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Aviator by Stolen Moments

Today, we have the last ScrapMatter’s Bingo Challenge for this month, an ad inspiration.  Carol (Iowan) here with this challenge.  How does this ad inspire you? Is it the colors, the composition, the photography theme? So let’s get those creative juices going.  I can’t wait to see what you do with it.

For my page, I used the May Mix a Kits. Click here for all the kits used for the page.  I was inspired by the grid format on the ad.

CT member, Lisa has a gorgeous page for you too. She got a tropical vibe from the large photo and loved the single frame window, so she went with a single focus frame as well. So cool.

I look forward to seeing your layouts in the gallery. Check HERE for all the May Bingo Challenges!

The ScrapMatters Girls are looking for some Rock Star Recruits to join their Gallery Praise team! Click the ad to see this in our forum!

This is not a CT Call. =)

* Do you enjoy looking through the gallery for inspiration?
* Do you find yourself leaving love for others?
* Would you like to earn rewards for being part of a gallery praise team?
* Can you commit to a 6 month term?
* No experience necessary, we will train you! =)

If you said YES, then we need to hear from you!!

The ScrapMatters Girls are a separate team from our store CT. The SMG monitor the gallery to make sure it is running smoothly and leave love on layouts. In return you receive one free kit each month, and the daily download kit/monthly collab when they are released. For extra commenting you can earn even more free goodies in our store. The requirements are to average 10 meaningful comments each day, check galleries and notify admin of problems, be active in the forum and keep a stat thread of your monthly activity. Sound easy?? It IS!!! No experience is necessary and all are welcome to apply!!
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HollyinPA back for another challenge.  We’re almost done with May’s challenges…how is your bingo card filling up?  You still have plenty of time to get those layouts done in time for the Bingo Chat!  Today’s challenge is a title challenge.  This time you are to use only one word for your title…sometimes this is easy, but with some layouts it can be the hardest thing ever!!

Here are some layouts to get your mind going in one word title creativity.  Happy Scrapping!

I used the kit Luscious from Siamese Studio for this layout of my son and daughter after finishing their musical.  It is nice to look back on memories and costumes and good times with friends

Next up is Cheese from KeepScrappin(Kayla).  I love the bright colors against the darker background and of course, the one word title is PERFECT   Kayla used Find Your Bliss Designs insd grab bag.

And finally we have Iowan(Carol) with Stomp.  I always love her layouts because the clustering is AMAZING and her photos are always adorable!!  This layout uses That’s My Kid Bundle by Mye De Leon

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Road Maps Vol. 1

Hazy Silver Alpha by geniaBeana

Hawaiian Escape

Hi everyone! Krista here to host one of my favorite challenges. Today we’re going to use an adorable, hopefully new to you, font that I found over at Kevin&Amanda’s Fonts for Peas. The font I chose is called Pea Noodle Parlor and you can get it here.  This font is SO cute and fun! I hope you like it as much as I do!

Here is my page for a little inspiration:

Abby made this fun page using this font:

And here is one more by Carolyn:

So, I challenge you to go pick up this fabulous font and use it to scrap a page! I can’t wait to see all your layouts!! And don’t forget to have fun, cuz that’s what it’s all about!

Hello there, Stefanie (Eyeore) bringing you today’s challenge. My challenge is all about the journaling. Scrap about a job you have or have held, including the pros and cons of your job.
You can find the complete list of Bingo challenges here

My journaling reads as follows:

SAHM doesn’t even come close to describing my life.

Yes I don’t go out to work, yes I have three children but what about the all other things I do…?

If I had a job description what would it include?

Referee, time keeper, menu planner, chef, dishwasher, taxi driver, teacher, nurse, pharmacist, hair dresser, beautician, purchaser, gardener, procurement officer, disciplinarian, librarian, garbage disposal, recycler, memory keeper, artist, photographer, family historian, waitress, maid, counsellor, secret keeper, vet, zoo keeper, window washer, home decorator, juggler, budget keeper and more that I haven’t documented.

