Another patriotic layout this week. I just kept coming back to this amazing layout by Denise. I absolutely love the photo and the scrapping is superb. Congrats, Denise, I’m sure this will be a cherished page for your family.

Congrats, agrievingmommy!  Head on over to her gallery or the forum to leave her some love!

-Judy (jupiter394)

This week I got to interview on of my fellow Scrapmatters Girls, Msbrad!

1. Your screen name? msbrad -everywhere, so I don’t forget who I am Your real name? Michelle Bradshaw

2. What is your main job/career? Teacher. Just completed 36 yr. Retired at 30 and returned….part time.

3. Are you married/children/pets?married to Bill. 2 DD’s + 2 SIL, 1 DGS

4. Where is home for you? Tampa, Fl.

5. What are your 3 favorite foods? Italian, Seafood and salad

6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Butter Pecan

7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet? Salty, but love choc covered pretzels

8. Beverage of choice? coffee in the am, water most fo the day, then wine…after 5pm

9. What’s your least favorite food?  brussel sprouts

10. PC or Mac? What program do you use? PC

11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? made the switch in 2006

How did you get started? creating digi titles for my paper pages. Then I tried to create a digi bow…I still can’t.

12. What was your 1st LO about? grandson

13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)? sewing, photography, photo restoration

14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you?  Thinking of the page arrangement

15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking? photography

16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? hmm, don’t do much of either. I’ll have to think

17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where?
MY ROOM! TV, computer, sewing machines, serger, Pull out couch.

18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be? f lowers, stitching

19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? I’m shy.

20. Can you tell us a little about your scrappin’ style? It all depends on the LO, and what book it will go into. I’m all over. Prefer larger photos.

21. Favorite LOs that you have done?

Thanks Michelle for letting us get to know you better!! Check out the rest of Michelle’s awesome gallery here!

-Kendall (Kendallt)

22. What is your favorite part of being a member of the ScrapMatter Girls?  Love this site, love the consistency of it. Great designers and fab. supportive members.

Hello,

Just a quick note to let you know that there are still some kinks we are working out with our new two-server system.  The incoming shop mail is not working–andilynn, payments or customer support.  The outgoing mail seems to be working just fine, but our tech guys are still working on the incoming mail issues.  Please do not think I am ignoring you if you have written to me.  Your concerns are very important.  Continue to write, just know that it may not be received until Tuesday or Wednesday and then I will have a lot of emails to get caught up on.  Your patience at  this stressful time is appreciated more than you know.

Also there is an issue that is keeping us from logging into the shop’s administrative end.  So we are currently unable to check on problems with orders.  We are also unable to put new products into the shop. It appears that the shop software and paypal are working just fine.  I am hopeful that this problem will be resolved shortly too. The fact that this is a holiday weekend makes it a little more difficult to resolve as speedily as we like it. Your patience is appreciated.  Once the kinks are worked out our site will be able to handle all kinds of traffic without crashing, providing you an easy and hassle-free shopping experience.  Thanks again for your patience.  Andrea

Hi everyone! Melissa, profiler_mar here, and I am so excited to be hosting my first getting hybrid challenge! I always think it is fun to look for ways to use everyday items in different ways, or to use items we would normally just toss in the trash. So for this challenge I decided to make my own magnets! You can do this in a lot of ways, but I went with bottle cap magnets, because they are so cute! So first we will need:

*6 bottle caps
*magnetic strips that are adhesive on one side
*pop dots
*a one inch circle punch

Step 1: Create six 1-inch diameter circles, decorate with digi paper and elements, and print. I use PSE, so I selected the custom shape tool, and at the top, underneath the menu bar, I selected the shape I wanted, which was a circle. Click on the shape icon and chose “fixed size”, then enter 1 in x 1 in. When you go over to your document and click, it will drop the shape onto your page in that exact size.

Step 2: Using your circle punch, punch out the circles.

Step 3: Cut the magnets to fit the flat side of the bottle caps, and adhere them to the caps.

Step 4: Place a pop-dot inside each bottle cap.

Step 5: Adhere the circles to the pop-dots and voila, you are done!

Here are my finished magnets, using Bloomin’ Mini from Chelle’s Creations:

And here is some inspiration from our fabulous creative team!

From Jamie, aka azrod, using Oceanside by Trixie Scraps:

From Cristina, using Friendly by Britt-ish Designs:

As always, here are the guidelines for the challenges at Scrap Matters:
- Entries must be posted in the appropriate challenge gallery HERE, and come back and link us up in the challenge thread
- You will have until the end of the month (July) to complete your project
- You’ll get 1 point for designing, printing and putting together a new planner, and then posting the photo of it in the gallery. If you want some pointers about photographing your hybrid projects, see this thread HERE. You will get a bonus point if you used a new release within one week of it’s release to complete your project but you have to let me know. Plus, I’ll select one entry at random for a bonus challenge point.

There are so many different ways you can do this challenge, so I can’t wait to see what you create!