Want2Scrap, Graphic 45 and Art Glitter Hop Day 4

For the Buttons Galore & More/ My Favorite Things Blog hop

 ~ CLICK HERE ~

It's a GREAT time to be inspired!  Awesome craft companies and fantastic 

designers are just catching their breath from Summer CHA, and the crafty 

community is HUNGRY for the latest and greatest.... 

  

HOW fun to be a craft addict, these days....  !

That's RIGHT, babies - I have the "glittery" key to your crafty dreams...

It's a GRAND and GLORIOUS blog hop, involving some of the 

MOST exciting companies in the industry...   For your PLEASURE,

Want2Scrap® has teamed up, ONCE AGAIN, with the exquisitely

artistic and heavenly created paper from Graphic 45, but then topped it 

of, most sparkly, with gorgeous glitter from Art Glitter!  WHAT

a winning combo!  Are YOU ready for some SERIOUS inspiration?

Want2Scrap is teaming up this week to bring you tons of inspiration using

 Want2Scrap, Graphic 45, and Art Glitter products!

After you check out the Want2Scrap design team projects on the designers blogs head

to Graphic 45 , and Art Glitter's blogs and see the projects made by their talented teams.

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Monday:

Dana Gustafson

Wendy Morris

Trudy Sjolander

Tuesday:

Keely Yowler

Mimi Leinbach

Wednesday:

Karen Taylor

AJ Otto

Thursday (TODAY):

Alyssa McGrew

Elise Durenberger (Hiiiiiii! You're HERE!)

Friday:

Terre Fry

Joe Morgan

Joe Rotella

Be sure to check back every day this week for more projects to inspire you!  Want2Scrap
will be giving a $100.00 gift certificate to one lucky commenter, who comments on
the designers blogs as well as the Want2Scrap's blog! Make sure you come back each day
 and enter to win, AND stop by the Want2Scrap Facebook Page this week and tell them
you joined in the hop for a second chance to win a prize!
 (Woot! *Woot!)  G'head and catch UP with the gals from earlier in the week - 

we'll wait for ya!

It's going to be A LOT of fun and CERTAINLY inspiring!  I hope you'll play along!

               It's a TERRIFIC reason add to your list of CRAFTY wishes...  I HOPE I can enable!

 Whoops!  {There I go!} LOOK at THAT!  - Love, love and completely ADORE 

Want2Scrap's Tag Album...   Purrrrrr Purrrrrrr!  Doesn't it SCREAM "potential!"

     Yes, please.  Sign me up to PLAY with this mini album, again and AGAIN!

 

 I decided to alter the stock function of this album, into an accordion action...

           All you need to start is THE TAG ALBUM, from Want2Scrap®, and a little planning...

And a LOT of GREAT accessories...   BLING, GLITTER and PAPER!

Adjust those Foster Grants - it's a SPARKLE-fest in HE-YA!

            

                       Peek-a-boo!  I see crafty FUN, and my BIG bro and darling SIL!  {Ca-ute!}

Would you LIKE to see more????  Well make sure you hit ALL the stops

on the DELIGHTFUL Want2Scrap, Graphic 45 and Art Glitter Hop, and 

ESPECIALLY hit the Want2Scrap blog regularly!  I promise to have the 

rest of the fun details to this accordion album on the Want2Scrap® blog

soon!  Hope to see you THERE!!!!  

Supplies -

Want2Scrap -
Tag Album
Card Size Antique Keys with Hardware
Sleek Strips, Silver Rhinestone - Self Adhesive
Beautiful Bling Borders - Fancy Waves! by Nina Bracket
Nestabling Sprightly Sprockets - Clear, by Donna Salazar
Nestabling Petite Scalloped Circle - Small Silver Rhinestone

Cross Promotional Products:

Graphic 45

Art Glitter 

Additional Products Used:

Cardstock - Wplus9 Design Studio, Stampin' Up!
Ink - Clearsnap
Acrylic Paint - Eco Green Crafts
Stamps - S/U!
Adhesive Cotton Tape - Making Memories

Just Us Girls - Technique Challenge, #132

Sliding in with some SUPER fun technique play, brought to you
by Just Us Girls, and our darling hostess, Lisa! It's a SUPER fun
way to add some rich, inky, single layer fabulousness to your
paper creations! Check it OUT, friends!

