December Tutorial for the Shaker Box

December Shaker Kit
I have such mixed feelings about this kit. I am excited as it is a such a beautiful kit but knowing it is the last one, I am also very sad.

Christmas Love
I loved this “Christmas Sky” paper and chose to do my first page using it. I knew that I wanted to place the photo in the bottom right hand side so the first thing that I did was spray glimmer mist outwards from that corner. While it was drying I roughened the edge of my photo and matted it in brown cardstock. I cut a circle out of the red card for under my photo mat and detail cut the flowers in the bottom right hand side. After gluing the photo in place, I went to work on the details. I used the lamplight fabric fancy on top of the photo and then placed the three flowers surrounding the photo. I cut a chipboard snowflake in half, coated it with the distress stickles and glued it amidst the flowers. For added detail, I cut out the lamppost from the other “Christmas Sky” paper and layered it over the first for some depth. Lastly, I added my title with the included letters and rubbed some stickles onto each of the snowflakes. I love how this page turned out.

All I Want for Christmas

The “Dear Santa” sheet was another beautiful one (aren't they all?) so I decided to do my own letter to Santa. From the backside of the second sheet, I cut out these two gorgeous squares to layer my photo on. I matted the photo in red card and made an arrow out of the red card and topped it with a strip of green from “winter's wings”. After layering all of this, I used the letters to create a multi-coloured title. A journaling diamond and heart sticker were used from the sticker sheet and a strip of the beautiful lace was glued in the bottom right hand corner. After adhering the poinsettia, I painted the chipboard snowflakes in cream and covered them in stickles. What a gorgeous kit! I love Webster's Pages!

Green Merry Christmas Card

I knew as soon as I saw the backing for the “fabric fancies” that I wanted to use it in some way with this month's kit. It worked perfectly as the base to this card! It was gorgeous as it was and after folding it, I placed two small strips of the green from “Winter's wings” on the top flap; used the birdhouse fabric fancy over one of the strips and attached a ribbon bow to the upper right hand corner (my own ribbon). I cut out Christmas from the “Dear Santa” sheet, printed merry with the letters and added some greenery along the bottom from “winter's wings” sheet. Lastly, I drew some stitching along the edge of the upper flap.

The other projects that were completed with the kit are in the following blog entry.
What a beautiful way to go out! Thanks to Linda for giving me the opportunity to play with her wonderful kits....the kits will be missed as well as Linda's inspiration! It's been a wonderful journey, Linda....thanks for guiding us along it!

Happy scrapping!
Leslie Mozak

Okay, now I can put up December!

Now that I have November's pages loaded, I can put up December's pages. This month's kit from the Shaker Box is simply stunning and I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it!

November's pages

Oh my goodness.....teaching full time is busy. Just realized that I hadn't even put up my November pages from the Shaker Box. Here they are:

October's awesome kit

Okay, okay....I am so not a theme scrapper but I LOVED this kit. I did some pages from our Disneyland vacation, some Halloween pages and had tons of fun. Linda's kits are just so packed full of goodies!!!!

September shaker box kit

Well, I'm back to designing for the Shaker Box and I'm so excited to get to play with Linda's kits again. She truly stuffs so much into her kits for so little amount of cash. Here are some of the projects that I have created from it!

Go and check out her kits at theshakerbox.com ....they are just gorgeous! She has also changed up her card kits somewhat and each month a different stamp is included! Come and join us over at the site!

Well, it's almost been another month. So much has happened since I last wrote! I got a job teaching Grade three full-time at FES! YAY!!! Needless to say, since I found out a couple of weeks ago, there hasn't been much scrappy time. I'm at the same school as Jake so that will be fantastic and I'm two minutes from home! We went camping a Syringa a couple of weeks ago and had so much fun, but Em managed to cut open her heel within a couple of hours of getting there. I'm thinking I might have to take her in to get a stitch or two as she keeps splitting it open.

It's been a month....I'm such a bad blogger

Well...a month has gone by since I posted on here...how sad but really, I don't think anyone ever comes on here so I don't feel too bad. Well, for the first time since moving to the Kootenays from the Okanagan, I feel confident that I might have a classroom for September. It's been a long 7 years, waiting patiently.....I'm hoping! Needless to say, I'm cleaning out my teaching storage room in the basement to organize things just in case.

In the past month, I've managed to paint the whole main floor of my house, the upstairs hallway and the downstairs hallway....it looks wonderful but I still haven't gotten around to taking any photos of it!

I've also done a bit of scrapping....

Have a great day everyone!

1 photo, many LOs

At Creative Scrappers, Kristine held a cool contest called "1 photo, many LOs"......we all used the same photo to do a LO. At first, I wasn't crazy about the idea as I thought, I really don't want to scrap about something that doesn't pertain to my family....but I did it anyways! I LOVED IT! It was so fun and tonight we're going to see how everyone scrapped the photo. Here's my version:

It was a great challenge.....we all received this photo of the children and did with it what we wanted.

yet more challenges

I went onto the One Little Word blog a couple of weeks ago and saw that their word for this challenge was "joy" and had to do a page. I love the idea behind their blog...they give a word as inspiration and you let your creativity flow. I check into the site often but this is the first time that I've actually done one of their challenges. I love how the page turned out!

I took these photos of this beautiful blue jay out in the apple tree in the spring. I've been wanting to do a page on them, but just hadn't had the chance yet......a sketch challenge on the Shaker Box this week was the perfect chance.

A couple more pages that I completed today.....tomorrow is house cleaning day so no scrapping!

I've gotten quite a few pages done in the past few days so thought I'd share some of them! Hope everyone is doing well!

OMW...I can't believe it's been almost 2 months since I've posted. It's been a busy time with school, soccer and ball but it's all coming to an end. Em finishes Grade 7 today....off to high school next year. Jake finishes Grade 4....where has the time gone?

Anyways, I never did get my June guest designers pages on here from the Shaker Box so I'd better add them on. It was once again, a beautiful kit of papers and embellies....absolutely gorgeous!

May kit at the Shaker Box

Okay...I just must say that this month's kit from the Shaker Box has been my most favourite so far! Linda put together the most beautiful kit ever using Webster Pages pp....I'm in love. Here are a few of my projects:

Go and check out her kits at the Shaker Box!!!

May Guest designer for Creative Scrappers

I am the Guest designer for the month over at Creative Scrappers. You should go and check out their site...it's an awesome place to be. Thanks to Kristine!
This is the sketch page that I did for the site:

These are some pages that I've completed for the national scrapbooking day challenges over at the Shaker Box!