ScrapThat! November Kit Reveal and Blog Hop!

Welcome to the ScrapThat! November Kit Reveal and Blog Hop!

We are so excited to show you our SPECTACULAR November kit featuring the gorgeous "Serenade" Collection by Bo Bunny.

We have a very talented Guest Designer joining us this month!! We are most delighted to introduce to you, Tracey Gregory. ScrapThat! is so pleased that she has joined us this month!!

So, without further ado . . . introducing our

~ November Kit Reveal ~

"Remember When . . ."

This kit is full of amazing products including Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers, gorgeous ribbon, Maya Road chipboard doors and stickpin, Prima Alphabet set in two colors, Zva adhesive pearls and much much more!

Main Kit: $39.99

NOTE: The Main Kit cost for non-members is $44.99

BoBunny’s Serenade Paper Collection

1 sheet – Trellis
1 sheet – Sunrise
1 sheet – Vines
1 sheet – Pendant
1 sheet – Promenade
1 sheet – Dot
1 sheet – Dragonfly
1 sheet – Brazzill Cardstock – Honeycomb
1 sheet – Brazzill Cardstock – Leapfrog
1 sheet – Brazzill Cardstock – Brick
1 sheet – Prima - Alphas
1 ea – Prima, Chalk Ink, Teak Wall
2 ea – Maya Road, chipboard doors
1 ea – Maya Road, stick pin
2 ea – WOC leaves
5 ea – WOC Mulberry Paper Poppy Flowers, white
1 ea – WOC, Mulberry Paper Wild Poppy Flower, Red
1 Pkg – Zva Self Adhesive Bling, Pewter
1 length – Tulle, black
1 length – ¼” Satin Ribbon, white
1 length – ¼” Satin Ribbon, cream
1 length – ¼” Satin Ribbon, brown

Embellishment Add-On $14.99
NOTE: The Embellishment Add-On cost for non-members is $17.99

1 Pkg – Prima, Vintage Trinkets
1 Pkg – Prima, Decorative Wood Embellishments
1 Pkg – Prima Leaves

Flower Add-On $12.99

NOTE: The Flower Add-On cost for non-members is $14.99

1 Pkg – Prima Flowers, Cabaletta
1 Pkg – Prima Flowers, Bel Canto
1 Pkg – Prima Flowers, Gracie Vine

Paper Add-On $9.99

NOTE: The Paper Add-On cost for non-members is $12.99

1 sheet – Trellis
1 sheet – Sunrise
1 sheet – Vines
1 sheet – Pendant
1 sheet – Promenade
1 sheet – Dot
1 sheet – Dragonfly
1 sheet – Brazzill Cardstock – Honeycomb
1 sheet – Brazzill Cardstock – Leapfrog
1 sheet – Brazzill Cardstock – Brick

We are currently accepting new Kit Club Members. For more information, complete the form on the link below:

New Subscriber

We also have our November Sketch Challenge Posted

HERE

Everyone is welcome to participate, all entries due by November 15th.

Here are my layouts for the November Kit:

"Sisters"

My first layout is based on this month's sketch and includes items from the Main Kit and a few items from my stash. I'll have a tutorial in early November on how to make the mini-fan embellishments on this layout!

"You Hold the Key to my Heart"

My second layout includes items from the Main Kit, Embellishment Add-On and Flower Add-On, as well as a few mixed media items from my stash.

Come back on October 30 for my Sketchabilities layout reveal for this kit and drop by throughout the month of November and I'll have a bit more information and close ups on each project, along with a tip or two!

Our Blog Hop features 6 fantastic blogs from our Design Team

Our SPECTACULAR November Blog Hop Prize is a ScrapThat! August Main Kit Featuring the gorgeous Charlotte's Dream by Kaisercraft!!

To qualify for this month's FABULOUS Prize you must complete the following:

* Visit each blog listed on the hop to see what each Designer has created using this month's kit and sketch (comments are very much appreciated)

* Each Designer's blog hop post will feature a word, to make up a secret sentence, collect these words along the way and follow the directions provided in ScrapThat!'s forum when you are all finished.

* You must become a FOLLOWER of each blog along the way and LIKE us on our Facebook Page!

