Blog hop, rak, birthday card crop! OH MY

Are you ready to get your crop on? Then join us at the Let's Capture Our Memories forum right now for 8 card sketches and lots of inspiration so you can get your groove on. We also have some layout challenges, games and just plain FUN!
We also have a tutorial on how to make an easy card organizer for you to get organized and make your own handmade cards for the year.

Here's my first card I made...it's based off of Monique's sketch. I did not use Monique's secret element on my card!




























Here's my second card I made...it's based off of Joanne's sketch and I did use Joannes secret element!~



























Here's the third card I made...it's based off of Tanya's sketch and I did not use her secret element.


























Here's the fourth card I made...it's based off of Sandi's sketch and I did use her secret element.






























Here's the fifth card I made...it's based off of Kimberly's sketch and I had fun using her secret element.




























Here's the sixth card I made...it's based off of Anita's sketch and I did use her secret element.



Here is the seventh card I made... this one is based on Rusha's sketch and without a doubt that secret element is there!




And here's my sketch that I created, I did this a couple weeks back and was so excited as this was my first sketch ever. If you go through all the blogs you will be able to see everyone else's sketch. Better yet go to the forum and see them all in one place!


And my card to go with my sketch. Can you guess what my secret element is? If you guess my secret element and use it on your card or layout, you will get an extra point. Check out the forum or the other blogs and see who else used it. That will give you some help! I am sure you can figure it out!



You have until January 23rd 8PM EST to complete all 8 sketches and also the other challenges (layouts, etc.). You'll get a point for each sketch you complete and a point for each secret element you get correct. You can also get points for completing the card organizer. You don't have to use birthday theme if you don't want to. Grab this blinkie and when you are finished with them all and tell us you are finished at the forum. Winners will be announced on January 26th...a first and second prize.

Now for my RAK...all you have to do is leave a comment to be eligible. I will announce the winner here on my blog on Tuesday, January 18th.

A $15.00 gift certificate to the LET'S CAPTURE OUR MEMORIES STORE!!



So once you have left your comment it is time to hop!

You should have started at THE LET'S CAPTURE OUR MEMORIES blog

then you are here at So Many Scraps the next stop on the hop (hey I am good that rhymes!)


Next hop over and say hi to Jerusha @ I LOVE PAPERCRAFTING
Have fun hopping, scrapping and maybe winning!!!

LCOM's Card sketch for the week.. BY SUSIE

Woot woot the card sketch on Let's Capture Our Memories blog is by me this week!
so this week is an awesome week for you to join the challenge! LOL
Here is my card for the Challenge!


Please go to the blog and check out the sketch and some of the wonderful cards some great gals on the card team made from my sketch!!!
Oh and don't forget to check my post below for a Rak!! woo hoo!

The birthday card crop date is changed!! Rak!!!!

Let's Capture Our Memories is changing the birthday Card Crop date to combine it with another crop. So Please note that the date is now Jan. 14,15, and 16th just one week later! I sure hope to see you there.



There will be a blog hop and lots of raks! One rak on each blog! Also prizes by LCOM so be sure to drop in!

I have decided to do a photo a day.. 365 photos for 2011. I am debating whether to just post them here or start another blog for them or post them on facebook! Please give me your opinions! I am offering a rak, which I will draw from all the comments that give me an opionion! I will draw for the rak Monday the 17th. So you must post your comment by Sunday the 16th at 6pm EST. So for those who visit during the blog hop and post on both posts you will have a chance at two different Raks!!! WOOT WOOT!

Now todays picture is a terrible picture of me but I tried several times at the same time as reading to Dylan the cutest book called "What do snowmen do at night"

sorry it's been a bit!

The Christmas season was a bit overwhelming for me this year and I am feeling a bit behind on many things, including my blogging!!
Usually my tree is up the day after thanksgiving and this year it was up only a few weeks before Christmas!! Then usually I leave the main tree up till New years day and my snowman tree and snowmen decorations up till late feb/early march. But this year I feel like I can't wait to put it all away and get some order back to my life! Maybe because we have a lot of company lately and I feel like I can never keep ahead of the housework! I love seeing my grandboys but I admit it is hard for this old lady to keep the place clean with all the company!

Well anyways I have been busy though as I am getting ready for a wonderful birthday card crop and blog hop! I am so excited that I am once again on the card team at Let's Capture our Memories! So stop in and join our birthday Crop and blog hop! There will be some fabulous prizes for the crop and raks for the blog hop!

