It's a Fiesta ~ Let's Party Challenge

AReeeeeba Areeeba!!!! hehe Do you remember that cartoon?? Was it Speedy Gonzalas? Oooh, I miss Saturday morning cartoons....ok not really.... now I like Saturday morning crafting instead! So we have a new challenge over at

  Creative Accents Seriously Creative Challenge Blog!!!

 Woot woot!!! Have you checked it out yet?? it's a challenge blog dedicated to Local Scrap Stores, all they ask is you use items from your stash that you can buy in your local store, versus online or home party based companies. And come on.... while we all do the online shopping thing...dont you just LOVE your LSS (if you have one) Something about a store filled with all our favorite things.... staffed by the people that love it as much as we do... and just wandering about the store. How many times do we go there for glue....JUST glue... and come home $50 poorer with a stash of pretties that we prolly dont have room for at home.... LOL Anyhow... Im off topic again. This week's challenge is.....

LET'S PARTY

Now....this weekend is Creative Accents Weekend Crop for National Scrapbook day...and we have a Fiesta theme to it, so when I saw these papers and this image I knew I HAD to use it! The're all from WeR Memory Keepers. Those flowers I made with crepe paper and the Sissix 3D flower die (LOVE IT!!!)

OK! I sure hope to see you join us over at Creative Accents this month...yup MONTH! It's a month long challenge, which is nice... LOTS of time to play along! And Awesome prizes too!!1

Cheers

Cheri

Creative Accents NEW Challenge Blog and Challenge

Well hello there fellow Bloggers! As you know I've been on the Creative Accents Seriously Creative Design Team for some time now. Creative Accents is our FABULOUS little Scrap shop here in Williams Lake. And Tara (owner and paper crafter extrodinaire) likes to put on challenges for her clientele. And now!!! WE've decided to go viral with these challenges and start it's OWN blog! Woo hooo!! So... these challenges will last a month at a time (Nice eh!!) and ussually begin sometime in the first week of the month (not always on the first) SO....first of all... Hop over to:

And start following the fun!!!

AND for our first challenge we have a picture inspiration for you.

So.... what I find so interesting about a photo inspiration challenge is the VAST different projects that come out of one picture! Now... I myself had quite a time of it... I just could not nail down an idea... I had lots but none seemed to pan out for me and well...got myself into quite the MOOD actually! LMAO SO... I sorta jumped out of my zone a bit and made this card...

I used my little Penquin stamp from Memory Box to make up this cute card... and now... why do you ask is it out of my zone?? Well... it's NOT SQUARE is the biggie for me! LOL I dont know why that is ussually a hardship for me...but it is. ANd well it's definatly not a typical "Cheri card" but that's ok...I still like it.

ANyhow, I sure hope to see you join us over at Creative Accents Seriously Creative Challenges!

April SOTM at Creative Accents ~ House Mouse

Good morning bloggers! Today is April Fools day. No fools here tho....unless you count driving WAY too many hours foolish. I'll be on my way South again this afternoon... Geesh! but it's to see my Favorite aunt so I guess it will be worth it....oh and while there I'll be checkin out the Sewing and Crafts Show... so that will for SURE be a good day!!  Now, with the beginning of a new month that also means a new Stamp of the Month over at my favorite little scrapbook shop Creative Accents And I was THRILLED when Tara asked me to help out with the samples this month cause they're some of my FAVS from House Mouse!!! Woot Woot!!! Such cute stamps! So here are my samples first up is It's Easter for Peeps Sake

Tara and I both used the Basic Grey papers Hello Luscious to create our cards. And Im not gonna lie to ya...I REALLY struggled with them... I loved them, but was wishing for some "cuter" papers. However...what's life without alittle challenge huh?? LOL And I think the cards came out well!! LOL I also got that GORGEOUS crocheted ribbon at Creative Accents... LUV IT!!! My sentiment is a stamp from Whipper Snapper (also available at CA) 

Next up I made a Baby card

Using the same papers again, I cut my little chickie out so it looks like he's saying to the bunny "Heard you had a little Chick" and now.... I can hear ya saying... Cheri... isn't that a hand written sentiment? And aren't you the Sentiment girl?? UM YA! However... i did have this sentiment all written up and made purdy to print off and use.... but me and that ($*#(@$()@*) Printer of mine had yet another falling out.. and this time HE WON! Bloody thing....  So....hand written it is today.

