I was chosen for this week’s Grand Theft LO challenge at ScrapMatters! 😀 Come play along! 😉

I lifted myself and chose this page:

and here’s my lift:

And while I was at it, I created a matching page too:

This kit by Tater is gorgeous, and perfect for all my food pictures! 😀

I still have a couple of projects I haven’t posted yet, so even though my scrapping time for this week is over (yes, busy, busy week!) I’ll still be posting something in the next few days. 🙂

I signed up for the Fall Madness contest they’re having at DigiScrapAddicts, lured by the money prize 😀 and I have two pages to show. This contest is pretty tough because each scrapper is paired with another scrapper, and only one makes it to the next round. The voting is done by 13 designers.
Unfortunately, in both rounds I’ve been paired with fellow CT members: in the first round, LoriBear, on ScrapMatters’ CT; in the second round, with Brenda (kaleandkiara) of Amy Sumrall’s CT. Even more unfortunately, Lori wasn’t able to post her LO in time, so I passed to the second round with no competition. Sad, sad! 🙁

Anyway, here’s my page for Round One. We had to scrap a page containing the words “I love”.

This page is totally me: funny, and speaking volumes about my life and my love for DH. 🙂

For the second round, we had to scraplift our opponent; so even though I consider being paired to a friend a misfortune, I was lucky enough to get to lift her amazing work. Brenda’s gallery is amazing, and she is a master of white space – something I often struggle with because my pages always seem empty – and clustering. I chose to lift All Grown Up by kaleandkiara and here’s my page:

This is one of the rare occasions that I couldn’t force myself to put more elements on the page. 🙂 I love this page! And Chelle’s kit – it’s soooooo gorgeous!!
I doubt that I can make it to the next round because Brenda is a fabulous scrapper, but I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed, you never know. 🙂 The results will likely be made public on Sunday, so this is going to be one long week.;)

I feel like a juggler this week, trying to find time to work on my hybrid project (has to be ready by Saturday!!), getting pages done for my awesome CTs and spending time with DH (last night, dinner+concert – spectacular!).. But so far, a part from some tiredness, it’s working! 😉

Here’s the last 2 pages I did for challenges at ScrapMatters. This one is for the In Living Color (yes, I do have a thing with leaves and trees recently.. 😉 ):

and this one is for the Roadmap to Scrap:

which follows these instructions:

1. Choose 2 photos.  Both photos must be repeated on your layout (you can use different crops and sizes)
2. For papers you can use as may as you want, but keep the photos and elements as the focus of you page.
3. Now add some ellies and lots of them!
4. Here is the catch on those element…every element you used must be used 2 times and 2 times only.  (so you can use as many buttons, flowers, ribbons etc as you want, but each individual element must be used 2x on the LO)
5. Pick out 2 fonts, any fonts you think will compliment the page, can be script, typed, doodly…whatever floats your boat!
6. Use the 2 fonts on your layout anyway you want, journal, title, date etc – go crazy! – but only use those 2 fonts.
7. Now add in some sparkle and shine. You must have 2 different sparkly things, can be glitter, sequins, gems, etc.  Remember you must use each element 2 times on the page, even the sparkly stuff!
8. All you need to do now is add some fab shadow work to finish off you page.

Both pages were done in 20 minutes each, the first one during breakfast on Thursday, and the second right before we went out to go to the concert last night… Gosh! I really have to slow down! 😉

Today is October 1st, and (apart from being my grandmother’s birthday! 😉 ) this means a new daily download is starting at ScrapMatters, and let me tell you this: you do NOT want to miss this!!!!!!!

Head over to the daily download section of the forum every day, and you’ll gather up a gorgeous, gorgeous kit!! Links for each day are up for 24 hours only, so make sure you get each day’s download!

Here’s the page I promised I would post yesterday, but didn’t have time to. I love how it turned out! I made it for an Everyday Magic challenge at ScrapMatters, about our collections.

It’s only Tuesday, but I’m way behind with everything already!!! This is certainly one of those days I wished I didn’t have to work and could scrap all day! 😉 (wait, are there any other kind of days?? :-P)