Cocoa Daisy Kits | Blue Ridge Sneak

Hello all! Happy Humpday! Stopping in to share a few sneaks of @cocoadaisykits October Kit; Blue Ridge anddddd a very early sneak of November's Daisy Day Planner Kit as well!

Here ya go!

I spy a bunch of gold and blue goodness mixed with pops of color and soft pastels. I spy some fabulous wood veneers and die cuts as well. What do you spy? ;)

Here is a sneak peek of November's Daisy Day Planner kit:

And just when I thought October's was fabulous!!! November comes along!! :) :)

My October kit is headed my way. Be sure to stop back later this week when I share a few of my gallery sneaks. ;)

Suz

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 

I'm Lucky In Love| Product Showcase @ComeOnGetCrafty

Well hello there! Happy Luck O' the Irish to you! I am up on the Come On Get Crafty blog today showcasing several fabulous products from the COGC shop.

Here is a little bit of my design and the full details and images can be found here: Come On Get Crafty

Do you celebrate anything in March? Fat Tuesday? St. Patrick's Day? A special birthday of a loved one? Even though I'm not Irish, I do enjoy the green, shamrocks, leprechauns, and pots of gold at the end of the rainbow! It just spells out fun times!!

Catch ya later! Have a great day! 

@ChicTags March 2014 Pocket Page Scrapbooking Kit -Available Now!

Sorry that I have been a bit missing from my blog the past few days. My Mac was out of commission as was/is my scrap space while we had the carpet ripped out and had new woodgrain porcelain ceramic tile installed in the space the past two days. We got much accomplished, however, I am at the bare essentials right now while we get the space back in order.

Meanwhile, as we were up to our knees (or in this case down on our knees helping with the tiling) in mortar dust, the Chic Tags March Kit became available for sale here!!

It is another fabulous month with bright pops of color along with some pastels too. The exclusive stamps are cute and practical and the exclusive wood veneer patterned numbers are fabulous! I just got my kit this week and can't wait to share what I create with the kit here in the near future.

In the meantime, enjoy these kit  images below and hop on over to Chic Tags to order your exclusive March kit *while supplies last!

See? Aren't these polka dot patterned exclusive wood veneers fabulous?!! :)

Be back as soon as possible with more scrappiness!

Suz

Chic Tags Sale! | First Time Ever...

…on these collections and more! Some items are as low as $1 each!

Shop now as quantities are limited here: CHIC TAGS COLLECTIONS SALE

Now, I am off to make some crab legs for din din! BBL with some more scrappiness! -Suz

Merry Christmas Blue Skies and Blueprint Style | Cocoa Daisy

Hello everyone and Merrrrrrrrrrry Christmas! Posting from above a mile high and stopping in with winter wishes and some sneaks of my first Design Team gallery with Cocoa Daisy Kits!

There is so much to love in this month's kits including seriously awesome exclusive patterned papers from the talented Stephanie Wheeler as well as wood veneer, exclusive flair from Evalicious, and a bunch of Basic Grey goodies too!

Be sure to drop by Cocoa Daisy for reveal night chatting from 8-10PM EST on Saturday, December 28th!

xo
Suz

Elle's Studio Exclusive December Kit and Limited Edition Holiday Wood Veneers

…are on sale now! This month is packed with all kinds of paper crafting delights just in time for the holiday season; it is perfect for stocking stuffers, gifts under the tree (the tags in the kit are adorable for gift wrapping), and of course to Celebrate December and document it daily in your December Daily albums!

Here is December's fabulous kit:

I used the kit to not only create a PL spread, but also a mini album made with those adorable photo #hashtag tags, a gift tag, and a card! And, I still have a bunch left over to add to my December Daily!

Weather has not been cooperating lighting wise-so a few of these pics are definitely not optimum, but you get the idea. 

These photos are a collection of pics taken over several holiday seasons and are just little snippets of life documented daily in December; traditions, memories, favorite gifts, recipes, etc.

The card I made with little tags from the kit along with some jute, a Silhouette snowflake cut and a holiday flair/badge from Evalicious (I believe).

