This month’s Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook Challenge is all about BLING! I thought this was a great opportunity to use up some of my old retired bling that I’ve always loved so much! I also used it as an opportunity to play with the new Thankful Gardens DSP patterns and stamp set that was just released by Stampin’… Read More »
This month’s theme for the Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook Challenge is all about Hearts! I love this theme, but I didn’t want to make a red layout. I really wanted to use the new Everyday You & Me Scrapbook Workshop Kit that I just got from Stampin’ Up! So I forged ahead! I LOVE this kit. The… Read More »
Oh yeah! It’s time for this month’s scrapbook challenge from Challenge YOUrself! I had so much fun with this challenge! I happened to plan my projects for this month with a goal of using up my patterned paper scraps for the last 5 months. I pulled out all the scraps and tidied them up. I pulled out a… Read More »
I LOVE the July challenge at the Challenge YOUrself scrapbook challenge. The challenge is to add stitching to your layout!! You should definitely check out the challenge blog because every design team member added stitching in a different way! I kept mine simple! I have only tried stitching on my layout once and that was when we did… Read More »
For the month of June, we have a sketch challenge going at the Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook Challenge blog. I always love the months we use a Page Maps sketch for our challenge. This is a fun one! Here is my take on the sketch: So the designer series paper pack that I’m… Read More »
This month’s Challenge YOUrself scrapbook challenge is a sketch challenge…and as always, YOU need to be in the photo on your layout! I had fun with this layout! I pulled out some of my Vicki Boutin papers that I’ve had in my stash. (Now that I know Close to my Heart is closing, it seemed okay… Read More »
I love this month’s Challenge YOUrself scrapbook challenge theme! I love that this challenge requires me to use photos of myself. I also love that now this theme is asking me to share something I do to take care of myself. The most important thing that I do is to take a walk every morning before I do… Read More »
The July Challenge for the Scrapbook Challenge YOUrself challenge this month is all about shapes! I chose to use circles. You could use just one shape in your layout or combine many shapes if you want to. Just make sure YOU are in the photo! As you know, I have pretty much scrapbooked all my photos… Read More »
This month’s Challenge YOUrself scrapbook challenge is a fun one! It’s an ABC Challenge and here is how it works: This month we would like you to chose a letter and use it on your layout. For example, if you chose P, use paint, pearls, etc and a word that starts with P in your title. Have fun… Read More »
I am thinking that I should have title this blog post “What I did wrong on the layout”. I’ll be telling you what I would have changed! The theme for this month’s Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook Challenge is: Celebrate Love. The new Hip Kit Club kit for January arrived on Friday. It’s fun changing things up and getting… Read More »
The very first scrapbook layout challenge for the Challenge YOUrself blog is to create a layout for you favorite memory from 2020. The Challenge YOUrself blog is a monthly scrapbook layout challenge that has a different theme or layout challenge each month. There is one important rule: YOU need to be in the photo on the layout! I’m… Read More »
I have a scrapbook layout to share with you from the Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook Challenge. The challenge is a color challenge this month! I’m going to confess that I did throw some orange in and I used a deeper green. This color palette was a very soft palette and I’m more of a bold color person! … Read More »
This month’s theme for the Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook challenges is a theme challenge and that theme is THANKFUL! I was excited about this one. I knew just which picture I wanted to use and I had created a mixed media background that I loved but wasn’t sure what to do with next. You will see that here! Perhaps… Read More »
I am so excited! I purchased an album kit from Vicki Boutin a few weeks ago and she did a YouTube Live class for the album kit on Sunday. It started at noon and ended 6 hours later! I’m not kidding! It was awesome. I learned so many fun things from her. I never by album kits or… Read More »
It’s time for this month’s theme challenge from Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook Challenge! June’s challenge is Summer Dreams! I’ll be honest…I didn’t see the word summer. I thought the challenge was about dreams…as in setting big goals and dreaming big! My husband and I just realized a dream we’ve had that has been 12 years in the making! We… Read More »