Ronda's July Challenge!!!

Well ladies, today is the LAST day of July, and we are moving on to August!! Can't believe how fast this Summer has passed!! We have all been busy with our kids, work, vacations, and just everyday life stuff. And it's just a tough life for a scrapbooker when we CAN'T find the time to SCRAP!! heehee!
So, my challenge is for the scrappers that are "Time-challenged"!!! LOL!
Create a simple notecard!!! When you are in a hurry, these little cards can come in so handy!! Just create a card without making it for anything specific, then you can use it as a thank you card, birthday card, or get well soon, etc. Easy peasy!!

Hope you have a fantastic weekend!! :)

~Ronda

Jodi's Make and Take!

Hi everyone... and welcome to our very first make and take tutorial! Today I am going to show you how to create a few of your own embellishments for your pages without a lot of work! I know for me, I LOVE anything handmade! Today we are making a few circle embellishments made out of materials you wouldn't think of using... very often! So here we go!

1. First of all you need to gather your materials. Here is a list: die cutting machine, or a good pair of scissors, die cut circles (I used SIZZEX), pinking shears, DMC thread, FELT, Plastic Canvas, Scrap Material, Paint (I used shimmerz... found in the store), paint brush, needle, buttons.

2. Use your die cutting machine to cut various materials into various circles. If you don't have a diecutting machine or circles... you can free hand it! I use to do this all the time! You will need about three or four different sizes. Here is my sample of THREE using THREE different materials (felt, plastic, material)

3. Use your needle and thread to sea a running stitch around the felt OR material.

4. Paint with your choice of paint! I chose shimmerz... mainly because I LOVE IT... and it dries quickly on plastic! It gives it just enough to give the white plastic canvas some color and some shimmer!

5. Layer your embellishments as shown in the picture below:

6. "Dress Up" your button by making a bow, know etc... with your DMC thread. Attach the button to your embellishment and your result is:

Here is the layout where I used these awesome handmade circles:

I decided to use a smaller circle embellie for the "dot" in the "I" for the word "chicks". With this embellishment, I also cut around the material with the pinking shears to give it a different effect. In addition, I made the photo corners out of felt by simply snipping off the corner of a felt square with my pinking shears, and cut a smaller piece out of the material (located in your kit!). I used my BIG BITE to punch a hole in both of the them, then I added a brad to make my photo corner!

I hope everyone enjoyed the make and take! Don't forget to think outside the box to try and come up with different types of material to use on your layouts! Metal and cork are also awesome products to work with! I can't wait to see what you come up with! Good Luck!

Sarah's Photography Challenge.

Good afternoon ladies! I hope everyone's Thursday has been great!

I was thinking about how much fun I am having chatting with everyone on the SO boards the other day. That got me thinking about all the new friends I have made there and all the inspiration on the site.

Then I started wondering- I know everyone LOVES to scrapbook, but what else does everyone love to do? Besides scrapbooking a few things I love to do are cook, run, garden, and make jewelry.

So my challenge is really two-fold- to learn a little bit more about you and hopefully inspire you to take photos of one of your other hobbies. I photographed my favorite flowers in my garden.

I just started gardening a few years ago and I love it! One side of my backyard is all wildflowers and the other side is a huge vegetable garden. In the front of my house I plant tulips for the spring, morning glories in the summer and mums in the fall.

All of you girls are so talented and we would love to see your other hobbies and talents! Upload your photos to the SO photo challenge thread. I can't wait to see them!

Challenge!!

Good morning everyone!!

right now I am SOO into all things VINTAGE. I LOVE buying cute vintage pieces for my home and I LOVE how there are SO many cute vintage scrapbooking items out there right now.

My challenge for you this month is to create vintage inspired page!

You can do this with you color scheme, using a sepia or black and white photo, or by adding lots of stitching and soft colors!

It is up to you how you interpret this!

Have fun and can't wait to see what you create!!

Ronda's July DT Reveal

Ok Girls, I am the last of the reveals for the July kit!! If you haven't bought yours already, I hope you've been inspired by the DT's fab work with the kit!!!

It's PERFECT for summer pages! It's so bright and fun, and you can practically use it for anything!! I had so much fun playing with this kit!!





HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!!
~Ronda

Sarah's July Reveal

Wow! There were so many goodies in the July kit! I created these three layouts and still have so many leftovers. I will definitely have some more projects soon.

I love the papers in the kit because they are so bright and fun and I love the embellishments because they are so sweet. So I chose to put the fun and the sweet together to create some layouts of my daughter Frances.

The first LO My Silly Girl is a layout of my daughter being silly. She laughs and giggles all the time. She really is the happiest baby. She likes to make funny faces and when we laugh at her she just makes more. These papers were the perfect for the colors in the photos and the fun tone of the LO. I used the fabric swatch and sassafras flowers to make the flower embellishment on the bottom right. I hand cut a flower out of the fabric and then layered it with the sassafras flower from the kit. To make the brads pop a bit, I cut the prongs off with a wire cutter and then adhered them with foam tape.


My second layout So Many Reasons has pictures of my DD when she first sat up. I turned my back for a second and when I turned around she was sitting up. So I grabbed my camera off the kitchen table and starting taking pictures before the moment was over. The pictures are not perfect. They are a little blurry and there is a bunch of stuff in the background, but when I look at them I don't notice a bit I just remember the moment. It got me thinking how the little things like this make me happier than anything else. I added a chipboard heart, brackets and little accents from the addons to give the journaling and title more interest.


My third layout We Love You started off different, but this is how it ended up! I initially cut up the spinner, but then decided I wanted it whole again so put it back together. The spinner still moves too so if I get tired of "sweet" I can always change it to something else. Too bad cranky isn't on there!


This kit was so fun to work with. I will definitely have some more projects finished from it!

Anna's Challenge!

Everyone up for a fun challenge?? Don't worry, I've made it super easy so anyone can give it a try!!

Most of us grab a piece of ribbon to add that extra little ooh-la-la to cards, layouts, & wherever our scrappy hearts desire. But today we are going to think outside the box just a little & use paper instead of ribbon. That's right ladies - NO RIBBON ALLOWED! Paper is actually quite fun to work with and can be easily shaped - just like ribbon!

For this card, I punched a hole over each scallop. Next, I cut a very thin piece of paper to fit through the holes. You may have to cut it more than once to get it to the right width. I used patterned paper with lines to make my cutting easier. Then I weaved the paper in & out of the holes & stapled each end for fun. Yes, I could have used ribbon, but paper gives just the same effect. Plus, you can use coordinating papers from the same manufacturer line to take away the guess-work when deciding which paper to use in place of ribbon. Easy peasy!!
Does anyone recognize the products I used for this birthday boy card? That's right, they're from this month's Lime Rickey kit!

Here is another example. This time I used paper to make a bow. All I had to do was cut 4 pieces of paper to the same width. Then I left one piece the original length (to lay across the entire card) & cut the other pieces shorter than the one before it. I folded the ends in & glued them to the center, being careful not to smash the ends of the bow. Then I layered them & wrapped the center with a scrap piece of paper I had cut off one of the strips. Then all I had to do was glue it down & voila! My bow was done :D

A close-up of the bow

Now let's see what you do with this challenge! Don't forget to post your work in the SO gallery so we can all see your creativity :)