Friends Become Our Chosen Family - JustNick Studios

Hello blogging friends. Happy National Scrapbook Day!

 I am here today with some scrappy JustNick Studios inspiration and a FREE cut file! I love using circle frames around my photos. Floral Ring 2 is a new digital cut file, so I thought I would use it to showcase a photo of my besties. I have been reorganizing my scrapbook room and came across these pretty papers from the Pink Paislee Take Me Away collection by Paige Evans. I didn't have any coordinating embellishments, so I combined it some rub-ons from Chic Tags ( I miss them bunches! ) and some brads from the We R Memory Keepers Chalkboard collection. I love how the black brads help create a visual triangle with the title. I thought the Simple Stories washi tape from the Love & Adore collection went really well with it too. Yeah for using some stash!



To add dimension to my layout, I layered some more flowers on top of the Floral Ring. These are from the Stems For Stephanie digital cut file.





I used one more cut file today. I just love this title, Friends Become Our Chosen Family. These wonderful women really are like family for me. They were neighbors but most have moved away, still we get together at least once a month.



Here the cut files I used today...







If you are interested in watching my process video, here it is ...

Thanks so much for stopping by. You can grab the FLORAL RING 2 cut file for FREE using the code: RINGFREE at checkout until midnight on May 7, 2017 only!

More free cut files are coming later today, so be sure to stop back at JustNick Studios.
~Marcia

It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Top Dog Dies

Hello blogging friends.

I gift lots of gift cards for the Holidays as my nieces and nephews are older and have rather particular preferences. I like to present them in a pretty setting though. Much more festive than those ordinary gift card envelopes. I used my new Top Dog Dies Snowman die set to make this one.

The bottom half of this card opens. I can secure the gift card to the front and still write a sentiment inside. Some gift cards are just too pretty to cover up. The top of the card was easily decorated with a tag from Chic Tags and my snowman. A few scattered snowflakes completes the card.

Thanks for stopping by. Top Dog Dies is having a Black Friday Sale. It's going on now. Be sure to check it out.

~Marcia

Jingle All theWay

Hello blogging friends. I have another just for fun layout I did with the Fancy Pants Merry Little Christmas collection and some Chic Tags I snatched up at my local Archivers going out of business sale. I had to use up my gift card I got for Christmas. I am so sad to see Archivers closing all of their stores. I do not have a local scrapbook store near me anymore. So, that either means road trips or more on-line shopping. I definitely need to find an on-line resource for these Chic Tags. I am just in love with them. At least I still have Micheals and JoAnnes for the necessities like adhesive. Right after I brought these tags home, I saw the latest Chic Tags sketch and I thought, “Wow, that is perfect for my new tags!”.  Here is the sketch …

And here is my take on it (improvising because I only had 6 circle tags) …

In my quest to learn new things this year and embrace technology (my 2014 resolution), there are a few new things on this layout. The first is the .png image on my photo. This was one of Kerri Bradford’s 12 Days of Christmas freebies. It’s now available in her store if you want it. The title “Jingle All the Way” is also available in her store. You really need to check out her stuff. She is amazing and has some fabulous tutorials. Learning to cut an SVG with my Silhouette is also something new for me. I just upgraded to the Designer Edition with all the fabulous Holiday sales going on. I am so happy with how this layout turned out. Let me show you some close-ups …

Do you see that those tags have dimension! I Love it!!

There is still a few days left to play along with the sketch if you want. Take care

~Marcia

Apple Pickin' - ScrapTown Lady Authentique layout

Hello blogging friends. Are you as happy as me that it is FRIDAY!!! I am so looking forward to getting caught up this weekend, since I had to work last weekend. Anyway, did you know Minnesota is famous for its apples? The University here created 'Honeycrisp' and now another apple variety that everyone is talking about 'SweetTango'. I had to get out and pick some Honeycrisp so I could make a pie! and ScrapTown Lady has the perfect paper for your apple picking photos. Check out my layout, created with Authentique Seasons Autumn ...