* Post the ScrapThat! Blinkie on your blog

* The last stop on our Blog Hop is our Forum, follow the link provided and complete the remainder of the Blog Hop Instructions.

The Blog Hop ends Sunday October 28 at 12PM CST.

The prize MUST be claimed within 3 days of the forum announcement which will also be made on the ScrapThat! Blog.

If left unclaimed a NEW winner will be chosen.

**Winner will pay actual shipping costs for sending the kit from Canada. **

Shipping costs will be invoiced via PayPal.

Prizes won during the month will be mailed out the first week of the following month.

Due to Customs clearance, International mailings sometimes take 30-75 days to receive.

MY SECRET WORD IS:

** ScrapThat!**

Next hop over to: Marilyn Rivera

Should you lose your way, come back here for the Blog Hop sequence:
Scrap That!
Tracey Gregory
Tracey Sabella
Sandi Smith
ScrapThat! Facebook Page
Amarilys Doria
Sarah Routledge (That's Me!)
Marilyn Rivera
ScrapThat! Forum

Our Design Team is partnering with Sketchabilities for their upcoming October 30 Sketch Challenge! so be sure to stop back here next week to see the rest of our Design Team's inspiring work with this gorgeous November Kit and the reveal of the Sketchabilities new sketch!!

Thanks for stopping by today!



ScrapThat! Design Team and November Kit Sneak Peek!

I am SO excited to finally be able to share that I am on the ScrapThat! Design Team! ScrapThat! is an amazing kit club with fabulous, versatile kits full of beautiful products - and each month they offer a gorgeous Flower Add-On, Embellishment Add-On and Paper Add-On that perfectly coordinate with the main kit! In addition to their great kits, ScrapThat! has an amazing online community with two monthly challenges that offer prizes!

I  can't wait to share my first ScrapThat! Design Team layouts with you - so be sure to come back on October 26th for the November Kit reveal and Blog Hop! For now, here is a sneak peek of what's in store from the gorgeous November Kit. . .

Thanks for stopping by today!

Boo - The Paper Mixing Bowl October 2012 Recipe Challenge

Well, I'm a little late posting this - but here is my layout for this month's challenge at The Paper Mixing Bowl. This month's recipe is "Pumpkin Pie" with some fun, Halloween-inspired design elements! For my layout, I have scrapped a picture I captured of my son on his first Halloween. Note: I did not scare him to get him to make the expression on his face - it was just a lucky picture of a funny face! Anyhow, here is my layout and the Recipe Card for this month's challenge.

I used a combination of Echo Park "Chillingsworth Manor" and My Mind's Eye "The Spider's Web" papers for the layout. For the "utensils" (i.e. design elements), I fussy-cut the pumpkins from a sheet of the MME paper, used some spider's web and plastic spider Halloween decorations and cut/distressed some cat scratches into the layout. Here is a close-up of the photo/embellishment cluster from the top left of the layout.

For my journalling, I (obviously) used Halloween as the inspiration and simply wrote on a ticket cut from one of the "Chillingsworth Manor" papers. 

That's it for tonight's post - I hope you'll pop over to The Paper Mixing Bowl Blog and play along with this month's challenge!

Good Boy - CSI #38 and OUAS

Just a quick post tonight since it is so late. Insomnia is my nemesis of late.....I'm playing along again with CSI and Once Upon a Sketch. Here is my layout for this week and the "Case File" that inspired it!

This is the first time I have scrapped a photo of our dog Strider. We got him the year we moved into our home and had him for only four years - when we lost him to cancer. My journalling (on the tag tucked in on the left side) reads: "I don't know if you ever really get over the loss of a pet. Strider was our 'baby' before we had a baby and I still miss him. It makes me sad that we had so little time with him. He was our Good Boy."

My "evidence" for this layout includes: woodgrain, newsprint pattern, dog or pet accent (the bone paper), and flowers. Here are a couple of close-ups of the layout:

That's it - like I said - a really quick post tonight! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog!

My Layout is Featured on the Graphic 45 Blog Today!

I was so excited today when I visited the Graphic 45 Blog and saw that my layout - "Love" - was featured on their blog!

