COLOR CHALLENGE WEEK, Day 2

Here is a lil card I did for a friend who's been having a tough couple of weeks. Putting these three colors together is definately a challenge. Of course Mr. Holtz could pop out a vintage 3D wedding favor or birthday gift perhaps..actually using these three colors plus some.. LOL. For me.. this is it.. LOL. That ribbon actually has purple going through it..The whole ribbon part of this card was stressful... Don't try this without a helmet and knee pads..lemme tell ya!! Well, hopefully you gals out there can do a HECK of a lot better than me! And I'm positive give Mr. H a run for his altered money!! LOL.

WELCOME

Welcome Funky Cards. I love this card you did for the WOW chalenge.. I'm so sorry our times got crossed. I had just posted the winners and I went back to check my mail and there was your adorable card. Please join the next challenge and have fun!

"It is still summer weather here in California, so I thought about making a beach day card! Hope you like it!"

I like it..NICE JOB!

Color Challenge - Week's Theme

Good morning Scrapping Gals and Guys,

We have a two week challenge starting today, 9/20/10 ending Sunday, October 3rd. NOTE NOT MY ORIGINAL DATE OF Oct 1oth. The rules are as follows:

1) Any size layout, whether it is 12x12, 8x8 or 6x6, what ever your preference is.

2) Use the color combination of, blue, purple, green (look at the picture of the prize for this challenge above and you will see the color scheme).

3) Please post the challenge on your blog, as we know that most of you already do this, thank you!!

4) You must a follower.

5) Have great fun!!

AND THE WINNERS ARE!

My son DJ drew from a hat..A real hat!! LOL
CELESTE and CARRI! Congrats

2 MORE WOW CHALLENGE ENTRIES

Great layout by Janet with pics of Akins farms in Western Mass. Love it Janet!

OOPS,, I HAVE A CORRECTION TO THIS POST. KATE ACTUALY MADE THIS. KATE, I AM SOO SORRY. I GUESS I GOT CONFUSED. IT DOESNT" TAKE MUCH.. LOL.

Michele, oops I mean Kate sent this over.. THis is hysterical. She says "

I HATE snow, but one of my dearest friends just loves it. She has snowflake everything - snowflake towels, snowflake dishes, snowflake utensils, snowflake socks that she wears year-round, etc., etc.! Whenever it snows, we blame her - and she's always swamped with "angry" calls during the first snowfall of the year. I decided to make her a "threatening" card to drop at her house when the snow starts to fall this year. I know she'll get a huge kick out of this. I used Winter Frolic for the snowman and all his accessories, which I glittered. I used Design Studio to turn his smile into a frown. The snowy mountains were cut with Zooballoo and run through the Cuttlebug, using a snow folder and a little butterfly folder (using only the little dots for the peaks). The tree was cut from Christmas Cheer and I computer generated the sentiment. I also added some little beads.

WOW's by Carri, Jean and Celeste

Since I live in Arizona it seems to always be hot! So my favorite weather is the first week of December it is usually between 65 and 70 degrees! It is when we decorate our palm trees with Christmas lights

I used Simply Charmed for the title and scarecrows on this layout. I used some glitter pens, googly eyes, mini buttons and a little flower gem to spruce up the little scarecrows a bit. I think they turned out super cute. I hand cut both layers of the mats for the photos. (I had already turned the Gypsy and Cricut off, so I just decided to measure them out and cut them myself. Old School Style you know, lol) I also used some leaf flat back buttons to embellish the photo areas. The background paper on this one came from a paperstack called vintage solids. The leaf paper that I used as the photo mat base came from a set of autumn papers that came from the Target $1 area. I love this Simply Charmed cart, because it has really cute cuts for basically every season.

This time of year is big for me and my hubby and our children, HUNTING SEASON. Even though our little ones are still very little we include them in on everything we do. I know, some people don't like it or may look down on it; but it is a time for us to be together and enjoy the outdoors as a family. I also like it because we're able to put meat in our freezer. So I thought I would make a card for our hunting season. The card also has a second use - I forgot about Grandparent's Day (OOPS!!) so I made this one for my in-laws. We go hunting with them, so I thought they might like it (that's where the 'oh deer' comes in).

WEATHER CHALLENGE FROM TARA

" Here is a fall page layout...the top corner is a gold foil emblem made with the faux metal technique."

