Thanks for participating, my fellow scraphappy-ites!
Many of you said that yellow was a tough color for you. You know what's interesting... I never would have thought it would be one of "my" colors, but as I look over my scrapbooking from the past 6 months or so, I've used a LOT of yellow cardstock! Funny that I now consider it a "neutral." I mix it with everything from a deep red to pink to green to white to all of the above!
Here's my layout from last week:
That's my cute hubby. A good sport, indeed!
Materials: Patterned paper (Paper Loft) + letter stickers (American Crafts, Scenic Route, Reminisce) + photo corners (American Crafts) + labels (Autumn Leaves) + tile (Technique Tuesday) + letter (Making Memories) + brads (American Crafts) + 12x12" page
The winner of a prize pack is... Kendra! I love her digi layout. Kendra, email me with your snail mail address and I'll get these goodies off to you. (And tell me if you do digi-only so I can find something suitable from the prize vault!)
I really encourage everyone to go through the comments on the 30-Minute Thurdsay posts and visit some of the other participants' blogs. It's fun to see what everyone else did, and it really helps encourage people. In fact, next week I just might give a surprise prize (say THAT 10 times fast!) to someone who is caught leaving kind comments to a fellow scrapphappy-type (we need a name for our band of merry maidens... ScrapHaps? ScrapHappians? Hmmm... needs some work).
Now, for this week...
Create a 30-minute layout using AT LEAST:
-1 photo of yourself
-2 button
-3" of ribbon
-some bling
Remember, you can use more, but this is the minimum! Post a link to your page here by next Wednesday to win, win, WIN!
How is it Thursday already?
Great page Kendra! That is the cutest little bird. Congrats on the win and welcome to the club!
Lain could we switch the order? Be the HappyScraps or something? Maybe just "Happies", like hippies but instead of making our peace signs with our fingers we raise our decorative scissors.
Posted by: canadacole | March 27, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Great layout Kendra! I did not know we could do digi-I'm in for this week now.
Posted by: Nanabeth | March 27, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Decorative scissors... hee... that's pretty funny.
Happier scrappers... no...let's face it, I work with photos for a reason. Not so good with the clever names. Hope someone else can come up with a good one.
In the meantime, here's my LO for this week:
http://www.simplescrapbooksmag.com/gallery/details.ihtml?idx=103192
Posted by: Jessica C. | March 27, 2008 at 01:15 PM
hey canada cole :) (we need to actually meet someday ya-know // i'll be in bangor maine in july - where are you in canada?) - anyway, i had the same thought but mine was "scraphappies" and i didn't come up w/ any symbols or anything - very cool.
Posted by: Katie Scott | March 27, 2008 at 01:15 PM
Thanks, everybody for the nice comments. I was so excited to win! Lots of people commented on the little bird on my page. It is a digital felt bird by Pattie Knox at Designer Digitals. She has a bunch of other cute little animals, too. I thought maybe the good scraparitans might work?
Posted by: Kendra Fahselt | March 27, 2008 at 06:03 PM
Okay, I KNOW I asked for some challenges and then I didn't do it...yet. My dh is home and we have been really busy. He has to go back to work on Tues and then I PROMISE to do BOTH challenges.........and catch up on my Library of Memories class.
Oh, AND listen to the podcast (which can be accomplished while I scrap.
I have missed you my friend.
Posted by: Mary c | March 27, 2008 at 06:09 PM
I'll tell you that a photo of myself was hard to find, so I had a little fun with a retro picture of myself from over 22 years ago. It's my sophomore year high school picture from fall of 1985. I'm 15 maybe just turned 16. Fun challenge, so thanks! My mojo for scrapbooking isn't really back yet, but these challenges are helping!
And since Aunt Scrappy talked about hidden journaling on the podcast, that's what I did here.
http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/81613/view/1363759/-1/0/1.html
Posted by: Jen McGuire | March 27, 2008 at 10:17 PM
Great great great podcast! I have figured out I buy and organize because I'm afraid that what I scrap won't be good enough. I know-bad bad. I also know the longer you put it off-the more afraid you get.
Cathy Z. is my hero-but she takes such fantastic pictures-even the pictures she says aren't good-are a hundred times better than anything I have. I think a lot of us add embellishments because we think they make up for poor photos. We're wrong.
I found a fantastic line called Eco-Africa-but have yet to purchase because I can't confirm it is handmade and if it is, that the people who make it actually get some of the money. Any chance you could sleuth out the answer?
Posted by: NanaBeth | March 27, 2008 at 11:34 PM
hey :) so i started doing this but it turned into something totally different / its on my blog and i love it - its a layout about a family that is very close to us and i can't believe i've never done one like this before. so don't put me in the contest yet, i'll do the contest page later but thanks for the start on a page that my family & theirs will really love. :) K
Posted by: katie scott | March 27, 2008 at 11:52 PM
Man I have been gone for a long time! I can't wait to get back into Thurs. scraps:)
Posted by: sockiepuppetsmom | March 28, 2008 at 09:46 AM