A couple of fun little toots

This week this from my Scrapdango October reveal, featuring Little Yellow Bicycle Hello Fall, and some Jillibean Soup accents, is featured as the Facebook Profile pic over at Creating Keepsakes Facebook page.

Also, I don't think I ever shared these pages that I created a couple months ago. They were published in Scrapbook News and Review, so I couldn't share them. But now I can! These feature the Happy Camper collection from Imaginisce. These pictures are from our camping trip to Assateague Island. That reminds me, I never scrapped the photos of the wild horses. Will have to add that to my to-do list!

Scrapdango November Sugar Kit Reveal

The DT kit reveals are up at Scrapdango. You can see the rest of my reveal HERE. You can find the rest of the team members reveals along with other kit info HERE. And last but certainly not least, check out all the new challenges in the challenge forum.

For this page I used the MME paper and some Glitz from the kit along with some SRM stickers that I had in my stash, and the Bella Blvd alphas from the kit, to make a simple, but stunning page. I love how the glitter compliments the glow from the candles in the photo.

Scrapdango October Reveal part 1

I have to apologize for the photos of these layouts, now that summer is over, I leave the house when it's dark and I come home when it's dark, so I had to either take these inside using my makeshift light box (which is what I did) or wait until the weekend. I think I need more practice using my light box. Oh well, you get the idea, they arent TOO bad are they?

I will take new ones on the weekend when I have light.

First, here is the page that gave me so much trouble. I sewed the two halves together - covered up that mistake with the additional pink circle on the right side, then I sewed all the way around the kraft cardstock - which I wanted to leave unstitched in the middle, then I went to reprint two of the photos that I had sewn through and my printer hiccuped, then my computer crashed. it was like a comedy of errors! I kind of like how it turned out though.

Everything is from the Scrapdango October kit except the maya road canvas tags, the blue buttons, the twine, the kraft cardstock and the SRM stickers. HAHA - that sounds like a lot, but the canvas button, and circle die cut embellishments, along with the alphas and all the patterned papers were in the kit.

My challenge is up too. I am challenging you to try one of these double page layouts with two different background papers. Check it out HERE.

You can see the rest of my reveal HERE if you just can't wait. I will be sharing more later this week, hopefully after I retake the photos.

WCMD challenge at Scrapdango

I made this card for a bunch of challenges, but then I never got around to entering it. So, I thought it would be perfect for my challenge for Scrapdango's mini world cardmaking day crop!

My challenge is to make your card clean and simple. I have been really into that lately, so I thought it would be a perfect challenge.

Sept Scrapdango Reveal and a Free Digi stamp

The Scrapdango kit is available now - featuring Crate Paper's Farmhouse line! Oh, I just adored this line! Unfortunately I didnt have a lot of time, and what time I had, I was sick. So I didn't get as much done as I normally would have with this kit. But I can't wait to get back to it!

Check out the rest of my reveal HERE.

I made this card as part of the reveal. I was inspired by the Create Cards magazine challenge to make a card with a Fox. I didn't have a fox, and I wanted a cute/sexy kinda spunky one, so I drew it myself and made it into a digi stamp. Feel free to grab it, just give me credit if you use it please. It's a .png file, so there is a blank background.

My Mind's Eye Sketch and Scrapdango Challenge

Today it's my turn to post the Core Class for the School's In contest over at Scrapdango. I chose Science because I have always loved science. The requirements for this challenge are: Use green as a major color on your layout, use something botanical (like a flower) and use one or more hexagons (like bee hives or molecules).

I also happened to be working on the My Mind's Eye monthly sketch challenge, so I used that sketch and added in my challenge requirements to create this example.

The My Mind's Eye sketch featured lots of journaling, and a prompt of "Back to ____". I took this as a great opportunity to tell the story of how Ellie acts when I take her picture. Sometimes, if Im lucky, I get one decent picture, then it's right back to being silly! She has the most adorable poses, which is great, but sometimes I would like a more 'normal' picture. Oh, well. I guess this way the photos convey her personality more anyway.

