September's sketch

Can you believe September is already here? First week of school is almost done and we only had tears on Monday:)

If you wonder about the typhoon the other day, it wasn't bad at all. The kids were very dissapointed that we didn't even loose power. Now I've heard that it's another typhoon coming this way tomorrow and I hope it won't be too bad either, because hubby left yesterday:(

I wanted to share my sketch for September.

I had all the right intentions to make a layout based on the sketch, but it just didn't happen.

That's why it's so awesome to have a design team that can inspire you instead.

Here's the DT's take on the sketch:

Fon's:

Kayla's:

 Bev's:

 Veronica's:

and  Kristie's:

Take care and I'll be back real soon...

Scrap A Little in ScrapStreet!!

YAY!

Scrap A Little and my design team are being featured in Septembers issue of ScrapStreet.

To read the article and all the nice things that Melissa Elsner wrote about my blog click here.

 Kind words like that really warms my heart. 

Here's my layout for ScrapStreet that I made months ago, but of course I had to keep it secret until the article was published.

 I based it on my sketch # 27

and sketch # 27 was based on this layout;)

Hop over to ScrapStreet and check out my design team's layouts and to read the article:)

Quick hello!

I just wanted to say hello and let you know that I'm still alive;)

School started (finally) today and the last couple of days have been busy with getting ready for that.

I thought this day would be a happy day where I would get lots of things done.
Instead I found myself staring out the window like a fool, doing absolutely nothing.
I missed the kids so much I cried:(

I know tomorrow will be better and hopefully I can get some scrappy stuff done. I'm working on a few different tutorials that you can look forward to.

I will also post a new sketch this week with inspiration from the design team.

We are expecting to get hit by a typhoon tomorrow and you never know how bad it will get.It's picking up speed right now heading our way, but it's still scary calm outside. I'm super happy that my hubby is home, because usually he is gone whenever we have typhoons.
So if we loose power tomorrow at least we can have a cozy family day and play board games:)

Here's my cutie pies earlier this morning;

and off they go...

Take care and I'll be back as soon as typhoon Kompasu has passed us!

AAM celebration

All About Me challenge blog is celebrating ONE YEAR! Happy birthday!!!

The old design team was asked to participate and create for the celebration.

Our prompt was celebrate the positive or a positive change in your life.

My initial plan was to make a layout with me working out on the elliptical  trainer that we recently bought ( and takes up half of our living room) but I have been kinda flaky on the working out habit, so I couldn't call it a positive change...just yet.

I was struggling with WHAT to scrap, because honestly I couldn't say that I have changed so much the last year. Believe me, I'm trying every day in so many areas, but it's just so hard...to change who you are...anyways..my layout is kind of vague..."Celebrate who you are."

I guess that means both good and bad.

Head over to All About Me and join the celebration, participate in the challenge and check out all the others take on the challenge.

Tissue flower tutorial

Today I'm gonna show you how to make some simple flowers with tissue paper.They look like peonies to me- my favorite flowers.

All you need is scissors, tissue paper and some wire. If you don't have any craft wire you can use those twist ties or whatever they are called that you get at the grocery store

Cut 7 pieces of tissue paper. Layer the paper so you just have to cut once;)

I cut about 2 1/2" x 3 1/2"

Place the pieces on top of each other.

Scrunch them up in a little ball

Unfold

Make a fan fold starting at the short end

Use the wire to secure in the middle and now you will have a bow tie looking thingy

GENTLY take layer by layer and pull up towards the middle. Repeat will all the 7 sheets on both sides.

And now it's done. Super easy!

Great flowers for cards or scrapbook pages. And the kids can make them too.( I actually learned this from my kids )

If you want to add some bling or pazazz as my daughter calls it, you can spray the flower with glimmer mist or add glitter. Here I did both...I don't think I like it, but I usually never like glitter in any form or shape...but I tried;)

Click here if you want to know how to make your own glimmer mist.

That's it for today. See you real soon:)

August sketch

Here's the sketch for August :

and the design team's take on it. Enjoy!

from Kayla:

from Fon:

from Veronica:

from Bev:

and from Kristie:

Next time I will show you a new flower tutorial. There can never be enough of those, right?

Back from the retreat!

Hi Ladies!

I'm back from my scrapbook retreat!! I had such a blast! 3 days filled with non-stop scrapping together with a bunch of fun ladies. Plus no cooking and cleaning. Could it get any better than that?

I thought I'd share some pics from the weekend.

Here's the gorgeous view of the Pacific Ocean from our scrap room.

Here's half of the room we invaded.

This is what we served everyone when they came Friday morning:) You can see some of our prizes in the background.

Here's Jill that I planned the retreat with. Cheers!

Here's the whole bunch (minus 1) looking kinda normal

And here- a little crazy:

I got 7 layouts done, which is not too impressive ( the winner got 58 done!!?)  But it's 7 more than last retreat.
I slept a little and laughed A LOT!

Even though I slept 14 hours straight when I got back home I could do this again next week.

I have already started to plan for our next retreat. Hopefully we can squeeze in one more this year.
If you haven't been to a scrapbook retreat yet, you should totally try to find one near you. It's so much fun!



I know I promised another flower tutorial and I will post it this week, but before that I will share a new sketch and some inspiration from the design team.

New winner and blog award:)

Exciting news!! Me and my little blog won a Scrapbook Award!

YAY! I'm so happy and honored!!

Click here to check out the other winners. It's a great list to keep for future inspiration!!

I had to draw a new random winner for my latest giveaway.

 www.random.org gave me # 56 and that turned out to be Sara Lou. Her favorite scrapblog is Aussiescrapsource!!

Congrats to Sara Lou!! Please email your address to scrapalittle@gmail.com 

I have a new flower tutorial that I want to share with you. I'm hoping I'll have time to post it this week.

My scrapbook retreat is on Friday and I have soooo much packing and last minute stuff to do.

But I'll try to squeeze it in. OK?

Monthly scrap kits

Do you subscribe to any monthly scrapbook kits?

I do, and I have been doing for many years. I just love getting that monthly package stuffed with coordinating supply. It's like Christmas!

I have been alternating between a few different clubs, such as Studio Calico, S.E.I and Memory Works. But I always seem to go back to Memory Works. I think Memory Works has the best value ( $29.95 + S&H ) and they always add some of the latest products on the market.

This is how the  Memory Works June kit looked:






And here's three layouts and did with the kit:

 

I wanted to try to squeeze at least one more layout from the kit. Otherwise the pages will be more than $10 each which I think is too much for one layout.


This is how this month's kit look;

We are a group of ladies that meet once a month just to scrap these Memory Works kits and tonight we are meeting to work on the July kit:)

If you are interested to subscribe to the Memory Works kits, feel free to contact me at scrapalittle@gmail.com

Here's a sneak peek of the August kit:

I'm still waiting for MAYIPADLO to email me her address so I can send off the prize.
If I don't hear from her in a few more days I will draw another winner.