Back to School Crop & ScrapFIT Warm-Up

Wow...it has been almost a week since I posted!  What a blur this week has been.  I can't believe it's already Saturday again.  No complaints here, though...I love the weekend :)  There is a lot of fun going on in scrappy blog land this weekend...so hopefully you'll have some time to get creative.

All weekend long, My Scraps and More is hosting a Back to School Crop.  The fun began yesterday with lots of games and fun school-related challenges.  One of the "classes" I'm hosting is Journalism class, where the challenge is to include a "story" on your page of at least 3 to 4 sentences.  I scrapped these pictures of my silly daughter who likes to use her feet to hold her toys above her head...

I played around with modeling paste again...LOVE this stuff! So simple to use, yet it creates such a complex look & texture. Amazing!

I used the Echo Park For the Record 2 {Tailored} line here...one of my faves! You can pick this up in the My Scraps store...and there's a discount code!! You should definitely join us at the Crop. There are tons of prizes to win along the way in addition to the grand prize. There are tons more challenges being issued today, and even more tomorrow! Come check it out!

 In other scrappy news, ScrapFIT's September Warm-Up #31 is up, and it's also a fun one! I know I used to have a blank piece of cardstock to begin every layout with. This challenge is to start your layout with PATTERNED PAPER. Here is what I created...

Easy, right?! You have until September 19th to play along with us over at ScrapFIT, and if your layout is chosen, you will be featured in the FITGirl Spotlight later this month. Give it a go and play along with us! Enter HERE. Don't forget to also check out our current Step Class with Ashley Horton.  It was revealed this morning, and it's a fun one! 

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great weekend!

For the Record 2 {Documented}

Hey there, scrappy friends!  I hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend.  Tomorrow is a holiday for us...yeah!  Another day of sleeping in...haha :)  I wanted to share my weekly blog post layout for My Scraps and More with you today.  I couldn't wait to get my hands on Echo Park's For the Record 2 collections...oh my gosh!  There are two different lines, and they are AMAZING.  For this layout, I used the {Documented} line, which has lots of blues, greens and yellows.

One of my favorite things in this line is the sheet of journaling spots & fun sayings...perfect for titles!  I didn't even need to use any of the alphas on this page.  There are matching brads & a sheet of gorgeous chipboard shapes...like the cute butterfly.

This line, along with soooooo many more are available in the My Scraps and More store HERE.  And you can save 33% through tomorrow, thanks to Tammi's Labor Day sale!  And there's more...if you spend $50, you get free shipping in the US!  It doesn't get any better than that!  Go there now and fill up your cart!

And there's even MORE!  This weekend this is happening...

We have so much fun in store for you this coming weekend!  So many fun challenges, games & prizes!  Please come join us!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  Enjoy your weekend :)

September Reveals: ScrapFIT #75 & Challenge Me Happy #29

Good Saturday morning, scrappy friends!  Hope you're doing something fun this long holiday weekend.  Tomorrow is my little Reese's 6th birthday, so today we're having her birthday party.  I still picture her as my sweet little baby...it's so hard to believe she's growing up.  She's getting so tall and slender.  I'm thinking we'll be able to share clothes in the next few years...haha!  I love that girl to pieces :)

I also can't believe it's September!  What!?  It's already time to reveal the latest challenges from two of my favorite challenge blogs :)

Up first is ScrapFIT...Workout #75 is all about TWINE.  Your mission is to use twine on your project...any which way you'd like.

The prize ROCKS!  It's a brand new FITKit.  The winner of the twine workout will win one for FREE!

It's the Eclectic Slide Kit!  Boogie Woogie Woogie :)  This kit is filled with papers from Echo Park's Everyday Eclectic line and a ton of unique embellishments that make this kit a true FITKit!

If you love this kit and want one before you can win it, you can go right now and purchase one at the Paper Issues store!

Here is what I created using twine.  I always love adding buttons with twine bows to my layouts.  This time, I also decided to outline my flowers using twine...something different that looks kinda cool!  I also wanted to start with a piece of cardstock that wasn't white.  I love this pretty aqua blue color.  It goes perfectly with these Crate papers.

You have until September 30th to upload your projects HERE. Don't miss out on your chance to win the FITKit! Be sure to check out what the other DT members created...there is so much diversity! Brilliant projects!

Next up is the first challenge for the month at Challenge Me Happy.  This is challenge #29 and the focus of it is SEWING.  Stitching by hand or machine sewing...it doesn't matter!  Just make sewing prominent on your project.

We have an amazing sponsor for this challenge...C'est Magnifique Kits!  This is a US-based company whose kits predominantly feature "hard to find" international papers.  You will find papers from Denmark, Poland, France and many other countries.  There are also embellishments from Australia, the UK and Poland.

If you're looking for a kit club that's a bit different than the rest, come check it out!  The winner of this CMH challenge will win a mini-kit from C'est Magnifique!

Here is what I created for the sewing challenge. I hand stitched some zig zags, my border and I also added my usual twine bows inside my buttons :)  I also wanted to try something different here...modeling paste!  I have been seeing many of my scrappy friends experiment with this and I finally decided to try it.  I LOVE IT!  It's so easy and cool...and look at the texture it creates!  All you do is get an old credit card and smear some on your page over a stencil or mask, and TA-DA!  I added some mist and paint and smudged it all around and that's it.  I just think it looks so neat!

