Winnings from the Scrapbook Cottage

Last month I joined a virtual event put on by The Scrapbook Cottage.

I has so much fun and completed 6 double page scrapbooking spreads and 2 single page layout.

I also completed 8 cards.

Not only that, but I had such a fun time using my supplies.

And for an incentive, The Scrapbook Cottage gave anyone who completed their challenges a piece of 12x12 pattern paper and 12x12 cardstock to match.

 

If you completed any of their card challenges we received a 6x8 piece of pattern paper and a piece of 8.5x11 matching cardstock.

I had so much fun and the papers were just an added bonus...I was just happy to be able to join in and get so many layouts completed!

I posted a video with more details as well as the prize I won for getting my name drawn for participating.

I am having issues with YouTube and this blog tonight...it is not uploading photos...so frustrating.

Thank you for visiting me today.

I hope you are all safe healthy and are having a creative day 💕💕

Tracy❤️❤️❤️

The Scrapbook Cottage's Challenge #7 "Mission Marsh Walk"

 This is the last challenge that The Scrapbook Cottage put on. 

They had quite a few classes as well, but I only had time to complete 2 of them.....which I’ll show in another post.  

This was the hardest challenge for me...not the challenge itself, but these papers.

There is a cluster I made with some of the pattern papers and a punch.

I just love this deer head punch!

I was really undecided about if I should add this deer head border to the top and bottom of my photos.

At first I thought the photos didn't stand out from the background paper, so added these deer head boarders to the top and bottom of my photos.

But then I thought the boarders took away from the photos even more so.

What do you think?

Here is the card I made with the left over papers.

This is the last sketch from these challenges!

I had such a great time coming up with my layouts from these sketches.

I did a video of all of my layouts from all 7 of the challenges.

I would love if you visited me at my YouTube channel and gave me a thumbs up on my video.

Here is a link to my channel "Tracy's Treasures24", if you would like to see more of my videos of my completed projects, tutorials and organizing videos ❤️ 

Again I want to thank Sharon, Kathy and their team at The Scrapbook Cottage for such a great event and I can't wait until you do it again!!!

I hope you are all well, safe and have a very creative day. 

Tracy 💗💗💗

The Scrapbook Cottage’s Challenge #6 "Camp Birthdays"

So many layouts so little time! 

Here is my layout and my card for The Scrapbook Cottage’s challenge. 

These photos are from my oldest daughter Ashleys and my birthday.  Our birthdays are 2 days apart in July and we celebrate them up at our cottages. 

I found this paper in my stash and thought it was perfect for this sketch. 

Sharon actually fussy cut her flowers from floral paper. At first I was going to use die cut flowers, but when I came across this floral paper I figured it went perfectly. 

When I see a sheet or two of paper I really like, I try to make a mini kit with it right there at the store. 

I want to say I picked this apart up at Archivers (I sure miss that store, it was the highlight of our trips to the States). 

The floral paper had a diamond patten paper that matched, so I bought them both (2 of each sheet!) and also the cardstock to coordinate. 

I then tore the diamond pattern paper to layer on the floral paper. 

On the second page I flipped the floral paper for interest. 

Here is my card with these left over papers. 

Here are the sketches I followed. 

I really had such a great time during this virtual crop...I would love to go to one of The Scrapbook Cottages in person events as this one was so much fun!

Thank you Sharon, Kathy and team for making these days so much more enjoyable.

Tracy 💗💗💗

The Scrapbook Cottage’s Challenge #5 "Birthday Beauty"

Yup more layouts from The Scrapbook Cottage's virtual crop!

I am just so impressed with the amount of time in between challenges that not only did I complete every challenge...but I also got photos put on my layouts!!

Here is a layout of my youngest daughter, Kristy's 26th birthday. 

I went deep into my stash and grabbed these papers...I really love the colours.

I love contrast. 

As much as I try to stay in a soft colour pallet, I end up using darker colours in my art.

I love these letters.

I wish I could have taken a better photo to show off the sparkle in them.

They are like a soft resin with the sparkle inside of them.

And I was so happy to have found these in my stash.

I love that they are subtle as they are close to the back ground paper, yet they are easy to see.