Hope you're on our SOTM club...cause you're gonna wish you were now aren't ya?? 

He heee!!!

Oh and stay tuned, cause I think there might be a new challenge over at CA coming up soon too!!!

*wink wink*

My Shamrocks

heheheeeeeeee OK! So Tara and Julie from Creative Accents are off to see the wizard!! The wonderful wizard of.... STAMPING!!! That's right...they're gonna meet the amazing and swoon-worthy (for us lovers of ink, paper, stamps and all things pretty anyhow) TIM HOLTZ And yea...it's all I can do to keep myself from jumping them at the airport and taking their ticket.... but... I'll behave... THIS time!  So instead...I've made a tag... an "oh so not worthy but I hope it makes you chuckle Tim".... tag for Tara to give to his wizard-with-an-ink-pad-ness. I pulled out pretty much my stock of TH Ranger goodies and tried to use em all on this...hope it's not too much! LOL Check it out.....

Ok....so I really hope Tim has a sence of humour...Im purdy sure he does. :) I have used some Graphic 45 papers to start the tag off with. Distressed them with Peeled Paint Distress Ink and and distressed the edges too, then I've cut out all those Shamrocks with some QK dies and the SHAMROCK word is the TH alphabet Once Upon A Time. I've used Tissue Tape and Alcohol Inks...that charm is inked and loved to death.... there's stickles and glossy accents everywhere on here! LOL And those tickets, with my name on them are attached to the back of the tag!! (just for you TAra! LOL) Here's a close up of that Bauble.

Allright folks!! There you have it.

Geesh...I dont even know if there's a challenge I can enter this into.... LOL 

Oh well...it was just for fun anyhow! I love to play with inks. :)

Have fun ladies! And bring me back something fabulous!!!! ;o)

Stamptacular Sunday DT ~ For the Love of Chocolate at Creative Accents

It's Sunday! Day of lazy mornings....and a house full of tired pre-teen boys for me! Oy!!! Do I even have enough cereal in the house to feed then. Anyhow....that's my issue this morning. It's also time for 2 challenges at my 2 favorite places. Of course, over at Stamptacular Sunday our challenge is

Lovin From the Oven

Where we want you to showcase food somehow on your card. And our FABULOUS sponsor is the ever generous and always awesome My Favorite Things.

Now, over at Creative Accents, my favorite little Scrapbook Store we also have a challenge for you, for the month of February we want to see what the love of Chocolate inspires you to create.

OK!! So you can imagine this was a difficult challenge for me.... LOL I used one of my neglected MFT Stamp sets and came up with this....

Ooooooooh, I had fun with this. Firstly my image is all 3D'd, hard to see at this angle, plus I used my airbrush around the edge of the nestie. My papers are all from a new set by Memory Box we just got in at CA, those tickets are a combination of TH stamps and the set from MFT. I've used some neat Memo pins from TH to stick the tickets into those awesome flowers made with my new fav Sissix die (MUST have for crafters I have to say!!!) And I think that's that!!! 

Thank you SO much for stopping by, hope you can join us at both Stamptacular and Creative Accents with our challenges this week!

Cheers

Cheri

Happy Birthday Sarah!!!

YAY!! It's Sarah's bday! Sarah is on the DT with me over at Creative Accents and the rest of us has all made her a special card to post to say Happy Birthday!  Sarah LOVES Halloween and all things dark. :o) So I made her a "dark" card with this gorgeous Lil Lolita, who I've been dying to use since I got her last year! Now I've made tri fold card... I had this idea...I dont know if it worked or not, you can be the judge.... LOL anyhow, here's the front.....

