DAY TWO OF MY WEEK LONG CELEBRATION...

and the fun is just beginning!

Today, the "Fab Four" have some fun stuff to share. Lots of dies being used from the QuicKutz January release. And since bunches of you placed orders on the 19th I'm sure there are dies all over the country, just waiting to be used!

How's this for some inspiration...

Veronica is working on an album of favorite recipes. Something she can add to, a few pages at a time, when she gets the opportunity. She is using the QK Gingerbread Album. This page is her recipe for Peanut Sauce...{and yes, I already tried to decipher the ingredients, she'll have to help us out!}...she used the NEW QK Food & Drink die for her bowl of rice and chopsticks. CUTE! Her title is cut from the Chicken Noodle font.

This page is for her secret recipe for Orange Lemonade. She's used the Food & Drink die again for her bottle and the NEW Citrus Fruit for her lemon. Her title is Chicken Noodle again, and her very realistic looking orange blossoms are the 2x2 Square Petal Flowers. LOVE IT!

EmmBee had the January Club Die to play with and came up with this adorable use for it. Computer generated letters spell out part of her greeting. ADORABLE! She also used her Cookie Cutter Monogram U for the main part of her greeting. It's embossed with the QK Paisley Embossing folder. Love, love love how simple this is - unique twists are always fun and inspiring!

Lara is still motoring through her resolutions for this year. YOU GO GIRL! She made a notebook to hold her exercise journal and her food journal. For this section of her book she used the NEW Rev Alarm Clock, the NEW Rev Weights, Blossom Classic, Blossom Mini and Banana Split fonts. Great little stitching accents make the page all come together! CUTE!

She even made pages for her book...CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF!

For the food/diet section of her book she made this page. Using the same fonts along with the NEW Rev Scale and the 2x2 Strawberry, Peas, Carrots and Pear.

More custom pages inside...CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE PDF!

Love her project. How cute it is, how practical it is and how useful it's going to be for her as she goes through her year! She bound her entire album, divider pages and custom pages, with her Bind It All. {I have got to get one of these...!}

I have even more adorable projects from the Fab Four to share tomorrow. Cards from Lolly, Valentines from EmmBee, projects from Lara and surprises from Veronica. I might have a thing or two to throw in as well. {wink, wink}

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IT'S FINALLY FRIDAY...

and what a Friday it is.

I have a girlfriend flying in today {she's hanging with me at CHA...shhhhh...her husband thinks she's "working"!} so I'm watching the airport closing information. So far so good, but the rain is due back in a couple of hours. I have to keep reminding myself..."Arizona?"!

LOL!

Dani just started a new thread on the Scrapy Land Message Board. He's asking for suggestions on what YOU ALL want to see him come home with from CHA. New products? New ideas? New lines? New concepts? Leave your suggestion over there on the board, and we'll keep checking back. It's always fun to know what kinds of things, besides dies, you all love using in your projects! THANKS! {And I'll try to keep you posted on what he's looking at!}

Our recently-missing "Fab Four", Miss Veronica, is finally back from her ski vacation. She arrived home to find her box of dies from the January Resolutions release. What a great way to end a vacation, huh?

She jumped right in and made a couple of projects for me to share with you. {Scrappin' before vacation laundry? Now THAT'S a dedicated gal, I tell you! *Wink, wink*}

One of the dies Veronica was most excited about was the NEW Revolution Apples. She liked how very realistic they are. Her photograph of the apple blooms is just gorgeous, and the apple accents are perfect!

Here's a close-up of her embellished apples - chalk and ink and her famous white pen - that look good enough to eat! She also used QK Marigold, for her title font.

This card just makes me smile. "Spoil yourself silly..." what a perfect sentiment for the NEW Revolution Spa Paper Doll. Do you recognize the shape of her "background" paper? It's the QK Epic Gingerbread page insert from the Santa's Workshop release last December. What a great idea!

But check out the inside of her card...

She cut this with her Silhouette SD, from a file she downloaded from Silhouette America. WOWZERS! What a fun way to add the greeting to your card. And to combine it with a die-cut outside...just fabulous!

Such great ideas. Thanks Veronica for ripping open that box as soon as you got home!

The weekend is upon us - and I hope you get some great "crafty time" to yourself in the upcoming days. I will be checking in, as often as I can, from the CHA floor. If you have questions - leave them on the CHA thread on the message board. When I'm mobile, that is easier to check than my email.

Leave Veronica some "welcome-home-comment-love". Have yourself a great, happy-scrappin' weekend!

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ONE MORE POST ON RESOLUTIONS...

since that is the theme for the January release from QuicKutz.

Resolutions - a perfect theme for January. But not just resolutions are addressed. There are a few dies that could fall into categories like goals, to-dos, should-dos, and dreams.

