Hello Scrappers!

As summer winds down and I suddenly found myself in September, the main thing on my mind has been SCHOOL!! Between getting my daughter ready, working out new schedules and trying to remember how to get up early (uggghhh), back to school has been a major theme so far this month.

My challenge to you for this month is simple: scrap those school photos! Photos of your child, photos of you, photos of a niece, nephew, cousin, friend's child...everyone has school photos lying around SOMEWHERE! Here are a couple of school photo layouts I've made:





As always, you have until the end of the month to submit your NEW layouts (please, only new layouts created for this challenge). Happy scrapping!

My challenge to you this month: make a project with Glimmer Mist. (you can use one of those other brands if you want, but I find Tattered Angels gives the best results!) If you haven't tried this product  before go get yourself a bottle. You won't be sorry, we'll your back account may be after you develop an addiction to it and have to have it in every color! But seriously, try it, I bet you'll like it! 

Some ways to use this product....

• Spray it on and create a background!
• Use a mask and spray over it to create a background or element!
• Mix it with dimensional glaze to make shiny paint! 
• Paint with it!
• Spray Pearl, Gold, or Silver Mist on your whole project to make it shine!
• Spray it on Prima flowers (or other flowers) to create sparkly accents!
• Make all your elements match by spraying them with mist!
• Use a piece of felt, spray it with mist and rub it over the part of the LO you want to sparkle!
• Spray plain chipboard for an instant splash of color!
• Use it on a stamp!
• Roll it onto your layout or card with a brayer.(looks like a paint roller except it's smaller/made of rubber)
• Spray neutral colored paper/cardstock for a fun effect.
• Mix your colors! Spray more than one color on at a time! 
• Create a coordinating mini album from pieces of glimmer misted cardboard!

There are some demo videos on the Tattered Angels'  Website, and even more ideas on how to use Glimmer Mist there!
( Some examples )


Post your Project featuring Glimmer Mist by the end of the month for your chance at the random prize draw! : )
Have fun, and don't become too addicted to the stuff! 

~Kimmy

I hope that its not too late to post, but here is my canvas piece...



I took the picture and changed the coloring in my computer. The ribbon is glued onto the back. The heart is wood, that was inked, and painted in variations of browns and pinks. The ribbon edges were inked to make them standout. I ran the ribbon through my sticker maker to make it stick...and brads were jammed in cause I didn't really take into account that there was wood on the back of the canvas, so that was the hardest part. I'm really quite pleased with the way it turned out. I want to make another one to match, but with a different picture, just haven't decided what picture. I'm going to hang it in my room.

Don't forget to post post post your canvas pieces! :) Can't wait to see them.

Here's a punch of inspiration from Senior Designer, jgkimmy...isn't it gorgeous??

It's time to step up the challenges a bit. My challenge to you this month is to use one of my very favorite crafty goodness --CANVAS!

You can do all sorts of things with canvas and with so many different sizes and widths, there's no telling what you'll come up with. You don't have to go out and buy an expensive piece of canvas. I was able to get 3 6x8 pieces for about four dollars. You can find some for under a dollar each as well.

"But Sonia, I've never worked with canvas. What could I possibly make??" Here's a clue...just imagine your scrapbook paper on a piece of canvas. Easy enough right? Pretend that your canvas is a piece of scrapbook paper that you are going to layer your pictures and embellishments on.

So be artistic and step outside of your comfort zone! Accept my challenge and show me what you've got.

( You will find some examples of several canvas pieces I've made behind this cut. Go on...you know you wanna look! )

The Random Prize Winner of Challenge 21A,B,C is dramaloverworm! Thank you all for playing along. We saw some beautiful pages and flowers!

We are going through changes again at Ready, Set, Scrap and we'll be scaling back the amount of challenges that we have each month due to conflicts with our schedules. But please hang in there...we'll have a brand new challenge this coming week.

dramaloverworm, please make sure to send your mailing address to stamptabulous at gmail dot com to receive your prize.

Have a wonderful week!

This was from last summer. A bunch of my friends went to Destin, and this is the evidence of two of my guy friends' bromance.

