FROSTED DESIGNS SKETCH BLOG HOP (MAY, 31ST TO JUNE, 5TH)

Hi there blogger friends!

I am very excited to announce that there will be three blog hops hosted by Frosted Designs' awesome Design Team.  

The Design Team over at Frosted Designs are a talented bunch of ladies that will be hosting.  There will be some wonderful prizes up for grabs!!!!

The first one will kick off at the end of May, and will be running from May, 31st to June, 5th, so make sure to mark your calendars and be ready to make some beautiful scrapbook projects, and of course win some AWESOME prizes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Scrappin'

LET'S SCRAP SKETCH 5-22-13

oh my word, with everything happening, I have not been able to get to scrapbooking in the last few weeks and I must say, I am really having withdrawal symptoms :-)  Hopefully I will get some time soon to do some serious catching up!!!!!!!!!

This week over at Let's Scrap the sketch is one of my own.  And I am very proud of it :-)  Here is the sketch and the layout.

The pictures in this layout is of one of my parents' huskies.  All the paper and embellishments are from Kaisercraft.  

ABOUT A BOY DESIGN TEAM CALL

Hi there everyone, one of my fellow Frosted Designs DT members, Brenslavia has a challenge blog - About a Boy and they are currently having a design team call.

The challenge blog is dedicated to getting those photos of our boys scrapped!  She is looking for about 6 talented committed scrapbookers to provide two layouts a month for the challenges.  The term will run for a 3 month period from July 1st to October 1st, 2013.  Challenges will be provided to you well in advance.

Why apply for our team?

• To be inspired and to inspire others.
• You will be part of an amazing group of women and develop lifelong friendships with women from all over the world.
• Your work will be featured on Facebook and Pinterest.

What is expected of the Design Team?

• Complete 2 projects a month (you will be given challenges at least a month in advance).
• Comment weekly on participants entries (this is a must, any DT member found not to be doing this will be immediately removed from the team).
• Commit to a 3 month term (beginning of July to the beginning of October).
• Keep an active blog that is updated frequently.
• Post our challenges and your project on your blog on reveal day and link back to the About a Boy Challenge Blog.

How to apply:

• Leave a comment on the blog post indicating that you would like to apply.
• Tell them a little bit about yourself to include your style and whether or not you are on any other design teams (no previous DT experience required).
• Provide links to your blog and online galleries.
• Include 3 projects that best represent your style.
• Place the DT call on your blog to help get the word out.

All interested applicants will be invited to our Facebook Group where you will meet and interact with members of our current Design Team.  This is so we can all get to know each other a little better.  Anyone interested in applying please send your application to aboutaboychallengeblog@gmail.com.  Make sure you put DT call in the subject line. 

They are accepting applications through June 15th.  This is an open call, what that means is they have the right to end this call whenever they fell they have a new DT in place, so if you plan to apply, please don't hesitate!!!!!!!!  New design team members will be notified by June 16th and the first reveal will be July 1st.  

International members are welcome to apply!!!!!!!!!!

Scrappin' Regards

LET'S SCRAP SKETCH 5-1-13

Oh my, there is really a lot happening at Let's Scrap during the month of May!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Along with the NSD challenges, we are still carrying on with our weekly sketches and DT challenges and tutorials.  Here is the sketch for this week.

The best part of this sketch was the fact that it makes provision for tons of pictures.  The pictures in this layout is from Easter, which was Jonathan's first Easter.  All of the paper and embellishments I used were from an old Basic Grey range.  Here are some pictures of the detail.  

 

Hope you enjoyed the layout and would love if you head over to Let's Scrap and join in all the fun!

Happy Scrappin'

LET'S SCRAP NSD13#6 CHALLENGE

Good morning ladies

Can you believe that the first week of NSD at Let's Scrap for 2013 is already over, and I must say, the challenges and response to all of you is really awesome!  It is great to see so many of our members take the time to join in the fun!  

The theme for this NSD challenge is BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION.  When I scrap birthday pictures, I rarely have a birthday theme to it.  So the challenge today is to scrap a layout, using birthday pictures, but without it looking like a birthday layout    Here is the sketch that you have to use, along with my layout. 

The pictures in the layout, were taken at my sister's 21st from a few years back!  These are some of my favourites from that day 

Here are some pictures of the details.  

  

The rules for this challenge is as follows:

• Use the sketch provided in this discussion (5-11-13)
• The pictures for the layout, has to be from a birthday celebration.
• The layout must NOT have a birthday theme.
• A minimum of 2 of the following techniques/items have to be used on your layout:
• Bubblewrap;
• Material;
• Twine;
• Rub-ons; and
• Bling.
• This challenge cannot be combined with the weekly main page sketch, the BAM (Book about Me) challenges or the Scrap our Stash challenge.
• The layout  must be something you scrapped new for this challenge and not something that you previously made.
• Upload your page photo to the gallery by 5-31-13 at 11:59 p.m. (using the main page clock time).
• Be sure to tag your layout correctly: NSD13#6 (all one word), followed by a comma, a space, and the sketch number 5-11-13.  Your tag will read:  NSD13#6, 5-11-13

I am really looking forward to seeing what everyone come up with!