The Scrapy Land "Fab Four" and I have been working with these dies for several days now. And you've probably guessed that we love them all. But everyone picked a couple of their favorites to start with - so let's dive right in:

EmmBee was most excited when she saw the newest QK Cookie Cutter Shape...

the Rooster! It's not because she lives near a farm, it's because she and her friends and family are ALL addicted to Farmville on Facebook. What a riot! But since it's part of her life right now, she saw this die and decided a page was in order! She also used - the retired QK Star Classic and Mini fonts, and 2x2s Present, Cat, Seed Packet, Sheep, Tulip, Funky Chicken, Strawberry, Cow, Tomato and Penguin. The "fence pieces" that come with this die could easily be formed to also make a T, a L, an E, a M, an N, an H, an I, or a K. What a cute idea!

Lolly was most excited about the newest QK Revolution Tags.

I looked at them and saw "more tags". Lolly looked at them and saw NEW TAGS! Here she wanted to just show you the size - as all four tags are on one die. But she also sent some closer peeks at her bitty tags of fun...

Using patterned paper, vellum, decorative scissors and stamped sentiments - she made up stacks of cute tags to include on goodie bags, in cards, oh backpacks or on edible treats! Don't these look just like cuppy-cakes?

And look at the lime green hearts {she catches on quick, doesn't she?}. How much fun can one person have with one little tag...

LOTS! See how she snipped the green tag to reveal little wedges of the brown cardstock underneath. CUTENESS! All kinds of cute ideas...just from tags.

When Lara saw this next die she said she knew exactly what to do with it...

She is helping to organize a "Spa Day" for her MOPs Group at church this Friday. Her contribution to the decorations...table cards! She used the NEW Revolution Bathtub, Wintergreen Scalloped Page Inserts, Santa's Workshop font along with her C3 and C5 Copics for the tub feet and shower head. E47 also colored her die-cut letters. The moms are going to love these!

I wanted to make sure that the Revolution Paper Doll fit inside the NEW Revolution Bathtub die. It does! I also used the NEW Revolution Spa Paper Doll and the NEW 2x2 Water Bottle. The letters are cut from the NEW 4x8 Garden Mini font.

EmmBee also chose to play with this DoubleKutz die...

the NEW Revolution Tea Set. {Wow this is a cute die, with lots of possibilities. I think they'd make the cutest invitations for a bridal shower.} EmmBee cut her tea bag from QK Adhesive Backed Vellum, and colored the "tea" with her E47 Copic. Gives the vellum a great, sheer look! She embossed her tea set with the Perfectly Paisley Embossing folder. Love how this looks! The font here is QK Sticky Note.

I told you Lolly loved the NEW Revolution Tags...

here she used the triangle tag from the set, added the NEW Garden font, and had an adorable little "love banner" for her husband. I've now got Valentine's Day ideas tumbling through my head. Thanks Lolly!

One of my resolutions this year is to better drinking water. My goal is 6 refills a day of this sized bottle. The NEW Cookie Cutter Door Hanger is perfectly sized to be a bottle neck tag...

I cut my letters and numbers from the NEW Garden font. All I have to do now is keep track each day of my "refills". This one tag lasted me all last week...and I was relatively successful in my water consumption goal! {LOL}

Lara also got to play with these dies...

the NEW Revolution Scale and the Revolution Weights. She cut her scale from QK Adhesive Backed Metal and embossed it with this folder. Love the look it gives! The fonts she used are QK Sticky Note and QK Chemistry.

Do you remember the pop-up card we did last November? Well EmmBee turned that simple pattern into a cute birthday card...

She printed her sentiments from the computer and used the NEW Revolution Cruise Ship & Waves. She added a teeny-tiny "HB" for her happy birthday ship with Studio SkinniMini - but the ship could be personalized with anything appropriate. CUTE CUTE CUTE!

Here's a front-on look so you can see how cute this ship is. Love the double-cut waves she added. Just love it!

This piece is from Lolly. And we've just changed her name to "flower-die-cutting-crazy-woman". Holy SCRAP! She cut 1.4 million Sizzix Flowers!

She made the base of her "calendar" out of a magnetic vent cover...{sound familiar??}. She made herself a window frame from chipboard, made a sleeve that can house whatever patterned paper is seasonally appropriate {teal wood grain paper is seasonally appropriate right now!} and then used all of the flowers to decorate the edges of the frame. But her centerpiece is the NEW Cookie Cutter Border Months of the Year. Hers is die-cut, and then she just free-cut a border around the shape. She put magnets on the back of her border die-cut...and then cut out all of the dates from the NEW Garden font. {she also possibly used this flower, and these flowers...LOL!}

All of those calendar dates are housed in this tiny little matchbox...

