Canvas Corp Creative Crew

Greetings and Happy Valentine's Day to you!

I recently became a member of the Canvas Corp Creative Crew.  One of our first challenges as a team is to create a 4x4 canvas that represents myself.

I'm excited to share with you my creation!

I chose classic, romantic images from the Trousseau and Conservatory collections that capture my spirit as a person. I always give my 2 cents as well as love to create. The bird perched in the heart of the design represents me. Strong, free and watchful over all those things that I love.

I mixed up the strength of metal gears that keep things running with the softness of the cheese cloth along with the romantic flowers (Happy Valentine's Day - hey - it's some flowers right?!) ha!

Thank you for the challenge Canvas Corp, it's a very small canvas but I was able to mix up so many of my favorite things on it and love it!!!

Canvas Corp Items Used:
4x4 Canvas
Tattered Angels Naturally Aged Paint System Bare Metal Weathered Copper
Tattered Angels Naturally Aged Paint System Precious Stone
Canvas Home Basics Clg Stamp CVC My Art
7 Gypsies, Journal Pages - Trousseau
7 Gypsies, Tag Kit - Conservatory
7 Gypsies, Dome Studs Antique Silver
7 Gypsies, Gears
7 Gypsies, Conservatory 6x6 Paper Pad
7 Gypsies, Conservatory Ephemera
Pearls
Cheese Cloth

Thanks so much for stopping on over!  Be sure to pop by the Canvas Corp blog and vote for your favorite canvas, there are some incredible creations and tons of inspiration!!!

Monster Mash... Imaginisce Style!

We're very excited over at Imaginisce this week to continue to share with you 

our latest release called:  "Monster Mash"!

Here are a few of my favorite images from the collection:

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"Boo! Bam! Pow!" 12x12 layout

This collection is so fun to work with, the colors and adorable characters just spoke to me!   These fun photos were taken of my boys trying on their costumes from last year.  I thought it would be a fun play on the "Boo" to add a few additional phrases. 

The spiderweb style doily and "Pow!" and "Bam!" were cut using my Silhouette. The sentiments that I cut were accented with Crackle Accents and Glossy Accents. A few glam rocks were added using my i-Rock to the tree's eyes and to the "Boo!" sentiment.

The mini tray was a fun little Halloween scene to create for some decor.  The boys absolutely love it and can't wait to put it out!  (I'm pretty sure they really just can't wait for the c-a-n-d-y!!!)

Ingredients:

Monster Mash Collection

i-Rock and glam rocks

Cheery Lynn Designs flourish die

Silhouette

MFT Bumpy Road die

Crackle Accents and Glossy Accents by Ranger

Mini Artists Tray by 7 Gypsies

Thanks so much for stopping on over!  Be sure to visit the Imaginisce blog for even more inspiration and peeks of this fun collection.

Have a super scrappity week!

~ Rhonda

Imaginisce and Canvas Corp!

Today is the kick off for a week full of creative inspiration between Canvas Corp. and Imaginisce!  In case you aren't aware, Canvas Corp. comprises 7 Gypsies, Tattered Angels and Canvas Home Basics brand products. 

I was so lucky to receive one of my very favorite home decor crafty items, a 7 Gypsies artist's tray from Canvas Corp.! This style is a new configuration for me and the soft chocolate color made me immediately reach for my Bon Voyage collection from Imaginisce.

This is going to be a gift for my husband. These are photos of him taken on his favorite trail from back home. When we were visiting last fall I made sure to take a few shots and I'm so glad that I did. Since they were distant images, they really worked well to fit into this tray!

The baker's twine used for my tag is Canvas Corp.  The trail monument that you see was cut out and adhered with foam tape.  It coordinated wonderfully with the design of this line and is one of my favorite compartments!

I used a bit of jute and tied around one of my little photos.

There are so many things to love about the artist trays!  I really enjoy creating some dimension in the compartments, cutting apart your embellishments or photos and spreading across a few segments.  It allows you to tell a story or commemorate an event in such a special way!  Thank you to Canvas Corp. for the very generous box of goodies!!!

You will surely be seeing more Canvas Corp goodness on other projects of mine to come. : )

Ingredients:
7 Gypsies Artist Tray - Canvas Corp
Jute - Canvas Corp
Bakers Twine - Canvas Corp
Bon Voyage Collection (Papers, Canvas Stickers, Sticker Stackers and Die Cuts) - Imaginisce
i-Rock - Imaginisce
Hot Rock Crystals Compact - Imaginisce
Foam Tape and Pogo - Imaginisce
Sentiment Sticker - Melissa Frances
Adhesive - Glue Glider Pro - Glue Arts

Ink - Ranger

Make sure you stop on over to the Imaginisce Blog today and the rest of the week to check out the other amazing projects from the Designers!  You definitely do not want to miss this!!!

Have a super scrappity day!

~ Rhonda

Sometimes... Bigger really IS Better!

Hi there and happy Wednesday to you from Rhonda!

I'm so excited today, I get to share with you the biggest most exciting thing to hit my scrappy room ever... are you ready?

