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March 31st - Mojo Monday

Looking for your lost mojo? Wanting badly to try your creativity? So, join me on this week´s Mojo Monday!

Do you know what synesthesia is? Our goal is to mix two sensations and create a LO about it! Wanna try? So, think about your favorite song. Now, realize which feelings does it bring. Do you visualize any color now? The hearing of a few notes probably induced it! 

Don´t loose that thought: now, you need to scrap about your favorite song in this color. Smart, huh? Scrapbooking is all about sensations and feelings and it´s a good thing to keep connected with them. Can´t wait to see what you´ll come up with!

Gabi B and I tried to play, look what we came up with:

Mic

Gabi B.

As always, please post your layout in the Mojo Monday gallery, and a link in the forum so everybody can leave you some love.  And, if you´re fast enough to create your LO today, this challenge still counts for March Madness! Don´t forget you´ll need to use at least 50% ScrapArtist products.

As the madness continues, check out the gorgeous freebie Nan have created specially to this Mojo Monday! it can be yours if you play along with me! Come on, i´m waiting for you!

Gabi (aka Garynka) already played with it:

Mic

It´s friday

Today is friday! :c) But not a regular one: it´s the last friday of our March Madness party and you can buy everything you want at SA 25% off! So, i decided to give you a hand and suggest a product. Let´s get vintage? How about those amazing frames by Linda Gil Billdal? I loved those tapes around the aged frames. They will give a special look to your pages! ;c)

Our team also decided to play with Linda´s product and came up with gorgeous LOs, check it out:

Tracy

Joy

If you use these this week, or have used them before, we would love to see your work! You can upload them to our Featured Product Gallery at the ScrapArtist site so we can take a peek :)

Hope you all have a great weekend... don´t forget March Madness ends on monday!

xoxo,
Mic

Simply you - week 13

Hi everyone!  It's Thursday so that means another Simply you challenge. 

This week I want you to scrap your Perfect, Selfish Day.  I know, we are all so busy it is hard to even imagine having a day all to yourself, but we can all dream right????  I know for me, my perfect, selfish day would find me at home, in my jammies, curled up in front of the fire watching some of my favorite movies.  My favorite movie being Sweet Home Alabama.  Here is my layout:

That's it.  Sit back, scrap, and dream of your perfect, selfish day.  I had so much fun with this challenge...I hope you do too!

I hope you can play along with me this week. A LO for this challenge, completed with at least 50% ScrapArtist products, will earn you 1 point toward your march madness score. Make sure you upload to the Challenge Gallery, and leave a link in the forum so I can leave you so love.  Easy Peasy. I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Kathy

March Madness Sale at SA...shop now while everything is 25% off...WOOHOO!!!!!!!!

Hybrid Challenge: Inking the Edges

Hi there, Denise here with a new Hybrid Challenge for you, let's Ink the Edges!

When you run an ink pad along the edges of your card or layout, it can add a bit of definition to the edges, add a touch of color, or really pop a shape. There are lots of ink pad brands and colors at your local craft store, scrapbook store or Michaels. You'll want to look for Acid Free Ink.

We've shown a few of the popular brands to ink the edges of our cards. The Ranger Distress Inks are great for adding a slight coloring to the edges, the Antique Linen color adds a slight tan (my favorite). Pigment inks will give you opaque coverage, great to use with darker colors or bold colors. The Chalk Inks will look a bit softer, more transparent when dry. The smaller ink pads are perfect for getting into smaller corners, such as cut-outs.

Here's my card using the Ranger Distress Ink (Antique Linen).

Some of the pigment inks available.

Here's Hybrid Goddess Eva's card using a black ColorBox Chalk Ink.

Here's my card using some VersaMagic Chalk Ink.

You will have until April 7 to complete your card, upload your project to the gallery and we will pick the winner the next Monday. You can win a 5 dollar gift certificate for the shoppe, so join us! Participants in this challenge will need to use at least 50% ScrapArtist products to be eligible. Please note, this challenge will not be apart of the March Madness Contest.

Have fun inking your edges! :)

DeniseD; hybrid goddess

SCRAP ART IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Welcome Welcome to another week of Scrap Art In The Spotlight!  I hope you are all enjoying our Month of Madness??   

This weeks Scrap Art in The Spotlight is from JoanneBrisebois, her layout entitled Castle With A View is divine!   See for yourself...

Lets Leave Joanne some love HERE

Joanne I will be in touch with your shortly to get some details so we can send you your $5 Gift Card to The Store. 

If you want to be in for a chance to win the $5 Gift Card to the Store, upload your layout using at least 50% Scrap Artist product to our beautiful gallery.  Every day the Scrap Artist team are browsing the gallery who knows your Scrap Art might be next.

Happy Scrapping and Take Care,

Tracy (aka 5angels)

Heritage and Altered/Collage Challenges

Howdy All!

