This past weekend I completed my first ever challenge, which was Crop-a-holic's first ever challenge. I picked the "Lucky" layout from the AMR gallery and scraplifted it. Here my work:

pp: Making Memories, My Mind's Eye; cs: Bazzill (embossed w/ swiss dots); Making Memories Grommets, Dyed Skittles, Chipchatter letters, Inkadinkadoo calendar stamps

And here is my inspiration:

So apparently, in addition to not being able to spell, I als0 cannot follow directions such as;

1. 1. Where is your cell phone? floor
2. Where is your significant other? nonexisitant
3. Your hair color? espresso
4. Your mother? generous
5. Your father? awesome
6. Your favorite thing? directions
7. Your dream last night? I'm not sure I dreamed last night-
8. Your dream/goal? happiness
9. The room you're in? office
10. Your hobby? crapbooking
11. Your fear? yep
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? poolside
13. Where were you last night? Mom's
14. What you're not? perfect
15. One of your wish list items? furniture
16. Where you grew up? Alamoyayakistein
17. The last thing you did? blog
18. What are you wearing? perv!
19. Your TV? off
20. Your pet? fuzzy
21. Your computer? on
22. Your mood? sleepy
23. Missing someone? yes
24. Your car? Buggy
25. Something you're not wearing? sombrero
26. Favorite store? IKEA
27. Your summer? hot
28. Love someone? yes
29. Your favorite color? Pink
30. When is the last time you laughed? 6:08 PM
31. Last time you cried? birthday
32. Who you want to Tag? Kay

melonscraps tagged me, now I'm rethinking that new years resolution to stop mis-typing her name as melsoncraps. Here's my answers

1. Where is your cell phone? on the charger
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2. Where is your significant other? gee, I'd like to know, let me know if you see him
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3. Your hair color? Dark, dark brown with tiny strands of almost colorless blond. Yes they're blond!
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4. Your mother? generous, not just materially
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5. Your father? well, since I'm his princess, he must be a King!
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6. Your favorite thing? seeing other people smile
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7.Your dream last night? I'm not sure I dreamed last night
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8. Your dream/goal? for all my nieces and nephews grow up to be happy, stable and content.
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9. The room you're in? office
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10. Your hobby? Scrapbooking
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11. Your fear? there's not enough space...here's a couple the more odd ones...I terrified to look out windows when I hear noises outside; sometimes I wonder if I'm really profoundly retarded and others are only praising me because I'm doing awesome for a 'special' person and sometimes, when I'm in a large crowd, I have a flashing thought that someone is trying to read my mind? I'm not really crazy or paranoid. Now you have to decide if that means I'm not actually crazy or that I'm not very crazy!
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12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Living a life of leisure on my lottery winnings
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13. Where were you last night? My Mom and Dad's
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14.. What you're not? Perfect. I mean, like Mary Poppins, I am "Practically perfect in every way", but I'm not totally, completely perfect. I'm also not a good speller. That actually probably what keeps me from being completely perfect.
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15. One of your wish list items? New furniture
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16. Where you grew up? Here (Washington/Oregon), There (New Mexico) and Everywhere (Japan and Germany)
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17. The last thing you did? Agree to answer this tag.
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18. What are you wearing? None of your business perv!
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19. Your TV? Is it my TV, or am I the TV's person?
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20. Your pet? 1 atypical laid back border collie, 1 tiny grey princess kitty, 1 pointy-eared lion who afraid of plastic bags (he's actually a snowshoe cat, but he doesn't think so) and two human boys.
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21. Your computer? I don't have a computer, I'm writing this all on notebook paper, then I'm going to go outside and throw it so hard into the sky that it will reach CyberSpace.
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22. Your mood? I can't type that fast, I'll never finish this if I have to keep up with my moods.
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23. Missing someone? My wayward brother and his family
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24. Your car? Her name is Buggy and she's a Kooky Suzuki
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25. Something you're not wearing? a sombrero
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26. Favorite store? the LSS, PZ, Target, IKEA
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27. Your summer? Is it just mine, because if it is, all those kids I saw on the news running though the fountain owe me royalties!
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28. Love someone? Bobby, Jason, Chris, Felicia, Brooke, Rose, Ed, Eddie, Michelle, Lisa, Marilyn, Freddie, Nicky, Lilly, the Man Upstairs
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29. Your favorite color? Pink
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30. When is the last time you laughed? Well that last time I laughed so hard I alsomst peed my pants was when I saw this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoRD1wmvwUc WARNING: Do not watch this with the kids in the room. It's a commercial for a language school.
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31. Last time you cried? My birthday, it just so hard to turn 22. (again)
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32. Who you want to Tag? Kay, and I hope she doesn't revoke my title of "Smartest scrapper ever!!!"

