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for the May Simply Obsessed crop!

Simply Obsessed throws the best crops! Hope you will stop by!

Time for a new...

sketch! Here is Pamela's new sketch at Scrapbook Challenges.

And here is the two-pager-

You can see what the DT did with the sketch HERE.

Happy Mother's Day!!

Happy Mother's Day to all the Mothers out there. Seriously one day is not enough!!! This should be a repeating holiday throughout the year. My husband made me breakfast, gave me some flowers and candy and then watched Frances while I finished up a layout for the July issue of Scrapstreet.com magazine. I am so excited I was asked to be a guest designer for the month of July. I just finished my layout and sent it off. It will be published in the July issue.

I told my husband for Mother's Day I would like the new version of photoshop elements. I don't think that's what I am getting, but I can hope! I have been playing around with it lately (with help from the Jessica Sprage website) and there is so much you can do to your pics. Last night I practiced on this photo. Here is my orginal:

Here is the one I edited in photoshop:

I changed the color to a soft hue and blurred it a little, then added the frame mask. I read that the effect is a lot better with the newer version of photoshop, but I think this looks pretty good. I have a few pictures I took of Frances playing in the backyart I want to fix up next.

Here are two of Frances on our patio. Not sure why blogger uploaded the right on sideways??? Blogger is so weird sometimes! You can see her cute litte pink converse I just bought her. She looks soooo cute in them!

And this one is of her running away from me. I want to crop it, angle it, lighten the color and then put a mask frame around it.

Well thanks for stopping by. I hope everyone has a great Mother's Day!

And the winners are...

The winners have been announced at Scrapbook Challenges for the Scrapbook Challenges blog hop and the NSD crop. You can check all winners HERE.

I did a random draw of all the comments on the blog hop post and of all my followers.  And the winners for the packages of Sassafras goodies are...

#1 for leaving a comment is.............

lespeterson74 said...
I love how you added the paper behind the sketch. i am a use the full page gal... no open space for me.... Its kind of like that ackward silence.... it makes me uncomfortable! Cute little one too!

AND

#2 for being a follower is..................

Christy Strickler

Send your addresses to me at scrapcetera@aol.com and I will get your package of goodies out to you.

And thanks again to everyone who left such sweet comments.

Monday's Sketch

Hello everyone and thank you for the wonderful comments left on my blog this weekend. They mean more to me than you know! I appreciate everyone's kind words so much. I will be doing the two random draws for the packages of Sassafras goodies as soon as Pamela announces the winners over at the Scrapbook Challenges forum. Please check back to see if you won!!

Until then here is Pamela's new sketch for the week. Have fun with it!

And a two pager if you'd like:

I didn't participate this week, but you can see what the rest of the fabulous DT did with the sketch HERE.

Another challenge

*****There's still time to participate in the Scrapbook Challenges blog hop! All comments and entries are due tonight May 2nd at midnight MT time. See my post below for all the details!!*****

Lots of new challenges this weekend for National Scrapbook Day!! Here is one more. On the first of the month I post my challenge at Challenge Masters. This month my challenge is to scrapbook a memory that you don't want to forget. I came up with this challenge when I was looking through my photos from last summer. I saw the photo of my cute little Frances on the swings at the park. I remembered how scared she was when I first put her on the swings! Doesn't that face say it all! She is growing so fast and these are the things I don't want to forget.

If you want to play along all you need to do is go on over to the Challenge Masters forum and become a member of the "The Daily Grind" group. I am offering a RAK and there is a random draw for participating in any challenges posted during the month of May. Up for grabs this month are kits (yes KITS, with an S) from our May sponser Queen Scraps. There are a ton of challenges to choose from and every challenge completed earns you a draw for the kits.

Challenge Masters Crop

If you are here for the blog hop it's the next post down! Thanks to everyone who left comments. Your comments are always so sweet and I can never get enough of hearing how cute baby Frances is!

So now on to the Challenge Masters Crop! Challenges Masters is having a crop for NSD. It is filled with fun challenges, RAKs and a chance to become a guest designer. There is still time to play along with us. Check out the forum for all the details. I am hosting a card challenge and here is the card I created for my example:

I hope you'll come by and check out the crop! Happy National Scrapbook Day!!

The Scrapbook Challenges Blog Hop!!