Another awesome card sketch is up!

This weeks card sketch is posted on the Let's Capture Our Memories Blog! It was a really fun sketch to work with and the challenge was to use embossing of any kind! Here is my card! The white primas minus the inking are available in the Let's Capture Our Memories Store, also the Bella Pattern Paper!



I am so excited, the Amazing Scrap Race is in its final legs and I have all my legs submitted! The last one was an altered item and I LOVE MY ALTERED ITEM! Once it has been posted on the site as we had to email them to Tanya, I am thinking of selling it on ebay!!! We shall see!

Why me Lord?

I have another Challenge done from My Paper Tree House! This Challenge was about grace.
Well I have done a bare it all layout! I loved the layout and then did the journaling in my own handwriting and in someways it made a pretty layout not quite so pretty because I have the worlds worst handwriting but this was just not something I felt should be typed! So here it is and after I will share the journaling as it is quite hard to read! I wish I could have gotten a better photo as the ribbon is really a very pale pink and really adds to the layout!


on the little ticket is says"what did I ever do to deserve loving you and the kindness you've shown."

below the photo
"my childhood was rough, filled with both sexual and physical abuse. In my teens I had a boyfriend, (I so needed love and acceptance) One day after him seeing me slapped around, we decided that if I got pregnant, my parents would have to let us marry. It worked and 3 weeks before I turned 17, I was married. I was so blessed with a healthy baby and a wonderful husband. But then I began to feel shame and embarrasement for the "sin" I had done! I would lie and add one or two years to my age just to hide from my sin and embarrasement. But one day the Lord laid it on my heart that if He forgave me that I must also forgive me. I gave it all to Him! His grace is sufficent for me!"

well there you have it! I have put it up for all the world to see! no hiding anymore!
(the funny part in this is I have always looked young for my age and heard it said to me how young I look and so I wonder who I was trying to fool!)

Life is Hard but God is Good!

Lately I have had a rough ride, actually it has been a roller coaster ride for over 2 years but I know that God has a plan and that God is in control! I will ask that you keep my son in prayer but will leave it at that! Jason needs lots of prayer right now!

I have found a new blog that I really like called the Paper Tree House! There are weekly challenges that are Christian based! I really wanted to do all the challenges last month but life took me by surprise and I did not get them all done, of course one reason too is I am on the LCOM dt and I had commitments there and my commitments come before what I don't have to do and so I got those done but that was it for last month! But I will also admit that I am great with deadlines because they make me do things and so I tend to procrastinate without a deadline, and so I did not do all the challenges and who knows I may just do a bunch later but for now I would like to show you the one I did do!

Here was the challenge: To create a project with a Scripture that is the prayer or desire of your heart!

Now I have to admit that I had a hard time trying to decide WHICH prayer of my heart but I decided to go with one I felt was so important!

Finally did a 25 days of Christmas Album

Every year I say I am going to make a 25 days of Christmas album and then time flies and it does not get done!
Well bless Tanya's heart over at Let's Capture our Memories! I am in the Amazing scrapbook race contest there and Tanya's assignment for us this week was to make a 25 days of Christmas album!! YEah for deadlines! I did it!
Here is the cover!

The Amazing Scrap race! oh and a winner!!!

Let's Capture our Memories Scrap race gets harder and more work each week! Week 5 we had to do Christmas Cards from the Christmas Card Crop from all 8 sketches, well auctually we had to do 6 cards and use to of the sketches for layouts.

Being on the card team, I had already been required to do 4 but went ahead and did all 8 so now I have done all 8 sketches twice! Here are the layouts!




Then For this week which is week 6 we had to do a layout with a chandelier, then a layout using a sketch from the LCOM sketch blog, then post 25 comments in the gallery (that part was a piece of cake, esp. since the gallery is so awesome) then a layout with a tutorial! Here are mine for this week.






Oh I suppose you want to know who won my blog hop rak!! hmmm I guess I should say that I had the names all in a bowl and Darling Daughter drew for me first so you know how I did the rak! She drew ......................................
do you really want to know
who
the
lucky
winner
of
crackle
medium,
some
bottles
of
decoart
paint,
and
some
beautiful
Christmas
Prima
Flowers
is?
ok
I
guess
I
will
tell
you
that
the
lucky
winner
is
ROBIN!!
woo hoo
congrats!!!!!!!!

