Mystery Scrap Week 20 (Wednesday)

This is another page that will come together super fast!  And, it requires very little in the way of embellishments.  Gather up the following and come back by on Friday to see how it all fits together.

12x12 solid color (for background)

3 skinny strips of patterned paper or ribbon (or a combination) You can border punch the paper for added interest if you like. 

Cricut cut letters or chipboard (or some of each for a multi-word title)

2-3 embellishments (~1.5-2” in size)

3 or 4 tiny embellishments – brads, rhinestones, i-rock gems, etc.

Tiny scrap of white or light colored paper & scrap of colored cardstock – for subtitle (if desired)

Mystery Scrap Week 20 (Monday)

Time to switch it up and use some portrait oriented pictures this week!  You will need 4 that are each 2.25”x3.25” (so you can fit two to a 4x6 print out).  Or you can create a photo strip in your photo editing program.  You will want a one or two word title and there will be room for up to 8 or 9 lines of journaling 4.5”-5” wide each.

Mystery Scrap Week 19 (Friday)

So this was kind of tricky trying to figure out how link to this picture.  This was a page by Sherrie that was posted to the Flickr website for the May LOAD challenge - I tried to locate a blog for her, but didn't find one. Hopefully you'll be able to follow this link to see the page I'm talking about.  If not, let me know and I'll figure out another way to show it to you! Click here for link!

Here is my page which will be the left side of a two page spread about the Crop for a Cure Fundraiser back in May.  I love the colors, the patterned papers & the embellishments (which were some that were included in the goodie bags).  Makes me excited to start planning the 2012 Crop for a Cure! 

Mystery Scrap Week 19 (Wednesday)

Supplies that you will need for this week's page are:
1 piece 12x12 patterned paper
1 piece of solid paper 7"x12"
letter stickers (or cricut letters, chipboard letters, etc)
2 embellishments (or punches) 1"-1.5" (preferably two different sizes)
Title - multiple words will work well
Journaling - a couple lines - you can type these if you want - approx 3" wide and double space at least to allow you to cut into journaling strips.

Mystery Scrap Week 19 (Monday)

I love this week's inspiration layout! I stumbled upon it today while I was blog surfing. Is that a term?  Anyway - my first thought when I saw it - was that I knew which patterned paper I wanted to use for the background. A large multi-colored polka dot background - then I was going to pick pictures to go with it.  Unfortunately, I must've used all of that paper so I had to go to plan B.  For this page - you will need a 4x4 square photo and a 4x6 or 4x5 landscape photo. I think you'll like how this one turns out too!  This'll be a good week to jump back in and play along!

Mystery Scrap Week 18 (Friday)

This is the page that was our inspiration for the week.
In case you haven't noticed it yet, I love Clean & Simple pages - lots of "white" space (which doesn't necessarily have to be white).  I also really like grid designs - they look so neat & clean.  So this one combines several of the elements that draw me to a design.  I hope you like it!  Here is my page - I replaced one of the 3x3 pieces of patterned paper with another picture and kept the additional embellishments to a minimum.

 

I will have to make some changes as I really don't like the red gems, but that'll have to wait for another day!

Post your version of this week's Mystery Scrap to our Flickr Group with the tag Mystery18.

Mystery Scrap Week 18 (Wednesday)

So somehow I completely forgot to do my Wednesday post so it would post this morning - so I'm sorry for the lateness of today's post!  For this week's page, you will need the following:
a 12x12 piece of solid color or patterned paper
3 3x3 squares of patterned paper or complementary solid colored papers
chipboard letters or stickers or cricut cut letters
3 3" pieces of narrow ribbon
3 ~1" embellishments (flowers, punched shapes, stars, etc)
a scrap of white (or light) cardstock ~ 3"x3"
floss or thread & needle (optional)

Organizational Find

My husband recently started his own business and has been spending lots of time at Staples.  A couple weeks ago, he came home and said I found something at Staples that I think you'd really like... So, the next time we were out that way he had to stop in for something I said Ok - show me what you thought I'd like!  And THIS

is what he led me to.  Is it super stylish? Nope.  But, it's very functional and pretty inexpensive & that's pretty much how I roll.  It was $15 and you can actually buy these fantastic little boxes individually in multiple sizes - here is a picture of at least 3 of the sizes - and I think there might at least one more size larger than the biggest pictured here. 

