New Layouts & a Carolina Crop!!!!

I didn't get a chance to share the rest of my new layouts so here are a couple more. 2 + 1 = 3 is a gift for my co-worker (the guy in the picture). He gave me two small wallet size pictures to work with. I gave his wife a 6 x 6 album for their baby shower and he thought she might want a 12 x 12 to frame. This layout is also my submission for Nov. GDT at Scrapdango.
Their Contest was given a wedding theme with the following requirements:
--For something old, you must have something at least 6 months old
--For something new, you must use something from your newest stash
--For something borrowed, you must find any layout in the Scrapdango gallery
and "borrow" an idea from it, whether you lift the whole layout or just a
small part of it--be sure to let us know which layout you used.
--For some blue, you just have to have anything blue on your layout.
The transparancy, papers, lace, ribbon, flowers, safety pins, bling buckle, and stickers are all WAAAY over 6 months old. The thickers and pearl flourishes are all new. I used blue ribbons and there is also blue in the old stickers that I mounted on cs and pop-dotted. I "borrowed" the design (or I should say, was inspired) from DT member Keely Yowler's Seize The Day layout.

GO JOE was made for Michelle's Challenge 6 of Scrapbook Dreamers Can You Survive the Nightmare Blog Hop. Her challenge was based on the thriller movie "The Sixth Sense." In my layout, there are six people in the picture, six flag felt banners, six journaling strips, six brads, six black gemstones and six techniques (stitching, inking, distressing, hand journaling, matting and embellishing). I drew this sketch at work one night with this 8 1/2" x 11" picture in mind.

Now, onto the Carolina Crop. If you live in South Carolina or nearby, you won't want to miss Vivian's upcoming Carolina Crop at her workshop/home in Columbia/Lexington area on November 7, 2009. I have been to her workshop and let me tell you gals, it's incredible!! Enough crop tables to comfortably fit maybe 12 or more ladies (or you scrappy guys) and every single gadget/tool/die cut system known to man. I haven't gotten a confirmation on the exact crop time but I will guess around 5pm start time and we usually crop until we drop...lol. For directions and exact location address, please check out this SB.Com South Carolina link and pm Vivian or myself. I would love to meet other local scrappers and put actual faces to all these online user names from the blogs and forums.

I will be posting reminders as we get closer to the crop date. If someone lives in a town that I pass in going to Vivian's, I'll be happy to pick you up nearby. I drive I-77 South almost the whole way so if you live near I-77, let me know and we can car pool.

Hope to see you there!!!
Happy Tuesday :)

So much to share! I just finished this first layout for the Take Three Challenge at
Screen 2 Scrap. The Night at the Museum Criteria was:
1. Use a group photo (3 or more people)
2. Yellow or gold title
3. Use one element from the poster - a dinosaur, monkey, plane, rocket, squid etc.....OR
3. Something inspired by one of the figures in the poster.......
On "the climb" I used the planes from the poster as inspiration. I broke into a very old stash of boy rub-ons for this one and I journaled in black and in white to add more contrast and interest. This patterned paper is about as old as my teeth too so it was nice using some of it up. I nabbed that B-SAFE Bingo card from my electric company when making a payment for the restaurant. I thought it would make a great accent on a boy page.


Here are a few new Fall/Halloween layouts that I made for several forum/blog challenges.
I stamped!! Yes, I finally broke out my acrylic stamps and put the owl on "f@ll f@vs". I hand cut the stem that the owl in perched on. Another plus was that I put a tiny dent in my eyelet stash. Always good to get rid of those...lol. I journaled on "10 REASONS" very similar to my last Jenni Bowlin die cut paper like this. I used some OOOOLD Halloween ribbon on this one too and who uses foam stickers anymore?? lol This layout is my submission for Challenge #1 in the Can You Survive the Nightmare at Scrapbook Dreamer. "FALL FUN" is a simple layout of my son and some of his classmates in Kinder last year. I was fortunate enough to get loads of kinder pictures from his teacher last year at the end of the school year. She knew I was a scrapper and thought I would appreciate them. Boy was she right!! I'm having so much fun working on his Kinder album with all these great pics! How adorable are those turkey hats, I ask you?????

Thriller Night was made for several blog/forum challenges. I hand-cut and painted the tree from my good ol' faithful cardboard backing from the pizza at supper ;) I designed the sketch for this layout while at work one night. I really like how this one turned out.

I have several more to share but it's late and I need to get to bed.

Happy Friday!!!

Your Daily Reminder:

Here's your daily reminder to get your name in for the drawing at Out of the Hat Scrap Blog and my own card drawing as well ;) Click on the title to this post to check out the Out of the Hat Contest and check out a few posts below for my own card give-away :)

Goodmorning.. here's your daily reminder

Just another friendly reminder to get your name in for the drawing at Out of the Hat Scrap Blog and my own card drawing as well ;) Click on the title to this post to check out the Out of the Hat Contest and check out a few posts below for my own card give-away :)

Happy Monday!

Pages In Time October Kit

This month's kit of the month is packed full of rich colors of autumn,using the wonderful basic grey pp! Lots of bling,felt die cut art strip from prima,prima rich bold flowers,glitter brads,ribbons,and cardstock swirl. BG Alphabet stickers,BG bling it,and journaling card completes the kit! Don't miss out on this kit,this is our largest kit we have done!

KIt price $25



Add on: One BG doily pp,bling jems,Prima rich new flowers,and new bird embellishment. price $12.95



2nd add on prima bling $6.50



You can place your order by sending Karen a pm or email. Paypal is accepted.

Happy Sunday and God Bless!!

Just another friendly reminder to get your name in for the drawing at Out of the Hat Scrap Blog and my own card drawing as well ;)

Out of the Hat Scrap Blog Giveaway

Out of the Hat Scrap Blog is celebrating their first birthday and thanks to a very generous and lovely lady, Leanne from Mad About Scrappin, they are kicking off their birthday celebrations with a bang!!! They have a HUGE pack of scrapping goodies to give away to one lucky person. This pack is worth $70 and includes a huge range of products from brands such as Kaiser, Petaloo, Scrapbook King, Buzz and Bloom and Bumblebee Crafts to name a few. Just click on the title to this link to check out a picture of all those yummy goodies and instructions on how to get your name in the Hat ;)

And just a little reminder to not forget to leave your comment on the post below for my Card Giveaway!!!

Good Luck on both contests!!