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Card of the Week & Best of the Blogosophere: March 6 - 12, 2010

This week, I was lucky enough to score some crafting time.  I played along with a couple of the Paper Craft Planet challenges... and BOY was I challenged.

First, I played along with Amy's 3d challenge....

Cool, right?! I was so happy with how it turned out.  I feel like I made a Longaberger basket...really!

Next, was my own challenge.  You're getting a sneak peak of tomorrow's sketch challenge.  

For the record, I'm doing the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace course.  I'm all about the budget right now.  I used the new Chicken Girl digi stamps from i{heart}papers.  There is nothing like the instant gratification of downloadable stamps.  Sigh.  Makes me feel a little budget guilty... but it doesn't last.  Digi stamps are cheap, resizeable and you have them forever in every size. Makes them almost perfect for anything, even photo mugs!

I printed this cute little bunny on my Neenah paper from Paper Temptress.  I colored it with my Copics (from i{heart}papers) and put it together with some older SU papers that I had in my stash. 

Best of the Blogosphere lists.

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The Shout Out List (my favorite CARDS OF THE WEEK): The cards and projects that earned some extra love and attention this week. The best of the best. You people ROCK MY WORLD :D

Shout (all categories, just awesome):

Easter: St. Patrick's Day: Spring:
Flowers:
Teacher:

Card Sets:

Wedding:

Invitations:

Friendship:

Wrap it Up:

Favors (Party favors...):

Thank You:

Birthday:

Gift Ideas:

Baby:

Boxes:

Sympathy:

Sympathy cards are always hard to write.  Here's a link to a website that will help you with wording and then some cards for inspiration. 

The Best of the Blogosphere:

In my travels through Blogland, I discover a lot of projects, cards, scrapbook pages, tips, templates and tutorials that are all worth sharing. I want my friends to see the things out there that are special, inspirational, worth some extra notice. This list is everything I think is worth sharing... better read it... you could be on the list!

Color Challenge with a Prize!

Today Lauretta's Digital Stamps is sponsoring our color challenge on Paper Craft Planet and I am the hostess!

Here is my card:

I made this card using a paper from My Minds Eye called "Life Is Good". I love this paper -- it's so bright and cheerful. I'm really tired of being cold with all the snow -- bright and cheerful is just what I need right now! The paper seemed like the perfect match for Lauretta's adorable Seal of Love image.

The seal is adorable, but I wanted to alter him a little and replace the heart he is balancing with a button. One of the best things about digital stamps is that they are so versatile. Here's a little video on how I altered this little guy to fit my card:

But wait... there is more...

Did you see the adorable box that Adela posted yesterday? It's a freebie cutter file for your Silhouette or Cricut! I had some leftover paper, so I whipped one up to match the card. Now, I'm already for the next birthday that comes around!

OK, are you ready to play along? Here are the colors for this week -- a little bright and cheerful to get you going :)

• Red
• Dark green
• Light green
• Mustard/yellow
• Coral/Pink

The Prize...

Today's challenge is sponsored by Lauretta's Digital Stamps! You could win FOUR digital stamps for her store if you play along in our challenge... (you get to pick your favorites!)

To play along, simply create a card using our color palette. Upload it to the PCP gallery using the tag PCPcolor55.

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Check out our gallery for this week!

Scrappy Sunday and Scrapbook Saturday -- October 18 - 25, 2009

Hey everyone. I told Jen that I would do my best to post this week's Scrappy Sunday Challenge, while she's out of town. If this gets posted I'll be amazed as I haven't a clue what I'm doing, especially late in night Saturday. :) No worries, all will be back to normal next week & Jen will be back administering this.

This week's sketch might require a bit of rough draft so you can get the journaling around the outside of the page. I think it looks cool ever since I saw Ali Edwards do it on her layouts & if you can do it in your own handwriting, how lovely & personal. Digi scrappers & traditional scrappers, hopefully you'll have some fun with this. I did forget to sketch in embellishments, with all the pics on the page ... um sorry :) I'm sure you'll all be able to find somewhere to put them in (for me I just did it around the photos themselves).

The sketch is in 12"x12" square format, but you can switch it up to fit your scrapbook (flip or rotate the sketch, and move things around a bit, but try to stay true to the basic outline of the sketch. Have Fun!!) I've always scrapbooked in 8.5x11", but the basic square template is there. Anyhow, I hope some of you will have the chance to play along.

We'd love to see some of you family & friends uploaded & tagged sb102509 so we can put them in the album . For a free psd template for you digi scrappers, check out the link on Tethered2Home

Join the Scrappy Sunday Challenge Group Check out our gallery for this week!Check out our gallery for this week!

