March Stackaholic Challenge

It has been awhile, but I decided to give the DCWV Monthly Stackaholic Challenge and another go. I really liked the sketched and had no problem finding pictures to work with.

I used paper from the Snapshot Stack and it went together very quickly. I really like how it turned out.

January DCWV Stack-a-holic Challenge

Thanks to a 4 day weekend from holidays and uncharacteristically good kiddos, I managed to finish not only a layout, but also a card in one day for the January Stack-a-holic Challenge from DCWV Diary. I used paper from the Gilded Orchard Stack that I won from DCWV and Create: blog.

Here is my interpretation of the layout sketch from Liz Chidester aka The Scrappiest.

  

 And here my card interpretation of the sketch from Got Sketch?.

 

It was fun to use one of my new stacks and a few other new stash things like my glitter tape. Gilded Orchard is a beautiful stacK and this was a fun challenge.

Thanks for looking!

Gift Baby Album

Hubby's cousin had an adorable baby girl in July and she wants to start scrapbooking, so I thought I would help her along so I put together this quick easy and (if I do say so my self) super cute 8 x 8 album for her. All she has to do is add pictures and journaling and it would be done, or if she wants to add her own touches, I included the remainder of paper and stickers I used.

Patterned paper and most stickers from Echo Park Page Kits Bundle of Joy and solid card stock from Crate Paper Twirl collection. Stamps from Close to My Heart.

I put the pages in a cute little 8 x 8 album and included a matching card.

Design Team - Not This Year

This year I submitted some projects in hopes of being selected as part of the Craft Warehouse (one of my fave places to by scrapbook supplies) 2011 Design Team. I also submitted in 2009, and I wasn't selected either year, but this year I was given Honorable Mention! YEOW!

It's not as good as being picked, but I am still pretty excited about it. i told my self that if I didn't get selected this year that I would probably not do it next year, but the Honorable Mention is making me rethink that decision. I will just have to see how I am feeling about my scrapping next year.

Anyway, the submission requirements were 2 page layouts, 2 cards and 1 altered project. I had my 2 layouts almost done in preparation for the submission and I had an idea for my altered project and I figured the cards wouldn't be that hard. Well, I re-did my layouts, and in doing that almost ran out of time for submitting, so I threw together 2 cards and used a project I finished in February as my altered project. Here is what I submitted:

 

My altered project was a Christmas countdown calendar made from 2 sheets of 12' x 12"  paper, i sheet of epoxy stickers, glitter glue and few random embellishments.

 

And here are the cards. I think this is my weakest entry because I spent an hour at 2 am finishing these so I could get my packet together and mailed before the cutoff date. My goal for next year is to not wait until the last minute and maybe spend a little more time on all of the pieces.

Anyway, It was really nice to see my name on the website as Honorable Mention and maybe next year....

Tags - Use Your Stash

The layout and a couple little 4" x 4" cards I made and I am submitting to Use Your Stash.

Water Baby - Use Your Stash

Here is a layout from the Hubby's 30th Birthday Album that I am submitting to the Use Your Stash March challenge ~ Eyelets.

I am not one to use eyelets very often, as I think they are time consuming (even with the Big Bite) but I really had fun with these!

Page still needs journaling, but if I wait to post until that is done I will miss the deadline. (Journaling is HARD for me)