I used some left over papers and cut apart from this paper pack to make my card.

It actually turned out better than I thought it would.

Here are the sketches that I followed for these layouts and this card.

Thank you so much for joining me today.

I haven't blogged in so long, I feel like I am just starting out again.

I hope you are all well and safe and have a creative day.

Tracy 💗💗💗

The Scrapbook Cottage’s Challenge #4 "Young Love"

Here is the 4th layouts and card challenges I completed for the online event that the Scrapbook Cottage put on. 

If you read my past posts on these, you will know how much fun I had!! 

These photos are of my youngest daughter Kristy and her boyfriend, of  over 10 years, Blake. 

I fussy cut these beautiful butterflies from this gorgeous paper collection. 

I have to thank my friend/table mate (from a couple of years ago) Julie for this paper. She was going to discard it (I was flabbergasted when she told me that!) as these were her discarded pieces from a mini album she was working on. 

I also fussy cut this flower cluster from the papers. 

I was debating on adding journaling to this layout. 

The photos and papers are so beautiful and don’t want to take away from them. 

My oldest daughter, Ashley, is a photographer, so Kristy and Blake are used for her models quite a bit. Lol. 

There was a card sketch as well. 

Here is my take on the card! 

I used my stampinUp tag punch for the top of this handmade tag. 

This is an old paperback (go me for using my stash!). 

Here are the sketches we used for the challenges. 

Thank you again Sharon and Kathy for putting on such a fun filled, jam packed virtual event! 

I hope you are all safe and well and having a creative day. 

Tracy 💗💗💗

Scrapbook Cottage Challenge #3 "Chilled Boys"

 I had so much fun at The Scrapbook Cottage's virtual scrapbook crop.

I usually attend crops with my group of friends, but with us being in Lockdown/Stay at home order, that hasn't happened since a year ago.

I really enjoyed doing their challenges and working on the sketches they provided.

This was a 1 page spread and I really enjoyed playing with my own supplies...some really old supplies.

I had to turn the sketch sideways to accommodate my photos.

These photos just get to me, lol.

My oldest daughter Ashley is a photographer and has such great ideas on photoshoots.

Which this would have been such a great photo shoot of her boys, that is if it wasn't so cold out.
My husband, daughter and I put up the our old Christmas tree and decorated it, while my daughter staged the area. But my poor grandson's were freezing...Sawyer (the oldest of the two) tried so hard to help his mommy out with getting the perfect photos. He tried so hard to smile. Dawson my youngest grandson, wasn't having any of it, lol.

We also had a card challenge with every scrapbook challenge.

Here is my take on this challenge.

I used scraps of this beautiful paper my friend Julie was going to dispose at a crop a year or 2 ago.

Here are the sketches we followed for the 3rd challenges of the day.

Thank you again Sharon and Kathy for putting on such a fun event...and for helping us all with our online shopping ;)

I hoping you are all healthy and safe and have a wonderfully creative day.

Tracy❤️❤️❤️

Scrapbook Cottage Challenge #2 "Christmas Eve"

This past weekend I attended a free virtual scrapbooking crop. I had the best time scrapbooking solo...but still chatting with my friends through FaceTime. 

Sharon and Kathy put on classes (which you could purchase kits for) and challenges. It was so jam packed full of fun that I only had time to follow the challenges. 

Here is my layout for the second sketch challenge of the day. 

I’m still working on my Christmas pages. 

But you know what I’m proud of....that these are from last Christmas....go me!

Another thing I am proud of, is doing these sketches with my own supplies.
For this one I used my old Graphic45 papers that I have been hoarding for years.

As beautiful as they are in their paper pack....I think they look even more beautiful on a layout of my family❤️ 

The Scrapbook Cottage also had card sketch challenges.

Here is my take on that sketch.

Here are the sketches I followed. 

Thank you Sharon and Kathy for putting on such a fun event!

I hope you are all safe and well and have a very creative day.

Tracy ❤️❤️❤️

Happy New Year Layout

I wasn't really sure about this layout at first, but I am pleasantly surprised on how it turned out.
My daughter Ashley took these photos of Sawyer and Dawson on New Years Day.