WOW Week- Day 4

Good morning Scrappers!! It is Friday, thank goodness! It has been a long week and tonight we are headed to Dawn's house for some much needed scrap/girl time!! Woohoo!!

This layout and tags are from Dawn. I love, love this layout. I love the fact that Dawn didn't use "traditional" winter colors on this page. I love the colors and the pictures, amazing!!!












These tags are absolutely gorgeous! I love the colors Dawn choice and the ribbon!! Dawn used her Sillhoutte to cut out the tags and of course stickled it up!!

Great job Dawn, thanks for sharing!!!

WELCOME follower Number 49 and 50!

Joann Welcome!! Sonia Welcome!! Nice to have you gals stop in and give us a gander. We hope you come back again real soon. Let us know if there is something we can do for you or scrap forward for you!

WOW WEEK, Day 4

Here is a gorgeous card for our Weather challenge from our friend at hogwildaboutstamping.blogspot.com. She says "yes, winter is my favorite time of year! I love it when we get snow, but unfortunately we don't get very much of it where I live. Maybe that's why I like it so much? I had asked her if the snowflake was croched and she said " I crocheted a ton of different snowflakes during a heat wave we had last month in an effort to make myself feel cooler! Told you I love snow! LOL!"

WOW WEEK, Day 3

Here is a GORGEOUS card from our friend Rhonda at bumblebee creations This very talented gal sent this over for our challenge. And, this is what she had to say have to say " it is a toss up for me between Autumn and Spring--but since it is almost Autumn now, I went with that one!! The crisp air--somehow always seems fresher this time of the year-I love the idea of the corn mazes and pumpkins, squash and apples from this season too!I made a card-using mostly SU papers and ribbon, and the image actually came from a "Heartwarming Vintage Booklet " made by Crafty Secrets. I added the white gel pen dots to my square punch outs-even before I decided to use the ribbon--I love it when it comes together like that! (by accident)!! I also added a few punched out branches from my Martha stewart punch.'

WOW Week - Day Two

Hello everyone. For WOW week, I dug deep in my stash. I made this page a long time ago. I could have used this page for Old School week as well. Everything on this page is StampinUP! My friend Susan (fellow blogger) held a class that was 12 scrapbooking pages. I was soo new to scrapbooking.

This was definately a pre-cricut page. Everything is stamped, or just cut out by hand. The back ground of the paper is stamped. Not patterend paper, StampingUP cardstock, which is a scrappers must have!!

I do love the colors and the final project. I am going to have to get busy using these pages and takes some family fall pictures this season. Fall in New England is beautiful.

HAPPY MONDAY!

I hope everyone had a great weekend. This weeks theme will be WOW. Which stands for Week of Weather. I know,, goofy! LOL Well, here in New England, the weather had gone from hot sunny days to crisp fall ones. I love living here and watching the seasons change. Fall is such a fun time. Watching the leaves change into beautiful colors, picking apples and pumpkins, apple pies, cider donuts.. MMMM and the smells this time of year are just full of memories! I'd love to hear about favorite weather in your neck of the woods. Send in a card, layout, tag, or whatever that shows one of your fun "weather" times. Getting caught in the rain, shoveling snow and snowball fights, storms, sunny beach days...whatever floats your weather boat!

This is a prize challenge. I'll pick two lucky winners on Sunday eve 9/19. Here's the prize! Two sheets of chipboard shapes, 4 sheets if coordinating papers and two sticker sheets that coordinate with shapes ---not shown...but I will get them up----

Have fun and mail on over to me so I can post ACHILDINMIND@aol.com

TOOL, TIPS, TECHNIQUES, one last toy! LOL

Don't be afraid.. LOL. It say this because I was!!! It's the Crop-A-Dile and it is soo easy even a caveman can do it. No offense to any cavemen or woman out there..LOL. Anyway, First, you hole punch. On the outsides are the hole punches. Big and small. you line it up like any other hole punch on your whatev and squeeeeeeze. Second, you drop the eyelet in the hole you just made. You can see my elelets in my pink case on the side of the COD. Third, you set your cube dials that are in the center of the COD, then stick your item with the eyelet you dropped in, line it up betwen the cubes and squeeeeeeeze.

That's it.. eyelet is set,, run your ribbon, thread, twine, etc. right on through.. easssssy peeeeaassy!! This is a VERY useful tool. They have all kinds of shaped eyelets, from stars, to pumpkins to cirlces..you name it. Borrow one from a friend if he/she's got one and give it a squeeeeze!! You'll be hooked!

