Projects Galore!

It's Heather again, and I'm back to show you the last few projects that I completed with the Button Box kit and add on. I was totally obsessed with using every last scrap of this kit because I loved the it so much. When I finished making the first few layouts, I used the leftover scraps and embellies to squeak out one more layout that used up tiny scraps. I also made seven cards. (I did add one piece of red cardstock and a few red gems when I created the cards.)

Before I created this page, I searched the web for sketches that used tiny bits of paper. I found an amazing one in the latest PageMaps release. This is the layout I came up with. I used some older photos of my son. I loved how well the flags in the kit worked as banners to hang from my twine. 

I also made two sets of cards. I used two different color palettes when I designed them. The first set closely matches the layouts that I made with the kit. They are all misted with the mist that Jessica included as the extra goodie this month. All three of these cards were inspired by Studio Calico sketches, I've said it before... They have amazing sketches on their blog. 

On this next set, I pulled a sheet of red cardstock from my stash because I really liked the small red dashes that ran through the striped paper. I thought that adding the red cardstock would really make those pop, and it worked!

I hope that I inspired you to use more of your scraps from your Scraptastic Club kits! I'll be back next Monday with layouts that I made from the FABULOUS February kits.

Bless Your Little Heart

Happy Saturday Scraptastic friends! Amanda here with my final post as guest desinger. I have had so much fun working with the Button Box kit and add-on, and getting a chance to know Jessica and the other talented ladies on this team. I am very honored and thankful to Jessica for giving the me the opportunity to be a part of this fabulous team! :)

For my final project, I wanted to share another card. When I sat down and made the card for my challenge, I decided to try my hand at another one. This is a small 3.5x3.5 card, and I just used some of my scraps and a few of the cute little label stickers on it. Its very small and simple, but I love the way it turned out!

I loved the bless your little heart sticker, and thought it would be a cute touch for a sweet thank you card.

Again, I am so thankful to have had the opportunity to be your guest designer for the month of January...I hope along the way I inspired you all to create something you love! :)



A Little Birdie Told Me....

Hello Scraptastic Friends! Amanda here with your Thursday challenge!! :)

I struggled a little bit when trying to decide what to select as my challenge. I thought of doing a recipe challenge, sketch challenge, etc...but then I thought about what is a challenge for me when it comes to my paper crafting...something I always want to do, but that I struggle with...and for me its making cards, hands down.

So, my challenge for you is to find that thing that you struggle with, be it cards, 8.5x11 layouts, tags, using certain items, such as trims, where ever your struggle lays, and confront it head on! Make that layout, tag, etc.

Here is the card I made for the challenge example. Its by no means fancy, its actually very simple, but I am actually very happy with the way it turned out, and it helped to start building up my confidence just a bit in my card making aspect of crafting.

Have fun with this challenge friends, use it as an opportunity to step out of your comfort zone a little, and you might be surprised at how much you end up actually enjoying it! :)

Have a great day and create something you love!

Use the inlinkz tool below to submit your entry for the 4th January 2012 challenge. You have until midnight on  February 1st to submit all of your January challenges. This month's prize is a $20.00 GC to the Scraptastic Club store.



happy tuesday

happy tuesday scrappers!

juliann happily here

to share some scrappy-ness

with you!

here is another page i

made with the button box kit and add-on

this is my take on our

very talented and awesome

heather landry's

sketch for ideas for scrapbookers

i wanted to have fun with the title.

"rooney" is one

of gavins many many

nick names. i layered the

"o" to add dimension

whimsy and make the title

fit where i wanted it!

i also layered the "love you" and

small red heart embellies

from the kit.

tfl!

Such A Fun Day!

Good morning everyone! It's Monday again, and that means it's time for me to share a page that I made with a fabulous Scraptastic Club kit. I got to create with the Button Box kit and add on this month. I found an older photo of  my son with his grandpa and I knew right away that I wanted to use it with this kit. The design on this page was inspired by a Studio Calico sketch. I went to their blog to see how their design team was using the tissue tapes that Jessica included in the kit, and while I was there I found an awesome sketch. I love it when that happens! This is my take on their sketch.

