Challenge Promotors Needed!

What you would do

• Complete each Freaky Friday Challenge for a period of 1 month
• Post your completed challenge in 10 popular sites Galleries and Forums each week
• Email the link to where you posted to me when you are finished

What you would get

• A $20 Gift Certificate to ACB OR a $10 Gift Certificate to any other scrappy store you choose
• A chance to win another $10 ACB gift certificate if your layout is chosen as the winner of the challenge
• A chance to be published in the ACB Newsletter and Blog if your layout is chosen as the winner of the challenge

The Fine Print

• Only 5 people will be chosen for each month thru December.
• You cannot volunteer for more than 2 months.
• All challenges will be emailed to you on the 1st of the month so you will have time to complete them before their announcement date.

If you are interested please email a link to your Gallery or Blog to erica@acbaileyltd.com

Freaky Friday Challenge 8/28/2009

This week, we're switching gears from layouts to cards. This challenge will push you out of your standard card making and hopefully be challenged by scores! You are to use your Top Score Multi Board or other scoring device and create a card that has at least 2 score lines resulting in at least 2 folds.

Here's the link for the Top Score Multi Board http://www.acbaileydesigns.net/product_p/cctop1.htm

You can create a gate fold, a trifold, an accordion fold or stair step card. Take a look in our Card Center forum and in the gallery for some terrific ideas from our design team and check back here for some examples this evening.

Score big with this challenge!
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Cheers...Tam
Your AC Bailey Business Advisor

Join us every Friday for a new challenge to inspire and take you out of your BOX!

Member Spotlight-Gail Connor

1. Tell us a little about yourself and your family.
I am married to Michael. We have 4 children, Erica (33), Nicholas (22), Anthony (21) and Meagan (14). One grandson Hunter (7) and a dog Casey.We also have a hermit crab and a beta fish. Only Meagan lives at home. Anthony is home for the summer, going to college. Nick lives an hour and 15 minutes north and Erica/Hunter live in the same town as us. We live in Rindge, NH which is a beautiful, small country town. We have a lake and a mountain- we have all 4 seasons, but we do not have cable TV, high speed Internet or local shopping!
2. How and when did you start scrap booking?
I started scrapping about 9 years ago. My niece was very scrappy and always wanted me to try it- but my kids were older and I have few pics and the ones I had of them were not good so I avoided it. Finally she dragged me to a card class, I loved it, I was making cards and altering gifts for a few years and then I decide to scrap a box of honeymoon pics I had and I got hooked! That album, by the way, is still not completed.
3. How would you describe your scrap booking style?
Always evolving and changing, I am most comfortable doing shabby/chic stuff.
4. How often do you journal? Is it important to you?
I journal not nearly enough. It is important to me. I know I need to get better, I hate my handwriting and that is a real big part of why I do so little.I am getting better and I am the master at hidden journaling!

5. Do you have a dedicated scrap space ( room )?
Yes, it is a 8x8 closet and mostly for storage- it is a MESS right now.I usually scrap on the dining room table and that is really neat at the moment despite my three active projects.
6. What are your "go to " tools or supplies when you scrap?
THICKERS- I love them and can never get enough and inks-I love to distress everything and ink things.
7. Where do you start when you get ready to create- sketches, supplies, photos...?
I start with the papers. I find a collection of pattern paper or something that speaks to me. It usually screams out, "Please scrap last years Christmas pics/vacation/birthday/etc. pics with me" -So I start there. I do not scrap in order- I found that process very frustrating, I just create-

8. Are you a scrapper or an artist?
I think I am an artist. I want to make great pages and feel it is an expression of myself to create. It is not important to me to have every detail and every event in a book on a shelf. I have many incomplete albums going. I have a honeymoon one, a vacation one and a family one, and I have one for each of the children always going. When I complete a page it goes into the "correct" album. The kids like to compare books and count pages and tease me about who has more.

By: C. Mercer

I scrapped for ME!

