A New Mighty Mini

I spent much of today making a new mini scrapbook. It is a sample for an upcoming class I will be teaching. There is not much inside of it yet. I like to let the students figure out how they will use the project without my influence. I made the mini out of 6 paper bags. I love the patterned paper I was given to use. The flowers were created from cupcake doilies colored with a little distress ink. And thanks once again to my Grandmother for the vintage buttons. I can't believe the variety of buttons I always have at my disposal.

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FORE!!!!

Watch out! We are playing golf!!! 

It was a good thing we were the only ones on the course that day. Hubby and I spent more time retrieving balls than getting holes in one. Apparently we were a little out of practice. I do recall snapping one photo of the drama king as he got the one and only hole in one of the game. I used these photos for the recipe challenge on Scrap 'N Chat this month.The recipe called for all kinds of goodies on your page. Head over to the forum to see what else is cooking up over there.

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A Scraplift Challenge

I am honored again to present you with the Scraplift Challenge for Scrap 'N Chat. Today I have chosen this layout to copy. It is from Scrappyhappymom's gallery on ScrapJazz. I have been admiring it for a while now. I love the filmstrip photos, the doodles and the simple layers of paper and flowers. What inspires you?

Here's my version:

Stop over at  Scrap 'N Chat yourself and see what other challenges we have in store for you!!!

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Are you ready for some FOOTBALL???!!! - Aug 2012 Ad/Art

I know the majority of us don't really follow football. But a few of us do. Preseason openers started last weekend among the finals for the Olympics.  So this month we are looking at ads about sports. I am listing football ads here, but you are free to find your own sport or sporting good product ad to use as your inspiration piece for your layout, card, or paper craft project this month. Just make sure to post your project at Scrap 'N Chat and tell us what ad you used and how it inspired you. For those of you with boys or men in your lives, this challenge should be right up your alley. 

Here's mine, no photos yet though.

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Hello fellow scrappy minions!

The summer is winding down and we need a few more chatty scrapers that are willing to post a challenge or two for us.

We are a simple, stress free, supportive, and fun site!  And we need your help!

If you love to scrap and you love to chat, then you have what it takes.

The requirements for our Chatty Challenge Chicks are the following:

***Post your challenge on its assigned day....1st or 15th.

***Acknowledge the members that participate in your challenge with a little love.

***Participate on the boards.  We don't have a post count requirement.  But we don't want you to post your challenge and the disappear until next month.

So if you are willing to commit to the above and wish to share your love for this hobby (therapy) then let us know.  Send an email to scrapnchat12@gmail.com.  Please include:

***your vitals -- name, email, blog addy.

***2 of your favorite projects

*** and why you'd like to be a Chatty Challenge Chick.

We will be accepting applications now through the 15th.

Woohoo!  Can't wait to hear from you!

Regards,

The Scrap 'N Chat Team.

July Projects

When I have had a couple of minutes to spare this month I have been working on Scrap 'N Chat challenges and projects to be used as samples in my new Paper Arts/Scrapbook classes at Michael's. Here are some examples.

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June and July whirled on by

My life has been crazy busy this summer. I started my paper crafting classes at one store and then added another. Hubby, DD and I took a trip to visit family and friends back in Florida. I have hardly had time to keep up with my own scrapping and working with Scrap 'N Chat!! I had planned on participating in a photo a day challenge all summer long and got lost along the way. Where has the time gone?

Now Hubby and I  are venturing into our biggest adventure in our three and a half years of married life so far. We have decided to build a house. So exciting and yet so frightening at the same time!!! But I am going to try to focus on the exciting parts and down play the scary stuff as I go along.

Here is our first photo. This is our lot. In the time we signed the paperwork and left for our week long vacation, the builder leveled the lot and now it just looks, well, RED!!! I need to remember not to chose white carpets for the downstairs areas or I may be seeing this red clay in my sleep after we move in.

This is our street. As you can tell this is a new development. We are at the end of the street on a cul-de-sac. Every one of these lots has been sold. So in the next 6 months, this street is going to get a serious face lift. We are hoping to get into our home by Valentine's Day 2013, but I would be ok with sooner than later.

In the next few weeks we will be heading to the "showroom" to chose cabinets, carpets, wall paint, light fixtures, appliances and such. I can't wait!!! I hit Lowe's tonight to compare cabinet colors to countertop colors and to find out exactly what "shaker style" looks like. This is going to be interesting learning curve for me. I can tell I will have a million and one pins on Pinterest by the time we get settled in. Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the future.

Until next time...

Scrap 'N Chat's July Scraplift

You know it's hot outside when you take a photo of your layout and it's so washed out that you have to adjust the colors of the photo in PS!!!

Here's our inspiration piece for July:

It's by Lisa-Jane over at Inside My Head

And here's mine:


Let's see what you can do now. Head over to Scrap 'N Chat and show me.
Until next time...

