Aloha to 3!

Good afternoon, all!  Hope your Sunday has been pretty wonderful so far.  My weekend has been pretty busy; working on finishing up a client's album (which is now complete, hooray!), filming a bunch of Start to Finish layout videos (one of which is uploading to Youtube on my laptop as I type, double yay!), along with usual cleaning and tidying of the apartment (I seriously scrubbed my bathroom top to bottom yesterday, and feel SO accomplished with that small feat!).

But today, I have a layout to share with you all!



Last week, Corrie Jones (one of the garden girls over at Two Peas) had a video posted, encouraging some painting on layouts, and I was inspired to give it a try.  Added some pale yellow to white cardstock, and a strip of paper from an older Crate Paper collection down the middle.  

Blue Thickers from AC in the font Iguana and I'm still using up those smaller letter stickers from Cosmo Cricket.
 

And then I just went crazy adding different circular shaped embellishments - brads (from different BasicGrey collections), jewels, paperclips (also from different BG collections), flair, and a random pineapple (which I acquired through a friend, because metal fruit are just too cool)!

Hope you all have a great night to end the weekend!
Happy scrapping!
Dalreen xo 

enjoying the twos!

Hey everyone!  Hope your weekend has been wonderful so far!  I have a layout to share today - part of the baby album I'm working on for a client, and a process video for it up on my youtube channel. =]

 

I printed the photos at home on my Canon Selphy, after I resized them all to 3x4.  Arranged them in a grid pattern, and matted them to cream cardstock.  Added some orange brads to each of the corners, just to dress it up a bit.  The background paper is from the Animal Crackers for Boys collection pad from GCD Studios.  I pick up a lot of 12x12 collection pads from my local Winners store (similar to Target or Ross in the States), and thought the colours in the Animal Crackers would work really great for this particular album for my client.

The brown tile letters are from Amy Tangerine, and the orange chipboard letters are American Craft Thickers in the Iguana font.  I also outlined around the Thickers to make them pop off the page a little more, and added a BasicGrey wood vaneer arrow to draw more attention to the title (as well as use the odd gap of space efficiently). 

The cute little giraffe drawing, and the tiny heart, are both also from the Animal Crackers collection pad.  The full 12x12 paper had all sorts of circles with different animals and icons on it, but I just used my scissors to cut around the giraffe (since I didn't have a circle punch that would fit the size I needed), and I used my smallest circle punch for the heart.  Cut a few papers from my scrap basket into banner shapes and layered them underneath.  The sparkly blue bird is from an American Crafts Remarks sticker sheet, and I just stapled it to make sure it wouldn't move around, but wasn't stuck flat.  Lastly, I added the asterisk from the AC Thicker sheet to bring the orange up to the top of the page, since it seemed like it needed it.

Also, here's the process video for this layout, up on my Youtube channel.  =]

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everyone!  I think this is the last warm one up here in northern Canada (where I am, at least).  We were lucky to get this far without having to break out the parkas and boots!

Happy scrapping!

Dalreen xo

brand new. almost one.

Hello everyone!  Today I have a double spread layout to share with you all. =]  My previous post was also part of this baby book album for a client, and I'm almost all done with it, so I'm starting to get all the posts up!

 

 

 The orange and cream letters are from American Crafts, and one of my favourites!  They were part of the 42 thickers I picked up from Abi's Craft when she was having her 90% closing down sale a few months ago.  "Happy" wood vaneer from BasicGrey, yellow gems also from Abi's Craft, yellow square are the Evalicious page tabs, and the hearts are chipboard from Maya Road which I inked blue.

 

 

The little yellow letter stickers are the Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type alphas.  They're discontinued right now, but you might be able to find a couple scattered around on Ebay or Amazon.  I was desperately searching for them, and managed to find a copy on Ebay but there were only 3 left at the time (and that was a few weeks ago).  Chipboard houses also from Maya Road.

 

Keep an eye out!  I'll be posting more layouts for this baby book in the following week.  And, I'm in the process of uploading a scrapbook haul video to my YouTube channel right now, so that should be up in a few hours, if you want to check that out.  =]

 

Happy scrapping on this gorgeous Sunday!

Dalreen xo



E's 1st Birthday

Hey folks!  A quick layout to share today, and this one even comes with a video!  Whoo-hoo! =]

I love all the circular shapes on this page, from the misted white cardstock, to the half circle punched pieces, paint splatters, brads (both from older BasicGrey collections), flair (from Finding Nana) and gems (Abi's Craft).

The yellow and white lettering are some American Crafts flocked Thickers in the Letterman font, and the smaller ones are the Alphabeans from Jillibean Soup in Diced Denim.  I love that brad with the little heart in the centre!  So cute!

Also totally love the little heart on the typewriter.  I would love to find myself an old typewriter one day!  Also, here's the video, if you're interested in taking a look at how this layout came together!  =]  I try and upload videos as often as I can, so head on over there to see other videos on my channel, if you'd like.  =]

Happy scrapping, everyone!