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Scrappy Sunday and Scrapbook Saturday, on Monday

I'm really sorry about the lateness of this post. I took a much needed day of rest yesterday! Paper Craft Planet's Scrappy Sunday Challenge: Hi! Sorry I missed you guys last week!! Thanks Susanna for taking over for me!! I'm going to be out of town for continuing education for work next week, so I'll have a guest hostess next week as well, so everyone be on your best behavior!! (I'm having flash backs to grade school when the teacher would tell us we were going to have a substitute the next day!! hee hee). This week's sketch was actually designed by one of our former Scrappy Sunday Guest Designers, the oh-so-talented Crystal Livesay! Crystal recently opened up shop at the Digichick and is designing and selling digital templates inspired by her own amazing scrapbook layouts! Check out her store HERE. I've purchased all of her templates packs so far and they are seriously AWESOME!! If you're a digi scrapper and like to use a template, these are definitely a must-have!! If you'd like to buy the entire kit (it comes with 4 templates total) that includes the template I used for this week's sketch (and make your scrapping super easy this week if you're a digi scrapper), you can pick it up HERE in Crystal's store at the Digichick. Here's a look at the sketch:

The sketch features one main photo with lots of fun layered papers. Those "x"s represent embellishments of your choice. Feel free to include additional photos if you're a multi-photo scrapper, just try to stay true to the original sketch by building off the main focal point. If you play along, be sure to use the tag sb101809 (all lower case) so we can find your layouts to pull into the gallery! And remember, all forms of scrapbooking - traditional, digi and hybrid are welcome!! As always, feel free to flip or rotate the sketch or add or remove layers as needed, just as long as the original layout design is recognizable!! And here's a look at my sample:

Credits: Jumpers 5-8 Templates by Crystal Livesay (the Digichick); Wild and Craz-He by Traci Reed (Sweet Shoppe) Join the Scrappy Sunday Challenge Group Check out our gallery for this week!The Best of the Blogosphere Scrapbooking lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

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Best of the Scrapbook Blogosphere - 10/11/09

The Best of the Blogosphere Scrapbooking lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

Thumbs Up!

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Scrappy Sunday and the Scrapbooking BOB - 10/04/09

Hey! Sorry about the posting delay.  I spent yesterday getting Copic Certified!!! (Whoo Whooo!)  I'm adding a new list to our Scrappy Sunday Best of the Blogosphere -- it's the "Thumbs Up!" list.  It's a Shout Out list for our scrappers.  I thought it was time to have our own way of praising those amazing, above and beyond pages -- you know, the ones you book mark and go back to time and time again.

 For our Scrappy Sunday Challenge this week, we have some fun news, so I'll turn the "mic" over to Jen....

Wow! Can you believe it's already October!?!? Crazy, huh? This week's sketch should be an easy one for ya - I kept it pretty simple with very few layers (feel free to add them). I'd like to add an optional "bonus challenge" for you to include some interesting title work on your page, making it a focal point of your layout. (See my sample for inspiration).

Here's the sketch:

If you play along, be sure to use the tag sb100409 (all lower case) so we can find your layouts to pull into the gallery! And remember, all forms of scrapbooking - traditional, digi and hybrid are welcome!! As always, feel free to flip or rotate the sketch or add or remove layers as needed, just as long as the original layout design is recognizable!!

And here's my sample:

Credits: You Make My World Go Round by Lauren Grier and Heather Roselli; DJB Poppyseed font by Darcy Baldwin (all from Sweet Shoppe).

Join the Scrappy Sunday Challenge Group Check out our gallery for this week!

Now, onto the Best of the Blogosphere Scrapbooking lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

Thumbs Up!

Scrapbooking Inspiration

Scrapbooking Mini-Books

Hybrid (or "Fusion") Scrapbooking Ideas:

Fun with Photoshop:

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Scrappy Sunday Challenge and Best of the Scrapbook Blogosphere - 9/20/09

OK, it's Scrappy Sunday on Paper Craft Planet.  I don't have time to play along today, but this is page one of a two pager and I am definitely going to break out my supplies and do this one.  Hopefully, I can get my sample up for you tomorrow. 

Onto Scrappy Sunday....

this next bit is from Jen (I want to be Jen when I grow up...):

Hi guys! I'm going to keep this super short and sweet as everyone around here has been majorly sick with a nasty stomach bug all weekend!! NOT fun!! Susanna will be back in a bit in the main forum to announce the winner of the MAC Photoshop Elements!!

As promised, this week's sketch is a close match to last week's and is intended to work as the 2nd page of a 2-page layout. In fact, this week's sketch looks a lot like a flipped version of last week's sketch with things shifted slightly downward and replacing one of the square photos with a vertical photo. But I wanted to take this opportunity to show how easy it is to take a sketch and come up with a 2nd coordinating page for a 2-page spread. I do this quite often (flip it, shift some things and change the orientation of a photo or 2). I think it works - what do you think? The sketch is below.

If you play along, be sure to use the tag sb092009 (all lower case) so we can find your layouts to pull into the gallery! And remember, all forms of scrapbooking - traditional, digi and hybrid are welcome!!

