Simple Scrapper Blog Hop & GIVEAWAY | May 2013

07 Tuesday May 2013

Posted by Sara in ScrapBook, Simple Scrapper

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Scrapbook Layout, Simple Scrapper, Sketch Templates

The story starters and templates were amazing this month! I love them every month but there was something special about this set that I really enjoyed. Maybe it’s because I got to have fun with one of Gabe’s crazy pics or maybe it’s because my Mom did the journaling for the other. Either way, this is a great month to be a member!

And we’re doing a giveaway so make sure you use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter for a one month trial membership at Simple Scrapper! This is an awesome way to test the waters if you’re not a member yet. There are three ways to enter and three winners will be selected. To be eligible, you must enter by 11:59pm CDT on Wednesday, May 8.

My first LO is from this month’s templates and uses one of Gabe’s crazy face pics.

Since the picture wasn’t the main theme of this LO – his funny quote was! – I chose to minimalize the photo and make the title/quote really stand out by using an Amy Tangerine Stitching template. I was iffy while making it (and it was a lot of work to be iffy about!) but I love how it turned out:

I used a bunch of layers to mat the photo and make a space for my journaling tag:

The second LO was inspired by one of this month’s Story Starters and my mom provided the journaling and the title:

I used an awesome paper by Pink Paislee for this one – it’s a resist and when I misted it with some Heidi Swapp Color Shine the pattern popped and shimmered like crazy! I also used the mist on some Heidi Swapp hearts to get the same colour embellies with a different resist pattern, plus added enamel dots and glitter paper for more bling:

I had some awesome glitter letters but they didn’t show up on the background so I tinted them with the Color Shine as well:

And here’s my mom’s journaling – she was at home so I had to print it on the computer but I’m planning to get her to hand write it and add that to the LO:

Want some more inspiration? Check out the rest of the team – as always, they blew me away with their creations!

Simple Scrapper (Jennifer Wilson)

Lisa Corbin-Polak

Ronnie Crowley

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

Sara Case Strickland <– that’s me!

And finally, don’t forget to enter for a chance to win a free month of the Premium Membership!

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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. Want to work with our collections for FREE? Simple Scrapper is having a call for new team members.

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!