Welcome to Scrapbook Challenges Blog Hop!!!

If you just found us you can start the blog hop at Pamela's blog.

Let me introduce myself in case you are new here. I am Sarah, a returning DT member to scrapbook challengs. I loved my time on the DT so much I was thrilled to be asked back for another term. I live in Chicago with my husband Ron and 1 year old daugher Frances. Frances is the subject of most of my projects.

For the blog hop Pamela created this special sketch for the new DT, returning DT, retiring DT and YOU!!! Yes you! You can join our blog hop by creating a layout based on this sketch and posting it to the hop on section in the Scrapbook Challenges forum. And your name will be entered into a random draw for a pretty fantastic RAK (see below for details!).

Here is my layout based on the sketch. This is my sweet Frances when she was only 2 weeks old. My how she has grown!!

And now for the fun part- the RAKS involved in the blog hop!!

1. I am doing a random draw for two packages of Sassafras goodies! To be entered for the first package just leave a comment on this post. I will do a random draw of all my followers for the second package. So if you leave a comment and become a follower of this blog you will double your changes of winning! I will announce the winners here and on scrapbook challenges at the end of the blog hop.

2. Everyone who leaves a comment on ALL blogs, gets entered into a drawing for the April Scarlet Lime kit shown below! 

3. Everyone who does a layout based on the sketch this weekend and posts it in the Hop On section on Scrapbook challenges will get entered into a drawing for the "My Family" line from Fancy Pants Designs. :)

4. There will be a Prima RAK for joining Scrapbook Challengs

5. And another Prima RAK for inviting someone to join Scrapbook Challenges using the invite link on the site.

Good Luck Everyone and I can't wait to see all your layouts!!!

The next blog to hop to is............................ Rene' (http://www.stampinginsunnysa.blogspot.com/)

Some new challenges

Hello there everyone. Here are some new challenges for you.

First up is Monday's sketch from Scrapbook challenges:

And here is my take on the sketch using some fabulous My Little Shoebox papers and embellies. I love, love, love the MLS papers, but unfortunately they can not be found here. Luckily I found some on Scrapbook.com and had it delivered. They were out of some of the designs I wanted, but I found lots of goodies. I flipped this sketch to make it fit my photos a little better. You can see what the rest of the DT did with the sketch HERE.

And it is also my week to host a challenge at Scrapbook Challenges. My challenge this month is "Spring All Over". For this challenge you have to use a variety of spring related embellishements on your layout. All the details can be found HERE. This is my example layout also using my new My Little Shoebox papers.

The Scrapbook Challenges sponsor for April is Paper Crafts and they have generously donated a prize pack for one lucky winner. For every challenge you enter your name will be submitted for the random draw. Good luck to all who enter!

Hello again

It's seems like forever since I have posted! Boy oh boy has it been busy around here! The end of the school year is always the busiest and I haven't had a moment to relax lately. Only five weeks until summer break though and then I will be staying home with my sweet Frances. I can not wait!

Now onto the May kit from Simply Obsessed- Crate Paper Pink Plum! I loved this kit. The colors and embellishments were just perfect. I finished two layouts of our Easter pictures.

My last project is an 8 x 8 wall hanging I made from the page of an old chipboard album. I used a picture of Frances and I from Mother's Day last year and used repositionable tape so I can change the photo this Mother's Day.

And I saved some exciting news for last! Scrapbook challenges is having a blog hop this weekend! I hope you will be able to make it. There will be lots of RAK's to give away and the new DT members will be announced.

And if that's not enough the blog hop will also coincide with our National Scrapbook Day crop.

New Sketch

A little late, but here is the sketch this week for scrapbook challenges. The talented Pamela Young has done it again!

The one page version:

And the two page version:

You can see what the DT did with the sketch HERE and play along with us!

A little under the weather

The flu hit our house this week. Bad. First Frances was sick, then my husband was sick, then I was sick and now grandma is sick. I think part of the problem is that Frances just learned to kiss and is trying to give everything and everyone kisses! Not good for keeping the flu away :(

So no scrapbooking for me the last week, but there is a new sketch posted at Scrapbook challenges.

Also my April "Daily Grind" challenged is posted at Challenge Masters. It is to scrapbook some of your daily errands. All the details can be found here. If you enter you will entered into a random drawing for a RAK from me and in a drawing to win a prize from the current sponsor Cutter Creek store! It is a really cute package of scrapping goodies.