They are called "Really Useful Box"es which just cracks me up.  I have several already that I use for excess punched pieces - for example, the Stampin Up! 2 step owls or the cupcake punch.  When mass producing treats for the kids classes or birthday party invitations - I always punch more than what I need for that project because I know they might later make the perfect addition to a page or help you make a quick & simple card for someone.  You can also use paper scraps that aren't big enough to be worth saving, and see if you can get a couple punches out of them. They could also be used to store little bits & pieces like brads, buttons, flowers, etc.

Mystery Scrap Week 18 (Monday)

Our page this week is another super simple one!  You will need 1 landscape oriented 4x6 picture. Your title can be one word or multi-word and the journaling should be just a couple lines worth. Stop back tomorrow for a cute organizational find!

Mystery Scrap Week 17 (Friday)

I hope everyone had a great week & that you all get to do some scrapping this weekend. This page is such a simple one, it should come together in a matter of minutes.  DON'T overthink the placement of the bits & pieces & strips of paper.  Just slap 'em all down!
Here is our inspiration page for the week...
And here is my take on it.

Very simple, very quick to put together. It's by no means a work of art, but it is a sweet reminder of a thoughtful gift my girls made for Chris this year for Father's Day. I'll take it!
Have a great weekend and post your page to the Flickr Group with the tag Mystery 17. If you don't know how to do that, leave a comment and I can help!

Mystery Scrap Week 17 (Wednesday)

As far as supplies this week, you don't need much - and this is a great way to use up some scraps!
12x12 solid color background paper/cardstock
random bits & pieces - strips of patterned paper, cardstock
chipboard letters/stickers, etc for short title
some sort of embellishment - gems, i-rocks, brads, etc

Mystery Scrap Week 17 (Monday)

This week's Mystery Scrap page is super super easy! If you haven't had time to play along with us for a while, this is a good one to use to get going again!  All you need is 2 landscape oriented photos ~ 3 tall by 4 wide. These dimensions are approximate - you could do any landscape size, but keep it shorter than 6" wide!
Title should be one word. Journaling - if you have some - you will be able to put anywhere. But, it's not necessary to the page design if the pictures/title can tell the story without journaling! See you Wednesday for step 2!

Mystery Scrap Week 16 (Friday)

It's Friday & it's a Holiday weekend!  Hope everyone gets to enjoy 3 days off!
Click here to check out the page that this week's Mystery Scrap is based on... It's by Maggie Holmes who is one of the Dream Team members for Creating Keepsakes.  I just adore this page - the clean & simple look, the grid-like design, the colors - yellow & grey are so popular right now and I love the pink to go with it!

Here is my take - I have a 1 3/8 circle punch, but not 1 1/4 or 1 1/2 to get the tag-like effect, so I used by 1 3/8 punch and cut the black cardstock to 1 1/2 with my paper trimmer. Upload your interpretation of this layout to our Flickr Group page with the tag Mystery16!  Everyone have a great weekend - see you back here Monday for Week 17!

Mystery Scrap Week 16 (Wednesday)

Time to gather the other supplies you'll need for this week's page.
1 12x12 piece of cardstock for your background
3 or more scraps of patterned paper that goes well together & goes with your background
a couple scraps of ribbon and/or borders - paper or sticker
optional - 8 gems, rhinestones, brads, etc.
optional - sewing machine (or sew easy, paper piercer, stitched rub ons, or a pen!)

Mystery Scrap Week 16 (Monday)

Happy Monday!  Hope everyone had a great weekend!  Mine was good - hectic and too short of course - but I'm so excited because it's my hubby's last weekend away!  He's starting his own practice and will now be home weekends, nights & holidays!  Yippeeeee!  BUT, that will mean a lot less scrappy time for me...
For this week's Mystery Scrap, you only need one photo and it's a small one.  Mine ended up being a 1 3/8 square.  There are quite a few options for how to do this week's page.  I used a 1 3/8 in square punch.  If you have a 1 3/8 circle that would work, too.  Even better if you also have a 1 1/2 circle.  A scallop circle would work too - any punch that's somewhere between 1 & 2" would work.  If you don't have any punches, you can create squares using your paper trimmer. Check back Wednesday for the next step!

Mystery Scrap Week 15 (Friday)

This page was inspired by (scraplifted) from this one by Tammy at Your Memory Connection.  Pennants are so popular right now and I have the scallop punch that she used.  It looked like a fun & easy & page & I was looking for a way to do a page that would highlight 3 portrait sized pics of my older daughter.   These are my favorite pictures of her in forever and were taken during the intermission of younger daughter's preschool graduation.  Apparently they key to getting great pictures with natural looking smiles is NOT trying to get two of them to smile and pose at the same time!  Now I'll have to try the same thing with the younger one! Anyway - I changed the placement of the title & the journaling a little bit to fit with the papers & title stickers I chose and I added a couple little tiny punched hearts at the last second, but I'm pretty happy with the end result on this one. Hope you are with yours as well.

