IT'S DESTRUCTION-MONDAY...

here in Arizona. And my construction workers don't seem to care a bit about papers, stamps, photographs or dies.

Grrrrr - they just keep trudging past my studio, leaving a trail of drywall dust in their wake.

So I've covered everything with sheets, put an extra layer of plastic over my paper stash...and retreated to the guest room. Along with the dogs.

{We'll see who holds out longer. Me or the beasts!}

For some creative inspiration today, I've got a couple of pages to share.

The first one is from EmmBee... 

She started on this last week, does the layout look familiar? It's the Scrapy Land Starting Blox #1. She just flipped it over on its side, and filled in some of the photo-spots with journaling instead. I LOVE IT!

She used her Silhouette SD to cut out the peanut butter jar and banana. Then she grabbed her dies and used the QK CC Breakfast {for the bread, plate and knife} Holiday 4x8 {spreading}, Oatmeal {the, with}, Gazebo {love}, Diesel Classic {Poppy}, QK Beads border, 2x2 Heart Speech  Bubble, Aquarius 4x8 {L, O, V, E} and her Copic C3 for a bunch of shadows and all around accents.

What an adorable page, documenting a precious memory. Memories ladies - that's what it's all about.

Of course, you don't have to just scrapbook memories. You could do what Veronica did and scrapbook plans...

 

This is a page with no pictures, because the event hasn't happened yet. It's a race Veronica has registered to run in this spring. She said if the page was already designed, she'd have more accountability to going through with it! What a great idea!

Veronica used the QK CC Runners from the January release, along with the 2x2 Running Shoe, her Teriyaki and Central Park fonts and some Glimmer Mists for this awesome masking effect.

All she has to do is have her hubby snap a picture as she blazes through the finish line, and she'll be all set. Another page for the books. GO GET 'EM Veronica, we'll be cheering for you!

My husband just left for the NFL Combine, and the construction crew is here all week. {Did I mention the drywall dust?} To keep my mind off of the fact that he bailed on me - how about a Scrapy Land LIVE?!?! 

Tuesday, February 23rd 6pm MST

"Stamping 101"

No password needed, no supplies necessary. Just an informative demo about stamping, clear acrylic, red rubber, paper and ink and some basic coloring techniques. If you have any specific questions you'd like me to address or demo, please leave a comment here so I am prepared to answer them for you.

And if you would, leave the girls some comment-love...it makes their scrappy day! If you have any other questions that I can help you with, please feel free to do the same. I'll try my best to get back to you with a comment-answer!

Hammering be damned!

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DON'TCHA JUST LOVE...

secrets!

Not February QuicKutz secrets.

Or sparkly Glimmer Mist secrets.

Or Distress Inks shipment secrets.

But just general-run-of-the-mill-I'm-a-goofy-blogger-fun-to-have-under-your-hat secrets.

Well I love 'em...and I get to share it with you in just a couple of days. On Super Bowl Sunday. On birthday Sunday. In four more days!

{you're going to love it - just trust me on this one - and relax it doesn't involve shopping!}

Hey - it's Wednesday. "Hump-Day" if you will. WOOT WOOT...how about a little more inspiration today?

A little die-cutting, inky-stamping, lovey-dovey inspiration!

Lolly is already in the Valentine spirit, and is cranking out some beautimous cards...

Lolly just received this QuicKutz Butterfly die and is IN LOVE with it. {Rumor has it she has covered an entire bedroom wall, filled three nightstand drawers and decoupaged her refrigerator!} She decided to make up a few Valentine cards that weren't necessarily heart-filled or predominantly red...and I LOVE THEM! She used the butterfly, the smallest Nesting Label from the Santa's Workshop Gift Set and the Oatmeal font.

Here is the same card "layout", but she changed up the colors, the patterns and the supplies. She used the same QK Butterfly and the Nesting Label...but she cut the label out of thin cotton batting. CUTENESS! What a fun little backdrop for her turquoise-blingy flutterby! Fun, fun, FUN!

EmmBee is also working on Valentine cards, but with her little girlies. This idea she came up with is perfect for young ones. They can do the assembling all by themselves! She used the Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Heart die {the third largest heart cut twice, the smallest heart cut three times}. A couple of circle punches, for the eyeballs and they were all set. Teach your kiddos how to set-up an assembly line...and you photograph the fun! {The font she used is a Sizzlits Strip called Honky Dory}

Here is one more kiddo-approved card. Cut your card bases from the Spellbinders Labels Eight - folding your cardstock in half first, and keeping the fold inside the left hand cut line. VIOLA - a shaped card. Then use your Spellbinders Classic Hearts again, the QK Lemonade font for size-appropriate letters and any 2x2 QK Heart and let your young spellers go to town. LOVE 'EM...just love 'em!

Lara wanted to throw out one more idea using the January QuicKutz release. She made up a bunch of invitations and decided on a mass-production style. This means, she printed her information onto cardstock from the computer and simply added a die-cut as a finishing touch. She used the NEW Alarm Clock {I think it's one of her faves!}.

And when I say she mass produced them, I mean mass produced...

She said it was great using up a bunch of scraps for this project, and no two are the same. Each person got a unique invite...and she was done with the project before she knew it! BRILLIANT!

I've been chatting with several of you about my excitement with the new stamp lines Dani is bringing to Scrapy Land. But have no fear ladies...I love die-cutting as much as I love stamping. I'm not giving up one for the other. The thing I love about the lines he ordered is I think they mix so well with shapes in the QuicKutz line and Nestabilities in the Spellbinders line. They work wonderfully hand-in-hand.

I used "Mer Ian" from The Greeting Farm {the cutest little merman I've ever seen!}, colored him with bunches of Copics {I will get better about photographing the stack of colors I use, I promise!}, cut him out with my Deckled Rectangle Nestabilities, tossed on a starfish and seashell from the Relax NSD Gift Set and added my sentiment with Oatmeal and Moxie.

This translates to "see you later". Had to get "sea" in there, and used a little teen-talk for my daughter. This got tucked in her suitcase this morning as she heads out of town for 3 days.

Scrapy Land LIVE! DEMO tonight:

• no password needed
• 6pm MST {AZ time...that's 5pm in CA, 7pm in TX and 8pm in FL}
• no supplies, it's just a demo tonight
• we'll be talking ALL THINGS EPIC, Epic cutting, Epic embossing, Epic Flex Mats, Epic platforms, etc.
• bring your questions, or email me ahead of time
• if you want to chat live, or ask questions on the fly, you'll need to be logged in
• spread the word, the more the merrier!

Any questions - you know what to do. And GOBS of comments yesterday, YAY! Lots of entries for the "birthday celebration week" prizes. LOVE IT! Same goes for today...leave 'em here to be entered!

{Sorry for the length of this post - but I'm now officially caught up with everything the "Fab Four" sent me while I was at CHA! THANKS for reading along to the end!}

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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}

Scrapy Land LIVE! DEMO tomorrow night - 6pm MST. I'll try to keep it to 30 minutes, but I keep adding points to mention. LOL - I'll do my best. You DO NOT NEED A PASSWORD, just follow the link in the sidebar to UStream.

Thanks for the comments yesterday ladies - WE LOVE comments. We especially love comments from first time visitors. WELCOME and thank you! All comments were entered in the drawing...as will all comments on today's post.

Remind me and I'll show you the prizes during the demo.

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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!}

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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