Sew Many Layouts: The Girls

The last of my 7 day reveal is another sketch layout. When I was little, my mom always referred to my sisters and I as "the girls" and I caught myself doing it after the youngest was born. Isn't it funny how life comes full circle?

Sew Many Layouts: Bandit

I created this for a color blocking/using 5+ pictures on a page challenge. The SMC image is here.

Sew Many Layouts: Seven

This is day #1 of 7 in a row where I'll get up-to-date on posting my recent projects. This one was a challenge that I created for the Dixie Pieces National Scrapbooking Day bash.

I also used the sketch of the month at Sew Many Layouts to create this page. The turtle image can be found here. Sadly, this was the last challenge for SML. The digi shop is still open, but there will be no more layout challenges.

Sew Many Layouts: Easter

The final Spring Fling challenge at Scraptivity was to create a layout that used a spring haiku. I wrote this one...

Early spring morning
Children wearing fancy clothes
Easter has arrived

I also incorporated this Sew Many image.

Sew Many Layouts: Show us what you got and a RAK

Sew Many Layouts has a new design team just in time for National Scrapbooking Day.

In celebration of National Scrapbooking Day the design team has created layouts using their favorite scrapbooking products and techniques! Here is mine:



Scrapbooking is my outlet as well as my way of leaving a legacy for my children... I know I've documented things that they (and I!) will forget, and I love that those memories have been preserved.

Scrapbooking recipes has really taken off, and I try to create at least one recipe layout a month. The above layout is mostly made from scraps (one of my favorite things to use!). The SMC image can be found here.

Kristen Powers Ink is our awesome Sponsor for this blog hop! I loved working with this image from her catalog. She also has a line of jewelry (click the image below to go to that shop). What an amazingly talented, busy woman!



CHALLENGE: Create any sized LO using ANY digi image, and share your favorite scrapbooking products and techniques! Submit your creations to Sew Many Layouts by 05/06/10 11:59pm EST to be entered for a chance to win $10.00 to the Kristen Powers Ink Etsy Shop!

I'm also giving away a RAK to celebrate the new team!
To earn entries:
1. Leave a comment on this post (if you do any of the below, be sure to note in your comment so that I can give you the correct number of entries!)- 1 entry
2. Click "Follow" in the top left corner of the blog (on the Blogger bar)- 2 entries
3. Have a friend follow and leave a comment (make sure they note that you sent them here!)- 5 entries
4. Make a blog post about the SML contest, letting people know to come here and to the challenge blog- 10 entries
You have until just before midnight on May 6th to enter! I'll announce a winner on the 7th.

Be sure to stop on by and check out the rest of the DT creations too!

Another tour of duty

I am honored and excited to announce that I will be returning for another term as DT member at SMC Layouts.

We are kicking things off with a blog hop May 1-5. Meet n greet the new DT members...
check out their creations using their favorite products in recognition of National Scrapbooking Day... join in on a FUN challenge... meet some new friends... see our sponsor gift from Kristen Powers Ink!

Celebrate with us!

Sew Many Layouts: National Poetry Month

Bumping up to remind you of the challenge due this week...


If you know me, you know I am a Hokie... I graduated from Virginia Tech in 1998. I found myself there... who I was, who I wanted to become. I still miss Blacksburg, over a decade later. Whenever I return, I feel as though I've gone home.

The shooting of 32 people on April 16, 2007 on campus devastated me. Though I wasn't there and didn't personally know any of the people killed, I felt as though I had lost part of my family.

Poet Nikki Giovanni is a professor at VT. She gave an amazing speech at the end of the memorial service the day after the shootings. That is what I chose to include on my layout (underneath it is my own journaling about the day).



Here is the text of the speech...
"We are Virginia Tech. We are sad today and we will be sad for quite awhile. WE are not moving on, we are embracing our mourning. We are Virginia Tech. We are strong enough to know when to cry and sad enough to know we must laugh again. We are Virginia Tech. We do not understand this tragedy. We know we did not deserve it but neither does a child in Africa dying of AIDS, but neither do the invisible children walking the night to avoid being captured by a rogue army. Neither does the baby elephant watching his community be devastated for ivory; neither does the Appalachian infant in the killed in the middle of the night in his crib in the home his father built with his own hands being run over by a boulder because the land was destabilized. No one deserves a tragedy. We are Virginia Tech. The Hokie Nation embraces our own with open heart and hands to those who offer their hearts and minds. We are strong and brave and innocent and unafraid. We are better than we think, not quite what we want to be. We are alive to the imagination and the possibility we will continue to invent the future through our blood and tears, through all this sadness. We are the Hokies. We will prevail, we will prevail. We are Virginia Tech."