This page was a challenge for me because of the colors...red and purple!  I don't know why I didn't print these photos in black & white...sigh.  However, once I found papers that coordinated, it came together.  It truly was a "challenge" in every sense of the word!  It's definitely a unique page, but I love how it turned out.  Like that painter Bob Ross always used to say, "There are no mistakes...just happy accidents."  So true!  Often times the pages we start out hating wind up being our favorite!

Hop on over the CMH blog and see what the other DT members created. Our next reveal will feature our three new DT members! If you don't know who they are, check out the blog HERE :)

Messy Eater @ Artful Delight, plus a FITKit Sneak!

Howdy there!  It's Tuesday, which means it's my reveal day at Artful Delight.  This is my final page using the awesome August kit.  I was excited to make this one because I wanted to use a black background to make the other colors pop.  I really love the reds, yellows and blues in these BG papers.  I love smudging paint on black cardstock...it makes it look extra bold.

I fell in love with this sketch when I saw it and had to use it!  It's from Scrap Friends, and I'm dying to play along with one of their sketch challenges.  Isn't this one so cool?  I found this one after the deadline had passed.

September kits are coming soon...check out what's in store!  Lots of Kaiser Craft & October Afternoon...swoon!!  Click HERE for more details on this kit.

Here's the card kit... 

Speaking of sneaks, I also wanted to show the September FITKit from ScrapFIT and Paper Issues...it's full of awesomeness! Check it out...

You can still purchase and August FITKit and Low Cal FITKit, too! I promise, they're awesome!

Catching up with My Scraps & More, plus DT news!

It's the weekend...woo hoo!  That's the good news.  The bad news is that we have a huge storm headed our way :(  We're still in a "wait and see" situation here...everyone is glued to the weather channel to see the path Tropical Storm Isaac will take.  It will be a hurricane soon, no doubt.  The last time Florida was really hit hard was eight years ago with Hurricane Charlie.  We're keeping our fingers crossed that we aren't affected too badly by Isaac.  Such anxiety!  Sigh.

I'm playing catch-up today and sharing two recent pages I created for various challenges at My Scraps and More.  The first one was for a {lift} challenge.  We get to choose a layout from the gallery to lift, and I chose one by the ultra-talented Audrey Yeager.  Here is what I came up with.

I used some old Echo Park papers (the Playground collection).  I wanted to play off the reds and blues in the pictures.  I added my usual favorite embellishments...stitching, buttons & twine :)

My next page was another DT page for a {quote} challenge.  I wanted to do a friendship page, so I searched for a friend quote and found this one:  "Friendship isn't one big thing.  It's a million little things."  I loved it and it went perfectly with my photo.  It's of me and two of  my closest college friends.  Last year, we got together for a college Homecoming game (Go Gators!) and had so much fun!  We walked the campus and visited our old journalism hall...so much has changed!  I love UF and wish I lived in Gainesville...such a great place to be :)

I used several sheets of "Gator" paper that I found at my LSS.  The rest are just bits and pieces of random papers that I have in my stash.  I wanted lots of orange and blue :)  I also tried something new...modeling paste.  I've been seeing it a lot on layouts lately and decided to try it.  I love it!  I've used it on a few more pages that I have coming up.  It creates such an awesome texture, and it works so well with stencils or masks.  I created those diamond shapes on both sides of the layout using it.

I also entered this into the Creative Scrappers #220 sketch challenge.

I was inspired by this amazing Creative Scrappers sketch by Jenny Evans...she is so inspiring!

I do have more good news...I made the My Scraps and More Design Team again!  I'm SOOOO excited to be on board again with Tammi!  She is amazing :)  The two ladies I mentioned above, Audrey and Jenny, are also on the team along with a few more very talented girls.  I'm honored to be working with them.  Be on the lookout for this...

Thank you so much for stopping by, and have a great weekend!

I Love This Beautiful Girl

I hope everyone is having a great day :)  School has started here, so it's been a busy few days.  I have been doing lots of cleaning now that I don't my little "helpers" around...haha.  I am taking a much needed break from boring house stuff to post my weekly page for Artful Delight.  For this page, I used Prima everything.  That has never happened with me before...I'm usually not a Prima girl, meaning their flowers & embellishments tend to be a bit frilly for my style.  However, these papers were cute & funky, and the chipboard pieces that coordinate are so fun!  I even used the mini-stamp set included in the kit, which is also Prima.  The flowers & alphas are Prima, too...wow...I just realized the only things non-Prima here are my orange floss & Kaiser Craft rub-ons.  I really love how it turned out, and now I know that I can use Prima to fit my style :)

That's it...short and sweet and to the point :)  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

She Knows the Answer

Hey there...just popping on this afternoon to share another layout I created using Artful Delight's August kit.  I squeezed out five pages using this kit, and I still have pieces left!  This is my fourth one, and I really love the Paper Cottage papers by  Basic Grey.  Honestly, I wouldn't normally choose these papers...BG tends to be a bit busy for me sometimes.  However, once I played around with them, I loved them!

One things I love about the BG papers is the strips at the bottom of each page...they have the coordinating patterns on them.  I cut them off and added them to the top & bottom of my page.  I smudged a little paint behind my cluster, and then I added some fussy cut embellishments, a chipboard birdcage and some Prima flowers.  Those little teeny red rhinestones are even included in the kit.

There is also a Prima stamp set & chipboard set included in the kit, as well as matching Paper Cottage buttons!  So much to play with :)  Also, don't forget about the August sketch challenge...there are still 4 days left to play along.  You could win one of these awesome kits!

Thanks for stopping by...tomorrow is the first day of school for us already.  It got here fast!  Have a great week!