Summer Pre-Teen Crops

As you can see we have been having a blast this summer!
I look forward every week to Wednesday's to teach my girls!
They are full of inspiration every time!

They always have a blast and are excited with what they have created! We are at a halfway point and some of the classes that are coming up are 15th-Message Central Door hanger and stamped Journal, 22nd- Card Class, 29th-Flower Power Chip board book, 8/5-My Crazy Summer Journal and keepsake holder, 8/12-Scrapped Back to school Pencil Box and Binder...... In that order. Call the store to sign up.

Gifts for Some Special People

Over the weekend of the 10th to 12th, the store had Wendy Vecchi teaching several classes. The Maya Road Design Team also came in for the weekend. They shared some ideas and took some classes too. It was a busy, fun weekend. Knowing that they were coming, Carolyn thought it would be neat to make each of the group a box or something that could be filled with some candy and given to them as a welcome. Several of the design team worked on these. I think they turned out pretty neat and am sharing them here as ideas to springboard off of.

Carolyn made this vase for Caroline. It turned out really great and you don't ever get the full effect from a photo.



This one was done by Annette for Wendy Vecchi. She used one of the flower boxes by Maya Road for this and personalized it with her own items.


Heidi decorated this Provo Tin for Aubrey. She used a lot of ink techniques along with paper on this tin.




Sherri decorated an old cigar box for Lisa Pace. The majority of the items used are old ephemera from her stash.



This one was for Jessica. It is a box with smaller box trays inside. There are Sassafrass Lass papers on here as well as prima flowers and page bubbles.



Hope you find some inspiration here. Let us know what you have made.

Spooky Days Ahead

I had so much fun making this little witches hat. This Little Yellow Bicycle Halloween paper is too much fun! On the black base, I used the flocked web paper. Then I made a cone out of the black haunted paper. The bottom is a freehand scalloped circle. Then I painted the hat with the new dual color glitter glue at the store. The little skull button and the glittery bat scrolls made great accents. You can leave the top of the hat pointy or bend it for a little character. Either way, it is a fun project.

It's Starting to get a little Creepy!

This is a great little punch out book by Little Yellow Bicycle, is is super easy, fun, and extremely affordable! At just $2.99 all I added was a few snips of ribbon and a Maya Ribbon Clasp and some keys, everything else is INCLUDED! You may have missed it walking by as it looks like a piece of paper but look a little closer!!!

BOO! hehehe, there it is. Great teacher present, grandparents, friends. Just a quick easy way to capture the moment. It even has a journaling pull out so you do not miss the details! I am ready to make some new memories this Halloween, but what shall I wear????

A Pink ATG?!

Who is bold enough to try altering yours? Here are some examples. They are pretty cute. I know a bunch of us have gotten these lately. Who will go first?

Canvas Art

Many of you have seen these as you shop at the store, but we never did get them all posted out here, nor have we explained their purpose.

Carolyn & Annette saw that in the Ranger booth at the CHA last winter, they had challenged a lot of the designers to show how they distress. People like Heidi Swapp, Tim Holtz and others took an 8x8 canvas and decorated them. They had been given the additional challenge of using only certain colors of Ranger products. The display was quite outstanding. This caused Carolyn to think and to challenge our design team to do something with an 8x8 canvas. The only instructions our team had was to do something with the canvas.

As you can see, each one is different and each one is so cool-each in it's own way.
Several people have asked about how to do things on canvas and we have started to put classes together to teach some of these canvases. The first class is on the Owl Canvas.

The artists for the canvas art are (left side top to bottom): Sherri, Heidi, Annette, Susie, Isla (right side top to bottom): Betty, Brook, Joanna, Carolyn, Mary Lou

Let's Have More Cake!

Today was Heidi's birthday as you see below. Thought we'd just post a couple more good pics. Notice that she didn't spit on the cake as much as Joanna did trying to blow out her candles. Of course, these were the nice, simple kind of candles that blow out easy, not the sparklers that won't blow out without gale force winds...hahahaha. Just one more example of a fun day at the Crafty Scrapper!

My Black B-day!~!!