I used Lime Twist papers, featuring a lot of green. For the hexagons, I used a honeycomb texture stamp to create a mat behind the photo. Then I added an American Crafts Details flower which I doodled a little bit on. I also added some leaves and a vine to the flower. Since I was using a lot of journaling, I broke out of my handwritten journaling rut, and used my computer to print out the journaling, which I then cut into strips as shown in the sketch.

Schools In

The Design Team is busy putting together some amazing challenges, and the prize is AWESOME! Check out more info HERE.

August Scrapdango Reveal

This month I worked with the Sugar kit, which included some gorgeous papers from Authentique along with some beautiful Primas and other embellishments. This kit was so much fun! The papers are a great quality - thick with a subtle almost watercolor paper texture, and of course double sided and gorgeous!

I started by thinking of what photos would work well with these papers. Since I tend to be pretty much up to date, I was looking at a lot of beach and pool pictures, that I didn't think would really work. So I started looking back and found that I had not scrapped easter and passover, and they are perfect for these colors!

Here are a couple of my creations:

I almost always start with the double page layout, that way I make sure that I have the duplicate papers from the kit available for use. Originally I was going to make the photos go in a straight line across the page. See how the tall photos are the same height as the two smaller ones put together? that was the plan put them all in a row. but then I couldnt figure out where to put my title... I like this arrangement more - it has more interest. You can't tell from this photo, but I used some glossy accents and a sprinkle of glitter on strategic spots of the floral circle, the tiny flower embellishments on the title and the 'leaves' of the prima flowers.

For this page I was just having fun. I wanted to try something different with the border. I ALWAYS have to have a border and it seems to usually be a solid quarter inch border and/or stitching. This one is different.

To see the rest of my creations check out the Scrapdango forums, and my reveal thread HERE.

Scrapdango July Reveal

Today is the Scrapdango kit reveal day! This month's sugar kit features Simple Stories Summertime line and Little Yellow Bicycle's Sweet Summertime line.

Can I just say, "oh my, did I love this kit?!" Here are just two of the pages that I created with it. You can see the rest in my reveal thread. This first one was inspired by the sketch that was posted on the Simple Stories blog last week. I used an action on the photo to make the colors really pop, then added a little vignette around the edges. I took advantage of the cool Simple Stories journaling blocks, and used it as my title, just cutting it down a little to the black border so that it fit better with my large photo. The My Little Shoebox alphas that came in the kit, provide just the right touch of blue to accent the blue in the photo and on the title block. This one I created from a sketch that I drew for myself. I was inspired by the paper with all of the circles, and a couple of pages that I have recently seen in scrapbook magazines that used borders of circles. I added some yellow paint splatter to brighten the page up and echo the splashes in the photos. Some buttons and chipboard complete the page.

Out for Publication

Scrapdango LOAD inspiration

Scrapdango's Layout a Day (LOAD) contest is in full swing, but you still have plenty of time to enter if you like. You don't have to create the layout on the same day as the inspiration, you have until the end of the week, and you get one draw per layout completed. See the full rules HERE

It's my turn to offer inspiration this week and here is the first one.

Today's LOAD inspiration is about journaling - write your journaling directly on your page, by drawing lines with a pen and a ruler. (I dont measure the distance between my lines, just make sure they are straight)

LOAD at Scrapdango!

Scrapdango June Reveal with Jillibean Soup

Here are the projects (well most of them anyway) that I created with my June Scrapdango Sugar kit. I love this kit! The bright fun colors make me think of summer and smile! This first page was created using the Jillibean Soup June sketch by Julie Bonner.

Scrapdango Crop is on, and a little toot!

The crop over at Scrapdango starts today, and to make my day even better, the card that I made as an example for one of my challenges, was chosen as one of the top 22 entries in the CARDS blog waves challenge!