Pros: I love the flexibility of my hours, love having most mornings off, don’t like changing my plans at the drop of a hat but sometimes that’s how we roll. I love watching the children grow up, mature, take on extra responsibilities, make friends and become people that I really enjoy hanging out with. I love school days and having the clean house empty and peaceful for a few hours. I know that the day is coming when they will be all grown up and leave home and the house will stay clean and tidy and peaceful and I will probably hate every moment of that. That aspect of my “job” will come to an end.

Cons: the salary is no where near sufficient and while being paid in love may be enough for some people, I love spending money more. There seems to be no end to the hours, only when everyone else is sleeping but I am the last to go to the bed and the second awake. I am not able to take sick leave, not really. Even holidays are spent with the same people that I work with – can’t really “get away from it all”.

I used Amy Stoffel and Find your bliss collab – Being a woman

Cluster Queen Creations - Gimme layers with words volume 4

It’s time again for It’s About Time, the challenge that makes you find those photos over a year old to finally get around to scrapping.

I’m still working on my Summer 2010 Disneyland album, and I’m (thankfully) getting closer to finishing it every day.  I’m down to the last few pages and I can see the end in sight.  Woo hoo!  Here is the page I made for the challenge about the hotel we stayed in – Disney’s Grand Californian.  I used Take Me As I Am, Take Me As I Am Paint, and Take Me As I Am Word Bits.

Carol (Iowan) made this darling page using Page Formers 4 templates by KimB Graphics and Designs and Tub Time by Julie Marie Designs

Now it’s your turn!  Dig through your photos that you took more than a year ago and get them scrapped.  Have fun!

Jan (QuiltyMom)

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We’re catching up this week with a couple of ladies who work hard at ScrapMatters.  The first is Jacqueline (Jacqueline1976) who is on our CT and the second is Trisha (tishyrae) who is on our ScrapMatters Girls team!  Read on to get to know these two ladies better  . . . .

Jacqueline:

1. Your screen name? Your real name?
*Jacqueline1976 or Jacqueline, my real name is Jacqueline*

2. What is your main job/career?
*I’m in surveying, but in the office.*

3. Are you married/children/pets?
*This year I married 10 years. We have two children, a son and a daughter.We have no pets.*

4. Where is home for you?
*I live in Germany with my family.*

5. What are your 3 favorite foods?
*Cheese, fruit, bread*

6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream?
*Chocolate and Strawberry*

7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet?
*Salty*

8. Beverage of choice?
Cola, milk, juice, but no coffee*

9. What’s your least favorite food?
*I like to eat pizza, salad*

10. PC or Mac? What program do you use?
*PC. I use Photoshop Elements 10*

11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started?
*I scrap since late 2006. I’ve been looking on the internet. And I’ve discovered DST ….. and now I scrap digitally.*

12. What was your 1st LO about?
*I do not have my first LO. Here is a layout from the year 2008. I find it terribly.*

*Is that not awful? No shadow….*lol**

13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)?
*A new hobby is geocaching. It’s totally fun and my kids love it to go on a treasure hunt.*

14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you?
I don’t now. *

15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking?
*hmm, don’t now*

16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows?
*I watch no television …. very rare times. Movies are too long …. because I’m impatient.* *lol*

17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where?
*We have a hobby room. Since PCs are for my husband, son and mine. So we always sit together. Music running sometimes from the PC my husband. I have usually quiet*

18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be?
Flower and leaves.*

19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…?  

20. Can you tell us a little about your scrappin’ style?
*I like cluster and my elements are most big.*

21. Favorite LOs that you have done?
*I have no favorite layout. I like almost all of my layouts.*

or this

22. What is one thing you tend not to use on layouts?
I use so rarely alphas.*

How fun to see some of your work and hear about your faves!!  Thanks Jacqueline!

