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Thank you for visting my blog. I am fortunate to have friends that love to craft. I hope to meet new frinds as time passes. I have been an avid scrapbooker & crafter since July 1996. Thanks Char. I hope that I can inspire others to enjoy crafting as I have.



Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Nutcracker Suite The Girls Night Out

Today I am sharing a double layout of our traditional girls night out. I have been taking my granddaughters to the Nutcracker every year for the last 6 years, this year we decided to add their mom's.  The girls get a new ornament usually bought at the nutcracker, then we go out to dinner dressed up. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, originally created in 1892. was an 85 minuet long, production with no intermissions. We attended the local nutcracker at Centralia College Corbet Theater. 



For the base pages  I use the paper line Earth Wind Fire by Quick Quotes QQP EW100, The photo mats are from the same paper line, QQP EW102  The ice skate was die cut from The earth Wind Fire paper line QQP EW 107 and the Nutcracker is QQP EW 111.


It is a lot of fun creating memories with your family,  we hope to keep this going for any years to come. 


Supplies Used: 
Card Stock: Red & Black (from my stash)
Glitter paper: Gold & Green from my stash
Yellow brads (From my stash)


Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Snowflake Joy

Today I  am sharing with you a 12 X 12 canvas. I peeped the canvas with gesso and  light  gel paste. I then added the Quick Quotes Whistlin Dixie paper line 106, tore the two long sides adhering it to the canvas with the gel paste


Full view of 12 X 12 Canvas 



Close up view of tuquorse glue paste  used with a snow flake stencil, color spays green, blue and plum sprayed over the paper and the canvas.  Flowers and leaves arranged on the left side with pearl flourish cascading out from the floral spay.  I used patterned paper to die cut the snow globe, snowflakes and the Christmas tree. Bora Bora PowderPuff  Chalking Ink  distressed the outside of the photo and the snow globe. 

Close up of Snow Globe

Supplies Used:
12 X 12 Canvas
Patterned paper - Quick Quotes  Whistlin Dixie 101, 102  106
2017 Bora Bora Powder Puff Chalking Ink
Color Sprays- Color Wash - Sailboat Blue & Wild Plum
                      Lindy Stamp Gang - My Moilto Green
Glitter Paste - BoBunny Turquoise Glitter Paste
Flowers - Prima and KS4U
Dies from my stash - Snowflake, Snow Globe, 31/2" circle
BoBunny snowflake stencil

Thanks for stopping by today,
Enjoy the holidays

Kathi,

Friday, November 24, 2017

Grateful Journal and Thanksgiving Activity Booklet

Welcome crafty friends, today I am bringing you a fun activity booklet and journaling cards for my young dinner guest on Thanksgiving. These are place cards as well. Each child will have these on their plate to show them where they will be seated. The journaling cards can be saved and placed in a scrap book for them and the activity book keeps them busy during the times the adults are visiting with other adults.


The activity book is a 5 X 7 with things to color, Tic Tac Toe, word scramble , word search, Maze, I covered the activity book with a 12 X 12  Earth Wind and Fire sheet cut down to 71/2 X 5 1/2"Tied with a green ribbon, on the front of the activity book I cut down a 12 X 12 paper to a 81/2" X 11 paper to run through the printer Cannon TS5000 and copied the body of the turkey on to the patterned paper, I fussy cut the turkey out. coloring his feet, beak and comb with distress markers. The turkeys feathers are made from a feathers die using scraps from the Earth Wind and Fire paper line. 


The journal pocket was created using the  paper line Honeycomb.  I cut out a large leaf added two circles to the center of the leaf, the larger circle is edged with Milk Chocolate Powerful chalking ink. one circle is a photo of the child. Which was printed from the Cannon Selphy 1200, The photo was then punched out with round punch. The large leaf was then attached to a belly band to keep the journal closed. Inside the pocket are 30 journaling cards for the children to fill out.


Supplies Used:
Patterned Paper: Quick Quotes - Earth Wind Fire 
                                                     Honeycomb 101
PowderPuff Chalking Ink - Milk Chocolate 
Cannon TS 5000 and Cannon Spleeny

Thanks for stopping by,
Be grateful and thankful for even the smallest of things.
I hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving.

