Bazzill's Autumn Harvest at Memorable Seasons!

Can you say BOLD and BEAUTIFUL? Because that is exactly what the Bazzill Basics Autumn Harvest collection is - go check it out in the store for yourself! I am just really digging into this kit and the colors are so rich and the patterns are so vibrant. I have so many Fall projects planned with this line but also have a few non-fall ideas brewing. This line just has so much to offer!

The fronts of the papers...

And the backs...

And the cardstock and embellishments (I purchased the journaling cards and some extra leaves and pumpkins)...

And here is my first creation with this kit...my lift of this layout by our fabulous October MOTM Colette!

And here is a card I made for Andrew - we will be celebrating our 9th wedding anniversary on October 9th!!

And this is a card I created to give to my baby brother and future sister-in-law who are getting married on October 19th!!

(And, yes. We have already determined that if my other brother ever gets married, it must be on October 29th...following the appropriate date lineup!)

More to come...stay tuned!

Memorable Seasons June/July Member of the Month - Sally Cranney

I am thrilled to say that Sally Cranney is the June/July Member of the Month at Memorable Seasons! In honor of her being Member of the Month, we asked her to share a little more about herself and some of her favorite layouts. You can check it all out HERE on the Memorable Seasons blog. And, as usual, we are issuing a monthly challenge to scraplift on of Sally's beautiful layouts from her Memorable Seasons gallery. All you have to do to participate is chose any layout from Sally's gallery, scraplift it, then upload it to the gallery and link it back to the challenge thread by July 31st!

I chose to lift this gorgeous layout of Sally's, which I also happened to pick as Layout Of The Week awhile back...

And here's my take on it using my Simple Stories 24/7 June kit...

Congratulations Sally on being the June/July Member of the Month!

Memorable Seasons May Member of the Month: Lisa!

I am thrilled to say that Lisa Moen is the May Member of the Month at Memorable Seasons! In honor of her being Member of the Month, we asked her to share a little more about herself and some of her favorite layouts. You can check it all out HERE on the Memorable Seasons blog. And, as usual, we are issuing a monthly challenge to scraplift on of Lisa's amazing layouts from her Memorable Seasons gallery. All you have to do to participate is chose any layout from Lisa's gallery, scraplift it, then upload it to the gallery and link it back to the challenge thread by May 31st!

I chose to lift this amazing layout of Lisa's...

And here's my take on it using my Fancy Pants Trendsetter May kit...

Congratulations Lisa on being the May Member of the Month!

Memorable Seasons April Member Of The Month - Tami!

This month at Memorable Seasons, the Design Team is honored to scraplift one of our former DT members, Tami! Tami is amazing with sport layouts, does amazing layering, has a love of embellishment clusters and likes to use paint and ink on her layouts. Congratulations Tami!

I know Tami's gallery has some fabulous 2-pagers in it so as a fellow 2-page layout lover, I found one of those. I love this one for it's overall composition, all the different patterned paper and of course, Tami's famous embellie clusters!

And here is my lift using my Glitz Color Me Happy April Kit, available here in the Memorable Seasons store...

Make sure you stop by Tami's gallery and pick the layout you love! Then, create a new layout for this challenge, upload your layout in the gallery and link back to the April MOTM forum thread by April 30th for an entry into our monthly prize drawing!

Memorable Seasons March MOTM: Marie!

Congrats to Marie for being the March Member Of The Month at Memorable Seasons! Marie is such a vital part of our little MS community and we love having her lovely Irish spirit on the boards! Be sure to visit the Memorable Season blog to get to know Marie a little more and also see some of her personal favorite projects. In honor of Marie, the design team each lifted one of Marie's beautiful layouts from her MS gallery.

Here's the layout I lifted...

...and my take on it. I used my Memorable Seasons March Travel Mix-up kit to create it...

(Supplies: Bo Bunny papers; Bazzill cardstock; Basic Grey and Dream Street alphas; The Paper Co vellum; Glitz journaling card; Making Memories tiny alphas; Joann photo corners; Studio Calico wood veneers; unknown ribbon, lock and key embellie and game card; Sakura pen.)

Memorable Seasons Member of the Month Scraplift!

Each month at Memorable Seasons, the Design Team honors one of the community members as our Member of the Month. And one way we honor them is to lift a favorite layout of theirs and then challenge the rest of the board members to do the same.

