Terrific Tuesday and a Challenge!!

Good morning, scrappers & crafters! It is another gorgeous day here in New England; quite a difference from the wild weather this weekend. Still keeping the poor people of Vermont and other areas hard hit by Irene in our prayers.

So, on a scrappy message board that I visit, they challenged us to make a layout of Irene and her impact as it was happening, based on a sketch that they posted. Thankfully, there wasn't really a whole lot of mess or destruction around our neighborhood to take pictures of and I was too chicken to get in the car and head over a couple of towns to the beach. So, what's a scrapper to do when challenged and there aren't any fitting pictures?!?! Well, since it was all over the news on every station, I decided to take pictures of the TV!!! You should have seen the look on my husband's face. (He should know me by now!)
This was the end result:

I have had that scalloped paper, letter stickers and rub on quote in my stash forever. The paper looked like a big cloud with wind going through it to me, so I thought it worked. The hurricane flags were punched with a square punch and then I added 1/2" squares to the middle of them. I embossed the middle circle with the Divine Swirls folder, added a couple of swirly stickers from my stash and - wa-la - done!

A Challenge!!

So, I was thinking yesterday that with all this new-ness, it is a good time for a challenge! I will have a nice little package posted tomorrow as the prize. Here are the deets:

Create a LO (any size) that represents "New". It could be a new baby, a new job, a new car, a new beginning, a new house, a new school .... you get the idea!

You do not have to be a follower, but we would love it if you were. :)

Entries will be due Saturday, September 10th 2011 at midnight eastern time. The winner will be chosen from a random drawing on Sunday. 

Can't wait to see what you come up with!

We got our 1st Challenge in!

How much fun is this page??? I love it! I comes from one our of favorite blogs, Jean over at http://jeanscraftycorner.blogspot.com/. Her blog is so much fun and she has such talent. She also has a tutorial of how she did the popcorn. Doesn't it look real?

In case you don't know the challenge we have going; it is any size scrapbook page, family fun theme and use any element, embellishment, or tool you haven't used in a while. Jean chose puffy paint and it works sooo well with the popcorn. Deadline for the challenge is July 30 at 9:00 pm est.

Thanks, Jean, for playing along!!

AWARDS AND DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE CHALLENGE

Good morning all!! We are so honored to have won TWO awards, wow wee. The first one is from a new follower, her talent is amazing and she is from INDIA! Please go on over and check out her blog, http://cardsandschoolprojects.blogspot.com.

The second award comes from a funny and quite talented Gal over at http://4goofballs.blogspot.com.

Thank you so very much ladies, we really do appreciate it. We really have a tough time choosing who should get these awards, so as our friend Kate would say, feel free to take it, because we LOVE all your work!!!!!

We also wanted to remind everyone one about the challenge we have going on. We have a scrapbooking challenge. Here are the rules:

1) A scrapbook page of any size you like. It has to be a family fun theme (something you and your family enjoy doing).

2) You have to use a tool, embellishment, technique you have haven't used in a while.

3) You have until July 30 at 9:00 pm est

4) You do NOT have to become a follower, feel free to follow if you would like to.

5) Post it on your blog as well. Email it to me, lbaires@comcast.net and we will post all the challenges we get in. We love to scrap it forward.

6) HAVE FUN!!!!

CHALLENGE BY LAURIE

Good morning!! I hope you all had a great mother's day!! It was a beautiful sunny day here, so that was a plus!! My husband and I watch the food network all the time, and on Saturday we saw a recipe for stuffed french toast. So he went to the grocery store and bought all the ingredients and we made it on Mother's Day, quite yummy!!! You have to check out yesterday's post and read the poem Kelly wrote. She is AMAZING with poetry!

I made this card for a challenge over at http://magchallengebythepage.blogspot.com/. They have fun Cricut Cartridge challenges. This challenge was to use only images on Page 57 of Graphically Speaking. Since I had that cart I thought I would play along.

I ended up using three cuts from the page. The butterflies cut at an inch and shadowed, the word ENJOY cut at 3" and the little swirls are cut at 1.5". The brow and pink paper are core'dinations, and I sandpapered it to give it a rustic look.

I just realized after I put the picture up you can see the little German Shepherd statue to the left of the picture. We have a German Shepherd and Golden Retriever and my son has little statutes of them. I am laughing as I look at the picture. Oh well! Have a great day!!