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I joined an Alphabet ATC Swap at AMR. I asked for the letter G, so I needed to make 26 ATC for the letter G. I kind of struggled designing it, but I finally figure it out. The background is a glossy photo, and I pop-dotted the Hambly transparency. I painted the "G" back of the Hambly in pink and stamped the "G" on the front. The "G" stamp is from Technique Tuesday (Gee Whiz). And since on of the works around the outside was glitz, I added a couple of gems.

I also stamped another Technique Tuesday (Tall Big Timber Meadow) "G" on the glassine envelope. One of things I like most about this is that the screen print texture shows thought the stamping (Ranger Inks Archival - Jet Black)

Oh yeah, why did I chose "G"? Because I like the shape of lowercase Gs, that's why!

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I did layout tonight too! I'm on a roll. Two in one week! Holly cow. This one is pretty simple, that why it only took a couple of hours. Actually I worked on it the other night for a couple of hours too, but I couldn't get the right feel. I was trying to use Crate Paper's Static line (which I love!), but it just wasn't coming together.

On the way home tonight, it hit me, I have that apple paper. They're fall, they're school, they're perfect! It's actuality Fruit Stand by October Afternoon. I threw in a little Freshly Mowed Lawn (also October Afternoon) and Bazzill. The woven tag is from the Dollar Tree, the rims are Making Memories the chipboard came from the super huge kit I got from Christmas (Costco) This layout is pretty simple, but I like it.

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Today, I scrapped. Yes, for most of the day and here is the fruit of my labor. One one of, but THE fruit of my labor. This is a picture of my 9yo newphew getting ready to fly his pirate kite at the beach. Here's what I used:

All of the pp is Autumn Leaves from the Red, Black and Cream kit at Target. (I also usd an awsome rub on from thast kit, but I mispelled a word on it and ruined trying to fix it.) Bazzill cardstock. Rub-ons: KaiserCrafts, American Crafts Mini Marks; Thickers. Imaginisce Slider, Deja Views Framed Jewels, Grungeboard



Here is the grungboard skull that I painted, glittered, sepia glazed, daubed pearl mixatives, painted, glitterd and glossy accented. (That doesn't include the eyes)

And here's the slider, because I think it's cute!

BTW, do you know why my kids couldn't get in to see the pirate movie?

Beucase it was rated Arrrrr!

The boys talked me into going to the Dollar Tree tonight, while there, I noticed these little trading card albums. Do you know what else is the size of a trading card? Yep, ATCs!



Of course, the funky little design on the front wasn't quite cutting it, so I covered it in MM Noteworthy. And what doesn't look better covered in Noteworthy? And I've been dying actually use my new Zutter Round-it-All corner rounder.




Then, I inked the edges and in lieu of my AWOL slot punch, I punched three large crop-a-dile holes and cleaned them up with t BG file set. I covered the new slots with a Noteworthy die cut and tied a twill not in front. (I stole the twill from my oldest, it part of the packaging from his new blanket.)




the ATC letter are actually bright green Thickers that I inked. The felt flowers also came in the Noteworthy kit, and the center is a blue skittle, au natural.




And voila! A lovely ATC Album. It'll hold 16 ATC, perfect for the Four Seasons swap!




Thank you melonscraps for giving me this lovely ATC. (Also, once you glue the paper on the album, it's harder to tell which side is up which is why this lovely album is bottom loading :)

Here is the Wordle of the 921 words I blogged in July. I must talk about getting things a lot! Hmm...921 words in the entire month? That's only 29 words a day; I'll have to work on that





Did you enjoy my color scheme? I "borrowed" it from kwernerdesign blog's Color Inspiration #16 . I haven't actually participated in one of her weekly challenges yet, but the challenges sure inspire me anyway!

Oh yeah, I just ran my blog though the Blog Readability Test and this is what I got:
Hmmm...common practice is to write at a 6th grade level, so should I aim more for Middles School? And, if I not writing to a 6th grade level and my blog reads at a high school level, does that mean those five years in college were a waste?