Amber’s Cards

I love the American Crafts challenges!   This week the challenge was to use 6 or more pictures on the page.   The example used paper from the Travel Line, so I decided to break that out as well.  I love scrapping collage style (it is my trademark in fact) so I have 3 layouts to share this week.  I bought my Travel line paper and Thickers from my favorite Scrapbook Store  Rochester Scrapbook Company!

Layout # 1:

This layout is of a trip we took to St. Louis last summer.  I loved the colors in the Travel Line and pulled them to mat the photos.

Supplies:  American Crafts Cardstock, American Crafts Travel Line Paper in Map, American Crafts Thickers in Poolside Powder,  American Crafts Flair Buttons in Vacation

Lay # 2

Details:

American Crafts Patterned Paper from Travel Line in Map and Room Key.  American Crafts Cardstock.

Arrow in bottom right corner is a recycle!  We did a chipboard throw at a retreat I went to and I reused it for this page.  Text on arrow was cut from the photo collage I ordered the pictures on from Snapfish.

Layout # 3

This is another layout based on my trip to St Louis.

Details:

American Crafts Card Stock and Paper from Travel Line in Passport.  Black writing is American Crafts Slick Writer.  Date rub on is Making Memories.  Chipboard shapes are from dollar bin at scrap store.  Red Letters are from the dollar section at Target… I would love more small Thickers in Red!

I give you money and send you into the grocery store to pick up 5 items.
You can only pick one thing from the following departments… what is it?
1. Produce : mushrooms
2. Bakery : angel food cake
3. Meat: steak
4. Dairy : chocolate milk
5. Dry goods : lucky charms

Let’s say we’re heading out for a weekend getaway. You’re only allowed to bring 3 articles of clothing with you. So, what’s in your bag?
1. tank top
2. flip flops
3. jeans

If I was to listen in on one of your conversations throughout the day, what 4 phrases or words would I be most likely to heard?
1. what eva
2. ya know
3. okie dokie (sometimes okie dokie artichockie)
4. I want to buy…

So, what 4 things do you find yourself doing every single day, and if you didn’t get to do, you probably wouldn’t be in the best mood?
1. read my blogs ( I heart google reader)
2. spending time with Adam
3. reading (books, newspapers, etc.)
4. eating chocolate

You’re driving down the road, and suddenly you’re hit with this sense of road rage. What 3 factors probably contributed to it?
1. Being cut off
2. rude drivers!
3. people spending up when I go to pass them

Sweet, you just scored a whole afternoon to yourself. We’re talking a 3 hour block with nobody around. What 5 activities might we find you doing?
1. watching reality tv
2. crafting
3. Shopping
4. playing pack rat
5. Playing Wii

We’re going to the zoo. But, it looks like it could start storming, so it’ll have to be a quick visit. What 3 exhibits do we have to get to?
1. dolphins
2. monkeys
3. hedgehogs (do they keep these at zoos hehe)

You just scored tickets to the taping of any show that comes on t.v. of your choice. You can pick between 4, so what are you deciding between?
1. ER ( I miss this!)
2. So You Think You Can Dance
3. American Idol
4. Oprah

You’re hungry for ice cream. I’ll give you a triple dipper ice cream cone. What 3 flavors can I pile on for ya?
1. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip
2. Cookies n Cream
3. Fudge Ripple

Somebody stole your purse/wallet…in order to get it back, you have to name 5 things you know are inside to claim it. So, what’s in there?
1. iphone
2. cute blue deer change wallet
3. camera charger
4. jump drive
5. cute pink camera

You are at a job fair, and asked in what areas you are interested in pursuing a career. Let’s pretend you have every talent and ability to be whatever you wanted, so what 4 careers would best describe what you want to be?
1. scrapbooker
2. graphic desinger
3. stay at home mom
4. special ed teacher (without the paper work)

If you could go back and talk to the old you, when you were in high/middle school, and inform yourself of 4 things, what would you say?
1. If you aren’t worth other peoples time, they probably aren’t worth yours
2. band geeks are some of the most loyal people you’ll ever meet
3. You have to take care of yourself first
4. be happy with your looks, you’ll never look as good as you do now

1.  Cosmo Cricket I love everything this company has put out reccently.  If you asked the girls I scrapbook with they would tell you that I have boughten at least half of the stash of Snorkel and Girl Friday that was bought by my favorite store Rochester Scrapbook Company .   I can’t wait until Early Bird comes out!

2.  Today while I was at M’s picking up a Cricut Cartidge->  Life’s a Beach.  I came across a new line from K&Co called Actopus to Zelephant.  It made me wish so much I had a cute kid to scrapbook for.  I showed restraint and only bought a pack of the embelishments.   I also found a new blog to follow, Jen Ski, that belongs to the ultra talendted designer of this ling.

3.  Very Cute Owl Ribbon from Michael’s (Enough to share with my Scrapping friends!)

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4.  New paper from We R Memory Keepers (even if their customer service is subpar)

Grandma’s Kitchen

5.  I even fell in love with some MAMBI (it was very cute!)  I wish I could find pics of it, but it was bright and colorful. It was at M’s.

I have really started to enjoy scrapbooking.  I have made about 100 pages since October, which is not to shabby for a beginner .  It helps that I have made cards for a few years now.   I am a huge fan of American Crafts when scrapping.  I own tons of their card stock, patterned paper, rubs ons, ribbon, and of course their Thickers!  Thickers make such easy and beautiful titles.  I have about every variety of Thickers I can get my hands on.   Here is my page for the challenge where I was asked to use three different types to Thickers:

This is an 8.5×11 page that I made of the trip the Bellywings and I made to the cities to shop.  This is a picture from the entrance to the mall of America by the aquarium.  If you can’t tell we are in a shark cage.

Paper:  Cosmo Cricket Snorkle, American Crafts Cardstock

Lettering:   American Crafts Thickers:   Yellow- Vera Thickers    Light Green-Daquari   Blue-Sprinkles    White-Sprinkles

Accents:  Cosmo Cricket Snorkle Chipboard

This week on the American Crafts Blog the challenge was to use embossing powder, not any embossing powder…but American Craft’s new Zing!  It comes in tons of colors and three finishes opaque, metalic, and glitter.   I buy my Zing at my favorite scrapstore  Rochester Scrapbooking Company

For this project I decided to go monotone.  I used the Rouge Zing on red American Crafts Cardstock.

This is a page based on Adam and I in high school when we went to his school’s Christmas Dance.  This was over 10 years ago now.  He is still as handsome if not more .

I used the embossing powder in the background and it is a bit hard to see…so here is a close up photo:

Supplies:  American Crafts Cardstock, American Crafts Zing in Rouge.  Silver Palette Ink for edging.  Letters and photo mat cut from cricut.   Handwritten text using American Crafts Slick Writer.

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Two weeks ago or so I entered a contest hosted by the wonderfully talanted Kim Hughes .  She was giving away a book and a few of her stamp sets.  If you have never seen her stamps sets you need to check them out.  I love her sense of design and her style is totally me!  This is the second time I have been lucky enough to win stamps from her.

This time I won her set Baby Love, which along with being perfect for baby cards, has tons of very cute animal stamps.

Here they are when they arrived at my house: