Just for Fun!

On two different scrapbook sites, I am playing along with a challenge I started called Scrap Your Luck. (thanks for the idea Barbara!) Everyone who wants to play along for the month contributes $5 towards the prize fund. Depending on the number of players, there could be multiple winners. The prize is a gift certificate to an online scrapbook store of your choice! Sweet huh?! I give 6 prompts at the beginning of each month and everyone is welcome to complete them all twice so you could have a total of 12 draws toward the monthly prize!! So fun!!!! If you are interested in playing, I host this on the My Scraps & More message board and you are welcome to join in on there! The other site is a closed group. This page was made for my April Fool's prompt which was to scrap something funny!

Tomorrow is a big day for me! I am revealing the first challenge on my site Scrap & Play and also my first challenge owning Color Me Scrappy! I hope that you will check them out and play along!!!

Have a great evening!!!

Scrap & Play giveaways!!

Starting today through the 30th, Scrap & Play is giving away a RAK everyday leading up to their first challenge!! Visit the site here and become a follower so you don't miss out!!

life long Friends

I am jumping on here to share a recent page and sketch that I created for the skethathon going on over at My Scraps & More. I love when we have these events! I just wish that the days were allowing me more time to play!!!

I used the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Styleboard collection along with a few odds and ends. So fun!!

Head to My Scraps & More for lots more great sketches and inspiration!!!

The Fun just keeps coming!!!

I am so excited to make another fun announcement!!! I have recently become the new owner of the challenge blog Color Me Scrappy!!!! Please visit the blog to see the announce which includes a Design Team call and a fun challenge where you could win some scrap goodies!!!!!

Craft Hoarders challenge #6

Good Morning! It's time for a new challenge over on the Craft Hoarders blog and this time the challenge was right up my alley.... a sketch challenge!!!!

Challenge #6 Sketch Challenge, with a Twist

Use the sketch below as inspiration for creating your project. You can modify the sketch to create a card, scrapbook layout, altered canvas, mini book cover, and so on. Now, for the TWIST! You must search your hoard and find one item that is OLD and one item that is NEW and use them BOTH on your project. Show us how you combine older items from your stash with something recently purchased.

My new is the Jillibean Soup ( a Hampton Arts co. who is the sponsor of Craft Hoarders this month) Spicy Social Soup and my old is and my old is the October Afternoon mini market alpha stickers and the twine!

Please head over to the Craft Hoarders blog to see the sketch and all of the other awesome design team creations!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and if you haven't yet had the chance, check out my new challenge blog, Scrap & Play! You can get in on the chance to win some fun goodies and there is also a design team call going on. Lot's of fun to be had!!

Boys Rule

A new sketch is up on the My Scraps & More sketch blog...

I used the Crate Paper Boys Rule collection...

This line has some many fun embellishments to use on your layouts. This controller was perfect of my son and his friends taken during his birthday party. They played A LOT of video games!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful, blessed weekend!!!!

Exciting Announcement!!!

I am so excited to announce that I am starting a new challenge blog!!!! I would love for you to visit, add yourself to the followers and spread the word !!!! The first challenge will be posted on May 1st!!!

Scrap & Play

http://scrapandplaychallenges.blogspot.com


I am also holding a design team call so if that interests you please apply!!!!!

new Color Me Scrappy Challenge

It's time for another fun color palette to inspire you from Color Me Scrappy!!

I mixed some Basic Grey Capture and some Simple Stories snap products to make this fun page using a sketch from the sketchathon going on at My Scraps...

Please visit the Color Me Scrappy site here to see the design teams beautiful pages and to link up your own! I can't wait to see what you create!!

Thanks for stopping by!

New Challenge @ 123 Get Scrappy!

The new April board went live this morning at 123 Get Scrappy and it is so fun!!

I used the bottom row: roses, squares and epoxy for my page...

I hope that you will get some time to play with us this month at 123 Get Scrappy!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

My Scraps & More's SkethAThon!

I don't know if I mentioned it here yet but My Scraps is having a sketchathon the whole month of April! I have been busy trying to keep up with all of the awesome sketches(and the added "twists") that the design team has created. Here are a few that I have completed so far...