This is the card: (and you can hop on over to the scrapdango forum to see my challenge that, along with the waves challenge, inspired this card.)

featured at club ck!

two of my scrapdango may kit creations were featured this week at club ck. check it out HERE.

Scrapdango May Spice kit reveal is up

My first reveal as a DT member for Scrapdango is up today. Along with my May monthly challenge (and everyone else's too) Check it out HERE.

and here is one of the projects that I created. and Happy Birthday to my grandfather-in-law. and now off to the party

Scrapdango Spring DT Blog Hop

Welcome to the Dango Girls' Blog Hop. I'm so glad you hopped on over to my pad. We've got a lot of fun coming your way for the weekend and through the week. If you just happened to hop on over here and didn't know about this blog hop, then hop on over to the Scrapdango Blog where you should start this hopping good time. Okay, enough with all the hopping. Let's get down to scrappiness.

We have a brand new DT over at Scrapdango, and this blog hop is a way to introduce them. You will learn a little about each of them, and they will each post a challenge. You have until next Friday the 20th at midnight EST to post comments on each blog and to complete the DT challenges. There will also be other ways to earn draws, and one lucky person is going to win a fantastic prize of one of Scrapdango's fabulous kits chock full of scrappy goodness. Here is the breakdown of how you can earn draws.

--1 draw by posting comments on each DT member's blog (must comment on all blogs to get the draw)
--1 draw for each challenge that you complete. Please provide a link to your challenge in a comment.
--1 draw for becoming or already being a Scrapdango Blog follower
--1 draw for becoming or already being a fan of Scrapdango on Facebook
--2 draws for correctly answering quiz questions on the DT members. The quiz can be found on the Scrapdango forum at http://www.scrapdango.com/forums/sho...705#post154705

About Me:

My name is Megan aka megamay and I am thrilled to be on the Scrapdango design team this term! I work as a software engineer and live outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with my husband, 5 year old daughter, and our 8 year old Beagle. I have been scrapping for about 6 years, since my husband and I came back from a 3 month backpacking trip to Europe. I started scrapbooking with a goal of preserving memories, but now I do it because I love EVERYTHING about it. I love the feel and smell of the papers. I love the online community. I love preserving my memories and expressing my creativity. I love having alone time and being able to relax through artistic creation. Yep, I love it all!

I describe my style as layered and detailed with lots of color and plenty of clean lines and whitespace. How's that for a mouthful? And totally clear as mud right? You will see what I mean though as you get to know my work. My favorite manufacturers right now are Webster's Pages, Sassafras Lass and My Mind's Eye - probably in that order although that changes sometimes. I love using texture, in fact I can't make a flat page EVER! There has to be some dimension and some softness - whether it comes from ribbons, or distressing. Oh and speaking of distressing: I ink EVERYTHING! It is a rare occurrence that the edge of a paper escapes my ink pads.

Here is my challenge: Use this piece of art as inspiration - take the colors, the theme, use it as a sketch, whatever
Here is my example. I used the colors for inspiration:

And now you want to head on to Ellen's blog.

Blog hop with the Dango girls - coming soon!

I made the DT at Scrapdango!

Check it out! I made the spring 2011 Design Team at Scrapdango! If you haven't been there, you need to check it out anyway because there are awesome kits - TWO choices every month! and an awesome community!

Scrapdango

Scrapdango GDT reveal

I was lucky enough to be the guest designer this month at Scrapdango, and get to work with the gorgeous Sugar kit featuring Echo Park -For the Record.

Here is one of the layouts I created with the kit - you will have to check out the reveal thread at the forum for the rest.

I won Crowned!

I just found out that I won the Crown at the crowned competition over at Scrapdango! And seriously, it could not have come at a better time. If you have not checked out Scrapdango, you need to (this means you Sandy!) I have been playing over there all month and am totally loving it! This month they just started a new contest all about using up your stash to make room for the new CHA stuff.

I will be posting some of my Crowned creations in a couple of days. I am so proud of all of them, and since I held them back for the duration of the contest, I submitted most of them to publications.