LCOM BLOG HOP!

Let's Capture Our Memories is having a blog hop!!! Here is the scoop! This weekend over at LCOM there is a Christmas Card crop going on! So much fun! So head on over and join the crop! We are also having a blog hop with some fun prizes! So check out all my fellow Card Teams blogs!

After my blog, next you will go to Tanya's Blog!

I have a tutorial for you and after that a way to win blog candy!
Here is a tutorial for you on how to do crackling without having to buy all the individual crackle paints! I did crackling on the Christmas card that I made for the crop from my sketch!

You will need 2 acrylic paints in one color if you want a different color showing through the crackle, if you want the crackle to be like the crackle paint ranger sells then you will just use one color!
Then you will need crackle medium which is sold in A.C. Moore, Hobby Lobby, Micheals and yes even Walmart!

Crackling can be done on wood, paper mache and chipboard just to name a few surfaces.
First step is to basecoat your item with the color you want to see through the crackles. If you wnat it the same as rangers crackles then you will base with the same color you will coat it with after the crackle! Totally basecoat your piece! Leave no space unpainted!

After the basecoat is totally dry you will then coat the entire piece with crackle medium, right onto of your painted basecoat!

Next after the crackle medium has dried, which you can hurry by drying with a blow drier. Not the embossing tool! A hair drier or you can just wait like I do! Once the medium has dried you will then coat the top of the medium with your top paint coat. Apply this paint on thick but once the crackling starts DO NOT go over the same spot you already painted or it will tear the crackling off! That is why it is important to go put paint on thick and make it less likely to tear!

Here is my finished piece!! also check out the green and gold frame on my christmas card for SusieQ's sketch!

Now for each person who completes the blog hop, I will put your name in a drawing and the winner will recieve a big bottle of crackling medium and some decoart acrylic paints! I am choosing decoart because that is my favorite brand of acrylic paint! Much thicker then the rest! Also so prima Christmas flowers!

I LOVE THIS WEEKS CARD SKETCH!!!!

Once again we have a wonderful card sketch up at Let's Capture Our Memories! I would love to see some do it ! so I am offering a 10 gift certificate to the online store of your choice as a rak! post here and leave a linky on Let's Capture Our Memories blog and on the following Sunday I will draw a name from the list of those who participated and posted on both blogs!!! You must post on my blog and leave a linky of the LCOM blog

Crops and more crops!

Went to a crop on saturday and really enjoyed myself! I auctually copied down some of the challenges from Let's Capture our Memories on line crop this past weekend and did some of those!! Also some sketches from Scrap-Friendzy.

Now I just got an email from Citrus Tree and they are having a crop this next weekend on-line!! I used to be more active on the site and really liked it there so I think I will join in and become more active once again! So anyone want to join me at the crop at Citrus Tree this weekend???

Sketch 57 on LCOM blog is terrific

So I decided to do a layout with Sketch 57 and I am pleased!!! here is my layout, I think you should try it to!!!

I have been taking an online photo class through LCOM taught by our own Natalie who is amazing! I am loving it! Learning so much more about my new Camera! so expect more photos soon!!!

Its another week and another sketch

This weeks card sketch is out at Let's Capture our memories blog! I love the sketch! The challenge is to also add bling! This was my challenge and I would love to see a few of my friends make some cards this week! Here is my take on the sketch, and lots of bling!




so head over to the LCOM Blog and check out the sketch! YOU know the saying, you can't win if you don't play!
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The Pumpkin Farm!

It was the best day at the pumpkin farm! We all had so much fun! From the hayride, to the pumpkin throw, to the spook house, to the corn maze, to the kids 4 sale and of course to the John Deere tractor! It was a day to remember! So with that said, I need to scrap these and more before I forget all the wonderful things of the day! But the best part was being together! My favorite photo is from the way home when I looked up to the front of the van and saw two hands clutched together! Grandpa and Grandson!!!

I really love this photo! Everytime I look at it I want to cry and my heart just aches!!

I am excited!

The rain has stopped and today is going to be a great day! I admit that I need to go to bed and sleep though since it is 1 am!

The reason it is going to be a great day is that I am going to the pumpkin farm with 3 of my grandsons! I plan on lots of photos!!!
I then need to scrap those photos and hopefully having them will give me motivation!!!
Later today I will post so photos but untill then it is off to bed!
Until then here is one from last fall!

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