Guest Designer for Canadian Nickel Scrapin.

First off I want to thank Nicole "Canadian Nickel Scrapin" for this giving me this opportunity to be featured on her Whats Up Wednesday as a Guest Designer.

What an honour to be featured on her blog. She is an awesome card and altered items artist. Plus her colouring is unbelievable. She is one of the ladies that got me into colouring images. You Rock Nicole...plus it doesn't hurt that you are a fellow Canadian ;)

I am new to this, so Nicole has given me some questions to help get me started.

1. Who is Tracy's Treasures?  I am just your ordinary mother, wife, stay at home /work at home mom.

I like to say I am a Jill of all Trades Expert in none. I do love to create, its my passion. I love all types of crafts. I sometimes think I should dedicate my time, to really learning one of my art forms. But there are just to many fun, creative things to do and I want to try them all.

Honestly, I didn't even know what blogs really were (I am not technical at all). So once I learned a bit about them I thought it was a great place for an on-line journal. I have always documented mine and my family's life weather in scrap booking or writing. The name came about because my family is my treasure and so are the creations I put together.

I would never have thought that having a blog would bring me so close to people I have never met before and to care so much about their lives as they do mine. It really is like an extended family.

Then my daughter encouraged me to start a YouTube channel. Tracy's Treasures 

2. What am I up to? I never know what I am up to day to day.  I love to share what I create and how I make my projects. I think it is awesome that we can see people create all over the world from the comfort of our homes. 

3. Whats new and exciting? Well I just received an email asking me if I would like to join a design team. 

I don't know all the details yet, but am looking forward to learning more about how it all works.
                                            So that was something exciting and unexpected that happened :)

4. My Project: Well, we all know how Nicole loves everything Halloweeny :)

So I thought I would put together a little something special with her in mind.

I had seen a picnic basket in a Magnolia magazine and thought it was so adorable. But it was in a Summer theme and unfortunately Summer is coming to an end :(

So I thought a Halloween theme might be fun :)

Then I put together a couple of cards. I just picked up these new stamps and they were just asking to get inky ;)

                         
 So here is the basket.
I cut it out of Bristol board, then covered it with pattern paper.
I coloured the image with my Copics, then added some fun embellishments.

 Here is how you get to the goodies.
The flaps are secured with magnets, so they stay closed, yet easy to open to get the treats.

 Here are the treats all tucked away :)

 I then decorated the containers.
The smarties container, looks like someone was in it already ;), is a tiny single serving ice cream container.

 Here is the card I made with the left over pattern paper.
Doesn't she look like a cheeky little witch :)

 This is the first card I made.
Knowing I was going to be on Nicole's blog I had to make this card for her.
Not only do I love this image, I am sure Nicole will as well. She is a little goth trick or treater :)
The tombstone was from a different stamp set, I thought it was a fun touch.
                                   

Well there you have it. Here are my creations as Nicole's Wednesday Guest Designer.
Thank you so much Nicole for letting me take over your blog for the day, lol.

I hope you enjoyed my projects and come to visit me at my blog.

Hope you all had a Creative Wednesday

Tracy