Good Morning!!  Alamama here with your traveling instructions!  Are you ready?

1.  Choose an old photo/s.  Go and pick a photo/s that you have tucked away in a photo album.
2.  Choose two papers, one dark and one light.
3.  Add at least three stitches.
4.  Add at least two ribbons and or paper strips, placed behind at least one of your photos.
5.  Add at least two different elements from nature. (flowers, twigs, butterflies, etc.) You’ll need to use them evenly.  This means if you pick flowers use an even number of them, and so on.
6.  Frame your photo/s.
7.  Add a tag.
8.  Lastly, do a little journaling.  Tell us about the photo/s.

In order to reach our destination, we MUST have all 8 things in our layout. You can of course do more than these 8 things…and the rules are open to interpretation. Be creative, for example, if you use something that meeting more than one requirement, lucky you!

You will have ALL month to scrap your layout, and when you complete it, you MUST post it to the “RoadMap to Scrap” Challenge Gallery AND in the forum here to get credit.

Your completed layout will earn you one point in the Matter of Scrap Challenge System.

In addition, you can earn another point by using a newly released product (you must scrap and upload your layout within the first 7 days of the products release – and remember, you MUST indicate that you used a new release).

Remember, no double dipping…your layout must be unique to this challenge.

This challenge will run until the end of the month!  Then I will choose my favorite LO, which will earn another point!!

I can’t wait to see where your journey takes you! 

Here’s mine:

I used Britt & Erica’s new *Itty Bitty* kit!

Here’s what the AWESOME CT came up with!
kkklatt…used mostly Haynay’s ‘be still my heart’ and a few elements are from Holly Designs

And Shutch…used WM [squared] – Green and Serene kit

Thanks for traveling with me.  I hope you had a great trip!

Hello Henriëtte here with this months photo challenge!

Let’s start with announcing the winner from the January challenge, the goal was to let your photo subject really stand out and Jude achieved this with this more than gorgeous picture:

Congrats Jude!

Thank you all for your beautiful pictures and layouts for last months challenge. I know it wasn’t an easy challenge and I was overwhelmed by so many wonderful entries, thanks a bunch!! 
And as the last couple of challenges were more or less for digital camera’s here is a challenge for all.

It is not a tutorial this month, but a subject:

Because it is Valentine in February I would like you to make a picture of a heart, but to make it a little bit more difficult (and here is the catch) it should not be a red heart and the heart should not be made of plastic, that should narrow down the field at least a bit.

So anything goes as long as it is not a red plastic heart. You can be creative and “make” your own heart or just make a photo of an allready existing heart, it is all up to you!

Here goes my try:

And here are the great entries from Monique (Monsu), two of Littlehiccup (Mary), Brittney (Britt) and Christine (alamama). I just love their creative and fun photo’s, thanks ladies!

Oooh and Britt made hers with the self-timer and alamama want you all to know that …no good coffee was used or harmed in this project!

(And for those who never played before: it should be a new picture (and layout) especially made for this challenge, only one picture and one layout are elegible for a point, and the picture should be posted in the appopriate gallery and linked back to the appropriate tread)

Have fun and have a great Valentine!

Henriëtte

All crafters- digi scrappers, paper scrappers, paper crafters, you name it- experience it once in a while…

CREATIVE BLOCK

No ideas.  You arrange things around and nothing looks right.  Nothing is cohesive.  It’s frustrating as all get out.  I’m not out of creative ideas, but I am out of writing ideas.  <grin>  So, for this week’s Hybridology 101, let’s get some creative inspiration from some of the projects posted in the gallery recently!

The first project I found was this lovely door hanger by Juliemomof4:

Don’t you love the glittery butterfly?  And the heart has such wonderful canvas texture!  I also love how it’s not the traditional pastel baby colors, but warmer, earthy tones.  Great job, Julie!!

The next goodie is by my hybrid colleague, Karistamps.  She did a really neat twist on the traditional birthday invitation, using the Scrap Matter’s collaborative kit, You Say It’s Your Birthday:

Aren’t these fun?  And guess where she got the spatulas?  The dollar spot at Target!!  Gosh, I love the dollar spot- it’s quite possibly my second most favorite place on earth (it’s a really close second to Disney).

Finally, have you seen the adorable card set made by ocmath (Jaime)?  These were made using a collaborative kit called Peace and Quiet, by Andilynn Designs and Britt-ish Designs:

Such a simple design- yet, such stunning results!!  So clean and fresh!  I love the punched scalloped circles, and the flourishes, and the soft colors.  And the real ribbon finishes them off so well!!