The cream coloured paper in the middle and around the outer edge of this layout is very old paper of mine (like over 10 yrs) it is hand made paper and very fiberous, almost like a fabric. It is also very thin, so I had to adhere it to some cardstock to make it more stiff.
I just had to use this paper as it has gold flecks in a fireworks pattern, how could I not!
If you saw the back of this paper, you would see that I cut out the center of this paper and adhered it to the middle of the layout....I am so so thrifty with papers!

I wanted to make a banner, but I wanted it to be different then my last one......so I used stars!
I thought this was fitting for a New Years banner with the little ones :)

What is fun about the confetti paper is that some of the dots are glossy.
I wanted to add even more sparkle to this layout, so I used these sparkly enamel dots scattered around the whole layout.

I also made a video on this layout.
If you would like to check out more of my video on my YouTube channel, just click on the link "Tracy's Treasures 24"

Thank you so much for visiting me today
I hope you all have a very Creative Day

Tracy 💗💗💗

Sister's Ever So Sweet

Can you believe I created this layout a few years ago and haven't shared it yet!!
I have a journal that I check which videos I have edited, finalized and uploaded...I had not uploaded this one and I recorded exactly a year ago.
I thought I may have posted it here as I had my photo's watermarked...but nope, couldn't find it, lol.
So here it is....

This layout is of my 3 beautiful, loving and funny daughters.
I used this gorgeous Recollections "Union Square" papers.
I did a bit of stamping on the papers just for a little bit of an extra touch.

My daughter Ashley was doing a photo shoot of her and her sisters and these were the out-takes....which I thought were so fun and so them!
I added a paper doily that I inked up with some distress ink as well as the tag I inked and stamped.

I stamped the letters for "LOVE" and then inked the papers as well as back them in the brown cardstock.

With this being a Winter layout, I love the added touch of these snowflake charms.

I added some twine as well as stamped the pink hearts on the tag.
I also added this oh so pretty "Sisters forever" chipboard piece on the tag.

Here is my video with a bit more detail on this layout.
If you would like to watch this video on my YouTube channel, just click on the link "Tracy's Treasures 24"


Thank you all for visiting me today and I hope you all have a very Creative Day.

Tracy 💗💗💗

Heather Beautiful Beauty

My middle daughter Heather hates getting her photo taken, so it is hard to scrapbook her, as there are not many photos of her.
While my girls were on a photo shoot, Ashley, my oldest, took these of just Heather.
I love them and needed to scrapbook them.

I used papers left over from a kit I was almost done with as well as some cardstock.
See that pretty tag...it was in our gift bag at a Crop for Heart event.

The floral card and the paper were from different kits, but I was happy at how well they went to together.
I still need to journal on this page....and here I thought this layout was complete until I did the video, teehee.

Talk about video, I did a video with a bit more information on this layout.
If you would like to watch it on my YouTube channel, just click on the link "Tracy's Treasures 24"


Thank you so much for visiting me today, I would love to hear from you :)
Have a very Creative Day

Tracy 💗💗💗

Winter Beauties Scrapbook Layout

I love how this layout turned out.
It, again, is an older layout which I haven't shared yet.
My daughter Ashley (who is a photographer) took these photos of her and her 2 sisters.

These papers are gorgeous.
For the main photo I backed it up with dark cardstock.
Then with an exacto knife I cut part of the banner and the "Love" flourish so I could tuck the photo under them without loosing these pretty elements of the paper.

I used a border punch to put a decorative edge to my tags.
I do this a lot with plain shipping tags, it just adds so much to them.
I also love to ink elements up and did a lot of inking to my tags.

I did a video with a bit more detail of these layouts.
If you would rather watch the video on my YouTube channel, just click on the link "Tracy's Treasures 24"


Thank you so much for visiting and I hope you all have a very Creative Day :)

Tracy 💗💗💗

Casino Friends

Still working on catching up.
I thought I had posted this as I made it a long while ago....but nope

Every year my friend Sharon and I go to Hinckley for a little getaway.
Sharon goes to gamble, and I go to craft and shop.
One day we travel to Crafts Direct to do some (lots) crafty shopping as well as to Pine City Scrapbooking...love those stores!!!

