Happy New Year | A Few Things

Hello! Hello! Happy to begin a new year full of new possibilities, new adventures, a new One Little Word,  and goals.

To get you up to speed, my mom purchased a home near us in early December, and besides the usual December activities, Mick and I traveled to Oahu, Hawaii in early December and then the whole family made our annual family road trip to Colorado. Suffice it to say December was a whirlwind of activity, blessings, and adventures. I am happy to finally be home now though,and to be back at scrapbooking and creating.


This is my first layout of the year which I created for Come On Get Crafty and using the Ali Edwards Daily Stamp set and lots of gold goodness. More details on the COGC blog. It documents some of my goals for 2015.

Below is my first creation with October Afternoon goodies of the year. The inspiration for my design was the image of this butterfly-like cloud formation that I captured on the North Shore of Oahu.
It took my breath away with its beauty and significance. It captures the essence of my One Little Word for this year; "courage." #olw

Lastly, I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of my Cocoa Daisy February kits; Journal Entry. In the meantime, here is a sneak of some of the lovely kit contents!!

So, how is the start of your new year going? Any resolutions or are you more of a goal setter? I have a tendency to prefer the latter. ;)

Be back soon!

Suz

October Afternoon Cardmaking

Hi all! Hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving with friends and family. So grateful to have spent some time with those I love and that we had safe travels.

Today I am sharing two cards I made recently with a few October Afternoon collections.

Happy Black Friday all!! I will enjoy shopping from home! ;)

Stopping By | A Few Items to Share

Hey there! Sorry I have been a bit AWOL from the blog here. Tis the season of football games and marching band festivals and play auditions and...



Well, I think you get the idea!

Stopping by to share that I am up over on the October Afternoon blog sharing some of my scrap space and how I organize my OA goodies. Read more about that here.

Also, Cocoa Daisy Kits are for sale to the general public today! The Main Kit sold out the first day to subscribers! ETA: **And oh my! It looks as though there is already slim pickings as most of the kits are already sold out!! Wowza! I do spy some of the adorably cute stamp sets are still available and the patterned paper kit. Below are a few of the stamps:

It has been a crazy great start to the month at Cocoa Daisy and exciting one too with the launch of the new Daisy Day Planner kits (available here)!! And guess what?!

They are so popular that they will be actually offered as a subscription starting in January in 2015!!! *fist pump
Read more about the Daisy Day Planners and Christine's awesome and info-packed blog post and tutorial about them here.

Here is my gallery created with the kits.


And have you seen that @ChicTags has adorable cute and reasonable priced exclusive fall collections! Darling yes?!

View a sharper, enlarged image here and shop early for the best selection!

October Afternoon Thursday Sketch

Today I am sharing a sketch and two different takes on it over on the October Afternoon blog here.



Come check it out and play along with the sketch. Share your creations on Instagram with the hashtags #oasketchday and tag me @SuzMannecke so I can see! :) ;) Have a great day! I'll be back tomorrow with some #@chictags goodness!

October Afternoon Sketch | The One With Rectangles

Hello and happy Thursday! I am up over on the October Afternoon blog  sharing my takes on Mou's sketch. It is a very clean and simple sketch that can be applied to traditional layouts and cards quite easily. You can take a look for yourself here. 

Fun Friday Share

Happy Friday everyone!

I am dropping by to share a scrapbooking related secret that I have had to keep quiet about (until now)!!

I am both humbled and honored to be a part of this crazy creative group of women and to be designing for an industry leader in quality and unique scrapbooking papers and products! 

I am so excited to begin this new creative endeavor and look forward to seeing how it all unfolds! Hope you find your Labor Day weekend restful and full of family fun time. 

Be back soon to share some of my most recent creations. Thanks for dropping by! Stop on by the OA blog and give a shout out to these other lovely ladies here.

Suz 

Road Trip & Sharing a Sneak of October's Cocoa Daisy Kit | Sweater Weather

Hi everyone! I am back from a fun and busy weekend road trip to Minnesota to visit some dear friends. Got a chance to check out the Mall of America, (Finally! I was born and raised about an hour and a half from there and had never been! Long overdue visit to say the least! LOL) Scrapfest, Archiver's, and collect some goodies from the October Afternoon Warehouse sale! Seriously awesome deals there. So happy I drove instead of flying. More room for the stash! ;)


This little piece of decadence was divine (and thankfully shared three ways-LOL). It was a chocolate amaretto cake from a little local Italian restaurant run by three Lebanese brothers who gave us the best service and smiles.

I took this pic along from the MOA to show my boys a bit of the scale of the mall and all of the fun things it houses inside it. 

And the Lego store here?!! Beyond fabulous! Ginormous Lego figures. Compare their size to the  people below-Wowza.

The OA Warehouse Sale was very well organized and had fabulous discounts on all items up to and including Travel Girl. I bought a bit for myself and some for my local scrapping besties too. Oh, and I cannot forget to mention that the adorably cute Brinkley made an appearance and walked the aisles welcoming customers in the cutest way! Love that pupper!

 And I got a chance to visit Big Bowl again. I loved that restaurant when we lived in Chicago and have missed eating there so was happy to get a chance to indulge again. :)

Anyways, now I am back in my scrap space hunkering down with the fabulous October Cocoa Daisy Kit  "Sweater Weather." This is the perfect month for me to guest design there as the colors in this collection and the theme is right up my scrap alley. Serious love for this kit. Truly. The pairing of patterned papers with embellishments and stamps is fabulous!


So here we go. Here are a few sneaks of what I have been creating with this kit:

So very thankful for the invite this month! A special thank you to Christine and Emily for this lovely opportunity to crate with this awesome kit!! :) :)


Happy Saturday all! Grab a cup of cocoa and head on over to Cocoa Daisy & join in the chat from 7-9 PM CST  TONIGHT for the reveal of  Sweater Weather! Would love to have you join us! :)