It’s tough to go back to work after such a nice, long weekend.. especially since it seems I’m coming down with a cold (but I’m trying to resist!)! We spent a very nice weekend and celebrated DH’s birthday too.
I didn’t scrap very much, because I spent quite some time putting together the pages for a desktop calendar, but I did get a few LOs done. I did this page for the Roadmap to Scrap challenge:

1. Since this is starting the day after Thanksgiving (for the US scrappers), let’s make this more of a themed RTS. Use pictures from your Thanksgiving celebrations (this year or in past years) OR pictures you took this month that are fall related. If you live where it’s not fall right now, you can use pictures from when you have fall weather.
2. Choose a fall-ish color scheme for all but one of your papers. Use one paper with a pop of color not usually associated with fall.
3. Let’s see some elements from nature on your LO – flowers, leaves, branches, etc.
4. Now add some ribbon/lace/string/fiber/stitching, whatever looks best for your LO.
5. Add in a few more embellishments and make sure at least one of them is the same color that you used for your pop of color in your papers. If you have an element you want to use that needs to be recolored, check out some of these recoloring tutorials here and here
6. Use the word “thanks” somewhere on your page – either in your journaling or title.
7. Title your layout. Use either a combination of fonts, a combination of alphas, or a font/alpha combination.
8. Date your layout and add anything else you think it needs.

while this was for the Saturday Special challenge:

I also scrapped a page for the new My Story Matters challenge:

In case you need reminding, the sale is still going on at ScrapMatters, and if you check out the blog you’ll find a blog train in which you can gather some coupons for further discounts! Have a happy Cyber Monday! 🙂

Everything is 45% off today at ScrapMatters! This is a huge deal that doesn’t come often, so take advantage of it!
There’s grab bags and some great new products in the store, too! I only had time to play with 2 of them, and really loved them!
First off, Erica’s grab bag – jam packed with goodies! Check out the store for previews of the contents of the bag:

I also love this gorgeous Christmas kit by GG Digital Designs:

And here’s a page I did with them:

I also used the kit in Erica’s grab bag to create a page for a desktop calendar I’m working on:

I hope you take advantage of the sale, because it’s such a great sale: you don’t see often a 45% off sale! Plus, there’s an amazing free-with-purchase template pack! It’s yours with a $20 purchase, and it contains 41 fabulous templates! Check them out:

DH and I bought a TV set last night, so we won’t be going around much for shops on Black Friday.. but there certainly are some amazing online deals: the sale at ScrapMatters is just phenomenal!!

I can’t wait for Black Friday!

Then, I had fun with Jennifer Barrette’s Thankful:

Jenn has rapidly become one of my favorite designers, and this kit sure doesn’t disappoint! I love the rich colors and patterns! I used it for 2 matching pages (the only ones I managed to scrap during the week):

I loved playing with this fall kit, but.. I’m all ready for Christmas! I was really excited when I saw Britt’s new kit in the store, Happiest Season of All:

I played with it right away (I’m also working on some hybrid goodies but I can’t show those for a few days) for some photocards and a page: I scrapped about my frustration of getting bad Christmas pictures for our photocards, thanks to my uncooperative husband..

This is actually a very nice picture, in my opinion, but the ones I took of the two of us together are just not the best ones, but oh well… at least they’re done and the photocards are ordered. 🙂

I’m all ready for Christmas already, but I really love the cute little gourds I bought to decorate for the season, and I made 2 LOs to show them off! I used 2 grab bags (Britt’s and Chelle’s) to make these pages, but today all the ScrapMatters DSD grab bags have been split up, so I’ll show you a few of the individual products I used. First off, a page for the Tuesday Template challenge:

Using Britt’s Breezy Holiday:

and Take a Sweater Alpha:

I also made a page for today’s Roadmap to Scrap challenge, that has these instructions:

1. Choose a template
2. Choose at least three papers, 2 solid papers and 1 pattern
3. Add some vellum or acrylic to your layout
4. Embellish as you wish but I want to see at least one cluster
5. Include buttons, stitches, ribbon and string (minimum of 1 each)
6. Add a frame but use is different that you normally would ie) off center underneath the photo etc.
7. Use a creative date element to date your layout
8. Title your layout with a minimum of one font and one alpha

and here’s my page, I had SO much fun putting it together!

I used a bunch of gorgeous products from Chelle’s grab bag:

and another item from Britt’s:

These grab bags were really packed full, and I haven’t even shown everything that was in them! 🙂