Retro online crop at Scrap~tures and a RAK

Well, I actually got scrapping yesterday with the weather being so poor.  There was actually a white out of snow around dinner time.  Here are my creations I made for the Scrap~tures Retro online weekend crop:  The surprise RAK from the weekends comments on my blog will be announced at the end of this entry.

Laced corset challenge:

Someday We Could Be a Champion Too

 

pp: My Minds eye; cardstock-bazzill, eyelets-making memores; ribbon-american crafts; "Someday"-cricut cartridge(wild card)-provocraft; thread-guttermann; letter stickers-cosmo cricket;adhesive-beacons and mystick



One hour tour challenge.  In this challenge, each person was to wait their turn to spell out "Gilligan". Then only take one hour to do their challenge and then post it.  There was a sketch to use, (but for some reason I ignored that rule)  Here is my rendition using the letter "A"



Aim High

pp, chipboard piece and brad-My minds eye; ribbon-unknown; thread-gutterman; letters-cricut(designers calendar)-provocraft; cuddlebug folder-provocraft; punch-eksuccess;distresser-tim holtz; adhesive-beacons and mystick

Finally Friday April 8th (just finally getting to this):

I Promise not to touch the Nativities  ...ok, maybe once

everything is Bobunny; cardstock-bazzill; pen-staedtler; popdots-forever in time; adhesive-beacons and my stick

Give it glam: 

We Were Here

pp, brads, chipboard-My minds eye; thread-guttermann; stickles-Ranger; ink-Ranger; stamp-maya road;pen-staedtler

 A shaker card:

Noah helped me with this.  cardstock-bazzill; mis. brads, eyelets and buttons, maya road packaging and chipboard gear; ink-ranger; distresser-ranger; pen-sharpie

 Something silly challenge:

My Silly 4 Year Old

pp-3 bugs in a rug; floss-unknown; crayola crayon-indigo; yellow flower-maya road; journalling pen-staedtler; ribbon-unknown; adhesive-beacons and my stick; popdots-forever in time

Now on to a winner.  The Random Generator chose #4.  And the 4th comment was:   

    

Denise Gay said...

Ohhh vellum. How perfect for a wedding layout. I like the simplicity.

April 15, 2011 11:31 AM 

Congratulations Denise!  please email me your snail mail addy and I will get that out to you as soon as I can!

TTFN

Tracy

Scrap~tures BLOG HOP!!!

Welcome to Scrap~tures Retro Road Trip blog hop!!
Thanks so much for joining us!  We are very excited to show you some scrappy projects from the 'past' and hope that you gain lots of inspiration and continue to hop with us!!

If you just happened by this blog and didn't realize a blog hop was taking place, please go back to Scrap~tures and start the Hop.

You won't want to miss all the inspiration from our team.....or the chance to win a RAK :)

Here's my blast from the past:

I began scrapbooking "the new way" with Brads and my wedding album.  I guess my motto is go big or go home! :)  on this particular page, I x-acto knifed some embellies out of wedding cards we received (a theme throughout the album), I painted the background with blue tembra paint, and went a bit crazy with the white.  and to top it all off, I used a vellum sheet of paper.  This is us leaving the church after the worship service was all done.

This blog hop will run from today, April 15th - April 17th.  We will be drawing a winner on April 18th.

Follow along in our blog hop!  Your next stop is Kelly

TTFN

Tracy

Hey, I'm working, and a blog hop!

Scrap~tures is hosting a blog hop starting TOMORROW - and I'm going to give it a try!  So following T's instructions, I should be good to go!  In the mean time...I think I will share some info.  I've been working for Elections Canada in the Wiarton office.  I'm having a good time, and have learned a LOT about our election process in Canada.  It is very interesting.  Hence, no posts lately...  I have been creating a bit here and there, so here are some of my most recent creations:

pp-3 bugs in  a rug; floss & ribbon-unknown; crayola crayon (indigo); adhesive-beacons, mystick; yellow flower-maya road; foam squares-forever in time

pp-3 bugs in a rug; adhesive-beacons, mystick; thread-guttermann; pen-sharpie; letter stickers-cosmo cricket; buttons-my button jar; floss-bazzill; popdots-forever in time; cricut cartridges-alphalicious and designers calendar(provo craft); embossing powder and clear ink - ranger

sketch-sct/pagemaps calendar April 2011; pp-WeRMemory keepers & jellibean soup; brackets, chipboard and journalling spot-maya road; letter stickers-basic grey; thread-coats; white mist-mr. hewey;

adhesive -beacons & mystick; popdots-forever in time

cardstock-bazzill; pp-little yellow bicycle; thread-coats; ribbon-unknown; stickers-forever in time & october afternoon; adhesive-beacons, mystick; font-teletype; computer printer paper-staples

pp-jellibean soup & WeRMemory Keepers; thread-coats; letter stickers-october afternoon, "skip"-forever in time; adhesive-becons, mystick; foam squares-forever in time;

newspaper - Wiarton Echo, March 15, 2011; pagemaps/sct march sketch calendar 2011

pp-bobunny; carstock-bazzill; thread-gutterman; letter stickers-echo park, cosmo cricket & basic grey;

ink-martha stewart; distresser - tim holtz; eyelets - WeRMemory keepers; brads-my minds eye;

pop dots-forever in time; adhesive - beacons, my stick; shimmer spritz-tsukineko;

pink paint & rikrak-unknown; sketch challenge for Scrap~tures

TTFN

Tracy

P.S. tune in tomorrow for an awesome blog hop!!!

