Crop & Create Make N Takes & Goodies

Hi...Its me Tracy.

I haven't posted in so long, that I feel as though I should reintroduce myself.

My goal in the New Year is to get back to posting on my blog and doing more YouTube videos.

The last video I did was about 6 months ago...but I sure have been doing a few of them since coming back from the Crop & Create event.

Here are a few Goodies we received from the Event.

Stampin' Up was very generous and gifted us all with this stocking kit.
So easy and fun to put together....I completed mine while watching a movie and made them into a banner.

Another generous contributor to the Crop & Create Event was from Pink Fresh Studio.
I love the heart die and the tag stamps.

Can you believe My Favorite Things not only gave us all a stamp set, but also the matching die set!!!

Again, good ol' Stampin' Up couldn't be outdone and gifted everyone not 1 but 2 stamp sets!!

And who doesn't love Lawn Fawn!

These cute owls are just so adorable and they also gifted us each this die cut.

So much more was given to us at this fun event, so I made a video to share in more detail what we all received from Crop & Create.

If you ever get a chance to attend one of these fun events, jump on it and go!!

Here is my video I hope you enjoy!

Tracy 💗💗💗

Christmas Cards 2017

My Christmas cards are completed and out in the mail.
I kept it simple again this year..very simple.

If these look familiar to you, its because I made a set of my Christmas tags with this cute image.
Also Sharon from Scrapbook Cottage, made a gift card, card like this at the make N take at Crop & Create.

I love this stamp from Lawn Fawn called "Here we go a Waddling"...so cute right!
I put the cute little Penguins on a tag and coloured them in with my Copic markers.

I used older papers for the background of these cards.
My creative friends can take the tags off of these cards to use in a different project if they choose to.

To even make things easier this year, I stamped 8 images on my Copic colouring paper.
I made sure that I had room to cut them into tags.
I then coloured the sheet of stamped images.
Lastly....I photocopied these stamped images on the high quality setting on my printer and on a good quality paper.
Voila, I have coloured images I just needed to cut into tags!
I have done this before and loved how they had turned out.
But putting your printer on the highest quality setting is the key, I can't tell the difference in the ones I colour to the ones I printed!!

The second time I went to print out my set of coloured images, I forgot and pushed blank and white copy, lol.
They are still usable as I can add colour to the book and the trip of their hats..I can also add some sparkle to their hats.

The second mistake I made was I stamped the inside sentiment incorrectly.
I was using my Tim Holtz stamp press (which I have to say I love!)
I think I put this card in upside down, lol.
So I cut the front pannel off and adhered it to a new card base and re-stamped the inside of this card...correctly ;)

Those are my cards for this year :)
I hope they put a smile on the faces of those receive them :)
Here is a video I made on these cards.
If you would rather watch it on my YouTube channel, just click on the link "Tracy's Treasures24"



Have a very Creative day!

Tracy :)

Christmas Gift Tag Swap 2017

Last year my friend Lesli from Vintage Scraps suggested that we do a tag swap.
10 of us signed up for it again this year...looks like a new tradition :)
These tags are to be used on gifts, not the fancy decorative tags....but use being hard core crafters, anything creative we go hard core on, teehee.

Here are the Christmas tags I made for my friends :)
The first one may look similar as we did a card at Crop & Create make and take with this image.
So cute right!!
I coloured these cute Lawn Fawn images called "Here we go a-waddling" with my Copic markers
I did a little trick with these cuties so I didn't have to colour them over and over...but that will be in another post...or you can watch the video below where I explain it.

My next tag has more of a vintage look.
I made the tag with my Stampin' Up tag punch and the bird punch out is also from Stampin' Up.
The branch is from a Martha Steward punch and I stamped the background with a Stampendous stamp.
I used my paper scraps for the punch outs.

My last tag is totally made with my scraps!!
I keep my paper scraps in file folders, each folder is dedicated to a colour and I have one file with holiday papers.
I used pattern paper behind the cardstock and just free hand cut the triangles for the trees.
This was hard for me for the fact that the trees weren't perfect, but even though, I think they turned out so cute.

Here is the video I made with more info on these tags.
If you would rather watch it on my YouTube channel, click on the link "Tracy's Treasures24".