Daydream Believer - CSI #37 and OUAS

I just love the pairing of CSI and Once Upon a Sketch this month! For this week's challenge I decided to try something new and have done my very first Finnabair-inspired layout. If you don't know who Finnabair is - check out her blog - her work is AMAZING. I had a lot of fun getting dirty and making this layout - and I will definitely be trying it again. I definitely need to start saving more "treasures" (e.g. pop-tabs, random bits of hardware, etc.) for these types of layouts. I digress....here is my layout and the CSI Case File that inspired it.

Since I really had no idea where to start to create a "Finnabair-style" layout - what better place than her blog?! She has a fabulous video tutorial (via Live with Prima) on how to create this style of layout. To start my layout, I used a page by Basic Grey from their Basic Whites collection - love the notebook paper design of this page. I used a Crafter's Workshop 6x6 Paint Lids template and randomly inked some spots with Distress Ink in Black Soot; then, I used some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Candy Apple Red. I layered torn pieces of  Bazzill Basics papers (Antique Dictionary and Antique Micro Dot) with a torn piece of notebook paper and used some pieces of Prima packaging for the two paper strips to the left of the photo and the larger circle on the right (under the clock face). I used a Michael's bargain bin frame and a photo of my sun from Summer 2011. For the pre-misting embellishments, I added some cheesecloth, Prima canvas resist shapes, fabric flowers, plastic gems, a resin embellishment and some paper reinforcers. I misted everything with three colours of mists: 1) Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Marshmallow, 2) Perfect Pearls Mist in Blue Smoke and 3) Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Raven.  (BTW - I LOVE how the plastic paper reinforcers resisted the misting!)

After misting, I added some additional embellishments (i.e. staples, the red flowers, black key and blue glass gems) and the title. The title is actually on the hinged flap that I tore off the back of the frame...kinda love how it looks on the layout! I called the layout "Daydream Believer" (for The Monkees song) and handwrote a simple message to my son (paraphrasing Eleanor Roosevelt), which says "Believe in the beauty of your dreams". The journal notepaper looked too white against the layout - so I added some Perfect Pearls pigment to it in Blue Patina.

Oh - I guess I should summarize how I "solved the case"!

• Colour Scheme: I focused on the white, black and grey with hints of the red and blue.
• Evidence: Use stripes and dots (lined paper and dotted paper), use wrappers/ packaging (Prima packaging - two strips on left and larger circle on right - under clock), use a book page (Antique Dictionary page used in layering), circles (lots - the masking uses circles and I added paper reinforcers too)
• Testimony: Use a song title or lyrics as inspiration for your journalling, handwrite your journalling, write your journalling on note paper; Inspiration Word: -- daydream. The layout title is from the song "Daydream Believer" and I paraphrased a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt for the journalling, which says "Believe in the beauty of your dreams." I hope my son is a dreamer - and that he isn't afraid to follow his dreams....
• Sketch: I followed it fairly closely - just playing with the size/positioning of the focal point and embellishments

That's it for tonight! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. I love visitors and really appreciate your comments!

Materials Used:

Patterned Papers - Basic Grey - Basic Whites - Booknote; Bazzill Basics - Antique Dictionary and Antique Micro Dot; Crafter's Workshop 6x6 Template - Paint Lids; Distress Ink in Black Soot; Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists in Candy Apple Red, Marshmallow and Raven; Perfect Pearls Mist in Blue Smoke; Perfect Pearls Pigment in Blue Patina; Tattered Angels Vintage Hardware (Key); Recollections Flowers and Resin Embellishment; Jolee Boutique Flower and Plastic Gem; Prima Resist Canvas; Prima Packaging; Kaisercraft - Tiny Alpha Stickers in Black; Michael's discount mini frame; Glass Gem; Hilroy Graph Notebook paper; paper reinforcers, staples, Aleene's Tacky Glue.

