Challenge for March 10th to sometime next week!

Okay, I know I'm pushing you girls that just came back from your tropical vacations... but here's your next challenge, should you wish to participate. It's from the February edition of the Creating Keepsakes magazine. Mom was flipping through it and thought this would be a good one. http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/content/view/20131/

So, enjoy! Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!

Carrie:

Laura:

The olden days...

Challenge for February 27th to March 4th (or so, we've been pretty flexible on deadlines)

Okay, here's one, if you're game... this week go on a scavenger hunt through your scrapbooking space and use a tool from "the olden days" that you bought when you first started scrapbooking and, at the time, just had to have. For me this would be a punch or Fisker's scissors, or a gold pen, a die-cut... hehehe the possibilities are endless!

Bonus points if you use more than one and manage to keep your layout from looking dated! :)


Marlene: This is my first attempt at " a challenge scrapbooking" by e-mail. I found the project sorta easy, as I'm still using the older tools, and templates. I find the journalising the hardest. Since these photos were taken, I filled in comments on left page, about Leona's 5th Birthday, and coloured in her name in gift box, oh and put grey crayon on balloon strings. Acid free crayons, by the way.


Carrie: I used the first idea in a Fast Formulas book ( 2000), a precut triangle, my original corner rounder and my first pen set. I have been cleaning out a file cabinet and came across my list of prices for items to make a costume so that I could figure out a price for the costume. Anyway, a piece of paper (journalling) from 1988 that didn't make it to the garbage.


















Laura: I can't remember when I bought this tool, a book of templates that I absolutely had to have. Fast forward a few years... And I pulled it out of my template box, brand new. I really needed it badly, huh? :)

Alex's Layout: His "old" tools are all my old stickers that I never used, or only used a part of the strip. He also gets my photo leftovers, the ones I printed that didn't make it into my layouts. For now, he's perfectly happy with that.

Love and Laughter

This challenge is scraplifted off of a site Alison googled http://www.scrapbookflair.com/

They issued their challenge in celebration of "Love Makes the World Go Round, But Laughter Keeps us from Getting Dizzy" week (never heard of it myself). We thought this would make a great theme for a Valentine's week challenge.

Alison's Layout: Carrie's Layout:

Laura's Layout:

Creative Memories freebies...

This challenge is pretty basic, grab one of those freebies you got as a "thank you" from a Creative Memories Consultant (you know, the paper, sticker one page pack thingy) and do a layout with it.

Alison's Layout: Laura's Layout:

Carrie's Layout:

Sadly neglected...

As I was updating my regular blog today, I felt a little guilt about how long it's been since I've posted on this one. I'm not sure anyone actually reads this one, but who knows... maybe someday some disillusioned housewife will google scrapbooking and housework, and will get sent to our little world. Maybe not! Regardless...

We haven't completed any challenges in a long, long while. Our group kind of died. I'd love to get the momentum going again, starting with myself, but for now we're taking a rest. I phoned my Mom a few nights ago and said "My kids are all in bed... let's scrapbook" so we decided to both complete a Christmas Layout, using only one sheet of paper, and check back with each other at 11pm for a progress report. It was fun. Even though we're in different towns, it still felt like we were cropping together.

Here's what I managed to complete, nothing too fancy, but I haven't pulled out my tools in a while, so I have to ease back in slowly! ;)

And here's half of Mom's double layout --- not quite finished, but I gave her less than two hours to do it, so I'm proud of her!

And, just because I can... here's the latest page I've done using my Heritage Makers studio (my consultant website is http://www.storingyourmemories.com/ . I'm loving the digital scrapbooking... no mess, no fuss, and I can work for 10 minutes at time and then walk away without having to worry about whose sticky fingerprints might get all over my layouts!

It's not complete, but should be in about 3.5 more months!

Heritage Page about someone important...

Okay, here's another challenge to hopefully inspire you. Don't feel like you have to do these challenges, I don't want them to be a chore (in fact if your tired of this, tell me to go stuff it!) ;)

This week, do a layout (or just one page) about one person (i.e. your best friend, your dog, your sister, yourself, etc.) focussing on telling something about that person. I'm kind of thinking of a heritage type page so that a couple of generations from now the person reading the book learns something about the person from your page, rather than a page about an event or activity. Make sense?

The last two challenges are kind of vague, I know... feel free to send it better ones! :)

Happy Scrapping!
Laura

Marion's Layout:

Carrie's Layout:

Laura's Layout:

Just Do a Layout!

Yay! Both babies had overlapping naps today so Alex and I had some time to do art... he painted and I scrapbooked a page in my new, not blue, baby book! So I figured I'd try again to breathe some life into our group again. Alison's Challenge for April was to "just do a layout". She issued it several weeks ago but I never passed on the message. Today I did a layout for the first time in months (February's challenge of hearts)! It's very, very simple but it's going to get me going again. I also started my March layout but Kirstin woke up so it'll have to wait. So... everyone "just do a layout", that's your challenge for this week. I'll send a photo of the pages I did later when both of my hands are free. I've kept the website up to date so far but it's looking pretty sad for this year! ;) http://bcandabcroppers.blogspot.com/.

Anyone who needs a little more of a push... here's a couple of suggestions from "Becky's Sketches":

Happy Scrapping!
Laura

Carrie's Layout:

Laura's Layout:

Anita's Layout: