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3d40 - Plan On It.

Today it's my turn to host the 3D Challenge on Paper Craft Planet.  We are thrilled to have Hope Stamps Eternal as our sponsor for this week, so not only can you make this quick and easy holiday planner -- you can win a prize too!

 

This planner was really simple and quick to make.  I bought the organizer at Target, for $3.99.  The planner came with three tabs and really generous pockets.  The red binding was already there, so all I had to do was just recover the rest of the binder in a coordinating paper.  I covered the inside and outside with Cosmo Cricket's Jolly by Golly patterned paper.  I printed "Christmas Planner," using my word processing program, onto vanilla cardstock and then just cut the shape out with my Labels 9 Nestabilities.  Add some ribbon and label your tabs and you're done!

This week, I'm challenging you to make your own planner.  You can make one to hold birthday cards, as a calendar for next year, to organize your grocery shopping, or get your holidays under control.  Take a picture of your planner and tag your photo 3d40 (all lowercase) so that we can pull your project into our gallery. (If you're new to Paper Craft Planet, here is an excellent tutorial on adding photos to the gallery!) Next Wednesday, we'll pick one lucky, random, winner from our challenge players to win this generous prize!

 

Special thanks to this week's sponsor:

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On the 3rd Day of Christmas...

Welcome to Day Three of our 12 Days of Christmas campaign! For 12 days, the Super Novas will show you awesome and easy gift giving ideas, and you can play along and win prizes by participating in a scavenger hunt! Keep reading for a clue and chance to win!

I had SO MUCH FUN with today's project!!!!! When I found these adorable snowmen images on The Stamping Boutique's website, I knew I had to use them for these dish towels! (My original idea was dinner napkins, but post-Thanksgiving, I couldn't find them.) I love how they turned out and for less than $20, I have a custom gift that will be kept from year to year.

To create these towels, I simply printed the images onto Avery iron-on transfer paper -- I got mine at Target. If you can find the "stretchable" version, buy it -- but any light fabric transfer paper works beautifully. I've successfully colored the images with Copics and pencils in the past, but today, I was having trouble, so I colored them on my computer. I've whipped up a video for you to see how to do this for yourself.

The nice thing about digital coloring is that you color once and save it -- and can print your finished image over and over again. I'm going to print these same snowmen onto inkjet shrink film tomorrow and make wine charms to go with the towels!

Today's scavenger hunt is sponsored by The Stamping Boutique! You could win an GREAT prize if you can solve our clue...

12 Days of Christmas, that's the game

you must find a stamp by the same name.

There are 12 snowmen, but we need just one,

find today's man and you will have won!

Find a product on the The Stamping Boutique website that fits the clue and you could be our winner! Leave a comment here with your answer. We will pick a random winner for all the CORRECT entries on December 4th.

Do you want to know what you’re playing for? Leave the correct entry and you could win a Martha Stewart “Punch Around the Page” set for the prize AND TSB store gift certificate for $25.00!!!!

Don't comment here -- play along on Paper Craft Planet! Click here to enter to win!

Check the Paper Craft Planet main page every day through December 12th to play along! (You can visit the http://www.papercraftplanet.com/profiles/blog/list for past projects!)

Scrappy Sunday and Scrapbook Saturday -- October 18 - 25, 2009

Hey everyone. I told Jen that I would do my best to post this week's Scrappy Sunday Challenge, while she's out of town. If this gets posted I'll be amazed as I haven't a clue what I'm doing, especially late in night Saturday. :) No worries, all will be back to normal next week & Jen will be back administering this.

This week's sketch might require a bit of rough draft so you can get the journaling around the outside of the page. I think it looks cool ever since I saw Ali Edwards do it on her layouts & if you can do it in your own handwriting, how lovely & personal. Digi scrappers & traditional scrappers, hopefully you'll have some fun with this. I did forget to sketch in embellishments, with all the pics on the page ... um sorry :) I'm sure you'll all be able to find somewhere to put them in (for me I just did it around the photos themselves).

