EXCITING NEWS- Stick it Down! Announcement

Our new Design Team!

Our new design team will start sharing their creations in January. The new year brings some other changes as well, that we hope you will just love!

• Three sketches will be revealed on the first of each month. That's right! You will receive the card, single page and double page layout sketches on the same day! We will provide the sketch and one sample to inspire you to play along.
• The end of each challenge will fall on the last day of the month, allowing you much more time to create and share your project with us!
• We will continue to share design team projects all month long AND we will pick a few of our favourite submissions to share along the way as well!
• Our winners will be posted on the third day of the following month and if chosen you will be asked to be our guest designer the month after that.

Card Team

Sketches: Sharlene

Alison

Ann

Ashley H

Ashley W

Colleen

Jodie

Valentina

Single Page Layout Team

Sketches: Rachel

Amanda

Katy

Marci

Melinda

Rachel

Ronna

Double Page Layout Team

Sketches: Shelby

Connie

Kel

Laureen

Sharlene

Stephanie

Tracey

Congratulations to our new members and to our returning team! We can't wait to get started and see what YOU share with us at Stick it Down!

AT THE LITTLE BARN {Scrapbook Generation Blog Hop}

 

 

Welcome to the Scrapbook Generation Blog Hop for December. If this is your first stop, you might like to start at the Scrapbook Generation blog and then hop through each link.

Here is my double page layout.  I used the sketch from Scrapbook Generations Sketch Fusion with Simple Stories page 34 but with understanding I mainly used the right side page for both pages.  I moved the title to the top for the left page as I had larger pictures and I did not want to crop them off.  So I used the right page sketch for both pages.  I changed around with the embellishments as the page's needs.

You can find the SG sketches in their books and as downloads in the SG store, and there is a free one every month in case you wanted to try it out.

Next on the hop is (Casandra - http://casandra-scrappinbliss.blogspot.com/), leave a comment on each blog and one lucky commenter  receive a free sketch bundle of their choice from the store.

The winner will be drawn on Monday, December 8th which leaves you one week to leave a comment.

In case you get lost at any point, here is the list all the blogs

Scrapbook Generation blog - http://scrapbookgeneration.blogspot.com/
Ruth - http://scrapmachine.com/
Steffanie - http://steffanies.blogspot.com/
Devra -  http://mycreativeview.blogspot.com/
TinaGale - http://tiggersscrapplace.blogspot.com
Lori - Http://savingmine.blogspot.com
Lori S - http://loriannie670.blogspot.com
Cicily - http://www.pinkdalmatianscrapper.com
Pamela - http://reflectionsofmyartandsoul.com/blog
Katy - http://scrappinkaty.blogspot.com
Laura - http://happinessequalscreation.blogspot.com/
Lyne - http://lynnseverydayideas.blogspot.com/
Penny - http://pennyscraps.blogspot.com
Laureen - http://mybusyscrapbookinghands.blogspot.ca/  This is me   :)
Casandra - http://casandra-scrappinbliss.blogspot.com/
Sharlene - http://inspirationstationbysbe.blogspot.ca/
Corrina - http://anotherthingoffthelist.blogspot.ca/

Let's have fun blog hopping!
Thank you for visiting!
Laureen

THE RACE {Sketch-y Friday}

Hello!

Yay!  It is REVEAL time for TEAM A over at the ScrapMuch? today!  Double page layout!! Handswaving!!!!!  I am all excited!  I just HEART double page layout sketches!

When I saw this sketch I was all excited as I "visioned" MANY pictures!  I know that you can use patterned papers for the squares!!!!  I could not because I had 23 pictures and I was able to downsize to 16 pictures.  So that was hard enough LOL!  I used 2x3 wallet size pictures and cropped some at the end off.

Laura Whitaker created this wonderful sketch.  I can see myself using it again and again in the future.  I would like to try it again but using the patterned papers and pictures as a mixture on the second page.  Thank you Laura for this awesome DOUBLE PAGE SKETCH!

Let's try this sketch out and participate over at the ScrapMuch?!  You may win a prize from a random draw for just by participating!  The deadline is November 29, 2014 at midnight.

Cheers and be sure to find time to scrap!

Laureen
ScrapMuch?
Design Team A

AT THE BEACH {Stick it Down}

Hello!!!!