I would LOVE to see what you come up with - so please join my Flickr group & post a picture of your layout with the Tag Mystery15.

Journaling says: I adore these pictures of you because I can see the beautiful baby (with the adorable dimple) that you were, the sweet & outgoing little girl you are, and the bright, confident & lovely young woman you will become.

Mystery Scrap Week 15 (Wednesday)

Supplies you will need:
1 12x12 piece of cardstock
patterned paper 1: 7.5"x9"
patterned paper 2: 12"x3.25"
patterned paper 3: 12"x 1" or 12"+ length of ribbon
title - stickers, chipboard, stamps, cricut letters
2 border punched pieces of complimentary colored cardstock
3 punched pieces (any of the above patterned papers or cardstock (scallop circle, circle, something symmetrical) or paper to cut into triangular/pennant shape
length of string or bakers twine

Mystery Scrap Week 15 (Monday)

For this week's page, you will need 3 portrait oriented 3"x4" pictures. 
Your title can either be several small words or one or two larger ones.
Journaling space will be about 2.75"wide x 2" tall. See you Wednesday for the next step!

Father's Day Card

Well, I'm taking a short break this week from Mystery Scrap - BUT will be back with another round next week.  If you are new to the blog - check back to a recent week and pick any week to start playing along!  In the meantime, I thought I'd post a super simple Father's Day card that I copied almost exactly from this card.  I'm about 150% sure that neither my Dad nor my Father in Law will be checking my blog, so not worried about ruining the surprise!

If you are a stamper and you have never been to splitcoaststampers, it's worth the (virtual) trip.  This website - or maybe I should call it a community - is one of the best resources out there for ideas for cards, treats, and even scrapbook pages.  If you like Stampin Up! stamps, you will get lost here for hours at a time - but it is certainly not limited to Stampin Up!  When I buy a stamp set, I always check out splitcoast because you can look by stamp set and see pictures of cards that other people have made using that same set.  Over time, the way I purchase sets has even changed because of splitcoast.  I used to go through the catalog and see what caught my eye.  Now, I spend a lot of time browsing blogs & if a card really grabs me, I may go see what other people have created with the same set.  Once I see three or four cards that I know I would scraplift (with stamping it's called CASE - stands for Copy & Share Everything) then I will consider buying a set.  Anyway - pick a set that you have or are interested in - go to the gallery, click on Stampin Up, then on the letter that the set name begins with, find the set name and have fun perusing!
There are also forums where you can ask/answer questions, a ton of challenges, swaps, tutorials - it's really an amazing resource.  Another thing I love to do there is look for treat ideas for my kids' classes at school or little goodies for teachers... I typed in the search box Valentine Treat and here is one of the cute ideas that came up... Invitation ideas, favors, birthday party goodies, you name it - you can find it here.
I regularly will type CAS in the search box - which stands for Clean and Simple.  That is definitely the style that speaks most to me.
One last fun thing - as you are looking through the various galleries, find a card that really knocks you out and look to see if the creator has included their blog in their signature - this is a great way to discover blogs by people with a style that you really like. Chances are if you really like one of their designs, you may like a lot of them!  So - if you haven't already becoming obsessed with Splitcoast, go check it out - you will not be disappointed!

Mystery Scrap Week 14 continued

Ok - so sure enough - my brain was working a lot better yesterday and I was able to find it.  This was the page by Jenn McCabe in the Club CK gallery. It's not super-easy to search by a person, but I ended up finding something her username and then looking at her gallery. Club CK Gallery is an amazing place to find inspiration.  Look through based on theme, technique, layout size or many other options.  I look till I find one that I really like, then I look at that person's gallery.  Then, I'll look to see if I can find their blog!

http://clubcreatingkeepsakes.com/media/p/586112.aspx

Mystery Scrap Week 14 (Friday)

Fighting a bad headache and barely got my page finished tonight. I spent a few minutes trying to find the link to the Jenn McCabe layout in the Club CK Gallery that was my inspiration for this week. But, I think my brain is not working properly... Here is my picture and tomorrow or over the weekend when I'm firing on all cylinders, I'll try to link right to her page.  Mine won't do her justice and you'll see beyond a shadow of a doubt why I should NEVER try to doodle.  It's comical how bad I am at freehanding anything.  Was never a doodler in school and now you can see why!

