Bring a friend to Blog contest........

Good evening - Kel and I couldn't wait to post the winners until tomorrow, so we did it the old fashioned way, with the names in hat. LOL!!

Drum roll please.............................................and the winners are.................................

Cari aka BusyBee
Chris or Turnedgypsy

Congrats and thanks for following and bringing new follower by!!! Please contact Laurie with your mailing address so we can mail out the beautiful paper packs, my address is lbaires@comcast.net.

Please stayed tuned for the details on our July challenge, it is going to be a goody. We will post it soon.

ANIMAL LOVERS WEEK Day 3

Here is another absolutely gorgeous layout by DAWN. Zelda is just adorable.. What a nice tribute. Thanks for sharing Dawn

SWAP

Don't forget ladies and gent, tomorrow is the deadline for the swap. I have received most and I hate to hold everyone up!!! I have received quite a bit already, thank you!!!!

WELCOME

Welcome GOconucksGO and JennyB. Nice to have you! Please let us know if someone invited you over to check us out! Good luck in the drawing for "bring a friend to blog" contest winners drawn tomorrow!

ANIMAL LOVERS WEEK Day 2

Here is a beautiful layout by DAWN. Absolutely Beautiful!

ANIMAL LOVERS WEEK - DAY ONE

Good morning fellow bloggers. We thought would start off animal week with a layout. I did a layout of my dog, Lightning. He is 8 years old and such a part of our family. Including this page, I have finished a "Lightning" album.

On this page I used Cloud Nine Design Dog kit, which includes the paper, epoxy brads, and the words.

I did use the Cricut, PaperPups for the title Best Friend (page 124), cut at 1 1/2 and then I shadow it. The paws (page 112) are cut at 3/4 inch and shadowed as well.

We are hoping that everyone will submit a page they have done of their favorite animal or perhaps a trip to the zoo for animal lovers week and we will feature each day during the week!!! So please either email Kel or me and we will post it. Kel's email is achildinmind@aol.com and mine is lbaires@comcast.net

We can't wait to see them!!!

HERE IS THE PRIZE GIVE AWAY FOR FOLLOWERS.....

There are still a few more days left, we have until the 30th of June. If you sign-up as a new follower (or already have, we have an on-going list) you are eligible to win one of these awesome paper stacks. The person who sent you over to our blog is also entered to win!!!

Both stacks have 36 sheets of awesome paper!!

So get those friends on over to follow us!!!

PASSING ON THE TRENDY AWARD

Thanks again ABUSYBEE DoubleClick Connections - AKA Abusybee for the Trendy Award. Me and Laurie are passing it on to the blogs below:
Paper or Fabric
Scrapbookaholic
Scraptastic Grammy
Small Bits of Paper
TURNEDGYPSY

Thanks for following us ladies...congrats! You can go ahead and grab the award and put it on your blogs and then scrap it foward!

CIRCLE CHALLENGE IS OVER...................

And the winner is........................

Ok, ladies and gents as promised we have picked a winner at random, and the prize goes too.........................Kate!! Yay Kate!! Great work!! Congrats!!!!

We wanted to thank all of you that participated in the challenge. We thought this circle challenge was truly a challenge, because who does a circle page????

Everyone did a great job, and thank you all so much for participating!!!!

Wait until you see the prize for the new followers to the blog. Don't forget bring your friends over and have them become followers, there is still time to win this prize. There is a prize for a new follower and for the person who sent them over!!!

We hope you all have a scrapping weekend!!

Kate, please email Kel at achildinmind@aol.com and give her your address so she can mail out your prize!!!

ROUND CHALLENGE BY KATE

http://smallbitsofpaper.blogspot.com/2010/06/round-of-high-low-layout.html

Head over to Kate's blog and check out her AWESOME layout

CIRCLE CHALLENGE BY LAURIE

This was so much fun to do.. I had a lot of fun with the paper combos. I used Marachino Cherry chalking inks for the edges and chipboard and the coolest thing was I took sheer ribbon and ran it over the chalk inks.. It makes a cool outcome!

