Fun at Tally Scrappers

Looking for some excitement to liven up 2011. Tally Scrappers has a great site that offers friendship, fun and fantastic opportunities for expanding your scrapbooking talents. We've just started a new contest, "Survivor Challenge" and I can't wait to see what new challenges are introduced each week. The shop has some great items and the monthly kits are delicious. There's a great blog that offers new techniques and also the latest buzz about what's happening in the creative world. Come on over, it's free to join. Don't forget to tell Pinky that I sent you!

Weekend Online Crop and Design Team Call

Come one, come all to the Shakin' Sizzlin' Summer crop going on right now at http://www.theshakerbox.com/. Lot's of fun and prizes! Also, if you are a card maker and/or scrapbooker and think you have what it takes to design for The Shaker Box, we are having a Design Team call during our crop. Details are under the Shakin' Sizzlin' Summer Crop area of our community forum. The crop starts now through Sunday, August 23rd midnight EST. Winners of prizes will be announced on Monday. Everyone who participates is eligible to win the raffle drawing. You must complete at least one challenge and sign in under the raffle drawing area and also the sign in crop seat area. Hope to see you there!!!!

Mark you calendars...

... it's that time of the year. Linda at The Shaker Box is hosting another on-line crop! The last one was a blast with challenges, game and penty of prizes. Hope to see you there!

August Guest Designer

As you can see by the posts on my blog, it's been a busy summer. I find it hard to keep myself locked in my scraproom when the weather is so beautiful. Even so, I have had some time to work on a few projects, cards and to make some custom scrapbooks for a friend.

The month of August brings me another opportunity to be a Guest Designer for The Shaker Box kit club. Linda, the owner, put beautiful kits together and loads them with tons of goodies. As a subscriber you get some great project sheets too! Stay tuned to see what layouts and other items I create with the delicious August kit.

Revealing Day!

I'm so excited and pleased to be able to share my Life Preserver's Club kit creations. While I still have some projects in the works, I did finish three layouts and posted them in the Design Team gallery on the site. The June alternate kit is beautiful and I've had a great time playing with it.

Take a few minutes and join the club so you too can start enjoying the spectacular kits and active message board. The sneak peek is already out there for July and there's lots to chose from!

Doing a Happy Dance!

I found out today that I've been selected to be a guest designer for the month of June for an amazing kit club, Life Preserver's Club. Each month, an individual is selected to receive one of the delicious kits that Von puts together. The design team at LPS is so talented that I am honored to be able to participate. I will be stalking my mailbox for the next couple of days, waiting for that Priority Mail box. Here's the kit that I will be using for my projects. Did I tell you that I was excited???

Another Scrap Day

Despite my sore back, I was able to sit at my crafting table in my scraproom and get six layouts completed today. All of them are for Kennedy's scrapbook. Hopefully I will finish it this week and will be able to give it to Brooke on Friday or Saturday. So far things are looking great. The album is already 24 pages and I still have Christmas and birthday pictures to work with which will give me at least another six or eight layouts.

I'm getting excited for the new month! I am going to have a project published at scrapbooking.com in their on-line magazine. Then later in the month, I am hosting a crop party with several gals during a long weekend. During that weekend I will be posting a couple of challenge contests so our friends who cannot join us can play along. Ironically our crop is the same weekend as the annual "MS Crop for a Cure" here in Elizabethtown. We might be popping in there to say hello to familiar faces. The weekend should be a lot of fun!

Progress Report

Well I've been working fast and furious on Kennedy's scrapbook. Brooke needs it at the beginning of March to display during Kennedy's birthday party. I've completed about ten layouts and hopefully will get a couple more done today. I decided to go with a "clean, simple" style and keep it traditional. So far, so good. Take a peek at my gallery to see more of Kennedy's album.

Gabriella

She's a beauty, and a total sweetheart. I was watching a movie today, but also in the mood to do some scrapping. The solution? Digital scrapping on scrapblog.com. I am still learning the ropes with the digi stuff and using this great site and some of their freebies. The have also added some great stuff that you can get for a minimal charge. I have started several different scrapblogs on the site. You can find the link to it in the "My Stuff" section in the right column of this site. Enjoy!

A Sketch Challenge

If you are looking for a challenge, check out my library at Restless Sketches. I am going to upload at least one new sketch each month. The sketch for January is sketch #4. I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to comment and leave a link to your creations!

That Holiday Season

I've sorted through the hundreds of Christmas photos that I have and have started scrapping them. First I am focusing on my nephew's album. His birthday is in February and I like to start each new scrapbook with birthday photos, giving them the prior year's book as part of their present. I was able to get several layouts finished yesterday and only two more pages and his book will be complete.

This layout was quick and easy. I used some items from the December kit that I received from The Shaker Box. It included Basic Gray papers, Bazzill cardstock and some miscellaneous ribbon. I added a few buttons and a Making Memories overlay for effect.

Sketches

I thought I would try my hand at creating some scrapbook layout sketches. Now, I'm no designer or graphic artist, but I thought they turned out pretty good. I mean, everyone has to start somewhere. If you would like to take a peek at them, there is a link on the right side of this page called "Restless Sketches". Just click on that and see what you think.

Snow Day

I was in a scrappy mood today and got 5 layouts finished. I loved this shot of Gabriella and wanted to share it. It's the first page in her newest album that I'm making. I used some Bazzill cardstock and a Hambly transparency. The flowers are Prima and for the life of me, I can't remember the brand of letters I used. I thought it turned out pretty good for a "quickie layout".

Lovin' the look...

...on my nephew's face. This was a shot of him during his birthday party, and he new it was "his day". He got a Superman chair that was just his size and loved it. This picture made me think of The Godfather. I can hear "Don" Vito Corleone saying, "That I cannot do." or "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." Hayden is a little toughie, but he's got the heart of a little lover. Isn't he cute!!!

Woke up this morning...

...got my ATG gun. I don't know what I like better, the Soprano's or scrapbooking.

It's been a snowy couple of days here in E'town, so I haven't been out of the house much. What a better way to spend the day... scrapbooking!!! I got about 5 layouts finished over the last couple of days. Here's one of my favorites.

You will have to let me know what you think.

Scrapbooking...

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...is my world. Well, almost my world. I guess my family does come first. Anyway, I have another blog that I use for multiple things and thought I would start a creative blog with Blogger to see if I like the format any better. I guess I will give it a couple of weeks and see what happens. I just really hate the thought of having to "redo" my posts. For a good start, here is a slide show of some of my work.