Mystery Scrap Week 14 (Wednesday)

Supplies for this week's page include:
12x12 solid color cardstock for background (optional - another 12 x12 - one would be cut down to form a border).
random paper strips (coordinating colors) this could include paper strips, punched borders, border stickers, ribbon, etc
letter stickers for title (or chipboard, cricut letters, etc)
embellishments - 3 approx 1", 3 approx .5"
no specific place for journaling, but could add journaling tag, box, sticker, or handwriting in many diff places.

Mystery Scrap Week 14 (Monday)

So this is actually a live post this morning. I'm going to be hurtin' tomorrow!  For this week's page, you will need 4 portrait oriented pictures approx 2x4 (could be a little wider if you'd like) and they don't all have to be the exact same with, but keep them fairly close... I haven't actually done my page yet, but I'm picturing using 4 similar pics of the same subject.  See you back here Weds!

Not what I'd planned, but...

I hope you like it. We wanted to make a little something for Evan's teacher for the end of the year. So at the grocery store this morning, we saw these little candy bar bouquets that were so cute!  I figured we could do something similar so we bought the candy and everything else we needed was already in the craft closet.

Supplies include two types of full sized candy bars, wooden skewers, tissue paper, glue gun, vase, floral foam & Kissess.

Put kisses in the bottom of the vase.

Tuck a small piece of floral foam into the tissue paper as if you Then use hot glue (I used it on the Lo setting) to hot glue the skewers to the backs of the candy bars. were putting a gift into a gift bag.  Then put the foam & tissue paper into the vase down to the Kisses.

 

Then use hot glue (I used it on the Lo setting) to hot glue the skewers to the backs of the candy bars. Almost done...

Put the skewers into the floral foam at different angles & tie the base of the skewers & tissue paper with some ribbon. Voila!  It took about 10-15 minutes including cooling time for the hot glue.  I would definitely make one again, but I'd probably just do several - it was so easy & inexpensive.  Sorry the pictures aren't great - I'm not much of a photographer anyway, but I didn't have the energy today to find a nice clear spot and natural light!

Mystery Scrap Week 13 (Friday)

Does anyone have any scrappy plans for the weekend?   This week's Mystery Scrap is based on this page by Laura Vegas.

Here is my take on it...

When you've completed your page, post it to our Flickr Group so we can all ooh & aah over it!  Tag it as Mystery13.  And, make sure to check back over the weekend - I'll have tips for making the most of your alphabet stickers!

Mystery Scrap Week 13 (Wednesday)

Ok - for this page, you will need:
12x12 piece of subtle patterned paper or solid color cardstock
strip of patterned paper 1"x12" plus another length of the same paper 1"x 4.25"
strip of another patterned paper a little less than 1/2" w x12"
border punched piece of patterned paper or solid color cardstock a little less than 1/2" x 12" (or ribbon)
title - chipboard, stickers, cricut letters or any combination of these!
Journaling block - subtle patterned paper or light colored cardstock ~ 2.5"x4 or 3"x4
Embellishments - 3 approx same size .5" or so
2 approx 1"-1.5"
random corner piece if desired... (this is hard to describe, so you may want to hold off on this part until Friday when you see the design)

Mystery Scrap Week 13 (Monday)

Sorry I didn't get this posted earlier in the day - usually I do the page & posts on Sunday so they are all ready to go each day. I got caught up in a much needed weekend of relaxing.  Layout a Day is coming to a close and while I love it, between that and all the weekend events during May, I need at least a week to regain control of my house!  Anyway - for this week's Mystery Scrap, you will need 3 landscape oriented pictures - 4x6 - then trim off about .5" of length. Your title can be short or long and journaling will be in a space ~ 2.5" by 4". See ya Wednesday!

Mystery Scrap Week 12 (Friday)

TGIF! For such an easy page in theory, this page took me way too long to put together.  This week's mystery scrap is based on this layout on the Scrapbooks Etc website by Kelly Noel.  I've been wanting to do a page about a crazy morning that involved a rotten banana and about a zillion ants in my 1st graders's bookbag.  There's a ton of journaling, so the little strips of journaling weren't going to work on my page - so instead I just did a block and matted it. I also changed it around and put my title on one of the small pieces because I thought it would show up a little better.  Here is my page.. (Journaling below)

What did you come up with? Post your page to our Flickr group so we can all see each others! Tag it Mystery12. 

