So Many Fun Projects!

The store received it's shipment of Jillibean Soup Papers today. The design team has been working on some samples using the lines already.

Take a look at this great layout Gena did using the New England Chowder papers. Don' you love the way the paper is used? Gives a real movement, yet uses very straight lines. Very cool.



Isla took several of the papers from Chicken Noodle Soup, Old World Cabbage Stew as well as some coordinating papers from other paper lines and made this VERY cute Recipe book.




Cute little clips hold the recipes in place, next to photos of the actual food.


The way she used other pieces such as Maya Road cupcake coasters and Crafty Secrets stamps really works well.


Of course, these are on display at the store and look SOOO much better in real life than with my photographs.

Trick or Treat Express

Brainstorming always ends up with such great things. Isla and I were talking about the little Maya Road train one afternoon and I was showing her a baby train I had been working on. Well, her creative mind started thinking and she said I bet it would make a great Halloween train and then she went right home and made one.

This is a fabulous project and several people have bought papers to make their own now. The pictures do not do it any justice, but trust me it is Fabulous! She used K&Co diecuts and the animal & cage key chains from Maya Road as well as the Maya Road chipboard train album. Isn't it Great!

More Than Scrap"BOOO"king

Granted, most of us do some sort of scrapbooking but I think we have all started to delve into other uses for the wonderful things out there. This is just one great example of using the materials for a home decor item. Isla, who loves to decorate for Halloween, made this adorable banner using Maya Road Pennant Chipboard Shapes. The background is sprayed with the new Maya Road Mists. A fast, pretty way to get a nice background! She then used some K & Co shapes and sweet ribbons to create this fabulous project. It is hanging in the front of the store. It is not Halloween yet, but it is time to start thinking about decorating projects!!

More Stunning Word Books

Two of the other word books that were extremely popular at the convention were these. First is a picture of the CRUISE book. It has been a big hit at the store for a month or so, but the convention goers were seeing it for the first time. I heard many wonderful comments on this and many, many people buying the papers to make their own.

I hate to limit you to only a couple pages of this book because it is quite awesome. Susie did this book & if you notice in this second photo you will see an acrylic page added into the book. She did this in a couple of spots and really made this a unique book. Looking at the book, I wish I was on a cruise right now--cool water in the pool...ahhh. All the papers in this book are Moxxie papers & I think there are still some left at the store. (with the sale, things are flying out of there)

This second book is the Fourth of July Book. The letters say JULY4 and then if you look on the '4' you will see the "th" completing the cover. Isla did this book as well for us. She scurried right up until 3 or 4 in the morning of the day of the convention working on projects for the store.










On this book, she used the Rusty Pickle Papers, which have nearly all escaped the store. We took them for mini store in the crop room and not many were even left after that. Since Rusty Pickle was at the convention, we kept what was left for the store. I have said to Isla that I think she sold more Rusty Pickle paper than they did with this book.

I hope these give you some ideas on what to do with some of your photos. Even though I couldn't get the full project in here, you can see that the books will hold quite a few photos AND can be expanded with extra pages. Need help doing your first one of these? Come on by the store. We'll be glad to talk you through it!

Stars of the Show

 
One of the big hits at the Great American Scrapbook Convention were the word books. Some are called Word Bloom books and some have different names. They are made by many places. Many booths had these books and they are pretty popular in general, but I felt like ours were extra special because of the examples made by the Design Team members. There were some other cute examples around the floors, but I didn't think any were any cuter than the ones made by our team. OK. I know I'm biased, but really, these were very very cute.
 
First off is this COWGIRL book.

Coordinating both Carolee's Adorn It and Moxxie paper lines, Isla made this a beautiful book. She added just the right amount of great embellishments from the lines and made some of her own. The great star on the front of the book is from 10 second studio metal and molds. She outlined it with Glitz icing. Really grabs the eye, doesn't it?

 
Stunning, sharp and stylish were words that were used to describe this book by attendees.
 


The heart shape is a Heidi Swapp mirror with a rub-on.
 





Isla always does a great job on any project. I'm sure it also helped to have so many adorable pictures of her granddaughter.

 



 

The great flower of studs is from Prima Marketing.










This is just one of the great books from the show--AND just some of the pages. I'll have to post the others in separate posts. I can't show you all of them on here--you may just have to head to the store to see them all.

We're In The Dog House

What a fun project. Several attended the class recently and used this Maya Roads House with book and made it into a book about what their home is to them. Isla was not able to attend, but had picked up this house box/book holder and made it into something unique. First, the house has been made into a Dog Home with a cute flower towering overhead. On the back of the house the adorable tree is also a Maya Road Tree chipboard shape. The book that sits nicely inside of the box has been used to create a memory of a special pup.

Isla used the Ten Second Studio Metal, template and tools to cover the roof. The papers used are from Fancy Pants. Click on any photo to enlarge it so you can see the full details. The Maya Road House comes in three sizes, this one is the middle size. What does this inspire you to make?

Played With These Yet?

Have you played with these "Love, Elsie" books? Here is one by Isla with the house shaped book. These are really cute small books. Take a look at how cute this one is done-not all pages shown. All the papers and embellishments are from the Love, Elsie line. It is on display at the store if you want to see it in closer detail.

Hi I am Isla.....

I have been an avid scrapbooker for over 10 years. I loved it so much that when given an opportunity to start a retail business in something I enjoyed, I chose Scrapbooking. I ran a very successful scrapbook business for over three years. I decided to take a break from retail and have enjoyed scrapbooking my own things for a while. My style of scrapbooking is one of clean lines. My favorite scrapbooking subject is my granddaughter Natalie. Natalie is pretty well known in this area since my layouts of her have been on display at either my store or this store since Natalie was very young.

One of my other passions is the breast cancer cause. My daughter walks in this each year. Last year we coordinated the crop for the cure, which raised nearly $1500.00. This year we hope to beat that amount. It has turned out to be a very popular event at the store. On display at the store right now is a book I did a couple of years ago about my daughter's walk along with prizes for raffle drawings. It should be a fun day at the store.

My husband and I also belong to a group that enjoys old cars and we like to travel. Needless to say, we stay busy and have many friends in the area that we enjoy spending time with.

This book is one I did recently of Natalie's favorite things at age 10. I used the Love Elsie Roxie line of papers and embellishments.

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!