chipboard: Fancy Pants, Collage Press, Pink Paislee
Tim Holtz Distress Stain (Mowed Lawn, Brushed Pewter, Gathered Twigs, Crushed Olive)
Maya Road Kraft Snowflake die cuts
Studio Calico Wooden snowflakes
Helmar Acid Free Glue
Helmar 450 Quick Dry Glue
Washi Tapes: many :)

It's beginning to look a lot like...

...time to start the Christmas crafts! I would usually wait until at least the 1st of December to break out anything Christmas related ( maybe that's why I'm always so rushed by the 25th!).  We are starting our Christmas Holiday Schedule over at Practical Scrappers, and today we're all about Christmas cards.
Here's my contribution, made with an absolutely adorable Digital Stamp from La La Land Crafts. I did a combination of Copic coloring, and paper piecing using The Great Outdoors Collection from Momenta.

I added a bit of Tim Holtz Distress Ink in the new Seasonal colours of Evergreen Bough, and Iced Spruce (YUM), a sentiment stamp from Studio G, chipboard snowflakes from American Crafts, mini pompoms from the Dollarama, all on a 6 x 6 card base made from Bazzill cardstock.

Hello Mojo!

Oh I've been itching to scrapbook for what seems like months now! Now that I got a few warm up pages under my belt, I'm happy to say I can feel the mojo starting to come back. I had forgotten how it seems like your "normal" life is over when you have a baby, and you seem to exist on whatever food and sleep you can slip in between all the baby's needs. I thought I'd never scrapbook again. It's amazing what you can get done with a baby carrier and some crafty distractions for the preschool monkeys.
 Simple, but right up my colour scheme!

Materials:
Cardstock: Bazill Basics Paper
PP: Creative Imaginations, American Crafts, Basic Grey
letters: Basic Grey, Pink Paislee
Colour Mist: Tattered Angels Chalk Mists
Pen: Copic Multiliner 0.5