Fall issue of Canadian Scrapbooker

In the spring, I had the honor of being asked to participate in the fall issue of the Canadian Scrapbooker magazine in the Passport to Creativity section. Each issue, they feature 3 scrapbookers from 1 province, this fall issue was Nova Scotia. These layouts are in the article along with my photo and a short bio/interview. They sent me a copy of the magazine and it was so exciting for us to see our pictures in there. Lots of fun for the girls too! Poor Steve, I'll have to submit a layout with him in it, he wants to be famous too :)

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Charlotte skiing at Martock

Another layout with the I believe paper by MME. I cut out the mitts with my slice machine and used some puffy thickers from thickers for the title. 2 layouts in the same weekend, I better check my temperature, something must be up!!!

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Christmas Eve 2009

This is what the girls leave Santa every year, an apple, a cookie, choc. milk and enough carrots for EACH reindeer!! I used all My Mind's Eye paper and die-cuts for this layout. Sorry for the scan, the colors are so much nicer in person, but for some reason if there is any dimension at all to the layout, the scanner distorts the image!

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Lost and Found Collection

I bought these beautiful My Mind's Eye papers from Kelly at My Stamping Studio the other day, I had a vision of framing them as a little gift for my sister who is moving into a new house. Hope she likes how it turned out-and doesn't look at my blog for the next little while!

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Smile

The girls in the backyard when we had all that beautiful weather over March break. I used all BoBunny paper, and those cute fabric flowers are from Kelly's store at My Stamping Studio.

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Please can I have a dog????

Here is my sample of Stephanie's July sketch for Scraptivity . Claire wants a dog, she even protested by sleeping on the floor of her room until we bought her a dog. Luckily, my sister came for a visit with her dog, so Claire slept in her bed again (although the protest lasted over a week). Here she is walking Sadie on the Summerside boardwalk.

All paper is Fancy Pants, as well as the transparency. The journal tag is Sassafras and the stars and arrow are grungeboard.

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2 layouts in 2 days!!!

Here's another layout I did today from our Disney trip. This is my sister Susan and her son Ryan. I used spellbinders for the journal tags, and some My Mind's Eye pp. TFL!

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Trying to get back in the mood....

Here we are at Animal Kingdom for the first day of our vacation. This was in the morning before it was ridiculously hot out! I made the embellishment on the bottom left with a spellbinders pendant, some stamps/embossed images, stickles and 2 white flowers which I spritzed with maya mist. I'm liking the end result, I followed some tutorials Christine Middlecamp had on her blog this week.

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My sister Susan!

So after 3 years of talking about it, we finally got to Disney with Susan and Ryan! Lots of fun for out 2 families to be able to spend a whole week together!

A close up of the lollipop flowers I made with a combination of the 2 glimmer mists from the kit and a coffee filter (also from the kit!)

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Nature

Some photos I took at Epcot center in Disney-trying out my new photography skills. I really like the one of the butterfly in focus and the background blurry. So this is all paper, and butterfly stamp from the kit (even the pearls). It is packed with extras this month!

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Epcot

An up close photo of the heart flower.

This one is so lumpy in real life, that I can't scan it with the scanner! Anyhow, more lovely paper by Kaiser in this layout, and that ribbon is beautiful. I made all the flowers on here, one from heart punches, one from curled paper, and one out of tulle.

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It's a bug's life!

The girls posing with a Disney character, we happened upon this guy at Animal Kingdom and there was no line-up! We didn't get any shots with the princesses etc, b/c the line ups were incredible!!

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Ice Queen

Another layout with the March kit, and snowflakes with Blingz on the white snowflakes.

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Nanny and Poppy's anniversary

This photo was taken just before the party for Nanny and Poppy last June, 2009. I stamped the flowers, gold embossed them and used H2O's to color them in.

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Bunny Hunt

Here are the girls last summer at White Point Beach resort trying desperately to get close to some bunnies. They are everywhere, but are a little shy. I used Sassafras paper for this layout, and used two sheets, cutting out the trees, bunny and flowers and using foam dots to pop them up a little.

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A night at the Juno's

I'm finally scrapbooking our picture and ticket from when we went to the Juno awards, almost 4 years ago! I can't believe the ticket actually lasted and didn't get thrown away! Anyhow, I used some new paper from the Be Loved collection by My Mind's Eye, and I love those alpha stickers by American Crafts. Another designer named Karen Thind provided the sketch for this layout, it will be posted on Scraptivity on Jan. 15th.

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Venice

Another layout I made today with the January kit. The stamps are perfect for our photos from Venice.

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Based on Stephanie's sketch

This is Claire's entire class, and her 3 teachers. This layout is based on the kit sketch provided by Stephanie this month. All product is the Report Card line by October Afternoon, and the white cardstock is Bazzill.

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6 x 12 layout

One of the assignments for the magazine was to create a 6 x 12 layout. It was fun, and I hope to be able to find an album someday that would fit this. This is a photo of the girls last year on Christmas morning. First thing they do is open their stockings.

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My Sunshine!

Another layout for the magazine, with the colour gray as the focus. This is my daughter after her ballet recital in June. The patterned paper is BoBunny, cardstock is SU! And I used the Slice to cut my butterflies.

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