The dates again were die-cut and she hand-cut their border. More magnets and any kiddo you know can officially be the "family date changer" at breakfast each morning. What a fun idea!

And just to give you a better feel for the size of this border, Lolly sent this picture...

It's huge, and I am sure you'll find 1001 uses for it. A monthly collage of random photos, a fave photo of the month, a reminder of a "family night" once a month...all kinds of great stuff. If you've got on, feel free to share it!

Lara made one final card today, getting a start on her Valentine's cards...

she used the NEW Revolution Credit Cards, QK Banana Split, the 2x2 Hearts Mini and her Scalloped Border. Couldn't these be personalized a bunch of ways? How about using them for "coupons" for your kids or your husband. Great idea Lara, thanks!

I loved the NEW Revolution Apples as soon as I saw them...

This card went together in about 10 minutes. I used the NEW Apples, the Spellbinders Label Three and the Garden font.

And to show you a close-up of this NEW font, that it seems we all love...

it is a unicase font, but it has numbers and punctuation. Love that...thanks QK!

One more project tonight - and I'll save the final few for later tomorrow. I just have to show you how I've been using the NEW Days of the Week border.

My kids share a bathroom - but each have their own sink. They are forever standing at their sinks in the morning arguing over the "car schedule". Who is going where, what time is pickup, who gets dropped off where, etc. I hit on this idea when I opened this die.

I cut the Days of the Week border from Navy Blue Silhouette Vinyl, and stuck it to the mirror inbetween their sinks. With a write-on-wipe-off marker {that now resides in their toothbrush cup} they can easily see who is doing what today. Love this idea, and the best part is...so did my kids! Seriously, try it. Writing on the bathroom mirror - it's a good thing!

WHEW and double WHEW! Does that give you some ideas to go on? I sure hope so. We've had a bunch of fun with these dies, and the fun has only begun. Look for further inspiration, suggestions and tips in the weeks to come.

Leave your comment-questions, your comment-ideas or your wonderful comment-love here on this post. If an answer is due, we'll get on it as soon as we can, tomorrow.

I'm off to fire-up the studio...because we're doing Scrapy Land "Release Reveal" tonight. What fun we have here at Scrapy Land. And to think - this is just the January release.

You know what next week is - right?! {snicker, snicker LOL!}

OUR RESOLUTION WRAP-UP...

is today.

And YES, I know today is the 18th of January.

But I believe we're allowed to tweak, perfect, elaborate and revise our goals for the new year all January long. It makes sense, don't you think? Thirty-one days to plan out the next 334. {LOL!}

So Lolly took her "2010 Resolution" assignment, and decided to turn it into more of a monthly journey. A journey to fun, crafty adventures. To do this she took a chipboard album and covered the front and back...plus one interior page.

For now, check out some pictures, and I'll walk you through what she did:

First of all, she embellished the H-E-double-hockey-sticks out of her front cover. She covered the chipboard with quilt batting and then went to town with anything she could find in teal and lime green. Chipboard swirls, patterned papers and supplies to make up some cuter-than-cute individual flowers. COOL STUFF!

For her "2010" title she used the Label from the Santa's Workshop and embellished the title with a Sizzix Butterfly. To make the butterfly "pop" she simply die-cut two of them, stapled them to each other along their spine and covered the staples with some adhesive backed pearls. FUN IDEA!

{I'm going to try and talk Lolly into showing us how to make these flowers. Don't you think that'd be a fun idea? Ohhhhh Lolly.....}

Okay, but moving to the inside of her mini-album...

She covered the insides of her chipboard covers with paper, fabric and other cute accents. She used the Spellbinders Label Three set quite a bit...she said it's one of her fave dies. She used some Thickers from her stash to personalize her book, but this font is just exactly like QK Studio. Such a great classic font!

On the first page in her album, she made space for a "monthly mini album". This will be added to, the first day of each month. She's already half way into her January album-lette, and is in love with the process. Here she used her Sugarplum Mini Album Bundle. And you'll never guess what she cut most of her pages from...brown paper lunch sacks! I love it! Perfect for sketching, punching, tearing, altering and doing samples on. How fun!

You can see here that she filled her January album to capacity, using only the squared pages. Decorated and embellished and ready to go - this is soon to be full of "Lolly craft-isms". She explained to me that she plans to create a new "page" the first of each month so she has a place to document fun stuff for the month ahead. That's her actual resolution. Being organized, being prepared and documenting so nothing is forgotten. I love the concept!

