Journaling Cards

I love the September kit and the Jenni Bowlin journaling cards that are included in this kit! On the layout below I decided to use the journaling card with stamps and cut out strips of the card. I especially love the numbers in the margin of the card, I decided to place then out of order just to add a bit of fun to the layout. I look forward to seeing how you use those journaling cards!

Happy Scrapping!

Melanie

More Fun with the Halloween Kit

Since October is almost here, I've thought it's time to think about what fun projects I can create for Halloween! We have our Halloween kit to help you with all of your creations.

One project I did last week was this hanging cone. I'm going to hang it next to a "spooky" banner I made last year and fill it with a sweet treat (probably peanut M&M's!)Another project I made with the Halloween kit is this 8 X 8 layout. I have an album where a keep a layout of my kids in their Halloween costumes each year. Here's a look at the layout featuring the 2007 costumes.
We have just a few Halloween kits left, so get one while you can. Remember, it will ship for free with your October kit.

Two posts in one!

Hello everyone, I hope you are all good and well!

I unfortunately had to skip last week's post because of a wonky internet connection, so I thought I'd make up for it by sharing 2 projects today.

First, here's a card I like to call "high style", LOL! When I first saw this Lily Bee flower, I wanted to use it right away it's so gorgeous. However, I don't really have a scrapbooking style that goes well with it, so I thought a card would be best. Very simple to make, but highly stylish, don't you think?! ;)



Here is a layout using a Fancy Pants KraftKutz paper and some Lily Bee papers and die-cuts. I also used a Jenni Bowlin journaling card that I cut in two. And those Jenni Bowlin mini-alphas? My new favourite product!!


See you next week, hopefully with a project with the October kit!

Claude

tip of the day.....

today I wanted to talk about stamps. Particularly Hero Arts stamps, I LOVE them! Okay, so I have a new set of stamps I LOVE--BUT I'm drawing a blank. What to do? I go to their website HERO ARTS, they have a search engine you plug in your stamp number. Up pops your stamps set most of the time they have samples. It's great for me because it's a spring board of inspiration! So the next time you can't figure out what to do with your stamps try the manufacturer website, they have samples!

White Space

I used to be afraid of white space. Then, I went overboard and would leave too much white space. Now, I hope I've reached a happy medium! I like clustering several patterned papers and embellishments over about 1/3 of the paper. Then, put your photo (s) on top the the clustering. I feel like this draws the eye to the photo -- which is the reason for the layout anyway, right? The september kit is FULL of fun layering papers -- all different shapes, size, and colors -- so cluster away!

Jennie

We Have Winner!

Thanks to everyone who participated in our September kit giveaway!

I just let Random.org choose a winner for me.
Lucky comment #7!

Jen said...

ohh la la to the pink paislee blossom paper.....

5:16 AM

We'll be contacting you, Jen, so that we can get your September kit out to you.

This giveaway was fun!

We will do one again soon. Thanks to everyone for playing along.

If you didn't win, but still *need* a September kit, we have just a few left.

A Sept Kit layout & a reminder!!!

Happy Friday Scrapbook Circle Blog readers! Gotta love it when Friday rolls around :o)

Today I'd like to share the layout that I created for a recent PageMaps Blog contest...I love doing these...for one, Becky Fleck's PageMaps are awesome! & second, I get another layout DONE!!!

The sketch calls for a 5x7 photo, but I didn't have any photo paper at home that size...so I decided to print the photo onto cardstock! I LOVE how it turned out! I also used Picasa 3 to change the photo to B & W and to also keep the color focus on my son's orange hunting vest...I think this turned out pretty cool...& adds to the "vintage" feel of the layout!

Here's "this moment"

I used the September Kit (which is amazing, by the way!!!) and some chipboard & ribbon from my own stash to create this layout:

September Kit:

PP-Fancy Pants KraftKuts-Ledger

PP-Lily Bee Vintage Poppy-Curio

PP-Pink Paislee Amber Road-Harvest Hayride

Pink Paislee Amber Road-Borderlines Clear Stickers

Jenni Bowlin-Vintage Black stickers (mini circle alpha) LOVE THESE!!!

