Scrapdango October Sugar Reveal

My kit went on another trip this month, or got held up at the border. But I loved this kit so much I completed all my layouts the night that I received it.

Here are the layouts:

From a Pagemaps Sketch

 The Cards:

 And I managed to make a little mini of the kittens inspired by this one at the Crate Paper blog

TFL!!

Scrapdango September Spice Reveal

I have been trying to find a new blog template that I really liked, and now I have found one that I am happy with for now. I think I will keep the header and just change the backgrounds as the seasons change. I have also started a new blog about the kittens - Seamus and Rosie. Come check it out, there are only a few posts on it now, but soon I will have their whole story on there. They are very entertaining, so I thought it would be fun to share.

But anyways, without further ado, here is the main reason I am posting - The Scrapdango September Reveal.

My layouts:

 My Cards:

 

I went with the Spice kit this month and I loved the mix of the Echo Park and Fancy Pants. Although I was skeptical at first, the Basic Grey Oxford stickers worked really well. Thanks Heather for putting together another great kit!

Exciting News and Scrapdango DT Application

I am going to be part of the latest release of Sketches2Scrapbook (iPhone app).  Basically it is an app with a ton of sketches, and then when you click on the sketch you get an example, and the supply list. Very cool!!! I am going to have some cards in the new release, which I can share once the release is out.

Also, I sent in my Scrapdango DT application yesterday. I am really crossing my fingers for this one!! I have been a part of the Scrapdango message board, for almost as long as I have discovered the online scrapbooking community. For the application we had to attach 3 of our favourite layouts - one of them being a double page layout. Now I like doing double page layouts, but I always tend to use a sketch - i.e. Becky Higgins Project 12 Sketches. So I was having a lot of trouble with this one. Once I figured out what pictures I was going to use, I decided that I would make a quick sketch on the computer so I could figure out what size to print the pictures in.

Here is my sketch:

 

And here's what I came up with: 

Snow Day

It all came together quite quickly with the sketch!

TFL :)

Project 12

Is anyone doing Project 12 this year??

I am!  2 years ago I tried Project 365 and it became too much, and last year I printed calendar pages, and wrote notes and stuck pictures on it for each month. This year I am going to attempt to do a whole year of this, with a 2 page layout every month.

What is Project 12?  Check out the explanation here and here
The sketches by Becky Higgins are awesome and easy to follow, I think I will be able to do this :)


Here is my first layout...for January of course!

Next order of business - make myself a new blog header, the one right now is kind of a place holder.

TFL!

Exciting News and Picture of the RAK!!

Ok...so I have been holding back this news, because I wanted to save it for today when I posted my challenge over at Scrapping the Moments.  For any of you that are followers of Cosmo Cricket's blog,  there was a contest recently to win a box of Julie's stuff.

 "Ok, enough of that, we haven't had a giveaway for a while. And, I'm in a cleaning out my house sort of mood. So, I am giving away to one lucky winner a huge box of everything in my office that I don't need anymore."

 .....And I won it.  The had a heck of a time getting ahold of me...somehow I missed the blog post announcing I won (you can follow this story on their blog)....but I just received it last night, and holy crap there is a lot.  So much that I need to give some of it away.  Some of the pages aren't full pages, and there are a few stickers missing on one of the sheets, but for the most part I chose full sheets out of the box.

So without further adieu, here is a picture of the RAK that one lucky person will be getting.
(I apologize for the bad lighting)

 

There is some Nutmeg in there, Earth Love, lots of The Boyfriend, a bit of Jacks World, Everafter, and a few random rubons and stickers thrown in.  (I may even add to it as I continue to sort through my box of goodies)

So just to remind you, here is what you have to do.  Go to Scrapping the Moments (sign up if you don't already belong) and complete my sketch challenge by December 15th.  Your layout needs to be posted in the Sketch Challenges folder in the gallery to be entered to win.  I will randomly draw a winner on Dec 16th.  Can't wait to see what you come up with :)

 

A Layout

I haven't posted since my design team work at Scrapdango.  It has been pretty hot here, and so scrapbooking has gone out the window.  But last night I managed to get a page done.
It is for a challenge at BackPorchMemories as well as Page Maps. 

