Gifts for Some Special People

Over the weekend of the 10th to 12th, the store had Wendy Vecchi teaching several classes. The Maya Road Design Team also came in for the weekend. They shared some ideas and took some classes too. It was a busy, fun weekend. Knowing that they were coming, Carolyn thought it would be neat to make each of the group a box or something that could be filled with some candy and given to them as a welcome. Several of the design team worked on these. I think they turned out pretty neat and am sharing them here as ideas to springboard off of.

Carolyn made this vase for Caroline. It turned out really great and you don't ever get the full effect from a photo.



This one was done by Annette for Wendy Vecchi. She used one of the flower boxes by Maya Road for this and personalized it with her own items.


Heidi decorated this Provo Tin for Aubrey. She used a lot of ink techniques along with paper on this tin.




Sherri decorated an old cigar box for Lisa Pace. The majority of the items used are old ephemera from her stash.



This one was for Jessica. It is a box with smaller box trays inside. There are Sassafrass Lass papers on here as well as prima flowers and page bubbles.



Hope you find some inspiration here. Let us know what you have made.

Super Baby Book

This is a great idea for a baby gift. This little family album/baby book was done with a stock 8 x 8 album. The front was easily embellished with a cute ribbon and a tag stamped with the baby's name (since it was known).

Each of the paper sleeves then has a little folded page inside of it. When the page is in the book, you see the tab for the insert and the actual page that was done for the book. The insert can be just a 8 x 8 size paper, or could be a folded page if you wanted.


For instance, this first page shown is an adorable layout for a first photo, tucked behind it (and pulled out for showing here) is another page that could have journaling, other photos or cards perhaps that the mother wanted to save for the baby.

Notice that this one is a folded page, so when opened up it reveals another area for words, journaling, photos or whatever you as the designer wants to put there.
This is a view of the book, looking at the tops of the pages with all the tabs showing. Notice each one in this book is a month. 1 month, 2 months, etc.
And then just a few of the layouts that again are hiding a great insert behind them.

Hope that gives you some ideas for a book you might need to do!

Hi. My Name Is Carolyn.

Well I guess I get to go first, I will start with a little personal history and why I decided to open a store.

I am married to a wonderful husband, Floyd of 15 years. We owned a antique and gift shop for 7 years. After 10 years of trying to conceive, our miracle child Denton was finally here. I decided to close the business and stay home, that's when I discovered scrapbooking. I wanted to record every moment of Denton's life, including his cord when it fell off. Me and my friends would get together on Friday nights and scrapbook on my dinning room table. Our favorite tool at the time was Fiskar's templates and foam flowers. And those foam flowers are back in style. After realizing Denton would be starting school soon, I started thinking about things to do. Our local scrapbook store was closing and after MANY MANY days and nights of prayer I started my journey as the owner of The Crafty Scrapper. And a journey it has been. We have gone from 2200 sq. ft of store and 1 croproom to 4500 sq. ft, 2 croprooms, a coffee lounge area, online store, 3 employees, 2 teachers and 8 awesome designers. I am very blessed to have this team of girls and wonderful customers that just make my day when then come in. We try really hard to stay up on the industry, help new scrapbookers and challenge the expert scrapbooker.

OK enough of all the info, here are some recent projects I have worked on. Everyone knows I don't get to scrapbook a lot, but I love making things for people. Our dear friend Marie took this picture and I love how she captured that day, it is of my son and her daughter Madenline. It is a canvas from canvas concepts 12x12, Daisy D's paper and rubon, Imaginisce gems, Maya Roads Chipboard and I sewed the photo on the paper.


This next one isn't actually new, its 2 years old. It is one of my favorite things I have done and sits in my kitchen, and yes that is a muffin tin. I used AMM twill, Basic Grey paper and photos from our favorite place to go in the fall, Country Critters!




Tag your it Annette....your turn!

Here We Are

Yes, here we are. The design team for the Crafty Scrapper. This is a blog that the team will use to post ideas, techniques, challenges, swaps and anything else they can think of to excite the imagination. We plan to have FUN!

We hope that this will serve as a place to come when you are out of ideas, feeling less than creative, not sure what to do with a certain paper you got, etc. We also hope it will be a place you come when you are excited, have a gazillion ideas and want to see what others are doing. Please leave comments so we know what helps and what doesn't. With the changes in the team and now an individual blog just for the team---who knows what they'll come up with! The blog link will stay the same, but other details may change by the next time you visit.

Over the next week or so, each person on the team will introduce themselves and show a picture of a recent piece of work that they have completed. Once each has given a glimpse into themselves, we will start posting other ideas, projects, layouts and techniques!