Our Freaky Friday Challenge 1/29 from Michelle

"Keeping in line with the winter theme (cuz I’ve been having a blast with the BoBunny Snowy Serenade), let’s pull out our winter photos and make a winter layout. But wait…there’s a twist (cuz twists are fun, right?): use a non-traditional winter background color."

I used Cashmere as the background with BoBunny’s Snowy Serenade.

Technique Tuesday 1/26/2010

A great Technique Turtorial from this week's Forum Fairy Michelle!

Since we’re in the middle of winter and I live in Alaska, I’ve been doing a few winter layouts (you should see one in a few days...hint, hint). I’ve had a blast with the BoBunny Snowy Serenade papers and embellies. A fun technique I learned a few years ago called Faux Suede can also double as textured snow. It really only takes cardstock and your fingers (although it’s easier with a tool like the score and fold!!!). Oh, and nice thick cardstock like Bazzill is AWESOME for this technique.
Curl a piece of cardstock between your thumb and your bone folder as if you were culing ribbon. Curl it in all directions until you see the corners start to separate. Stick your thumb nails between the two layers and slowly pull them apart. If you meet some resistance, curl your cardstock again. The more you work your cardstock, the easier it will separate

SEI Moravia

I had a grand time and completed TONS of projects using of the November KOTM, which contained the Moravia paper line from SEI.  I loved how all the rub-ons and accent pieces made it so easy to be so productive. I've even still got a bit of the papers and the Maya Road chipboard pieces left to play with another day!

First, I started with a layout for Cathy Zielske's "Design Your Life" class over at Big Picture Scrapbooking.  I love the way it turned out...

Next, I scrapped some Thanksgiving pictures from a couple years ago:













Then I made some cards (remembering to put something on the insides as well...
This one measures 4" x 4," my new favorite card size.

And another...

And I even made a 10-page mini album!  All I had to add was cardstock, ribbon, and a few baubles!

(To see the inside pages, click here: Inside Pages)

I love it when a kit gives me so much bang for my buck, don't you?

October Afternoon Report Card

Happy Thursday everyone!!!  After some computer issues I am finally able to post some fun cards based on October Afternoon's Report Card line.  October Afternoon's papers always have such fun designs and they are so much fun to work with!!!  This line is perfect any school related projects you may have, but the patterns are so fun, I thought I would make some cards that weren't school related just to show you the versatility of these papers. So without further ado, I present a fun little card set that will brighten up anyone's day!!!

Supplies:

October Afternoon Papers

October Afternoon Stickers

Bazzill Kraft

Bazzill Cream

Ribbon

Buttons

Twine

Texture Boutique

Maya Road Chipboard KeyChain

 The Star card is made with a regular star template that I traced onto a 6x12 piece of cardstock folded in half. I then embellished it with lots of fun October afternoon stickers buttons and ribbon.  I typed my sentiment out on the computer and cut it out for the card.

The Happy Face card is a regular 4 1/2" x 5 1/2" card that was made with scraps and pieced together on the card.  Such a fun happy card for these grey days.

This simple and easy card is once again made using a regular 4 1/2 x  5 1/2 card base.   I textured the white cardstock with the wonderful Texture Boutique and covered the Maya Road Chipboard with Patterned paper and outlined with a black marker.

Thanks for taking a look!!!
Kristii

Freaky Friday!!

Every year I set new goals for myself...the year I was 28 I actually made 28 goals for myself....but now that I'm older I don't use my age as wow..that's a lot of goals!! I try to make them something I KNOW I can achieve...lose 10lbs, read a book a week, spend more time with my boys...etc. So my challenge to you is to make a layout listing out those goals...things you want to accomplish this year. It's always fun to look back and see how your goals change from year to year!! Can't wait to see what you create!!

A little AC Junior for ya!!

If you have boys this is the perfect paper set for you!!  Talk about fun, bright and versatile!!  This line is by American Crafts and is called simply...Junior!!  Here are a couple layouts I whipped up using it!!

For this layout I also used the Kaiser Kraft Fozz Felt (which is the product of the week!).  I love that the fozz felt comes in a wide strip which makes it so easy to use.  As you can see...I used the star felt and cut just a small strip out of the design...makes the perfect little accent!!  I also use the Bazzill In Stitchez Granny Stitches template to create my stitched zig zags.

And notice how different of topics these two layouts are...but isn't the paper perfect for both??  This one I used the number background as the base of my page...I thought it was perfect since I was doing a birthday layout!!  I then used the flip side of another pattern (the great thing about these papers is the flip side is a solid matching color!) to make the scallop strip down the page!  Again I used the Granny Stitchez (so going to have to get more of these!!).

Super fun paper....and just perfect for those boy pages...it's so hard to find papers that are so boy...but these are totally it!!  :) 

Technique Tuesday

Today I'm going to show you how to make fun dimensional flowers using your scallop punches.

I use 2 different sizes...the 2" and the 1.5". I punch out my paper using each punch..so I have 2 scallops. I then take the larger one and cut the 'petals'...I cut a heart shape...just slice every two notches...and then I bend the 'hearts' together...almost in half...and just bend all the petals upward. (you'll see what I mean once you try it)

Then with the smaller one I cut a slit on every scallop...and fold these all inward a bit.

Then I just attach the smaller one to the larger one...fan out all the petals a bit so they can curl up...add a fun button to the center and voila!!

I love doing this with different colors and textures of paper!!

Have Fun! Jenn :)

LOTW 01/02/2010

Congratulations Laura Lee!!! We loved yout layout and getting to peek inside your "scrappy" room!!!!
I loved the lime green with black, just Beautiful!!!!
by:C Mercer