Kathi - Designer

Friday, November 17, 2017

Today I am so thankful

Thanks for joining me today,  I took the contents of the Q Club and this what I have created.


2 single 12 X 12 layouts, 12  Christmas cards and 1 mini albums.   The Christmas cards I used the quotes to create the front of the cards. Three of the cards have duplicate quotes, they are designed somewhat different.

Layout 1 (on the left) I used the circles as photo mats, added Happy Beyond Measure is backed with white card store then mated on the patterned paper. I used the light weight chipboard backed by the co-ordinating patterned paper.


Layout 2 (on the right) I used the cut out "Today I am Thankful" as my focal point, cutting leaves to add to the center of the semi-circle. Adding green bling and green and orange dots  around the semicircle.  I added a cascading waterfall photo mat under the word thankful.


Inside of mini album
Quote from the kit, die cut winter sleigh filled with presents

Supplies used:
November Q Club kit

Thanks for stopping by.

Kathi

Friday, November 3, 2017

A Grateful Heart

Hi, Crafty friends, today I am sharing with you a double layout I created for Thanksgiving this year (that's why no photo's yet). This is the time of year many of us celebrate the holidays with friends and family.  We all have so much to be thankful for. Not only am I thankful for the major things in life but I am seeing the importance of all the little things that make life so much easier. Fall is such a pretty time of year with all the color everywhere. The leaves turning from green to orange, red, and yellow.



Both layouts  are for 5 X 7 with two photo mats each measuring 5.5 X 7.5 and 6 X 8


Supplies Used:
Paper Line: Quick Quotes - Earth Wind Fire QQP-EW100-102-108-1110-111
2016 PowderPuff Chalking Ink - Barn Board 
Dies - Tattered Leaves by Tim Holtz, Leaf dies, scarecrow, pumpkin, letters & numbers from my stash

Thanks for stopping by today
Have a wonderful thanksgiving.


Kathi - Designer

Thursday, October 26, 2017

River Rafting

Hi, Kathi here to share with you a double layout. This was taken in August 2017 on the Deschutes River in Central Oregon just before the huge wild fires devastated the area.

 Double Layout

 Page 1

 Page 2 
Background paper is Quick Quotes "Whistlin Dixie QQP- WD106. The photo mats are from Quick Quotes Anchors Aweigh QQP-AW104 and Honeycomb QQP-HC105.  On the outside photo mat was distressed with PowderPuff chalking ink Mocha Mama.   

 Close Up of Center of page 1 


Page 1 top section 
I used the cut out from the windows to place my embellishment Quotes on then added an enamel dot on each of them to finish them off.  The photo's were printed using 2 Canon products. Canon TS 5000 & Canon Selphy CP1200

Page 1 bottom section
A strip of quotes Farmhouse 500 was added to the bottom of the layout, finished off with flowers from Petal. 


Page 2 Center Bottom
The phrase is from Want2Scrap it was painted white then added ice glitter then let it dry. 


Page 2 Upper Section 


Page 2 Lower Left Section.  
Close up of enamel dots.

Supplies Used:

Patterned Paper: Quick Quotes
          Farnhouse: QQP- FA101, 500
          Honey Comb QQP-HC105

           TS5000 
           Selphy CP1200

Want 2 Scrap - Enamal dots & Chipboard words
Petal - flowers 


Thanks for stopping by today

Kathi - Designer




Tuesday, October 17, 2017

A glimpse in the past.

Welcome, thanks for joining me today, Today I am sharing two single 12 X 12 layouts. Each layout has memorabilia. Page 1 is a layout of the 1973 Inaugural parade.  A town in Northern Idaho - Lewiston Idaho was invited to participate in the inaugural parade. It was my junior year of high school.  The large photo is of the entire marching band, drill team and dance squad." The memorabilia is the flyer of the inaugural parade which flips up to reveal the rest of the photo's.


The paper line used was an older paper line from Quick Quotes -Andrew Avenue and Julie Je T'aime

Lewiston Senior High
Bengal Tiger's 

The photo of the tiger was one of the displays at the Smithsonian Museum. 


We toured the Capital, the Washington Monument & the White House



We ended out trip in the big apple "New York City"


Close up of the flyer.

