Cricut gypsy giveaway!!

I found a great new blog named Cutting Above. It focuses on scrapbooking, especially for those of us with Cricuts or other electronic die cut machines. They are currently having a Gypsy giveaway to celebrate the blog's debut and the gypsy grand opening on HSN. It will be airing on September 24th, starting at 12:01, I believe. Here's a link to the post on that blog with more info: clicky Good luck!

Sketchy Thursdays: My Sweeties

I don't usually get into doing sketches, but this sketch from Sketchy Thursdays was absolutely perfect for a photo I had hanging out on my desk!

It is all from the Pink Paislee Sweet Cakes collection, except for the button embellishment I put together from various products I had on hand. This is the first time I ever took a photo to go with a piece of scrapbook paper I wanted to use! The journaling reads: "8.14.09 Our family est. 1998 Happy Birthday to us!"

Recycling containers

I recently bought some super cute prima flowers in this tin and decided the tin was too cute to go to waste, so here is my final product. I am currently using it to store a family photo puzzle my dad made for us. I'd consider that a treasure!

And yes, those are wings on the back. I wanted to try something a little different, aka, not flat on the tin. I think I accomplished it! :D

Sketch from Sisterhood of Scrap

I am not usually a sketch kind of scrapper, but I decided this one from Sisterhood of Scrap fit my needs perfectly. See, I did a scrapbook for my daughter a couple years back, but left the title page blank. I also skipped about 20 pages of journalling. I learned my lesson later and don't do that anymore! She was looking at her book this week and I noticed all the unfinished pages, so I decided to just finish the book. My style has changed completely since I made that book, so as I went through it, I didn't redo any pages, as tempted as I was, but I at least embellished a few. I didn't do any lumpy bumpy in that old album, so I had to restrain myself on that part (it is a strap hinge album and those are better for flat scrapping). I tried to stick basically to my old style in making this page. It is much "more" than I used to do, but still less than I do now. Nevertheless, the sketch was a great match! I may just have to try a few more sketches. I might just get hooked!

Details:

Striped paper from DCWV, letter stickers from Cosmo Cricket, pink paper from Creative Memories, scalloped paper from Bazzill, rub ons from DCWV

Simple Scrapbooks blog

Unfortunately, the SS magazine is no longer around, but the gals that put it together are.  They have started a blog.  This week there are entries showcasing how their styles have evolved over the years.  It is interesting reading!

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Great site for freebie fonts

This site has a whole slew of themed fonts that are copycats of fonts used for TV shows or companies (NASA and Lego, for example).  Check it out!

I just found this new Scrapbook Challenge blog:

http://www.RealLife-Scraps.com/

They have monthly challenges and have a prize drawing for completing the challenge.  Wouldn't you know it, my recent Green page was a perfect match for the April challenge about using green.  That was easy!  Be sure to check them out and help them get a good following.