I loved the touch of lace on this piece of pattern paper, so I decided to play up the lace on my layout using some Cheery Lynn doily dies and a lace border die. I also have some fall leaves tucked in there. The leaves are also from a Cheery Lynn die. I want to show you some close ups so you can see the gorgeous details in these dies ...

ScrapTown Lady supplies:
Authentique Seasons Autumn One
Authentique Seasons Autumn Two
Authentique Seasons Autumn Three
Authentique Seasons Autumn Enhancements
My Favorite Things Die-namics Fishtail Flags
Cheery Lynn Small Leaves 1
Cheery Lynn Rum Punch Doily
Cheery Lynn Dutch Scallop Square
Cheery Lynn Anastasia Border Die
BasicGrey Lucille Wooden Buttons
Distress Ink in Walnut
Glue Dots
Scrapbook Adhesives Foam Squares
Scotch Quick Dry Glue

Other Supplies:
Chic Tags Fall Word Tags
Bazzill cardstock
hemp

Are you drooling over my pie? Or just that yummy paper? Go shopping in the ScrapTownLady store and get some for yourself!
~Marcia

Play in The Dirt - Core'dinations/Imaginisce Blog Hop

If you are here looking for my Scrap Town Lady post, please scroll down... Busy day on the blog :)

I am so thrilled that Imaginisce teamed up with Core'dinations Colorcore Cardstock for a Blog Hop.

You will be so inspired by all of the amazing creations all this week. 

PLUS there's fabulous prizes to win too!! You won't want to miss it!

Throughout the week a daily list of Designers will be posted and what we want you to do is hop from one designer's blog to the next.  (if you get lost along the way just come back to the Imaginisce blog or the Core'dinations blog).

Here's a few simple things to follow: 

(in order to be eligible for the prize)

1. Leave a comment on each designer's blog post & the company blog posts EACH day.

2.  LIKE the Imaginisce & Core'dinations Facebook pages.

3.  Follow the Imaginisce & Core'dinations blog.

GIVEAWAYS !!

Now would you like to know what goodies we'll be giving away at the end of the week?

Imaginisce Prize:

Core'dinations Prize:

(winners will be announced on the company blogs on Fri., August 9th)

So let's get this party started!!

WEDNESDAY'S BLOG HOP ORDER

Core' Team:

Ellen Sosnoski  http://closeyourears.blogspot.com
Kim Moreno  www.livingthecircuslife.blogspot.com

Jill Lebbin  http://everydayisanoccasion.com/

Imaginisce Team:

Fleur Smith http://fleursbydesign.blogspot.ca/ 
Marcia Dehn-Nix http://onescrapatatime-bymumsie.blogspot.com     <------- You are here
Apryl Holland http://onescrappysoul.blogspot.ca/ 
Mary Pat Siehl http://siehledwithakiss.blogspot.ca/

I got to play with the Core'dinations Kraft Core cardstock. I love Core'dinations cardstock. It's perfect for embossing and distressing so that's what I did with my layout. The embossing folder I have is small, but after embossing one side of my cardstock strip, I turned if around to do the other side. My photos cleverly hide the seam between the top and bottom. Sanding the top gives it a two tone effect so it looks like real tree bark. I teamed it up the Kraft core cardstock with the Imaginisce Outdoor Adventure collection ...

This is my daughter Colette in the middle ( yes, my daughter who was always the dirtiest kid on the playground when I picked her up after school. ) At 20 she still enjoys rolling in mud! This was for a good cause though. She was raising $$ for Breast Cancer. I had a lot of fun slinging mud ( I mean paint ) on my layout. I even dripped paint so it looks like the mud is dripping off the photos.

I have discovered Chic Tags. These are fabulous. I used this one to hide my journaling on and tucked it behind my photo.

So leave a comment to be eligable for a prize, then hop on over to Apryl Holland http://onescrappysoul.blogspot.com/ 

Thanks for stopping by :)
~Marcia