Tag You're It: 5x4 mini chipboard album

I made a mini chipboard album about 5x4 a few weeks ago for the 'Tag Your It' challenge over at Frosted Designs. If you haven't had a chance to check out the store yet, go have a look! There are lots of new products out and this week the special is 25% off your order!!! Www.frosted-designs.us

Items from the store I used are:

MME Cut & Paste collection

MME cut & paste chipboard stickers

Pink Paislee Colorwash tags

Um Wow chevron confetti

Um Wow chipboard frames

Studio Calico wood veneer cameras

Prima everyday vintage sugardot stickers

And here are a few photos:

This is my favorite page. I had fun stamping banners and making a journal spot with a tag stamp.

That's about it for today! I hope I have inspired you to get scrapping! I can't believe that next week is thanksgiving. Looking forward to a shorter week at work, a good meal with new family, and a girls day too with my new scrapping buddies! Until then, peace y'all!!

Welcome to the Frosted Designs 'Quote' Blog Hop~ July 26- July 31

Welcome to the Frosted Designs Quote Blog Hop!

We are so glad you could join us!!!

You should have joined me from Sandee's blog, don't worry, there's a list at the end in case you get lost along your way! There are 7 wonderful and incredibly talented hosts 

that will inspire you, along with

2 awesome sponsors!!!!

 Our first sponsor is Artful Delight.

Artful Delight is a monthly scrapbooking and card kit club designed to bring you the latest and greatest scrapbook products.  Our kits are jammed packed with fabulous pattern paper, coordinating cardstock, chipboard shapes, ribbon, buttons, stickers, and so much more from manufacturers like Pink Paislee, Fancy Pants, Crate Paper, American Crafts, Basic Grey, Tim Holtz, and Graphic 45, just to name a few. We try to keep scrappers and card makers in mind when creating our kits.  Allowing our kits to have to most versatility.  Our scrapbook kits will allow you to create at least 4-5 layouts.

Artful Delight monthly kits are offered at an amazing single monthly price , and  at 3 and 6 month subscriptions, our 6 month subscription will give you the best value. We offer shipping to the US, Canada and Internationally.  (For Canadian and International orders please email leeanne@artfuldelight.com)

One lucky winner will receive their choice of Artful Delight's August Scrapbook kit or card kit.

Our second sponsor is Words or Whatever.

 Words or Whatever was created as a subsidiary company to NEIL'S TIMBER SIGNS after purchasing a laser engraving machine.  Words or Whatever is run by Suzanne and Neil Webster on the lovely Central Coast of NSW.

We can cut chipboard in both 1.2mm and 1.8mm, MDF from 3mm to 25mm thick, acrylic, felt and cardstock.  We specialise in custom orders that have no minimum quantities.  Please don't hesitate to contact us with your requests.  We can also provide custom made items exclusive to individual stores at no extra charge.  Do you want something in particular?  Well just ask us!!  This means you can offer this service to your customers so they can order their children's names or individual titles for their pages.

One lucky winner will receive their choice of 15 pieces of chipboard.

So without further ado, here are the details of the blog hop!!!!

1. You need to hop to every blog on the list.

2. Leave a comment on the Frosted Designs blog telling us that you completed the hop.

3. Complete a Quote project and link it up to the inlinkz on this post!  

Your project must contain all or part of this quote:

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."  Author:  Laura Ingalls Wilder

For my project using this amazing quote, I decided to step out of my regular project of layouts and do a chipboard mini album! I had some fantastic pictures from our first trip to Cannon Beach, Oregon last month and it just reminded me of this quote. The simple things in life- sun, sand, waves crashing, salt water taffy, good local seafood. That is why I decided to take on this project! It took me a little longer than I had planned but I am really happy with the way it turned out! Check out my photos here! WARNING: THERE ARE ALOT! LOL

If I had the time I would sit here and list all the products and items I used, maybe one day I will go back and add them all! It was so much fun jumping back into making minis! I feel some major mojo going on right now!;) And as a thank you to my loyal followers and new friends, I am giving away a little rak of my own...check it out:

Lots of fun embellishments in here, even some homemade tags and also a few things I put together myself. I realize its kind of a girly color palette so sorry if you have boys :( 

All you have to do to be entered to win this fun stuff (plus a few more things not pictured- like paper!!!) is

#1 leave a comment on this post about whether you are a faithful reader or new friend, also with your email included so I may contact you afterwards

#2 be a follower of my blog on blogger or google plus

#3 Please go "LIKE' my fb page: https://www.facebook.com/vvcrafts

The winner will be drawn by Random.org on August 1st! Good Luck and Happy Hopping!!