On the 2nd page I've used this awesome sentiment from Skipping Stones.

And on the inside I"ve used the wine glasses from that same set, and what is quickly becoming my favorite stamps, that splash from TH.... works for blood, wine.....LOL

Anyhow!!! I hope she likes her card. Now, Sarah has a nice tradition of saying something nice about the birthday gal.... so in honour of her tradition Id like to say that Sarah is an amazing mom to 3 adorable little boys, I dont have any idea HOW she does it! But she's amazing at it. Oh and she's an awesome scrapbooker and makes wonderful pages!

Ok....so hop around and see what the other girls have made up next stop would be

CARLA!!

Another one of my Sketch's Makes it's Debut!

Well!! My sketches are just all over the place these days it seems! :o) Yay for me! Im SO excited that the gals over at Creative Accents have decided to use one of my sketch's this month as a challenge!

And here is my take on it. I decided to use this ADORABLE stamp from Stampendous that I fell in love with when I saw it. Isnt it sweet? I just love the animals building the snowman.

The papers are from Imaginence and that sentiment that you can BARELY see in the photo (ARGH) says

Snowmen Fall From Heaven Unassembled

Which is also a Stampendous stamp I grabbed last year! And oh, it's just so perfect, wish it stood out abit more...I embossed it and everything! I do wish you could see just how sparkly this card is as there's glitter EVERYWHERE! and all over me too at this point! LOL

Now, this challenge is open to all paper projects, make anything inspired by this sketch for us! And Tara may just add a prize!! I cant wait to see whatcha come up with!!! hop on over to Creative Accents Blog and check out what the girls have done!

November SOTM and Copic Club at Creative Accents

Hi everyone!!! I should have posted this card yesterday, but I'm really fighting some sort of flu bug that really keeps knocking me down. I have said it before, I LoooooooVE Whipper Snapper Stamps and so I was obviously over the moon when Tara at Creative Accents not only said she was bringing them into the store but making this little guy the November stamp of the month.

I could not resist adding glitter to every inch of this card! LOL I 3D'd my little snowman friend here and added glitter everywhere. Here's a closer look a the image below.

Now I figured this was a good time to mention our upcoming Copic Club on Friday night, November the 5th. We were going to work on hair, but I figured that since we're all starting up our Christmas cards that maybe we should work on some Christmas images, we'll colour some snow and I'll show you some fun tricks to make glowing light and add glitter in just the right spots! Whaddaya think?? So Friday night! Copic club! 6:30 till 9pm!!! See ya at Creative Accents (oh ya, please call them at the store to reserve your spot!!)
Cheers
Cheri

Fall ABC Challenge Blog Hop

It's time for another Challenge at Creative Accents and we're kicking it off with a BLOG HOP! Yay!! Im so happy to have you here today. If you've just happened along my blog hop on back over to the beginning (Creative Accents)

The challenge is pretty simple! Create any paper based project and include:

A- Alphabet (letters or words in any form)

B- Bling (pearls or gems and other blingy things)

C- Chipboard (letters, shapes, or whatever you've got in your stash)

Your project can be any theme, but if you want 'extra credit' make it an Autumn or Halloween project :) hmmmmm.....wonder if I should try for the extra credit?!?! LOL Whadaya think??


Here's my ABC creation....

I LOVE the fall.... you may or may not have heard me say this before! LOL But every year I make my hubby take me for a drive so we can just admire the colours and this particular year I took quite alot of photos along the way as well. So when Tara gave us this challenge I knew exactly what I wanted to do. A layout using these photos. Now I've used NO DP!!! Can you believe it!?!? LOL I've just used cardstock. I have this AWESOME Big border punch from EK Success that I made the 2 strips of leafs with and then used the leafs to add some extra below. Then I've used the current SOTM in the bottom left corner to make up a swirly fall leaves accent peice. I was really happy with how it all came out. here's a few close ups of it all.

You can see my A for Alpha's element here in my little Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type stickers for the quote and then for the B for Bling...it's hard to see but there's some little yellow gems in the centers' of those leafs.