April Obsession- OA Thrift Shop

The April Kit from Simply Obsessed has arrived! I loved working with it and there a still a few more left in the store!

I made these two layouts and a card and I have a few more layouts in the works.

And- I just received an email that the layouts I submitted for the Memory Makers Big Book of Ideas were accepted! This will be my first time published in print. The book doesn't come out until May 2011 though so you will have to wait a while to see them ;)

I was also asked to be apart of a new design team- Challenge Masters. This is a really fun challenge site with lots of diferent challenges. I am going to be heading "The Daily Grind" group. My first challenge will be posted on Sunday.

Have a happy and blessed Easter. - Sarah

Monday's Sketch

Here is Monday's sketch from Scrapbook Challenges:

And here is my take on the sketch. I used the leftovers from the Simply Obsessed October Kit. I love, love, love that kit. CC Earth Love is one of my faves!

You can see what the rest of the DT did here.

And there is a DT call going on over there now. It is such a fun place to be on the DT for. Everyone who is interested should try out! All the information for the DT call can be found here.

Hello Spring!

The sun is shining, my baby girl is playing and I am on spring break! It doesn't get better than this! The weather is supposed to be nice this week and we have lots of fun plans. I can't wait! It also means I will have lots of pictures to scrap (hehe!).

Frances loves to be outside now. In fact as soon as I get home from work she is crying to go outside. We play and play and then when we come inside to make dinner she keeps handing me her coat to go outside again. She likes to look for birds outside. She points to all the birds she sees. I can't believe how much she knows now. Just last year she was still a little baby. Boy how times flies huh?

Anyway, My GDT projects have been posted on the Nikki Sivils blog for a week now so I can now post them here! Thanks so much to everyone who left comments. It was really sweet :)

I love the tree on this card. I cut the circles from an old book, inked them, stamped them and layered them to make my tree top. Add the Nikki Sivils tree branch sticker and you have this adorable tree.

For this card I cut the beehive with my cricut and then stapled it together to make a card. The inside says "honey". Get it? Hello honey? Because it's a beehive!

Thanks for stopping by. I have some fun news to share so I am planning a give away soon!

This week's sketch

Oppps, crazy day yesterday so I am a little late posting this week's sketch from Scrapbook Challenges. Here it is!

And you can see what the DT did with the sketch here.

Yay!!!

My Guest Design Team work is up on the Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker blog!!!! I received Nikki's Willow Bee papers and lots of fun embellishments to work with. I love all of the Nikki Sivils products because they are just so darn cute. Those little breadless tags and burlap buttons are my faves though! Here is a little preview of what I made. The rest can be seen by clicking here. And comments are always appreciated ;)

Even the Nikki Sivils packaging is adorable. Just check out the journaling card here. I cut that from the back of the buttons package!

Here's those cute tags and buttons I was talking about! Love, love, love them!!

And a close up of the fun bees. These were cut from the sheet of "Bee's Cutie Cut Ups". A whole sheet of fun embellishments to cut from paper. And of course cutting paper is my favorite

thing to do ;)

Thanks for stopping by! - Sarah

Simply Obsessed's April Kit

SO's April kit is now on sale! It is just the cutest kit and perfect for spring. Don't you just love the new October Afternoon? I know I do!

Come join us!

New Challenges...

A new week brings new challenges at Scrapbook Challenges!!

This week's sketch is a two-pager designed by the very talented Pamela Young.

And there's also a new challenge hosted by three of the DT members, myself included. My challenge is to scrapbook 4 or more photos in a rectangular grid pattern. Here is my example:

And I just received an email today from the super nice Nikki Sivils herself. There was a mix up on the blog yesterday and my projects will be posted on March 21st. Oh the agony of waiting another week!!!! I kept stalking the blog yesterday (hehe). The willow bee collection is one of my favorite lines ever and my projects are my favorites. I can't wait to share them!!!

And in other news Chicken Pox has made its way to Frances's school. We are crossing our fingers that she doesn't get it! We have a lot planned for spring break and staying home with chicken pox isn't part of the plan.

Have a great St. Patty's day tomorrow. I will be eating some corned beef and cabbage and drinking a green river. Yummy!!!!