Layout overload & a fun giveaway

I've got more sneek peeks to share later but right now I have about 1,000 layouts to post!

This month I got to work with the fun Who's There line from My Little Shoebox.

I love these fun new scalloped papers that My Little Shoebox has come out with.

{I actually cut the middle out of this one to make this layout}

This is a quick card using some of the die cuts from this line.

{sorry for the lousy picture-I could not get a good one!}

I really just wanted to play with these colorful papers and make fun flowers!

{and I like how they look against the kraft paper}

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IT IS NOT HERE

BECAUSE

IT IS BEING

PUBLISHED!!!

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And while I was sitting there, I did a simple card based on the above layout using the scraps I had leftover.

{I love these Sprinkles alphabet stickers!)

Don't forget about the My Little Shoebox layout contest going on at 2peas!
The deadline is April 15th so you still have time!
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This is my latest contribution to the KI gallery.
I actually scrapped these pictures about a year ago.
But I scrapped them digitally when I got all ambitious for about a day and a half and tried to learn digi.
Who was I foolin'??
I decided I needed something in paper to be able to physically put in an album.
{and I really wanted to play with the new KI Playful Pets line!}

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And one more...
I did this layout for this week's challenge over on the American Crafts blog.
The challenge is to use the new Craft Fair line.
{and that was no challenge for me because this is my favorite of their new lines!}
**THE LAYOUT IS NOT HERE

BECAUSE IT IS BEING PUBLISHED**
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Ooooh one more BIG thing...
Check it out!
Lucy is giving away 5 spots to the Scrap Etc event!
{NO April fools!}

This is what her email said:
We are giving away FIVE spaces to the Scrap ETC event!
And we have FIVE ways you can win:
1. Post a comment on the blog.
2. Tell your friends to come and post a comment, and if they do, tell us that they referred you! Both of you will get a chance!
3. Post this contest on your blog---and post a link in our comments!
4. Post a link in the comments to anywhere else online that you have posted about this!
5. Post it on your facebook or twitter status---and let us know that you did!
We will draw the names Thursday morning,April 2nd!
Start posting NOW!

Good luck!
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Happy Tuesday
and good night!
gretchen

Ooooh looky

Look at all these fun books that Memory Makers was so nice to send me to give away during my classes at the Scrap Etc event.

I am pretty sure a couple of those books (Playing with Paper there on the top by Angelia Wigginton and Scrapbook Secrets by Kimber McGray there about 4 books up from the bottom) are brand spankin' new!

You may not even be able to buy them yet.

{but you may get one if you come to my class...wink, wink}

Enough from me for one day?
I think so.

:)
gretchen

Teasing

Just teasing you with a couple more sneak peeks for my class at the Scrap Etc event.

My class is called "Six of one; half dozen of another".

We will be making 6 12x12 pages and 6 cards!

I hope you will come.

It is going to be fun!

Now carry on with your usual Monday.

I hope it is a good one!

gretchen

Sneak peeks!

YAY!
Products are arriving for my Scrap Etc event class!

I tell ya-it is a fun thing to be buried under piles of scrapbooking goodness.

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I've got a few big ole boxes of American Crafts products in my kitchen just ready to be packed up into kits.
Thickers anyone??

I am excited to get to use the new Craft Fair line from American Crafts!

And no class of mine is complete without these little embellies.
So who is coming??
I have not checked the list of attendees lately so let me know if you are coming.
And there are still a few spots available {I think}.
So go sign up if you haven't already!
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Scrap Etc Event: Wishful Thinking
Atlanta, GA
April 30-May 2
{that is National Scrapbooking Day weekend!}
Fabulous line up of teachers: Jessica Sprague, Jenni Bowlin, Melodee Langworthy, Elizabeth Kartcher, & Margie Romney-Aslett!
classes!
crop time!
shopping!
door prizes!
YAY!
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Other sponsors for my class include KI Memories, My Little Shoebox, Prism, and My Mind's Eye.
Be on the look out for a couple more sneak peeks from me in the next couple of days!

Happy Sunday!
gretchen

TGIF

Well I am in a much better mood now.
{for several reasons but mostly because it is almost Friday & I am working only a 1/2 day tomorrow and Meredith & Derek are engaged and I got a cute shirt from NYC from my parents and my brother-David or page 6 as many of you know him-is moving back to the South and my house is clean and, well you know, life ain't that bad}

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Anywhooo, I posted this layout today over on the MMM blog.
I made this one based on Becky Fleck's halfmap in the March/April issue of Memory Makers.

Supplies: Patterned paper (American Crafts: red scallop, KI Memories: black & green), Chipboard alphabet (American Crafts), Chipboard embellishments (KI Memories), Brads (KI Memories), Misc (kraft paper, staples)

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Speaking of Memory Makers, have you seen the announcement for the 2010 {that is weird to type} Masters Contest??
Check it out here.
They have changed the rules this year with the biggest change {in my opinion} being the voting for the winners.
Well the powers-that-be at Memory Makers will narrow it down to 20 and then we, the general scrapbooking public, get to vote for who we want to see as the 10 Masters.
Now, I will admit that upon first reading the rules I was a bit disappointed with this voting thing.

However, I had an epiphany in the shower this morning {or was it yesterday?}.
Every year in the Masters contest the judges pick 10 Masters and 10 runners-up.
So basically all that is changing this year with the voting is the judges are now saying, "OK here are our winners and runners-up. Here are our best 20. Now you tell us which 10 are your favorite. You tell us which 10 you want to see featured in our magazine."
I think I am going to like the voting.
Oh and I will be casting my vote!
And I can think of a few people I would like to see as Masters next year.
So get to scrapping people!

TGIF!
gretchen

Bah humbug

Please excuse my bad mood.

I get like this alot on Sunday evenings as I realize that the weekend is almost over & I have to go back to work in the morning.

And it is especially bad when I have had a great weekend

{which does put quite the dampener on the otherwise pleasant couple of days}.

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Let's see...

got in a nice run on Saturday

visited with friends

enjoyed the beautiful weather

played with my camera & took some cute pictures

experimented with Photoshop actions {I actually read a tutorial & everything}

watched Twilight with Katie {who so generously allowed me into the Twilight club for the evening even though I have not read the books}

hung out with Lee

watched the Nascar race {which was still enjoyable even though Jr. did mediocre}

and scrapped {which I did feel slightly guilty about considering the great weather}

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This layout is another one that I did for the MMM blog using that same basic design that I have been using lately {and that I mentioned a couple of posts ago).

I made this next one for the Thickers Challenge going on over on the American Crafts blog.
The challenge is to use 3 different types of Thickers on a layout.

(both layouts using new American Crafts products)

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Looks like I have been using alot of American Crafts lately!
Have I mentioned that they are going to be a huge sponsor for my class at the Scrap Etc event??

They are sponsoring my class along with Prism, KI Memories, and My Little Shoebox.

YAY!!
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And having to go to work in the morning just ruins everything.
But, alas, I should not complain.

It pays the bills.

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Hope you had a great weekend too!

Happy Monday!
{if that is possible}

gretchen

It's spring!!

I love this time of year for several reasons.

The yardboy is back!

The little trees in our front yard are finally blooming!
The yardboy is getting all kinds of yummy things ready to plant in our back yard.

The yard is starting to turn green!

And I am wearing flip flops and a tank top.
I love it!

I hope you are having a wonderful first Saturday of spring!

gretchen