I don't know...

if it's a new day for you guys, but here it is...those time zones confuse me.

As I promised I will have another giveaway..well TWO in fact.

Here's 16 fun and colorful papers from..(I'm almost positive) We R Memory Keepers.
4 of them have glitter on them...ohhhh!

Two people will win this;

One of the kits will contain chipboard alphabet stickers with glitter;

And the other kit will have these fun die cuts;

To be in the random drawing you just have to leave a comment to this post. I'm gonna do what I did last time, because I had so much fun reading all your comments:)

Just finish this sentence: Sometimes...

Mine would go like this...(because this happened to me yesterday)

Sometimes I do laundry and then forget about it, and it sits in the wash machine for two days.(oopsy)


I do know that I have readers from all over the world, but I don't get a lot of comments from countries other than English speaking countries...I'm thinking that it could be the language thing, which I totally understand. It's totally OK to leave a comment in foreign language.

You can start

Ibland...

or

Manchmal...

I'm sure I would understand French or Spanish too. So don't let the language stop you...go ahead and finish

Sometimes...

It has to stop!

Please, please tell me that you are suffering from the same syndrome as me; I shop faster than I scrap!!

I cleaned my scrap area yesterday and that always makes me feel good, but at the same time I felt really bad, because it became obvious how much STUFF I have. I have a tendency to always buy the latest and then it just SITS here. I often find paper I had totally forgotten about. And sometimes I even shake my head and wonder why on earth I bought it, when I don't even like it.
I started scrapbooking about three years ago and I don't think a single month has passed since, when I DID NOT buy any scrap supply. I'm sure John wish I got addicted to something else...like jogging...which is FREE.


The good news for you is that I will have another giveaway. I meant to take a picture of the blog candy, but I waited too long and now it's pitch black here. So come back tomorrow for the giveaway.



This week was my last as a guest designer for There's Magic In The Air.:(
I had so much fun and I'm so grateful that Nina asked me. Stamping and coloring is not my specialty. There's so many talented stampers out there. But I'm happy I got to try it and learn something new plus it gave me an excuse to buy those Copic markers.

This week's digital image is called Dancing Flowers and here's two cards I made with it:

This last one I'm sending to Nina and as you can see there's something peeking out behind the card. It's a small gift for Nina...she knows about it...( Nina, I just need your address )

Be sure to come back tomorrow for not one, but TWO giveaways! See ya then!

Another sale and then some...

I don't know if you all heard...one of my all time favorite scrapbook manufacturer is going out of business-SCENIC ROUTE!! This saddens my heart more than when I found out that Michael Jackson died...well almost at least. How can this happen? Scenic Route is pure awesomeness!

Anyways... they are having a liquidation sale now. I have already done my share of shopping there.If you like Scenic Route...hurry over to http://www.scenicroutepaper.com. When the stuff is gone...it's gone forever:(



Have you ever been to a blog hop? They have one over at http://itsallaboutmechallenge.blogspot.com/ with lots of different challenge blogs participating. I had no idea there was so many challenge blogs out there. So much inspiration! Join the fun for lots of prizes to win. The blog hop is going on for a week.


Thanks for all the layouts for the butterfly challenge. I still have to add a few more entries to the Slide. Not to worry though. I have received them .



Here's a layout I just finished. I used some yummy June Bug from Basic Grey.The paper you see behind the photo, the one with red roses...I made that myself...



Oh well, it wasn't so hard really. It's actually fabric from my curtains here in my scrap room.

I just took the fabric and put it in the scanner. I adjusted the colors a bit in Photoshop, but that's not necessary. If you don't have a scanner you can just use a copy machine. Be sure to use a heavier paper and not some flimsy printer paper. Imagine if you had a 12 x 12 printer you could start mass producing unique patterned paper. So go and look in your closet or use your favorite sheets and print out some one-of-a-kind papers.

If you have some nice looking curtains it could be cool to decorate some matching photo boxes or something.

One last thing...this blog will see some changes soon and we have to say goodbye to the birdie. But it's all good and I'm very excited,because this will all involve YOU and YOUR TALENTS...that's all I'm saying for now:)

What color are you?

That question might be harder to answer than you think. Most of us know which color is our favorite.Like mine is turquoise-but that's not my personality.

I actually had to google it, and took some color personality tests. Even so, I found out that I'm not just one color.

I did this for the second challenge over at All About Me (click the picture if you wanna read the journaling)

I did some hand cutting and doodling as always. I also painted raw chipboard. I actually like how this layout turned out. Black cardstock always works.

Please join the challenge and do some soul searching if necessary. Click here!

Reminder

I just wanna remind you all that you have one more week to enter the butterfly challenge and win this fabulous prize;



So far I have only TWO entries so the chances to win are great. Last day for the challenge is October 1. If you have problems with uploading and such just email me at scrapalittle@gmail.com with your attached layout or card. Click here to see the challenge. Hope to see some more entries this coming week:)

SALE

Kraft Girl Kits is closing down and she has the leftover kits for sale. Only $16. That's 50% off!!

Hurry over to http://kraftgirlkits.com/category/kits/
I can see that she has sold out of some of the kits already and I got this information yesterday. I know she still has November 2008 kits left. Here's two layouts that I created with that kit;

And it's Magical Monday again over at http://theresmagicintheair.blogspot.com/

This week's image is called "Eldon with flower" and this is the guy I dreamt about, though Nina drew him way prettier.

