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 »
The Challenge YOUrself Scrapbook Challenge for this month is Black and White Photo. Remember this challenge requires that YOU are in the photo! Honestly, I have so few photos with me in them. I’m sure that my husband and kids have some, but my camera is full of other people and things. I find this a true challenge… Read More »
The Challenge YOUrself March Scrapbook Challenge is all about POLKA DOTS! I have a ton of actual polka dot patterned paper in all colors, but I was really in the mood for a mixed media project and I just got some new 49th & Market scrapbook papers that are actually AMAZING!! Plus, I got not 1, but 2… Read More »
I’m very excited to participate in my first challenge with the Design Team for the scrapbook Challenge Yourself blog. A big thank you to Sharon Fritchman for selecting me to join the team. I’m so humbled to be a part of this talented group. Make sure you check out the other designers pages and leave some comment love.… Read More »
I’m really excited to share that I have been selected for the Challenge YOUrself Scrapbooking Design Team for 2020. I’m retiring from my teaching career after 31 years of teaching science on December 20 and I plan to blog full time. I’m so looking forward to having time to create videos and to really share my papercrafting ideas… Read More »