Winner announcement and Crop projects

I had a blast participating in the Let's Scrap Leap Around the World Blog Hop all February long.


And the winner of my 7 Gypsies prize pack is...Vallerie Clegg! Congratulations!!!!


Thanks for Mindi and Beverly at Let's Scrap for all of their hard work and all the other blog hosts and members for joining in! Over 1200 cards were made! I only contributed about 15 or so but I really enjoyed playing with the sketches and using up scraps and leftover product!

March marks the beginning of month 5 of my "use my stash challenge" - 7 months to go! I have of course purchased adhesive, new paper cutter blades, and a new cricut blade. And yesterday, I confess, I replaced my dried up brown Zig marker. But replacements are allowed so I'm still in the game!


March also brings month 3 of Move More, Eat Well - a Big Picture class with Cathy Zielske. I am enjoying her videos and journaling prompts and am catching up on the album (maybe pictures next week). I am so busy "moving more" I haven't had a lot of time to work on it!

I also started another Big Picture class this month - Scrapbooking Your Faith with Courtney Walsh. With all of the trash talk in the media, use of religion as a political weapon, intolerance and exclusion by religious institutions who are supposed to be the leaders and role models - and killing in the name of God - I'm having a harder time these days separating my inner faith from the pollution of the world. My plans are to use this class to help me sift and reflect and become centered again on the core.

So yesterday at the monthly crop I worked on creating the structure of the album so I can add content to it during the week. This is the cover:

A page from this week's assignment:


And one of the extra pages I made:



I hope everyone has a fabulous week!

Thanks for visiting!

anne

Let's Scrap Blog Hop - Whoo Hoo!!!

It's finally here!!!

The Let's Scrap Leap Around the World Blog Hop!!! 50 blogs strong and 1 month long!!!

Please note that this post is "sticky" and will stay on top of my blog through the 29th.

My blog is #23 and you should have arrived here from Sharon-Lee's blog. If you did not, Mindi Brown @ http://scrapchat-n-coffeetalk.blogspot.com/ has the hop order to help you find your way.

Welcome!!! It's great to have you here! You have landed in Wisconsin, USA. This is the great sketch I got to work with:


And here is the card I made. It's for my mom's 80th birthday and I used scraps (Bazzill and Kaisercraft and others) from my stash. Aren't cards a great way to use up those odds and ends you can't bear to throw out?


And...this is the blog candy I am offering as a prize for participating through my blog - some super fun stuff by 7 Gypsies!

It is so easy to enter my random drawing! Come on - do it!!!!! You know you want to!

Your can enter your name into the drawing ONE time by simply:

*Being or becoming a member of Let’s Scrap - which you can do by clicking here http://letsscrap.ning.com/ . It is free, easy and fast! Once you get there, I am sure you will love it! They've got great sketches, fun challenges, awesome tutorials and super creative members!

*Becoming a follower of my blog (current blog followers who are also Let's Scrap members - or join during this hop - count too)

*Leaving me a comment here and tell me what is the one thing that will always get your mojo moving.

And you can get a bonus entry in the drawing - just:

*Make a card from the sketch I have posted and upload it to the gallery at Let’s Scrap. Please tag it as 5-1-11, LEAP23

(Please note that LEAP is all capitals and there is a space after the comma. Proper tagging is important so everyone can be included in my drawing!)

*Leave a comment with a link to your card on Let’s Scrap.

The hop ends at 11:59 pm Central Standard time February 29th. You can track Central time using the clock on the main page of Let’s Scrap. Winners will be posted in early March on the Let's Scrap site and then I will post my winner here.

Thanks so much for stopping!

The next stop is #24 where your host is Michelle #24 at http://allthingsbling-michr.blogspot.com/. You're almost half way through the hop! Enjoy the rest of your journey and I'm looking forward to seeing all the fabulous cards you post!

anne

Leap Around the World Blog Hop - tomorrow!!!!!

Feb. 1 marks the beginning of the Let's Scrap LEAP Around the World month long, 50 blog strong blog hop. All the hosts will have prizes - including me!!!

The drawings are for Let's Scrap members only so if you're not a member, check it out and sign up and get in on all the fun in Feb.