Love - CSI #36 and Once Upon a Sketch

I'm back with a new layout! This week I am playing along with CSI again - and it is an extra-special month at CSI because they have teamed up with Once Upon a . . .Sketch! I just love playing along with both these challenges - so this was a super-fun layout to do! I've used a picture of myself with my son when he was 3-months old. I don't have a lot of pics of me with him, since I am usually the one wielding the camera, but this is one picture that I just love. So, here is my layout and the CSI Case File that it is based on:

 Here is how I "solved the case":

• Colour Scheme: I focused on the lighter tones in the scheme, with the darker orange and tan colours as my accents. I have also used black and kraft (i.e. cardboard) on the layout.
• Evidence: Mesh (cheesecloth); Fibres (cheesecloth, ribbon, twine); tone-on-tone; curved, organic shapes (Dusty Attic chipboard floral element)
• Journalling: I scattered my journalling words across the banner elements of the layout
• Sketch: I followed it fairly closely - just tilting the picture and playing with the embellishments

For this layout, I have used Graphic 45's Olde Curiosity Shoppe Collection. The papers were perfect for the colour scheme for this challenge - and I adore everything Graphic 45 and have been dying to use these papers. Since I decided to use the tone-on-tone element of the challenge- I layered two similarly coloured papers with different patterns for the background to my page -- lots of distressing of the papers, with paper tears/rolls on the top page. I used a Martha Stewart deep-edge punch to create the horizontal border from the sketch using black cardstock - which ended up being mostly hidden by my embellishments, but I repeated the border-punch as peek-a-boos in the paper tears.

For the circle element of the sketch, I layered a circle cardboard that I ripped the top-layer off of to reveal the cardboard ripple texture with some cheesecloth and second circle of patterned paper. I then ripped a page out of an old dictionary (and had serious guilt about destroying a book) to use in the layering for my photo mat. I used simple black cardstock for the photo mat because I love how the black and white photo stands out on it. I used a Dusty Attic floral frame element, treated with Perfect Pearls Pigments in Copper and Gold, as well as a Dusty Attic mini word for the title, which I simply coloured with a black artist's marker. 

I made the banner using twine and cardboard and then added word elements from 7-Dots Studio Alpha Stickers for my scattered journalling. I added in some mulberry flowers, fussy-cut butterflies, tag elements from the Graphic 45 collection, and ribbon as my embellishments.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today! Don't forget - I have a giveaway going on right now - check the right sidebar of my blog for a link!!

Materials Used:

Patterned Papers - Graphic 45 "Olde Curiosity Shoppe" Collection - Optical Oddities, Mercurial Masterpiece, Bazaar of Wonders, Parlor Wall, Tags #1; 7 Dots Studio "Domestic Goddess" Collection - Alpa Stickers - Salt and Pepper; Dusty Attic - Mini Word ("Love") and Floral Frame Set (Smaller Piece); Perfect Pearls Pigments - Perfect Copper, Perfect Gold; Perfect Pearls Perfect Medium; Recollections Boutique Fleur Mulberry Paper Flowers; Marvy Brush Marker - Black; Martha Stewart Deep Edge Punch - Garden Trellis; Black Cardstock, Cardboard, Twine, Cheesecloth, Dictionary Page; Michael's Special Value Ribbon; Aleene's Tacky Glue; 3D Foam Adhesive; Memory Tape Runner XL; Glue Dots - Craft and Mini.

Special Guest Artist - Ideas for Scrapbookers - Once Upon a Springtime Fairy House

I was so excited when Pam, the owner of the Ideas for Scrapbookers blog, asked me if I'd be interested in being a featured designer on the blog sometime - of course my answer was YES! I actually had this little project in mind for a while - so this was the perfect impetus for me to actually sit down and do it! I love using my scrapbooking papers for off-the-page projects, such as home or holiday decorations, so I decided to create a lovely little Fairy House using Graphic 45's "Once Upon a Springtime" collection. It is so easy to take a cheap item, like the miniature wooden birdhouse I got for $1.50, and turn it into something beautiful using just your normal scrapbooking supplies! I hope my project inspires you to try your own off the page project!

Here is a little step-by-step how I created my Once Upon a Springtime Fairy House!

1. Paint the plain wooden house using an acrylic craft paint in Antique White.

2.  a. Cut a strip of paper the height of the main 'body' of the house and punch a hole for the bird-perch. 

     b. Mod podge the back of the paper strip and adhere it to the birdhouse. 

     c. For the large hole in the birdhouse, I simply cut a starburst pattern into the paper and folded the points inwards. 

     d. Finally, coat the paper with Mod Podge.