Taking a moment to share

A charming woman is a busy woman.

Loretta Young

If Ms. Loretta Young is correct, I must really be charming!! I have had such a busy week so far and it's only TUESDAY! Let me catch you up on my projects before I move onto the next ones.

First off, I finally was able to create a project for my own Ad/Art Challenge at Scrap 'N Chat. I provided our players with 5 samples of travel posters. They were then asked to create a paper project, any paper project that they felt like. Even I went off my regular radar. I usually do a scrapbook layout. I noticed my greeting cards are getting low, so I used the colors in this poster:

and created this card:

I love this stamped image of the lady's face. The lace and buttons were the perfect finds from my stash to complete this card. I wonder who will open their mailbox to find this.

Back in May I participated in a Photo a Day challenge. It was so much fun. I wanted to display my May photos in my scrapbook. We did not have many activities that month, so the photo challenge pictures were "it".  I searched high and low for a layout that would allow for 31 photos.  No luck!! I love to use photo booth strips on my pages. This turned out to be a great idea for this many shots. I printed the photos in contact sheet size. Then I cut them out and lined them up on card stock to mimic photo booth shots. I used the color combo from the Scrap 'N Chat May color challenge to complete this design. I really like the results.

Well, since I was on a color roll, I decided to jump on the June Color Challenge at the Scrap 'N Chat forum as well. The palate was lovely. Luckily I had gone to the scrapbook store recently and purchased this cute paper with Chinese lanterns on it. I found a great sketch, located a cute photo of my sister and I and added a quote I found on Pinterest. 

I have a truck load of Christmas photos just sitting here on my desk printed and waiting to be scrapped. Sami kept looking at me from her photo as I worked on the other layouts. "Is it my turn yet?" I imagined her saying. Well...

Sami is sitting atop a layout provided to me by Janet at our Weekend Blitz challenge over at Scrap 'N Chat. We have a weekend challenge each Friday on top of all our other exciting challenges each month. Sometimes it's a layout, sometimes it's a technique. No matter what the challenge is, I love the extra shot of inspiration to get my weekend mojo going.


And last but not least, I combined the Book Of Me challenge with the Maddawg's Madness Challenge for June to create this layout. It is fun and quirky with my Pink Paisley paper pack I won a few weeks back from Big Picture Classes.

Today I decided to take it easy. I created some fabric flowers, baked a pork roast and watched as workers came to replace our screen doors on our house. I tried to finish my latest book club reading, "The 19th Wife" and watched "Master Chef" on tv. Now I am off to plan my next creative adventures and get some much needed rest.

Until next time...

Vacation! All I Ever Wanted!!

It's Friday the 15th. That means there are new scrapbook challenges over on the forum at Scrap 'N Chat.  Head over to see what the design team has in store for you this month. We have some fabulous paper and digital artists who will inspire you with their work. 

June 15, 2012 - Ad/Art Challenge

It seems many of us have been doing some fun summer events lately. Travel is one of my faves this time of year. (well, actually travel is good ANY time of the year, LOL!!) So for this month, let the vacation dreams begin!!! 

  

Use one or more of these vacation posters to inspire a paper project in your life; a layout, a card, an ATC, a mini, a SMASH, a table display. You pick.

Are the color combos just what you like?  Well, go with that.

Do the posters remind you of a trip you took to one of these places? Are those photos just sitting around waiting to be scrapped? Well, there you go.

Do you have embellishments similar to the poster images sitting in your stash just waiting to be used?

Is the lettering of the titles something that inspires your craft? The possibilities are endless.

So grab your paper and get to work. I will be waiting to see what you come up with this month!!

My sample is coming.... I promise!! 

June Scraplift

I am posting this a little late, but things have been crazy around here lately. Hope on over to Scrap 'N Chat and see this and many more challenges to get your scrapping mojo running.

Can you scraplift this?
We Love Each Other, by Amber Boren

My version:
Papa and The Boys

Until next time...

Playing at work

Today my assignment at work was to do a scrapbook demo for 2 hours. I had no other directions. I was told to just make something. Well, I was supposed to get people to sign up for a class also, LOL!

 Since Father's Day is rapidly approaching, I decided to do a layout about Dad. I had made one similar to this one last year. When I saw the monkey paper, I KNEW it had to be a tie!!!

I also found a pack of paper that was Christmas themed that had a great weight to it. You know, the kind that is just thick enough you want to manipulate it and create something grand. I also wanted to find a use for the paper that was not necessarily Christmas themed. We will just call it the button page.

So that's how I spent my morning on this fine June Sunday. What did you do?

Until next time...

The last May Photo of the Day

The theme: something beautiful
The answer: a clean and shiny car!!!

Until next time...