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Shaker Layout

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I trust everyone had a lovely holiday with family and friends and took lots of photo’s of your memories. As I slowly recover from my Christmas food coma, I would like to share a project that was inspired by a challenge item included in my Design Team Kit . Along with the super cute Echo […]

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Quick and Easy Candleholders

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  Fall inspired candle holders. To make these quick and easy candle holders you will need 6″ x 12″ Washi Tape sheets, jars, and scissors, punches, die cut machine and/or dies. Measure the height and circumference of your jar . Choose a pattern with little to no detail and cut out your shape/s. Next take […]

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Nathalie’s Friday Share

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  Hello! I can’t believe how fast this week has passed, and now it is time to share all my September projects with you all. This month, I drew my inspiration from different places, and played with different paper collections along the way.  Black and white photos, lots of white space and simplicity were the […]

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Gelatos and Stamps

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This week I am working with the My Mind’s Eye – Happy Camper Collection Papers and Embellishments and continuing with my Gelato obsession . For this layout I decided to try a more subtle background, more of a water-colour look so I could later add word stamps. Supplies needed : Gelatos, stamps, water mister, paper towels, cardstock, […]

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Creating a Background

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  This week I will be sharing the projects I have been working on using the Simple Stories – So Fancy Collection.  For this project I decided to create my own background, I wanted something Bold and Colourful to pop my photo of some really great girlfriends of mine! Gathering the supplies needed – Gelatos, Mini […]

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Silhouette Savvy – Creating compound designs

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Hello everyone!, Nathalie here, I hope you all are enjoying the beautiful weather, and using the extra daylight to create beautiful projects. For this tutorial – and continuing with the Silhouette Savvy series -, we will be exploring how to create a compound design by welding shapes together using the Silhouette Studio program.   For […]

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Twine Flowers

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  I was looking on Pinterest for some new ways to use twine and I stumbled across these cute flowers from Michelle from “Lady of Leisure Ink “guest posting on “The Bug Bytes February 2012”.  I have made a few adjustments to suit my needs and this is what I came up with. You don’t […]

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Home Phone RINGTONE “Pretty Stripes” – Using a Diagonal Design

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Hello Nerds! This month I was inspired by the lovely spring Pinkfresh Studio “Felicity” collection. Even though I did not yet have many outdoor photos, I still was craving spring and loved the bright colours in these papers. In my last tutorial, I talked about letting the story lead. I also mentioned that sometimes my […]

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Tutorial Tuesday

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Hello everyone. Welcome to another Tutorial Tuesday – on Wednesday this week, thanks to the fact that I’m away right now and my computer decided to give me lots of grief. As our new Design Team won’t actually be starting until next week we will be filling the gap with different things this month. One […]

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A Gelatos Tutorials…Just as delicious as the name suggests!!

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Have you ever tried watercolouring? Me neither but I decided to go out with a bang and push myself out of my comfort zone! LOL!! Luckily theses yummy Gelatos from Faber Castill make this technique super easy!! First choose your gelato colours…You will also need cardstock, paintbrush, embossing gun and a spray bottle. Some people […]

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Easy Watercolor background with Fleur

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Hi all, today I am going to show you how to make a super easy watercolor background for your cards or layouts. For this project you will need Distress inks, water, cardstock and a sheet of plastic. First take the Distress Inks and press them onto the plastic. Add some water as much or as […]

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Doing a little “skinny dipping”…Tutorial…

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For today’s tutorial I thought I would combine it with one of our camp challenges and create a layout using only cardstock. But even “naked” you wanna look good so what better way to create a little interest than add a little ink! LOL!! You will need… Embossing folder and die cutting tool (big shot, […]

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Nerd Girl Fleur May Tutorial – Tassels

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I love all the fun tassels I see around these days I bought a few for my planner and bag.  I decided to give making them a try since they didn’t look that hard. To start you need embroidery floss, yarn or twine, scissors and that’s it! It’s really easy if you start with embroidery […]

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April showers brought some May Flowers…

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I love flowers…in the garden…in my house and especially on my layouts!! This month I thought I would share how I make all of those flowers for my projects. As most of you know…I LOVE my dies!! I’m gonna share why…I can match my flowers to whatever colours or papers I am creating with so […]

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Treat Bag Tutorial

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Have you ever lost a day? I did….all day yesterday was Monday for me..I really thought it was Monday. Could this mean I need a vacation? Oh I think so!!! So that being said, I am a day late at posting my tutorial, I am so lost this week…LOL Well, I decided to make a […]

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A Quick Notepad Tutorial

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Good morning Nerds! I thought I would share a quick and easy little notepad… For supplies you will need… lightweight cardboard trimmer with scoring blade ruler notepad from dollar store Liquid adhesive or redline tape Pattern paper I used some of the yummy goodness from SS Say Cheese II line) embellies of choice First measure […]

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Print Screen Tutorial

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Good Morning Fellow Nerds…. I have decided to try out my print screen, I purchased this a few months ago and have not even taken it out of the package as of yet…so today I decided to give it a try. As you can see all I did was use Ink and my Inking tool. […]

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Waterfall Album Tutorial

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Good morning Nerds! Today I am sharing a how to on creating a super cute and super easy waterfall album made from paper bags!! Yep! They aren’t just for lunches anymore!! As soon as I saw the kit from carta bella in my pizza box I knew I was making a mini album with it! I […]

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Quick Flower Tutorial

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Hey Nerds!  Monique here!! with a super quick circle flower tutorial!! They take no time to make and are super cute when coordinated with your projects. As you can see all you need for this one is minimum material: Glue Scissors Felt/paper/or whatever material     Have Fun!!

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Texture tutorial with Sarah

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  Welcome to the first edition of Scrapbook Nerd Academy, We hope you enjoy this new series here on the Nerd blog. Every Tuesday we will be post a tutorial/how to process to help grow your crafting skills. It’s a little easier to learn when you see how something is made don’t you think? I […]

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