I also took some close up photos so you could see how I used the trim. I decided to use it the same way I would use ribbon or strips of cardstock. The tissue texture added a lighter feel to the page. (I used two scraps from older Scraptastic Club kits on this page. The grey resin flower and the white string.)

One of my favorite embellishments in this kit was this butterfly button. It's different and really fun! I layered several diecuts and a few stickers to create this cluster of embellishments. 

I hope I managed to inspire you today.

Happy scrapping! 

Heather

Heart This Smile

Hello Scrappers!! Happy Saturday! Amanda here to share another layout that I made with the Button Box kit and add-on.

I used Heather's fabulous sketch for this layout. I loved the grid design, but I am very much a single photo page scrapper, so I used alot of the fun patterns in this kit for my grid. I also loved the title placement, but wanted to blow it up and make a larger statement with my title. Here is my  layout:

You can definitely see Heather's sketch in my layout, but the fun little changes I made helped to make it my own. That's what I love about sketches, no two layout ever turn out the same! I will definitely come back to this sketch again, I might even try my hand at a photo grid! lol

Hope you all have a great weekend and take time to create something you love!

happpy tuesday

happy tuesday scraptastic club scrappers!

juliann here for your tuesday post!

hope you all enjoyed your 3 day weekend.

lot's of cooking, baking, watching

football and an

obsessive use of Pinterest here.

so.... here is the page i have

to share with you today

i love the darkness of the pic!

are you thinking... i didn't get that blue

cardstock in my kit???

yes you did!!!! i took the neutral

cardstock and sprayed

it with the awesome robot blue

mist, then ran it through my

handy destresing tool!

i also lightly sprayed the

flower...

i added yellow stickles

to the alpha, which is on a

banner i cut from the

patterned paper

tfl!

Sassy Girl

Hi everyone! It's Monday and that means it's my turn to inspire you to use your kits. I'm sharing a page I made with the Button Box kit and add on. I titled the page "Sassy Girl" because my daughter is quite sassy and sarcastic. (I can't imagine where she gets it from?!) This page is an homage to the fact that she has a super sweet side too. I thought this photo captured that aspect of her personality really well. 

I absolutely loved the combination of colors in this kit! They matched the colors in my photo perfectly. I really love it when that happens. Here's a closer look at the journaling and the fussy cutting that I did to create the banner. 

I loved the monarch butterfly sticker that came in the kit so I layered other embellishments on my page to highlight it. I also used Stickles to make it stand out a little more. 

I repeated the butterfly embellishment in the bottom right corner by using one of the journaling tags to partially mat my title. I also used some of the October Afternoon mist that Jessica included as the extra this month. The layered circles were cut on my Cricut. I inked them before I layered them.

I hope I inspired you to scrap today! I can't wait to see what you all make with the fabulous kits this month. 

Happy Scrapping!

Heather

Best of Friends

Happy Saturday Scraptastic Scrappers! :)  I hope the weekend is treating you well, and that you are possibly getting in some crafty time! :) Amanda here again to share another layout with you!

I plan on sitting down at some point this weekend and getting a little crafty myself. I still have some yumminess left over from the fabulous Button Box kit and add-on! I just love the colors and all of the fabulous patterns.

Some of the patterns can be a little overwhelming to use as a full background, but if you are like me, you really struggle using cardstock as your base. I am still so inspired by the banners on that " Clothesline" paper, and when you add it in with this sketch by Sketchy Thursdays, I found a fun way to use the busy pattern in a larger area without it overwhelming my layout.

I thought it would be fun to have my banner be a break between the cardstock and the patterned paper. I use banners ALOT, I just love the look of them, but sometimes its get to be so repetitive, so this was a fun way to use some of my "signature" looks, while bringing it up to a new and fun level.