UPCOMING WEEK

Good Saturday evening scrappers. We hope all is well in scrapland!!! Kel was busy today running a yard sale (I hope it went well, Kelly). And I was busy nursing my poor husband back to good health. He had an accident at work and fell off a ladder. He broke his arm and had to have a few surgeries, we finally got him back home, so hopefully he can rest and recover better at home. All I can say is I truly have some awesome friends out there! It soo good to know you can count on your friends when the going gets tough! ! Thank you all!!!!

We wanted to let you know that we have a fun challenge coming up for this week. We will post it tomorrow. You want to get in on this one!!

Make it a scrappy night!!

Laurie and Kel

WELCOME

Welcome Beejay! So glad you came by to check us out. We hope to see you again soon! Be sure to go and visit her neck of the blog world -----> beejay's studio. Such creative talent over there, wow!

TOOLS, TIPS , TECHNIQUES & STUFF, Day 5

Here are two of my favs when it comes to inking/chalking. I'm not a huge stamper, but I do like to ink the edges of my pages.. I may even have "over-ink-edging-itis" LOL. Anyway. I was having such a problem with the larger sized inkpads, fumbling and stuff & Laurie told me to get on board with these STAMPIN' UP Ink spots, these are the bold brites. Love em, and sooooo easy to handle and they pack quite the color punch.. long lasting.. great great to have in your crop bag..they fit nicely in a craft carrier. You can have so many colors with you and not take up much space. The other is Powder Puff chalking inks by Quick Quotes, Marachino cherry and Tahiti. Me and Laurie went to the CK convention and got these in a class. We both thought that the colors weren't really fantab, but lemme tell ya.. they work for everything. If you want to try these and only have a few bucks in ur budge, get these colors...I PROMISE u'll luv em. We both use them all the time and are amazed time after time how well these colors go with everything. We chalk with passion.. I think we have " Too-much-chalk-itis" LOL. I am definately going to ask Santa for more of the chalking inks and another set of the spots. Anybody else have a fav. ink?

Red is Powder puff,, green is SU

ALTERNATIVE TO TOOL BELOW

I just read this idea: Take a glue dot and put it on the end of a stylus! Has same idea and if you have those items already.. no cost.

TIPS, TECHNIQUES, TOOLS and Stuff, Day 3

QUICK STIK

I LOVE THIS ..This is my favority fave! It's the QuickStik by Quick Kutz.

I use this for everything from bling, googly eyes, brads, buttons etc. It is has a sticky tip almost like puddy that picks up everything! It beats the tweezers by a long shot!. I'lll tell you.. get one of these babies and keep close by, you'd be amazed how often you use it.. It's great to use to find that "needle in the haystack" like above where all my brads got dumped into one compartment and I wanted just the pink one. I would have gone crazy trying to get my fingers around that particular one, not to mention getting stabbed by the brads along the way.. lol and when your object is bulky, the tweezers often slip.. not here....you just lower this tool into a jar full of small embellies and stick it to what you want and pull it on out! It has saved me ooodles of frustrations. They go for about 4-5$ bucks and with a coupon..even less! Does anybody know of any other uses for this?? has anybody tried this?? Let us know :) Wow can you feel the love?? LOL. Yikes, I used to be pationate about many other things, now this.. I'm officially a scrap nerd.. LOL

TIPS, TOOLS AND TECHNIQUE WEEK - DAY 2

Good morning ladies! I thought we would show the fastenator today. I love this tool. There are so many different staples you can buy for it, different colors and shapes.

On this page I used them in the corner to give the page a finished looked. The fastenator can into a 12x12 page right to the middle of the page, so it is very verstile. If you have something you want to staple in the middle of the page you can do. I also tried to get a close up of the staples I used. I really love this tool and need to pull it out and use it more.
Do you have a fastenator? If so, how do you use it?? Let us know. Thanks for stopping by!!!

TIPS, TOOLS, TECHINIQUES and STUFF!

Ibought these this weekend and decided to use all three on a project. The GLOSSY ACCENTS is COOL. I put it on the orange part of the diamonds. It's hard to tell, but it dries clear and makes it look wet and puffy. It would be perfect for a cake with dripping icing or a beach page to make a wave look wet. I used the FINE POINT GLUE PEN to stick down my sentiment. It worked great because it didn't bleed through the white paper. I used the MINI GLUE DOTS to hold down the bat which is made of felt and regular white glue or mono would have been a disaster. Oh ya, and I got that cute lil witch stamp at ac Moore for 77 cents!

