A Night to Remember...

Have you checked out the new BoBunny line "Enchanted" and the accessories?? OMG! So beautiful. The minute I saw it, I knew what pictures I was using....Vegas baby! These pictures remind me of the fabulous time I had in Las Vegas with my sister-in-law and great friend. My favourite memories were dressing up and going out for amazing suppers (I don't get to dress up to much these days with a 2 year old..) and NOTHING says Vegas though.....than celebrating your great time on a roof top bar that overlooks the strip. A moment that I will never forget for the rest of my life :) The elegant black and white BoBunny paper line was perfect to capture our amazing night out.
In my layout I used the big flower I just learned in my last class and also created a shasta daisy using the Tim Holtz "tattored florals".....my absolute favourite die cut!! The paper layering (3 main pages) I saw on a layout at Urban. I used to layer my pages ALL the time when I first started scrapbooking a while back (when layering was very popular) and I thought I would try it again. I also added some dangling pearls from Tim Holtz as well....a perfect touch. I am actually very pleased with how this layout turned out. While photographing this layout though, I realized it is very hard to photograph black :(



Designed and created by Rhonda Witzke

Frightfully Delightful...

This class was by far one of the best I have attended so far. I was so inspired by this layout that I want to hit my scrapbook room right away and start creating. These flowers we made were amazing, lots of detail, lots of time and totally worth it. They turned out beautifully, the black stickles were a perfect added touch to make them pop. The black on black was pure genius giving you the Halloween feel but with some elegance. There was nothing "ordinary" about this layout, the way Roxanne layered the transparencies gives a cool 3D look and feel AND page two leaves you just breathless..... The collage of the three different kinds of flowers with the black brads, black ribbon and the iridescent embossed stamping gives that special added touch to the page. LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT!!!!!!! Such a fun class :) Hats off to Roxanne!

 Above: Transparencies

 Above: Cluster black on black

Designed by Roxanne Olsen and put together

by Rhonda Witzke

When Dinos Roamed the Earth....

This was a VERY fun day! These pictures were taken at Jurassic forest, located by Gibbons, Alberta. This was Raydns first time seeing Dinos and to say the least he had a blast!!! He is now in-love. If your child loves Dinos, this place is a must see for sure. They have everything from walking paths with motion censored moving dinos to a huge sand area for the kids to play in and dig up "fossils". Super fun!!
When I saw this paper by basic Grey I knew it was a must buy to show how special this day really was. I always tend to use flowers in my layout...I can't help it...and I was really trying not to. I tried using buttons, didn't look right, I tried wood veneer, didn't like that either. I was stuck....so I used my some of my decorative grasses from my vases :) Bingo, I loved it. I just love layouts with lots of 3-dimension. You can almost keep any piece of ribbon, saying or button and incorporate in into your layout; Imagination is limitless when scrapbooking, Pretty cool!
Tonight I have Roxannes class and its gorgeous...I am so excited to learn how to make some new flowers ;) I will hopefully post it soon for all of you.

Designed and Created by Rhonda Witzke

Memories...

Feels great to be finally scrapbooking again, did two classes and finished a layout of my own in the last month and a half. For this one page layout, I used the Prima paper line "Printery Collection"; such beautiful paper. I scored the filmstrip chipboard from the Scrapbook fair this past weekend in Edmonton. (Even though the fair was a quarter of the size from last year, it still never stopped me from finding some great products....but that's never hard, I can always shop). On the chipboard filmstrip, I used perfect pearls..... I LOVE using perfect pearls. I made the flowers using kraft glassine, I then used alcohol inks to colour them. The folds on the kraft glassine really hold the colour, super neat. I learned this technique last weekend from Roxanne. I coloured the brads with alcohol ink and touched the flower edges with smooch pearlized accent ink. Under all the layered cardstock I also embossed the paper with iridescent embossing powder for a added touch.

Designed and created by

Rhonda Witzke

Finding Fall Colors

HAPPY OCTOBER 1ST everyone, it is definitely looking like fall outside with all the reds, oranges, browns and golds. I just love Autumn...... its one my favorite seasons of the year (the other is summer)! Recently, I had a very optimistic friend question my love for this time of year, "Why would you like fall, it only means that the most wonderful season is over and that winter is on its way? It's always dark and dreary and you can't  garden and camp any more..."  Yes, so maybe there are some down sides, like night arriving much, much earlier but to me fall means a whole lot more. I love that the crisp weather does not require a big winter coat, just a sweater or a light coat will be enough to keep warm. I also love sipping my favourite fall tea:  gingerbread  and making sugar cookies with my little man.  Lastly, Autumn also means putting away my flower pots and setting up my hay bails, scarecrows and pumpkins on my front steps. Overall, its just a beautiful season.

I loved the fact that the September layout for my monthly scrapbook class was based on Autumn. This is one of the very few layouts that I have completed in 2 years that does not contain any photos of Raydn. Its actually the first layout where there are not any people in it at all. I focused on the fall colours that were in my yard, the red vines, the golden leaves and my red and orange coloured lilies.
The technique we used this month was alcohol inking and glimmer misting with perfect pearls (I just love them..), all on kraft glassine, vellum, acrylic and foil leaves. We used the memory keepers paper line "Autumn Splender", very, very beautiful paper. I actually changed the layout a bit but accidentally. I made a wrong cut and ended up loving the change. I was one that used to worry about making mistakes in classes but now I'm much more slacked. You end up being the only one who knows there even was one. I loved working on this layout, it wasn't as much detail as we usually do but I think it is definitely one of my favourites. My next post will be something by me, I found the most beautiful paper the other day and am super excited to get started.

Below and above:

The alcohol inks used were rust, butterscotch and cranberry.

They were then misted with copper perfect pearls.

Created by Roxanne Olsen and Put together

by Rhonda Witzke