Some Ellie, Victoria and Dan

Good morning everyone, how's life treating you? Today is my day to post on the Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker blog, I thought I'd share here with you.

My daughter Kira, who is 3, is a real girlie-girl. She loves pretty clothes, nail polish and shoes! Ellie's Day Out is the perfect paper collection for her. Just look at those beautiful pastels and cute purses and such! The clouds are from the Willow Bee line.



Here we have card card made with Dan The Record Man. As I was making this, it occurred to me that this is probably one of the best masculine paper lines out there. No frills, no fuss, just pure manhood! I love the die-cut paper!



Finally, I worked with one of Nikki's original collections, Victoria's Street. I love this line! I used the 6x6 Mini Pads for this, as well as the Pocket Of Stickers.


Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.♥

Happy National Scrapbook Day!! **Giveaway Closed**

Hello everyone! How are you doing on this fine day?

Today, I'm off with some of my friends for a day of scrapbooking, chatting and coffee drinking! Great way to celebrate NSD, don't you think?

So, you read "giveaway" in my title and now you want to read about it, right? First off, let me show you my latest Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker layout:


I used "Ellie's Day Out" collection, I love it! So girlie! It's perfect for my daughter. You can see her here with my cousin Caro's daughter, Béatrice. How sweet are they?!

Now, on to the giveaway. Nikki has generously offered a full paper collection from Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker to one of my readers! Make sure you visit my fellow DT members (see list in my sidebar.) Most of them have a giveaway as well!

How can you win, you ask? Simple. Just let me know, in a comment, what you are doing today? Are you scrapping at your lss? Are you scrapping at home? Are you not scrapping at all? Simple, isn't it? I'll draw a name using random.org tomorrow.

Good luck, and enjoy NSD! :)

Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.♥

A couple of cards **Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker**

Here are a couple of cards I made using 2 of Nikki's new lines, Willow Bee and Ellie's Day Out. I used the Mini Pads, they are perfect for card making!

I also used a clear stamp from the Flaming Butterfly collection. This butterfly stamp has become my favorite stamp!



Kira helped me make this next card, choosing the shoe stamp herself! She also helped me cut the papers. I added a bit of Stickles to the stamp.


Before I go, I'd like to toot a little bit! I was so thrilled to see one of my recent layouts make it on the Bella Blvd blog yesterday! And it was even more exciting to see that my scrap pal, Diana, was featured there too! You can see the Bella post here.

Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.♥

Go Fly a Kite **Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker**

Good morning everyone! Did you have a good weekend? Mine was fairly uneventful. Well, actually, Kira got her first haircut. A layout is sure to follow soon!

In the meantime, here's a layout I made with Nikki Sivils' Flaming Butterfly collection. I LOVE this collection. The colours are so beautiful!


I cut out some of the butterflies to make it look like they are flying of the page.

A few rub-ons, chipboard and pearls finish the look.

Supplies:
Papers: Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Letters: Karen Foster
Rub-ons: Kaiser Crafts and Fancy Pants
Chipboard: unknown
Pearls" KaiserCraft
Pen: Sharpie and American Crafts

Thanks so much for stopping by♥

Up, Up & Splash **Nikki Sivils and Cosmo Cricket**

Good morning everyone, hope all is well with you!

Before I do anything else, I'd like to ask your opinion about something. Lately, I've noticed some pictures I pick up at Costco come out quite dark. I'm wondering if you think it's them or not. You see, I always tweak my pics on my laptop. If you own a laptop, you'll know that you see your screen lighter or darker depending on the angle of it. Perhaps when work on my pictures, I see them lighter than they actually are? Do you have thoughts on that?

Anyway, here's a layout I made the other night while on Skype with Erin. I've had these pictures in my stash for a while now. Since Scrapbook and Cards Today now has a summer call going on, I figured it was time to scrap them.

How much do you love the background paper?! Believe it or not, it's from Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker's Christmas line, North Pole Nights! The other papers are by Cosmo Cricket, the Early Bird collection. My pal gave JJ gave them to me and I am using up every single scrap!