The picture is of Steve and me, from when I was in the hospital for the 2nd time, after getting my gallbladder out.  It is a little blurry, but for me it totally works, because thats how I felt....blurry from all the morphine and demerol.  And when I look at that picture it makes me happy, because it reminds me that when he wasn't sleeping or working, he was there by my side.

Scrapdango Kit Reveal, and LOAD

I have been having so much fun over at Scrapdango, being the GDT for this month.  Everyday the DT has been posting new inspiration for the LOAD contest.  My week just finished, so go check out my inspiration, and of course what the other ladies in the DT have posted.

It was also the reveal for the June Kits today.  The kit I worked with was the Sugar kit, with papers from Lily Bee.  Such awesome papers!!

Here are the layouts and cards I came up with for the kit:

June GDT - Scrapdango Sugar kit teasers

So I have been authorized by Heather over at Scrapdango to give some sneak peaks of my layouts for the June Sugar kit reveal.  The full kit contents are posted on the site already....go check it out!  Look for my full reveal on the 15th, and go see what the rest of the DT did with the kits over on the site.

So without further ado ....here are the teasers:

What I've been up to

My scrapbooking was put on hold for a couple months during my move. Now that I have settled in, and have everything organized, I am back to scrapbooking, in full force!

Here's what I have been creating.


Yes...I am scrapbooking Christmas in May
This one is a scraplift of a layout by Elizabeth Kartchner. Her layout was featured in CK July 2009.


These next 4 are for the GDT challenge over at Scrapdango

Mother's Day Cards
And a card for the NSD crop over at Scrapdango





Can you tell I like kraft cardstock right now!

I won!

There was a contest on Photo Express' facebook page to upload a photo of a card that you have made recently to be entered to win a Sassafrass Lass card kit. So I uploaded a picture of the valentine I made Steve, and I Won!
Here's what the kit makes:Thanks Steve! for being my Valentine, and of course thank you Photo Express!!
There website is here if you want to check them out.

ETSY

So it has been quite a while since I have posted on this blog. I had my gallbladder out in the summer, and lost the urge to scrapbook. October is a month of birthdays for me (including my birthday) So I have started getting back into my scrapbook stash by making cards.


In my search for happy birthday stamps or tags, or anything, I ended up on Etsy. Etsy is a website to buy and sell handmade items, vintage items, or craft supplies. I have heard of this site before, but never really spent any time looking into it. It is a great resource for scrapbook, and card supplies and embellishments!
Some of my favorite shops so far:
leprintemps
paperandinkling
PaperRoute
livingroomfloor
purple mushroom

Through all of my searching, I realized that I could make a shop too. I would make thank you cards. So today I went to work at making 4 sets of thank you cards. I present to you my new etsy shop

My listings are on the right side of the screen.
After all of this card making, and working with my pretty papers again, I can't wait to get back into scrapbooking.
Further posts on that to follow...
Thanks for looking!

Crate Paper

I am loving Crate Paper right now. I received 3 of their collections in the mail that I ordered, about 2 weeks ago, and have since made 2 layouts, and 1 card, one out of each collection. The first layout I made was the "A Little About Me" layout I posted in my previous post, and then the second layout I was unable to post, because I was entering it into a contest. Now that the contest is over I can post it here. This one was with the MIA collection:






I had to post all of the detailed photos, because I just love how it turned out! To get the butterfly's wings to stand up like that I first folded them at the body, and then I curled each wing around a thick pen. The title was cut using my Slice (which is awesome by the way...review to come soon) I cut it in both cardstock colors, then cut in in half and lined it up. I drew the white border around it to make it more unified (it was hard to read without it). Underneath the photo is a hidden journaling tab. To do this, I cut a rectangle of cardstock, shorter than the photo, and attached a tab to it (folded over cardstock of the same color, that I cut) then I attached the photo just around the edges, and on the bottom, so that the journaling could slide right under. Because the tab on the top is folded over, it is a bit thicker than the cardstock sliding under, and so it stops nicely and lines up where it should when I put it back. Also, the shaped pattern paper, and cardstock I cut using a die cut cardstock sheet that I use as a template.

The card I made was with the Blue Hill Collection and I used sketch 81 from the Got Sketch blog.
The flower on top I cut with my Slice.