Jenni Bowlin-Memo Book black

My stash:

Chipboard from Creating Keepsakes KOTM "Mix It Up"The Paper Studio-Butterflies Twill

Martha Stewart journaling pen

Stampin' Up ink-Really Rust

The Paper Studio-dimensional foam adhesive

Elmer's Memory Book Glue Pen

Zig Zag machine stitching

As a reminder: You still have time to enter our September Card Sketch Challenge! See this post for all of the details!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend! & do something scrappy :o) !!!

So in love!!!

With the September kit!!! This was my first time working with Lily Bee Designs papers and I am in love!!! The smaller die cut sheets are so fabulous! Don't know why there aren't more companies doing these. On the layout below I used one of those die cut sheet for the placement of my title. Love the effect and the little tulip!

I hope you are enjoying this fabulous kit!!! Can't wait to see the creations in the gallery!

Melanie

October is Almost Here!

We are very excited to share our upcoming October kit with you. The full reveal will be on Friday, but until then, here are a few peeks to get you excited!

Want a FREE September Kit?

Yesterday was my birthday and it was so much fun getting thoughtful gifts from my sweet family and friends.

So, I was thinking that I would pass around a little bit of gift giving and offer a FREE September kit to one of our lucky blog readers!Just post a comment here telling us one of your favorite products in our September kit.

We will do a random drawing from all of the comments left by this Thursday night at midnight to find our winner.

Good luck!

(If you already have the September kit, you can get your October kit for free instead!)

tip of the day.....

The September kit contains a FABULOUS flower, I immediately thought hair clip! Quick and easy!

All you need:

flower

hot glue gun

hair clip

1. heat up your gun.

2. apply glue to the back of flower

3. *QUICKLY* open hair clip and place in glue. (opening assures you that you won't glue it

shut)

Here's the finished product:

It's that easy!

Using alphabet outlines

I ALWAYS run out of the letter "E". I think they should sell alphabet additions with just letters "E" and "S" and "A" and "T". Anyway, as I was using the incredible September kit, I needed just a few more "E's" than I had. So, I just cut out the outline of the letter that was left over on the paper. It worked great with this particular kit because the backdrop was white as well. So, there is yet another way to make your alphabets go even further!

Halloween Home Decor Project

Here's a look at something you could do with our special edition Halloween Kit.

Everything in this project (except the frame) comes in the kit. I'm thinking something like this would make a great teacher or neighbor gift. It would also be a special treat for a Halloween fan to get something like this from you.
This kit has so many possibilities. I'm excited to get more playtime with it!

The Halloween Kit is Here!

Our Halloween kit is all bagged up and ready to ship.

We are so excited about this kit and hope you are too. Here's a look at what the kit looks like.
This kit includes 6 sheets of double-sided paper. Here's a look at all of the patterns on the paper.You get a full set of Jenni Bowlin mini Halloween Bingo card (love these!) You also get a Basic Grey Bling It Frame and the Pink Paislee alpha with 2 different fonts. Loving these mini Making Memory brads! 6 brads come in this kit. Plus you get Jenni Bowlin label stickers and 3 sheets of decorative paper from a Making Memories mixed media book.
You also get a yard of halloween vinyl tape. There are 4 different styles and each kit gets one of the styles.Our Halloween kit is only $15. This ships for free with your kit. If you sign up to receive the Setpember kit, you can have this ship with your kit right away.

Hope you are looking forward to it!

A change in the seasons...

With the weather cooling off quite nicely here (I live in Kansas) I decided to create a fall card using the wonderful new September Kit! I think this card went together in less than 15 minutes...definitely quick for me! LOL! I just picked up some leftover scraps & grabbed that GORGEOUS tulle/sequin flower by Lily Bee....