I hope you have a chnce to look through the Hybrid gallery- there are some really great ideas in there!  Plus, there’s been a little bit more refinement in that gallery, so it’s easier to find what you’ve been looking for!  The Hybrid Gallery has been sub-divided into several smaller sections: Page layouts, Cards, and several other types of projects.  Please check it out and leave our contributors some love!!

I’ll be back next week with some more great valentine’s ideas!

Until then,

Good morning scrappers!  Jeni here with your first dose of the now weekly Grand Theft Layout challenge.  Woohoo!  For this edition we are lifting the FABULOUS, amazing, one and only. . . . Brittney! 

First, check out her gallery HERE to find a layout to lift.  Second, once you have scrapped your LO be sure to post it in the gallery HERE.  Then go to this thread in the forum and post a link to your LO and a link to the LO that you lifted so we know you are participating in this challenge. Please also remember to post a link to Brittney’s original LO in your credits when you post in the gallery too.  : )

Here is some CT inspiration to get your started.

Denise (neeceebee) lifted this LO of Britt’s Kim (kimbytx) lifted this LO of Britt’s Andrea (chia) rotated and lifted this LO by Britt

Sya and Krista (sahlink) and I all lifted this LO by Britt

Don’t you love how everyone comes up with something different even when it’s the exact same inspiration? 

Now for the rules:  You get one point for participating in this challenge, plus an extra point for using a new product released within the week. Be sure to list the new product you used in both your credits and in the challenge forum.  I will pick my favorite LO at the end of the month and that person will get an additional point. Remember there is no double dipping – this LO needs to be an original LO and not used for another challenge. You have until February 28th to complete this challenge. 

Well, what are you waiting for?  Go check out Britt’s gallery and get scrappin!

Brenda here with your Tuesday Template for February 3rd. I don’t have a theme for you. Just scrap what you want.

DOWNLOAD HERE or click the image.

Don’t forget you have 1 month to post. If you want an extra point be sure to use a new release within one week of it’s release in the SM shop. HERE is your gallery to post to and don’t forget to link back here to receive credit.

Here is my layout for inspiration. Click HERE for credits.

Here are some more lovely layouts for your viewing pleasure.
{little hiccup-Mary} Jump Zone

{monsu-Monique} Smitten

{designerbrittney-Brittney} We are Soaring

Hi Everyone!

Denise (neeceebee) here to bring you another edition of “What Matters Monday.” And today, I want to talk about credits. Credits matter.

Have you ever seen a great layout and wanted to know who made that fabulous alpha? or that awesome paper? And you went to check, and…no credits!!!

I just wanted to say a word about how important it is to credit all those fabulous designers who work so hard to bring us all the amazing goodness that is digiscrap! I know that each and every item that these designers create is given all the love and care that they have, and we should do all that we can to give credit where credit is due.

This goes the same for templates and fonts. I know that it is easy to forget that we started with a template and by the end it’s all we can do to remember the kit that we used, let alone the name of the template. But, a template is someone’s creation, and we should remember to give credit.

And I have to admit that I am terrible about listing what fonts I use, but I really am trying to get better about writing it down and posting the information. Again, these are someone’s creations, and giving credit is the right thing to do.

And, while we are talking about credit, I want to remind us all that credit is important, not just for the products that we use, but also for the ideas we borrow. Have you ever seen a layout that was so fabulous, you felt the need to re-create it in some fashion? Well, when you do, this is what we call a scraplift…and the best way to honor the person who you lifted is to give them credit for their ideas.

How do you do that?

Well, you can say: “Scraplift of (insert person’s name here)’s layout (insert the name of the layout here),” or, even better, you could link us to that person’s layout so we can see for ourselves where your inspiration came from.

And how do you do that?

You simply type: Scraplift of (insert person’s here) [url=insert layout's URL here]type name of layout here[/url

(And, don’t forgot to close the bracket at the end of /url. I couldn’t do it here because it would actually make my example linked, and then you wouldn’t be able to see what to type.)

I really love the digiscrap community. Everyone is so generous and giving, and in addition to selling their products, a lot of designers give away things for free. This kind of generosity deserves our respect, and the best way to do that is with our credits.

I will work on remembering, I hope you will too.

Happy Scrapping!!!