Scrappy Weekend

This weekend I worked on some layouts of our Washington DC trip. It was fun having new photos plus lots of new red, white and blue paper collections.

I used the June sketch from
Sweet Peach Crop Shop blog for these Capitol photos.



I used Sketch #124 from The Scrappiest Blog for these Washington Monument photos. I'm also combining this with the June Sketches in Thyme Open Challenge.



I used Sketch #50 at Sketches in Thyme for more Capitol photos.

Scrapbook {Express}ions Challenge

I am hosting this week's challenge on the Scrapbook {Express}ions Blog. I hope you'll come by and join us in thsi challenge.

We're changing it up here on the blog with another new type of challenge....use a movie title as the title of your layout. I used the title "Achors Aweigh", a 1945 american musical comedy, as the title for my layout of this photo of my grandfather when he was in the Navy.

Bo Bunny Liberty Collection
Dot
Stripe
United
12x12 Combo Stickers
Brads
Jewels
Noteworthy
American Crafts This to That Foam Tab Circles
Cricut Expression
Cricut Life Is A Beach Cartridge

YOUR CHALLENGE: Create a scrapbook page (8×8 or larger) that uses a movie title as the title of your layout.

Scrapbook Express will be giving a $25 gift certificate to one lucky participant from this month’s challenges. This is the fourth challenge for the month of June. There will be 4 challenges this month. Members can submit one entry per challenge giving them up to four chances to win the $25 gift certificate. The winner will be announced on Friday, July 1st, 2011. Projects must be new for this challenge. Projects cannot be combined with any other Scrapbook Express forum challenge or Scrapbook Express Design team assignment. By submitting to the challenge, participants give the right to the Scrapbook Express Blog team to post pictures of their entries on the winning announcement post.

Participants must have a Flickr.com account (it’s free) and will need to join the Scrapbook Express Flickr group. Participants should upload their projects and tag them with the corresponding challenge date seJune23. (It’s important that it is tagged). View the projects, chose “Send to Group” then “Scrapbook Express.”

Participants will have until the following Wednesday at midnight MST (June 29th for this challenge) to upload entries for the current week. In order for a gift certificate to be given, there must be at least 15 different entries for the month. Happy scrapping!

Scrapdango June Spice Kit Reveal

This month I worked with Scrapdango's Spice kit which features Fancy Pants Beach Bum and Webster's Pages Yacht Club. While these are both "beachy" collections, as you can see, they are not just for beach layouts.

Scrapdango Online Crop

Join us on June 10th at Scrapdango for a totally radical online crop. The challenges will be posted over the weekend and you'll have all week to complete them. Come on by and join the fun.

Torchlight Procession

I've combined a bunch of challenges for this layout. I used sketch no. 11 from For the Love of Sketches, this week's challenge at The Paper Variety to use stars, and the challenge on the Lily Bee Blog to use memorabilia.

Scrapdango May Sugar Kit Reveal

This month I worked with Scrapdango's Sugar Kit. You can see the complete design team reveals of the Sugar and Spice kits here.

Here are a few of my favorite layouts and cards that I made with this kit.

Scrapdango Blog Hop

Welcome to the Dango Girls' Blog Hop. I'm so glad you hopped on over to my pad. We have a lot of fun coming your way for the weekend and through the week. If you just happened to hop on over here and didn't know about this blog hop, then hop on over to the Scrapdango Blog where you should start this hopping good time. Okay, enough with all the hopping. Let's get down to scrappiness.

We have a brand new design team over at Scrapdango, and this blog hop is a way to introduce us. You will learn a little about each of us, and we will each post a challenge. You have until next Friday the 20th at midnight EST to post comments on each blog and to complete the design team challenges. There will also be other ways to earn draws, and one lucky person is going to win a fantastic prize of one of Scrapdango's fabulous kits chock full of scrappy goodness. Here is the breakdown of how you can earn draws.

--1 draw by posting comments on each design team member's blog (must comment on all blogs to get the draw)
--1 draw for each challenge that you complete. Please provide a link to your challenge in a comment
--1 draw for becoming or already being a Scrapdango Blog follower
--1 draw for becoming or already being a fan of Scrapdango on Facebook (include link to SD FB page)
--2 draws for correctly answering quiz questions on the DT members. The quiz can be found on the Scrapdango forum here.

A Little Bit About Me: I am happy to be returning for another design team term at Scrapdango. I began scrapbooking about 18 years ago after attending a Creative Memories party. It didn’t take long after that to become an obsessed scrapper.

My husband, Tom, and I have been married for 18 years. Our two adopted kids, I mean kittens, Saffron and Hailey, allow us to share their home. If you have seen my work, you know they are the subjects of a lot of my layouts. I was born and raised in Southern California, and have been living in the beautiful Midwestern state of Indiana for 18 years. I am a part-time SAH(cat)M and part-time paralegal. While scrapbooking consumes most of my time, I also enjoy traveling, cooking and reading.

My challenge: I am always collecting brochures, tickets, maps and other memorabilia on my travels. A lot of times they don't make it onto my layouts because they don't match the photos or papers or just don't fit, but they are still memories I want to remember. Maybe you have things your kids made, handmade cards, or other sentimental items you can't bear to throw away. Now is the time to pull out this memorabilia and use it on a layout. The layout can include photos or no photos, just make sure you show off your memorabilia on your layout.

Here are two recent layouts I made using just memorabilia. It was fun pulling out all these things and actually getting them on a layout.

This layout uses papers from the April Sugar Kit (Bella Blvd. For the Record) and buttons from the April Spice Kit.


This layout uses papers from the May Spice Kit (Simple Stories Destinations).


When you complete the challenges post a comment on the Scrapdango Blog with a link to your layout or post your layout in the Blog Hop forum. Once you get all your draws you're going to get, post how many you have with any pertinent links in a comment on the Scrapdango Blog or on the message board in the Blog Hop forum.

You have until Friday May 20th at midnight EST to complete all the blog hop activities and earn draws for the prize. Next you're going to hop on over to Megan's pad. Good luck and have fun.

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