I'm the March Guest Designer at Work in Progress Kits!

I was beyond thrilled and honored when Trish asked me to be a guest designer for her kit club, Work in Progress, and what an awesome kit I got to play with! She sent me the March Project kit, which was just full of all kinds of Cosmo Cricket and Jenni Bowlin goodies, but I couldn't resist getting the other two March kits (see the link above to see all the wonderful stuff in the other two kits).

Here's a peek at the layouts I made. The gallery will be posted tomorrow, I believe.












I will share my layouts in a future post.

My Current Addiction

It all started with a box of tea my mom gave me for Christmas, the winter collection by Tea Forté. Then it snowed. And it snowed. And it snowed. And I was stuck home for a week. So I fixed a cup of tea. Then another. Then another, and before I knew it, my box of tea was gone. I went in search of some more and found a whole bunch of other flavors. My favorite from Tea Forte so far is Coco Truffle, which tastes just like hot cocoa, without the calories.

So I made this page for our challenge this week over at How Much Is Too Much? as a tribute to my favorite tea. I used the beautiful Noel Mignon kit called Seaside Cottage.

More Prettiness from Scrap for a Cure

As I blogged earlier in the month, I'm the February guest designer for Scrap for a Cure. Their February Kit, called "French Kiss" is full of all kinds of prettiness, perfect for scrapping Valentine's layouts but also for just about any topic. Here's another page I made using this wonderful kit. I thought the BasicGrey paper that came with the kit was so elegant and perfect for this page about my husband taking me to a very fancy restaurant on my birthday. The yellow swiss-dotted paper complemented the yellow in my husband's shirt and in the food pictured in my photos. The fabric Thickers that came with the kit were green. I wanted black letters, so I thought I'd try painting them. The fabric took the paint so well and dried so fast. I'll definitely be trying this again!


Here are a few detail shots. I just love that Pink Paislee rub-on border that came in the kit!

I also used a rub-on from the same set to adorn the journaling spot:



Something neat that Scrap for a Cure does is include something special that's exclusive to their kit. French Kiss came with this adorable yoyo flower:


They also include in their kits what they call a "Lagniappe"--a little something extra. This kit came with some Shimmerz Spritz, which was so fun to play with, some pretty cherry-colored stamp ink, and some fun red envelopes, perfect for tucking some Valentine love notes into! What I find most wonderful about Scrap for a Cure is their mission of giving back. Every quarter, they choose a charity, and donate five percent of their sales to that charity. This quarter's charity is Covenant House, an organization that provides shelter, food, and care to homeless children.

It has been a pleasure and a privilege to join up with Scrap for a Cure's design team this month!

14 Days of Valentine Tags

Over at Scrapbook News & Review, the staff has been leading up to Valentine's Day with 14 Days of Valentine Tags. I'm on for Day 13. Here is a picture of my tag:



I used Webster's Pages 6 x 6 mini-pages to make my tag. That's my husband and me on our wedding day in 1981! Here are some close-up shots I took as I was making my tag. You can find detailed instructions at SNR, in the forum, under Classes, Events & Swaps. If you go there, you'll also be able to see the tags other staffers made.

Challenged

I absolutely loved the colors from the last challenge at Color Combos Galore. What am I saying? I always love the colors! And even when I don't love them when I get them in my e-mail box, I wind up loving them as I work on my page. Here's the combo Janet sent us:


And here's the layout I made. Farzad always acts goofy when I get the camera out. And when I ask him to stop and look handsome, here's what he gives me:


Over at How Much Is Too Much?, our last challenge was called 20/20. We had to use 20 patterned papers and 20 pieces of metal. I was scratching my head at the 20 patterned papers part until it occurred to me to make one of those fun little banners I've been seeing a lot lately. Here's the page I made:


I hate how metal scans! Here are some detail shots. I really love Stewart Superior's Memory Mist--they spray on in really vivid color.



I picked up these We R Memory Keepers metal letters for CHEAP at Ross a while back and thought they were perfect for this page--painting metal cars and all. This shot only shows part of them, but you can see they're silver and not the black they appear in the scan.

Here We Go Again!

So, here's what happened over the weekend:

As a teacher, I have to admit to doing the happy dance, even though we'd already used up our snow days. Two more snow days from this monster storm that dumped almost 30 inches of sparkly white stuff in my yard.

Now they're calling for another 12 - 20 inches tonight into tomorrow! They've called off school for the rest of the week. I'm going to bury myself in my scrap room for the next few days and play, play, play. Nothing like two winter breaks in one year!

I don't know if I'll be doing a happy dance when we're still going to school in July!