3.  a. Punch out a heck of a lot of leaves - I used the Martha Stewart Rose Leaf punch.

     b. Curl the edges of the leaves- I used a thin paintbrush.

     c. Attach the leaves in graduating layers using liquid glue.

4.  a. Brush the tips of the leaves with mod podge and sprinkle on glitter. I used DecoArt Glamour Dust - it is so pretty and very fine (and unfortunately doesn't show up well in the photos).

    b. "Stamp" the perch and white edge of the base with Perfect Medium and Brush on Perfect Pearls (I used Green Patina).

    c. You'll also notice that I wrapped some ribbon around the edge of the birdhouse where it meets the base - I thought this gave it a nicer finish at the edge. I used the same ribbon at the top of the birdhouse for the hanging loop.

5.  a. Fussy Cut a fairy from an 8x8 sheet of the Once Upon a Springtime paper.

     b. Coat Fairy with Mod Podge and adhere to birdhouse with 3D foam adhesive.

     c. Add floral embellishments - I used the Spellbinders Shapeabilities Bitty Blossom die to create the roses for the fairy house. I simply wrapped them around a paintbrush to roll them into the size/shape I wanted and then used a glue dot to keep them together. I added a pearl bead to the centre of each flower.

     d. Add other embellishments using Mod Podge - I used the "Once Upon a Springtime" tag elements for the tag, "title" piece and round postmarks. 

Here are a couple of photos of the final Fairy House from different angles!

Thanks so much to Pam for having me as a guest on her blog! I had so much fun with this project that I think I might make a couple more and create a little set!

Materials Used:

Patterened Papers - Graphic 45 Once Upon a Springtime Collection - 12x12 Once Upon a Springtime, Enchanted Forest, Butterfly Kisses, Tags; 8x8 Once Upon a Springtime; Simply Surfaces Mini Birdhouse; DecoArt Acrylic Craft Paint - Antique White; Celebrate It Ribbon; Spellbinders Shapeabilities Die Bitty Blossoms; Jenni Bowlin Studios Pearl Beads; Perfect Pearls Pigment Powder - Green Patina; DecoArt Glamour Dust; Mod Podge - Matte; Glue Dots - Mini and Craft

Memories - ScrapThat! September Sketch

A quick post tonight of a layout I created for the September Sketch at ScrapThat! I actually used the April ScrapThat! kit plus some extras from my stash for the layout. I loved the romantic sketch and thought it was perfect for a wedding photo. Here is my layout:

And here is the sketch that inspired this layout:

I followed the sketch fairly closely - just altering the position of the title and flowers. I added in a few "extras" too - like the lacing and the gorgeous Dusty Attic clock! I used Kaisercraft papers from their "Sweet Nothings" collection - lots of layering, distressing of the papers. I fussy cut the cream-coloured scalloped border from one sheet of the paper and distressed the edges, then layered it on top of a punched border strip. The pink scalloped border piece is from the Kaisercraft Charlotte's Dream collectables. The flowers are a combination of Prima and Kaisercraft. Once I finished the layout, it felt like it was lacking a little oomph - so I swiped on the gesso over the papers and flowers to "whitewash" the layout- I kinda like how that turned out. (FYI - using your fingers to swipe the gesso on the paper works a lot better than a brush!)

I just love this Dusty Attic clock - I painted it with gesso and then ran a soft-bristle toothbrush over it to clean the gesso out of the details. Then, I swiped some Perfect Pearls Pigment Powder in Green Patina onto the clock to make the numbers stand out. The lacing was inspired by my wedding dress, which had a corset-laced back.

Just one more close-up - the flower cluster and second lacing element on this page!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. 

Materials Used:

Patterened Papers - Kaisercraft Sweet Nothings Collection - Sincerely, Devoted, Love Letters, You & Me and Dozen Roses; Kaisercraft Collectables - Charlotte's Dream Collection (Pink Scallop Border); Bazzill Cardstock - Sand; Paper Flowers - Prima and Kaisercraft; Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso; Dusty Attic Vintage Clock #2; Perfect Pearls Pigment Powder - Green Patina; Basic Grey Opaline Half Pearl; DMC White Embroidery Floss; Martha Stewart Punch around the Page; Glue Dots - Mini and Craft; Memory Tape Runner XL.