The sketch is in 12"x12" square format, but you can switch it up to fit your scrapbook (flip or rotate the sketch, and move things around a bit, but try to stay true to the basic outline of the sketch. Have Fun!!) I've always scrapbooked in 8.5x11", but the basic square template is there. Anyhow, I hope some of you will have the chance to play along.

We'd love to see some of you family & friends uploaded & tagged sb102509 so we can put them in the album . For a free psd template for you digi scrappers, check out the link on Tethered2Home

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Scrapbooking Inspiration

Scrapbooking Mini-Books

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Fun with Photoshop:

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Scrappy Sunday and Scrapbook Saturday, on Monday

I'm really sorry about the lateness of this post. I took a much needed day of rest yesterday! Paper Craft Planet's Scrappy Sunday Challenge: Hi! Sorry I missed you guys last week!! Thanks Susanna for taking over for me!! I'm going to be out of town for continuing education for work next week, so I'll have a guest hostess next week as well, so everyone be on your best behavior!! (I'm having flash backs to grade school when the teacher would tell us we were going to have a substitute the next day!! hee hee). This week's sketch was actually designed by one of our former Scrappy Sunday Guest Designers, the oh-so-talented Crystal Livesay! Crystal recently opened up shop at the Digichick and is designing and selling digital templates inspired by her own amazing scrapbook layouts! Check out her store HERE. I've purchased all of her templates packs so far and they are seriously AWESOME!! If you're a digi scrapper and like to use a template, these are definitely a must-have!! If you'd like to buy the entire kit (it comes with 4 templates total) that includes the template I used for this week's sketch (and make your scrapping super easy this week if you're a digi scrapper), you can pick it up HERE in Crystal's store at the Digichick. Here's a look at the sketch:

The sketch features one main photo with lots of fun layered papers. Those "x"s represent embellishments of your choice. Feel free to include additional photos if you're a multi-photo scrapper, just try to stay true to the original sketch by building off the main focal point. If you play along, be sure to use the tag sb101809 (all lower case) so we can find your layouts to pull into the gallery! And remember, all forms of scrapbooking - traditional, digi and hybrid are welcome!! As always, feel free to flip or rotate the sketch or add or remove layers as needed, just as long as the original layout design is recognizable!! And here's a look at my sample:

Credits: Jumpers 5-8 Templates by Crystal Livesay (the Digichick); Wild and Craz-He by Traci Reed (Sweet Shoppe) Join the Scrappy Sunday Challenge Group Check out our gallery for this week!The Best of the Blogosphere Scrapbooking lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

Thumbs Up!

Scrapbooking Inspiration

Scrapbooking Mini-Books

Hybrid (or "Fusion") Scrapbooking Ideas:

Fun with Photoshop:

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Best of the Scrapbook Blogosphere - 10/11/09

The Best of the Blogosphere Scrapbooking lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

Thumbs Up!

Scrapbooking Inspiration

Scrapbooking Mini-Books

Hybrid (or "Fusion") Scrapbooking Ideas:

Fun with Photoshop:

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Card of the Week & Best of the Blogosophere: October 2 - 9, 2009

So guess what I made yesterday

Seriously cute, right?!  I made this for our neighborhood "Phantom" game.  (It's the same game as "Boo" -- if you've ever heard of that.)  Before you think I'm that good -- I totally cheated.  I used Jen's Jeepers Creepers set.  This literally took me only as long as printing and cutting to whip out.  My neighbors think I'm Martha Stewart now!  