I got ALL inky with this lovely technique, thanks to
a VERY generous gift pack from the fine folks from
CLEARSNAP! I've loved their inks for as long as I
can remember, especially CHALKS! So it was SO easy
to get acquainted with these handy packs of stacked
cat eyes. I received handsome assortments of DYE
and chalk inks... Want2Scrap® is a cross promotional
partner with Clearsnap, so THANK YOU! {!} Two
GREAT companies - ONE happy crafter! Yipeeeee!

For all of the details and a great tutorial, check out
the goodness at the Just Us Girls challenge blog.
I used this fabulous piece of Dresden trim to create
a yummy border for my sponge/ink work.




I love the detail, easily captured, by carefully sponging along this
stunning border... By off-setting the edges, this Chevron
effect was created...{!} Direct to the background of this scrapbook
layout was a move that I probably WOULDN'T have tried without
this super challenge premise... Would YOU like to play with us?
Dana
Maria
Lynn
Andrea
Lisa
Vicki



I had SO much fun with this effect, I did it some MORE!
Same idea, but using this lovely Spellbinders shape, also received
recently thanks to some WONDERFUL cross promotional
efforts from Buttons Galore & More - {THANK YOU, Spellbinders +
BG&M!} This was SUCH a complimentary look for my page!



See WHAT I mean? {God Bless AMERICA - I LOVE playing with ink!}



An uncharacteristically simple, and FLAT scrapbook page
from the "E-ster" - Don't adjust your screen... {!}



I thought this technique was stunning and elegant,
like my LOVELY S.I.L. and dear brother who married
a few years back... I'm DEFINITELY going to use
this technique a few more times in completing their
album...



And THAT'S....



... a PROMISE!

Thanks for letting me share this fun project!
Hope to see you on the JUST US GIRLS challenge blog!

Supplies:

C/S - Stampin Up!
Stamps - Stampin' Up! {Flowers}; Hero Arts - "of Love"
Ink - Clear Snap
Felt Letters - Darice
Magnet - Basic Grey
Stickles - Ranger
Dresden Trim - Martin Meyer Imports

NEW bling and a Want2Scrap LAYOUT!

That's right, my FRIENDS - I used TWO very important words in
the SAME title ... "NEW bling" and "LAYOUT!" You definitely
read it correctly! {I made a SCRAPBOOK LAYOUT!}

If you and I have crafted together, in REAL life, you must know that
it has been extremely difficult for me to work on traditional layouts
for several years, due to a particularly painful situation that robbed
me of the spirit to create scrapbook layouts, the way I always had done,
avidly. But, thanks to unwavering support from my local
community, DEAREST friends and the valiant efforts of
ONE super woman,
who owns a wonderful independent Scrapbook store, I can,
at long last get BACK to the kind of scrapbooking, I love best.
{Thank you, HELENE! YOU are my SHEro!}



So, to compliment the recent return of MY MEMORIES {literally!},
It is with great delight that I share with you that I have, officially,
accepted the classification of "Scrapbook Layout Designer"
from the fabulous company, Want2Scrap®. There is a TON
of exciting news and developments, as well as TONS of new
product coming out of Want2Scrap® this year - I HOPE you'll
take some time to catch up with their blog, store and RELAUNCHED,
enhanced and BETTER THAN EVER new design team! Starting
April 1st - it ALL GOES LIVE!

But DON'T WAIT TO BE DAZZLED! It is my supreme hope
that you will visit my post at Want2Scrap®, RIGHT NOW,
to learn about all of the blinged out and HIDDEN details
of this love-filled Scrapbook LAYOUT!

{I REALLY want you to see it! Really!}

Have a SPLENDID day, and PLEASE check me,
gettin' my SCRAP onnnnnn, at Want2Scrap®!