And my PL spread which features several of the tags from the kit as well as from the Noel collection:

The orange and blue cute graphics are from a Discover Card mailer that I simply cut to size and added some October Afternoon Daily Flash washi tape to. 

For this tag from the December kit, I simply stamped using the Noel Cheers stamp set ("To: Love:") available in the Elle's Studio shop, adhered a wood veneer snowflake from the limited edition holiday wood veneer sets, and added some jute/hemp. 

I love the simplicity and look of this tag with it's woodgrain accents and that it complemented my Christmas paper and woodland Christmas tree so nicely! :) :)

And then I created several cards, the first of which was super simple and fun to make. (*I ended up adding three wood veneer stars down the left side of the card as an afterthought and at night, so they are not shown here because the lighting was poor). I enjoyed using the Saltwater Confetti paper in a holiday themed way. Super fun to mix it up that way and stretch the various patterned paper collections.

 For this card, I cut out a few triangles and backed them with more patterned paper and then stitched around the perimeter. Then I misted the wood veneer stars with Gold Heidi Swapp Shine and the whole card with Mr. Huey Classic White.

I used my Silhouette to cut out the star and then back it with more patterned paper for dimension.

A little bit of stitching around the sentiments, some, star sequins, and a few pop dots to add dimension. Done!

And...I have nearly finished yet another project using these exclusive die cuts too! I will post it a bit later this week.

Thanks for hanging in there for this lengthy post! I am sad to say my Design Team term has come to an end with Elle's Studio! It has been such a pleasure designing for Elle and I feel so blessed to have been asked to design with her products! Thank you so much Elle! xo

**Just a note that the kit is on sale for a limited time for $9.99. The price goes up after midnight PST tonight to $11.99. The early bird definitely gets the discount worm, so shop early for the best deals and savings!! ;)

Happy Tuesday all!

Prepping for Thanksgiving and Black Friday Sales: Scrappers' Style

Hi All! Dropping in really quick to say hello before I get back to washing linens, cleaning house, and preparing for Thanksgiving and my home filled with my nuclear family +2. Excited for it to arrive but not quite ready.

I just wanted to stop in and remind you/give you a heads up on a few scrappy items.

Elle's Studio: Is having her largest sale ever!! Here is a bit of info about it:

And how thoughtful of Cocoa Daisy to move up their reveal day and chat night to accommodate all of us Stateside who celebrate gratitude this week? Awesome?! Yes. Early shopping?! Yes. With my pjs on from home? Yes. Yes. Yes! 

I am loving the color palette in December's kits and the woodgrain veneer, flair, and washi? Not to mention the exclusive patterned paper. Oh my…

definitely going to ask Santa for a few stocking stuffers from here. ;)

Here is a bit of helpful info:

Join the Cocoa Daisy ladies for Reveal Night fun and chatter on the message board starting at 8pm EST tonight! Ashley is hosting, and she will be joined by lots of our other designers. Jess Forster is our fabulous guest designer, so be sure to check in and see her gallery of projects made with the kit. She specializes in Day in the Life and has a great, clean style, so don’t miss that. Kits and add-ons go on sale two days earlier than usual tonight, November 26th, for subscribers at 9 PM EST. Our general public purchase date will be the 1st of December at 12 midnight. - See more at: http://www.cocoadaisy.com/blog/#sthash.QDHhwLSZ.dpuf

And lastly, if you haven't already bought a Grab Bag or two (make great stocking stuffers) from Come On Get Crafty, be sure to head over before they are sold out. ;) 

Remember, Come On Get Crafty has fast shipping and competitive ship rates too!

6x6 paper pads will be on sale for $3 each (here are a few samples)

and other shop items will be marked down 25-50% through Sunday, December 1. Be sure to follow @ComeOnGetCrafty on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook for the latest updates and Black Friday Sale information  as well as here.

Back to laundry! Have a great Tuesday all!

@ComeOnGetCrafty | Twisting It Up With Twine

Hi there! I am up over at the ComeOnGetCrafty blog with a few different ways to use baker's twine on your creations. Here is a snippet of what's in the post.

Head on over to the Come On Get Crafty blog and see a few ways that I have used this favorite embellishment of mine and snag a grab bag while your at it for a head start on your stocking stuffer shopping! ;)

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! :)