CIRCLE CHALLENGE by DAWN

So out of the box for me! I like how it came out, tho. I used a Scrapbooks Etc digital collage in Photoshop Elements to print the round pictures. Laurie and I used the Expression to cut out the circles at 9 and 11.25

HOME DECOR CHALLENGE ALMOST OVER

DON'T FORGET TO SUBMIT YOUR HOME DECOR "cirlce map" CHALLENGE TO BE ENTERED TO WIN SOME RUB-ONS. THE WINNER WILL BE CHOSEN TOMORROW EVE at 9:00PM EST. GOOD LUCK. LOOK UNDER LABELS AT CHALLENGES FOR DETAILS OR EMAIL ME AT Achildinmind@aol.com

FLOWERS AND FANTASY WEEK Day 4

This is was fun to do. I cut the wings out from the Indie Art cricut cartridge onto gloss white paper then I alcohol inked them! I just love playing with those inks, it's just fun to dab away and see what happens to your images. I also cut out the rose on the bottom left and inked that as well. I used gold and silver mixative on them and when ur done, it's like the image was cut from metal..it's pretty cool. The matting under pic and wings are pieces of colored velum. I'm not sure what "look" I was reaching for on this layout,I just happen to love this pic I've had sitting there waiting for paper...she has lil bits of cracker on her face and just the cutest look, I just had to scrap this pic! I just kind poked around my scrap stuff and cricut carts and made it all up along the way lol and had fun!

WELCOME KRYSTAL

Nice to have you.. stay a minute..stay a while..either way..come visit anytime!

FLOWERS and FANTASY WEEK Day 3

Here is a fun layout I did using the cricut markers. I was very very brave one day and did it! LOL. Thank you Custom Crops for the idea! I thought I was equally as brave doing my layout on white paper. I believe the designs and cuts are from Home Decor or Home Accents cricut cartridge. So ladies, pull out those markers and give it a try :)

FLOWERS and FANTASY WEEK DAY 2

Good morning!! I thought today I would show a technique for making flowers that I learned at CK Manchester. What an awesome day we had at CK. Can't wait for next year!!
So what you need to do it cut three flowers from three different pattern papers. The circles don't have to be exact, as you can see from mine. Just make sure they get smaller in size. I believe my bigger flowers is about 3 inches.




I then glimmer mist each circle. If you don't have glimmer mist, no worries, you can just spray with water.








Then crumble up the paper.







Layout each circle after you crumbled it up. Then you layer on top of each other.








You can add pretty brad, button, ribbon, whatever you like. Here is the finished product. So cute and super easy too!!!

FLOWERS and FANTASY WEEK Day 1

Welcome to Flowers and Fantasy Week!!! My post is Fantasy! Yes, I'm 43 and I'm a Twilight Fan.. LOL. Probably because I have a 15 yr. old daughter who is obsessed LOL Anyway, this was fun. I matted it in black, then flocked black paper then I did a layer of velum. I typed a page from the Twilight book and printed it on the velum, thought it was pretty cool. I stamped a red heard and put it in a small velum envelope because I thought it went well with the title "Look after my heart, I've left it with you". I framed it and my daughter proudly hangs it in her room. So, if you have a "twilighter" in ur life..this might be a fun thing to do for them..

Sunday

Good Sunday to all!! I hope everyone is having a great weekend. Happy Father's Day to all those Dad's out there!!

Since Kel and I are enjoying Father's Day with our hubby's we just thought we stop by and say hello and remind everyone of the goings on at Serenity Scrappers!!

1) Die-cut swap is well underway and I hope everyone is having fun with it, even Susan!!! I have already received BusyBee's, ScrappingPa's, and Kel's. Mine are done as well. I also know that Susan's is super close to being done. You can do it, Susan!!!!

2) Don't forgot about bringing a friend over to follow the blog so they can be entered to win a prize. Remember if you bring a friend you are entered as well. I do have to say, it is a great prize!!!

3) Also the circle layout challenge is due on The 25th!! Have fun with that. I did see BusyBee's on her blog and it came out AWESOME!!! I love it.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!!!!

Kel and Laurie

ROUND CHALLENGE entry from ABUSYBEE

ABUSYBEE: "I used accent essentials to cut the large circle and then used the fun summer paper that I found at Target. The BBQ was a cut that I received from Alison my swap partner from Made by Momo swap".

HOME DECOR WEEK - DAY FIVE, LAYOUT AND CARD

Good morning Scrappers!!! I hope all is going well on this lovely Friday. As we wrap up Home Decor Week, I wanted to show you a layout and a card I made.

