The Paper Variety Color Challenge

Happy New Year everyone! The Paper Variety has their first challenge of the year of today and it's a good one.....make a project (card, layout or any other paper project) using all black and white and just a pop of another color.  Here is my project:

I just love the combination of black, white and red.  In fact those were my colors of my wedding,  I was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest but when I went to the website of the creator she said she had found the picture on the internet.  So if anyone knows the original designer of this card please let me know so I can give the proper credit.  I used 5 different embossing folders and heat embossed the Paper Smooches sentiment.

There are some changes to the challenges this year at The Paper Variety so be sure to head over there to read all about them.  The biggest (and best) news is that you will now have 2 weeks to complete your project.  We still have awesome prizes and a chance to be a guest design team member plus there will be tutorials and special guests throughout the month.  Literally you will want to check out the blog EVERY day. Here is what you are playing for with this challenge:

It's October Afternoon's Farmhouse collection and I just saw on Moxie Fab World tonight that it was voted one of the top 3 new collections this year...and you could win it!!  How cool is that?  So put your thinking caps on and get busy with your project.  I can't wait to see the beautiful creations!

I am entering my card over at Little Scrap Pieces weekly challenge. You can see the details HERE.

My Top 10 Favorite Layouts

Which one is your favorite?

Shooting Hoops

I am finishing up the childhood albums for my 30 year old sons.  This is a page for my oldest Matt's album.  He was always on the basketball team of his grammar school and was a decent player.  Wasn't he cute in his little uniform????  I used Little Yellow Bicycle's new collection "Get Your Game On" and this sketch:

I made the chevron design myself once my husband helped me figure out the correct angles that I needed to cut the paper in.  I was never any good in geometry and it showed today so thanks for your help Dave!  I have been involved in a year long challenge with some of the gals in Scrappin'-n-Chattin' (the scrapbooking Yahoo group I am involved in) It was a challenge to create a layout per week for 52 weeks and the prize is $210.  Well...I DID It!  This is my 52nd layout.  There are 7 or 8 of us that look to finish this challenge and it will be really exciting to see who wins the $$$$.  Good luck to everyone!

I am also entering this page in Little Scrap Pieces Anything Goes challenge.

And to all a Good Night.......

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and is relaxing now that it is all over......

Me? All I can say is that I am REALLY not looking forward to going back to work on Tuesday....

SO EXCITED!!!!!!

I am soooo excited and can finally announce that I will be staying on The Paper Variety's Design Team through June of 2012.  This has been so rewarding and fun for me and I am very excited about some of the new challenges and things we have in store in 2012.  Challenges will be posted on the 1st and 15th of every month and will run for 2 weeks.  There are some awesome sponsors lined up with great prizes.  We will have guest design team members, tutorials and loads of fun and inspiration.  There will be something new nearly everyday.  The fun starts January 1st but join us everyday from now until them to meet out team members.  Check out all the details HERE

Christmas 2011

I am on a roll.  I am also on vacation and although my dad is visiting us from out of town I have been able to find little snippets of time to sneak into my scraproom and work on some projects.  Last night I used the Sketchy Thursday sketch from this week to scrap some pictures I took yesterday with my Instax camera.  I recently was gifted some Christmas Wishes papers by Bella Blvd. (thanks Abby!) and I couldn't wait to use these fun and whimsical papers on this layout.  Here is the sketch I used:

I am also linking this layout up to ScrapFit's Workout #58 -- Mini Pics and Wee Memories Anything Goes

DCWV Stack-a-Holic Challenge layout

I was able to carve out some scrapping time for myself during this very busy holiday season and create this layout with some beautiful paper from my DCWV  Mrs. Claus' Kitchen Stack.  The paper is beautifully glittered which is the perfect backdrop for these pictures of our home last Christmas.  Rest assured we have added even more lights this year. I used this sketch from DCWV (I flipped it to accomodate horizontal pictures):





I am entering it into their Stack-a-Holic Template challenge.  You can see the details HERE.



I also made this rosette flower with my Martha Stewart Score Board. My friend Theresa won it and had it sent to me ----how sweet is that? I have the sweetest, most generous friends.

I am also entering this at Wee Memories Anything Goes Challenge which runs until midnight on December 30th so you have plenty of time to link a project up.