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HERE WE GO!!!!!!!!!!! THE BEGINNING OF THE FROSTED DESIGNS MAY BLOG HOP

Friday, May 31, 2013

Welcome to the Frosted Designs May Blog Hop - the first hop of three that will be hosted over the next three months!!!!!!!!!!! I am so glad you could join us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am the SECOND STOP on this blog hop. You should have come from FROSTED DESIGNS. There are 6 wonderful and incredibly talented hosts that will inspire you, along with 2 awesome sponsors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am proud and honoured to be on the Design Team at Frosted Designs which is a fantastic scrapbooking challenge blog.

The first sponsor is Molossi. They are a 100% Australian owned and operated, with over eight years industry experience and access to the much loved paper craft brands and experts. Molossi is situated in the Hawkesbury region of New South Wales, and our warehouse is located in Wilberforce and open by appointment only. Recently, Molossi has branched out into producing their own chipboard designs, as well as being a scrapbooking distributor!!!!!!! They have been so kind to offer an awesome chipboard hamper, to the value of $30.

Our second sponsor is the awesome Graphic45. Graphic 45 is an award-winning scrapbook and paper crafting company. We offer vintage inspired crafting products that capture the flamboyant style of the 1920's and 30's - with vibrant color, irresistible texture and imaginative design to create products with decades-old appeal that's both fresh and familiar. Let our products inspire your next scrapbook layout, card, album or home decor project.

Graphic45 is giving us some 12x12 papers in their Reneissance Collection.

So, without further ado, here is the sketch and list of items that you have to use, along with my take on the sketch for the blog hop.

ITEMS	TECHNIQUES
Flowers	Cuttlebug embossing/diecutting
Butterflies	Tearing
Chipboard	Masking
Pearls/Bling	Layering
Ribbon	Misting
Die-cuts	Stamping
Delusions spray	Seam binding
Metal embellishments	Sewing
Masking tape	Gesso
Pattern paper	Distressing
Doillies	Misting
Cardboard	Embossing (dry or heat)
Twine
Inks

In order to be eligible for the awesome main prizes, here are the rules:

You have to use the sketch, provided above.
From the list of items/techniques given above you have to choose A MINIMUM OF THREE.
Once you have completed the blog hop, your last stop will be the FROSTED DESIGNS BLOG, here you will link your completed project.

I also have some CANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In order to be eligible for this, you have to do the following:

Become a FOLLOWER of my blog, and
Leave me a comment as to WHY YOU SCRAPBOOK :-)

The hop begins at 12:01 am, Central Standard Time on May 31st, 2013 and will end at 11:59 pm, Central Standard Time on June 5th, 2013. The winners will be announced on June 7th, 2013 on the Frosted Designs blog.

Thank you for visiting and leaving me some blog love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your next stop is the super talented, inspirational scrapbooker and fellow Design Team member

CHANNA

http://crafts-pieces.blogspot.com/

FROSTED DESIGNS SKETCH BLOG HOP (MAY, 31ST TO JUNE, 5TH)

Hi there blogger friends!

I am very excited to announce that there will be three blog hops hosted by Frosted Designs' awesome Design Team.

The Design Team over at Frosted Designs are a talented bunch of ladies that will be hosting. There will be some wonderful prizes up for grabs!!!!

The first one will kick off at the end of May, and will be running from May, 31st to June, 5th, so make sure to mark your calendars and be ready to make some beautiful scrapbook projects, and of course win some AWESOME prizes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Scrappin'

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Project Life – Coming Soon!

I am super excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Wholesaler posted on their blog this morning -

We are super excited to announce that we will be distributing Project Life throughout Southern Africa! Watch this Space!

What is Project Life?

Project Life is a solution-based approach to scrapbooking that was created to simplify the process in order to allow you more time to enjoy life! It requires not glue, no scissors, no tools and no skills of any kind. the design of the products takes the guess work out of layout design sot hat you can focus on recording your everyday moments through your photos and journalling.

The simple design is stylish and makes it possible for you to complete more pages in less time.

Becky Higgins, creator of Project Life, is a busy wife and mother who is passionate about capturing the little bits of life, and she’s making it easy for others to do the same. “It’s called Project LIFE because it’s about YOUR LIFE. Whatever your life is. Whatever your stage of life. Whatever your family circumstances. Whatever your lifestyle. Project Life is designed to help anyone + everyone get their pictures into a book,” says Becky. Her goal is to help others Cultivate a Good Life and Record It.

This back-to-basics approach to scrapbooking appeals to the person who’s never made a scrapbook in their life as well as those with experience because it allows you to feel the freedom that comes from letting go of the “guilt” that so many associate with the memory keeping process. The Project Life “way” of memory-keeping is so crazy-simple, it has become known as revolutionary in the scrapbooking industry. All you need is a Core Kits, an Album, and a Big Pack of 60 Photo Pocket Pages. By pairing your pictures and memories with these basic products, you will be able to document your story in a hassle-free system that results in a complete and beautiful scrapbook.

American Crafts has partnered with Becky Higgins to manufacture, sell, and distribute Project Life brand products to retailers, bringing this popular scrapbooking method to more people in more places.

I cannot wait to get my hands on these!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, May 27, 2013

Oh my word, I cannot believe we have nearly come to the end of the NSD for 2013. There are only a few days left.

I have an awesome challenge today, with an amazing prize from OCTOBER AFTERNOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The best thing about this challenge is that it is VERY easy. All you have to do is use October Afternoon paper/products on your layout/card, the only tricky part is that it has to be at least 50%

Now a bit more about October Afternoon and of course the prize

October Afternoon is a wholesale scrapbooking supplier specializing in all original art and fun products for the papercrafting industry. The company, which is headquartered in Apple Valley, Minnesota, is known for its unique vintage/retro designs, playful color palette and the superior quality of its products. Its products are available from distributors, stores and on-line shops across the United States and more than a dozen foreign countries.

