Guest Designer With Craftin Desert Divas

I am posting today as a guest designer for Craft It Up & Link It Up Linky Party hosted by Tara of Craftin Desert Divas! Every other Monday will mark the beginning of a new semi-weekly linky party and you could win fabulous prizes!!

This linky party theme is Back to School!

The sponsor is Candice Fields - to win the Wildflower Bundle from Stampin Up! You get the stamp set and embossing folder. and My Scrap Chick is giving away a $10 giftcard!!

The more you link up, the better chance you have to win.  Visit Craftin Desert Divas for all the rules and to play along.

Here is what I created for this linky party....

I used Bo Bunny's older Learning Curve paper line. I love the deeper colors instead of the bright primary for a change. 

I made a hidden journaling tag. There is a piece of leather scrap that you pull on. The "ABC" square I made as a pocket.

Here is a detail of the library card layer. I crumpled it up and tore it slightly. Then I inked it (and everything else on the page) with Quick Quotes Mocha Mama Powder Puff Inks.

Hope you will Craft It Up & Link It Up!!!

Quick Quotes Challenge

Hello everyone!

Hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend and black friday shopping! I know I did! New 55' TV downstairs to prove it. I think my boyfriend is in love. LOL

This month's challenge over at Quick Quotes was to 

Make a page with a black and white photo

I almost missed entering this one as the deadline is today. I knew exactly what I wanted to do when I read the challenge so I took some time today and worked on a page very close to my heart

I still look at some paper and think to myself "Grandma would have loved this line" and that was my first thought with this Cherry Truffle line from Quick Quotes. 

I inked everything in Quick Quotes Powder Puff Ink in Bloody Mary. 

I used the Teresa Collins Sophisticated Cricut Cart to cut the "Remember When"

I just love this chipboard tree, also from Quick Quotes. I thought it pulled together the page perfectly and didn't embellish it any more than just adding a bow of Cappuccino Twine around the trunk.

I hope you enjoy the page and check Quick Quotes next week to see what next month's challenge will be!!

~Liz

Past Christmas Mornings with My Cricut Craft Room

Hope everyone is over their Turkey-coma today and got some great deals on black friday shopping!

Today with My Cricut Craft Room, our theme was past Christmas mornings.

I pulled out a DCWV christmas stack (I have 3 of them so I am not sure which year this one is from) and I saw this LOVE piece that I knew I wanted to use. 

I went through the past 3 years of Christmas photos and found that this is the ONLY picture of both my boyfriend and I on a Christmas day. So sad. So I have made sure to tell him we must get a picture of the two of us on Christmas morning this year.

I used Gingerbread to make my garland. They are all cut at 2inches. I love making the little guy and girl hold hands :)

Add some twine (in Maraschino and Peapod) and that was it! I love how this turned out and how quick and easy it was! This will be the front page in a Christmas album. I think I am going to do all my Christmas photos in one year arranged by year.

I hope you enjoyed my page!

~Liz 

Anything Goes with Just A Scrappin'

This week's challenge at 

Just A Scrappin' is

ANYTHING GOES!!

Who doens't love this challenge!? Just finish up anything you are working or or use it as an excuse to get that page or card you have been wanting to do done!

:)

I worked on a layout for my co-worker's album. She wanted a sisters page to put pictures of her two girls together on.

I used some felt flower borders I had and added stickles to the middle to make them pop

Sister is cut from Teresa Collins 

I used Quick Quotes Powder Puff Inks in Purple Passion, Blue Hawaiian and Lemonade to ink around the edges of the paper. The paper is an old stack from DCWV. 

Hope you like my page and will play with us this week at Just A Scrappin'!!

Halloween preview with Quick Quotes

Welcome back for my last guest designer post with Quick Quotes.

When I saw that Quick Quotes was coming out with a Halloween line I crossed my fingers that I would get some to play with and sure enough when I opened my box there it was! Halloween is my birthday so I tend to scrap any birthday pictures on Halloween paper but I did happen to have some costume pictures waiting to be scrapbooked from a couple years back.

I love the great patterns in this line. Even if you are not into Halloween, the pattern paper alone could really be used for any event. But I of course went all out! The black and white polka dot paper is just begging to be inked. I love that you ink it and the white dots really show the colors. I used Midnight Confession, Purple Passion and Limeade.

I love this velum quote as a title. I layered it on some pattern paper. I cut out a piece of the same pattern paper and fussy cut the chevron pattern to help hold the velum quote down without seeing the glue.

Since I was a vampire this Halloween, I had to use this Blood Donors Needed element. One of the sheets from this line has a whole list of cute word-play jokes. I cut out all the vampire ones and made this into a pocket.

I added some twine around the end so they were easier to pull out and see the answer to the joke.

This spider web and 3 spiders (2 here and 1 on the other page shown earlier) are also new from Quick Quotes. I just pulled them out of the package and put them on the page! So easy!

and I just had to use this Candy is Dandy quote. It matches the purple and lime swirl paper around it and just fits me. 