And there's my C for Chipboard!

Allrighty then folks! Thanks for stopping by and leaving me some love. :o) Your next stop is my buddy

CHRIS



Happy Birthday Tara Blog Hop

SO it is the Creative Accents Seriously Creative Design Teams Fabulous leader Tara's birthday!!! And her faithfull DT and a few of her good customers have organized this little Surprise Birthday Bash Blog hop to show her how much we appreciate all she does for us and well... just to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY TARA!!! We've all got a special creation/greeting for her so hop along and check our creations out, leave us some love if you like, but please leave Tara a Happy Birthday message at the Creative Accents site (last stop on the hop). OK! So this is the starting point....and here is my card.

Tara and I share a passion for GOOOOOOOD Coffee and all stamps related to such a thing. :o) so collectively....we have an AMAZING stamp collection!! LOL

My card is made with the Hero Arts Coffee mug stamp, and the sentiment is from Skipping Stones. My FAB papers are from My Minds Eye. Hope you and she likes!! :o)

Now, your next stop along the way is the FABULOUS Janet (and I think Barb) one of the DT's greatest fans, I know I allways enjoy her company in my classes and her insight on my cards. Thanks Janet!! If you get lost along the way, the order of the hop is as so, feel free to hop back here and use my links if you need too.

Cheri (that's me!!)

Janet

Chris

Sarah

Teila

Carla

Eulanda

Tanya

Creative Accents (Last stop!!)

Thanks for joining us on Tara's Surprise Birthday Hop!!

Happy Birthday Tara!!!

Here Comes the Bride Layout

This is a layout I did at a recent crop at my LSS Creative Accents. I wanted to do an all black and white LO with just one colour as an accent for these photos I took of my sister in law on her wedding day this past long weekend. I've used some great papers from Imaginisce (that I've been wanting to use, for a wedding layout since I saw them come in there a few weeks ago) Anyhow, I made the title using Quikutz alphas.....oh what ones were they.... crap! I dont remember. I like the whole thing, but I think my fav is the Bling by Zsa. Here's a close up of it.

Purdy huh?? :o) Anyhow, the LO is on display at Creative Accents in their handy dandy wedding SECTION (how smart is that! I discovered it AFTER I had looked around the store! LOL) and everything I've used on here is available there as well. (well, except for the photos. HEHEHEE)
Thanks for looking everyone. Make sure you stop by the store this week! Their having a nice 25% off sale to celebrate our clean air!!! LOL
Cheers
Cheri

Our Journey Layout ~ Cosmo Cricket

Most of the time the awesome ladies over at Creative Accents give us DT's pretty much free creative reign and we just bring them whatever our little creative minds desire, but once in awhile they make a special request, and this week it was to come up with something, a card, layout, project of some type using one of 2 Cosmo Cricket paper lines. I was given the Fast Lane line of papers and made up a scrapbook page of my Journey with Tonka for his surgery. The horrible ride down there and his trip in and out of the clinic. I didn't have alot of photos of the actual trip so I just used a fav shot of mine of him and then one of the night we picked him up (WARNING! If you are at all queasy about that sort of thing...dont zoom in on the photo as his leg is pretty nasty looking, I left off the close ups of it as well...no one really wants to see that, those will stay in our private albums. :o) )

SO absolutly everything I've used here (well except for the adhesive! LOL) Is from Cosmo Cricket, even the letters are from their blackboard letters, I've just covered them in one of the paper lines. The journalling is very small....there was alot to fit on to there. And man....I almost blew it as I had to put it thru the printer 3X before it came out right...and well...the last time was just a cross your fingers and hope sort of deal as I was sure I was out of paper and that idea was hooped. But it came out allright in the end. Anyhow, I hope you like my LO and if you need any of these fabulous papers yourself, for a hopefully BETTER journey than the one my Tonka and I had above here.... go see Creative Accents. They have lots! :o)

Creative Accents First evah Blog Hop and a Challenge!!

