A year of Challenges

I found this layout on Studio Calico's blog the other day, and I love it. I love the design, I love the background, everything. But most especially, I love the little pictures.
So your challenge today is to use little pictures. For my layout, I finally succumbed to my daughter's begging to having our photos taken at the photo booth in the Park Place mall. She's been asking for like, forever, to do that with me. I have allowed her and her friends to waste $4.00 on little pictures in the past, but I never wanted to. She talked me into it this summer, and I don't know why I hesitated for so long. It was pretty fun! And in true tradition, I got two pictures to keep, and so did she.
I was really inspired by much of the layout. I love the stars. Love the tag. So I cut out some stars out of cardstock, and traced around them with black ink, and added some buttons. I stamped a Tim Holtz quote onto the tag, and inked the edges. Added some 7 gypsies stamp sayings to it too.
My favourite part was finding little buttons from Basic Grey in my stash that matched nearly every hue found on the patterned paper. Buttons always make me smile, and I'll use any excuse to use them.So have fun with your little picture challenge. It doesn't have to be photo booth pictures, by the way. Wallet size ones will work, or crop a larger picture to something that will work. Detail shots are always a favourite of mine.
Have a good day, have fun scrapping! ~RonniH.

first day of school...

Summer's ending

I'm writing this Sunday morning, and I can't believe it's raining outside. The weather this weekend, while not blistering hot, was still warm enough to enjoy all that Cornfest had to offer. I took my youngest down on Thursday night where she could ride all the rides she wanted, and again on Friday after work, and then again, all day yesterday. I have some very cool ferris wheel pictures to show you later, and some (kinda cool) firework photos too.
I love taking photos at the fair. I stumbled across a website awhile ago, where a couple had a photo shoot done at the Calgary Stampede, and I think I'd love to try something like that too. There are so many bright colours, and sounds and smells... I love to try to capture the atmosphere. And people watching is so much fun!
There were so many people this year... I'm surprised sometimes by the crowds. And cell service is sometimes a little spotty too. It's hard to keep track of the kids, but they were really good this year about checking in.
I actually went on only one ride myself, the giant slide with my nephew, Jack. Too scary for old auntie to do it more than once, I'm afraid. My dad laughed and laughed when he told me about the faces I was making. lolMy little bean had an orientation on Friday, but her first official first day is Monday. Grade 6, and I'm still amazed at how fast time is flying. She's halfway done her schooling. And yet when I ask her what she learned at school, the answer is always, nothing. lol, so why am I sending her?
So I'm hoping to have more photos of some of the scrappy stuff I've done in the last little while to show you later. If you have kids going back to school, don't forget to take photos of their first day! We'll chat again soon!
~RonniH.

Canadian Scrapbooker Call

Canadian Scrapbooker wants to see and publish your work. If you have an unpublished, original layout that you want to share with others across Canada, please send it to us! It’s simple. Below you’ll find a quick guide on how to submit your work. Call For SPRING – Deadline October 15, 2010

We are currently looking for pages in the below themes:
■Layouts that use the colour LIME GREEN
■Layouts that have the following themes or use products that reflect
■Wild Things
■Romance in Paris
■Frogs
■An Asian flair
■Layouts that use embossing folders
■Mammaratzi – we want to see you in action!
■General Spring and Easter Layouts
■Projects or layouts that have a receipt on them for our Scrappin Snacks

We are also looking for that perfect photo for our Spring 2011 cover. If you have a photo that you have taken and you feel it would look fantastic on our magazine cover, please send it to us!

Deadline for the Spring 2011 page call: October 15, 2010

Call For Pages
Call for Spring 2011 – Deadline: October 15, 2010
Call for paper crafts (including children’s paper crafts) – ongoing
Call for unpublished Canadian layouts – ongoing
Call for unpublished original Canadian layouts – ongoing
Call for amazing photos – ongoing
Call for seasonal photos for our website – ongoing
Call for “Walking Away” photos – ongoing

How To Submit Your Work
Fill out the online submission form below, or
E-mail a scanned image or digital picture of your work to submissions@canadianscrapbooker.ca. Please limit file size to 200K and attach only one image per submission.

Please be sure to include the following information in your email:
Name
Address
Phone number
E-mail address
Title of layout
Size of layout (ie 12x12, 8,5x11, etc)
In the subject line of your e-mail, please indicate the Page Call you are submitting for. For example: “Spring 2011”.

Summer's almost over!

So it felt like summer just got here, and now it's on it's way out. Did you get to do everything you wanted to? I didn't, but I still had fun. I took my youngest daughter swimming outside as often as I could, we slept in a tent in the backyard, and slept in as often as we could.

We also canned some peaches that my mom got from the fruit truck. It's so much work, canning, but I love the end results and the time I spend with my mom. My job was to peel the peaches...such a thankless job. But mom got stuck filling the jars, which is hot and sticky work too.Do you do any canning? We're hoping to do pickles later. And salsa. And creamed corn (even though that's not really canning, that's freezing) If you do, do you take pictures of the process? Saved the recipe for future generations? Take pictures too, if it doesn't turn out as planned. This time, one of the jars broke, flipped right over in the canner!It wasn't as hot as it has been in years past, but it still was lots of work! Look at me here, all Cinderella-like! LOL

Anyways, hopefully the transition from summer to fall goes very very slowly, and the cool weather they're calling for this weekend will just be a small hiccup, and not that bad. See you again soon!
~RonniH.

So I know this isn't scrap related... but wanted to share a celebration that is going on!

Downtown Merle Norman is Celebrating 25 years, and in their celebrating they have made up at Savings Book. Just a few of the savings in this book are free manicures, express pedicures, free parafin treatments, nail paints, nail fixes, 25% off facials, 20% off nail services, plus much, much more! Amazing Savings Books are only $49.99, gst included. Stop by & pick up your book today here @ Embellished.

Everyone make sure you check the post just below!!!
Very Important Dates!

Dates to keep in your Calendar

October 2, 2010
Embellished Memories 2nd Scrapbook Garage Sale!
Contact the store for all details and to book your spot! A great way to find a new home for stuff you just arent using, and get a gift certificate to the most amazing store in town :) Rent a table ($10), get a colour, mark your stuff with prices, be there to watch your stuff and the girls working will take care of putting your sales through. At the end, all sales are tallied up and you get a gift certificate to the store for the amount sold. Awesome Awesome Awesome! There are snacks and beverages for the garage sale sellers throughout the day.

October 22-24, 2010
Fall Croptacular...
3 Days of Non Stop Scrappin', Laughin' & Fun!
Stop by the store to book your spot. Goodie bags, games, challenges (ahem, the most amazing ones if I may say so myself lol), snacks, comfy chairs, limited spots left already! This is one of most popular crops throughout the year - DO NOT MISS OUT in the fun! Get your Christmas cards or gifts done early, work on projects, catch up on layouts or cards, get out of the house and have some fun!

Join us for part of all of the time. Contact the store for all details and rates.

~~Melanie