Stuck?! Sketches February 1st Challenge!

It's the 1st of the month and that means there's a new sketch challenge waiting for you at Stuck?! Sketches! I used an older collection from Fancy Pants (Wonderful Day) and really like how this turned out. The photos were taken last year August when we went to Europe's largest book fair here in The Netherlands. It was the first time we went and we had such a great time! This year we'll be going again for sure! 

And here's the sketch Laura Whitaker designed for us:

Here are a few close-ups of my page:

If you join us and create a layout based on the sketch you might win one of the prizes from one of our sponsor's: 

Charm Creations are offering a $20.00 gift certificate to their online shop:

and 

Cuts2Luv who are offering a $25.00 gift certificate to their online shop:

Also we want to show you how much we appreciate that you play along with us and share your designs and talent with us so we will be choosing one scrapbooker from each challenge to guest with us at a later date! 

If you decide to play along then please link up your layouts over in the sidebar on Stuck?! Sketches' blog by February 28th 2017 at midnight EST to be in the running for one of our prizes! All prizes will be drawn randomly using Random.org to pick a number.

And if you would like to see what the other designers created with this sketch then please hop over to the Stuck?! blog as well! 

I hope you'll give the sketch a try!

xxx

Monique

We Are Family - like for ever January kit

Hello everyone! I noticed I forgot to share this layout I created with the January Woodland kit from "like for ever" kit club. I used one of the four sketches that are always included in the monthly kits. I really love this as I'm a huge fan of sketches! 

This is the layout I created: 

and this is the sketch I created:

I really loved using this sketch! The choice for this sketch was an easy one as I love triangles! The photo is from Easter last year, when we had my sister and her kids over for a brunch, which was a perfect opportunity to take a pic of all the kids together!

I used only a little bit of patterned paper for this layout. The triangles are all from one sheet of 1Canoe2 paper called ‘Flock‘ and then there’s the piece of paper on which I matted the photo and that’s all the paper I used! The title was created with the awesome gold foam Hazelwood Hazel Thickers from the kit.

For the triangles I used a 3″ square punch and cut all the squares in half. After adhering them to my page I either added a bit of machine stitching or I embellished them with die-cuts and stickers:

One of the last things I added were the triangle enamel dots aren’t they beautiful?!

Last but not least I wrote a bit of journaling and added a few drops of gold foil spray mist. This is it, hope you like it!

For more Woodland kit inspiration please hop over to like for ever's blog! For information about purchasing the kits, click HERE. This link will take you to the "frequently asked questions". It's an English kit club (not American!). 

The February "Beep Beep" kit has arrived today and it's sooooo beautiful! Featuring Shimelle's Little By Little collection and Dear Lizzy's Oh Lovely Day collection! LOVE!!! It's already available so hop over to the lfe store if you want to take a look! 

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog! 

xoxo

Monique

Pebbles Valentine's Home Decor

Last week this project was featured on Pebbles blog and I was so excited that I could use the new Valentine’s collection “My Funny Valentine”! I love celebrating Valentine’s Day, whether it’s watching romantic movies, reading romance novels or going out to a restaurant or cinema with my hubby, I love it all! In our hallway I have this little chest of drawers and each holiday or change of season I create a little scene on it. So as soon as February comes in sight I start decorating for Valentine’s Day! Guess where this frame will be placed?!

I started my project by gathering the products I thought I would need, like the 6″x 6″ paper pad, the awesome Thickers and the puffy stickers. The photo frame is from my stash of photo frames which I collect for projects like this.

I chose 5 sheets of paper from the 6″x 6″ paper pad and cut three of them to 4″x 6″, 3.5″x 5.5″ and 3″x 5″ and with the other two I created two labels using my die-cutting machine:

I machine stitched the rectangles together:

The labels were glued together and embellished next, starting with the fabulous matching My Funny Valentine Thickers and some twine:

Next I adhered the gold ampersand from a gold Thickers set  and added two gold puffy hearts from the My Funny Valentine puffy sticker set:

I adhered this set in the center of the rectangles:

For the finishing touch I added a white dotted line around the red label and inserted everything carefully in the photoframe (I’ll add the glass front after photographing my project):

Aren’t the colors and designs of this collection just awesome?!

This is it! Thank you so much for stopping by my blog to take a peek at my project.

Supplies:
My Funny Valentine Thickers Stickers (733274)
My Funny Valentine Puffy Stickers (733278)
My Funny Valentine 6″x 6″ Paper Pad (733523)
American Crafts Thickers Gold (732613)
American Crafts Baker’s Twine Value Pack (366303)
American Crafts This To That Double-Sided Super Sticky Red Tape, .25″ x 5 yd (61753)

xoxo
Monique

Adventure is Waiting - The Cut Shoppe

Hey everyone! Longing for warmer and sunnier days here! So I thought that for my project for The Cut Shoppe I would use photos of warmer times! I used the "The Half of It" cut file to scrap these photos of our trip to New York last year.

