Scrapdango MARCH MADNESS Blog Hop & Crop

Welcome to Scrapdango's Grand Re-Opening Blog Hop!!! It's time for a little March Madness... girly style! Because you came hopping with us, your reward is a sneak of the challenges that will be listed on the message boards beginning Monday, March 5th. The crop will go through Sunday, March 11th at midnight EST.

There will be games and prizes, and one lucky person will be a grand prize winner of...

are you ready for this?

both an old kit and the BRAND NEW March kit!!

Squeal!!!!!!!

So don't forget to mark your calendar for Monday and play along!

Ok, here is my challenge... use circles (because, after all, a basketball is round) as the basis for a layout, card, or altered something. My medium DD's birthday is coming up, so I made tons to decorations out of the January Scrapdango sugar kit as well as Crate Paper's Lillian line and some odds and ends from my stash. I love how well the two went together!

I made paper chains, food labels, and a huge fan flower:


As a special treat for stopping by my blog, I'm offering up a RAK to one commentor that pinky-promises to check out Scrapdango...



I know this is a long post, but if you don't yet know about Scrapdango, you will love this DIFFERENT kind of kit club. Each month, there are two different kits to choose from a masculine(ish) Spice kit and feminine(ish) Sugar kit or you can subscribe to both. For each year subscription that you purchase, you receive your 13th kit for FREE! I've been on the boards there for almost two years, and it's SUCH a fun group of girls. I'm so excited to have been chosen for the DT there.

Now that you have stopped by, don't forget to hop on over to Kimberly. If you started here, make sure to stop at the beginning and hop all the way through so you can get a peek at ALL the challenges and get a head start!!

Ana White
Jessica Jennings
Heather Topich <---- you are here
Kimberly Hornikel
Shannon Blinn
Scrapdango Blog

Sew Many Layouts Blog Hop

The SML design team is celebrating National Craft Month, and there will be a DRAWING at the end of the hop. Want to enter?

1 random winner of a free st. patty's day digi image will be chosen for leaving a comment posting our banner/challenge blog blinkie

1 random winner will receive a set of digis from SMC for leaving a comment on everyone's blog and the SML blog

AND

1 Grand Prize winner will receive this SEI Product Pack from Sew Many Cards- you must create a project using a technique introduced to them on the hop along with an SMC image of your choice. Layouts can be submitted to the Sew Many Layouts Blog.



My technique to share with you is on using anything and everything in your artwork. Don't feel limited by only those items that you find in your LSS (yes, we all know the argument about keeping everything "acid free" but sometimes rules are meant to be broken!). In the below layout, I used the following random items:
- an "admit one" ticket that I saved from an event
- a skeleton key purchased at Lowe's
- a scrap of my bedroom curtain that was shredded by my cat
- corrugated cardboard
- a scrap book page
- a label from a bottle of Starbucks caramel sauce

Isn't the SMC donkey adorable?



Ready to hop around? Start at the SML Challenge Blog. Already participating? Your next stop is Mary's blog.

MSS Blog Hop winner!!!!

The blog hop was fun, eh (obviously the Olympics had an impact on me)?

Here is the winner of my RAK.

silvia said...
LOVE the cards!! TFS!!! :)
March 3, 2010 1:17 PM

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Result: 32

Congratulations Silvia! Please email me at hokieez AT yahoo DOT com with your address, and I'll ship your prize right out.

Be sure to check the other blogs to see if you won elsewhere!

Thanks for participating with us, girls! I hope to see you around here again!

My Scrapbooking Supplies Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to my part of the My Scrapbooking Supplies Blog Hop!!! I am so excited about our new blog and the members of this design team. I hope you have been enjoying and playing along with the challenges.

I am a big fan of using what you have, so I thought I would show you a quick way to create 4 cards in under 20 minutes. I started with this pile of supplies, geared towards small children, since I just used up my last baby card and wanted to restock:



4 pre-scored cards, sized 4" by 5", one sheet of patterned paper, paper from my scrap pile, and miscellaneous embellishments from my stash.

I cut the full sheet into 5 pieces: four 4x5 pieces and one 2" strip leftover as scrap. Then, I took the blue scrap and cut two 3x4 pieces for the boy cards. For the girl cards, I just assembled the scraps randomly. Once I placed the embellishments and added some bling to the girl cards (because all girls need something sparkly!), I was done... in under 20 minutes, using some of my saved scraps, and without spending a dime of additional money at the store.



As part of the blog hop, I am giving away this RAK...



To be entered in the random drawing, leave a comment on this post, and I will randomly draw a winner by Friday, March 5th!

After you have visited all the blogs and posted a comment, please be sure to go back to My Scrapbooking Supplies and post that you are finished. Thanks for playing!

Your next stop is Creative Team Member Wirda's blog.

Five more days...

until the Sew Many Layouts blog hop!

Who: Sew Many Layouts DT

What: National Craft Month Blog Hop

When: 03/06-03/07

Where: Start Hop Here: www.sewmanylayouts.com

Why: the Design Team would like to highlight some fun Layout Techniques with you!