And here's my sample for this week:

Credits: Chasing Rainbows by Zoe Pearn (Sweet Shoppe Designs); Cutting Templates, Rounded Corners by Misty Cato (Sweet Shoppe Designs); Word Art by Ali Edwards (Designer Digitals). And here's a look at how my 2 pages will look side-by-side in my printed photobook:

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Now, onto the Best of the Blogosphere Scrapbooking lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

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Scrappy Sunday Challenge and Best of the Scrapping Blogosphere

OK, it's Scrappy Sunday on Paper Craft Planet.  I don't have time to play along today, but this is page one of a two pager and I am definitely going to break out my supplies and do this one.  Hopefully, I can get my sample up for you tomorrow. 

Onto Scrappy Sunday....

this next bit is from Jen (I want to be Jen when I grow up...):

Happy Scrappy Sunday!! Today's sketch is the first in a 2-page spread (the 2nd, facing page will be next week's sketch and will also feature 3 photos - 2 square and 1 vertical - so keep that in mind while playing this week). Of course, you don't have to make the 2 sketches match, but if you like to work in 2-page spreads these 2 weeks' sketches will work well together. Anyway, I'll get right to the point as I'm late getting this posted once again (good thing you guys are used to that!! LOL). The sketch is below. If you play along, be sure to use the tag sb091309 (all lower case) so we can find your layouts to pull into the gallery! And remember, all forms of scrapbooking - traditional, digi and hybrid are welcome!!

And here's my sample, documenting photos of getting ready to take my son Dean home from the hospital when he was less then 2 days old (and yeah, I'm looking pretty rough - but give me a break - I had just given birth like 36 hours before!! LOL):

Credits: Chasing Rainbows by Zoe Pearn (Sweet Shoppe Designs); Cutting Templates, Rounded Corners by Misty Cato (Sweet Shoppe Designs); Word Art by Ali Edwards (Designer Digitals).

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Now, onto the Best of the Blogosphere Scrapbooking lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

Scrapbooking Inspiration

Scrapbooking Mini-Books

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Fun with Photoshop:

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Scrappy Sunday Challenge and Best of the Scrapping Blogosphere

Another Scrappy Sunday challenge to lead off our week of scrapbooking goodies --

It's been a while since I have had the pleasure of hosting! I'm doing a traditional scrap layout today, but it's super easy, and feel free to go digi :)

In my sample, I did a page for my boys' day at the All Star baseball game and homerun derby. I didn't have a lot of strong photos for this event, so I changed the center photo to an embellishment.

A couple of tips and tricks for this layout. I LOVE Cosmo Cricket paper collections. They are good for the color challenged of us out there, that need some help coordinating papers. I'm CHEAP with paper -- I didn't want to use up two pages in order to make this one layout, so I cut the center square out and then flipped the page over and taped it back together! Here's a close up of the back so you can see how I have it taped.

I'd love for you to play along this week! Tag your photo sb083009 so that I can add your picture to our photo album for this week. (Here is a tutorial on adding pictures to the gallery, if you need it.) I can't wait to see what you make!

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Check out our gallery for this week!

Now, onto the Best of the Blogosphere Scrapbooking lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

Scrapbooking Inspiration

Scrapbooking Mini-Books

Hybrid (or "Fusion") Scrapbooking Ideas:

Fun with Photoshop:

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Scrappy Sunday Challenge and Best of the Scrapping Blogosphere

Another Scrappy Sunday challenge to lead off our week of scrapbooking goodies --

From my incredibly talented friend, Jen Tapler:

Here we are with another fun scrapbook sketch for you to play with this week!! My sketching MoJo seems to have deserted me so I'm relying once again on a super talented digital template designer to help us out with this week's sketch. I used a digital template from Connie Prince's Gift of Gab (Gotta Pixel) for my sample this week and the template will serve as our sketch. If you're a digi scrapper, you can purchase and download the template (which comes with 3 others) and use it to make your layout. Of course, if you're a paper scrapper - feel free to use the image like you would any other sketch (but please credit Connie in any galleries you post in). The sketch is below. If you play along, be sure to use the tag sb082309 (all lower case) so we can find your layouts! And remember, all forms of scrapbooking - traditional, digi and hybrid are welcome!! Ok, here's a look at this week's sketch:

And here's my sample layout:

Credits: Gift of Gab template set by Connie Prince (Gotta Pixel); Just Beachy by Jennifer Fox; Oodles of Tags by Julie Billingsley (Sweet Shoppe Designs); font is DJB Executive by Darcy Baldwin (Sweet Shoppe Designs). Hope you play along!!!!

Join the Scrappy Sunday Challenge Group Check out our gallery for this week!

Now, onto the Best of the Blogosphere Scrapbooking lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

Scrapbooking Inspiration

Scrapbooking Mini-Books

Hybrid (or "Fusion") Scrapbooking Ideas:

Fun with Photoshop:

Please remember that my site is powered by YOU. Please comment here if you'd like me to read your blog or if you have seen some amazing blog art that I'm missing! Thanks!