Fabric challenge

You’d think, since I have been sewing garments and other things since I was pretty young, that I wouldn’t have much of a problem combining fabric and scrapbooking.  Well, I just haven’t tried much to mix them.  Even though my sewing machine is always out on my craft table, right next to where I play [...]

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the result of this weekend’s crafting

I participate in a few “challenge” blogs and communities for scrapbooking.  I find them to be inspiring for getting some layouts finished– sometimes I work better with a deadline!
This set of pages, which is about our visit with my in-laws over Christmas 2006, was done as a combination of two different challenges.  The layout is [...]

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Crop productivity

That is, the scrapbooking kind of crop, rather than the gardening kind of crop.  Yesterday I went with my friend J to another crop at Daisy Lane in Mattoon, IL.  12 hours straight of scrapbooking (with a little tiny bit of scrapbook supply shopping thrown in– they have so much great stuff there!).  I got [...]

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Goin’ croppin’

Tomorrow I’m headed to my second all-day crop at Daisy Lane.  I’m pretty excited about it!  I’ve been collecting up sketches, challenges, and ideas to jump-start my projects tomorrow.  I’d like to get at least 2 layouts finished, whether they are 1-page or 2-page.  If I get more finished, I’ll be thrilled!
Maybe my [...]

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In which an exciting package is received

Today was already a good day (hopefully I’ll post more about that in a Thankful Thursday post later), but then my husband came in with the mail, bearing a pizza-box sized package for me!  Wooo hoooo!!
Inside was a wealth of scrapbooking goodies– products from Little Yellow Bicycle’s Halloween line from this year:
It is the giveaway [...]

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Kinda neat…

Over at The Paperlife (a blog and scrapbooking community), Amy Coon asked for people to send in Halloween layouts and projects for her to feature all this week.  I thought I’d send in my most recent Halloween pages (I made them at the crop at the beginning of October), and they’re included in today’s post [...]

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Costumes finished!

I have really been in the mood to scrapbook recently, but haven’t been able to quite as much as I wanted because I was committed to sewing our costumes for this year. (I have found that I tend to go in cycles of what crafty type of thing I’m in the mood to do… sometimes [...]

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Excited to crop

I’m registered to go to another crop!!  It’s going to be at a scrapbooking store about an hour away from where I live– Daisy Lane.  I went to a crop there at the beginning of October and had a blast.  My friend J had been to one and told me it was a great time, [...]

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Blogs that inspire me… scrapbooking edition

I have a large-ish list of blogs that I read that are constantly inspiring me in all sorts of crafty areas.  I thought maybe I’d do a few posts here listing my current “favorites” in a couple different categories.  The list is always changing/growing, but right now, these are my go-to blogs.
first up… scrapbooking!
…just Laura
Creating [...]

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Scrapbooking goals

I started scrapbooking when my husband (then-boyfriend) and I were approaching our one year anniversary of dating.  I decided that all the ticket stubs, photos, and other random ephemera needed a home and that I would make him a scrapbook.  I slaved away for about 2 months and scrapbooked that entire year.  I learned a [...]

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