Another Spring event that I hate to miss is National Scrapbooking Day! This year it falls on May 4th and I'm participating in a fun week of challenges at my favorite "scrappy" website, Crop Chocolate.
I partnered with my fellow Design Team member, Jennifer, to come up with a "Bling it UP" challenge: Make a Card or layout using two different kinds of bling (rhinestones, glitter, Stickles, pearls, etc). You can find the contest by clicking here: Bling it Up Contest
Here are two examples I created for this contest. This first card is a double-dutch style card using My Mind's Eye Indie Chic paper and stickers. The bling are rhinestones and pearls. I love how it opens up and gives me lots of space to write my greeting.
This next card is also my entry for the "Homage to Summer" challenge from Jasmine and Miwa which can be found here: https://www.cropchocolate.com/contests?page=8
I hope you'll swing on by and participate in all the challenges. Who knows, you might just win a nice prize. Oh, and speaking of prizes... I'm giving away a little blog candy to one random person who comments on this post telling me what they love about scrapbooking! Good Luck.
I enjoy the creative outlet and having a fun way to save memories scrapbooking provides along w/the friendships I would have missed out on if I wasn't a scrapper. <3 your cards.
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DeleteOMG These are great!I love that bird card!LOVE.
ReplyDeleteI just love it when the whole thing you are working on comes together perfectly and you can sand back and smile at how much of a genius you are. ;)
The Double dutch card is so pretty...love the Indie Chic. And the little chick mankes you summer card so cute. I love being able to celebrate special memories by highlighting them with both visually and in words and being able to share them without being just a pile of photos.
ReplyDeleteI love when I come across old pictures that I put aside because I was stymied and then suddenly am struck with inspiration. And I love it when a scrappy project turns out even better than I intended, and I can actually feel proud of myself!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful cards! I love the double dutch style one! I'll have to add that to my 'to-try' list!
ReplyDeleteWhat do I love about scrapbooking..... Just one thing??? I love that it gives me a creative outlet and I love that my children (and maybe their children) will be able to enjoy my books for many many years!
ooooohhhh! Those are beautiful cards!
ReplyDeleteWhat I love about scrapbooking?? The creative output it 'gives' me to create albums for future generations! (hopefully!)
Didn't realize that my answer is pretty similar to Nina's!
DeleteWhat I love about scrapbooking is that we can let our imaginations go wild and it helps to "tell" a story that will be remembered for years to come.
ReplyDeleteGreat cards Laura!!!
ReplyDeleteI love creating and losing myself in a project!!
I love scrapbooking to chronical my family's life! My boys have both used the scrapbooks doing projects for school of a timeline of their lives :-)
ReplyDeleteYou are SO talented, Laura!! I love getting creative to escape from anything and everything that's going on. It keeps me "sane"! I haven't actually made a LO YET, but I have tons of photos ready to be used. I love the preservation of it, and that it gives life to the moment captured.
ReplyDeleteLove your cards (especially the double dutch one - never heard of that one before).
ReplyDeleteI love to scrapbook as a way to remember (and to allow my kids to remember later) what we've done as a family. Which so much going on, it gets harder and harder to remember everything. I also love it because it's a way to de-stress and channel my inner creativity.
Thank you! I love finding new folds and ways to make my cards interesting.
DeleteAwesome cards! I love scrapbooking because I want to think that what I/we did as a family "mattered" and hopefully, some of the stories will be passed down to the next generations.
ReplyDeleteOooh, that double-dutch card is a beauty! Now, to answer your question... I love to scrapbook because you get to "play" and yet, at the end of it all, you have produced something that is bound to make somebody somewhere happy. :) As an extra side benefit, you make friends with people who are just as into the craft as you are - and that's pretty darn cool! :)
ReplyDeleteI use scrapbooking as a creative outlet. I have a degree in Commercial Art and my strong skills have always been design layout and color so now I use them with scrapbooking and card making. I want to leave a legacy for my family, so they know about their family.
ReplyDeleteLove your cards!! Hmmm what don't I love about scrapbooking!! First I love that I found so many awesome new friends at cc from my love for scrapbooking! I love how happy I am when I'm Proud of a layout. And I love that I'm preserving memories for my children
ReplyDeleteI love your beautiful cards! Miwa did a pretty good job of summing up what I love about scrapbooking: the chance to be creative (and play with such pretty and fun toys!), producing something for someone else to enjoy (whether it is a card for a friend or a SB page that my family will have years from now) and, perhaps most of all, the wonderful friendships with people who enjoy the same thing!
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love your cards!!! I not only have used scrapbooking as a creative outlet, but as an emotional outlet as well. I am most happy when I am in my scrappy space. :) I love the "smell" of my scrappy space when I'm scrappin . . . you know, that "smell" that tells you a scrapper lives here (and not I don't mean the leftover doughnuts on the desk - lol). I used to think of myself as a layout person, but after being on CCDT I now love doing altered arts and using mixed media supplies in my LOs. I am proud to be leaving a legacy of myself for future generations to come. :)
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