Here is the layout that I made :

I loved that doily paper, but it would have been very overwhelming as the base, and would have distracted from my photo. By using it in the corner and breaking it up with my banner, I think it brings the focus all around and back to the photo, and ties in well with the black and white photo while making the other colors pop.

Don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zone just a bit, do something you are comfortable with and just give it a little twist!



2nd January 2012 Challenge

Hi everyone! It's Heather, and I'm back to challenge you this week. I'm sure it's not a huge surprise that the challenge involves a sketch. In addition to using the sketch, I'm also asking you to use five photos on your page! We've all got piles of photos to scrap, and I'd like to inspire you to use quite a few of them. 

This is the page that I made with the sketch. I loved the color combination in the Button Box kit! I used photos of my daughter riding. If she had her way, we would have a horse in our back yard. 

I layered a lot of different embellishments on the bottom right of my page. I really loved the quote on the pencil because as you know many kids DO think they know it all and my daughter has been hitting the teen years hard already. Just a subtle little message! LOL

The Prima flowers from the add on are gorgeous too. I tucked a teeny tiny gem into the center of mine for some added interest. The little yellow letters were from a past kit. I love how I always have embellishments left over from Jessica's kits!

Please use the inLinkz tool below to submit your entry for the 2nd January challenge. The prize this month is a $20.00 gift card to spend in the Scraptastic Club store.  Good luck!

happy tuesday!

happy tuesday scraptastic

club scrappers!

it's me, juliann here to

share my tuesday blog post

with you all.

here is another creation

using the sold out button box kit and add-on!

a day at the mall with gavin & gucky...

gavin call's his monkey from

build a bear gucky. it's very cute!

back to the page...

lot's of distressing (big surprise right? lol)

i had fun using my sew easy! and love

the little pennants in the kit!

i pulled out some old alpha

stamps and thought chicken sticker

was the perfect place to stamp

part of my title.

TFL!

She Art Fly Girl

Hi everyone! It's Heather, and I'm here to share the first of MANY projects I've done with the January 2012 Button Box kit and add on. I wanted to use my kit to try something different this month. I've been seeing She Art girls all over the internet, and my good friend Nancy sent me one. I decided to make one to send to her in return! 

A lot of the embellishments on this canvas have meaning. The three butterflies stand for her three kids that she home schools. That's where the sentiment came from too! (She's pretty awesome.) I used stamps, paint, bubble wrap, gesso, Stickles, antique lace, rub ons, and mist. I did a ton of masking. As you can see, This canvas has a little bit of everything on it! 

My She Art girl is wearing boots because Nancy loves boots. Her boots have stars on them because she's originally from Texas. The extra big sun is to burn the fog off in California. That's where she lives now. 

She has a belt made of antique lace that another friend gave me. I stamped with distress ink on her wings and then misted them. I added lots of bling because Nancy loves bling! Hehe

I also wanted to show you a close up look at the bottom of her dress! I inked the dress with distress ink and then added rub on stitches to the bottom. I used Stickles in between the stitches. 

The grass was done in three layers. The first layer was plain green paint that I daubed on. The second layer was made up of darker paint that I swirled through. The third layer was made out of a mixture of gesso and green glimmer mist to add a bit of sparkle and texture. After it dried, I stamped a few flourishes on top with Staz On ink. 

I hope that this post inspired you! Don't forget to check out the "Button Box" kit in the shop. It's just gorgeous!

my heart...

Hello everyone Amanda here! I am so honored and excited to be your guest designer for this month! Jessica sent me the fabulous Button Box Kit and Add-on to work with, and the minute I saw the "Clothesline" paper by October Afternoon, I knew I had to cut it apart and pop it up for some dimension. The colors in this kit were just perfect for this photo of my two daughters!

I had fun layering up some of the fun embellishments from both kits, I wanted to keep everything fairly simple, so that the focus would stay on the amazing banners from that paper, and of course the photo of my cuties! :)

I am so excited to be a part of the Scraptastic Club team for this month!! :)



my crazy kids and the december challenge winner

Good morning my Scraptastic friends!

TGIF

So, what are your plans for the weekend?

