Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Hello Design Team!

Well its Tuesday evening, almost to the middle of the week! I have a question for this week. Here it is:
We all dream, we all wish and we all hope for things to happen in our lives. What is one thing that you dream of in your life that you hope or wish will come true?

Sunday, August 26, 2007

New Template Page

I had a file with a bunch of templates that we used for either our kits, something to give away or whatever. Anyway I stuck a page up on Accents 2 Scrapbooking with them on to give away for free. We all love free stuff so here now there is a page with some on it.
I plan to add to it with anything else I might find in files.

Go to:
www.accents2scrapbooking.com/templates.htm to retrieve them.


Have some FUN!

Sunday, August 19, 2007

New Question of the week

Non-scrappy question this week.
What's your favorite Breakfast foods?

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Summer Banner - Use those scraps!

If you are like me, you have containers full of paper scraps and ribbon scraps as well as drawers full leftover pictures from those summertime layouts. Why not put them to good use? Here is a fun and easy project to help use up some of those scraps and create a little home decor item to remind you of all the fun you had this summer. (This isn't just for summer - it can be any season and any theme where you have leftovers)

Materials (feel free to substitute what ever you have on hand)
6 3"x3" Chipboard coasters (you can use any size or just make your own from
cardboard)
Scraps of coordinating patterned paper and card stock
Coordinating embellishments (I used American Crafts plastic flowers,
Doodlebug acrylic blocks, and Heidi Swapp chipboard letters)
Eyelets
Ribbon scraps
Scrapper's Floss or Cording
2" Circle punch
2.5" scallop edge circle punch
Corner rounder
Eyelet setter or Crop-a-dile
Strong adhesive

1. cut patterned paper and card stock into 3" squares - enough to cover the front (and back if desired) of each coaster. Round edges to fit coasters and adhere. If you plan to cover both sides only cover the front in this step.
2. Crop pictures to desired shape and size - I used a 2" circle punch for mine.
3. Cut photo mats to size for focal point photos. I used the 2.5" scalloped circle punch.
4. Adhere all photos and photo mats to the coasters
5. Embellish as desired.
6. Punch 2 holes on either side of each coaster. Match the placement of the holes with the other coasters as best as possible as we will be stringing them together.
7. Set eyelets in each hole.
8. Using floss or cording, tie coasters together.
9. Embellish end coasters with ribbon.
10. Cut 2 equal lengths of ribbon to use as hanging ties. Adhere them to the back of each end coaster with strong adhesive.
11. If you want to cover the backs of your coasters with card stock or patterned paper, adhere it to the backs over the ribbon ties to hide it.

That's all there is to it. Mine ended up on my refrigerator, but I am sure one the fall comes my daughter will steal it to decorate her room. Please feel free to link back here in the comments if you decide to give this a try. I would love to see what you do with it.

Sharon C

Monday, August 13, 2007

I finally scrapped!

Here is a layout from today's scrapping with my mom. I am so tickled to finally be getting something done. Now to finish the NYC album, the 2 theatre albums, the summer layouts and my oldest son's HS album needs to be started. Oh well, I will get there one of these days.

Sunday, August 12, 2007


Ok I had to put one more up, because its cool! Actually I am going to steal this one and create one just like it for Davids ultrasound photo, of course I will have to use blue!

Anyway this one is by Nancy and its one of my favs from this months submissions.
Great job Nancy

This is Serenity by Lorelie, It was the runner up for the DesignTeam challenge. The judges had a tough time getting us a winner with this round, but below is the winning Layout!

Here is our Design Team challenge winner for August/September. Entitled Sweet by Veronica!

Congratulations to Veronica for submitting such a wonderful layout.
To see all the layouts look at our August/September Scrap Cents Newsletter , which will be published on the 15th.
The Design Team submissions were superb this month!


Monday, August 6, 2007

Christy Has A Blog

Okay...it's not pretty yet..but..it's up and running....way too much fun!

Christy

Sunday, August 5, 2007

OK, so who's the other one?

OK, girls, 'fess up! Who is the other one besides me who does both digital and traditional scrapping?

I discovered digiscrapping last winter when I wanted to scrapbook while traveling...and LOVE it for that reason....also for putting together a layout QUICKLY....at least, quickly when I don't get lost in the digital stores looking at all the goodies they offer!

Inquiring minds wanna know......

Friday, August 3, 2007

Lynda's answers to the question of the week

Question of the Week - August Week 1
Part A
Do you have a subscription to any Scrapbooking or Crafting magazine?
IF so, which one/s? Tell us what you like about the magazines you receive.

I subscribe to Memory Makers, Card Makers, Simple Scrapbooks, and Scrapbook Etc. I used to get a few more, but found the same scrappers were featured over and over...
I have always been a MM subscriber...found their style has changed a bit recently with the new ownership, but have found they seem to have a good variety of techniques but not too trendy. Love Card Makers...used to get CARDS, but can not justify the over $10 an issue price tag for thier magazine...also stopped getting Scrapbook Trends for the same reason (had been a subscriber of theirs from the good old days when they were Ivy Cottage Creations). I like Simple scrapbooks...lots to read in that one...as well as good examples. I also like Scrapbooks Etc. I like the articles in there to on photography.

Part B
What do you do with the magazines after you've read through them?

Now there is the kicker....I used to save them all...why? I haven't a clue, but I have years and years of them all stored neatly in the closet under the stairs. Just recently I have been going through the old issues cutting out the layouts and ideas that I find appealing and putting them into a 3-ring binder. I clip out whole articles when needed and put them in page protectors. It was funny because my dh said...so you are scrapbooking a scrapbooking magazine...hmmm...(as he saw me and my gluestick busy putting my "keepers" onto plain white paper in the binder.

I then pass the rest of the magazine to my girls to cut up for a while...then they go into the recycling.

Thursday, August 2, 2007

I found it!!

Woohoo...I found the blog!! Great idea to set this up! I've been lovin' looking at all the blogs you ladies have started! I need to figure out that part next!

Here's my answer to the question...NO...I don't subscribe to any magazines but I sure would save some money if I did! I'm buying them anyway!! I'm usually buying the standards ones...Memory Makers, Creating Keepsakes...but, I also love it when I stumble on some from other countries! Australia has a great one that I love to pick up!

Well that's it for me...I'm just glad that I finally figured out how to find you ladies!! This will be fun!!

SharonL

Question of the Week - August Week 1

Part A
Do you have a subscription to any Scrapbooking or Crafting magazine?
IF so, which one/s? Tell us what you like about the magazines you receive.

Part B
What do you do with the magazines after you've read through them?

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Hello from FL -- and Ideas for our New BLOG!

Hi ALL,
Just wanted to drop in and say HI! Great idea to start a blog!

I've been thinking about some ideas for the blog and one idea is to have
a question of the day... or maybe a question of the week.
What do you think? It would be a great way to get to know the Design Team.

Another would be to upload a sketch... maybe one a month... Just for added
inspiration. Then we could all add our layouts of the sketch?

Ok, one more idea. Each month someone would be assigned to do a new technique.
It could be something simple or complex... your choice. We could describe our technique
here and show examples...

Let me know what you think about these ideas. I hope I'm not over stepping my boundaries...

Melissa