Big Picture Classes | December Duos GIVEAWAY!

28 Thursday Nov 2013

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Big Picture Classes, December Duos, Giveaway

Just in time for your December memory keeping projects, I have a fabulous giveaway from Big Picture Classes – the December Duos Class!

I can’t wait to do this one myself – it’s definitely going to add a fun piece to my December Daily. Want to know more? Here’s the info and a video from BPC:

The “December Duos” concept is easy, stress-free, and inspiring. Every day for the twelve days leading up to Christmas Day, two of our twelve instructors will share a scrapbook layout, video message, and a page prompt in the form of a duo (“warm & cold,” “give & receive,” “near & far”). That’s a total of two-dozen inspiring ideas!

You can follow the instructor’s lead or march in your own direction as you snap your photos for the day. Then, after printing our fabulously free journaling cards and title cards, you’ll either slip the cards and your photos into a Project Life mini album from American Crafts or use them on a traditional (or digital) scrapbook page.

12 Days of Christmas: December Duos makes it easy to capture all of your most important holiday moments—in a festive new format—while keeping up with all the parties, presents, and pageants that make the holiday season magical.

Learn more and register here

Doesn’t that look like fun? ~~Just leave a comment here telling me your favourite Christmas memory or tradition to be entered to win. Contest closes midnight EST November 30 and I’ll post the winner on December 1.~~ *contest closed*

Good luck!

12 Days of Happy (momecentric.com)

BPC | Tracey Clark’s Picture Everyday {Giveaway}

05 Thursday Sep 2013

Posted by Sara in Giveaway

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Big Picture Classes, Giveaway, Tracey Clark

I love the classes and workshops at Big Picture Classes and would recommend them to anyone – they are always well worth the price and the time invested.

That’s why I’m super excited to be able to give away a spot in Tracey Clark’s Picture Everyday class! Want to know more about it?

Class Description

Your life is full of beauty, authenticity, and moments of magic just waiting to be captured in pictures. All it takes is the right perspective. In Picture Everyday, a new workshop from photographer Tracey Clark, you’ll learn to see your world in a sublime new light—and to use your camera to tell the story of what you see.

Through 30 surprisingly powerful photo prompts, dozens of inspiring images and videos, and eight weeks of gentle encouragement, Tracey will help you elevate your everyday—and fill your soul with gratitude along the way. You’ll be focusing your lens on topics like Routine, Spaces, Places, Details, Connections, and Affections.

Read the rest of the description here.

Doesn’t that sound like a fabulous class? I can’t wait to get started, and once you watch the intro video I know you’ll be itching to do it too. If you’ve been wanting to take better and more meaningful pictures, you need to do this class!

To enter, just leave me a comment answering this question: What are your favourite types of pictures to take? You can get extra entries by tweeting about this giveaway (let me know you did!) or by following me on Twitter or here at my blog. Already a follower? Let me know and I’ll count it! The giveaway closes at 11:59pm EST Sunday, September 8. (giveaway now closed)

Good Luck!

Simple Scrapper Blog Hop and GIVEAWAY | June 2013

04 Tuesday Jun 2013

Posted by Sara in Blog Hop, Giveaway, Simple Scrapper

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Blog Hop, Giveaway, Simple Scrapper

The Simple Scrapper Team is back again with a brand new blog hop and chance to win! Use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter a giveaway for a one month trial membership at Simple Scrapper. There are three ways to enter and three winners will be selected. To be eligible, you must enter by 11:59pm CDT on Wednesday, June 5.

But first, welcome! You should have come from Van‘s blog if you’re following along.

NOTE: Suzette, if you’re reading this, STOP NOW! You’ll ruin your birthday present if you keep going! 🙂

Sorry all, had to warn off my best and oldest friend – hopefully she’ll take the hint and go away!

This month had some amazing templates to choose from and it was hard to pick one to work with – I wanted to try them all! I finally chose letter#1 and stretched it into a 12×12:I used the newest Paperie club kit along with some Studio Calico PL kit pieces and stamps. I’m still loving the punched borders!

Some shimmery modeling creme behind the photo to mimic the border punch:

And great letter stickers for the title finished it off:

Don’t you love all the butterfly pins? I stuck them into the paper and taped them down in the back with washi tape – thanks to Cathie for that great idea!

