Happy New Year

It seems that I missed the whole holiday season on this blog!  Sorry!  I had a very busy life up until Christmas and then took a whole week off. It was a glorious week off, it was a week off from work, a week off from running the kids around from event to event and a week from doing workshops.  I loved it!  It was so refreshing to be able to stay home, clean my house at a leisurely pace, I didn't have to worry about being somewhere at a particular time, I was able spend time with the family-watching movies & playing board games.  We even went into the city to see the Rockefeller Plaza Tree, shopped at American Girl, Lego & Nintendo stores and finished our day trip with a show at the Radio City Music Hall...The Christmas Spectacular.  We had pretty decent seats and my kids were so excited.
I have not scrapped these photos or any holiday photos from this year- I was able to finish a few from last year during PersonalScrappers New Years Crop!
Erica, the owner from PersonalScrapper.com is great-she gives us a whole week to finish up 10 challenges and then extended it for a few more days. 
Here is one layout for the enlarged photo challenge:

By the way the flower is cricut image that I received it from my meetup groups last cricut image swap. 

I will try to post again this week with a few more layouts. 

Until then, Adios amigos!

SAVE THE DAY- All day Crop 3/10/12

Fired Up for Scrappin’!

Want an inexpensive place to scrap & stamp for the day?

Join us for our inaugural 12 hour crop!

DATE: March 10th, 2012

TIME: 10 am – 10 pm

PLACE: West Sayville Main Fire House (80 Main Street, West Sayville, NY 11796)

PRICE: Three different options for you to choose from:

3 feet of cropping space for $20 ($15 if paid in full by January 6th)

6 feet of cropping space for $40 ($35 if paid in full by January 6th)

 A table to yourself near an outlet for your Cricut machine for $45 ($40 if paid in full by January 6th) . There will be no other access to outlets for this purpose so if you want to crop with your Cricut please pay early to ensure you get one of the tables near the outlets! Machines for “crop use” will not be available. NOTE: These tables are very limited and will be reserved on a first-paid basis.

DETAILS: This crop is “bare bones.” There is nothing extra to drive up the cost of your day - it’s just an inexpensive way for you & your friends to craft without interruption!

To keep the cost as low as possible, this crop is strictly a BYO food & beverage event (non-alcoholic only please.) We will not be providing lunch, dinner, snacks, or beverages. There are many restaurants and take out places in the area, some also deliver. We'll have a selection of menus and a list of local places available for your use.

Have questions? Email Judy (JudyStampsUp@aol.com), Denise (DeniseScraps@aol.com) or comment me!~

There will be product & charity raffles featuring Stampin’ Up! & Close to my Heart products, make & takes,layout kits, and a limited amount product, so bring some extra cash!

Stop & Scrap

I am so excited to announce that I will be partnering up with StopandScrap.com.  Stay tuned, one lucky blog reader will get a chance to win a prize from Stop and Scrap!!!

Remaining Octoberfest LOAD

Today is the last day for Personal Scrappers: Octoberfest L.O.A.D.  I uploaded all my photos for this month and I am so excited that I was able to get so many pages done!  I put together mostly sports and last years Halloween pictures!  It was a double incentive to this month, I have had the sports pictures piling up and I sometimes need a push to get them on page.  My next challenge is getting all these layouts (and a few others) into albums!

Now onto my remaining layouts:

CROPTOBERFEST at PersonalScrapper

It is a tradition at PersonalScrapper to do a L.O.A.D in October- which is dubbed as our Croptoberfest!
A L.O.A.D is Lay Out A Day.  There are daily challenges- which gives you tons of inspiration!   I unfortunately have not been able to do one a day but here are some layouts I have done so far. 
If you need inspiration- join us!  It is free to join the forums and if you love the kits the pricing is sooo reasonable (and stuffed with the latest and greatest products)
I am just now getting around to scrapping my Halloween photos from last year:

I have a few more layouts to post- stay tuned :)

Remaining Crop layouts

I was able to get two more layouts done over the weekend.  No scrapping this week- it has been pretty busy running around with the kids and preparing for 2 workshops! 

The first layout was created under the TREES challenge on the PersonalScrapper.com forum.  September's kit had PP filled with trees and felt tree embellies so it was the perfect opportunity to break open the kit:

This next layout was created under the Pens, Paink & Ink oh my! challenge.

I doodled around the frame and painted shimmer ink onto all the flowers around the page:

Back To School On-Line Crop

A Back to School On-Line Crop is going on at http://www.personalscrapper.com/.  You do not need to be a member to join, but you do need to register into the forums.  I love these on-line crops they always come up when I am feeling the creative process going into a burn-out.  It is just the right amount of push (inspiration) to get me going again and i don't have to pack a single thing.  I all happens at home when the kids are sleeping!
This layout was inspired by the 9 squares challenge.  Well I went a little overboard and put a few more in but without the challenge- my layout would have looked a little differently.  This layout was also inspired by a sketch released at Sketch Support.  I am a big fan of double page layouts and this is my go to place for double page sketches!  I used the PersonalScrapper May 2011 Kit using Basic Grey PP.  The circle and lable punchs are from stampin up.  The chipboard circles are Scenic Route and unknown white and blue buttons.

My next layout was based on the Summer Recap Challenge!  I put together a quick single page layout using PersonalScrapper's June 2011 Kit featuring Jillibean Watermelon Gazpacho Soup line:

Pool Party was created under the gallery scraplift challenge: I lifted Kelly's (My3Boys) layout Backyard beauties.  Her layout was stretched from a 1 page to 2 pages.  All materials are from the Personal Scrapper June 2011 Kit featuring Jillibean's Watermelon Gazpacho Soup.

I based this layout on the Use PersonalScrapper Kits only challenge- that wasn't too difficult since most of my layouts used personalscrapper kits.  I used the August 2011 Kit featuring My Mind's Eye Lime Twisht Fly a Kit collection.  I made the banner using stampin' up new banner punch. 

We had the opportunity to do one of the Summer Camp challenges.  Since I had not gotten around to it yet- I chose Erica's July 4th Challenge.  I used the June 2011 Kit again.  I am getting a lot of mileage on this kit and still have plenty of paper left!

The last layout for today was based on the Alphabet Background Challenge:  The challenge was to create your own alphabet background so I pulled out a few sheets of stickers and made the strip of alphas going down the left side.  I used an old PS add-on kit featuring Papertrunk's Wrangler kit.

I hope to get a few more layouts and projects done this weekend!   Till then Happy Friday!!!