I will take credit for the cute cakes -- they are Little Debbie snack cakes with icing piped ghosts. :-D

 

Best of the Blogosphere lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

The Shout Out List (my favorite CARDS OF THE WEEK): The cards and projects that earned some extra love and attention this week. The best of the best. You people ROCK MY WORLD :D

Halloween:

Fall::

Thanksgiving:: Christmas::

Snow:
Teacher:

Card Sets:

Wedding:

Invitations:

Friendship:

Wrap it Up:

Favors (Party favors...):

Thank You:

Birthday:

Gift Ideas:

Baby:

Boxes:

The Best of the Blogosphere: In my travels through Blogland, I discover a lot of projects, cards, scrapbook pages, tips, templates and tutorials that are all worth sharing. I want my friends to see the things out there that are special, inspirational, worth some extra notice. This list is everything I think is worth sharing... better read it... you could be on the list!

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Scrappy Sunday and the Scrapbooking BOB - 10/04/09

Hey! Sorry about the posting delay.  I spent yesterday getting Copic Certified!!! (Whoo Whooo!)  I'm adding a new list to our Scrappy Sunday Best of the Blogosphere -- it's the "Thumbs Up!" list.  It's a Shout Out list for our scrappers.  I thought it was time to have our own way of praising those amazing, above and beyond pages -- you know, the ones you book mark and go back to time and time again.

 For our Scrappy Sunday Challenge this week, we have some fun news, so I'll turn the "mic" over to Jen....

Wow! Can you believe it's already October!?!? Crazy, huh? This week's sketch should be an easy one for ya - I kept it pretty simple with very few layers (feel free to add them). I'd like to add an optional "bonus challenge" for you to include some interesting title work on your page, making it a focal point of your layout. (See my sample for inspiration).

Here's the sketch:

If you play along, be sure to use the tag sb100409 (all lower case) so we can find your layouts to pull into the gallery! And remember, all forms of scrapbooking - traditional, digi and hybrid are welcome!! As always, feel free to flip or rotate the sketch or add or remove layers as needed, just as long as the original layout design is recognizable!!

And here's my sample:

Credits: You Make My World Go Round by Lauren Grier and Heather Roselli; DJB Poppyseed font by Darcy Baldwin (all from Sweet Shoppe).

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Now, onto the Best of the Blogosphere Scrapbooking lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

Thumbs Up!

Scrapbooking Inspiration

Scrapbooking Mini-Books

Hybrid (or "Fusion") Scrapbooking Ideas:

Fun with Photoshop:

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Halloween Goodies

Guess what?  My good friend, Jen Tapler, has combined forces with one of my favorite digi designers, Libby Weifenbach, to create a pack of ready-to-print Halloween Hybrid goodies using her latest kit, Jeepers Creepers.

I'm so excited to introduce you to the Jeepers Creepers Hybrid Printables kit on sale NOW at Sweet Shoppe Designs!! Here's the preview of our Hybrid Kit:

The kit is regularly priced at only $4.99, but you can get it TODAY ONLY (Saturday, Sept 12) for 20% off, making it only $3.99 for the ENTIRE kit of printables!! You'll receive 2 card fronts, 3 different gift tags, a tall popcorn cup, a short popcorn cup, and a cookie wrap!!

The files come in both png and pdf format - making it easy for papercrafters of just about any hybrid experience to use!! If you're familiar with Photoshop and working in layers you can use the .png files and customize your print-outs a bit. If you don't have photo-editing software installed on your computer, not to worry!! You can use the .pdf files and print directly from Adobe Reader. (and if for some reason you don't have Adobe Reader installed, you can download it for free HERE). Jen also included full instructions for printing & assembling (as well as some basic Hybrid Tips) in both a Word and Text document with the download! There's really no need for any digital experience at all to create these hybrid goodies!! Simply download and unzip the files, open up the individual pdf files for each project and hit "print"!! (then of course, cut them out and assemble!! LOL).

Here's a closer look at some of the projects in the kit:Those cute little gift tags are included as individual png files and also as a pdf file of a single sheet of 12 tags (4 of each design), which you can print as many times as you need!!

One more time, HERE is the link where you can purchase this fun Halloween Printables kit and get a jump-start on your Halloween treats!!