I just want to thank you guys for my celebration! And Cheryl and her hubby, thanks for hanging w/us and singing! It was a great day; for having a Tuesday birthday, we had awesome food... funny (2thextreme-Sherri), awesome and purposeful gifts (hard 4 the girl that has everything!!!!) You guys SOOOO rock. I am so glad to have you as my friends!

Pre Teen Crop

We had another fun pre-teen crop.
We made a mosaic frame to match our rooms. Everyone incorporated their own style to make their frames. We had a blast and the pizza pick of the day was sausage and cheese. Of course the Texas girls love their Dr. Pepper and Miss Carolyn brought delicious M&M cookies. We are having a blast with these young scrappers this summer!

Team Challenge

Isn't it interesting how each person sees things so differently. For a fun challenge three of us took the same products to see what we would come up with. The direction we set was that we were to do a layout, we had to use all of these products and we could not add products to the layout. We would allow use of a pen or something like that to work on the layout.


The products chosen by one of us (ok, me) was a sheet of the Simply Luxe red polka dot paper--one side is red with white dots and the other side is white with red dots. There was a sheet of the Daisy D paper with the little monkey faces on one side and taller monkeys on the other side. There were Creative Imagination (Creative Cafe) sticker sheet with the alphabet and other stickers and two ribbons from American Craft. Also put in the mix was one chipboard tag from a Maya Road Album and 3 black buttons. These items were not patterns that are often put together and so it made them a little more difficult to use, or so the plan was.

A couple things happened that affected the results, one bag did not end up with the tag in it, so it didn't get used. one of the sticker sheets was short a 'y' and an 'o', which was corrected, but the picture I took didn't have those on it, you'll see where that was. Anyway, here are the three layouts.






Each is very unique in the styling. Not a surprise was that each of us used a picture of a child in the layout. I think the monkeys called for that. Anyway, we had fun doing it. Hope it inspires you to do new things---1) try some papers that don't fit your normal scheme for layouts 2) try something new with the style, 3) have fun. You can see there is no right or wrong, just our own style.

To try to help with motivation, we are going to do another design team challenge with specific products to be used-like we did here. There will be packets of the products at the store to allow anyone else to join in that wants to. At the end of the time allowed, we will post all of the different layouts and will vote on our favorite done by someone not on the design team. This person will win an awesome prize! All of the details will be announced next week (July 15), so Stay TUNED!

pre-teen crop

We are in for the summer time fun! Croppin about ourselves in a book we made by ourselves! We learned a LOT of new techniques and had fun with Love Elsie, and Carolle's Creations. Journaling is the FOCUS of our album because our handwriting is our STAMP on life! But we also played with chipboard, lots of embelee's , we made our own album's!!!!! And did I mention Pizza and Soda Pop???








OK girls.... we decided July was the month to do this EVERY week! So ....sign up, get your Mom to crop while you are having FUN creating a one of a kind project!!! Let's Have a blast!!!! Goodness Knows there is plenty to scrap about!

Heidi

Birthday Cake Mini Album

This is a Creative Imaginations BE cake mini album I did to showcase a few pictures from Porter's birthday party. The paper was perfect with the bright color of her suit and the water slide was bright orange as well. All the paper was Creative Imaginations and K&Co embelies. Plus my new LOVE Tim Holtz Grungeboard with his crackle paint and distress inks. This stuff RAWKS! Hope you enjoy!

Two LO's for GASC

These are two layouts I did last Sunday for display at GASC. Sherri gave us all a challenge to see how many different manufacture's we could get on a layout. As any of you who know me this can be a big challenge, especially in regards to paper. I am not the best at mixing it up. Which I did not do on the BFF layout but grabbed for the "Simply Luxe" for the 100% American girl LO. I have been grabbing for the Luxe alot lately. And I could not resisit the Flip Flop line, which I believe Carolyn will have paper packs of at the booth. I LOVE all the new Prima's and thanks to Joanna have started a glitter addiction!

Happy Sunday everyone. We are beat after jumping from one sunny activity to the other yesterday. I am happy though this afternoon will be another photo op for the Brownie (Girl Scout) album with Court of Awards. Have a scrappy day!

Winners on National Scrapbook Day

More winners! Aren't you gals lucky for hangin' with TCS for NSB weekend!!!!