You can find October Afternoon on-line in the following locations:

Website - www.octoberafternoon.com

Blog - www.octoberafternoon.typepad.com

Facebook - www.facebook.com/OctoberAfternoon

And the best part, just look at this AWESOME prize!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is one of their Travel Girl collection kits. This kit includes 24 sheets (2 of each design) of double-sided papers plus one sheet each of Shape Stickers, Word Stickers, Alpha Stickers and Label Stickers.

So, here are the general rules to win this amazing prize:

You have to use a Let's Scrap Sketch for this challenge.

At least 50% of the paper and products used in the layout has to be from October Afternoon.

This challenge cannot be combined with the weekly main page sketch, the BAM (Book about Me) challenges or the Scrap our Stash challenge.

The layout must be something you scrapped new for this challenge and not something that you previously made.

Upload your page photo to the gallery by 6-7-13, 11.59pm (using the main page clock time), to be eligible for the prize drawing.

Be sure to tag your layout correctly NSD13#32 (all one word), followed by a comma, a space, and the sketch number. E.g. your tag will read: NSD13#32, 2-11-12

Now for the layout I made and the sketch I used as inspiration.

When I look at the layout again, I realise that I ventured a bit from the sketch, oops :-)

I am really looking forward to seeing what everyone come up with!

Happy Scrappin'

Thursday, May 23, 2013

oh my word, with everything happening, I have not been able to get to scrapbooking in the last few weeks and I must say, I am really having withdrawal symptoms :-) Hopefully I will get some time soon to do some serious catching up!!!!!!!!!

This week over at Let's Scrap the sketch is one of my own. And I am very proud of it :-) Here is the sketch and the layout.

The pictures in this layout is of one of my parents' huskies. All the paper and embellishments are from Kaisercraft.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Hi there everyone, one of my fellow Frosted Designs DT members, Brenslavia has a challenge blog - About a Boy and they are currently having a design team call.

The challenge blog is dedicated to getting those photos of our boys scrapped! She is looking for about 6 talented committed scrapbookers to provide two layouts a month for the challenges. The term will run for a 3 month period from July 1st to October 1st, 2013. Challenges will be provided to you well in advance.

Why apply for our team?

To be inspired and to inspire others.
You will be part of an amazing group of women and develop lifelong friendships with women from all over the world.
Your work will be featured on Facebook and Pinterest.

What is expected of the Design Team?

Complete 2 projects a month (you will be given challenges at least a month in advance).
Comment weekly on participants entries (this is a must, any DT member found not to be doing this will be immediately removed from the team).
Commit to a 3 month term (beginning of July to the beginning of October).
Keep an active blog that is updated frequently.
Post our challenges and your project on your blog on reveal day and link back to the About a Boy Challenge Blog.

How to apply:

Leave a comment on the blog post indicating that you would like to apply.
Tell them a little bit about yourself to include your style and whether or not you are on any other design teams (no previous DT experience required).
Provide links to your blog and online galleries.
Include 3 projects that best represent your style.
Place the DT call on your blog to help get the word out.

All interested applicants will be invited to our Facebook Group where you will meet and interact with members of our current Design Team. This is so we can all get to know each other a little better. Anyone interested in applying please send your application to aboutaboychallengeblog@gmail.com. Make sure you put DT call in the subject line.

They are accepting applications through June 15th. This is an open call, what that means is they have the right to end this call whenever they fell they have a new DT in place, so if you plan to apply, please don't hesitate!!!!!!!! New design team members will be notified by June 16th and the first reveal will be July 1st.

International members are welcome to apply!!!!!!!!!!

Scrappin' Regards

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Oh my, there is really a lot happening at Let's Scrap during the month of May!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Along with the NSD challenges, we are still carrying on with our weekly sketches and DT challenges and tutorials. Here is the sketch for this week.

The best part of this sketch was the fact that it makes provision for tons of pictures. The pictures in this layout is from Easter, which was Jonathan's first Easter. All of the paper and embellishments I used were from an old Basic Grey range. Here are some pictures of the detail.

Hope you enjoyed the layout and would love if you head over to Let's Scrap and join in all the fun!

Happy Scrappin'

LET'S SCRAP NSD13#6 CHALLENGE

Good morning ladies

Can you believe that the first week of NSD at Let's Scrap for 2013 is already over, and I must say, the challenges and response to all of you is really awesome! It is great to see so many of our members take the time to join in the fun!

The theme for this NSD challenge is BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. When I scrap birthday pictures, I rarely have a birthday theme to it. So the challenge today is to scrap a layout, using birthday pictures, but without it looking like a birthday layout

Here is the sketch that you have to use, along with my layout.

The pictures in the layout, were taken at my sister's 21st from a few years back! These are some of my favourites from that day

Here are some pictures of the details.

The rules for this challenge is as follows:

Use the sketch provided in this discussion (5-11-13)
The pictures for the layout, has to be from a birthday celebration.
The layout must NOT have a birthday theme.
A minimum of 2 of the following techniques/items have to be used on your layout:
Bubblewrap;
Material;
Twine;
Rub-ons; and
Bling.
This challenge cannot be combined with the weekly main page sketch, the BAM (Book about Me) challenges or the Scrap our Stash challenge.
The layout must be something you scrapped new for this challenge and not something that you previously made.
Upload your page photo to the gallery by 5-31-13 at 11:59 p.m. (using the main page clock time).
Be sure to tag your layout correctly: NSD13#6 (all one word), followed by a comma, a space, and the sketch number 5-11-13. Your tag will read: NSD13#6, 5-11-13