Ok! My bloggy crafty friends! It's time for my favorite little LSS FIRST EVAH BLOG HOP!!! Who hoo! Creative Accents has a new challenge for the month of July and we're starting it off with a blog hop! How fun is that?! There's even some prizes for followers and comments. So be sure to hop along with us, leave some love for the design team and then join in on the challenge with us! You should have landed here from my buddy Tanya's blog if not, hop on back to the beginning at Creative Accents and join in the fun.  I cant wait to see what you all create with the inspiration from this FABULOUS photo....

 

OK, cool huh? so the "rules" are.....to create any card, scrapbook layout or paper based project inspired by this image (could be colors, layout, music...)

Your project should include

- at least 3 colours

- a die cut or punched item

- primarily products available in our store (esp. as the focal point)

My interpretation of this photo is......

Now, I know I didn't HAVE to make iPods or follow the photo so literally! LOL BUT when I saw the photo, this is exactly what I saw! So...I went about building it. :o) I've used Bazzil Bling paper for almost everything, except the polka dots and lime green paper, that's an American Crafts paper (one side is the polka dots, the other the lime green!) The stamp I used on the red ipod is from Tim Holtz. And of course, the card is one of my fav things...an easle card!!

YAY!! I was quite happy with it and it really only took me.... one whole night!!! LOL Honest!
OK!! So Im sure you're anxious to get on with your hop.
So your next stop shall be at one of my best buddies blogs Christine  Hop on over and leave her some love!

Your project entries can be made at creativeaccents.blogspot.com until noon on July 31. A random winner will be selected and announced August 3.

Happy Hoping and Cheers!!

Creative Accents SOTM ~ Sketch Saturday Challenge

The fabulous new Stamp of the Month at Creative Accents is the fabulous image by Mo Manning "The Big Guy Grilling" in Stampin Bella rubbah!! Oh my my!! how can we not be happy about that?!?! who hoo! Love it. I couldn't wait to play with him...so I found a great sketch at  Sketch Saturday and viola....here's what I came up with.

OH I loved this image! But OH how I fought with my copics!!! (which honestly is VERY RARE for me! Those markers are like my best friends...but today...with this.... AAAARRRRRRGGGHHH!!) BUt.... there's always something to learn with these and today I learned....when they say you should have paper below...well...you should have paper below. I'll explain more at an upcoming Copic Club with Cheri night! ;o) LOL Ok, so my papers are all from BG, the Ambrosia paper pad. I've used my Cricut to cut out the barbeque (word and graphic) and well...that's about it! :o)

Hop on over to Creative Accents to check out MORE fabulous samples with this Stamp....sure hope you're a SOTM memeber so you can get yours at 35% off! ;o) Oh and while you're "hopping" over to Creative Accents....dont forget our first ever blog hop on Tuesday!! Same night as my First ever Copic Club night! (it's a day of firsts for alot of good things!) :o)

Cheers!!!
Cheri

June Stamp of the Month at Creative Accents

The Stamp of the Month (SOTM) for June at Creative Accents this week is this FABULOUS set from Cornish Heritage Farms It's called Weighty Matters from their Saturday Evening Post line of stamps. When Tara first showed it to me I of course freaked out and told her YES YES YES I love it and want it so bad get me 2 (LOL ok, so I got one for Shelley... Im not THAT bad that I actually think I need 2 for myself...but...is it possible for them to wear out?! cause in that case...... um...sorry Shell). So this is it. Whaddaya think??

It's just so fabulous! (Im sorry if I use that word too much, it's apparantly my favorite at the moment!) Ok, so then Tara at Creative Accents (FABULOUS little LSS here in the Puddle) asked me to help her make up the some samples..... Insert anxiety attack.....OMG yay! LOL I find the set very vintage, and those of you who love this look (as I do) and have had me comment on your lovely vintage cards might remember, I TRY to acheive vintage, but it's hard for me! LOL Anyhow, here are the samples I came up with for them. The first is a card:

So I've used the Basic Grey Max and Whiskars paper pack (love it!) For the image, Id tried colouring it with copics, and then covering with glitter but it just didn't work for me. So I tried this technique I'd learned from a tutorial on the Fabulous Rach at Papercrafts by Rach where you use UTEE, a few layers of it, then throw it in the freezer and bend it to make it crakle, then rubbed some ink into the cracks for a weathered look. Turned out purdy cool I think. Anyhow... that's the card. I then made up a little tag. I figured the card would take up so much room that something small was in order! LOL

The tag is also made with the Max and Whiskars paper pack. I faux stitched around the image and distressed it alittle. Fun! Anyhow! I love love love this set!!! I hope you like it as well.