Dalreen xo

the 2nd ring.

Good afternoon, everyone!  I have a layout to share today, full of sparkles, glitter and sentiment, but very simple!  Well overdue, this photo was taken when my husband had proposed to me with an Eyore stuffie on an Easter hunt.  Clearly, everyone can tell that I'm actually 5 at heart, instead of the 23 I claim to be?  ;)

 

 

The strips of glitter on the right side are all from the American Crafts 24 glitter tape pack.  I added adhesive but also stapled them at each end (I love my staples, after all!)

 

Used the heart border punch from Fiskars for a little detail, and then outlined all the tiny hearts.  For the title, I used a combination of smaller blue letter stickers from Basic Grey, and the bigger white foam Thickers from Amy Tangerine.

 

The blue camera and black/white herringbone papers are both from a 6x6 Amy Tabgerine paper pad, and I ripped them on the top and bottom for some added detail.  Ripping papers is one of my favourite ways to add detail to a simple page.

 

Even though this page is super basic, I still love it.  <3

Hope you all are having a fabulous week!  Keep crafting!

Dalreen xo



Common Spa Date

Heyhey everyone!  I got to spend this past weekend with some of my best friends ever, taking a weekend trip to a special little place called Drumheller (the dinosaur capital of the world)!  It was such an amazing trip, much too short, but jam-packed with so much FUN.  Now the (almost) countdown can begin for our next roadtrip!

That being said, I didn't get a chance to scrapbook while living it up with awesome dinosaurs and all.  But, I did want to share a layout I did before leaving on our adventure.

 

Most of what I used on this layout is from an older Echo Park collection (including the pink and blue papers, journaling card, stickers and borders).  The flowers are from the same Amy Tangerine cut-apart sheet that I used in a previous blog post.  The flair badges are from Finding Nana (I love her flair designs).  The red letters in the title are AC Thickers, and I believe the black are from K & Company (but they are so old, I don't even remember when I got them).

 

 

I stamped the date with some blue pigment ink, using the small letter stamps from the "dollar bin" at my local Michaels store.  I'm pretty sure they're Studio G stamps.

Have a wonderful week ahead, friends!

 

Happy scrapping,

Dalreen xo

a quick visit.

Hey all!  Another quick layout to share today, using scraps leftover from a butterfly punch (or the negative of the punch, rather).

I had used the butterflies on a different page, different day, and was clearing off the desk when I decided to not waste it and instead use it!  Backed against the plain cardstock, it looks really pretty and adds a little bit of detail on an otherwise simple page.

Using such a small photo (a 2x2 that I cut into a polaroid style - from the wonderful Persnickety Prints) on such a large background can sometimes be challenging, but I just worked my way from the middle outwards.  Did some basic layering, added a journaling card from Simple Stories, went back and misted/splattered the background with Mister Huey's ink in Espresso, and the layout was pretty much looking good.  I cut apart the flowers from an Amy Tangerine collection (I've been using those flowers a lot as cut-aparts - they're beautiful!), added a title (AC Thickers in the Stroll font), some washi tape and triangles and we're done! =]

Have a lovely evening, and have fun scrapping/being creative!

Dalreen xo

the hunt is on.

So here's another quick post for the day!  Two in one, can you believe it?!  And this one actually used more than 2 photos!  Hooray!  

Used some Echo Park and October Afternoon for the 3x4 journaling cards, Dear Lizzy stickers and a super cute American Crafts butterflies!

Added some doodling to the heart paper, and I don't think I could have used up any more staples on a single page, but I love it!  The blue letter stickers are from Pebbles, and I also used the white Thickers from AC.

Have a good night, everyone!  And happy scrapping!

Dalreen xo

We Love Dora

Hey everyone!  I have a quick and simple layout to share today, from a local fair last summer.  I really didn't have any idea of what I wanted to do on this layout before sitting down at the desk, but I knew the photos I wanted to use.  As I was grabbing the photos (hot cocoa in hand), I saw the Glitz giant rhinestones from the Uncharted Waters collection in my embellishment box, and pulled them out.  And it sort of went from there... not really having a clue where my mind was taking me, but letting it guide me to the finished page. =]

Definitely loving the Glitz rhinestones (always do!) mixed with some older Dear Lizzy floral stickers.

That blue flower diecut is from an older K & Company collection, I believe, but I'm not exactly sure what the name of the collection is (something to do with family).  Word stickers from The Girls Paperie (love them!) that I've had in my stash for a couple years and continue to use often.

And my current favourite Thickers are these black glitter ones from AC.  Can't get enough of them!

Hope you guys have a wonderful rest of the Labour Day long weekend!  My parents are visiting from out of town, and it's been lovely having them around - we've been doing quite a bit of shopping! =]

Happy scrapping!
Dalreen xo