"autumn wishes"

Supplies from the Sept kit:

PP-Lily Bee Vintage Poppy-Chic, Treasure, & Curio; Jenni Bowlin-Black Border Stickers; Pink Paislee Amber Road-Postcards; Lily Bee Vintage Poppy-tulle/sequin flower

My stash: dark brown cardstock-Hobby Lobby

Here's wishing everyone a fantastic weekend...do something creative!!! Take care!

Stacy

Join on us on Facebook!!!

Hello everyone! I hope that you are well and enjoying the fabulous September kit!

I wanted to remind you to join our Facebook group. We often share the latest news and information for Scrapbook Circle kits. I believe that today Lisa posted a fabulous peek at the October kit!!! Make sure to check it out, it's amazing!!!

Scrapbook Circle on Facebook

Happy scrapping!

Melanie

Halloween Special Edition Kit!

We are so excited to share our special edition Halloween kit with you. It's been a while since we've put together a special edition kit. When we saw all of the amazing Halloween product available this year, we knew we needed to put something together for you.
This kit is now up for sale for only $15. We really wanted to offer this at a very affordable price so that anyone who wants it can get it.

Plus you get free shipping on this kit when it ships with your October kit.

Reenergizing my batteries...

For the past 2 weeks, things have been pretty slow for me on the scrapbooking front. I've been wanting to scrap, but I simply haven't had the energy for it. Has that ever happened to you?

You see, 5 weeks ago, I walked into my house to find an inch of water in my kitchen/dining room. The upstairs toilet cracked and leaked for a whole day! We have walls, floors and ceilings to be redone on 3 floors.

Then our one-and-only car died. Completely stopped working. So we had to buy a new one fairly quickly with money we don't have...

Finally, my first-born entered kindergarten. It's the first time I'm away from him (he's never been to daycare.)

My point is this: as much as we love scrapbooking, it happens that life gets in the way. And that's okay! Soon enough, things will get better and our passion for the craft will come back stronger than ever!

Have a great week, I wish you all the best! :)

September Challenge Prize!

Want to win this?
All you have to do in enter our September challenge.

The prize includes:

6 sheets of Kaiser's brand new Pina Colada line
Kaiser Pina Colada Embroidered Badges
Kaiser Pina Colada Color Rub ons
Kaiser Bling Hearts
Kaiser Girl Bling
Kaiser Word Rub ons
Making Memories Mini Blue Alpha

The bright colors in this line are beautiful. Plus the paper is all double sided which gives even more creative options.

Can't wait to see your cards using this great Page Maps sketch.
You can just post a link to your card in the comments of the challenge blog or upload your card to our Scrapbook Circle Community Gallery (mark your card as Sept 09 Challenge) and we will randomly pick a winner at the end of the month.

Have fun creating!

tip of the day....

Using numbers for letters:

Don't you just hate it when you run out of letters and want them for a title? All I needed was an L, what to do? I looked at anything else that might be substitute, the 7 it was! So next time you find yourself in a quandary, look at what else you have on your letter sticker sheet and you just might find your solution!

A Mat of Strips

When you have just one picture you really want to focus on, a fun way is to create a mat from a bunch of strips of paper. I went through my scraps from June, July and August and came up with all these strips of paper. I used the August black twine (?) and just spruced it up a bit.

I love using up all my scraps and creating a layout that comes together so well. Peace out.

Saturday Sketch!

Hello everyone. Sorry for the late post, the week just got away from me. So to make it up I have created this sketch to go along with one of my layouts that I created with the August kit. I hope that you will enjoy it and play along!Happy Scrapping!

Melanie

{September 09 Card Challenge Contest}...a prize is up for grabs!!!

How about a card challenge contest girls??? Do I have any players??? I know we have some fabulous card makers out there!!!

& yes, Miss Lisa has agreed to put a prize up for grabs!!! (she will be posting a photo of the prize next week) Thanks Lisa :o)

If you know me at all, you know that I LOVE working with sketches...so, I chose a PageMaps CardMap sketch from June 2009 for your inspiration:
I love this one because I could incorporate several patterned papers and the design is clean & simple!