Cheers! Cheri

Sketch Saturday ~ CHF Naughty Kitty

I loved the sketch over at Sketch Saturday this week. And since I seem to be on a card making, marathon like roll this weekend!!! (yay for me...if you know me that's not typical!) See, I've made myself a promise!! It's a tough promise to make...but haveta stick to it. I have bought/recieved SO MANY STAMPS recently... it's frightening...and my stamp hoarding, obsessive collecting hobby of mine is getting out of hand. SO! My promise is that I am NOT ALLOWED TO BUY ANY MORE STAMPS untill I've used every single one of my stash at least ONCE!!! Whew! there I said it out loud so....have to stick to it now. But of course the voices in my head are screaming NO! and work fast...use them all now! So... that helps make cards faster! LOL Im on a mission to buy more really.... So....if you know me, dont let me buy any stamps....untill I've reached my goal. :o) hehehe

Anyways! I have gotten sidetracked again. Sketch Saturday's Sketch is below here, nice huh?I've followed it pretty closely, which is also not always like me...they ussually end up taking a direction of thier own. This CUTE kitten stamp is called Naughty Kitty from Cornish Heritage Farms, and the sentiment is from them as well, from the Mona Lisa Moments set. My papers are all from Basic Grey's Max and Whiskars line! Which Im totally in love with...but then anything with animals on it is good with me. All of this I bought at our LSS Creative Accents, where you will also be able to see this card up close and in person as I will be dropping it off as a sample on Tuesday. YAY!!!

The inside looks like.....

Ok, that's it. Im sorry, I'm alittle long winded today. :o) Hope you like and thanks for looking AND reading ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM!!! LOL

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DT Stuff and a Challenge

So, this cute little water scene!! Tara over at Creative Accents (my fav little scrapbook store) has asked me to work some Hero Art images so I've borrowed a couple neat stamp sets from Hero and this is my first creation. Also, the challenge over at Staptacular Sunday (you know, where I'll be playing as a DT soon!!!) is to create a scene!

So now for a few details  I love fish... I dont know why as my OCD will not allow me to swim in any deeper water where I cant see my feet....afraid of the unknown and well... lack of control. Anyhow.. I digress.  I've been wanting to do more with just inking, so I inked up this background...it could be better but not bad for a first attempt. I stamped and played a bit with the shells at the bottom, one I've done with some Smooch, but I didn't realize I'd bought a translucent one...so the other one I used some liquid Pearls on. I stamed the sentiment at the top and then embossed clear over top. the fishies are of course done with my Copics. ;o) and those bubbles... aren't they cool?!?! They're my fav part...well that and the inside bubbles.... anyhow, they are by Bella Baubles (Diamond Ice). They are perfect for bubbles! Can you imagine them in a bathtub?!?! I will get to that yet! LOL More ideas than time....

anyhow!! that's it that's all for now! Thanks for looking!!!

Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Blog DT

Ive been asked to join the design team at
Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Blog

Ok...sorry for the shouting.... LOL Im just too excited!! Stamptacular Sunday Challenge blog is one of the first blogs I entered challenges for...and was THE FIRST one I ever won at!! How cool is it that Im now joining their fabulous team?!?!? Im just so honoured and excited.