I am not sure how much I love this layout as I don't care for the green background I used.
I was thinking of actually cutting the green away and mounting the layout on a white piece of cardstock.
I added a pocked with more information on our trip and what we did.
But there are so many more layouts I want to do that it isn't a priority at the moment.
When I am all caught up on my layouts, hahahaha, I may go back and touch up my not so loved ones.

I made a video of this layout in more detail.
If you would like to watch it on my YouTube channel, just click the link "Tracy's Treasures24"


Thank you so much for visiting me :)
I hope you all have a very creative day

Tracy 💗💗💗

Embrace Life

Guess what I have been up to ........playing catch up again.

I have a note book where I post my YouTube, Blog, Facebook and Pinterest posts and if I posted to them all.
Well, I took a good look at it yesterday and noticed that I had a lot of unchecked boxes.
For the next week or so, I am going to check those boxes off...cause now that I know, I need to check them off, lol.
I noticed that this layout was checked off and I posted a video of it to my YouTube channel, but not here on my blog!?!?
I even checked back and couldn't find it...so here it is :)

I made this layout to document my friend and I in our 1st (and probably last) 1/2 marathon!!
I was so proud of myself and Deborah for not only doing this, but for completing it and for coming in 2nd and 3rd!!

Look at the medal we received for completing the marathon!!
We wanted to finish the race at the same time, so we put our arms around each other and crossed the finish line together.
It was a bit emotional.
When Debbie asked me if I would do this with her, there was no other answer except....yes!!!
I am game for almost anything.
And I am so happy that I was the one she thought to ask to join her on this journey 💗

Like I mentioned above, I have a video on this page.
If you would like to watch it on my YouTube channel, just click the link "Tracy's Treasures24"


Thank you all so much for joining me today and I hope you all have a very creative day.

Tracy 💗💗💗

Quick Layout Share

You have all been asking me about all my kits and wanting to see what I have done with them.
Well here are some of the layouts I had done :)

I usually do 2 page spreads, but I have been expanding my horizon and been doing a few 1 page layouts.
I have been making quite a few 1 pages for Sawyers album.
Honestly my grandson's 1st year album will be completed well before any of my 3 daughters will, teehee.

I used the Sweater Weather 2016 Fall kit from Scrapbook & Cards Today, for these layouts.
"Fall Love"
I have to say I love this layout.

I really like the papers and all of the fussy cut flowers I had to trim up.
Of course the star of this page is Sawyer. 💗 (can you believe I just discovered I can add symbols to my text).

Now back to my 2 page layouts.
"In My Arms"
I picked out some photos of Sawyer and I for this one.
I may change the word Love to Safe..so the Title will read Safe in my Arms.
I used this same layout of this page, in "Autumn Family" page below.

Here is the second page to this layout.
I did purchase the blue plaid, it was not in the kit.

"Little Pumpkin"
I used a different sketch then was in this kit.
I really like how this one turned out!!!
Simple yes, but I love the large circle.
I may do my journaling on the lower left of this page.

Second page.
My photographer daughter Ashley (Sawyer's mommy) took these photos in these layouts.
The backdrop to these photos was a fall display my daughter Kristy and I did in our front yard.

"Autumn Family"
The photos from these layouts were of our family that came to our home for Thanksgiving dinner last month.
My sister and her children are in this photo (as well as my family) as they were the only ones able to make it for dinner.
But we all enjoyed being together and Ashley did a great photo shoot of us all.
This layout I used the same sketch as I used in the first page of "In My Arms"

This second page is of Wayne Sawyer and I and then Wayne and I with our 3 awesome daughters.

See I have been using what I have 😉.
I made a video with more detail of the kit, these layouts and a few other layouts that I haven't put photos on yet.
If you would like to watch the video on my YouTube page just click the link "Tracy's Treasures24"
If you go to my channel I would love a thumbs up and would love to read your comments :)


I have so much to share, but have been busy looking after Sawyer most days now that his mommy is back at work....but I love being able to spend so much time with this little cutie, even if I need to have a wee nap when he does, lol.

I hope you all have a very creative day :)

Tracy :)