A year of challenges - Update

Hey everyone!
Well first off, I need to appologize to you all regarding our Year of Challenges. We havent forgotten them! We had issues with our old blog in July and havent been able to catch up since.

But that is being rectified! We owe you 9 (yes NINE!) challenges dated back from July 5. Ronni has posted 2 over the past few days for us (thanks girl!). We are working on getting the other 7 out to you ASAP so that you can catch up to be current. You may get a few in one day as we have them done.

Keep your eyes out. Hopefully soon we will be back on track for you :)

** Watch the store for new layout kits coming soon.

** Dont miss out on the Croptacular in October! Space is limited. Fun challenges, games and awesome goodie bags.

** Sept kit is still delayed due to shipping of the new product....we all hope it arrives soon :)

~~Melanie

A year of challenges.....

Here's your latest challenge my scrappy peeps! Use cork on a layout! And this isn't a hard challenge at all, cause there are some great cork accents that you can pick up at the store. I'm pretty sure they're by Pink Paislee (Kari, or anyone, let me know if I'm wrong on that) I can see the packaging in my head, but not quite sure of the brand, not that it matters!! See that cute bee accent? Cork. Yep. Looks cute too doesn't it?
Here's a better picture... ^
I've used up some of the new Tim Holtz tissue tape. And some of his stamps on some manilla tags punched into circles. An older 6x6 sheet of 7 Gypsies paper. Plain 'ol white paint on the background, painted with a (old) credit card. Some ink splatters. Staples. Letter stickers from Jilly Bean. A date transparency from My Little Yellow Bicycle. You know, nothing too fancy, but kinda fun.

So, off with you to scrap with cork. It's fun. Best of all, it's easy. :)
See you again soon! ~RonniH.

Hello

I dropped some new projects off at the store this afternoon. Unfortunately, I think the store's closed until Tuesday for the long weekend, so you'll have to wait until then to see all of the new stuff I dropped off. :) Can you wait that long? No? How about a little preview then? LOLYou can't really tell in the picture of my layout, but I put some red streaks in my daughter's hair earlier this summer. Her and I went to visit my sister, and I got some cute photos of her.

That Tim Holtz photo negative ribbon? Yeah, on my second roll already. Love that stuff, have used it over and over and over. I've seen red and white twisted twine all over the Internet scrappy sites lately. I don't have any, but I do have red string, and white string, and when twisted together, it looks like the twine I've been coveting. :)

I *heart* my butterfly punch too. I tried out my newest Tim Holtz stamps on a packing tag, and punched out the butterfly. A little bling for the body's center, and it's so cute!! And yup, what's one of my layouts without buttons?See this metal bookplate? I've been hoarding it since Kari opened her store. It was one of the first purchases I made from her. It's from Basic Grey...not sure if they're still available or not. There were several in the package, and I have one left. One. I covet the silliest things, really. Cause it really does look better when I've used it on a page, rather than letting it collect dust on my scrappy table.
Ok, that's it for now. Enjoy. Have a good weekend. See ya soon!
~RonniH.
and don't forget to check out my stuff at the store next week! LOL

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”.