Let's Scrap has sketches, prizes, challenges, tutorials and wonderfully creative members.

Scrapping the Music #186 and Let's Scrap

Hope everyone is having (had) a great weekend!

First I just have to share the sweetest card I received from my friends Michelle, Lynn and Christina letting me know they missed me on the retreat last weekend (kid issues kept me home). While I certainly missed the marathon scrapping, I know I missed their company more! What nice happy mail!!!!!




I was really stumped on the STM challenge this week - not a one of my ideas seemed to come together. Then I found an fabulous graphic in a Nature Conservatory ad in "O". It's hard to read but the words forming the "world" are "it's not my problem", over and over again. Wow. So I used it as the basis for my page. Someone at work was giving away free calendars they'd received from various organizations. I've scanned in all the awesome animal photos and choose a few for this page.


I also used this week's card sketch at Let's Scrap to create a LO - Christine in Hawaii from '07. She chose the word "inspired" for the title. The January challenge at Scrapbookers Anonymous
is to use a mask - which I did with paint. At first I was a little bummed that some areas got a little too much paint and it spread a bit but I decided I liked it.

Feb. 1 marks the beginning of the Let's Scrap LEAP Around the World month long, 50 blog strong blog hop. All the hosts will have prizes - including me!!! The drawings are for Let's Scrap members only so if you're not a member, check it out and sign up and get in on all the fun in Feb. Let's Scrap has sketches, prizes, challenges, tutorials and wonderfully creative members. Check it out!

stay warm and stay healthy! thanks for stopping!

anne

A home based scrapping retreat!

This was the weekend for my little group's annual scrapping retreat - 4 days of scrapping fun and friendship. However, life had something else in store for me. My C., who has had the chronic pain issues, got a concussion in gym class Thursday. And KT, on her last weekend home before going back to college, got a bad stomach bug. So rather than field anxious phone calls from a few hours away and feeling guilty about being away from home, I decided to stay here and continue to re-organize my scrap room and try and get some pages completed.

I did a LO combining Scrapping the Music's challenge and Sketchy Thursday's last sketch (sad face). The song from STM was "Who says" by Selena Gomez.

I also used some sketches from Let's Scrap.

Two of these old photos were not in good shape so I scanned and re-printed as B/W.



And I finally used a partially completed page from a ScrapFest class last fall:


Heading out on the road to take Kate back to school - have a great day everyone! Thanks for visiting!

anne

Scrapping the Music and Let's Scrap

The challenge this week at Scrapping the Music was Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart". I chose to use this photo of my just turned 17 yr old dd Christine. At about 18 mos she is surrounded by her favorite "feel good" must haves. I used this week's sketch from Sketchy Thursdays.



Last week I completed the sketch at the Let's Scrap community - a great 2-pager! I love using so many large photos! Last summer's Graphic 45 line was perfect for the marching show this year, which was a twisted, nightmare in OZ theme.


I've been using sketches from Let's Scrap for awhile but haven't been very active on the community site. However - that is changing and will change in a big way in February. Let's Scrap is hosting a 50 blog, month long blog hop and I am excited to be one of the blog hosts. I will have prizes that month for new followers, current followers and people who complete the sketch I was assigned. I'm hoping to make the rounds as well to as many other blogs as I can!

Be sure and stop on back!!!

And I am very busy organizing for my retreat this weekend! Can't wait for the fun with my friends and hours and hours and hours of scrappy time!

thanks for visiting and have a great day!

anne

Top 2000 New Year's Eve - end of the party!

It's the end of the Top 2000 blog party at Marit's today - it's been great fun and I've enjoyed the music streaming from her blog all week as well as the incredible artwork! This is such a great way to wrap up the year and ease into the next one!

My last song chosen by random number generator was #147 the Cave by Mumford and Sons. Iused water color paint, glimmer mist, and a little acrylic paint on the final center sun. I'm making a simple book-ring bound book that should hold 7 pieces for the 2012 blog party too.



Today I am making an attempt to clean out and start re-organizing my scrap room. I started in one area and then I realized I should probably come up with a plan first! I'm also getting things ready to start Cathy Zielske's Move More, Eat Well class which kicks off tomorrow.

have a fabulous start t0 2012!

anne