Challenge #7

... and still going strong! Well, except me. I'm the slacker. I want to do my challenges, honest, my brain just won't cooperate with me. But I did develop the photo I want to use for this challenge. I'm picking it up this weekend, so I will catch up... I promise!

And that's enough whining for now.

This week's challenge was a really neat one, "Take an Artistic Photograph". Our group had fun with it and did some pretty amazing layouts. So without further ado, here's what they came up with...

Edited to add:

Laura's Layout:

My son, Connor's layout... Connor's absolute favourite food is peanut butter. He would eat peanut butter three times a day if I let him. One morning last week, he was adament that he wanted a PB and J sandwich for breakfast... so I let him make it himself, including cutting it. He was very, very proud of his accomplishments.

Anita's Layout:Marion's Layout:Alison's Layout: (and Alison, despite my flipping it again, blogger decides it has to be sideways... I'm sorry, I really have no idea what that keeps happening!)Marlene's Layout:

Carrie's Layout:... and my Dad's Layout (can you guess where they just returned from?)

Week #6

Challenge #6 - Create a Ribbon Cluster

I love what our Crop Circle (trying that nickname on for size) has done with this challenge this week. The ribbon adds a cute, feminine touch to each layout, but the interpretations are all so different. Great job!

Only one slacker this week... me! Not sure why, but I just couldn't get into it. I didn't enjoy the last ribbon challenge, so I think I avoided this one for that reason. Also, my ribbon stash is very, very small, since I don't use the stuff on my layouts. Hmm... perhaps a trip to the craft store to pick up some cute new ribbon is just what the doctor ordered...

Anyway, without further ado, here are this week's layouts:

Edited to add:

Laura's Layout:

Alison:

Anita:

Carrie:Marion:Marlene:

And to go off on a bit of a tangent... ONLY 16 MORE WEEKS UNTIL OUR SCRAPBOOK RETREAT! Happy Scrapping!

Week #5

The challenge for this week is to "Embellish a Floral Accent". Which we certainly did! I am amazed by the creativity pouring out of us. The pages look great and so far, we're all still enjoying the process and keeping up to date (myself included... I came in 10 minutes short of midnight last night with mine!)

Marlene's Layout:

Laura's Layout:
Carrie's Layout:

Anita's Layout:

Alison's Layout:

Marion's Layout:

Aren't these pages amazing and oh so girly? :) Can't wait to see what comes out of next week's challenge... it's working with ribbon again.

Until then, Happy Scrapping!

Week 4... Still Going Strong!

I am LOVING the enthusiasm! It feels good to be scrapbooking regularly, even if some of us are only producing one layout a week. Some others are flying through them, and making up for my lack of enthusiasm (time, inspiration, whatever you want to call my creative slump...)

Here is challenge #4: Make your own: Chipboard Accents

A couple of us are new to chipboard, so we weren't completely sure what it entailed. Alison was kind enough to provide this explanation:

"Chipboard is like thin cardboard, but with no corrugation. To get some that’s acid free, just use what come in with your page protectors and pages from creative memories and lots of stickers and embellishments use it for their backing to. The stuff you buy labeled chipboard is usually thicker, but it’s really hard to work with if you have to cut out your own shape, it’s easier to just double up on the stuff you would already have if you want that thick look. "

Carrie's Layout:

Marlene's Layouts: (again, sorry about the weird rotation, blogger did it automatically and I don't know how to fix it)

Marion's Layout:

Laura's Layout:

Anita's Layout:
Alison's Layout:

Week #3

Challenge #3 "Customize a Ribbon Border"

Okay, this one was fun for some of us. I think pretty much everyone but me. My layout took me 5 nights to complete it. I kept moving things around and deciding I didn't like it. It didn't help that my kids kept dumping my layout on the floor --- grrr... hence the wrinkled appearance on some of the card stock if you look closely. In the end, it looks completely different than I intended, but it's pretty cute.

So, this one was a success, as well. And everyone finished early this week. It got us thinking outside of the box, and I think the layouts turned out beautifully! :)

Anita's Layout:
Marlene's Layout:

Marion's Layout:

Carrie's Layout:

Alison's Layout:

Laura's Layout:

Week #2

Focus on One Photo:

Challenge number 2... again everyone present and accounted for! So far, I have to say, this book is a success! I'm looking forward to week three (sneak peek, working with ribbon) which officially starts today --- but half of the group has already circulated their layouts!

Yay! We're well on our way to 312 layouts completed in 2010!

Alison's Layout: (I'm really sorry... can't figure out why blogger keeps rotating it

Marlene's Layout: Marion's Layout:

Carrie's Layouts:

... and Carrie's husband's contribution... (very nice, Dad)
Anita's Layout: (love the "make it go away", but is this El Nino thing your fault?)

Laura's Layouts:

... and digital

Challenge #1

Because it's not fair to the author of our manual, I'm not going to repost the challenge here. Just the title each week and our interpretations of it. I highly recommend buying the book. We ordered them from Chapters.ca and they were very affordable!

"Work Those Words"

Not bad... everyone is almost present and accounted for and it's only January 3rd!!

Here's what we've got so far (and only Marion and I cheated --- a bit):

Carrie:
Alison:
Laura:

Anita:

Marion:

Marlene: