Scrapbooker of the Year

I would like to challenge all of the scrapbookers to entry CK's Scrapbooker of the Year (SOY) contest. This is a great way to develop your own personal scrapbook style as well as create some awesome layouts. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain in participating in this challenge.

For more information visit: Creating Keepsakes Scrapbooker of the Year

BONUS: Any "School of Scrap" student who reads this post and responds will get 20 extra School Bucks!! Anyone who ENTERS the SOY contest and posts it here will be 100 extra School Bucks!!!

1st Layout in Basic Grey Gallery

I am so happy and proud to announce that one of my layouts "Binkey Boy" has been selected to be in the Basic Grey Gallery. This is my first layout ever to be selected for the gallery at Basic Grey. This has been a goal that I have wanted to achieve for a long time. I am just soo excited!!!!!

Here is the link: Binkie Boy in Basic Grey Gallery

Here is the layout which was inspired by Ingrid Lingman's 1st sketch for the School of Scrap! Thank you Ingrid for the awesome inspiration!!!

Fangtastic -Digital Fun

I downloaded a great and FREE digital scrapbooking kit from Fuji films (who would have known!). They had various kits for every season. However, the two Halloween kits caught my eye and my imagination. Both kits had various type of papers, embellishments, tags, titles, and letters to suit every digital scrapper. Fangtastic uses the two Halloween Fuji kits plus some elements from the Shabby Princess kits. The color combination makes this layout eerily pretty.

Shabby Princess "Festival" Digi Pack

Lately, I have been trying to get some experience in the realm of "digital" scrapbooking. At first, I was quite intimidated by the whole process. Once I figured out how use Adobe Photoshop CS2, I have really been enjoying myself in "digital" scrapbooking.

The Shabby Princess website is just awesome. She offers a variety of free "digital kits" that anyone can download. The kits include a variety of patterned papers, embellishments,letters, and stitching/ribbons. This is perfect for any digital scrapbooker.

The newest free digital pack is "Festival". I saw this and just fell in love with the color combination and patterns. The kit includes six different patterned papers, four colored buttons, journaling block, rick rack, brads, alphabets and multiple types of photo frames. What a great pack!!!

Binkey Boy

Lot's of great things are happening over atThe School of Scrap and some great scrappers are actively part of our school. Ingrid Lingman has posted some of her sketches in our School Gallery. WOW! I just LOVE LOVE Sketchz by Ingrid!

This is a layout created from one of her latest sketches - School Sketchz #001. I used Basic Grey Color Me Silly patterned paper. The ribbon is from Stampin Up. The hidden journaling is at the top of the page. Hidden journaling is a fantastic way to add journaling without it being seen by everyone who looks at the layout.

Thanks Ingrid for the GREAT sketch!!!!!

More Club Scrap........

This layout was a lot of fun to do. I loved these pictures of butterflies but couldn't find the proper paper for a layout. This month's selection of Club Scrap's"Refresh" changed my mind. I thought the bold spring-like colors would make a great layout. It was a lot of fun to create the triple mats for the photos. The butterfly embellishments were handmade using the paper from the Club Scrap "Refresh" line. I added the "Fandangles" on the wings to add some shimmer. Plus using the "pop-dots" for adhesive helped make the butterflies appear to be floating on top of the page.

Club Scrap = Bright Spring Colors

The bright colored patterned paper that come in the Club Scrap "Refresh" kit are so easy and fun to work with. They are the PERFECT foundation for spring layouts. So it wasn't hard to select the photos that went with this patterned paper. The layout "Simple Beauty" was an easy layout to create. The beautiful green patterned paper adds color and design that co-exist with the three pictures of the beautiful roses.

Thank you Club Scrapfor the great kits for the Design Team at The School of Scrap.