Now, on to Trisha:

1. Your screen name? Your real name?
tishyrae- Trisha

2. What is your main job/career?
MOM/daycare provider/taxi/graphic designer

3. Are you married/children/pets?
I am married to my best friend, Andy! In August it will be years! We have 4 beautiful children. Madalyn (9) Miles (6) Dawson (5) Delaney (4). TOTALLY busy with our kids and their events! We have a boxer named Otto who adds lots of laughs to our household and farts! My son, Dawson got fish in October and one was pregnant so we had baby fish who have made it pretty far. Kind of neat to share that with my crew!

4. Where is home for you? Home is Wisconsin. My family came from Germany to Dale, WI.back in the 1800′s. And this area is where my parents grew up and I see myself growing old. We shall see what happens. I have 4 kids to stay close to. I WILL do anything to continue our relationship even after they are grown.

5. What are your 3 favorite foods? Right now anything healthy is my favorite.  I have been on a weightloss journey since Feb 2011 and have lost 53 pounds. I love finding healthy alternatives that taste GOOD! I love ice cream but it always gives me gut rot so I don’t have it often!

6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Depends on my mood. I would say Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwiches today!

7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet? Salty. Popcorn

8. Beverage of choice? Water. I drink a LOT of it!

9. What’s your least favorite food? Liver and Onions ACK! Seafood. The texture freaks me out!

10. PC or Mac? What program do you use? PC all the way. My husband is a Web Designer/Computer Programer and is a PC guy. I don’t know if he even LET me have a mac at the house. I have heard wonderful things about macs tho. I use PS5 for graphic designing and scrapping. I use Lightroom for my photography stuff. I am spoiled!!!

11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started?  2008 Don’t remember how I got started. But with 4 kids paper scraping was a NIGHTMARE and I didn’t find much time to get everything OUT to scrap with it. I LOVE Digi-land!

12. What was your 1st LO about? My kids. Surprise. Surprise.

13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)? Photography and Fitness.

14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you? Journaling. I really should do more of it. It will help up remember more about our LIFE events!

15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking? Always looking for way to better my photography. I love to knit too. Oh. Forgot to add that to the hobby list but I research that at times too. I have a guitar too I would love to learn out to play better!

16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? Criminal Minds/Biggest Loser/The Walking Dead/Raising Hope/Office/Modern Family/Impractical Jokers (so funny)

17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where? We have PCs all over the house. (comes from having a computer husband) Mama’s computer is in the dinning room where I can see the living room/bedrooms/etc. The placement is sweet from my view. I can get stuff done and keep an eye on all the little monkeys running around here. Music is a given. Sometimes there is snacks. I normally only get little bits of time so I would call my scrapping environment as STOP and GO!

18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be? Scallops. I LOVE THEM. And….hmmmmmmmmm….whimsical element. I am all about whimsical

19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? I was born 2.5 months premature and weighed 3lbs. in the 70′s. The fact that I am here and healthy is only God’s will. I am thankful to have this wonderful life I live!

20. Can you tell us a little about your scrappin’ style? I would say my scrapping style is Simple. I don’t like a lot to take away from the photos themselves. Does that make sense?

21. Favorite LOs that you have done?
Love that this one is about ALL of my kids. I am working on a book for ME. I make a scrapbook and print at shutterfly for my kids each year. But Mama needs one too. And I am going to try and group photos of them at the same age to scrap with. It is work to look through all the photos but I think the outcome is going to be amazing!

Simple. And the photo tells the story. This is my style in a nutshell.

This one is about all my favorites! MY MONKEYS/MY KNITTING/MY SCRAPPING!

22. What is your favorite part of being a member of the ScrapMatters Girls? I love learning more and more about the girls on the team. I love getting to see all the layouts and different styles of scrapping out there! The rewards are wonderful too, of course!

Thanks so much, Trisha, for sharing with us!!  And thanks to Melissa (missi_me) and Sandra (sberkan) for  interviewing these ladies!

Lisa (kelseyll)