Have you heard?

I have just come from the CK blog & wanted to remind you guys about this...

It’s Day 1 of the Creating Keepsakes Summer Camp!

In their July magazine, several of their camp counselors explained a whole bunch of the challenges based on different aspects of summer camp, such as icebreaker, arts and crafts class, and campfire stories. Check out the article on p. 57.

It runs for this week, that means fun for five full days online, AND it’s totally free to participate. Registration is optional, but if you haven’t registered yet, you have until tonight (July 13) at midnight MDT to do so. Just head here and you’ll be eligible for all the prizes and perks. Even if you miss the registration cutoff, you can still participate in the classes and breathe in all the fresh, crafty air.

So what can we expect?

• 5 random daily winners of their “Snack Packs,” filled with scrappy goodies
  
• A week long crafty contest with fabulous prize packages
• Daily challenge classes to spur your creativity
• Free fonts every day
• And lots of other cool extras!

Check in at the CK Message Board each day for announcements and instructions. You’ll find all the Summer Camp classes and information here.

If you are at a loose end this week, try & pop in there, I hear it is going to be awesome!!!

Rubarb pie anyone??

I am so creatively amped today!! For the last couple of days I have had the privilege of playing with my Cocoa Daisy July kit…..all I can say is “IT’S BEEN TOTALLY AWESOME!!”

This kit is filled with such a fun variety of fun embellishments & papers, that I  just couldn’t stop scrappin’… literally….no seriously, I only stopped to grab tea, save my little boy from the top of the dresser & rescue the fishes from my cat who insists on trying to eat them out of the fish bowl..... you don't believe me...look here.

I’d love you to take a look at them

This is a sneak peak of my last L.O but it is my monthly journaling challenge for July, so remember to pop on over to the challenge thread the forum on Monday the 13th for the details...NB there is a cool prize for the winner.

Well I hope you have been inspired to try some of these out for yourself??
Make sure you visit us over in the Cocoa Daisy forum, so we can get to meet ya'll!
Happy scrappin’

KJ x

Housekeeping!

I have been so busy lately that I have fallen behind slightly of some bloggy house keeping.

Last month I received the most amazing belated birthday surprise ..... from sweet Lia who is on the Pink Paislee DT team with me.






Isn't this the most gorgeous tag & card set???? Lia you are so talented...thanks so much for this amazing spoil!!!

And another treat...I was awarded this cute bloggy award from Chris, another very talented scrapper & graphic designer whom I met through blogging, go & check her blog out! Thanks you so much hun for thinking of me

Well I had better be off now, I have a pot roast on the stove & it smells like it needs rescuing :o)
Have a super day!
KJ
x

Some of my faves!

It's the 1st of July..... *why is it important you ask?*

Cos there are some talent scouts out there right now & I was hoping to catch their eye with a couple of my fave projects.

So here goes......






Ok...now the waiting starts...hold thumbs for me will ya!!
*aaaarh!* waiting is the killer!!
KJ
X

Pink crazi!

Happy Wednesday everyone!!

Well being Wednesday, over at the Pink Paislee blog means it's wacky……so wacky we've got, with a big paper mix up!! It was a special friend’s birthday the other day & I wanted to create something special for her in the way of a gift pack. She is such a fun loving crazy gal, so there was no question, it had to be bright & fun!

I am trying to be more ‘green’ about my scrapping these days & having a huge box of PP off cuts, I decided to use some of them up rather than just binning them. For the card, I cut myself a variety of  mini box shapes & layered them in a pile on the base card using different thicknesses of 3D puff tape. Then  tied some of them with ribbons & braid adding glitter for birthday sparkle. I suggest you use a fast drying glue like ‘mono’, sprinkle a layer of glitter lightly over the glued areas & wait for them to dry. Tap off any loose glitter….& Voila!! pretty finishes in a flash!

I left a little teeny white tag on the front of the pink parcel for me to write my buddy’s name :o)

She wanted some fancy face lotion for her present, but being a tricky shape I needed to find a suitable package design. After doing a bit of net-surfing I found a GREAT tutorial here for the perfect box. It is SUPER easy to make, even for me who tends to be ‘instruction challenged’ at the best of times :o) And it only used one piece of card stock with bits ‘n pieces for decoration.

Here is the collection of papers I used…. pleasant enchanting, enthralling fascinating, eye popping fascinating, fast track office lingo, sugar pie sweet cakes, cutie pie sweet cakes, lovey dovey sweet cakes, office lingo lunch hour, office lingo cubicle, fascinating press ons, fascinating chip die cuts , coconut pixiee stix and last but not least fascinating sticker strips.

My other project for June was a lift I did of a page published in the June CK magazine. I did them x2 versions of the same page & they selected the one in the mag, leaving me to post this one here 'Pink' at it's best wouldn't you say???

Well you 'luvlies',  I sure hope these have inspired you to try some for yourselves :o)

  

July with Cocoa Daisy!

I got my July kit today~“Rhubarb Pie!”...and it is gorgeous as usual!!! Here is a look at what's in it.
NB: The gallery will be going live over at Cocoa Daisy tomorrow, so make sure you head over there & see what the very talented Diva's are up to. Mine will follow early next week...so watch this space :o)

Cocoa Daisy is still running their Design Team call!  Working with Tricia & the other awesome Diva's is amazing...so if you are keen to try out, get your application in.

Cocoa Daisy is looking to add two very talented, creative and motivated scrapbook artists to join our design team, the Daisy Divas. Our design team is made up of dedicated scrapbookers with the ability to create stunning layouts and projects using products in unique and unexpected ways. We are looking for design team members who will be very present on the Cocoa Daisy site (both on the message board and in the gallery) and will actively promote the site elsewhere.

For more details, click here COCOA DAISY DT CALL

Have a super day!

Mag pages!

I have a few new pages I want to share with you from some pubs from a couple of months ago....

This one as seen in Creating Keepsakes April Issue for the Easter column.

This as seen in the Spring issue of Creating Keepsakes.

This one was my first pub in Scrapbook etc.....:o) their March issue.


TFL!!!
KJ
x

June scraplift contest!

It's that time again over at Cocoa Daisy! We're looking forward to seeing you create a fantastic layout based on this SKETCH by moi!

The winner will have their page featured in next months newsletter & win a Cocoa Daisy kit. Remember that the deadline is July 10 at midnight EDT and you don't HAVE to use CD kits to participate!
Link all your entries as a response to this thread in the Cocoa Daisy forum.

Good luck ladies!