Layout #2 
This layout was our 40 year reunion 1974 - 2014

My tassels from graduation, a mini copy of my graduation announcement. With photo's from graduations night, and the front of the high school.




Supplies Used:
Patterned Paper: Quick Quotes - Andrew Avenue and Julie Je t'amine

BoBunny: Glitter Paste
Roses: Kraft Supplies 4 U
Embellishments from my stash

Thanks for stopping by today.

Kathi - Designer

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Halloween Cards

Welcome crafty friends, today I am sharing with you 3 cards for Halloween.   I used several paper lines to create these.


View of all three


Card 1
Card 1 is a 4 1/4 X 5 1/2" card it has a purple base card layer then it was layered with two layers  using Quick Quotes Mulberry  QQP-MB104 then layered with Quick Quotes Windsong  QQP-WS100.  The witches skirt was created from Quick Quotes  Anchors Aweigh QQP- AW103 & QQP-105 with wink of stella edging the skirts,  the witches legs are cut out of the Mulberry paper line. Shoes are out of black card stock with Wink of Stella on them.  Embellished with a purple ribbon and a sentiment.


Card 2

Card 2 is 5 X 7 1/2" with a black card stock base layered with a yellow card stock. then a third layer that is from an older paper line Andrew Avenue QQP-AW200, the next layer is Anchors Aweigh QQP-AW101. Beneath the house is Quick Quotes Chiffom QQP-CH100


Card 3
I used Quick Quotes Sheer Joy QQP-SJ800 as the base card, I embossed it in an embossing folder by Tim Holtz.  layered on Halloween dies cuts, cut from scraps of card stock. 

Supplies Used:
Patterned Paper: Quick Quotes, Mulberry, Windshong, Anchor's Aweigh, Sheer Joy, Chiffon, Andrew Avenue*** Retired paper line. 
PowderPuff Chalking Ink: Barn Board

Thanks for stopping by today.

Kathi - Designer

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Beach Side Canvas Layout

I created this layout,  it is a 12 X 16 canvas.  Using Quick quotes paper line Anchors Aweigh, & Adventure Awaits.


On the back ground on the upper left of the canvas I used the PowderPuff Chalking Inks to create the Sun and the sky  behind the palm tree's.  The inks I used on this project are from the 2017 - Powderpuff Chalking Inks inks are Baby Blue, Royal Blue, Lipstick, Rose Petal, Bora Bora, Terra Cotta and from the 2016 PowderPuff Chalking Inks. I used Aqua, Berry Jam, Lemon Sorbet, Pixie Pink Navy, Desert Sun and Light Moss, Most of the colors are blended to create the back ground.


Netting was placed at the bottom of the layout along with die cuts and seashells,


The Palm trees are die cuts the middle tree was created using powderpuff chalking inks Mahogany






Canon Selphy CP1200


Canon TS 5020

Supplies Used:
Patterned Paper:Anchors Aweigh, & Adventure Awaits.

PowderPuff Chalking Inks2017 - Powderpuff Chalking Inks inks are Baby Blue, Royal Blue,

Lipstick, Rose Petal, Bora Bora, Terra Cotta and from the 2016 PowderPuff Chalking Inks. I used Aqua, Berry Jam, Lemon Sorbet, Pixie Pink Navy, Desert Sun and Light Moss,

Photos's printed on the Canon Selphy and Canoon TS 5020

Thanks for stopping by,

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Fall Coffee Lover's Hop - Coffee Mini Flip Album

Coffee Lover's Mini Flip Album.  I cut out the Mini from a large coffee die, using black chipboard and patterned paper "Windsong" by Quick Quotes.


Front view of Coffee Lovers Flip Mini Album

This mini has 4 pages that flip.  All the photo's where taken at the Quick Quotes Private reserve Week end at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grandmound WA. Coffee is a must when scrapbooking from 8:30 am to 10:00 pm. 


 Outside 


Java PowderPuff Chalking Ink,  was used on the edges of each of the pages 
and on the outside of the mimi album.

Stacy Mullet - One of the Owner's of Quick Quotes 







Patterned Paper: Windsong & Whistling Dixie
Embellishments: from my stash
Dies: Accu Cut - Sizzix - AliExpress