This is my entry for 21C:

Our third challenge this month is as simple as the season is glorious: let's see your summer layouts! Whether it's a vacation you took, a fun day playing with summer activities or those summer pictures from when you were a kid, scrap that summer!!!!

I've been doing a lot of summery layouts lately, and here's the one I made for the Ready Set Scrap Challenge!


I used FancyPants Designs Summer Soiree papers, a piece of cs and some ric rak to scrap some photos of daughter in a wading pool. I LOVE papers that I can cut the designs out of!!


Also, remember that our challenge clock is tick tick ticking to a close; Challenge 21A (cardboard) and Challenge 21B (Rockin' Paper Flowers) are due at the end of the month with Challenge 21C! Please see our previous posts for those challenge details. :)

The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is this:
make some of these rockin' EASY paper flowers.
Put them on a layout, a card, or make a bouquet-
or get even more creative with it and do your own thing!!


( some kimmy made examples )

No go forth and see what you can make!!!
Post it back here in RSS by the end of the month for your chance at  the prize drawing! : D
I can't wait to see what you all can come up with!!

~Kimmy

Our first challenge for July is the use of cardboard. There are many ways to incorporate cardboard into your project. One of my favorite things to do with cardboard is to stamp on it, cut out the image and then adhere it to cards or scrapbook pages or whatever the project is. So what will you do with cardboard? We can't wait to see what your creative minds come up with.

We have actually had a cardboard challenge in the past but we encourage you to create something entirely new. After all, that is the challenge part. ;)

Here is an example of a stamped heart to get you started...



( more examples here... )

The random prize winner of our June Challenges is mrsalemp! Congratulations and thanks to all of you for playing along. mrsalemp, please e-mail your mailing address to stamptabulous at gmail dot com so that we can get your prize in the mail ASAP.

We will have a whole new batch of challenges starting tomorrow night. :)

And I almost missed the deadline! Had this one done just last night, took the pic this morning while the lighting was good, and then was out all day working. JUST made it home in time to post!!

Love the accordian flower technique - thanks so much for the tutorial, Genie! I don't mind the bulkiness of it, it's actually the starfish that's REALLY going to take up a big chunk of scrapbook space. :D But yeah, this is one of my favorite scrapbook subjects..

This is page one of a two page layout, but I didn't have to finish the other one before the deadline. :)

I made some flowers for 20A, but as most people agree, they make the page kinda bulky. I tried a few different sizes. I also think that a half circle makes a pretty cute fan, too, but I did not make a whole page to go with them.

Here is my version of 20B, a layout with stamps:

 

( Read about both 20b and 20c under the cut.... )

Just a friendly reminder that submissions for the June Challenges are due TODAY/SUNDAY! Please make sure your projects are posted before the sun rises IN THE UNITED STATES on Monday morning. :)


Thanks!

Here's hoping I'm in time.
20B is a brand new layout (just finished it moments ago)
20C is an old layout that I had intended on finishing for this contest. My plans were foiled when I got up yesterday morning to discover that my computer is DEAD. After an hour and a half talking to HP service, it's been determined that my operating system is hopelessly corrupt and I have to wait for a new system recovery disc (as mine didn't work).
Thus here I am, on a borrowed computer - with no printer - thus the point I was trying to make (no printer = no journaling = not finished). 20C never got finished but I figured I might as well share. :) ( Follow me! )
Okay, so that's it. I'm hoping I got my entries in. I'm so happy you guys are back and that I got a chance to participate. Thanks! :D

I made this page to post for Challenge 20A – accordion flowers. Except I also used stamping on the paper I used for two of my flowers so would that be the 20B challenge? Hmm...It is probably more for 20A really ( Cut for pictures )

I haven't scrapbooked in SO LONG, I'm thrilled this page came out as well as it did! It kind of grew on me, cause it was real plain before I added the letters and journaling. I still think it looks like all my other pages, though - LOL! I stamped one little thing on the page (the pear, under the journaling), but you can't see it, so I think this is more appropriate for Challenge C.