Here's two cards I made with Eldon. How can you not love him? He's too cute. And Nina has promised we will see lots of him in the future.

So If you haven't snagged your FREE Eldon image...hurry,hurry!

Stolen tutorial

I came across a great tutorial for these awesome poinsettias.

This is not my idea, my photos or my words. The only credit I take, is for the copy and paste part;)

This is a stolen tutorial from Fancy Pants. Enjoy!


1. I have two different sizes of poinsettias. Cut pattern paper into strips. You need three strips per poinsettia. For the larger poinsettia you will need 1.5 inch x 4 inch strips. For the smaller poinsettias you will need 1 inch by 3 inch strips.

2. Fold your strip in half length wise. Then fold in half from top to bottom.

3. Using your scissors, cut in an arc from the outside to the fold part. This makes the point of the poinsettia.

4. Unfold the pattern paper and you get a “squashed” oval.

5. Now fold this oval in half top down, you will see the backside of the pattern paper.

6. Fold one side back up.

7. Flip over and do the other side.

8. Fold in half again.

9. Holding the center, run your finger under the pattern paper to pop it out.

10. Here you can see the progression of the “leaves” of the poinsettia.

11. It takes 3 “leaves” for every poinsettia flower.

12. Once you have these leaves, I like to take a plain glue stick and glue the “leaves” together.

13. After adding the glue, pinch & hold the “leaves” together.

14. You can see what the three look like once the leaves are glued.

15. Now you are ready to assemble the poinsettia. I cut small circles out of the scrap paper for the “base”.

16. With a dab of hot glue or a really strong adhesive in the center of the circle, put all three leaves of the poinsettia together.

17. Now you have this great little poinsettia.

18. So building the wreath … Take your poinsettias and place them randomly around a floral ring using T-pins to secure them in. Keep building around until your wreath looks full.

19. Once your wreath is full, you can add on buttons & beads to the center of the poinsettias.

Flower tutorial summary

I meant to do this for a while... to have all the flower tutorials in one post. This way you don't have to scroll and click so much.

Just click on the photos and it will take you to the tutorial.

Happy Crafting!

Blogcandy winners

Here we go...straight to it: the random winner for my latest giveaway ended up being;
"fromtheowlsnest" who said;

if I hadn't been so lazy, I would have found your wonderful blog sooner...LOL. Thanks for all the inspiration.




Congrats to you Sharon! Please email your address to scrapalittle@gmail.com and I can send you this kit;

I also have another winner, since I never heard from the winner of the summer challenge I decided to draw another name today and that ended up being KimR who said:

If I hadn't been at my friends house the day a mutual friend and her BF came over--I never would have met the man that I knew I was going to marry one day! (And I did, a few years later we started dating in HS...then after college got married and have been together ever since!)

Kim will get this kit:

The old me would track down the winners , but I decided I won't do that anymore. First- I don't have the time and second-I want the winners to be loyal blog readers of mine;)

So Kim and Sharon hurry to give me your addresses. If I haven't heard from you within a week, I will have to draw new winners. I'm cruel like that...

Magical Monday...

is not today obviously, but that's what Nina has every Monday over at http://theresmagicintheair.blogspot.com/ and she gives out FREE digital images.



When she asked me to guest design, I was a bit hesitant because she said "DIGITAL". I don't do digi scrapping at all. Of course when I learned what a digital stamp was, it wasn't that scary. It's just a image that you save to your computer and you can print it out over and over again. And also decide what size you want it. Pretty handy I'll say.



This weeks free stamp is called Deco Flower and the challenge is to emboss (your card). You can't tell in the picture, but I heat embossed this card and it actually has a metallic shine to it.


I'm working on next weeks image and it's soooo cute. And very special to me, because Nina costum made that for me...I dreamt about her stamps one night and I told her what I would love to see on a stamp-and SHE MADE IT! Pretty cool to have a costum made stamp huh? So if you haven't checked it out before, head over to http://theresmagicintheair.blogspot.com/ and see what the rest of the talented design team made with the Deco Flower.

Tomorrow I will draw a random winner for the latest giveaway..hurry,hurry if you haven't left a comment here.

I'll be back tomorrow and announce the winner...hope you all are having a good day or night...

Sure you can use potatoes!

I don't know if this is a Swedish thing or what not, but when I was a kid, we use to stamp with potatoes. So I thought, why not try this for scrapbooking.

You'll need a potato, paint, knife, paintbrush and a sharpie pen.


Cut the clean potato in half.
Wipe of the cut surface with a paper towel.
Use a sharpie pen and draw your shape on the potato.
Outline your shape with the knife and carve off the surrounding potato.



Apply your paint to the cut out shape and then stamp away! Dab on more paint before stamping again.

I made this simple card with some American Crafts paper and Scenic Route rub-ons. I just cut out the stamped hearts and used 3-D dots.

Here's my first layout I made for the All About Me challenge blog. The challenge was to create a layout with the title " If I live to be 100..." Here's my take: (click to see it bigger)

The blue flowers and red dots are stamped with a potato.Wow...stamping,inking,stitching and doodling in the same layout...I'm getting there!

Be sure to hop over to All About Me and join this challenge. I would love to see your take on it.