First on my agenda is getting my house back in order from all the Christmas celebrating.

Second is hanging with the kids.

And last is fitting in some scrappy time

: )

Well, enough about me...let's get to the winner of the December 2011 Blog Challenges.

Chosen by Random.org...the winner of the December 2011 Blog Challenges is lucky number

20

which by my calculations is...

Anna Pettit

Congratulations Anna!!! Please email me your address to contest@scraptasticclub.com

And I just wanted to thank everyone for taking part in our blog challenges. I loved looking at everyone's take on the challenges! Great job ladies!!!

 

Don't forget that the January 2012 Blog Challenges have started, you can find the links at the top right of the blog. The prize for this month's challenges will be a $20.00 Gift Certificate to the Scraptastic Club Store. 

 

Now, onto my crazy kids...I've been dying to jump into the Button Box Kit and Add-On, (there is only 1 kit and 1 add-on left) so today I went through all of my pictures, looking for the right ones to jump out at me and say "pick me, pick me...I'm the perfect pictures for this kit". And low and behold, I finally found them...

 

I'm so happy with the way it turned out. I stole Juliann's idea of painting my alphas with my red paint dabber from the August Summer Star Kit. I needed more red to make those red glasses really pop. I did some fussy cutting to make my banner, and I matted those pieces on the blue cardstock from the kit to give my banner an extra pop.

 

That's all for me today...I hope that you all have a fabulous day and a fabulous weekend!

 

 

first january challenge!

happy new year scrappers!!!

i am so happy to able to

give you your first challenge for 2012!!

my kit arrived last friday morning

and as soon as i opened that bag

i was off to scrappy happiness!!!

have i ever told you that

tealish blue, yellow and red are 3 of my

FAVORITE color to scrap with???

OMW i'm in heaven!!!

so i bet you're waiting

to find out what the challenge is....

first off i'm calling this challenge

color pop

and the challenge is to

use 1 main color

for your page and

2 accent colors in

small doses to give

it a little pop!

the blue is my main color....

and the red and yellow are mom POPS!

i painted the alpha that came in the kit with

a paint dauber from a past kit...

i used my handy distress tool to draw the

heart on the pics and some liquid

pearls to fill it in!

what are you waiting for?
oh, you want to know what fabulous prize you're playing for this month???
this month you will be playing for a $20.00 gift certificate to the scraptastic store!

please use the inlinkz tool below to submit your entry for the 1st january 2012 challenge.
you have until midnight on february 1st to submit all of your entries for the january challenges.

january's full reveal

Good morning my Scraptastic friends!

I hope that everyone is having a fabulous TGIF!!!

Christmas is on Sunday, yay! I'm so excited and tired. I surprised the kids yesterday with our very own "Elk on the Shelf", the kids were so excited. They searched high and low this morning looking for him, and that silly elf was hanging upside down from the star on top of the tree. Such a fun thing to do with the kids!

Anyhoo, enough about that elf...I know that you all want to see the January 2012 Kits Reveal

Button Box Kit

***If you purchased one of the December Kits, your extra goodie with this kit is a bottle of October Afternoon's Sprinkler in Robot Blue

Button Box Add-On

Snow What Fun Kit

***If you purchased one of the December Kits, your extra goodies with this kit is 2 bottles of Stickles in Christmas Red and Frosted Lace.

Snow What Fun Add-On

Aren't they just perfect???

These kits will be going up for sale on December 30th.

If you'd like to be added to the wait list for either one of these kits, please email me at members@scraptasticclub.com

and I'll let you know once I hear back from all of my monthly subscribers!

Have a great day!

january peeks

Good afternoon my Scraptastic friends!

I hope that you are all having a great weekend so far.

It's a lazy one around here.

Trying to get my scraproom cleaned up and organized!

We'll see how that goes.

So, I'm really excited to share the January sneaks with you......

Button Box

Snow What Fun

These kits are gorgeous.....and I can't wait to share the full reveals with you next week!

Have a great weekend!!!