First the card. I decided to keep with the "home" them and make a card for our troops (God Bless them and keep them safe). This card went together soo easy. I used Blue StampinUP! paper for the standard A-2 card. The Welcome Home is from My Mind's Eye as well as the the little red star, self -adhesive. The hardware is from StampinUP! Can you tell I love StampinUP?

Here is a view of the inside of the card. I use the Cricut to cut out some images. I used Graphically Speaking page 43 - I cut the USA at 1 3/4 and the Freedom jumbled word at 1 1/4

Now to the layout. I took a picture of the outside of my house and the decided to put my journaling to work. Dawn and I took an awesome class from Big Picture Scrapbooking (see their website below a great place to take online classes), the class we took was thinking outside the box with journaling. So you take a look at the pictures you want to scrap and really think about what the pictures means, rather than just saying, here is Johnny's 1st birthday his friends were there and everyone had fun. You delve into the actual meaning of the picture. I wrote what this house means to me and how long it has been in our family. Once you start writing you wouldn't be able to stop!!

I used a inkadoo clear stamp with versa mark and stamped the borders, I then embossed with white embossing powder. I cut white StampinUP! organdy ribbon and
placed in between each stamp.




Here is my favorite Tim Holtz Grungeboard, Ideology, Harlequin Elements, that I just inked

















http://www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com/
The paper I used was, DCWV - Glitter stack for the black and white going across the page, the black cardstock is DCWV LaCrem

SWAP

SWAP NOTE - If you would kindly sign each cut with your name, it would really help in the swap process as well as when someone is using your piece, they will remember where it came from. If you already mailed them, no worries. Thank you!!! Hope everyone is having fun cutting out their pieces. Mine are already done. I can't wait to see everyone's!

HOME DECOR WEEK Day 4

Here is a beautiful family tree framed picture done by TARA. I love this!! What a great gift Idea. You can get details of this on her blog at A Stamping Good Time

HOME DECOR WEEK Day 3

A PRIZE challenge..woo hoo! Take pics of you and your family at mealtime and create a fun layout. Since love makes the family go round and the family makes love go round..Lets do a ROUND layout! Above is a map I found that we can use for idea and inspiration..but create your own masterpiece and have fun. Please submit your idea by Friday, June 25 at 9P.M., EST. A random person will be chosen to win some nice rubons pictured below. Good luck!

WELCOME NEW FOLLOWERS

Welcome Tracey M, Rhoggan and Marianne. Nice 2 have u! You are entered into the "bring a friend to blog day" giveaway held 6/30. If anyone invited you here, shout out, they enter too!

HOME DECOR WEEK Day 2

Here is a 2 page layout of pics of my mom's house which I sold last year.

The paper already had the stripes in it. I added the clear flowers and chipboard letters title. I actually debossed the outter edges. I journaled the middle with just words that remind me of my mom's house. Simple but fun.

SCRAPPIN PA

HOME DECOR WEEK - DAY ONE LAYOUT

Lets start the week off right, scrapping style. I did this layout of my new dining room. I could have written a book for my journaling. This page wasn't just about doing the room over and getting new furniture it was about what this room meant to us. For 14 years it has been a play room for the boys. We had a dining for a year before Alex was born. So a lot of playing and fun was had in this room. So to me the journaling is the most important part of this page.

Don't get me wrong I had great fun doing the page and picking the paper and embellishments.
I used the following:

Core'dinations Paper - Neutrals Collections (The green paper, which I then sanded)
DCWV - Old World Statck (Brown paper)
I am not sure where the flowers game from but I do love them.
The pearls in the flowers are StampinUP! Pretties kit

Stay tuned for more fun projects and layouts and perhaps a card!!! Have a wonderful Monday.

Happy Birthday, Pa!!!

ENDING DADDY WEEK with a creation from Tara

Thanks for wrapping up Daddy Week for us Tara! Nice work! I LOVE blues and browns together!

DADDY WEEK Dawn Style

Here are some INCREDIBLE creations by Dawn! Enjoy ladies and gents!

WELCOME CHRIS

Glad you came back to check us out after that blog issue I was having..Yikes! Next week me and Laurie will do a Home Decor theme so we hope you come back and check it out. We're going to have a challenge in the mix somewhere too, so stay tuned. Ladies please check out Chris' blog at..... TURNEDGYPSY Chris your also entered in our "bring a friend to blog" giveway drawn 6/30/10 Good Luck!

DADDY WEEK Abusybee's Contribution

Great blues...great layouts..thanks for sending it on over! Good job! You can see more of busybees crafting over at her blog at......