I hope you all have a very creative day :)

Tracy :)

Friends and Freebies

I am finally ready to post about the 3 day crop I attended by Crop & Create.
My friends and I look forward to this event every year and we are never disappointed.
Here we are day 1.
We look pretty cute in our handmade shirts don't we :)
Any yes I really am that short, lol.

Here is my awesome friend Debbie and I at the photo wall.
A new day with better lighting :)

Here is me, my friends Ingrid, Lesli (you know Lesli from her blog, Vintage Scraps) and Lynne :)

We were all gifted an enamel pin from Doodlebug.
I got the camper...which is adorable!!
I have to say they are a bit addicting.
I purchased the rest you see here at the crop.
The Crop & Create pin is exclusive to this event and I think they are going to get one made every year!!
I purchased Vicki's pin from Vicki herself.
The rest of them I purchased from the vender, The Scrapbook Cottage.
I think I got a bit carried away, teehee.
The Canadian flag pins and the bunny were gifted to me from my friend Verna...she also gave me a Coke pin...does she know me or what, teehee.

Our goodie bags or Attendee kits consisted of a full scrapbooking kit.
So many of the ladies started their kits day one!!

Lawn Fawn gave everyone their Stamp Shammy.
I have never used one of these so excited to see how it works.

We all received these cute mini mini swatch papers from Pink Paislee.

Vicki Boutin gave everyone one of her pencil cases...how fun is this!

Now for some make and takes!!
Catherine Tachdjian's make and take was this beautiful pendant.
Every year we make one...we have done a square, circle, flower, owl and this year a tear drop.
Funny Story:
Catherine has a strong distaste for gnomes.
Lesli scoured our table looking for one small enough to fit in this shape...funny thing was, she found one.
When she brought it to the table, Catherine jokingly said that there was none left (as they were spread out in front of her) for Lesli, lol.
Catherine's daughter was pretty amused and played along by making sure the gnome would fit into the charm, lol.

Next make and take was from Nicole Nowosad
Isn't this such a cute shaker card.
I should have put more sequins in the cloud, but I always worry that there are so many others that want to make this card, so don't want to use to much or take up to much of time.

Virginia Nebel's make and take was this fun Canadian tag.

Due to me not being able to wait in line, I wasn't able to make Sharon Reimer's (The Scrapbook Cottage) card for her make and take.
But a friend asked if I could have the pieces for it so I could colour it and make it on my own :)

We were all gifted this pack of embossed papers.
We were instructed to bring them to Vicki Boutin's make and take and we could play with her new crayons.
Again I was unable to wait (my body had to be difficult) I was unable to stay for this, but I have so many types of crayons and water colour supplies, I can do this on my own as well :)

We also received a Scrapbook & Cards magazine!!
In my pink Crop & Create tote I jammed it packed with some of my kits I had purchased :)

Here are the wonderful ladies that make this event possible.
I know there are a lot more talented people who are behind the scenes that make this event such a pleasure to attend, but these are the ones that are so welcoming, kind and that we get to meet face to face.

If you ever have the opportunity to attend one of these events, I highly recommend you going..you will not be disappointed.

I hope you all have a very creative day!

Tracy :)

Crop & Create Freebe's, Give Aways and my Winnings

I am still over the moon with happiness and enjoying my grand-baby as much as I can without being a bug to my daughter and son-in-law :)
As I have been busy, I haven't had a chance to craft.
So I thought I would show you my freebe's and my winnings from the Crop & Create event I went to a few weekends ago....has it been that long already?

Everyone at the event received these pretty papers (this whole pack!), letters, word phrases and pocket cards from Pink Fresh Studios.
Can you believe Everyone received this!!!!
Lets just say, we were all a bit excited and showed it, lol.

We all also received full 6x6 paper packs from Simple Stories and Lawn Fawn.
As well as this stamp set from Paper Smooches and these enamel dots from YNS Gumdrops!!!
So exciting!!!

Last but certainly not least, I won this from Echo Park!!!
It is jammed packed full of this paper collection "I love Family"
There is a 12x12 paper pack with stickers, 6x6 paper pack, chipboard pieces, 2 packs of ephemera, enamel dots and these adorable brads.
Seriously love this :)

If you would like to see the goodies in more detail, I did a video :)
If you would rather watch it on my YouTube channel, just click on my name "Tracy's Treasures"

I hope you all have a very creative day :)
Now excuse me while I go and hug my adorable grandson :)

Tracy :)