Happy Scrappin'

NSD AT LET'S SCRAP

National Scrapbook Day (NSD) is coming up.  And over at Let's Scrap we will be celebrating this as usual!!!!!!!!!!  A whole month of over 31 sketches, challenges and tutorials.  This time, May is PACKED with FUN.  Join us on May, 1st!!!!!!!  You do not want to miss a thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET'S SCRAP SKETCH 4-24-13

This week we have a lovely card sketch, designed by Debby de Wilde, over at Let's Scrap.

As you can see I decided to convert it into a layout.  It was such an inspirational sketch that I just could not help but do a single layout!  

I used one my all time favourite pictures from our little boy's newborn shoot.  The paper and all the embellishments are from a fairly old range of My Mind's Eye.  And the title is from a Echo Park sticker sheet.  I really enjoyed this sketch and love the way the layout turned out :-)

If you head on over to Let's Scrap and join in the sketch challenge for this week, you will be able to win an awesome prize from Graphic 45.  

Graphic 45 is an award-winning scrapbook and paper crafting company.  They offer vintage inspired crafting products that capture the flamboyant style of the 1920's and 30's, with vibrant colours, irresistible texture and imaginative design to create products with decades old appeal that's both fresh and familiar.  Let the products inspire your next scrapbook layout, card, album or home decor project.  

Here is the awesome prize they are offering to the lucky winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So get those creative juices flowing and head on over to Let's Scrap, have a look at what the awesome design team came up with and join in the fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Scrappin'

EMBELLISH ME HAPPY GRAND OPENING LAUNCH PARTY

While browsing around on Facebook, I came across an awesome challenge blog - Embellish Me Happy.  And the awesome news is that they are having a Grand Opening Launch Party. This is what they had to say:

"So we are looking to open on 23 April 2013 with a brand new challenge from a brand new blog, with a whole lot of fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Please join us and invite your friends for some great challenges and fun!  Embellish Me Happy is a challenge blog site that is focusing on all crafting needs.  Whether you like ATC's, altering items, doing project life, smash books or just scrapbooking, you are in the right place.    If you want to be a part of our challenges which are going to be great, please check the right sidebar and join the blog.  You will see participants and you should see your name there.  If you don't see your name, that means you have not joined yet and should have.  Listen up because this is so great news!!!!!!!!!!"

So how does this work?  They are getting the word out there about Embellish Me Happy, and if you join their site to participate in challenges and blab about them on your blog, you are in the running to receive a nice little prize pack!!!!!!!!!  There are only a couple of rules:

1. You have to join the blog and your membership has to show on the site, 
2. You must post a comment on the Grand Opening Launch Party post with the link to where you blabbed about them.  

That is it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  If you do this, you are in the running for a giveaway and the prize for the challenge for the month of April.  How cool is that, to get a bunch of free crafting stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you have any questions you can email them at lifeofascrapper@live.com.

Well, I have joined their blog, and have completed my post, so now to go back and leave them a comment!!!!!!  Hope too see you all over at Embellish Me Happy :-)

Happy Scrappin'

FROSTED DESIGNS FABULOUS FRIDAY CHALLENGE - TRAVEL

It is Friday again, and that means a brand new challenge over at Frosted Designs.

This week we have a theme challenge for you....................................................................

We would like to see how you use our Travel theme on a card, layout or an off the page project.  

Here is the layout I made for this challenge.

This week we have an awesome sponsor!!!!!!!  By playing along, you could win a travel mini album kit by Artsy Albums.  

Artsy Albums is a custom scrapbook design and mini album kit company, started by Traci Penrod in 2011.  The mission of her company is to create scrapbooks and mini album kits that encourage others to share their stories, preserve their photos and document their everyday lives.  Traci creates several mini album kits each month and unlike most kit companies, no subscription is needed.  Follow these links to visit Artsy Albums today.  

Blog:  www.artsyalbums.com

Shop:  www.artsyalbums.etsy.com

Facebook:  www.facebook.com/artsyalbums

By playing along, you could win this awesome travel mini album kit.

Here is a Travel Mini Album Traci has put together to for us to.  

BE SURE TO LINK YOUR PROJECT ON THE SIDEBAR OVER AT FROSTED DESIGNS FOR A CHANCE TO WIN THIS ADORABLE MINI ALBUM!!!!!!!!!

Looking forward to seeing your take on this challenge!

Happy Scrappin'

LET'S SCRAP SKETCH 3-27-13

Here is another awesome sketch from Let's Scrap.  This sketch was for the last week of March and designed by Judy Rakes.  What I love about it is the fact that it is so totally versatile!!!!!!!!

Here is my take on the sketch.

When paging through my recent layouts and needing to decide which pictures to use for the layout, I realised that I have not scrapped Zorro, our cat lately.  So I printed this picture of him which was taken at Jonathan's photoshoot at 5 months.  I do not use yellow a lot in my layouts, as it is not one of my favourite colours.  But with the black and white picture, I decide to use it with this layout.  

The journaling on the right hand side of the layout reads:  Everytime we have pictures take Zorro always makes sure that he is also in the pictures.  This particular day he climbed under the duvet and all you see on the pictures is this large lump.  Henriette caught him in this photo just as he climbed out.  

Here are some close-up pictures of the detail.

 

 

Hope you enjoyed the post.

Happy Scrappin'