scrap that! member blog hop

Good morning everyone, and happy almost Christmas! It's finally here! The Scrap That! member blog hop starts today! Instead of just hopping through the design team's blogs, you get to meet some of the members! Please follow the list and comment on each blog! You will then be put into a random draw for a Christmas-y RAK from Scrap That!

Here is your list to follow:
Karen
*you are here* (Diana)
Cindy
Janis
Alecia (December Guest DT)
Amanda (Scrap That DT)

Scrap That! will be hosting a contest starting Saturday, Dec. 19th. Melissa, the owner of Pink Cat Studios has sponsored our contest for this month. You will receive some images from PCS...so stop by tomorrow to see the contest.

Don't forget about the 12 days of Christmas. Lori at Scrap That! will be putting certain things on sale, you won't wanna miss it! Do some Christmas shopping for yourself! Then you get what you want!

egg-citing page

I was the Guest Design Team member for October over at Scrap That! Here is a page I made showcasing the goodies that are available in the Scrap That! store. Head on over and take a look-see. Great stuff!


Sorry if I've been MIA the past week or so. Work has been very hectic, and my day-to-day seems piled on as well. Yesterday I was lucky enough to have the day off from work to go with Nate on his pumpkin field trip for preschool. Here are a few cute photos from that.




I have a lot of pics of Nate and his friends, but without the mothers' permission I wouldn't dare post them, so your stuck with just Nate and the back of their heads... I just love that one pic of Nate balancing on the hay.

The November GDT was announced today over at Sketchy Thursdays. Was it you? Check it out!!!

little monster top 10 candy checklist

I was up late creating last night, it was so nice! I made this little clipboard to go with a few different challenges. First, it's for Scrapjacked (yes, B... you and Michelle do not have to beat me up now...). They lifted Charity's haunted house, so here's my take on that jack. A little Halloween for ya!


Then I continued the theme for the "Monster" and "Green" challenge at Scrapfreak for this past Friday's last weekly challenge of the month.

Because I'm spunky... for Spunky Scrappers the challenge is a Top 10 list. PERFECT! And, over at Scrap That! for the online crop this weekend, there is a holiday altered art challenge... so out came the clipboard.



Well, that's about it! Check out those sites if you are looking for a challenge today. I'm about to head over to Scrap That! and list my two challenges for today. Wanna play along? Our online crop is rockin'!


Supplies: Basic Grey (pp), Basic Grey (stickers), Cosmo Cricket (stickers), Creative Chaos (journal spot), Thickers (chipboard letters), Making Memories (letter stickers), A Scrappy Design (BOO tag), Sassafras Lass (felties)

a color challenge for ya'!

If the Shoe Fits... Scrap It! is up with the next challenge for Fashionista Friday #8. We want to see your blue, white and silver creations! Nothing better than a color challenge to get you motivated to start your holiday cards!!

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A few ideas for the weekend: Join me over at Scrap That! for the online crop this weekend. I'm hosting the Bingo game beginning 9 a.m. (EST) Sat., so head on over now, pick your words and send them my way. I'm going to be posting a layout challenge as well as a card challenge on Sunday, so stop on by! I'd love to see some friendly faces join us over there.

Sketchy Thursdays is winding down the Nov. GDT challenge, the Lil Scrappin Mama Second Chance Challenge, as well as amping up this week's chance to win a kit from Scrapbook Kit Club. Click on over there as week make some winner announcements in the next day or two.

Lots to do—plenty of prizes to win! Have a scrappy weekend everyone!

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PS: Vote for Heidi!! She made it to Round 2 for the Torendi DT contest! Keep her in the race!!! VOTE!!

a weekend crop for you!

If you didn't get enough online cropping in this past weekend, I have another one to tell you about! I am this month's Guest Designer over at Scrap That! And for October, we're hosting...

CROP-OCTOBER FEST!!!

GET READY.... GET SET... its time for CROP-OCTOBERFEST! Scrap That! is hosting an ALL-OCCASION, MINI-CROP... with LOTS of challenges and fun to get you going on some of those Halloween, Christmas and birthday LO's and cards you have been meaning to get too!

Be sure to check it all out in the forum on WEDNESDAY, 10/21 as there will be an official sign up area. And, YES... PREGAME CHALLENGES to start us off!

On Friday, 10/23 at 3 p.m., we begin posting challenges and it will carry through until Sunday, 10/25! Can't wait for you to come and join us!!!