Play. Always. - The Paper Mixing Bowl September 2012 Recipe Challenge

I can't believe it is September already! The summer really flew by this year...I am NOT ready for it to be Autumn yet! *sigh* Oh well, a new month means a new challenge over at The Paper Mixing Bowl - and this month the theme was fun and games - with a Recipe Challenge of "Buttery Popcorn". Here is my layout and this month's recipe card!

The layout features my gorgeous little boy (of course) and I have used My Mind's Eye "Follow Your Heart - Be Amazing" papers. The main ingredient for the recipe was yellow - not my favourite colour, but I am happy with how it works on this layout. I used the yellow hexagon patterned paper as the photo mat and fussy cut the hexagons from one sheet of the MME paper as my repetitive shapes element. For my journalling, I simply used a 3D MME sticker and journalled about my son's favourite game - soccer. He loves it so much, he even wants to play it in the rain (as in these photos).

I also used some gesso and molding paste on this layout - I love the look of these but haven't experimented too much with them yet. For this layout, I simply swiped some gesso on the base page and then used a Chicken Wire mask and some light molding paste. Once the molding paste had dried, I brushed it with some Perfect Pearls in Blue Patina to make it stand out. I love how the masking turned out - and that it plays along with the recipe and is part of my repetitive shapes for this layout!

For my title, I played off the scrabble letter that was already on the MME paper and printed some digi scrabble letters from fuzzimo.com. The title also accounts for the game pieces element of the recipe. I chose the title "Play. Always" because my son loves to play - and I hope he always remembers to play and have fun - it is all too often that we forget that! I printed the scrabble letters on white cardstock, cut them out and adhered them to some chipboard using Mod Podge. I then trimmed them down and inked the edges with Distress Ink in Vintage Photo.

That's it for now! I hope you'll play along with the September 2012 Recipe Challenge at The Paper Mixing Bowl!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. 

Materials Used:

Patterened Paper: My Mind's Eye - Follow Your Heart - Be Amazing - Kraft Unique, Be the Best, and Honey Blue; My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart - Layered Stickers; Claudine Hellmuth Studio Gesso (white); Crafter's Workshop Temlate - Chicken Wire; Golden Light Molding Paste; Ranger Perfect Pearls - Blue Patina; Digi Scrabble Letters - fuzzimo.com; Mod Podge (matte); Distress Ink -  Vintage Photo; 3D Foam Adhesive; Memory Tape Runner XL

Tropical Travelogue - The Paper Mixing Bowl August 2012 Challenge

It is time, once again, for a new challenge reveal at The Paper Mixing Bowl! This month the Recipe Challenge is "Margaritas" (mmm....tasty) - and the Main Ingredient is lime-green! I chose pictures from my honeymoon in Punta Cana for this layout - and did some photoshop doctoring to get the polaroid effect and sepia tone. Here is my layout and this month's recipe card!

Graphic 45's "Tropical Travelogue" collection was perfect for this layout - so much so that I used it as the title for the layout too! The base page of my layout is Core'dinations Kraft Core paper, which I sanded around the edge - I love how the sanded kraft-core looks like "sand" for my beachy, tropical layout! I used a torn piece of the Rainforest paper to anchor the central elements of the layout. I then layered some cheesecloth on top of that and then used a passport page that I cut from the Exotic Destination paper to mat the photos. The other paper embellishments (postage stamps, journalling spot, title, beach sign) are cut from the Exotic Destination and Paradise Postage papers from the G45 collection.

My non-paper embellishments include some seashells picked up in the Michael's bargain bin, some heavy twine and a couple of mini-clothespins - which I love! I took a couple of "dimensional" photos of this layout so you can get the full effect of all the 3D embellishments - the flat photos really don't do this layout justice!

That's it for today! I hope you'll pop over to The Paper Mixing Bowl blog and play along with this month's recipe challenge.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today! Don't forget to enter your name for a chance to win some Scrappy Goodies in celebration of my birthday (link in the right sidebar)! 

Materials Used:

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