The theme for the new Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge is Anything Goes Christmas/Winter. The sponsor for this challenge is Dies R Us. I created a Christmas layout featuring the decorations I put up this year. I kept them fairly minimal because storage space is a premium here and I don’t want to have every space stuffed with… Read More »
This month’s challenge for the Challenge YOUrself scrapbook challenge is an anything goes challenge. You choose the theme and the layout! The only rule is that YOU have to be in the photo! You can create any size layout! I created a layout of a family dinner with my daughter and her beau in our new little… Read More »
Challenge YOUrself is a scrapbook layout challenge site that requires that you create a scrapbook layout for the monthly challenge and you include a picture that has YOU in it! We so often take the photos for the special moments, that we often aren’t in any of them! This month’s Challenge YOUrself theme is to create a holiday… Read More »
The theme for the next Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge is a Gratitude/Thank You/Thanksgiving challenge. As always, it is an anything goes challenge, so you can create any project you want! I love that these are anything goes. Sometimes you just want to make something besides a card! Today, I created a scrapbook layout! We have 2 sponsors for… Read More »
There is nothing so satisfying as completing a task! I did 31 scrapbook layout challenges this month…all on time and all on prompt. This is a satisfying moment! Today’s prompt was about crowns and queens. We were given 3 sayings to inspire our layout. 1. Her courage was her crown and she wore it like a queen. 2.… Read More »
There are several things that I’m learning about traveler’s notebooks as I’m using the first ones I created. They really are fun to use. I like having a place where scrapbooking meets journaling in a pretty relaxed way. I may be the only person that looks at my traveler’s notebooks, but I enjoy going back ever few days… Read More »
Participating in a month long layout a day challenge is really quite a challenge! I’m enjoying it immensely and I am loving all the scrapbooking that I’ve been doing. I don’t think I’ll ever give up stamping and cardmaking, but I am finding that right now, I’m really loving the scrapbooking. Scrapbooking was how I got involved in… Read More »
The October Main Scrapbook kit that I purchased from the Hip Kit Club this month has been a blast to play with! I’ve already created 3 layouts and I’m going to create another one today. I’m so happy with the variety of papers, chipboards, thickers, and die cuts that I got in this kit. I love that they… Read More »
Yesterday was day 21 of the LayOut A Day (LOAD) challenge at Scrap Happy for October 2020. The story prompt was to show a best fishy catch. This is an easy one for me. I bet there are a few thousand pictures of people holding fish or fishing rods in my house. My husband’s YouTube channel and his… Read More »
I’ve done a really good job of using up my craft stash over the last 10 months. I’ve actually got some empty shelves and drawers in my craft room! I have been telling myself for years, that I just needed time. I kept saying that I wanted to keep the stuff I wasn’t using because I would enjoy… Read More »
Now that I’ve really gotten back into scrapbooking full swing, I decided that it’s time to beef up my stash of some items that I’ve never kept in my stash. If you saw my last video, you know that I’ve been making my own scrapbook kits out of a few new papers and a lot of older materials… Read More »
The Scrap Happy LOAD challenge prompt for today was about family in the military or to use stripes on the layout. While I’ve had a significant number of family members serve in the military, including my dad, I don’t actually have any pictures of them in uniform. I’ve only ever actually seen one photo of my father in… Read More »
Just a quick share today! I am on day #16 of the Layout a Day challenge and so far, I’m keeping up! I’m also using the fall gratitude journal that I created in August. Needless to say, all the pages are decorated with a fall theme no matter what the story prompt and the technique prompt is, but… Read More »
If you have been following me for a the last few months, you know that I’ve been stash diving lately! In an effort to use up some very old patterned paper and release myself from the guilt of having that pile on a shelf that I’ve never used in years, I started a traveler’s notebook. I really wasn’t… Read More »
I’m super excited to be the featured designer on today’s LOAD Challenge at Scrap Happy! I was sent the story and technique prompts in September and I felt challenged!!! Story: Is there something you do in a precise way. Is there a long held tradition that Covid has made you change. Are you very stoic or is there… Read More »