Supplies:

Patterned paper: Cosmo Cricket, Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker

Letter stickers: Basic Grey, American Craft

Journaling spot: My Mind's Eye (Laundry Line)

Sticker: American Crafts

Pins: Fancy Pants

Buttons: MOD for Autumn Leaves in Whirligig

Punch: Fiskars

Pen: American Crafts

Ink: Ranger

Other: Pop-dots

The Amazing Blog Crawl Is Here!!!

Hello everyone! I'm so happy to have you visit me on this fine day! Are you having fun on the first ever blog crawl? If I'm your first stop, let me tell you about it:

Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker, Bella Blvd and Jillibean Soup got together for this amazing blog crawl. At each of these blogs, you will have a chance to win a huge giveaway retailing at 50$.

To win Nikki Sivils’ giveaway, you must leave a comment at Jillibean’s Blog.
To win Jillibean’s giveaway, you must leave a comment at Bella Blvd's Blog.
To win Bella Blvd’s giveaway, you must leave a comment at Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker Blog.

And that's not all! Many of the designers of these manufacturers will also have handmade craft giveaways on their blogs. I've seen some of these prizes and you are in for a treat! Take your time to enjoy all the blogs; you have the entire weekend to leave your comments! Winner will be announced on the 3 main blogs as well as on each designer's blog on Monday morning.

My giveaway is a set of 5 cards using, of course, Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker products. I made 5 different themes, I hope you will enjoy them!

Thank you was made using the delicious My Sweet Cherry Pie collection as well as Nikki's new burlap buttons:

The Smile money holder was created using Flaming Butterfly as well as a burlap button and a cardstock sticker, new from Nikki Sivils:
This Make a Wish birthday card may be simple, but I think it shines with the Bella Blue and Oscar Too collection:
I simply had to use this frog paper from the U R My Favorite collection for this I Love You card:
Finally, this Get Well card wad made using the adorable Willow Bee collection:

If you would like to win this prize, simply leave me a comment here by 11:59 PM EST on Sunday March 7th. I would love for you to tell me which Nikki Sivils collection is your favorite! I will ship worldwide. Please make sure I have a way to contact you should I pick your name. I will use random.org

Here are Willie-Bee's Doghouse Divas participating in the handmade giveaway:

• Anna Louise Bowkis
• Claude Campeau
• Deana Boston
• Delaina Burns
• Elizabeth Carney
• Janis Medina-Maghinay
• Jennifer Matott
• Julie Tucker-Wolek
• Katrina Hunt
• Laura Achilies
• Lori Roop
• Michelle Lanning
• Mimi Leinbach
• Andrea Budjack
• Nathalie Leonelli
• Norma Kennedy
• Rae Barthel
• Ria Mojica
• Susan Dupre

Thank you so much for stopping by♥

Did You Know? :: **Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker**

Hello everyone! I feel like I haven't posted in forever, although it's only been a few days. DH is home this week (he had a week's vacation left) to spend it with us while Sean has his March Break. It's nice to have him home, the kids sure love it a lot!

Here is my latest Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker layout. I used the gorgeous Flaming Butterfly collection.



Don't forget to join us tomorrow for an amazing blog crawl! See my link on the left for more info. I'll be giving away a prize to one lovely commenter!


Thanks for stopping by♥

For the Love of Chlokit **New Nikki Sivils**

Finally, I get to post a layout with Nikki's new collection, Willow Bee. It's so much fun, you need to get your hands on it! And how about those burlap buttons?! Good thing I got a bunch of them in my DT package, because I'll be using them everywhere!

I love how Kira says the word "chocolate"! No mistake here, she really says it with the letter "l" in this weird place. Try saying it out loud, it's not that easy! :)


Supplies:
Papers, buttons and cardstock stickers: Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Letters: American Crafts and BasicGrey
Pop-dots

Remember to join us on March 5th! For more info, click on image on the top right.


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Announcing...

