Another giveaway!

Carla (My Half Dozen Daily) is graciously having ANOTHER giveaway! This time she is giving away a checkbook holder/coupon keeper. This little creation is fantastic and even if I don't win one, I think I'm going to have to cave and buy one.

Back again!

It felt so great to scrap earlier, that I thought I would head down to my room again tonight and work on another layout. I used Hello Summer by Echo Park and a sketch by Diana Fisher for the Paper Variety challenge. I do have a complaint about this paper collection from Echo Park. It is WAY TOO CUTE! I couldn't decide if I liked the front or back of the papers better and every time I decided I wanted a little scrap for something I would flip it over and realize that I couldn't cut a scrap because the other side was just as awesome! I finally cut up the front cover page of the collection for some of the scraps I needed for the smaller banners. That way I wasn't using a full sheet of paper. I wanted to stick with the bright colors so I decided to start with a white piece of cardstock and mist it. I think the effect was really fun, plus it fits with the challenge over at Scrap Fit. Finally, I got to use my new washi tape! The pink stripe and a yellow polka dot (hard to see if the picture) were both a fantastic find at Target! Thanks for looking!

 

Yay for scrappy time

I haven't scrapped in SO long...at least it feels that way. I am usually a social scrapper and go to monthly crops at one of my friend's houses, but she had to cancel her last one and is super busy the next couple months, so she hasn't had one of her crops. Anyway, I was feeling the lack of creative time, so I made some time to scrap yesterday and today. I have been very inspired by the style of Corrie Jones lately, and wanted to give both layering and gesso a try. I am pretty pleased with how it came out! The sketch is from Elle's Studio Sketch Thursday and I also completed Challenge 32: Masking over at Scrapbook Circle. The paper is also from the May kit from Scrapbook Circle, but I did use an Elle's Studio tag and a Hambly screen print that was not included in the kit.

\Thanks for looking and have a great weekend!

I do LOVE a good giveaway!

Carla, from My 1/2 Dozen Daily splurged on herself with a recent fabric purchase. She got some yummy looking fabric! But...because she feels like she spent too much on herself, she is offering up a great giveaway! Go to her blog to see the three easy ways you can enter!

ScrapFIT journaling challenge

I'm here today with a new layout that I worked on today at my friend's scrapbook day. It is so great to be able to get away of average of one day a month and chat with friends and get some scrapping done. Notice I put chat with friends first, because I honestly think I do more of that than the scrapbooking. Anyway, this was the combined challenge at ScrapFit and Paper Variety. The sketch was from Paper Variety and the journaling was from ScrapFit. It's too late to link my project up to Paper Variety, but I made the ScrapFIT deadline just in time!

Thanks for looking and I hope you are all having a great weekend!

Arrr

Hello everyone! I'm here with a quick blog post and a layout. Things have been busy between lots going on at work, Liam turning 1, family visiting, decluttering the basement, etc... So, what's a busy girl to do when she wants to scrapbook? Fit 4 challenges on one page, that's what! Let's get right to the layout!

Here are the challenges it meets:

1. Sketch Challenge over at Elle's Studio. I stuck pretty closely to the sketch, and I included an Elle's Studio tag for my journaling.

2. Challenge #27: Stencils at Scrapbook Circle. I FINALLY got to play with my February kit from Scrapbook Circle, but used the stencils that came in the March kit to do my title. I traced the letters for ARRR above the circle on my paper and then went over them with silver Stickles. They are hard to see in the picture, but they really do pop out more in real life.

3. Weekend Warm-Up #25 at Scrap Fit. This challenge was to get messy. I splattered and dripped the pink circle with a Spritz Spray.

4. Tic Tac Toe at The Paper Variety. I did the bottom row. I included stitching by machine stitching over the faux stitching on the Elle's Studio tag, created a layout, and included die cuts.

Thanks for looking and hope everyone had a good weekend!

Declutter Challenge Week 3

I'm back with a couple pictures of the week 3 declutter challenge. I'm on a different computer, so I don't have the before picture to show you, but once I get on the other computer I will edit the before picture in. Anyway, I decided to flip week 3 and week 4. The week 3 (productivity challenge) was supposed to be the garage sale stuff, but that has quickly turned into the dreaded challenge. And having a functional and clean workspace is productive so I figured it would work. Now, on to the photos.

Nothing, spectacular. Just a desk with a computer and where hubby stores all of his photography gear and where we all print to.

Well, I'm off. I have a screaming almost toddler who is acting like a nap is the WORST possible thing in the universe. Have a great day everyone.