The Half Of It cut file I used is one of the newer ones and is so fun to use! The possibilities are endless! I turned the cut file upside down and placed a large circle on top. Then I placed it on a sheet of yellow patterned paper and filled a few of the half circles with pieces of patterned paper in different colors. I machine stitched around the four sides and doodled a line around the circle. Only now was I ready to design the centre of my layout. 

I used Shimelle's "Starshine" collection. Love the colors and designs of this collection! Here are a few close-ups of my layout:

The awesome gold letter stickers aren't from Shimelle but from the Confetti collection from Maggie Holmes. 

I just love both the chipboard pieces and the transparent stickers in this collection! Love that there's so much variation! 

This is it! Don't forget to check out both The Cut Shoppe's blog and the Etsy Store; the blog for lots of awesome inspiration and the Etsy Store for all of Ashley Horton's fabulous cut files!! 

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today! Hope you'll have a wonderful rest of the week. 

Making Spirits Bright - Pretty Little Studio

For today’s blog post on Pretty Little Studio's blog I created yet another layout with the fabulous Tinsel Town collection. Normally I don’t feel like creating Christmas layouts any more in January, but I just wasn’t ready to put this collection aside. The colors and designs just make me so happy and when I found these photos of my daughter and her friend at one of the famous German Christmas markets in my pile of printed photos I just sat down and got started. Here’s what I created:

I started my page by cutting two large pennants, one out of the Cookies & Milk paper and one from a metallic clear sheet with gold (I adore this one!) and adhered these on a 12"x12" sheet of paper from Crate Paper (as Pretty Little Studio doesn't carry any 12"x 12" papers). I placed the photo on top – no matting needed – and picked one of the many journaling cards to place on the left of the photo. Isn’t this one just perfect? Next I selected a few embellishments: a flair button, a frame, a few die-cuts and in no time the top part of the layout was done!

Next I started on the design of the cluster in the bottom left corner. I wanted to add a second photo and needed a few extras. I knew I wanted to use one of the black tags, which I love (!!) and another one of the fabulous flairs and the rest was easy: a few die-cuts and two little stickers and the cluster was finished!

Last but not least I added a bit of hand-journaling and a few drops of silver color mist.

And here’s a list of all the PLS products I used:

• Tinsel Town collection: paper: Cookies & Milk; Die-Cuts: Tinsel Town, Twinkle; Tags: Merry; Flair: Wish List; Stickers: Nice List Words, Tree Topper; Journaling: FaLaLa 3×4; Metallic Clear: Season’s Greetings Gold; Frames: Noel.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today. Wishing you a crafty week!

xx Monique

New Mid Month Sketch Challenge at Stuck?! Sketches!

It's the 15th of the month and that means it's reveal day over at Stuck?! Sketches! For today's sketch I used up some of my precious October Afternoon stash to scrap these photos of me from last Christmas. I'm a huge Outlander fan and my kids bought me the 2nd season of Outlander on dvd. Earlier in December I had already gotten the "All I wish for Christmas ..... " sweater and I decided I really needed to create a layout about these presents, if only to thank my kids (I really have the best kids in the whole world!)!

Such a shame October Afternoon is no more ... but no dwelling on that, on to Laura Whitaker's new sketch!

I have to admit that I often struggle with diagonal sketches. All the while when I was creating my page I had everything straight and only in the last minute did I decide to follow the sketch and to rearrange the whole pile and adhere it all diagonal (don't know if I did the right thing though, if I hadn't stitched it I think I would tear it all loose again and adhere it straight once again, lol). 

Here are a couple of close-ups: 

The flair buttons are from "A Flair For Buttons" and are the only non-OA products I used. 

Soooo loving all the vintage die-cuts and stickers!

And now onto the sponsors for this sketch: 

• Creative Embellishments, who are offering a $25.00 gift certificate to their online store, to one lucky participant!

•  and Wycinanka, who are offering a beautiful themed prize pack to a second lucky participant!

Apart from these prizes we will also be choosing one scrapbooker from each challenge to guest with us at a later date!

In case you decide to play along with us then please link up your layouts over in the sidebar on Stuck?! Sketches' blog by January 29th 2017, at midnight EST to be in the running for one of our prizes! All prizes will be drawn randomly using Random.org to pick a number.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog. Wishing you happy crafting!

xxx

Monique