You must be a member, so head on over there today! Thanks, and hope to see you there!

9.17 reveal for sketchy thursdays

Happy Thursday! Today is reveal day for the next Sketchy Thursdays sketch. Here is the page I did for this week's reveal. I was piling on the challenges again!

This page is from the Scrap That! kit that I made for their September Challenge. For more info about that kit and the challenge, check out this post here. I also used the Spunky Scrappers prompt: What Makes You Dangerous?!

If you can't tell, this is a picture of the tattoo on my foot. It is two stars, one solid and one an outline with a 'n' in the middle (for my son: Nate).

My tattoo makes me feel dangerous. I'm an artistic person, but am far from having ever been a trouble maker, so having a tattoo sometimes feels like a complete contradiction to the persona. And... I have two of them! I also have a bunch of lilies on my right shoulder.



Supplies: Dotted Swiss (cardstock), My Mind's Eye (pp), Hambly (pp), Making Memories (flower), Creative Choas (journal spot), Pink Paisless (letter stickers), Misc. buttons, pearls and twine

Here's the next sketch! I hope you are playing along with is over at Sketchy Thursdays! It's getting pretty fun over there.

my b.f.f.

Here I am, combining challenges again! This page is for the prompt: B.F.F. at Pink Ninjas.

I am also participating in a challenge at Scrap That! where you build your own kit and then make two pages with it. This is page #1 for that challenge. Here is the kit that I put together. I actually really like it, and think that I might have bought this if I had seen it somewhere for sale.



And, because I was in the mood to keep combining, I also am working on the weekly challenges over at Scrap Freak. Technically I did both week 1: Repeating, and week 2: Hidden Journaling in one, but I don't know if I can count it as 1 entry for both. I repeated the circles throughout the page with the Hambly paper, the swirly pearls and the buttons. The hidden journaling is a note I wrote to Darlene that only she would understand.

So, what challenges have you been playing lately? Leave me a comment and let me in on some new sites I may want to play along with!

boys like butterflies, too!

I am loving the challenges over at Scrap That! Not only is LG one of the best sketch artists, but the girls over there are super nice. This layout is for their Week 3 Challenge for August. Check it out!

It's not too late to play along. You can still get points for catching up with the layouts from week #1 and week #2.

And a big shout out to Maureen, our friend from her wonderful MoMoStamper esty store. I finally found the perfect place to use some of the wonderful butterflies I bought from her. I sprayed them with a mix of Glacier Glmmer Mist and Vanilla Glimmer Mist, layered them and viola, beautiful butterflies!

Yeah, boys can have pretty things on their pages, too! :)




Supplies: Imaginisce (pp), Sassafras Lass (flowers), MoMoStamper (butterflies), Fancy Pants (transparency), American Crafts (Thickers), K&Co. (stickers and gems), Martha Stewart (glitter)

a little dude, some boyfriend and a sketch to work with

Hi all! Happy Friday. This page is the week #2 sketch challenge for August over at ScrapThat! and the prompt: "Dudes!" over at Pink Ninjas. (Both of which are really fun to play along with, so get your fanny over there!)

My son LOVES ice cream. In fact, he loves anything sweet and considers sugar a food group, I'm sure. This picture was taken one of the times he managed to finish his meal at Friendly's and enjoy the free sundae at the end. I have been waiting for the perfect time to scrap this!



I used my new Boyfriend papers from Cosmo Cricket for this layout. As soon as the new papers hit my scraproom I had to use them. Here is a card I made using some of the other papers from that line.



Supplies (page): My Mind's Eye (pp), Cosmo Cricket (pp), Jenni Bowlin (letter stickers), K&Co. (chipboard letters)
Supplies (card): All Cosmo Cricket - Boyfriend.

Thanks for looking! And I know I promised a big announcement today. It's in the next post. It deserved a post all by itself!

scrap that! august challenge week one

Hi! Over at Scrap That! they are running August sketch challenges. The above page goes with the week one sketch. You have the entire month to complete them all, but they are worth more points for the monthly challenge if you complete the sketch the same week the sketch is posted. (I was not in the quick group, but I did still do it!)

Week two's sketch is up now, so hurry on over!



Supplies: Cosmo Cricket (pp), Jenni Bowlin (pp), Cosmo Cricket (blackboard), Recollections (owl), American crafts (solid paper and letter chipboard), misc buttons and twine