Camp Friendzy

Pack your bags! We are heading off to Camp with the Scrap-Freindzy gang! Join us this Friday as we kick off the start of a fun, summer-long challenge contest like no other. More details can be found on the blog or the message board. My challenge goes up on Monday. Please come by and check it out!

Scrapbook Sussies

I'm so excited to tell you that I've been asked to join the Design Team at Scrapbook Sussies! If you remember, I had the privilege of guest designing over there in April. I fell in love with Lara's kits then, so I was jumping for joy when she asked me to be a part of her team. I got to start with the June kit which featured Crate Paper's Paper Doll line and Imaginisce's Scooter's Vacation line. I had a ton of fun creating these layouts with both sides of this kit. I did 6 layouts total but could have done even more with all that was there to work with.

Mr. Baseball

This week's challenge at Scrap Whispers is to do a layout using a movie as your inspiration. I wanted to scrapbook this baseball picture of Andrew. The movie title "Mr. Baseball" worked perfectly. I used the Teresa Collins Travel Ledger collection that came from the Memorable Seasons May Kit. You can pick up these papers from the store there. Here are the other layouts and projects I made from the same MS kit:

Scrap Whispers Blog Hop

Hello! If you are coming here from Nilsa's blog, then you are at the right place! If you didn't start at the beginning of our blog hop, you may want to go back to the Scrap Whispers blog so you can start at the beginning. Georgina did an awesome job with her tutorial for the Waterfall Card, don't you agree?!! I had a lot of fun making this, however I decided to go out on a limb and change mine up a bit. Because I did this and had not practiced it before, it looks a little different. But that's ok, because I still like it. My son has a birthday party later today to go to and both of these boys love Star Wars. So I thought I'd make the cards in my waterfall be small pictures that he could go back and color in. Therefore, it made the cards a little bigger than the 2x2 size. Mine are 3x3.5. I think he will totally love it!
Now, head on over to Georgina's blog for your last stop on this month's Scrap Whispers Blog Hop.

Dryer Sheet Flowers

Dryer Sheet Flowers

I have seen the tutorial somewhere on one of the forums, but didn't get to look at it close enough to see how they were made. I decided to play around and I made my own version (kinda sorta...someone else may have already done this same thing...but oh well...I'm claiming it for now ) of the used dryer sheet flowers! Here is what you will need to get started.

Dryer sheets, preferably ones you have already used
Some spray mist or paint mixed with water, whatever you have on hand
scissors
decorative edge scissors or pinking shears
a button
a small rubberband (I like to get the small ones from the dollar store that you use for toddler ponytails, about the size of rubberbands for braces)
decorative flowers, brads or 3-d stickers(optional)

Your first step is to take one sheet and spread it out flat.

Next you want to fold it in half

And then in half again.

Now take one corner and fold over leaving the small amount at the end.

You will cut this off to make your fold a perfect square instead of rectangle, if you were to open it up.

While you have it folded into this triangle, hold it so that the folded sides are down and the open sides are facing up. You will use your decorative scissors or pinking shears to cut off each corner giving it the shape of a kite.

Now open it up and it looks like a star.

Spray it down and then let it dry. (or if you are impatient like me, you can use a heat gun to help it dry faster or blot it with a paper towel)

Now, take your button and lay it underneath in the center of your star shape.

Grab all the sides and pull them tight underneath the button.

Use your small rubberband and put it around the button a couple of times. Not too tight.

Now spread out the edges again and there you have the basic flower shape.

You can add whatever you want to the top to dress it up if you want. Just use craft glue or hot glue gun to make it stick!

Scrap Whispers Sign Ups

It's that time again! Scrap Whispers is gearing up for a brand new round. Be sure to head over to the website to get signed up or you can simply email Georgina: gh26@sky.com. While sign ups are being done, be sure to check out our current challenge to keep you busy. Here's my layout for this week's challenge:I also used sketch #61 from The Scrappiest to get this layout done. Liz has awesome sketches and this one was perfect for these pictures I used of Amelia!

Guest Designer for Scrapbook Sussies

I am honored to be a guest designer for April at Scrapbook Sussies! Lara is the owner of this awesome kit club that is jam-packed full of yummy goodness each month. What is so great about her kits is that she combines two paper lines almost making it two kits combined into one. You can scrap using just one "side" of the kit or combine them to create your own design. This month's kit features American Crafts' Dear Lizzy line and My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary Jack and Jill line. I was amazed at all the product, especially embellishments. Here is a peek at all the fun stuff: And here are the layouts I created.
You can check out more of the Design Team's layouts Here and you can subscribe to Scrapbook Sussies Here.