The title frames and green/blue photo frames are from Sarah's Supplies.

You can view the rest of the DT layouts and the sketch that we used HERE.

This is your chance to enter the Sarah's Supplies/SMC Layouts contest! Entries are due by April 16. Click on the below banner for more details.

Want to join Sew Many Layouts?

Sew Many Cards Layouts is having a design team call. If you would love to play with cute new digital stamps and are committed to playing along withn the challenges, you can check out the details here.

SML: Cut it out and Hydrangea Hippo

The weekly challenge at Sew Many Layouts was to create a layout where everything was cut by hand. The design team was also gifted with products from Hydrangea Hippo to play with. If you haven't heard of Hydrangea Hippo, you need to check them out! The kit that they sent was packed with pre-cut papers, plastic and paper doo-dads, ribbon, sequins, and stick pins. I really enjoyed this fun kit. I spread out the material over these two layouts and still had leftovers!

On this first layout about my now five year-old's first sleepover, I used ribbons, sequins, and embellishments from the Hydrangea Hippo kit as well as paper that I handcut from the new Fancy Pants About A Girl line. The SMC image is this snail.



This page I created for my son's seventh birthday. 75% or so of the materials used were Hydrangea Hippo. Birthday Fishes is one of my favorite images from Sew Many!



Stop by the challenge site to see the design team creations and submit your own!

Time is running out to purchase your kit to play along with our upcoming challenge (you won't HAVE to use the kit to participate, but you will get more entries if you do!)...

SML March recipe challenge

Another recipe challenge this week. We were to use a staple, paper clip, sticky note, and newspaper in our layouts. I always use these recipe challenges to actually scrapbook a recipe because I keep a scrapbook in the kitchen, too.

As an added bonus, Foxes and Robbers gave us the two awesome tags to incorporate into our layouts. I was torn about using the crown tag on this layout or the one that I'll be doing for next week's challenge, but I ultimately decided on this one.



I chose the baby Jaden SMC image since my recipe was for baby pizza puffs.

Be sure to check out the rest of the design team layouts HERE.

Another reminder...

SML Name Challenge

Hello. My name is Heather, and I am addicted to Facebook. I've been wanting for some time to create one of those scrapbook pages showing my facebook statuses for the year, and this was the perfect chance to do one! For my take, I organized my favorite statuses into categories because I wanted the viewer to be able to tell specific things about me right away. The categories that
I came up with were "Heather is..." a mom, a good wife, Catholic, a sports fan, always up for fun, and human (for those moments where I wasn't at my best!). I used the amazing March 2010 kit, titled Cartoon, from Dixie Pieces for this layout. You can see the rest of the design team layouts HERE. The SMC image is Fawn Easter Fishes. Play along with us this week (there is also a layout challenge- details on the site!)... I would love to see your creations!

Also wanted to remind you of this upcoming challenge:

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.

SML Special Challenge...

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!

SML Tilt challenge

This week, we were challenged to create a tilted layout. The SMC stamp can be found HERE.

The lyrics are from the song "Fly" by Eddie from Ohio.

See more from the SML design team: http://smclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2010/02/challenge-4-show-us-what-ya-got.html

My first SML creation is up...

This week, we were challenged to use three buttons, ribbon, and two digital stamps. The owl is from Sew Many, and the mouse is Bugaboo.

See more of this week's creations HERE.

Look at me!

LOL. I'm not usually one to say that, but I was invited to join the fabulous design team at Sew Many Layouts, and I am so excited!!! You can see the announcement here.

I just completed the challenge for 2/20, so be sure to watch for it. Hint: our sponsor this week was Bugaboo Stamps, so I got to use not one but TWO awesome digi stamps!