For my story starter this month I decided to do a canvas instead of a traditional LO:

Almost everything on this one came from a Studio Calico PL kit – don’t you love that big ampersand stamp? It looks amazing when embossed!

I also embossed the paper dolls (love the heart that their hands form) on the journaling tag:

I tucked the tag behind the photo because 1. it’s what I normally do, and 2. since this a display piece I felt it was better hidden. There’s nothing very secretive written down there, just funny memories I have of the two of us since we were 6!

I finished it off by stamping the sides of the canvas so they wouldn’t be so bare when it was hanging on the wall:

You really need to go check out the rest of the Design Team’s work if you haven’t already – they’ve done some beautiful work, as always!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)

Lisa Corbin-Polack

Ronnie Crowley

Holly Humbert

Margrethe Aas Johnson

Sara Case Strickland <– that’s me!

And now, here’s your chance to win – good luck!

Rafflecopter – click to enter!

The Premium Membership at Simple Scrapper provides skills and shortcuts to help you simplify and find more meaning in your memory keeping. Each month members receive a new collection of sketch templates and Story Starters, story-focused prompts for pages and projects.

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

14 Sunday Apr 2013

Posted by Sara in Blog Hop

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Crop Circles, Giveaway

I always swore I would never use that title on a blog post but apparently, my hands had other ideas and insisted on typing it in. It’s pretty bad when even my hands don’t listen to me – no wonder I have such little luck with the kiddos!

Anyway, onto the news you all want to hear – the winner from last week’s Crop Circles blog hop is…..

…Elizabeth Barnes! Congratulations – I’ve emailed you!

Crop Circles Blog Hop and Giveaway! | April

10 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by Sara in Blog Hop, Giveaway

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Blog Hop, Crop Circles, Giveaway, spring project

Welcome to the April blog hop for Crop Circles! If you’re hopping along you should have come here from Cathy’s blog and her fabulous project. The theme this month is Spring – just right to get us all in the mood for warmer weather and less snow (as if we weren’t already itching for that!).

I had originally done a canvas for this but since I decided to try to submit it, and because it’s for a class I’m teaching at The Paperie retreat the end of this month, I chose to hang onto it and make something else instead.

I’ve been into decorating my front door this year – Christmas, Valentine’s, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter….

The problem is that once Easter was over I was at a loss as to what to hang there next. Well, a spring wreath sounds good to me!

I was lucky enough to get the wreath on sale for less than $2 and then, while watching The Voice last night, I die cut and rolled the flowers from Papertrey Ink 100% wool felt.

Once they were adhered, I thought the wreath was missing something so I went poking through my stash where I found some soft yellow sheer ribbon – perfect for the pastels I had going on!

At the last minute I added a blingy gem to the bow and finally considered it done.

The great thing about this project? It was quick, super easy, and looks fabulous! I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t want to have to actually buy one like this already made – have you seen what they cost?!?! And let’s be honest, now I have bragging rights to the fact that I actually made it! 🙂

I do have to credit my mom for this idea. She is constantly saying she’s not crafty but at Christmas time she took a wreath like this, painted it white and then added rolled cream felt flowers and a wide red satin ribbon. It was as gorgeous as it sounds, really beautiful!

If you’ve made it this far congrats! Your reward is…. (drum roll)… I’m going to draw for a little Maya Road Prize package! Leave a comment on this post by midnight Newfoundland time, April 12, and you’ll be eligible for this prize plus the grand prize. The more comments you leave along the hop, the more chances you have to win!

Next on the hop is Michelle so head on over there, give her love, and enjoy some more Spring! And if you get lost along the way or encounter a broken link, here’s the full list – enjoy!

Cathy
Sara <– you’re here!
Michelle
Kymberley
Natasha
Cheryl
Catherine
Rhea
Darlene
Lori

Simple Scrapper Blog Hop & HUGE GIVEAWAY! | April 2013

02 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by Sara in Blog Hop, Giveaway, Simple Scrapper

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Blog Hop, Giveaway, Simple Scrapper, Sketch Templates

The giveaway for this month’s Simple Scrapper blog hop is amazing! Really an awesome one to win so make sure you read all the way to the end to enter for your chance to win!

This month, I made two LO’s from the same sketch so you can see how versatile they are, and one LO from the Story Starters.