Visit the My Scraps & More message boards here to play along!!! We would love to have you join in!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

New Craft Hoarders Challenge!

Good Morning! It is time for another great Craft Hoarders challenge and this time it is all about stamps.

Challenge #5 Pick a Stamp, Any Stamp!You don't have to be a card maker to hoard stamps! With the popularity of pocket-style scrapbooking and the explosion of journaling stamps on the market, many scrapbookers have also become stamp hoarders. Plus, digital stamps are more popular than ever. I am sure that most of us have at least one stamp in our stash! You may "collect" wood mounted stamps, clear stamps, cling rubber, or even digital! Get one out, dust it off, and make it the STAR of your project! We want to see a stamp (sentiment, word art, image, etc.) as the focal point of your project! Feel free to use more than one stamp, but you must have AT LEAST ONE stamped item on your project.

I am not a stamper by any means so this was a challenge for sure! I was lucky enough to have some great Hampton Arts stamps to play with that made it much easier!! 

Hampton Arts is our prize sponsor this month and have generously donated this AWESOME prize which you could win...

Hampton Art, founded in 1980 in picturesque Long Island, NY, has been inspiring stampers, crafters and papercraft enthusiasts for over 20 years. One of the earliest “art stamp” companies, Hampton has transformed over the years to become a complete provider of creative products such as stamps, inks, papers, kids crafts, stationery, scrapbooking supplies, and card making accessories for crafters of every age and skill level. We focus on working together with other companies through strong, personal relationships and licensing partnerships to consistently bring fun, inspiring products to market. We have a portfolio of brands including Hampton Art™, Studio G™, Diffusion, Ditto™, and our latest addition, Ki Memories®, acquired in 2012. Our products can be found via most national craft retailers at over 5000 stores across the US and Canada. We also ship to 20 different countries across the globe. Hampton was acquired by National Spinning Co, Inc. of Washington, NC, our current home, in 2008. For more information, visit their Website.

Please visit the Craft Hoarders blog to see all of the design teams amazing creations and to link up your own!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Craft Hoarders March Link Party!!

** edited to include link where to purchase shelves here **
For every month that contains a fifth Monday, at Craft Hoarders we will do a FEATURE WEEK and a LINKY PARTY! 

The design team members will take turns sharing their storage tips and solutions. Each of us will share how we store our hoard! Three designers will share each "fifth week" during the year! You will get to peek into the design team's craft spaces and see how they manage to "contain" their hoarded supplies! 

Plus you will have the opportunity to share your own storage solutions, tips, ideas, etc., by linking up to the Link Tool HERE! One RANDOM WINNER for March will win this prize:

Today is my day to share how I organize my hoard with you! Like the majority of crafters, my most hoarded item is patterned paper. I admit...I am a paper addict. I used to just keep all of my paper in plastic bins by collection, and still do have a TON organized like that, but since I discovered these awesome scrapbook shelves, I feel so much more organized!! I can see what I have right in front of me and actually use up collections that I may have forgotten about if they weren't stored this way.

If only I had a huge room to hold lots more of these!!!

I also hoard Washi tape, enamel dots and Flair. LOVE'em all but I don't really have a great way of organizing any of them. My washi tape is in a big glass container. While they look pretty on my desk, it is a pain when I want one from the bottom of the jar! :/

I store my flair and enamel dots in baskets that sit right next to my desk within easy grasp!

I look forward to checking out all of the link ups to come up with some great organization ideas from you!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great weekend!!

Jillibean Soup Birthday Bisque

I played with the recent sketch over at Stuck on U Sketches and pulled out the new Birthday Bisque collection because the sketch worked perfectly with this line. I scrapped these not-so-good pictures of my oldest son when we celebrated his last birthday in November. He was not being cooperative with me and the camera!!!

I added a journal card to the Happy Birthday on and slid it behind one of the photos. I really like doing hidden journaling for some reason!

That's it for today! Thanks so much for stopping by!!

Color Me Scrappy time!

A new challenge is posted at Color Me Scrappy for all of you that like a good color challenge! I love this month's color board...

I used some favorite papers from the MME Collectible line to create my page using the colors as inspiration...

I hope that you will pull out some papers and play along with us this month at Color Me Scrappy!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!