{Edited To Add - I forgot to point out that she used her Spellbinders Labels Three to cut a felt spine for her mini album...so fun! She cut the felt piece first, then laid it inside the Sugarplum album die to get the holes and the perforated lines. She made her own spine! She said she "felt" so clever!}

Here she is showing off just a couple of her first pages for the month. New die purchases, new punch shapes, color combos, sketch ideas...it will ALL go in this little January album. She thinks it is going to be fun to go back and look through the whole year, as she documents her favorite techniques, papers and die-cuts.

See how she put some vellum pages in over some of the kraft pages...love the look it gives. Soft and subtle...but still totally usable!

For the back cover Lolly used her Santa's Workshop Label again, along with the Santa's Workshop font.

An awesome project - that starts off with just one page. But as the year moves on this teal-beauty will get fuller and fatter, thicker and more inspiring. I envision it, a year from now, full of snippets and scraps, hunks hanging out and tid-bits tucked in. {Lolly - you'll show us some pictures come July...won't you?}

In fact - I think we'll have to have a "June Resolution Check-In" and see how the "Fab Four" is doing on their goals, their progress and the personal challenges. GOOD STUFF!

If you have a question for Lolly, leave it here. Well, write out some comment-love first, then tack on your question at the end. She'll get back to you with a comment-answer toot-suite!

Tomorrow, January 19th is release day for QuicKutz. January's release is amazing, and I can't wait to show you some of the ideas we've come up with

But you'll have to check back tonight.

Official QK release time is midnight EST. Which is 9pm in California, 10pm in Arizona and 11pm in Texas. So be here at the appropriate time, and prepare to be inspired.

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MOVING RIGHT ALONG...

to our first full on project.

The first of the "Fab Four" overachievers! {LOL}

EmmBee worked long and hard on this little project. Which, in my book, means she has either a greater chance of achieving her resolution OR just has more scraps of cardstock to use up.

KIDDING!

She just took a different route. A more methodical and monthly approach to goals for 2010!

She use the Gingerbread Album Set as her starting point, pages and pockets. On her front page she used QK Diesel, QK Chicken Noodle, Chemistry, Holiday and Katie Grand. Love how the cover says EXACTLY what is under the cover. 2010...that's it. Plain and simple. {But you know me, I also love the mix of fonts!}

This is the page where she spells out her goals. She didn't like calling them resolutions. Goals made her happier. Here she used Jacqueline, 2x2 Football and a goal post made from the Heritage Set from the Santa's Workshop release. {Get it? Goals! CUTE!}

Then she simply went through the months. In January she lists another specific project - cooking with new recipes. But then she INCLUDED THE RECIPE! What a great idea. QK Calendar Die set {it's out of stock, but check back soon!}, Holiday Cookie Cutters, Recipe Die set and Chicken Noodle.

Her February pocket page is for her check lists...to document how many scrapbook pages she gets done. It also has a list of birthdays and a list for her walk times. She's planning to write her weight on the calendar pages. She also adds in birthday candle die-cuts on birth dates of family and friends. Hopefully helping to accomplish another one of 2010 goals! She used 2x2 Lips, 2x2 Vote, Oatmeal and Cookie Cutter Love set.

March continues on with pockets. Pockets she hopes to fill up with more recipes, more notes and more walking records! Dies used here include Cookie Cutter Spring and Cookie Cutter Flowers.

April is a very bright month, here EmmBee used Cookie Cutter Spring Set and the 2x2 Retired Easter Basket. Love how she put the die on the date of an event if it applied. {Visual reminders must work well in her family too!}

In May she has a busy month. Holidays and birthdays galore. She used 2x2 Candle, 2x2 Shooting Star, 2x2 Sun, and a whole bunch of blingy cardstock!

Now I could keep going, but this would end up being the longest post in Scrapy Land blog history. Instead here is an overall shot of the 12 month mini goal album...

you can click on the picture for an enlarged look.

The last few dies she used include: 2x2 Fireworks, 2x2 Open Book, 2x2 Boo, 2x2 Candy, 2x2 Bats, 2x2 Cornucopia, 2x2 manger, 2x2 Christmas Tree and the Sticky Note font.

EmmBee told me that she went through almost an entire glue pen on this one project. It's lots of pieces and lots of parts. But what a great finished project. I think it would be fun to add in a self-portrait to each month's pocket to track progress through the year. GO EMMBEE!

Wonderful inspiration, awesome presentation and great use of stashed supplies.

If you have any questions for EmmBee, leave a comment-question and she'll get back to you with a comment-answer. Otherwise...comment-love is always appreciated!

Monday - I will have the final Resolution Project from the "Fab Four"...Lolly. Can't wait to wrap up these projects and get ready for January's QK Release Day...which is Tuesday, January 19. {Which for you and me means 10pm Arizona time on Monday!}

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