Your next stop on the hop is Joni: http://www.joniparkerstuff.blogspot.com/

 If you get lost on the way here is the order of the blog hop:

Debbie  http://lovelifeslittlepleasures.blogspot.com/

Sandee  http://inthehillsofnorthcarolina.blogspot.com/

Katie http://www.vintagevixencrafts.blogspot.com/- you are here

Joni  http://www.joniparkerstuff.blogspot.com/

Tamra   http://www.tamrascraftypapercreations.blogspot.com/

Lydia  http://www.kiwimumscraps.blogspot.com/

Anita  http://theflamingochronicals.blogspot.com/

Artful Delight  http://artfuldelight.blogspot.com

Words of Whatever Facebook Page(pleaselike) 

http://www.facebook.com/messages/1449051252#!/wordsorwhatever?fref=ts

The Day he PROPOSED!! {6x8 mini chipboard album}

Good evening, everyone! I am here tonite a share a project with you that I made a few weeks back as part of my submission for the Scrappin' Frenzy Design team. Well, this particular mini album has been up at the store since it's submission and I only got the chance to take some pics of it when we had the meet the DT party back on June 2nd. They aren't the greatest pictures, and for whatever reason I still can't get them to rotate right, so sorry if reading this post makes your neck hurt :( I just wanted to share cause I was so happy with how it turned out. 

First, I started with the turquoise lush album kit with coordinating papers, brads and journaling blocks from My Mind's Eye. I won this kit a while back at a weekend crop and I have been saving it for something special! I figured that documenting the entire day of what we did from morning to night that Jimmy proposed to me would be perfect! On top of what came in the turquoise lush kit, I added some recollections flowers and cabachons, as well as stamping and stickles, of course!!! So here are some pics, have a lookie:

That's all for tonite! Hope your neck doesn't hurt too bad cause of my messed up pictures! Sorry blogger is just not cooperating at the moment. Until next time, Peace Y'all~VV

Supplies List:

Turquoise Lush flocked chipboard album- My Mind's Eye

Turquoise lush flocked journaling blocks/ coordinating papers/brads- My Mind's Eye

Recollections- teal and orange paper flowers

Recollections- teal and orange flower cabochons

mixed ribbons and fibers, vintage button- from stash

Stickles- metallic copper, crystal

mini 'sweet love' stamp by Studio G

Tim Holtz distress ink- tea dye and antique linen

blue decorative key- Martha Stewart crafts

Resin elements- Recollections

Brown Zig writer

brown/ tan flowers- Prima

Woodshop letters 'sawdust' by Pink Paislee

{super-mini 4x4 album} :Sunny Dayz!!

Good evening, blogland! I'm here tonight to share a super-cute super-quick super-mini album that I made this afternoon as part of my shares for the 'Meet the DT' party this Saturday at Scrapping Frenzy! We are supposed to make a board of some sort, talking about what products we like, what we like about scrapbooking, etc. and also bring some projects. Well everything I turned in is still up at the store, so I haven't had a chance to photograph it and share it here, but I wanted to have a new project or two to share, so I had to come up with something! I was digging thru an old storage box and I found this pretty basic old school mini album kit by We R Memory Keepers. I think I might have won it at a crop a few years ago. It came with 3 sheets of 6x6 paper, 2 chipboard covers, some 4x4 plain white papers, 2 paper flowers, and 2 binder rings. So I thought man, this would be super cute to add stuff to and make a super mini album! I love making minis but this is the first time I worked with this size- 4x4, and I loved it! I was able to complete the entire thing in about 4 hours this afternoon with breaks in between! I really like how it turned out. I wasn't exactly sure what photos I was going to use at first I just started pulling out papers and embellishments from my stash that I thought would complement what it already came with. So this is what I came up with- the title of it is 'Sunny Days':

 You can see how fat it is with all the embellishments!! It stands up on it's own!

 I had these old letter stickers in my stash and to re vamp them a little I smudged some glossy accents on top of them to make it look a little more dimensional.

 I love the look of the yellow baker's twine tied thru the buttons!!

 And my fav, a baker's twine bow! looks so great next to a few flowers and some buttons, of course!

 This is my favorite 2 pages! I love this picture of  Jimmy and I and also I like the cluster I did.

 oops! this one is upside down!

 And the back of the super-mini!

That's all for tonite folks! I hope to have something else to share in the next few days- this is going to be a creative week I can already tell! Glad I got the MOJO going again! If you live in the Mobile/Daphne area, come by Scrapping Frenzy on Saturday morning from 10-2 and have a little party with us! It's all about meeting the new design team and sharing techniques and projects! I can't wait! Goodnight y'all~ VV

Supplies List:

We R Memory Keepers 4x4 mini album kit- 3 patterned papers, 2 chipboard covers, 1 sheet vellium sentiments, 2 paper flowers, 2 binder rings

floral paper- unknown from stash

Tim Holtz distress ink in 'antique linen'

Tim Holtz paper distressing tool

DCWV textured cardstock mat stack- neutrals (yellow, light yellow, green, cream)

Colorbox chalk ink cat's eye in dark brown

Recollections- yellow paper roses, yellow rose cabachons, metal buttons

vintage buttons, clear postage stickers, blingy flower stickers, chipboard tag-from stash

stickles-yellow
large layered flower w/ corduroy button- K&Company

caramel colored gel ink pen

brown/white ribbon, blue dot ribbon, and fuzzy ribbon, metal anchor buttons-from stash

yellow and white baker's twine- Scrapping Frenzy

XL Vintage Girl button- Purple Pumpkin Crafts