Scrappy Sunday and Scrapbook Sunday -- both on Monday :P

OK, it's Scrappy Sunday on Paper Craft Planet and  I decided to play along. Truthfully, I realized yesterday that I haven't scrapped ANY of 2009, because I'm still working on my 2008 album. It's lit a fire under my rear end to start getting some pages done. Sketch challenges are a great way to motivate yourself.  Below, I'll add the sketch challenge, but I'll put my page here so you can see what I did this morning. 

If anyone has some recommendations for what this page "needs" comment on this post.  I'm dying to add a title, but I can't figure out font and placement, so I just decided to "press on".

 

I don't do a lot of digi scrapping, but it's SO MUCH FASTER once you know how, so I did it here.  This entire page was made using Libby Weifenbach's Peanuts & Cracker Jacks kit.  (Both boys play ball, so I figured this is a great kit for hybrid goodie bags, coach's gifts, etc.)  (Guess what?!  I just looked -- everything in Libby's store is 30% off this week!)

Onto Scrappy Sunday....

this next bit is from Jen (I want to be Jen when I grow up...):

Did you think I forgot about you? LOL! Nope! I'm just completely thrown off by this holiday weekend. I spent the entire day today thinking it was Saturday!! Technically, it's still Sunday in Hawaii so I'm saying I'm still good!! This week's sketch was heavily inspired by a digital template from the Love Being Single template pack by BellaGypsy Designs (GottaPixel) - I just moved things around a big and removed a few layers to make it more paper-scrapper friendly! Take a look:

The sketch is below. If you play along, be sure to use the tag sb090609 (all lower case) so we can find your layouts to pull into the gallery! And remember, all forms of scrapbooking - traditional, digi and hybrid are welcome!! Here's a look at my digi sample (I rotated the sketch and added a few extra layers):

Credits: Love Being Single template by Bella Gypsy Designs (GottaPixel); Playtime by Juno Designs (ScrapMatters)

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Check out our gallery for this week!

Now, onto the Best of the Blogosphere Scrapbooking lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

Scrapbooking Inspiration

Scrapbooking Mini-Books

Hybrid (or "Fusion") Scrapbooking Ideas:

Fun with Photoshop:

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Scrappy Sunday Challenge and Best of the Scrapping Blogosphere

Another Scrappy Sunday challenge to lead off our week of scrapbooking goodies --

It's been a while since I have had the pleasure of hosting! I'm doing a traditional scrap layout today, but it's super easy, and feel free to go digi :)

In my sample, I did a page for my boys' day at the All Star baseball game and homerun derby. I didn't have a lot of strong photos for this event, so I changed the center photo to an embellishment.

A couple of tips and tricks for this layout. I LOVE Cosmo Cricket paper collections. They are good for the color challenged of us out there, that need some help coordinating papers. I'm CHEAP with paper -- I didn't want to use up two pages in order to make this one layout, so I cut the center square out and then flipped the page over and taped it back together! Here's a close up of the back so you can see how I have it taped.

I'd love for you to play along this week! Tag your photo sb083009 so that I can add your picture to our photo album for this week. (Here is a tutorial on adding pictures to the gallery, if you need it.) I can't wait to see what you make!

Join the Scrappy Sunday Challenge Group

Check out our gallery for this week!

Now, onto the Best of the Blogosphere Scrapbooking lists. Remember these lovely little boxes don't show up in Google Reader, so if you can't see them, click on over to my site and they will magically appear. (When you see the boxes, there is a small "read more" in the bottom, right hand corner... click it and you can see the list with pictures as a web page!)

Scrapbooking Inspiration

Scrapbooking Mini-Books

Hybrid (or "Fusion") Scrapbooking Ideas:

Fun with Photoshop:

Please remember that my site is powered by YOU. Please comment here if you'd like me to read your blog or if you have seen some amazing blog art that I'm missing! Thanks!