TEXT Thursday - January 10th

Today's journaling challenge comes from Lynn Anne. Enjoy!

Personal Scrap Trends

The beginning of a new year means lots of 'year in review'-type blog posts. When I answered a challenge to post about 'top 10 scrap projects of 2007' I found that what I was actually finding were my top 'personal scrap trends' of 2007. Until I looked back in my galleries and computer files, I didn't realize how many new things I'd tried..how many fewer layouts I'd done, and how many more cards and altered items. Here's everything I had to say about it:

Your challenge is to blog about your personal scrap trends of 2007 - were you doing a new size, or different sizes? Lumpy, lean-and-linear, graphic, doodley? What was new and different, and what tried and true favorites did you keep? Feel free to post a couple of fave projects in there too, we always love seeing those!

Link your post back to the comments here so we can come take a look at what trends you were following (or setting!) over the past year!

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WEB Wednesday-Jan 9th

Lynn Anne has given us a wonderful list of favorite sites she visits:

Oh, I have lots! My favorite for scrapbooking in particular, though it also covers other papercrafting, is Scrap Friends (http://www.scrapfriends.us).There's a community and gallery and all that, but the best is the product reviews. A number of reviews all month, five different scrappers with all different styles give info and impressions of all the new tools, products,collections, etc. including sample projects. Talk about enabling! Some of my staple products and techniques were ones I learned about from Scrap Friends.

But I visit lots of blogs for inspiration too, and many of them have little or nothing to do with 'scrapbooking' per se - but their artistry inspires me anyway!

For cardmaking, I love the card sketches at Di Hickman's blog:http://dihickman.blogspot.com - and I love the cards (almost daily!) by this lady, who's got a rich, very distinct style to her work:http://stampinwithmarkiesmom.blogspot.com .

For general inspiration from crafty people, I love:Betz White, felter (I didn't even really 'get' what felting WAS till I'd been stalking her blog for a few months - love her sense of colors and artistry): blog.betzwhite.com

Angry Chicken (fun, irreverent craftiness; wicked sense of humor):http://angrychicken.typepad.com

My House is Cuter Than Yours (lots of retro inspiration/craftiness, very cool) http://myhouseiscuterthanyours.blogspot.com

Thanks so much Lynn Anne! Now we all have some web-surfing to do!!!!!

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TEACHING Tuesday - Jan 8/08

Now that Christmas is over, I'm sure we are all looking for ways to be able to save money in everything we do, including scrapbooking. Here are a few sites I found that give some great tips on 'frugal' scrapping!

Feel free to share your own tips in the comments section of this post too!!

She's Some Kind of Crazy

Everything About Scrapbooking

Scrap Friends

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CHALLENGE Monday - January 7th

Hello, everyone! Time for our first challenge for 2008. Hope you are excited about it :-)

Your challenge this week is to use one of the following quotes in a layout/card/project:

Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something.
- J.Hawes

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible.
- Brenda Francis

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher

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Please send your LO or project to Sisterhood of SCRAP by Sunday, January 13th, for a chance to be our next sister!

Remember, everyone who does one of our challenges for January, also has a chance to win a prize from Crafty Designs.

Here are our LOs for this Challenge:

**Lynn Anne**

**Susan**

**Deanne**

**Carla**

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SISTER Sunday - January 6th

Please give a BIG welcome to our very first sister of the new year -- Lynn Anne C.!!

Tell us about your family: I’ve been married to Ian (who is also a scrapbooker) for six years. We have two scrapbooking children as well: Ralph is four (and was chosen to be Memory Villa’s featured Child Designer for January!), and Kaycie will be three next month. We are also expecting a new baby boy in March…but that one’s not scrapbooking yet, that we know of :-)

How long have you been scrapbooking? Scrapbooking found me five years ago this month.

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Lynn Anne's layout for Challenge 35:

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What is it about scrapbooking that you really love? Oh, everything. Pretty pictures of my family and the things/places/people I love…playing with papers and paints and goodies…learning new things as new techniques are born…and especially getting to share ideas and projects with my online friends.

Describe your scrap space. Do you like/dislike it? My scrap space is currently my whole house…space is at a premium here, so every nook and cranny has something scrappy stored in it. I craft on top of the piano or on the stove half the time. But my dh is setting up a scraproom downstairs now that’s half done (our papers are already organized along one wall..we just have to move a little furniture around before it’s ready for a table and such) and I will be VERY excited to be able to craft in one place!

Do you enjoy other crafts and/or hobbies? I enjoy everything papercrafting…have been on a big card-making kick lately, plus I like to make altered items for my home.