All the sketches were letter size, or 8.5 x 11, this month, a size I love! Here’s the first LO I made:

The kiddies love to have stories read to them and they always want to sit on the same sofa no matter who is doing the reading.

I added a little interest to this one with a punched edge and some stapled baker’s twine, a couple of my new favourite things to do!

The second LO, as mentioned, is from the same sketch but I made a 12×12:

Seriously, same sketch! I love how flexible they are!

With this one, I layered a bunch of elements in the top corner and added metallic stitching:

Finally, I did a LO based on one of the Story Starters. This is my brother Matthew and I when we were much younger – my best guess is that this pic was taken early 1979:

Come on now, weren’t we the cutest?!?! 🙂

I added lots of dimension and texture here with both the layers of papers and the paint through the stencils:

Now, for the big giveaway!

That’s right! A full one year premium membership at Simple Scrapper! And you can win even if you’re already a member – we’ll just add it when your membership is due for renewal! Just click on the Rafflecopter link below to enter; there are three ways to enter and three winners will be selected. To be eligible, you must enter by 11:59pm CDT on Friday, April 5.

Hopefully, if you’re following the hop you will have come here from Celeste’s blog. If that’s the case I’m the final stop, so congrats on making it through and be sure you go and enter the giveaway. If you just stopped by here, I’d suggest you start at the beginning of the hop and see what the rest of the team did this month – as always, they made incredible LO’s!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

Sara Case Strickland <- that’s me!

a Rafflecopter giveaway <- click here to enter!

As always, you can check out my gallery at 2peas for more images. See you all tomorrow with a very delayed Currently list!

Simple Scrapper Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY! | March 2013

05 Tuesday Mar 2013

Posted by Sara in Blog Hop, Mini Album, ScrapBook, Simple Scrapper

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Blog Hop, Giveaway, Mini Album, Scrapbook Layout, Simple Scrapper

Another month, another Simple Scrapper blog hop and giveaway! We’re doing the giveaway a little differently this month so make sure you scroll to the bottom of this post and use the Rafflecopter link below to enter a giveaway for a one month trial membership at Simple Scrapper. There are three ways to enter and three winners will be selected. To be eligible, you must enter by 11:59pm CST on Wednesday, March 6.

I used one of the Story Starters this month – the theme is Adventures – to make a mini album of Pirate Day on my dad’s boat a couple of summers ago.

Super quick and easy to do when using a kit and one template!

I gave a peek of this album on my guest post over at Simple Scrapper last week and you can check out all the inside pages over at 2peasinabucket.

For the template sketch, I made a letter size, interactive LO of Miss M who actually wanted me to take her picture for once!

Adding the additional pictures behind the top one allowed me to keep them all at a large 4×6 size while still keeping the LO fairly simple and uncluttered. Plus, there’s loads of space for journaling too!

Again, you can see additional pictures in my gallery over at 2peas.

Make sure you check out what the other design team members have done – they have some amazing LO’s this month! The list is below if you have lost your way or want to start at the beginning. And don’t forget to enter to win the giveaway!

a Rafflecopter giveaway <–click here to enter!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

Sara Case Strickland <– That’s me!

Simple Scrapper Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY! | February 2013

05 Tuesday Feb 2013

Posted by Sara in Giveaway, ScrapBook, Simple Scrapper

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Giveaway, October Afternoon, Simple Scrapper, stickles, Studio Calico, Wood Veneer

It’s time for another Simple Scrapper blog hop with the Design Team and we’re showcasing the new February templates and/or Story Starters – as usual, Jennifer has outdone herself!

I used one of the Story Starters for my first LO. I had this picture of M during the first snowfall this year and it was perfect for this one:

Inspired by a Simple Scrapper Premium Member Story Starter; Template – Simple Scrapper Premium Member Template (April 2011); Patterned Paper – American Crafts, Fancy Pants, Vintage Book Paper; Transparency – Fancy Pants; Vellum, Wood Veneer – Studio Calico; Tag – Elle’s Studio; Metal Word Bands – Ranger; Stamp – American Crafts; Glitter Glue – Ranger; Stain – Ranger; Ink – Staz-on; Adhesive – Ranger, Glue Arts; Sewing Machine – Singer

Instead of writing my own list of things for her to remember as she grows, I used the Tim Holtz Idea.ology Word Bands – the sentiments were perfect for this!