Well, for February, our Member of the Month is Bev! She has a gallery just exploding with inspiration and it was so hard picking just one to lift. I ultimately chose this one for the fun angle, the cute embellishing and the torn paper.

And here is my lift using my February Design Team Kit featuring Fancy Pants Love Note...

(Supplies: Fancy Pants Love Note papers and die-cut pennants; Bazzill cardstock; Studio Calico wood veneer hearts; unknown chipboard alphas, metal heart frame, ribbon, twine, rhinestones and doily heart; vintage notebook paper and game piece; StazOn and Colorbox inks; Ranger alcohol inks; Studio Calico Mr Huey’s mist.)

'Tis the Election Season.

So, I will be the first to admit I don't like politics. I hate the divisiveness of them and I hate that if you aren't far left or far right in this country, you kind of get looked over. But, I appreciate living in a democracy and I appreciate living in a country where you are free to express your opinion. There. I've said my peace. Anyways, I have had the photos for this layout saved on my computer now for almost four years. I collected them from various Internet sources with the plan to scrap about the historical significance of the 2008 election of President Obama.

So, with the 2012 presidential election fast approaching and President Obama running for a second term, a ton of Pink Paislee Declaration that I got from their warehouse sale sitting in my scraproom, motivation from this challenge over at Scrapfit, and lifting this layout from my friend Kathy at Memorable Seasons, I created the following layout...

(Supplies: Pink Paislee papers, alpha stickers & border sticker; Pebbles pleated embellishment; Bella Blvd flag & washi tape; Divine Twine twine; Studio Calico wood veneer stars; Queen & Co felt stars; Bazzill cardstock; unknown tag & brads; Sakura pen; StazOn ink; EK Success border punch; Glue Arts & Thermoweb adhesives.)

No matter what your political viewpoint is, I hope you like my layout!

Members Challenge Us Crop At Memorable Seasons & Scraplifting Yourself!

Hello all! If you are looking for something to do tomorrow, the Memorable Seasons "Members Challenge Us" crop is happening! This is such a fun crop because the MS community members, not the Design Team, issued the crop challenges. And, even though the crop started on Thursday, there is still plenty of time to play along because the deadline to finish the challenges isn't until Wednesday, August 22nd! So if you are interested in playing along (and maybe winning a prize or two), head on over to the crop forum and get scrapping!

I issued a challenge to scraplift yourself! Here is the layout I chose to scrap...

And, I love this design so much that I've scraplifted it several times before...

But that didn't stop me from scraplifting it again to create this brand new layout...

Hope to see you over at Memorable Seasons! Have a great rest of your weekend everyone!

I am honored to be Member of the Month at Memorable Seasons!

I was in total shock when I opened the thread for the August Member of the Month on the Memorable Seasons message board and saw my name there. Shocked and happy! In honor of being MOTM, the Memorable Seasons Design Team all lifted one of my layouts. You can see them all here, but I thought I would highlight one of the lifts created by Tami because she chose to lift a layout that is very special to me - it is the first layout I ever created with a photo of Liam on it.

Here's my original layout...

And Tami's lift...

I would love for you all to check out Memorable Seasons, register and give the MOTM scraplift challenge a go! And, as added incentive, Memorable Seasons has a "Members Challenge Us" crop coming up this weekend. Lots of fun in store for sure! So come stop by for a visit!

Basic Grey - Susan Weinroth "Scraplift This" Challenge

So, it's no secret I LOVE Basic Grey. And it's no secret that I am a HUGE fan of Susan Weinroth's. So, when I saw she was this month's guest designer at Basic Grey, I was super excited. Susan made an amazing layout for a "Scraplift This" challenge. You can view the challenge and Susan's layout here. So, I used this layout as the inspiration for the following two-page spread. First off, I dug deep into my Basic Grey stash consisting of 17 different collections right now and pulled out some old Blitzen (which is still my favorite Christmas line of all time). I also included some Basic Grey alphas, glazed brads and buttons. Instead of repeating hearts in various patterns, I used stars. Since I don't have a sewing machine, I hand-stitched on each star to add an element of texture. I dotted most of the stars with a button as Susan did to her hearts. I included a patterned paper border at the bottom as Susan did and added a journaling block and title. And here is my result!