vacation photos

We've been in the Waterloo region now for a week - so I thought I'd share some of the things we have been doing...

we went to the Brier!!!

we visited with our neices, Evelynn (2 weeks old) and Sydney (19 months old)

we visited Great grandma Becker

we took a GO train to Whitby

we ate super large pancakes from Angies Kitchen for breakfast, and then apple fritters from the St. Jacobs market

I bought myself some new shoes

More for less

New month, new challenges over at Scrap~tures!  One of the challenges is to see how many cards you can get out of one piece of 12x12 patterned paper.  The challenger got 5.  Well....I got 6!!! (and may beable to squeeze something out of the rest yet).  So here are my 6 cards!

in all cards I used:  Basic grey pp, bazzill cardstock and 3 in 1 adhesive

buttons from my button jar, embrodery floss - unknown, cosmo cricket thank you, dollar store foam squares, tim holtz distresser, provo craft embossing folder

tim holtz die cut; provo craft embossing folder, basic grey felt flower, dream - cosmo cricket

buttons from my button jar, provo craft embossing folder, letter stickers - cosmo cricket

thread - gutterman, die cut - tim holtz, letter stickers - cosmo cricket

thread - gutterman, die cut - tim holtz, brads - mme, distresser - tim holtz, spritz - acrillic paint and water, stamp - studio G; ink - martha stewart

stamp - martha stewart, foam squares - dollar store

It was a fun challenge - give it a try yourself

TTFN

Tracy

P.S. only 6 more sleeps until the day we go to the Brier

Pagemaps blog sketch challenge

I'm entering this LO into the pagemaps blog sketch contest for February.

cardstock - bazzill; pp - fancy pants hot chocolate; punch - fiskars; mr. hewey mist; pearls - forever in time; brown lace -the nook; letter stickers - doodle bug; decal sticers - I can't remember; ink - ranger

and only two weeks until 

finals!!!!

canadian crafters blog hop

I've never been apart of a blog hop...so I thought I'd give it a try. 

You can join in the fun!  Just click Made by Jacqueline too see what all of the fun is all about.

More challenges

I have been working steadily all week on The Scrapping Nook February challenges.  They are really great.  Here are some I've done:  This first one we were asked to "lift" someones work out of the gallery as inspiration.  This is from Chelle (I just LOVE her copic work - but I also liked the embossing idea.)

and here is my version:

this next card is a mixture of old and new product:



 this is using the Feb. Kit klub stuff of pink paislee.  The sketch is from Scrap~tures

The challenge was to do some colouring.  I coloured the flowers and a bit of the cardstock background

These next two photos are of a card I did for a Scrap~tures challenge to make a pop-up card.  I am going to give this card in the RAK that I am giving away over at TwoScrapbookFriends for a BINGO game that I am currently running.

Thanks for looking

TTFN

Tracy



Loving life RIGHT NOW!

One of the challenges this week on the Scrapping Nook on line crop is to crop what I love about life right now. I did a LO of my two fantastic children:  I also used Scrap~tures one word challenge of sunshine.

You are the Sunshine of my Life

Some online crops have kept my mojo going...

Here we are in the middle of February! - I've been kept busy by some online crops from Scrap~tures two weekends ago,  TwoScrapbookFriends on the Superbowl weekend (Willie weekend in my neck of the woods) ;) and starting yesterday over at The Scrapping Nook.  All of these places are awesome communities.  Go and check them out for yourselves.

Here are some projects that I've done because of all of the great challenges at these forums:

scrap~tures use a sketch and some scraps

scrap~tures - use a song lyric

TSF - hearts on a card

     Nook - February card exchange

Scrap~tures - use the Feb. Kit challenge - this was not hard with fancy pants hot chocolate line!!!

TSF - stars challenge

TSF - green challenge

TSF - food challenge

TSF - put a number on your LO challenge

TSF - yellow and black jersey challenge (for one of the teams playing in the superbowl)

Scrap~tures - fussy cutting challenge (Feb Kit too)

Nook - Feb calendar page and heart challenge

Nook - use sketch and song lyric challenge - and look!  Mor hot chocolate by Fancy Pants

Nook - scrap someone you love - yup! that's more hot chocolate

Nook - favourite manufacturer (Echo park - Jan Kit for the Nook)



Nook - scrap with family or friends - made valentines cards for Noah's class

Nook - birthday card (celebration challenge)

 well, there you have it!  I've been quite busy!  More to come, as the Scrapping Nook's online crop lasts all week long!  Hopefully I'll post more throughout the week.  Until then -

TTFN

Tracy