For the first time ever, I have worked on and completed a project for ME.
It is full of emotion and sentimentality and it may look like and mean nothing to anyone else- but in my heart, I feel it is the BEST thing I have ever done- hahaha:)
I mean, it is not the cutest thing, it will never be a published thing, but every scrap of paper, every item shown and every bit of journaling speaks to me. Has come from me. Is about me and how I feel! I feel exhilarated to have this done. I so cannot ever scrap "me" - I had such a block every time I tried to scrap something with a pic of me in it. But now I have crashed through that wall and I want to try another project, look out, you may be seeing some layouts with pics of me "just because" ..I have opened a new door!
So, without further adieu-here it is:
What is it? Here is another pic.
It is think it is something I feel the urge to hand on my rear-view mirror! It is a mini scrap book made with chipboard pieces from the AC Bailey store and the new captivating paper line. I used the Maya Road wings, potty people, lock and key sets and I used the Bazzill Chips stars, hearts and arrows. I covered each chipboard piece both sides with the paper, I used my "handy-dandy cannot-live-without-it" BG file set and distressed away! Then I inked each piece with the red,brown and blue cat's eye chaulk inks and I printed out the lyrics to a song I like onto a sheet of the Captivating paper. To do this, I made columns of the verses so I could have them on the front and back of the hanging piece. I folded them in 1/2 between verses and I scalloped the edges with those old scalloped scissors I have had for AGES! Don';t looked shocked-you have them too. The song I used was one by Bon Jovi. I like it- speaks to me about being a mom, having children who are older now and it always makes me reflect on my life and how I raised them - anyway! I then journaled names, words, dates, sayings all over these pieces. There is a key to home, a key to my heart, a key to my WALLET! HAHAHA:) I have symbols of roots and wings, star accomplishments on the stars for each child (and me) and all our prior addresses listed as well as the names of our pets... I had a ball making this, I am not done- I thought it was done but now I want to add some bling and I want to journal a bit more. Altering can be so much fun. I love to get all my frustration out in a messy artsy way and these pieces can never turn out bad- they cannot be overworked or under done. The captivating paper line is easy to work with, a good heavier weight paper for altering stuff (I like altering with paper that is not too thick and not too thin-hehehe). Stock up on some chipboard. Have some fun and share with us what YOU create.
Thanks for looking-
gail

Just a few fun things to share

Quotes, quotes and more quotes...I LOVE gathering inspirational quotes, so I decided to make a book to gather some of my favorites! I used the 6x6 American Crafts D ring binder and the Cottage paper set (a new favorite!)That's 20 pages with room for lots more!

And here's another page I made with the August kit of the month - a non traditional Disney Page. Journaling next to the main picture reads: "Can you feel the magic?"

Life in Color

I LOVE the color PURPLE - all shades of it! In my eyes it is the most beautiful of all the colors in the rainbow - it is not however one of the easier colors to scrap - and those who know me know that red and orange are my least fave colors in the world...so when I saw this Prima "Life in Color" paper and along with the beautiful purple and plums, there was a golden orange ....hmmm, what to do? Purple and Orange??? Oh yuck...that's ok for Halloween but I have this beautiful photo of some flowers in my garden....and here is the result! And I love the way this simple layout came together with a bit of black Bazzill cardstock - a Prima flower and some puffed Thickers and I love how the orange complements the purples. And how lucky could I get that Cailyn wore lavendar for her dance
recital. This pretty patterned paper was perfect. All I needed to add was a bit of lace, a little bit of plum paper and the Dance chipboard from BoBunny. I painted it with Dimensional Pearls and also used Dimensional Pearls to create the circle and to puff out all the swirls on the paper. A layered Prima flower with a Stickles center finished off the layout. Just in case you didn't hear, there is a back-to-school sale going on over at the ACBailey store - time to stock up on same of your faves like Thickers and papers to make room for all the fabulous new product that we picked out at CHA!

Captivating by Pink Paislee

Yes and it is, so captivating. I love the brown tones, plaid die cut paper and the bright gold designs in the paper. A very beautiful paper set and great for layouts or cards. I added a Jenni Bowen bingo card on the layout and thought it was so perfect.

The bingo cards are also, perfect for the card maker. They went great with the captivating paper to complete two great looking and easy cards. AC Bailey is back from CHA so go check them out. We need to move out the old so there is room for the new "yummy" scrapbooking supplies. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day.

by: C. Mercer