 

 

Yea! It is revealing time for double page layout for Stick It Down double page team!  I have decided to do some pictures from cottage last August.  Sigh... the warm weather, for sure, have left us in Southern Ontario.  It even have started snowing.

 

When I saw Shelby's sketch, I could not wait to play with it.  Seeing that there are five photos on the sketch,  I looked through my readily organized cottage pictures.  I was able to find this set of 5 pictures.  The only problem was that they are all horizontal.  They all are wallet sized 2x3.  So that is why my layout look a bit different from the sketch even though the number of the pictures are the same.

 

I was thrilled to be able to use the bling word BEACH as title as I have had it in my stash forever.  Finally the blue shade worked well on the layout! 

 

 

Lets' have fun by playing with this awesome sketch by Shelby!  Double page layouts are FAB!!!!

Laureen
Stick It Down
Double Page Team

14 TH

Hello

 

This past weekend I had a scrapping getaway weekend.  Wonderful weekend!  I got to scrap several layouts and it SURE felt GREAT!  It was fun to spend time with two wonderful girlfriends Sharlene and Kathie.

 

I got to do a sketch and crafty challenge for Two Scrapbook Friends.  You can see the sketch below.   The crafty challenge was to have something old, new, borrowed and blue.

 

For mine, I did:

 

old: paper (the background)

new: MFT stencil

borrowed: I borrowed Sharlene's two punches to create the title

blue: patterned paper are BLUE!  So are the letterings on the cake! (wink!)

 

Keep Scrapping!

Laureen

A FUZZY FRIEND {Sketch-y Friday}

Hello Everyone!

Cannot believe it is actually November!  It is ScrapMuch? Design Team A's turn to reveal their work as it is Sketch-y Friday today!  Laura Whitaker once again had provided a wonderful and fun sketch!  I was delight to play with her sketch!

I looked through some of my pictures and found some perfect pictures for this sketch but there were problems... I had more pictures that I wanted to use... so a double page layout came into my picture.  Of course I continued to used the same sketch on the other page only that I flipped it over to the side.  BINGO I was able to solve the problem.    I had two more pictures.  They were close ups that TELL you the story of what the pages were all about!  The FUZZY CATERPILLAR!  I used the pictures instead of writing so.... in total, my layout I have 8 pictures!

Ok lets share my picture of the layouts!

 

Here is a run down of our Sketch-y Friday rules.  You have until November 29th, at midnight to participate in any of November's sketch challenges, each linkup tool will remain open until that date!

If you are playing along with more than one challenge you will need to link each of them up via a separate blog post for the link up tool to work. (International participants may be required to pay some shipping fees.)  Good luck, we cannot wait to see what you create!

 *note - If you are playing along using Flickr the team will no longer be leaving comments, due to changes in Flickr policies and passwords.  However, we will be checking out your entries for sure and you are definitely eligible for the prize draw. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.


Take care!

Laureen
ScrapMuch?
Design Team A
 

STICK IT DOWN! Design Team Call!



Design Team Call!

It's time once again for a design team call! We are looking for new members for each of our teams - single page layouts, double page layouts and cards.

Our next term will run from January to June 2015 so please do not apply if you cannot commit to this time frame.

What you will do:

• provide one project per month with a possible special event during the six month term
• comment on all submissions as you are assigned
• post our challenge to your blog and other social media outlets 
• have projects completed ahead of time in order to meet the deadline

What you need:

• an active blog
• a facebook account as this is where the DT "meets"
• a love for sketches

What we will do:

• provide the sketches at least one month in advance
• provide your posting schedule and commenting assignments
• be supportive and encouraging
• share your photo and your link on our blog
• share your project on various social media outlets

How to apply:

• send an email to Stick it Down with the subject line "Design Team Call"
• include your name and location
• include a list of current teams (no experience necessary!)
• include 3 of your favourite layouts or cards that best display your style and suit the requirements of the team you are applying for (ie, submit cards if you are applying for the card team)
• introduce yourself in few brief sentences

This call is open to everyone including our current team members and will run from November 1st to November 21st. The new team will be notified by November 28th and announced by December 1st. The new team's projects will be revealed on January 1st.

 

Good luck!

 

Laureen

DT Team Member