Here, in Nikki's words, is our BIG announcement:

Here it is the big announcement I've been giving teasers about this weekend! Stephanie from Bella Blvd, Jill from Jillibean Soup, I (Nikki) have all come together for one huge Blog Crawl! What is a Blog Crawl you might be asking... Well, on March 5th you'll come to my blog and you'll see a gift that Jillibean Soup is giving away on my blog, along with a handmade gift from me and a list of my design team girls that will be giving handmade gifts away using our products, you'll leave a comment at each blog & then move on through the list. Then you'll head over to Bella Blvd and see the gift that I (Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker) will be giving away over there, along with a list of Bella Blvd's design team ladies and you'll do the same thing. Next you'll head over to Jillibean Soup and see the gift that Bella Blvd is giving away, along with all of Jillibean Soups DT gals, leave a comment then go to the next. There are over 50 handmade gifts and product giveaways!! Don't panic b/c you'll have the entire weekend of March 5th to visit all the blogs and leave a comment for a gift... it's an entire weekend of blogging and giveaways! We'll announce all the winners on the Monday morning!! Doesn't that sound like fun!!

Us 3 ladies have become good friends and thought this would be an awesome way to bring 3 great manufacturers together for one fun event! We are all so excited!!
Talk to you soon! -Nikki

Valentine Gift for Sean's Teacher

I decided not to wait until the very last minute for Sean's teacher's gift. I did that at Christmas and ended up just making a card. Not this time! I found this milk carton template online by Mirkwood Designs. A bit of cutting, a bit of scoring and I bit of gluing later, I had this:


Filled with candy hearts and paired with a handmade card by Sean, I'm sure she will love it!

All products are from Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker.

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Shelf decoration: Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker

Hello everyone! Here is a little decoration for my shelves once my scrapbook corner is painted and finished! I used Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker's House chipboard album and a little of every one of their first 6 paper lines.

Please click on image to see it larger.

If you know me, you know I don't really like altered items. Although I find them pretty, I also find them useless. Dust catchers. So when I make something, there has to be a purpose behind it. I decided to turn this into a reminder of my closest friends. Each house/store represents someone.

"Fondant Bakery" is for Bella: she's an awesome amateur baker who made the Dora cake in this post!
"481" is for me. My screen name is imzadi481. Imzadi is a reference to Star Trek and 481 is my wedding date (read the french-canadian way: 4 aout 2001)
"White-Rabbit's Toy Store" is for Erin. White-Rabbit is her screen name.
"5 Cats Café" is for JJ, coffee enthusiast and owner of, well, 5 cats! :)
"Cloth Baby" is for Noémi, who uses adorable cloth diapers on her baby.
"Hockeyville" is for Caro, a big hockey fan!

So there you go. A visual reminder of my friends that'll look pretty on a shelf, too!

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Before I go, my sweet reader Carolynn asked me for a tutorial for the pinwheel flowers on my most recent layout. The idea wasn't mine, I saw it on the Pebbles blog. If you are interested in this easy tutorial, here is the link.

Thanks for stopping by♥

Daddy Knows... *Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker*

I used Nikki's U R My Favorite for this layout about Keith and Sean. I took these pictures one afternoon after they came out from the pool.



Supplies:
Papers: Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker (U R My Favorite)
Letters: American Crafts and October Afternoon
Brad: Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker
Buttons: American Crafts
Ribbon: unknown

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Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker New Releases!

Holy cuteness, would you take a look at these 6 new collections?! Nikki is at CHA right now, so we finally have the okay to share the new collections with you. To see each sheet of paper individually, check out Nikki's website. Of course, you can also get these in the Mini Paddies. See here.







There are also stamps for every new collection. I'm showing you one here, but you can see them all here. Be warned: I will be using this cloud stamp everywhere!

Something new this time around: burlap buttons! I absolutely adore them!!! I'm showing you the blue ones here, but there are 4 colors in total: blue, brown, black and red.
Something else that's new? Cardstock stickers! Called "Pockets of Treats", there are 3 different designs!

I am definitely looking forward to getting my hands on these!!!

Thanks for stopping by♥

This Girl Does Not Fool Me *Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker*

Hello everyone!

Here's a layout I made using Nikki's "My Sweet Cherry Pie" paper line. I absolutely love this collection! The colours are gorgeous and those trees are adorable!

I made this layout at Erin's house last week and I got to use her brand-new Cri-Cut. Ialso took advantage of her tools to emboss the word "girl", although it's kind of hard to see here. I can't wait to get my prize from Scrapbook and Cards Today! I won the Texture Boutique Embossing Machine on their blog during the holidays, isn't it cute?!?!


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