Journaling: Getting to work in the morning is no easy feat. Getting everyone up, dressed & out the door with everything necessary for school/daycare/work sometimes makes me feel like I could use a nap before I make it to my desk. Breakfast to be made/eaten, lunches to be packed, tennis shoes to be tied, hair to be brushed (sometimes I get to work and realize I haven’t brushed my own!)  Normally after a couple of “Hurry Ups” we get out the door on time.  One morning in September we took it to a whole new level. I had fixed breakfast for E & M, packed lunch for myself & Evan and packed sandwiches & chips for dinner before Karate.  We got in the car, went down the hill to the bus stop and Evan asked if I’d packed her a snack for school.  I dug through the other bags and came up with the bag of chips – so I gave her that. Then she opened her bookbag and says “Uhoh Mom. My bookbag is full of ants.”  OH. CRAP.  Of course there was nothing in the car to use to wipe out the bookbag.  I started pulling things out.  Her folder – crawling with ants.  A box of Kleenex that was to be turned in yesterday as part of her supplies.  Not only covered in ants, but suspiciously sticky on the bottom.  Then I found it. A ziplock bag with a mysterious mushy black substance.  I pulled it out and asked her WHAT it was.  “Oh.  I think it’s the banana.”  So, Banana in ziplock baggie goes out the door of the car.  Yes, I hate to say it, but I littered.  I tried wiping out the ants with gobs of Kleenex and that didn’t do a thing.  So we zipped back up the hill and I ran inside. Threw the bag on the kitchen floor and doused it with antspray. Ran upstairs and grabbed last year’s bookbag, ran downstairs, dumped out the 300 toys that were living in there, grabbed a paper towel and sprayed with antspray – ran back outside, zipped down the hill and somehow got most of the dead ants out of the folder before the bus came! 

Mystery Scrap Week 12 (Wednesday)

In addition to your 4x6 photo, you will need:
a 12x12 piece of cardstock for your background
a 2.5x7 piece of patterned paper
a .5" x 7.25" piece of coordinating cardstock
a 6"x6"piece of cardstock (same as above .5x7.25" piece) 
2-3 small (.5"-1") embellishments

Mystery Scrap Week 12 (Monday)

So - Crop for a Cure went really well on Saturday. We had a great group of women and I think everyone had a good time.  I'm already brainstorming for the 2012 event!  If you're new to the blog - check out some of the older posts and get some ideas for easy pages that can be completed in about 15 minutes, three times a week - an idea we call Mystery Scrap. 
This week's page is going to be a super super easy one.  Why? Because my house looks like an Amazon.com warehouse right now. Between all the stuff from C4AC & all the 5 billion boxes that have been delivered for my hubby's new business, there are boxes EVERYWHERE and now that our big stuff in May is behind us, it's time to recover my house!
You will need one portrait oriented 4x6.  Your title will be short (1 or 2 words) and you will have about a 6x7 area for journaling.  See ya back here Weds for what papers & embellishments you will need to gather.  Then, Friday, I'll reveal the page I made and the page/blog from which is was scraplifted.

Mystery Scrap Week 11 (Friday)

This week I did something kinda crazy.  I scraplifted a page that I have already scraplifted once.  I can't help it. I LOVE this page. Every time I see it, I love it. SO - I figure, these are not going to be right next to each other. They probably won't even be in the same album!  Why not? If it works, use it again!
So - if you don't have this woman's blog bookmarked already, you are SO gonna wanna bookmark it now.  Here is a link to her blog and another link to the page.

Here is the one I made this week - eh. Doesn't knock me out BUT it's another story told. Not a real exciting one, but it's a little bit of who I am and even a little bit of who Chris is.

and a picture when I first scraplifted it back in October (it's the one of the left).

Ok - now go forth and create! Post a copy of what you come up with to our Flickr group so we can all oooh & aaah over it! Wish me luck this weekend with Crop for a Cure!

Mystery Scrap Week 11 (Wednesday)

To gather for this week's Mystery Scrap...
a 12x12 for your background - solid color!
a shaped white piece almost as big as the 12x12 background. I don't know how to describe except to say mine looks like it has braces (these things {}) for all 4 sides...
9 punched pieces (butterflies, hearts, stars, circles, etc) approx 1.5"tall & wide- this could be a variety of patterned papers or what I did was 8 of one color and 1 of a different color (you could also use similar embellishments they don't have to be punches)

Mystery Scrap Week 11 (Monday)

YIPPEEE!!!  Less than a week until Crop for a Cure!  I am so excited I don't know how I will sleep (or get through 4 days of work this week!) Ok - on to Mystery Scrap for the week.
Easy page this week - only one photo needed a 4x4 inch square.  Title can be long (stretch across page) or short (repeated across page).  Journaling - space is ~ 2.5 tall by 5 wide. See you back here Wednesday!