Erika (AKA dancingscrapper) here sitting in once again for Robyn and Christine's Two-Fer Tuesday!  I have a couple of fun challanges for you all this week.

What's in a name? I have always found the origin of different surnames to be so interesting. So I thought that would be the perfect theme for this week’s Heritage challenge; a layout featuring one or more of the surnames in your ancestry. If you haven't already, this is your chance to do a little homework/detective work and dig into your family history!  I guarantee you'll have fun and may just find something interesting and surprising about the orgin of your surname!

If you click here, you can learn more about the challenge.  For my sample layout I chose my maternal surname "Reagan":

Since I am still kinda the new kid on the block around here, I wanted to get to know you all a little better.  For this week's altered/collage challenge let's do just that; a collage of YOU through the years. As you'll see in my sample layout, I included photos of myself though the years and even chose to include all the different looks (however hideous they were) that I had just to give you all a good laugh! LOL But you can go with whatever theme inspires you (i.e. photos of you and your best memories or moments in your life, milestones, etc)

You can learn more about this challenge here

I can't wait to see your collages!

As a reminder, each of these challenges counts as one point toward your March Madness contest points.

I hope you'll join us in the fun this week!  I can't wait to see your beautiful layouts!

Erika

March 24th - Mojo Monday

Good morning, everyone!  It's Kathy here bringing you another idea to kick start your mojo this week.

I am a girly girl at heart.  If there is a new beauty product on the market, I'll be the first in line to try it (lol)!  I am all about making yourself feel as good as you possibly can.  I don't wear make-up everyday, but I NEVER leave the house without my lip gloss!  Do you have favorite beauty products, or make-up that makes you feel good?  I know I'm not the only girly girl out there....fess up?  We girls need to stick together, and if we can share some beauty tips along the way, even better.  I can't wait to see all of your beauty secrets.  Here are a few layouts to give you some ideas:

Gabi's beautiful layout:

mine:

As always, please post your layout in the Mojo Monday gallery, and post a link in the forum so I can leave you some love.  Plus, everyone who completes this Mojo Monday challenge using at least 50% ScrapArtist products will earn 1 point towards your March Madness score.  You also get this AWESOME freebie from the uber-talented Linda Gill Billdal...thank you so much, Linda...you rock, girl!

You can download it here.

Happy scrappin!

Kathy

March 17th Mojo Monday winners!!

Congratulations to persnicketychick, angelia, fernandabalieiro and petruschka!! They were randomly chosen to receive a $5 coupon to Amber Clegg's store! Thanks to all who participated, the layouts were fabulous, entertaining and alot of fun!!

Kim

Good Feature Friday

A very happy Good Friday to you all! I hope you have some exciting plans for a very early Easter this year! As always, we have another great featured product for you!

These Vintage Boho Brush Frames by Gypsy Chick are just gorgeous! I love the Boho colours she's used in her preview, but as she says, they can be used in any colour, adding that perfect touch to your photos and your layout. I love all the blend mode opportunities these give, too. Quick tip for you - add one of these frames to your photo on a new layer, and play around with the blend mode options in the layer palette of your program - I find Burn, Overlay and Soft/Hard Light give some really cool results, and reducing the opacity can give a more subtle look.

Once again, the ScrapArtist Creative Team have put our featured product to great use - I love the subtlety these added to Kathy's photo, and what a great idea to use them as corners on the layout!



Kathy's credits

And look what our hybrid goddess Denise has made - again, subtle but very effective use of these frames on her spring card.



Denise's credits

If you use these this week, or have used them before, we would love to see your work! You can upload them to our Featured Product Gallery at the ScrapArtist site so we can take a peek :)

Have a great weekend, whatever you are doing, and don't forget, it's still March, which means our March Madness event is still going on at the site! Lots of cool things to participate in and some great prizes, too.

Until next time,

Simply You (Week 12) - In Their Eyes

Hello everyone! Another Thursday is here which means a new Simply You challenge for you. 

My scrapbook albums are filled with pages that share stories according to how I experienced it. I’ve got pages about my children’s experiences but they’re usually told from my perspective. My scrapbook pages are usually about what I remember of the moment, what I felt, what I thought. What if, this time, you scrap about what another person thinks about you? Yup, your challenge this week is to get someone else to describe you . It can be your child, your significant other, your parent or a friend. It doesn’t matter who as long as you get someone else’s perspective.

To help you along, I found these questionnaires here and here at Simple Scrapbooks that you might want to use.

I interviewed my son and here’s what he has to say about me:

Hope you can play along with me this week. A LO for this challenge completed with at least 50% ScrapArtist products will earn you 1 point toward your march madness score. Upload your page at ScrapArtist challenge gallery so that we can easily find it and admire your work.

 

Have a Happy Thursday!

 

Joy