Merry Christmas!

I took this photo a few days ago and used it as my avatar on ScrapStreet.com.
Meesh challenged me to scrap it. I had not scrapped since mid October, can you believe it?! I love how it turned out!

Merry Christmas to all of you!



Credits: Jingle Jangle digital kit by Melissa Bennett for Sweet Shoppe Designs

Thanksgiving Layout and Card

These were my publications in the November 2008 issue of ScrapStreet Magazine:





I took a photo of my son's artwork to make this card.

October 2008 Published Work

These were my publications in the October 2008 issue of ScrapStreet Magazine:



Apple




Darren’s Halloween Art




ARR!




Glitter Nails

Digi kit: July Jeans by Dora Phillips and Michelle ‘Spink’ Boeckermann for ScrapStreet.com. Sketch by Michelle McClung.

Check out the glitter title! Cool huh? :)

Backyard Water Fun

This digital page was published in the September 2008 issue of ScrapStreet Magazine:



Sketch by Michelle McClung, Puckered Place digital kit by Dora's Designs

Ready, Set, Create! August / September 2008

These are my two projects published in the August / September 2008  issue of the Ready, Set, Create! ezine:

Set of Mini Cards

I made this set of mini cards; 3” x 3” each:



Just some fun little things ... paper and ribbon is Doodlebug, rub-ons are Kaiser.
I made the one with the cupcake for one of ScrapStreet's 3 year celebration party challenges.

Published Work August 2008

These were my publications in the August 2008 issue of ScrapStreet Magazine:



Nothing.




Message 4 Larissa




Gift Tags

ScrapStreet Magazine July 2008

These are my layouts in the July 2008 issue of ScrapStreet Magazine:



Rosy Cheeks




Play Hard




My Sunshine




Content

Scrapbook News & Review toot!

I received an email from Scrapbook News & Review this morning that they accepted my layout "More than a View" for publication! It is my first time with SNR! Can't wait to see the e-zine!

Cutie Pie

Digital kit: "Beep Beep Bug" Poetique Piquture designs by Lorie Davison, designer for scrapbookgraphics.com.

And I made another page, which will be published in the September 2008 issue of ScrapStreet Magazine

Body Painting Festival Crop

The monthly crop has started on the ScrapSteet boards and it will last all through the weekend! Loaded with games, challenges and fun! Come join us!



Blinkie by yours truly :)

Not much to tell ...

Yesterday I had another offline day and I worked on a Becky Higgins sketch, it had been ages since I had done that! And I finished two other pages that needed some final touches :)
Today I got a check from Memory Makers - a payment for a publication - that is always happy mail!
And that is about it. I am so busy lately, I do not have much scrap time during the week, but I am happy with my Offline Day = Sunday = Scrap Day!

Offline Day

Di Hickman had this challenge on her blog: OFFLINE DAY and I decided to join her and have my offline day yesterday as well.
I created five holiday tags. I even ended up with a blister from all the cutting LOL!
Want to join us?

12" x 12" - Sketch 4

I created this "Yellow Polka Dot" sketch for ScrapStreet's Saturday Night Scrap (SNS). This weekend we are inspired by the Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini song. Check out the challenges made by the hybrid design team.



Blinkie by yours truly :)

Please feel free to use this sketch for your personal use (only). I would love to see what you do with it! Please send me an email or reply to this post to show me your creation, then I will post it here too!

ScrapStreet Magazine June 2008

This is some of my published work in the June 2008 issue of ScrapStreet Magazine:

12" x 12" - Sketch 6

I created this "Red Carpet" sketch for ScrapStreet Saturday Night Scrap (SNS). This weekend we are inspired by the Cannes Film Festival.

Please feel free to use this sketch for your personal use (only). I would love to see what you do with it! Please send me an email to show me your creation, then I will post it here too!

Click here for an example: Home Made Guitar, which was published in ScrapStreet Magazine in October 2009.

ScrapStreet Magazine April 2008

Some of my work in the April 2008 issue of ScrapStreet Magazine:

12" x 12" - Sketch 1

Please feel free to use this sketch for your personal use (only). I would love to see what you do with it! Please send me an email to show me your creation, then I will post it here too!

I used this sketch for "First Haircut", which was published in the March 2008 issue of ScrapStreet Magazine:



First Haircut

Supplies: Paper: Scenic Route, Cardstock: Bazzill Basics, Rub-Ons: Junkitz, Pen: ZIG Millennium, Marker: Marvy Memories, Ink: Rubber Stampede.

12" x 12" - Sketch 5

Please feel free to use this sketch for your personal use (only). I would love to see what you do with it! Please send me an email to show me your creation, then I will post it here too!

Guess who called me?

BHG Scrapbooks Etc.!!!
They want to publish a layout in the October 2008 magazine, in the Everyday Moments story! I am SOOOOO exited!!!
I have been published in Scrapbooks Etc. before, but it has been a while :)

ScrapStreet Magazine March 2008

A couple of layouts, as seen in ScrapStreet Magazine March 2008

Memory Makers toot!

I just received an email that a layout has been selected to be published in Memory Makers annual Scrapbook Idea Gallery.

What a nice surprise! They called for many different categories but I only submitted one page, and it got picked up! Wooohoooo!!!!

ETA: update: they moved the page to the November/December 2008 gallery of the magazine...
This is it:

Sapporo Crop

The monthly crop has started on the ScrapSteet boards and it will last all through the weekend! Loaded with games, challenges and fun! Come join us!



I made this blinkie :)

12" x 12" - Sketch 3

Please feel free to use this sketch for your personal use (only). I would love to see what you do with it! Please send me an email to show me your creation, then I will post it here too!


I used this sketch to create "Rooster". I was thrilled it was selected as the cover layout of ScrapStreet Magazine in December 2007:



Rooster

Supplies: Paper, Chipboard Heart: BasicGrey, Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper, Chipboard Alphabet: Scenic Route, Ribbon: SEI, Bling: Heidi Swapp, Brads: Junkitz,
Ink: Rubber Stampede, ColorBox (Clearsnap), Stamp: Staples, Rub-Ons: Daisy D’s, BasicGrey, Pen: ZIG Millennium (Kuretake), Markers: Marvy Memories, Sakura.

Look what I got!

Happy mail from my SIL (DH's sister); a big box with Valentine's gifts for all of us! She sent me this:



Gonna play with it later today!

It was so funny - when I opened it Larissa said: "It's a Craft Lite Cutter!". My 4 year old daughter knows better what is on the scrapbooking market today than I do! LOL! I asked her how she knew and she said she had seen it on TV.

I just played with it! I had to press down harder on the blade than I had expected but what a fun toy! It has a scoring/folding blade which is perfect for making cards. Normally I use a ruler and a letter opener to score the cardstock, but it is never completely straight. With this blade it is fast and straight! I am gonna use this one a lot!
Of course it has a straight blade and also some decorative blades which are a lot easier to work with than deco-scissors. And a perforating blade which is fun too!

Thank you Ria!!!

Well, that didn't work very well ...

Yesterday everything was working fine, but this morning I could not update/post/publish anything anymore on my "old" blog.
I used my own web server instead of Blogspot for hosting my blog and all of a sudden people got FTP publishing problems.
I read on the Blogger Message Boards and User Groups that many people had the same problems (some have not been able to publish anything for 2 weeks) so I decided to switch to Blogspot for hosting my blog.
Keeping my fingers crossed that this will work ...