I hope you have enjoyed the projects I have done as much as I enjoyed playing with all their new lines! And I hope I introduced a couple new people to the wonderful world of Quick Quotes!

Products Used:

Quick Quotes Halloween Line

Quick Quotes Spiders and Spiderweb

Quick Quotes Happy Halloween Hauntings Velum Quotes

Quick Quotes Candy is Dandy Velum Quote

Quick Quotes Halloween elements

**All the Halloween products will be available at Quick Quotes on or after August 23rd.

Quick Quotes Powder Puff Ink in Midnight Confession, Purple Passion and Limeade

Twinery Twine in Charcoal

Want 2 Scrap rhinestones in black

Remember:

Check back later for today's new challenge with Just A Scrappin!

Comment on any Guest Designer Quick Quotes post this month for a chance to enter a giveaway from me of some great Quick Quotes products!

Just Because with Quick Quotes

Hello again! Welcome back to my second project with Quick Quotes!

If you have been watching the new releases from Quick Quotes, you have seen this wonderful line called Just Because. I love that there are so many bright colors in this paper!

The Star-burst paper really stuck in my head so I knew I had to do something with it.

I took 2 of the same star-burst paper used half of each so that I had 2 "corners" where the burst starts from. I wanted to make it look like the star-burst was coming from the side of the paper instead of at the bottom as the paper was designed.

I inked everything in Mango Mai Tai and added it to a orange 12x12 paper from my stash. The lime green mat behind this picture (of me and my boyfriend from our Chicago trip a couple weeks ago. We are infront of the "bean" at Millennium Park) is also one of the papers from the Just Because line.

These are Quick Quotes Fun Flowers that I actually took out of another page kit I had on hand from Quick Quotes (Summer Time) so they were white to start with, but you can get just the chipboard flowers too. I colored them with Quick Quotes Powder Puff Ink in (from right to left) Maraschino Cherry, Blue Hawaiian, Mango Mai Tai, Very Berry and Limeade.

This velum "Fabulous Vacation" was just perfect. I layered it to an element from the Just Because line and added a glittered chipboard bracket, also from Quick Quotes. You can see the other part of it on the left side of my pictured. I inked everything in Mai Tai.

For my last element, I took a circle and wrapped it in stripes of a velum quote. I inked it with Very Berry, Blue Hawaiian and Mango Mai Tai to match the page. The ribbon is also from the Summer Time kit I opened earlier. I layered it to more of the lime green paper and added my notes. I plan on making a second page for this layout that will have more journaling.

I hope you enjoyed my take on Just Because! 

~Liz

Products used:

Quick Quotes Just Because Paper Line

Quick Quotes Powder Puff Ink (Maraschino Cherry, Blue Hawaiian, Mango Mai Tai, Very Berry and Limeade)

Quick Quotes "Fabulous Vacation" Velum Quote

Quick Quotes Fun Flowers - Bag o' Chips

Quick Quotes Glitter Diecuts

Quick Quotes Yellow Ribbon

Twinery Twine from my stash in Pink Sorbet, Cappuccino, Cantaloupe, Shore and Honeydew

REMEMBER:

~Be a follower and leave me a comment on any of my Quick Quotes Guest Designer posts this month to enter to win a prize pack of Quick Quotes goodies!!

~Make sure to check out the current challenge over at Just A Scrappin'!

Cherry Truffle with Quick Quotes

So I have mentioned having some great news. Have I also mentioned I love Quick Quotes?

I am so lucky to get to be a guest designer for them this month! YAY!! Make sure to check out all my posts with them this month for some goodies at the end :)

They sent me tons of awesome product including this versatile line called Cherry Truffle. I look at it an I immediately think vintage so I challenged myself to think outside the box on this one.

I started with the quote "Live in the Moment" and went through some pictures. I love this picture of my boyfriend on his new ATV doing a wheelie. It really just embraces the moment!

 

I used a piece of paper on one edge of the velum to help hold it down and a flower in the other corner

Here you can see the paper layers I used and a close up of the wheelie in action! I also inked all the pages in Quick Quotes Powder Puff Ink in Mocha Mama

I love how this burlap "flower" or star turned out and here is how to make it!

I started with 5 strips of burlap, 5 lengths of twine and a dark velum quote cut into, you guessed it, 5 pieces

Here is what the petal looks like without the velum in it

 But I liked a little bit darker look so I added the velum

 And some glimmer mist (in Roll Top Desk)

 Twisted it back up and hot glued it together. You could also use Beacon's, I just didn't want to wait for all of them to dry

 Then I glued my 5 petals together and added some extra burlap in the middle.

 I added a large brad and my twine to finish it all off! Later on my page I added some flowers on top of the brad.

I hope you like the page and my mini tutorial. If you have any questions, please leave me a comment and let me know :)

Check back next week for another Quick Quotes project!

