christy’s li’l corner of the scrap galaxy

jacqueline challenged us to post a slide show of our layouts from this past crop on scrap galaxy …this was quick n easy and i LOVE how it turned out! the star theme was perfect, and i fell in love with this song on their homepage so i just had to add it :O)

(if you can’t hear the music, click on the little speaker on the lower left-hand side of the slideshow. on the other hand, if you dont want to hear the music, click in the same spot to turn it off :O)

this website has a ton of FUN goodies you can play with and create stuff for your blogs. fun fun fun! (the site is rockyou.com)

I am very happy with all the layouts i completed this past weekend. I can’t wait for the next crop! My envelope mini album challenge was a big hit, and lisa’s added it as a star challenge, so now I get to make one that’s not just a sample! I’ve only ever made these as demos for classes and kits, never filled one up myself, so I’m excited to work on it. I already have a plan for it :O)

I am itching to scrap BUT, this next weekend is our 3 day scrapbooking retreat hosted by the LSS I work at and our local stampin’ up rep. I’m teaching a class friday night–my biggest class yet of 30 peeps! I’m not nervous at all, but I have a lot of work to do putting the kits together, plus extras for people who want more than one. so, i have all the paper cut, but still need to edit and print the instructions one more time, plus put the kits together…and on friday i was invited to a card exchange, so I need to make 24 more cards for that. phew, i have a lot to do still, what am i doing on here?

LOL, :O)

more challenges completed-just in the nick of time :O) the deadline is 3 a.m. my time…

challenge #3:

we had to use something from around the house for this one-I used coffee filters in the background. (You can’t hardly see them in this pic, but they’re there :O)

challenge #4:

Easter! I used one of the quotes provided and scrapped some easter eggs.

and finally, don’t forget…..

online crop this weekend at scrap galaxy! LOADS of fun challenges planned–i’m posting three this time….cookie sheet, envelopes, and trash. curious? come check it out!

here are my first two entires for the scrap galaxy star challenges for april:

challenge #1-the last week of our vacation last year was spent with friends, and most of the week was spent in the pool. I ended up with tons of pictures! I printed a bunch of them in wallet size, and was able to get 19 pics on this layout (click for larger version):

the challenge was to use vacation/holiday pics, use a monogram, stitching and make it a 2 page layout.

challenge #2-love these pics of my nephew! the red of his shirt just POPS!

 the challenge-use scallops, 3+ pics with one being black & white, glitter and plastic. I glittered the word “future” and cut flames from plastic scraps. love how it came out!

time for a new round of scrap galaxy star challenges! (I got the MOST stars last month, woohoo!)

challenge #1: ink/paint/dye background, stitching & monogram:

challenge #2: 8½x11 landscape, 3+ pictures, 1 black & white, chipboard shapes & wire:

this is for my bom, of places in the US I’d like to go. (seattle, washington dc, san francisco, and south beach miami)

check out the scrap galaxy star challenges and join us in the fun :O)

4 new challenges completed! these are all for the scrap galaxy star challenges-lisa posted 4 last minute challenges…my scrap room might not recover from this whirlwind of scrappin’ :O)

this challenge was to create a sketch-i chose to do a 12×12 two page spread:

Those hearts with banners are from an awesome font i downloaded the other day-it’s all tattoos! so cool :O)

this challenge was to use either all basic grey or all heidi swapp. since the only heidi swapp i have is some chipboard, i opted for the basic grey. i have a slight basic grey hoarding issue…LOL! also, i could only use black/white/blue or pink. Well, i thought this would be easy, until i realized none of the BG i have came in any black or white color schemes. I found a lone sheet and some scraps of the old collection ‘dawson’, remember that? the large sheet had orange right smack dab in the middle, and that wouldn’t do at all, so i covered it in blue, added LOTS of bg chipboard hardware, cut out some letters, and here we are:

I even had DD take a picture of me holding some of my bg paper packs, cheesy I know :O) I made the circle embellishment in the corner in my word program. i wanted it to look just like the one on all the bg paper pack covers…and the strip of paper going through the chipboard label at the bottom is a cut-off strip from the bottom of a sheet of bg :OÞ

Next challenge… create an achromatic layout, using only black, white and grey. also, use 10+ flowers, 2 different pattern papers and 2+ pictures…

that’s my youngest sister and her DH-they got married in june.

finally, this challenge was to scraplift this layout:

http://www.scrapgalaxy.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4550&limit=last7

here’s my lift:

that’s my niece-we’d just returned from a wonderful evening at medieval times and she still had her crown on. love this picture :O)

so, that’s it for today-visit scrap galaxy star challenge for more awesome challenges!

challenge, create a “flap book” based on Erica’s Tutorial

mine came out a bit different, but the idea’s the same :O)

i had several leftover pics from DD’s winter ball photo shoot, and decided this would be a good way to get them all in one place without having to do layouts for each….the flap book is 4½ by 6 inches:

side flaps open:

top and bottom flaps open:

this lo is for the scrap galaxy star challenge contest, challenge #5-using an ad as inspiration. here is the ad:

and here is my layout:

my inspiration was the layout of the ad-the matted photo in the center, a centered blurb at the bottom, and another at the upper right. i like how it turned out, thought i’m not happy with the stitched scan..what i wouldn’t give for a large format scanner, that would rule!

so the scrap galaxy online crop is over, and while i didn’t get ALL of the challenges completed, i sure made a dent :O) thought i’d hop on and post my recent layouts:

crop challenge: “groovy kind of love”…create a “groovy” layout:

crop speed challenge: create a bookmark in under an hour:

crop challenge: use a kiss quote, poem or saying: (this is my favorite lo of the whole weekend :O)

crop challenge: love notes, include love notes in a layout:

crop challenge: build a layout. one step at a time was listed, and here’s what i ended up with:

crop challenge: “sweet surrender” …alter a container to hold valentine sweets:

feb star challenge #3: “quote this”

..use up to 4 quotes on a layout, ribbon and 3 or more pictures.

layout open:

feb star challenge #4: monochromatic layout, all purple!

phew, that was just this weekend! you can see them all, plus dozens more in my scrap galaxy gallery. I made some cards too, but wasn’t too happy with them…plus, if you check out my gallery you can see my entries for the KI Memories contest!

okay, off to watch the rest of the grammy’s :OÞ

another layout done, woohoo! this one’s for challenge #2:

this was all about using up the scraps. the lo had to include 2+ pattern papers, 3+ different cardstocks, and 4+ metal embellishments.

i get more layouts done this way…the scrap galaxy star challenge is back for february!

Challenge #1: Red Black & White, with buttons & ghost shapes…i didn’t have any ghost shapes, so i made my own from unshrunk shrink plastic :O)

Challenge #2 is up…come check it out and play along!