I decided to create a "Thank You" card, as one can never have enough of them on hand! Here's what I came up with:
I used Jillibean Soup pp's and a journaling sprout from the August Kit here at Scrapbook Circle. As you can see, I followed the sketch VERY closely! For the contest, you can change it up however you see fit; rotate, substitute an embellishment or element, etc. The sketch is only meant to INSPIRE :o)

Here are a few closeups:

In order to create the upper left circular element of the card, I chose to cut out a circle from the Jillibean Soup patterned paper. I thought it would be fun to use as the base of my flower embellishment.

Here is the upper left corner of the card with the flower & brad layered over the Jillibean Soup circle...
The Jillibean Soup journaling sprout came with printing on the other side, but I chose to use the blank side for my "Thank You" sentiment, stamped in red.
I used an eyelet & some embroidery thread to attach the sentiment to the card & it was done! Super simple & easy...but I really like the finished project!


Supplies: June 09 CardMap White card base-unknown Jillibean Soup pp-hot water (both sides), mixed veggies (both sides) - AUG KIT, Jillibean Soup-journaling number sprout - AUG KIT, Stampin' Up-eyelet-Night of Navy, Spare Parts by The Paper Studio-silk flower & brad, Embroidery Thread, Machine zig zag stitching, Stampin' Up ink-Real Red

The RULES & fine print: Use the CardMap sketch above to create a card of your own with your choice of supplies. Post your creation to your blog, then post a comment to this post with a link back to your blog. Better yet, upload your creation to our Scrapbook Circle photo gallery & note "Sept 09 Card Contest" in the title of your photo upload. Either way, you will be entered into the contest which will run until September 30, 2009. A winner will be randomly chosen and announced on October 1, 2009. (There's no fine print...I was just kidding about that part!)

So, let's get those creative juices flowing & get some fabulous cards made! I can't wait to see what you come up with!!!

Click here to see the prize!

Have You Seen the Lily Bee Paper?

Lily Bee is a newer paper company and we are very excited to feature their Vintage Poppy line in our September kit.

This paper is truly beautiful and so easy to work with. I had one hour to scrapbook yesterday and I created both of these layouts. Everything used on these layouts is from the September kit.
We still have a few kits left, so be sure to grab one while you can!

Tip of the day

If you're like me, you like dimension on your layouts. That's why pop-dots were invented! But pop-dots aren't only to pop-up a *whole* element; they can also be used to pop just *part* of it.

I must come clean and tell you this tip didn't originate from me. My pal Noémi told me about it. In the above layout, I wanted the leaves to pop-up while the stem stayed flat on the paper. Before I got this tip, I would've simply curled them up a little and left them as-is. But think about it... What do you think would happen to the curled up leaves once they were in my album? That's right, they'd go flat. Now, I put small pop-dots under them. That way, once the layout is in my album, it'll keep all the dimension I was going for!

Always remember this: pop-dots are your friends! :)

Claude

tip of the day....

do you ever make your layout without adhering your pictures? I do! I layout my whole page adhering the main papers then I maneuver my pictures around. Sometimes after taking the pictures off my layout I can't remember where they were exactly. To help remember I break out my digital camera and take a picture. So, when I go back to completing my layout I can see where everything was! So the next time you find yourself forgetting take a picture!

More September Kit Photos

We are so excited about our September kit and we are happy to share a few more photos of the goodies with you.

Here's a look at the paper.
An up close look at some of the kit goodness.

And here is the full kit.
The kits will all be shipping the beginning of next week!

A Couple of September Kit Layouts

I am having such a great time playing with the September kit. Although the colors of the Pink Paislee Amber Road line have a fall feel, I think that they are perfect for a variety of occasions.

The first layout I did was one of my husband and kids in the kitchen cooking. I love how the wallet sized photos worked on this page.

One of my favorite products in the kit has been the Pink Paislee clear border stickers. They can be cut apart and give many design options. The background of the sticker is completely clear which gives a really cool effect.Another thing I thought this paper was prefect for was a couple of beach photos. I added some light brown paint for a sandy effect.
Everything on both of these layouts is in the September kit.