Mystery Scrap Week 10 (Friday)

Today's page layout is based on this layout by Celeste Smith. And, it was also my Layout A Day layout for Sunday 5/7.  I think creating this one is pretty self-explanatory so I will just get right to the picture.  This is one I will probably put in my repertoire & use over & over.  Enjoy!  Post to our Flickr Group and tag as Mystery10.

Mystery Scrap Week 10 (Wednesday)

For this page, you will need:
12x12 background
2x7.5 light color for journaling (or you can type, print & cut to this size)
a variety of embellishments that will make kind of a border - punched objects especially the same shape in different sizes
a sticker border or paper punched border
various tiny embellishments - gems, i-rock bling, brads, eyelets, glitter/shimmer mist would also work for this element
Ok - get to it! See ya Friday!

Mystery Scrap Week 10 (Monday)

This is Mystery Scrap Week 10 (hopefully you didn't see it for the 2 minutes I accidentally had it posted yesterday!  A simple but cute one this week - you will need two portrait oriented 4x6 photos. I didn't use a title this week, but there will be plenty of space for one if you have one!  If you've been out of the game for a while, this is a good one to get you back to making your Mystery Scrap page a week!

LOAD Day 6

Evan's Obsession, a photo by hokiechef on Flickr.

Super simple, but I like how it turned out. Photo was taken by Sara in April.

Little Miss Personality

Little Miss Personality, a photo by hokiechef on Flickr.

As I was working on this page for LOAD Day 5, I was trying to pick a font to cut out Personality. Let me just tell you... The more you look at the word, the stranger it looks. I kept wanting to look it up to make sure I was spelling it correctly!

Mystery Scrap Week 9 (Friday)

The inspiration for this week's layout is this page by Roxanne Jegodtka.  Here is my take on it.

I just learned how to make the rolled paper roses and I thought they'd be perfect on this layout because they kind of looked like the flowers on my girls dresses & in their hair.  However, the glitter didn't turn out quite the way I thought it would. I thought it would just be a touch of glitter, but was a lot more than I wanted.  Let's see your take on this layout. Upload your photo to Flickr and tag as Mystery 8!

LOAD Day 4

My girls, a photo by hokiechef on Flickr.

I like this one. Super simple, but a great pic of the girls.

Textured Letter Technique

On tomorrow's layout, I used a technique I read about in one of my scrapbook magazines. Here's a little sneak peak

This was so easy and I think it really adds some impact to my page.  Wanna know how to do this?
First, I set up my letters on my Pazzles Inspiration and found a font that I liked - kinda thick. I'm sure you can do something similar on your Cricut.  Cut out two sets of whatever words you are using.  Run one set through a paper crimper and then attach pop dots to the back of the crimped letters.  Adhere the plain (uncrimped) letters to your page. Then adhere the popdotted, crimped letters to the plain ones. Adds dimension & texture all at once!  As an alternative, you could also use your embossing tool of choice to add a different type of texture.  Check back tomorrow for the Friday reveal and see the full page! Let me know what you think if you try this technique!

Mystery Scrap Week 9 (Wednesday)

Supplies you'll need this week:
1 piece of 12x12 cardstock or patterned paper
Solid color cardstock to mat one of the 4x6 photos
Letters to make your title - ideally the first word in the title would be ~6" long and the second word ~4" long
3 embellishments ~1"-2" in size
cardstock for journaling - can be same color as the mat OR a complimentary color or a color from your patterned paper.

LOAD Day 3

Tanner, a photo by hokiechef on Flickr.

My cutie pie nephew. I think his expression in the smaller photo is absolutely hysterical!

LOAD Day 2

Halloween 2010, a photo by hokiechef on Flickr.

Simple page put together using a packet of My Minds Eye Halloween product.

Mystery Scrap Week 9 (Monday)

Super easy page this week. You will need:
2 portrait oriented 4x6's and 1 landscape 4x6.
A two (short) word title & a couple lines worth of journaling.

LOAD Day 1

The Things You Say, a photo by hokiechef on Flickr.

So I've been telling you all about LOAD and how much fun it is... So, I thought I'd share some of the layouts I create along the way. Here is May 1. I got my "scrapup" room all cleaned up and ready to go. Betcha by the end of May, it'll be a total disaster!