What scrapbook magazines do you read? I read anything I can get my hands on…lol! But I think my current subscriptions are Memory Makers, GiftMaker and CardMaker, and BHG Scrapbooks Etc.

How thick is your cardstock and paper stash? We have paper racks along one 8’ish wall of our soon-to-be scrapbook room, gleaned from a going-out-of-business Rag Shop a year or so ago. I don’t dare actually measure how tall that stack would be if we piled it up together!

Are you an organized or messy scrapper? Both. My core items, I have where I can find them. But everything is all over the (small, cluttered) house, so to *anyone* else (including my husband!) it looks like there’s no rhyme or reason to it. (Our papers, however, are very organized!)

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Take a look at Lynn Anne's gallery!

Be sure to drop by her blog (and let her know you were there!). Lots of stuff to read and see :-)

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SKETCH Saturday-Jan 5th-Leah Fung

We're bacckkk!!!
We hope you had a great holiday and that you took LOTS of photos and got LOADS of scrapping supplies, because we want to see YOUR creations!!!!!

...And our first featured artist is LEAH FUNG!

Here's what Leah has to say about herself:

Some general info about me:
~Contributing editor for Scrapbooks etc.
~Design team member for Making Memories
~Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame Winner 2005
~Medicinal Chemist researching new treatments for diabetes and cancer
~Wife and mother of two

Leah has provided us with a sketch and a layout.

Thanks so much, Leah.

Remember, scrappers, if you try this sketch, please tell us about it! We'd love to see it.
Are you a card-maker? I challenge you to create a card using this sketch!!

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A chance for another RAK!!!

We are looking forward to 2008 being another awesome year for the scrapping sisters of the world!

~~~Spread the word about this blog~~~

We challenge you to add OUR link to your blog. Let's get this PARTY STARTED!!!

If you have our blog link on your blog, email me to let me know where your blog is and I'll choose a random name to send a RAK to!

We'd love to have YOU and your FRIEND as our sisters!

January Sponsor!!

Our January Sponsor is Crafty Designs !! Thanks so much to Sandra for offering a $25.00 gift Certificate for a random participant who completes a challenge in January!!!

Here's what Sandra said about Crafty Designs

Crafty Designs is an online scrapbook store that is proudly Canadian. You can access hundreds of products at great prices! Every time you make a purchase you receive points that you can use towards your next purchase. First time purchases receive points when you register! Crafty Designs is proud to carry great scrap booking lines such as:

My Sentiments Exactly! Stamps
Tsukineko Inks and Supplies
Imanginesce
Doodlebug
Queen & Co
Cuttlebug
Bazzill Paper and Products
Making Memories

That is just a small sampling of the vendors we carry, you have to check our site for more! Not sure what to buy or buying for someone special? Not a problem! Create a wish list and send it to your friends and family, purchase gift certificates for your Aunt in B.C. and your sister in PEI! It couldn’t be easier!



Crafty Designs is very proud to send out an informative newsletter on a monthly basis called "Crafty News". The newsletter contains product updates, industry news, tips & tricks, layouts, specials and so much more! Occasionally we will send out an additional update because we have so much to share with our fellow scrap bookers! Receiving the newsletter is easy - just click the "receive our newsletter" on our home page and enter your e-mail! Don’t forget to send it to your friends as well!


Crafty Designs is located in Oakville, Ontario and we offer classes, crops, and private sessions whereby you can choose what you would like to learn. For more information on classes visit our site www.craftdesigns.ca for the latest schedule.


You can also host a scrapbook party in the comfort of your own home! We are delighted to provide customized craft activities for children’s parties – as a special treat, the child gets a keepsake album creates by the guests. More information can be found on our site.


Crafty Designs also makes cards and other paper crafts - weddings, birthdays, baby showers, company cards etc. We can customize any order for you! If you are looking for a particular product that we don't have, drop us a line, we can usually source it for you! Feel free to contact Sandra at info@craftydesigns.ca if you have any questions!

Thanks again Sandra!!

And another WINNER!

I went through all the sketch challenge participants and put all the names in a hat and the winner is...

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SAMM!!!

Congrats, Samm! Please email me with your address and I'll get a RAK in the mail to you.
Thanks to everyone who participated in our sketch challenges! I have some great sketchers lined up for 2008, so be watching every Saturday! The first one will be on January 5th.

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We have a WINNER!!!!

Congrats KIMMY! You are the winner of an embellishment kit! Please email us with your address so we can pass it on to SCRAPBOOKER'S CLUBHOUSE!!!
Thanks to all the scrappers who have participated this year in our challenges! We really appreciate your contribution. We will be starting up our blog again on Saturday, Jan 5th with our first featured sketch artist.

Happy New Year, everyone!

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