It's the Simply Renee Clip-It-Up Floor Model!

When this beautiful piece of organizational wonderment arrived in my home, I have to honestly tell you I did a total happy dance!  That night I put it together and it was so easy and I found myself looking at this in about 35 minutes.  This product has completely altered my workspace and made my creative time so much more efficient. You know what they say though, a picture is worth a thousand words... so here we go!

I'll give you a little Floor Model tour-o-rama, *grin*. 

(Be sure to read all the way to the bottom to find out how you can win one!!!)

First of all, here is my scrappy corner of heaven. I create at this desk, and am right handed, so it just worked perfectly to place this on the right side of my desk. You will see that there are four tiers on my floor model. I added an additional one so I could maximize the space that I have. The cool thing about the Floor Model is that just like the other models, you can turn the tiers. Things that I need are really easy to look for and find.

For the first tier of my floor model, I decided to tackle my alpha's collection and my bling collection. My alpha's used to be in plastic shoe boxes and some of them were in kits, still in their respective bags. Still others were in my little rolling cart. I now have them all in one place and that is so much nicer! I can now also see how many duplicates that I have or if I am lacking in a color.

I did the same process for my bling and arranged by height. I had my bling stored in a few different areas of my workspace as well and it was frustrating when I needed to find something that I knew I had! This actually inspired part of my project that I'm going to share with you after the tour.

For the second tier, you will find my Spellbinders and some collections of MME rub-ons, die cuts and some binding materials. I have my die cut station just to the right of my floor model, so I hung up all of my Spellbinder's so they are all within easy reach and visibility. I can't tell you how much I love this!!!

For the third tier, you will find my favorite papers, my design team papers and other special projects. I also really fell in love with my Clip It Up Zip Bags! I have both the small and the large and for some collections, it is so nice to place your matching embellies in the bag and hang with the papers. I don't have to wonder where those coordinating items are, they are handy and I can quickly look to see what I need. If you haven't tried those with your Clip-It-Up, I highly recommend getting a few. You'll love them!

Now it's bonus time, my fourth tier that I added to my Floor Model! I decided that I was going to use this tier for keeping my fabric projects. Recently my 3 year old little guy has become thoroughly enamored with Toy Story 3. I found some theme fabric and plan to make him a quilt with it. He is going to be so excited to get a Buzz and Woody blanket!

Well, I hope you're still with me, thank you for taking my "Floor Model" tour today! Remember when I said that my organization of my bling prompted a project? It truly did! I forgot that I had this really pretty sepia toned bling and when I found this photo, I knew that they belonged together! I had also picked up this artists tray by 7 Gypsies and was having a hard time deciding what to do with it. I finally just sat down with some super yummy Graphic 45 and 7 Gypsies papers and of course, the ever fabulous Ranger embellishments by Tim Holtz. This is what I came up with:

I cut apart the bling and placed some on the tray and the other pieces flow into the compartments. It's kind of hard to see in the photos but I have used foam dots for dimension in several of the compartments. These trays and shadowboxes are all the rage right now and so much fun!

Thank you for spending a few moments here today. Make sure and tell Santa if you need a Floor Model at your home!!!  pssst...   Don't forget to comment over on the Simply Renee Blog for your chance to WIN a Floor Model!!!

Have yourself a super scrappity day!!!

Scrap Bachelor Update Time!

We are into week five of Scrap Bachelor and the pressure is really mounting this week!  The producers over at Life Preservers decided to split the participants into two teams, blue and red.  As such, each team needs to determine a point value that they are working toward as a goal from 1-30.  I am on the RED hot team! 

There is a catch this week, one entire team will be eliminated!  That is correct, 7 or 8 ladies will be signing off this Sunday.  That being said, each team is determining their goal amount and their strategy.  Layouts count as 1 point, a pair of cards will count as 1 point.  All work must be newly created and never posted!

Here is a card that I created using the January project kit featuring the 7 Gypsies Venice line, along with the coordinating stamps.  I was extremely lucky and won the stamps from the 7 Gypsies blog!  I sent this over as my project submission to them.

I am still working on my album as well, so stay tuned for it.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a super scrappity dappity day!!!

Some Latte Crop Creations

The January project kit from Life Preservers is full of the beautiful 7 Gypsies line "Venice".  It includes a bound index album that I am also working on.  I decided to take a break from the album and work on a few small projects during our "Latte Love" crop over the weekend. 

The first layout is based upon a sketch provided by Pagemaps that Jodi used for a one hour challenge.  I could not participate in that challenge, but I loved the sketch and thought it would be fun to use it and see where it would take me.  Here is the result:

I thought it would be fun to use these papers to create a masculine birthday card for my brother.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Five Chances Out of 100... 7 Gypsies Style!!!

How on earth could I get this lucky?  I surely do not know, but I can tell you this, I am so excited!!!

Out of 100 entries on the 7 Gypsies Blog to win the new Venice stamp set, my post was chosen!! WOO HOO!!!  These stamps are beautiful -- want to see?

I'm actually working on a project that I will hope to use them on right now.

Thanks for doing a little happy dance along with me today!!