I rubbed a little bit of white paint over the words to make them stand out better and then handstitched them to the LO – they’re so heavy I wanted to make sure they would stay put!

I also used some October Afternoon chipboard to make custom purple glasses just like hers:

I then coated those and the wood veneer words with Glossy Accents to make them pop.

Finally, I really wanted the snow to shine, so out came the Stickles and I added small dots to the flakes falling around her, as well as the wood veneer snowflakes:

Love the extra sparkle it gives the photo!

For my template LO this month, I pulled out a couple of photos of Mr. G that made me laugh. He’s beginning to hate getting his picture taken and his face in these is priceless!

Template – Simple Scrapper Premium Member Template (February 2013, Letter #1); Patterned Paper – Crate Paper, Studio Calico; Card Stock – American Crafts; Fabric Stars, Wood Veneer – Studio Calico; Letter Stickers – American Crafts; Washi Tape – Freckled Fawn, American Crafts; Mist – Studio Calico; Punch – Jenni Bowlin for Fiskars; Stain, Ink – Ranger; Stamp – American Crafts; Adhesive – Glue Arts; Thread – Coats; Sewing Machine – Singer; Kits – Studio Calico (Handmade, Story Hour)

I used one of my all time favourite alpha sets, which I misted and then sewed to the page – they’re not going anywhere!

And I finished it all off with lots of stars – if Studio Calico ever discontinues those wood veneer stars I may cry!

If you want some more great inspiration, I recommend you check out the other Design Team Members, they did some really awesome LO’s this month!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

Van Nguyen

Sara Case Strickland (this is me!)

And now, the giveaway! Use this link to enter a giveaway for a one-month trial subscription to Simple Scrapper. Entries will be pooled and one winner selected at 11:59pm CST on Wednesday, February 6. You may enter from multiple blogs so go check them all out!

Simple Scrapper Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY! | January 2013

08 Tuesday Jan 2013

Posted by Sara in ScrapBook, Simple Scrapper

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Blog Hop, Giveaway, Simple Scrapper

It’s time for the Simple Scrapper Blog Hop and I can finally show you the two LO’s I did with the Premium Members templates and Story Starters!

I actually scrapped some Christmas photos, never one of my favourite things to do but the template made it quick, easy, and painless! 🙂

Santa, I want…
Supplies | Template – Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Cardstock – Stampin’ Up!; Patterned Paper – Bo Bunny, Crate Paper, , My Mind’s Eye, Pebbles, Studio Calico; Wood Veneer, Badges, Alpha Stickers, Mist – Studio Calico; Button – Crate Paper; Glitter Glue, Ink – Ranger; Pen – Sakura; Adhesive – Glue Arts, Glue Dots, Ranger; Kit – Brooklyn Flea by Studio Calico

Of course, having some awesome wintery wood veneer and glitter helped make doing the Christmas pictures enjoyable as well!

And really loved discovering that the tiny star was a perfect fit for the tree top!

I used one of the new Story Starters for January and an older Premium Sketch to get another LO completed for my Book of Me:

My Favourite
Supplies | Inspired by a Story Starter from the Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Template – Simple Scrapper Premium Membership; Cardstock – Bazzill; Patterned Paper – My Mind’s Eye, Bo Bunny, Studio Calico; Stencil – The Crafter’s Workshop; Wood Veneer – Studio Calico; Badges – Evalicious; Mist – October Afternoon; Ink – Ranger; Pen – Pilot; Adhesive – Glue Arts, Glue Dots, Ranger; Kit – Handmade by Studio Calico

Some awesome Evalicious badges on this one, great wood veneer Word Bubbles, and I only adhered the papers in the centre so there would be lots of dimension and layers:

Some handwritten journaling, a necessary component of a personal page, written with the erasable Pilot Frixon pen so I didn’t have to worry about mistakes!

Do you want some more inspiration? Visit the other Simple Scrapper Team members to see what they’ve done with this month’s Premium Collection of sketches, templates, and Story Starters:

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

You are here >>> Sara Case Strickland <<< You are here

The Premium Membership at Simple Scrapper provides skills and shortcuts to help you simplify and find more meaning in your memory keeping.

And of course, I did promise a giveaway! If you’re interested in seeing more of what a Simple Scrapper Premium Membership can offer you, use this link to enter a giveaway for a one month trial membership!

Thanks for stopping by!