***GIVEAWAY ALERT***

Comment on any of my Quick Quotes Guest Designer Posts and be entered to win a Quick Quotes Pink Tote bad will lots of Quick Quotes goodies inside! You must also be a follower of my blog. Good luck!

Products Used:

Quick Quotes Cherry Truffle Line

Quick Quotes "Live in the Moment" Velum Quote

Quick Quotes Powder Puff Ink in Mocha Mama

Twinery Twine in Cappuccino

Burlap, flowers and brad from my stash

You can shop these and tons of other great products from Quick Quotes at www.shopquickquotes.com

pre-k - k

Welcome to the beginning of another wonderful week!

I wanted to share a 2page layout I mad with Jillibean Soup, Alphabet Soup collection. I also used an Eyelet Outlet Owl Brad that is just so cute!

I had a lot of fun making a school page with non-traditional colors. 

I also wanted to tell you to make sure you come back on Wednesday to check out a great announcement I have and a giveaway!!!

~Liz

Freshman Soccer Layout

Good Morning!

Just wanted to share a quick and easy page I did last week!

My coworker that I am making a scrapbook for needs 4 soccer pages. I didnt want to make all of them super traditional pages, but I did want to stick with the school colors, purple and gold. So this isn't quiet gold, but yellow counts right? lol

The Freshman is cut from the All Sports Cartridge and the Soccer is from my stash, which long ago came from Quick Quotes. I used some yellow ribbon from my stash and lilac twine to help pull in the colors.

These purple flowers also from my stash worked perfectly. This one was cut in half then folded in half to make the 1/4 flower.

These flowers were just folded in half and glued down.

Hope you enjoyed my quick and easy page!

Check back tomorrow for the winner of my blog candy from the weekend's blog hop and check in Thrusday for this weeks Just A Scrappin Challenge! It's not my week for design team but I love this challenge so I think I am going to participate too :)

Have a great day!

~Lix

We all have birthdays!

Yes, we do! We all have birthdays! Every year!

So birthday pages are always needed! I LOVE this stack from DCWV, Celebrations! It is all birthday themed stuff. My co-worker is really getting some great pages!

I inked everything with QQ Powder Puff Ink in Blue Hawaiian.

I added twine accents in Maraschino.

and lots and lots of stickles!!

I pulled some coordinating ribbon from my stash and used Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher to make little flags by the journal lines.

I love the paper and I really think it showed!

Remember to stop by tomorrow for the Just A Scrappin blog hop!!

~Liz

Vacation Time with Just A Scrappin

Hello! Hello! Hello!

Been a quiet week from me on here so I could get some organizing and crafting done. I have lots to share with you in the next week!

Let me start by telling you Just A Scrappin' is doing their first blog hop this weekend!! July 14th and 15th. Make sure you start there on Saturday and hop all the way through! Just A Scrappin' is giving away some blog candy and so are some of the individuals, myself included!

On to today's project! 

The challenge this week is:

VACATION TIME

Using only the colors blue, white, green and brown

Lucky me, I have this paper line from who else? Quick Quotes! It's called Summertime Blues.

(can you tell I love their stuff lol) I used Blue Moon Powder Puff Ink to accent everything.

I used my Creative Memories Circle cutter for the circles along the bottom. The "Jazz" is from the cricut cartridge Quarter Note and the "& Rib Fest" is from Plantin Schoolbook. The flowers are from my stash.

I haven't scrapbooked for myself in so long so I started pulling out old pictures to do something with. These are from 2010 when my boyfriend and I took a weekend trip to visit his dad. I plan to make this a 2page layout eventually.

 Hope you enjoy and join us for this great challenge!

Come back tomorrow for a 2page birthday layout and Saturday for the blog hop!!

~Liz

Home Love Family

Who still loves 2page layouts!?!?!

I do! Good thing I have been doing so many of them lately!

A family page is always needed in a scrapbook. My co-worker requested that I title it Home. Love. Family. I have this DCWV stack that I have wanted to use forever and it just screams family at me. So I pulled out Linen Closet and got to work!

I was inspired by a page I saw on A Page for All Seasons blog that I saved as an idea a long time ago. I used their page as a sketch for this one. I inked everything in Quick Quotes Powder Puff Ink in Biscotti and a little bit of Blue Hawaiian.

Here you can see the border on either side of the large photo mat on page 1. There was a pattern sheet in the stack that was all of these scallops. I cut 2 out and added them to the sides as borders!

I usually hate making bows but I felt like this layout really called for it. I wanted it to lay pretty flat so I put my ribbon all the way across the page first, then tied a bow with the same ribbon and glued it on top.

Home, Family and Love were all cut from the Teresa Collins Sophisticated Cricut Cartridge. I layered the blue from the stack with some cream to make the words stand out. 

I added some Twine in Cappuccino and Caribbean at the bottom of the small photo mats to add some interest.

I hope you like this soft family layout. 

~Liz