DoubleClick Connections - AKA Abusybee

DADDY WEEK DAY 5 - LOTS OF GOODIES!!

Good morning Ladies and Pa!! Happy Friday. I have decided to make our last Daddy Week post a good one with lost of fun things. First and foremost, I have a picture of my dad (aka ScrapppingPa) working on one of his many dollhouse. This is I have to say is an addiction. He has probably made at least 20!!! The best thing is, he pays it forward. He always just wants the houses to go to a little child that will play with them. He never, ever charges for them!!!!










Outside and inside view of the dollhouse. He puts hardware floors, and wallpapers and paints the walls!!! Some of these house I want to move into.









Next I picked a layout I did of my grandfather, from pictures that my grandmother had. My grandfather was in WW2. I bought Special WW2 paper and embellishments and put this layout together. The picture of three people are my mom, my grandfather and my great grandfather. What an awesome picture for me to have!! I love the map paper as well.







Lastly this a card I made for my husband. Super, super easy. I used a StampinUP scalloped punch and punched out the back ground paper I used a circle punch to punch out the pictures. Some ric-rack and of course brown, I believe Close to Coco StampinUP paper. The little embellishment across the bottom is from My Minds Eye! The great thing about this card is I just made it, but my boys are now 10 and 15! So it doesn't matter the age, it is something my husband will have forever!!

WELCOME SHELLEY

Nice to have you, so glad you stopped in. I'm Kel. Me and Laurie co-blog around here LOL, so you never know what's gonna pop up. We've been having fun though! Please come by and check us out from time to time, enjoy and have fun! Also,you are entered for our "bring a friend to blog" contest.. LOL. We will draw names of new followers that came this month along with the name of a person that may have invited them. Good luck give a shout out if somebody sent you this way!

Fellow Blogger Giveaway..A cricut cartridge Visit here >>> Heartstrings

LOOK WHAT KEL WON

Thanks Abby! I'm so excited. Check out her blog SCRAPBOOKAHOLIC.blogspot.com

DADDY WEEK day 4

Since I got hung up on fixin' the blog, I had no project for today, But, here are some titles you may want to use on the layouts and cards of some of your favorite guys!!

He's got a "DAD" attitude
MY DAD, MY FRIEND, MY HERO
"Way to go...DADDY-O"
"Grand is the time spent with Grandpa"
"It takes two boys to make one brother"
"Daddy, A daughters first love"

If you have any "DADtacular" ideas, please forward on to us!!

SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE

I am trying to figure out what is wrong with the layout of this blog. IE all the space to the right. I will work on prob.. hopefully done soon.. uggg being a newbie blogger is tough ladies..lol. The blog archive and other stuff is all there..it's just waaaaaaaaaaaaay down the bottom...lol

LATE ENTRY

Ladies and Gents - We are so excited that there is such an interest in our swap that we now have 12 people participating. Since our motto is scrapping it forward, we want to inlcude the other two followers!! We feel 12 participants should be the max, so continue cutting, have fun, and can't wait to see what you come up with! Those that are not able to get in this time, stay tuned we will have another swap soon!! Always fun here at Serenity Scrappers.

If you have any questions feel free to email either me at achildinmind@aol.com or Laurie at lbaires@comast.net

WELCOME KATE!

Nice to have you stop in and visit. I hope you come by often to get inspired, meet new friends and most of all HAVE FUN! Me and Laurie try to keep things fun and exciting around here. All of our new followers this month get entered into an end of the month GIVEAWAY! woo hoo! And, if somebody from this blog invited you over, their name gets put in for a chance to win too! Ladies, please stop by and see Kate here >> Small Bits of Paper

DADDY WEEK day three

This was a fairly easy page to put together because the paper was already embellished and glittery for me in the corners! I wish I remembered the stack. If anybody out there knows..lol. Scrap it forward sistahs! I cut out the letters and the butterflies in coordinating colors to the page and POOF..a page..lol. The colors going through the middle is just a strip of another sheet of paper from the same stack.

I did this page a while ago This was pre-cuttlebug and "inking skills" LOL. Today I would have definately textured the letters and butterflies with cuttelbug and inked around the die cuts for depth. Hmmmm, I may just have to do minor surgery on this page...heheheh. Anyhow, think about these color combinations in ur next project and see whatcha think! Have fun.. thanks for checking us out!