Christmas Tag # 2

Here's my 2nd of 12 tags that I've made for Scrapbooker's Paradise Blog. I love the colors and I absolutely want to make more of this Poinsettia.  I have to make more of them and use them for scrapbooking.

...........And here's another cake that Katie made this week.  I love the fun colors!!!!!

She used the opportunity to practice making different types of flowers.  The most amazing part is that only the flowers and the ribbon are made with fondant. The rest is all made with butter cream icing.  I really have to get her working on some gluten free cakes so that I can taste them too.

Have a great week,

The first of the 12 Tags of Christmas..........

I'm doing the 12 Tags of Christmas for Scrapbooker's Paradise and here is the first of many more to come. I will post the pictures on this Blog but all of the instructions will be on the Scrapbooker's Paradise Bllog.

I can't wait to share more tags.  They are a lot of work but also lots of fun!  I hope you enjoy them and give some of these techniques a try.

Turkey to go!

I guess it's better late than never.

I meant to put this one up earlier but life got in the way.  I flew back from Montreal on Thanksgiving Monday and my darling husband was taking care of the entire meal.  When my daughter walked in with a 2nd turkey, I figured there had been a communication breakdown somewhere.

But,........It's a CAKE!!!

Ever since she started her little cake business she has been practicing some of her designs on us.  We've never been the biggest fans of fondant and this had to have fondant to achieve this look.  To our surprise and delight, she has been working on a much thinner and not so sweet fondant and this one was really good. This was a pumpkin spice cake with a Maple icing and although this is not a gluten free cake, the wings and the legs were gluten free.

This was so good that I thought I'd share.

Time to get caught up......

I was away for the last couple of weeks and as it turns out, it was a great weather choice.  The first week was spent in San Antonio, Texas and we were so lucky to arrive after the rains and just as the beautiful sunshine arrived.  In Montreal, I had incredible days of  20 - 25 degrees Celsius everyday. The best part is that I missed the cold and snow in Calgary and I got to spend time with the grand-daughters and my mother.

Here are just some of the Halloween bags that I made with Molly while in San Antonio.  These were actually lots of fun to make and it was really interesting to see how focused Molly could be when she's in a creative mode.

The instructions for this project were featured on the Scrapbooker's Paradise Blog last week.

Have a Great Week,

More Copic Fun!

This week on the Scrapbooker's Paradise Blog, I completed my project using a plastic lid from an ice cream pail.

I also had a lot of fun teaching myself how to make beads. Using Copic markers for this project made my imagination go wild.  I'd seen a lot of posts and tutorials on how to do this but nobody is using Copics.  The Copics gave me such a nice color variation within the same color family. I didn't want the individual beads to have a rainbow effect. I wanted them to have instead a more monochromatic effect.  

These are all of the beads that I've  made in the last couple of hours.  my next step will be to use these for a project.

And here they are all dry.....

And here is the plastic lid project that I mentioned;.

Have a great week,

Copics for more than just coloring!!!

This week I did a post about Copic Markers and using them in different ways for the Scrapbooker's Paradise Blog.  As a Scrapbooker, I tend to use my Copics for much more than coloring.  I love that I can use them on almost anything and that the ink is permanent and the colors are amazing.  Here's my main project for Scrapbooker's Paradise Blog this week.

And now here's a couple of old pages where I used my Copics to make my title work color co-ordinate with the rest of my page.

I used my Cricut to cut my titles and I just used a Cherry Blossom Stamp and just stamped hap-hazzardly over my whole title and used my Copics to bring some color into my page.

I had used such a great colorful background paper for this page and some great colorful flowers so I really wanted to create the same effect with my title.  I cut my title with my Cricut and White Copic Paper and then I used my Copics to bring those colors to my title.  I just did horizontal stripes to match and stamped flourishes over the top.  The word "Little" at the top is originally White Thickers and for this I colored the letters with Copics and used the same flourish stamp to add texture.

Today Mack got bored with me and decided to wait for his 'dad' to get back home.  I can't believe that he finds this comfortable but this is his new favorite place.

Every time I leave the house, he gets up there and stays there pretty much the entire waiting.  My neighbors all talk about the 'Doggie in the Window'.........but nobody's asked "how much......?".

Have a great Week,

Halloween with Flair!

I'm not a Halloween person at all and I've never really been a fan.  This week a co-worker absolutely inspired me and made me think about possibly decorating.  She made a Halloween countdown box instead of a Christmas Advent calendar and it's absolutely amazing.

Nicole is so talented!  Here is her Blog link for this calendar
box. http://canadiannickelscrapn.blogspot.ca/2013/09/altered-halloween-advent-calendar-w.html?showComment=1378736536951

The only thing that I've managed to do consistently every year  was dress the dog up and eat all the candy. We only get about 12 to 25 kids every year but I buy for 100....just in case.

Our first Schnauzer was a black female named 'Cara'.  We would dress her up every year and she was so embarrassed that she would never bark at the 'Trick or Treaters'.  For three years we didn't have a dog to dress up so now I can't wait to dress Mack up!!!

Cara at Halloween.

Until next week,