It's A Celebration!!

There's a party goin' on right here
A celebration to last throughout the years
So bring your good times, and your laughter too
We gonna celebrate your party with you

Come on now...

and head on over to The Scrap Room celebrating six years of awesome kits. Above, you see the Teresa Collins Celebrate line featuring my boys & Goofy from our WDW trip November 2007.

It's A Celebration by Kool & the Gang

Here, I am amidst the lovely Crate Restoration papers and lace from my Nana's handkerchief:


The kit is shown in my post below. Each of the four lines has been great to create some of my favorite pages.
Blessings,...J

Another Week of Challenges with TSR

This layout was created earlier in the week, when Deanna, posted a challenge featuring the Bella Blvd. One Fall Day line, (lower left collection), using multi-photos.

The Scrap Room's October kit

Once Upon a Time....

Today, I posted another TV Retro Challenge using All in the Family's theme song and Crate Restoration, (lower right collection). It's always hard to present an old faded photograph on a scrapbook page without it getting completely lost. But, this one is very touching to me because it just reminds me of a time when I truly felt like the world centered around me,...maybe it wasn't healthy, :), but it sure pulled me through some tougher times later...

Also, I want to add a quick thanks Pebbles for featuring my cards in your Dear Pebbles post this past week!

Hope that you have a marvelous weekend! Blessings to you!

TSR Challenges & Sassy Lil' Sketches

Using The Brady Bunch jingle, a new challenge can be found at The Scraproom, using the American Crafts City Park line, one of the four lines featured in the October kit:

Here's the story of a lovely challenge
To encourage you to use a very lovely line.
All of it has fine bright colors, with mulberry cardstock,
a wonderful tag and flowers.


Please visit The Scraproom for the whole challenge, and song. One of the recipe ingredients that I am requesting is a homemade embellishment. For my example, (above), I made felt flowers based on a felt sticker that came in the embellishment add-on. There is a quick tutorial in the October forum to create the felt flowers.



Also, a new challenge went up on The ScrapRoom blog today. It requires the use of a sketch from Sassy Lil' Sketches. I converted it to a double pager in order to fit more photographs.

A Week in Review

The Scrap Rooms Challenge #2 for October, which is a title challenge.


The Scrap Rooms Week #40 blog challenge to use pop dots:

I used pop dots under the layered waves, the banner and the circle of the waves and boat photograph.

More cards using TSR Sketches of the Day:





Go Phillies!

Daily Card Sketches and Freebies

Both of these cards used The Scrap Rooms July 2010 kit contents mostly.
The Scrap Room turns six years old this month and is celebrating with a big bash! Every day a question is posed and a winner is drawn for a prize.

Also, we are releasing a sketch a day for inspiration. The cards in my blog today were made using sketches that I made for the party. They may be found in the National Card Making "Month" forum. But they are just sketched by hand. If you would be willing to share how you create your sketches, I would be very grateful! :) I cannot seem to find a "Sketches for Dummies" or a "Sketches 101" resource. :)

The Scrap Room Challenge

The Scrap Room will be busy with weekly challenges, daily cards and intermittent tips this month. I'm planning several tips on using "journaling spots". As a MOD Squad member, I will leave teasers on my blog. But, please sign up for The Scrap Room Message Board so that you can enjoy all the full details. It's free!

Speaking of details...

Yesterday, I left you with a quote to stir your curiousity for the first challenge of my posting at The Scrap Room. It was:

"Just sit right back and ..."

If you found yourself finishing the line, you would have continued with, "...you'll hear a tale,..." Is it coming to you yet?

"...a tale of a fateful trip..."

Need more? Then, you must be much younger than I :) Click here for some fun memories.

I have recreated the theme song/jingle to provide our challenge at The Scrap Room. But, you will have to look in the forums for my improvised version. It provides the recipe that I used for todays' featured layout.

Journaling reads, "While Jason was happy to create letters in the sand, Kurt hankered to constantly be in deeper waters. It was difficult to keep Kurt safe. Our Thrill seeker"

Have a blessed day!

MOD Squad Blog Hop!

Greetings!! I'm so glad that you could visit!

This post marks the debut of The Scrap Room's new MOD Squad team. This team consists of a group of terrific ladies who will be committed to hosting challenges and keeping the board and gallery busy at The Scrap Room. We will host a Sub-Forum, called the MOD Squad Cafe Corner. Here, you will find each month special monthly, weekly and intermittent features. It will supply the following:

Weekly Roast - This will feature a kit of the week, and will be where you find our weekly challenges.

The Monthly Blend - This will be the home to share your 4 kits in one projects. It is always fun building a project to have at least one item representing each line from the “Flavors of the Month” Kit.

Brewing Tips - Will feature the tutorials, and any other tips and techniques that we share during our quarter.

Supreme Roast Of The Week - This is will be the home of a new "member spotlight". It will be so fun to highlight a project from The Scrap Room gallery.

The MOD Squad members will serve a three month term running the Cafe Corner. However, we will all share in several fun and collaborative activities year round. This blog hop is one example. Also, there will be a MOD Squad Crop in which the awesome Design Team at The Scrap Room have volunteered to assist. More details of that will come in future posts.

If you came from Our Crazy Little World, you already met Barbara who heads up our diverse group and does a fabulous job keeping us in line. At Janine's Scratch Pad, you have reached the second stop for this blog hop to kick off the new challenge/inspirational format at The ScrapRoom. Your next stop will be Deanna's blog. She is an amazingly productive scrapper that can be an encouragement to anyone. Her and I have the honor to host the first month of this wonderful brain child of Tammy's.

And if you don't know Tammy Harp, let me just say that she has an eye for new product like nobody else. She is the owner of The Scrap Room, and puts together superior product line combinations every month. She is the ultimate in a scrapbooking personal shopper. Just look here and you'll see what I mean. And, please, take a peek to see the Previous Kits link, too. It will just affirm your belief in her shopping talents.

But, be forewarned, the whole crew has so many incredible talents and personalities that you are going to love each quarter. So, as you carry-on and visit Deanna next and the rest of the fabulous MOD Squad be prepared for some great adventures ahead at The Scrap Room.

My card features the October Afternoon Seaside kit. This kit will be our first Weekly Roast. I used one of its' Wild Cards, on the front, (top of this post). The sentiments inside will read, "Your ship has come in."


I will leave you with a final tribute and clue to tomorrow's post. It will be the first line of your first challenge in our new Cafe Corner. Any guesses on what is to come?

"Just sit right back and ..."

Please visit Deanna next at Moments to Cherish