PRIZE PACKS READY TO GO!!

Great job on challenge ladies! I'll be getting these in the mail to you! 8 pc. orange vellum, 8 pc. black cardstock, 8 pc. halloween patterned paper, 3 buttons, 3 brads, 2ft. of black and orange ribbon and dimentional sticker embellies. The embellies & patterned paper will differ a bit per package, but all else is the same.. Enjoy ladies!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Well me and Laurie decided since we only go three entries, that all you ladies should win!! Woo hoo.. Cute lil pumpkins, Button frame and bows, and the Wedding layout.. Nice work ladies... Please email me your addresses and I'll get your prizes off to you!! Congrats! CC, Carrie and Jean!

WOO HOO ANOTHER B&B CHALLENGE ENTRY

This is sent in by C.C.'s Cards and Crafts and I absolutely LOVE IT. I was telling her that this is one of my fav. fall things to do with my family. Thanks so much for sending it on over!! Adorable! So many great color ranges of browns and oranges! great great layout!

WELCOME

Welcome Ms. Jen to our piece of the blog world..so glad you came by :) Hope to c you soon!

ANOTHER CHALLENGE ENTRY

This fantab layout comes to us from Jean's Crafty Corner I absolutely love this because black an white and anything is my fav. color combo!

Here's what she had to say about her layout : "I made this layout using the Gyspy Wanderings for the title, I layed ribbon and bows up the side and then used mini buttons in black and white to make a frame around the picture. The picture also has a black matt that I did faux stitching on with a white opaque pen. The paper is called linen white and black and has a neat texture to it, but I am not sure how well you can see that in the picture"

Here's a 12x12 I did of a pic of my daughter when she was just a lil girl. I put lil button brads down side up left side and in the ric-rack down bottom and a big button for the "O" in dolly. The butterflies are embossed using the Fiskars shape boss.. funn stuff!

WELCOME NEW FOLLOWERS AND EXTENDING THE CHALLENGE

Good Friday morning fellow Scrappers,

As we are batten down the hatches up here in New England awaiting the arrival of Hurricane Earl, we wanted to welcome some new followers and extend our challenge (with a fantastic prize) to Sunday, September 5th at 9:00 pm edt.

We are hearty New Englanders, so no weather would ever keep us from scrapping!!

So first things first please help us welcome:

Celeste B - Celestes blog is ccscards.blogspot.com

CoachFans - check out her blog @ carsonscricutcreation.blogspot.com

Sar342

Raven B

Christel

Janet

Welcome to Serenity Scrappers ladies. We are so glad you stopped by! Our motto here is scrap it forward we love to share our ideas and have you share back. We encourage you to send your work for us to post. Have fun looking around at our past posts with some fun layouts and cards and altered projects.

If the ladies that we listed above have a blog please let us know, we would love it check it out.

Now on to the challenge, Kel and I decided to extend the due date to Sunday, Sepetember 5th at 9:00 edt. We have so many new followers (so exciting) we thought would give them a chance to get in on the fun and prizes!!!

So here are the rules:

12 x12 layout using both buttons and bows

Email your final product to Kelly @ achildinmind@aol.com by Sunday September 5th, 9:00 edt

Have fun!!

We don't have too many rules as we want to you have fun using embellishments you may not put on the same page.

Let us know if you have any questions. Kelly posted the prize in an earlier post this week. Such a great prize!!!

Kel and Laurie

BUTTONS AND BOWS WEEK, Day 4

Here is an awesome two page 12x12 layout from AbusyBee for our buttons and bows challenge. Carri has entered the same layout into a few other challenges too, go check out her site and see :)

" I used the Wild Card Cartridge for the button frame and the large buttons! All the rest is from my stash! This will be the last time I do that frame!! It took me forever to bling it up!! I used brads, eyelets, string, hemp, real buttons, and gems! "

BUTTONS AN DBOWS WEEK, Day 3

Here's a layout I did using a kit.This is a picture of my daughter being kinda goofy..which is totally her when she takes pictures. I forget where the kit came from sorry :( But I added flowery brads up top and the little button brads down the bottom as well as the pink ribbon and bows and i added the butterfly stickers.