Layout inspiration from Nicole Nowosad!

Good morning Scrapbook & Cards Today fans! I am back again on the blog to share a couple pages I recently made. If you have ever been fortunate to attend one of the Scrapbook & Cards Today Crop & Create events you will know that one of the highlights (of which there are many) is the goodie bag. Who doesn’t love going to a crop and getting a bag of fun handed to them when they walk in the door!

I recently attended the Crop & Create event in Thunder Bay, Ontario and was lucky enough to get my paws on the goodie bag! I had brought along with me a lot of scrapping stuff… but I really have no idea why -  as almost everything I used on these pages came from the goodie bag from the event!

Although there are some great instructions to make some fantastic layouts, I decided to go my own way with the goodie bag and add in a few items from my ever growing stash.

Here is what I came up with.

 

The background was made with a lot of patterned paper folded into triangles and layered over some cardstock and then stitched into a quilt like pattern. Creating backgrounds like this is probably one of my most favorite things to do lately!

 

Supplies: Patterned Paper (We R Memory Keepers, My Mind’s Eye, Amy Tangerine and Dear Lizzy for American Crafts, Crate Paper), Paperclips (Webster’s Pages), Alphabet (American Crafts.), Die Cuts (Crate Paper, American Crafts), Chipboard (Crate Paper), Fabric Frames (Crate Paper), Photo overlay (Crate Paper), Stickers (Little Yellow Bicycle), Enamel Dots (My Mind’s Eye), Sequins

I wanted to take a more masculine approach with virtually the same products and this was the result:

 

I was really inspired again to add a lot of stitching to my page and so I punched a lot of circles and then sewed them down, and around the circles to create the background pattern on the cool chalkboard paper from the goodie bag!

 

Supplies: Patterned Paper (We R Memory Keepers, My Mind’s Eye, Amy Tangerine and Dear Lizzy for American Crafts, Crate Paper), Brads (Basic Grey), Alphabet (American Crafts), Die Cuts (Basic Grey), Paperclip (Webster’s Pages), Vellum

I added in a metallic cut star that I hand drew and a Silhouette Cameo cut title to finish off the page!

 

Thanks so much for joining me again today on the blog! Hope to see you at a Crop & Create event soon!  Registration for the Markham, Ontario event is now open here and registration for Moncton, New Brunswick opens next Monday, November 18th!  More information on these events can be found here.

~  Nicole Nowosad

We also have some blog winners to announce!  Drumroll....

Winner of a Crop & Create goody bag is:

I love your blog and all of the inspiration I get from it, you all are the best! Love the sweet pink goodie bag, it is so perfect in pink.  Thanks for the chance to win :)   Posted by: Joanne Travis | October 18, 2013 at 12:27 PM

Winner of the fantastic Scrap N' Easel is:

This looks like something that would be super helpful in the scrapbook layout stage of our artwork. What a helpful amazing tool. Thanks so much for giving one away.  Posted by: Denise Sullivan | October 25, 2013 at 11:43 PM

Winner of the beautiful Cocoa Daisy Stargazing kit is:

love the name, love the product :)  Posted by: GAIL P | November 01, 2013 at 04:56 PM

Congratulations ladies!  Please send your mailing information to us at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com and in your reference line put "blog winner" and the name of the prize!  

Have a fantastic Monday!

~  Catherine

 

Comments

[barbara macaskill]

Congratulations to all three lucky winners! Enjoy your goodies!

[Jude]

Your layouts are nice.Perhaps I would have made the pics larger so they don't get lost with the busy background.
Remembering all the men & women who have served & are serving for our freedom. Thank you!!!

[Anabelle]

Wow, Nicole, these are spectacular! I love the quilt like feeling of the first one and the fun circle patterns on the second. The details are amazing!

[Chris R]

Incredible layouts...I really love the circle background. So cool! Congrats to all the winners.

[Jenny Kozar]

Congratulations ladies and thanks for sharing these great layouts!

[Kathy P]

Congrats to the lucky winners. Like your pages, Nicole, especially that cute one with all the circles and stitching!

[Dorina D]

Love the layouts and how the stitching really gives an amazing texture to the layouts. Congrats to all the winners. Have fun!

[Joan]

Nicole!!!!! Wow! you sure rocked these LO's! So much work but it all paid off - great details!