Blog Candy

Love 4 Papercrafts is giving away blog candy.  There is a huge amount of goodies in this stash.  She has a cute blog and also many links to others with blog candy!  CRAZY!

Basic Grey February 2010 Newsletter

One of my favorite product lines is Basic Grey.  I love the colors because of the moods they evoke in me!  I love the texture and durability of the paper.  I get their newsletter and I thought you'd like to take a gander at it, too! It has fun industry updates and creative LOs for you to get inspiration from.
Go here to start reading the newsletter.
Go here to see what products Basic Grey previewed at CHA 2010

What's going on at If It's Groovy this month?

There are a lot of challenges going on over at If It's Groovy this fine February!  Most of the groups are hosting a challenge. 
Groovy Deb's Challenge is here.
Altered Art link.
Sweetheart's Scrapping Boys only link.
Sketches link.
Dollbabies Scrapping Girls only link.
Cards link.
Repurposing & Scrapbooking link.
Faithbooking link.
Two page LOs link.
Mini arts link.
Stamping link.
These are a majority of the groups on If It's Groovy, but there are many more. Find them all here.
Come play along and have fun!!!

Well, hello, crop much?

I am out of my skin...I am going to my first cropping session with people I have never met on Friday the 12th from 6 pm to 12am.  I can't believe I get 6 hours to myself!  Well, for myself anyway!  I am so excited.  That's right, I have never been to a crop!  Only online ones and with people I feel like I know!  Weird!  So I have very few ideas of what to take to a crop.  I am using sketches, I have cropped my photos.  I have cut out things with my Cricut and kind of picked out paper accents, embellishments, and such. 

I plan on bringing my SU! stamping spots and pens, as well as distress ink, chalk, sand paper, glue, scissors, paper trimmer, glue dots/adhesives, shape scissors, punches, foam wedges, and some other stuff. 

I can't wait and I'll let you know how it goes and upload the LOs!!!

Soups and Scraps Very First Blog Giveaway!

Hi there! Lauren at Soups and Scraps is having her very first Blog Giveaway! There are several ways to win. Go become a follower and leave her some comment love!
Here's what she says:

1. Become a blog follower!

2. Leave me a comment telling me about your favorite valentines day sweet treat! I am totally a sucker for those gormet sea salt chocolates....!

3. Show me a sweet valentine day project you made, or if you do my altered candy bar project, you get two entries!!!

4. And if you post this giveaway on another forum, blog, etc. and give me the link, you get another two entries!!!

All entries due by Feb. 12th at 12pm eastern...drawing by random.org on Feb.13th! Make sure you leave somewhere for me to contact you at.

 Here's My entry! 

February Altered Clock Project at If It's Groovy!

Happy Friday to everyone!  For the February Altered Arts project at If It's Groovy, I made an altered clock, or two!  I invite you to come over and join in on the fun!  Several others have made some and I have a link to help you get "round" layout help if you need it! I also have a pretty comprehensive tutorial for you as a guide, if you have never made an altered clock before!

 

 

Wonderful Creativity Prompts

I have times where I just stare at the wall of scrapbooking supplies in front of me and my eyes just gloss over.  Sometimes I need some inspiration.  One of the sites that I go to A Matter of Memores, supplies inspiration from all kinds of places.  I suggest you pop over there and look around!  You never know what will catch your eye.

I do feel a little bit like I am recovering from Cropping Mania.  Do you ever experience a little bit of depression after going on vacation or after a huge event? That's how I feel right now.  I feel like all the expectation and the feelings that go with it have crashed.  I just need a little time to recover.  I have never been a part of such a large online crop, nor hosted my own.  I do look forward to doing another one and now I'll be much more prepared for the emotions.

I have shared in jest with friends, that I am a mood scrapper, that's my style!  So I suspect that my next LO will rightfully so, find joy in my source, from the One who sustains me!  I am at a crossroads and I want God to speak from my LOs.  In not only journaling, but also in the pictures and embellishments.  I want my scrapbooking principals to reflect that God comes first.  That also goes for wanting every single new product or only saving money to buy new stuff.  I have been very blessed and it is time to give my time back to God and not spend it on my computer and concentrating  so much on scrapbooking.  I am going to go for quality and not quantity!  I am going to try to go to my local church and find some faithbookers.  I am turning into a recluse and everyone is suffering.

I feel renewed.  I pray that I have the courage to step out of my old ways.  I am so grateful for the talent my God has given me and how I could fellowship with others through my talents!!