I'd been at a crop ALL weekend (fabulous time! Wish it could be everyday that we got to do stuff like that), so Im rather tired and ready for bed. But I knew that today was the day they were announcing the DT and well, Ive been waiting awhile to hear. And while I really didn't want to get my hopes up too high, I thought I should just check... and Oh, how excited I got to see my name on the list!! Too cool!! LOL I actually clapped and jumped up and down and then told Tonka (the large snoring dog behind me) that I made the team......he opened an eye and grunted at me....which I'm SURE meant. Congrats mom!  LOL that or shurt up lady I'm sleeping.... LOL But he's a good dog so we're gonna go with Congrats.

Whooooo hoooo!!! it's a good day in the life of me. Spent the weekend crafting with my best bud at a weekend crop....had coffee afterwards with my other BFF, honoured with a request like this one AND I have tomorrow off work! Yup, it's darn good to be me!!!
:o)
Hugs to you all!!!
Cheri

Scrapbooking Diary

So how many times have you gone shopping (and we all know that's at least half of this crazy obsession of ours) and thought....do I have that punch? or did I want it? do I have that stamp or did I borrow if from Shelley? I need a pink ink...but what shade is the one I have at home? what paper will match my E11 Copic? THIS is the best solution AND super fun to make! It's so pretty and useful! how often can we say that?? Here is the Diary of Scrapbooking Essentials. Now, I cannot take credit for this, altho I so wish I could. Shelley (my BFF and enabler for those of you not regular followers of my blog) took a class at Precious Memories (LSS in Langley BC) where they put together this FAB little paper project. She brought it here when she visited me last Summer and I made myself one. NOW! Here is the deal. THis handy little book is an inventory of your fabulous and well loved STUFF!  It has a section for whatever you like.

Mine has sections for:
Dies and Punches
Glitter
Ink
Stamps (the largest section!! LOL)
Embossing folders

But you can break them down to your own needs.

NOW! My plan is to offer a class in this myself if there is enough interest at Creative Accents. I have made up a sample to leave there and I'll be working out a cost for it with Tara and Julie. Let me know if you're interested. It will be so fun!! And no worries if you're not a pink person, we'll have other colour options.

May I just say I LOVE my book, I bring it with me alot when Im shopping and it really is handy. Not to mention everyone loves to check it out!! Hope to see you at an upcoming class!!

In With the New...Mixed with the New Challenge

So, long term followers of my blog and work may recognize this somewhat, therein lies the OLD part of my challenge. Over at Creative Accents they have a challenge, to use something NEW and combine it with some of your old stash. The challenge rules are as follows:

January's challenge is to take something NEW (maybe a Christmas gift or something you bought at our Boxing Week sale) from Creative Accents and use it together with something OLD from your stash (perhaps you've been hoarding it for a couple years... or more!?). Your project can be a scrapbook page, card, altered item or mini book. It must include some products that are currently or have been recently available in the store (purchased within the last 3 months). This is your chance to pull out something you've been meaning to use for a while: papers, stamps, embellishments, tools... and make it fresh for 2010!

Bring in your submission for our challenge by Saturday, February 6.


Everyone is welcome to participate. This is not a contest, entries will not be judged. All participants will have their name entered in a draw to win either a kit for our next challenge or a small gift if the next challenge is not kit based. Entries will be displayed on our creativi-tree in the Creative Studio for approximately one month, then returned to the participant. Happy creating!

So, what I have done is take an old design (along with all my stashed coffee themed stamps) and added the new Hero Arts large mug stamp that you see in the bottom left corner. Ive made a few other changes as well, for example the background I have painted red as before but rather than distress with some chalk ink I've sprayed it with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Suede (which turned out so FAB!!! Wish Id done this for all of them.

I have made up a sketch with a how to list beside it, if you wanted to recreate one of these canvasses yourself, below is a little aid you can print yourself off.

I have used SO MANY STAMPS on here!! I will list them below here for you.
*TPC Studio, Coffee Cafe
*Grumpabella
*Fluffles from Stampendous
*My Favorite Things, Hot Stuff
*Crafty Secrets, Clear Art Stamps
*Hero Arts Coffee Mug

Please visit Creative Accents Blog or the store in person and join in the fun!!!