Let the games begin!

I love me some challenges! And now that Survivor is in full swing over at Tallyscrapper.com I will have several weeks of challenges to compete in. There's 2 teams playing for Bragging rights of being the best scrapbookers on the face of this planet...well at least at TallyScrapper. 


There's Team Russell, aka "the dark side" and then there's the BEST TEAM, Team ROB, known simply as the "BEST TEAM!" LOL   


So each Wednesday we receive a challenge for the contest and our first challenge is this...

Challenge #1:

It's a desert island...Your photos are the island and this layout requires alot of white space! 

Everyone is cramped together on the island so your layout must have a picture of 2 or more people. 

Colors: TAN/Brown  for sand and BLUE to represent the water.

On Survivor everything is put to use this layout needs to have at least 2 staples and a piece of recycled scrap packaging. 

Requirements Summary:

Must have WHITE SPACE or NEGATIVE SPACE

Must have at least one Photo with MORE than one person in it.

Must have Tan/Brown AND Blue!

Must have at least 2 staples and a piece of recycled scrapbook packaging. 

So here is my layout using the above instructions.

Center Stage

 This is my daughter Leia in her first modeling gig. She loved being center stage! LOL

 These 2 photos show the close up of the staples I used on the ribbon trim. I stapled in between each flourish. And the recycled packaging I used was Prima. I sewed some fabric to the packaging to make a mat. I also used some more Prima packaging (the blue scallops) on the side of the mat and photos.

 I adore these letters from Sassafras...they have a bit of glitter on them which gives them a little "POP" effect.

 This chandelier die cut was made from my Silhouette machine. I out a little bit of glitter on the flames for show. 

So if your like me and love challenges hop on over to Tallyscrapper and play along or watch as the 2 teams battle it out each week. See ya at Tally!

Team Russell's layouts

Team Rob's Layouts

ScrapFIT workouts #25 and #26

First workout #26:

For this workout I want you to dress up your LO, card or altered art. Use your bling, your sparkle and your shine! Also use some black since The Little Black Dress Kit Club is our sponsor.

Here's my take on this challenge:

My daughter Leia, all dressed up ready for school when we lived in Iowa. It was the first snow day of the season. She looks so lovely in her new jacket with the snow falling all around her...ooh la la so beautiful!

I used some of that fabulous swirly BLING for Jolee in black. Flower from Petaloo, silver swirl bling from Prima, and Ooh la la title is from my old stash it's a Heidi Swapp product called Silhouettes.

Here's another close up of the Prima bling and Ooh la la title.

The "Beautiful" letters are from Cosmo Cricket line called High Noon. I thought it went well with the Bo Bunny papers called Mama-Razzi.

Journaling spot is part of my old stash from My Minds Eye called Daily Dose. I used a white sharpie to write on the black board...looks just like chalk, doesn't it?

ScrapFit Workout #25:

 "WET-n-WILD" for this workout you need to use mist, paint, stickles, ink---any or all of them!! For an added twist I want you to get some paper wet, create something with it and than use it in your LO. Example—make a flower, fold it, pleat it, ect.

So here's my take on the challenge:

I used some old tracing paper I had, wet it with Blue and Green Glimmer Mist, crumbled it, ripped it, and stuck it down with Mod Podge to give it a water effect like the photo.

Photo info: This is my daughter Tess when she was 5, when we were on vacation to Florida. It was a perfect lazy day of summer photo, sitting in the water at Lake Blue soaking in the sun and cooling off in the water. This was one of the most relaxing time for our whole family. Miss Florida weather so much.

Close up of the under water scene, The fish are from K & Company, the sea weed I cut out from my Silhouette Die Cutter, and the bubble dots are from Cloud 9. I love the water look of the tracing paper here.

The blue glittery swirls are from Jolee stickers, All that Bling.

Hope you enjoy my lastest layouts for ScrapFit. Be sure to check it out to see what workout we're on so you can enter the challenge thread.

Super Photo Freak

 

 

Changing my style. I'm starting to like the Grunge, Distressed, Romantic, Vintage look on my Scrapbook pages.


Layout info:
Leia took over 200 photos of herself on Christmas Day. She said she was bored!  There was so many that I could only get 49 mini photos of her on the page. I thought this was a fun subject for her to remember when she gets older! Teen girls and their cameras! Gotta love it. I know most of these will end up on Facebook! LOL


Product info:
Patterned Paper: Die Cuts with a View, October Afternoon (yellow polka dots)
Title: Sticko and Making Memories
Gems: Paper Studios
Hearts: American Craft
Puffy Labels and Word Stickers: K & Company
Ribbon: Martha Stewart Silk
Journaling Spot: Cut with Cricut using Story Book Cartridge
Photo Corners: Around the Block
Misc: Tulle, Mini Staples, Machine Stitching

Puzzler

Layout info:

Lily loves putting puzzles together. It's her new favorite past time.

Product info:

Background paper: DCWV

Chip board: Around the Block

Puzzle pieces: Cricut with SCAL

Letters: Sticko

Border strip: cut with Cricut

Misc: Tag, brad, heart

Elegance

Layout info:

One of my Favorite layouts. First I love these photos of Leia. She was all dressed up to go to a Choir Concert. She looked so pretty I just have to have photos of her.

Second, it's very clean and simple with more focus on the photos then design.

Products used:

Title and background leaves: Cricut: Home accents

Border Punch: Martha Stewart

Bling: Prima

Flowers: generic punch and download for Sure cuts a lot

Fabulous Find

I created this layout from a design made by Nichol Magouirk at Two Peas in a Bucket . She made her die cuts from Silhouette die cutting machine and I made mine by using my Cricut Expression with Sure Cut's A Lot Program and the Graphically Speaking cartridge. I love, love this cartridge.

Info on Layout:
Everyone tells my daughter that she should be a model. She really looks like one in this new European style jacket she bought at TJ MAXX.

Supplies used:
Cardstock: DCWV
Pattern Paper: Scrapworks (Formal Affairs)
Die Cuts: Striped paper made by using Cricut, SCAL, and DCWV cardstock
Tags: Graphically Speaking and October Afternoon papers
Labels: K&Company, Ormolu from Etsy
Title: Graphically Speaking and SCAL using Elegant font
Misc: Tim Holtz paperclip, Button, metal alpha letter, photo turn,
twine, paper flower