Pictures of Tickled Pink Kit

Tickled Pink CTMH Scrapbooking kit are available on my new blog.

http://burstofcreativity.blogspot.com/



~K

A tale of two blogs

I'm torn between two blogs.

This one and one that looks almost exactly like it but with a different name.

When I created this blog I thought using my name as part of the title would be a fine idea...... This is after all my little scrap room in cyber space. Only problem is, on a google search my blog also comes up when the name of a certain "adult" site is searched for and through my stats tracker I've noticed quite a bit of traffic from people who sure aren't interested in scrapbooking.

I did a little work a couple days ago and created a new blog, transfered the archives over and it's almost a direct copy of this one.

Where I'm torn is that even with the exact same content, the new blog does not come up in google searches at all. Not ever. I don't completely understand the reason why but am I really willing to give up being top bill on some searches in an effort to avoid those other search results.

I think I'm going to give it a try and hope that with time the search engines start showing An Occasional Burst of Creativity - my new blog, instead of this one.

So.......go check it out www.burstofcreativity.blogspot.com bookmark it, tell your scrapping friends about it and head over to that one for your scrapping fix for now and we'll see how it goes. Sorry for the inconvenience but I think I would just feel better if I didn't attract the attention of adult site searchers.

Tomorrow's TGIF - Weekend Challenge will be posted over there instead of here and I'll leave this one sit un-updated for a little while and see what happens.


~K

Are You Ready To Be TICKLED PINK ?

The National Scrapbooking Month CTMH Campaign details have been released. Are you ready? Here it is!

You’re gonna love our Tickled Pink scrapbooking kit designed exclusively for National Scrapbooking Month in May.

PUT A LITTLE MORE “YOU” IN YOUR SCRAPBOOKS AND YOU’LL BE
Tickled Pink this spring! Our newest scrapbooking kit puts you front and center—with everything you need to create two beautiful two-page layouts all about the things that you love and that make you shine. And speaking of shine, you’ll also be tickled by the kiss of glitter on these fabulous papers!

To get your very own Tickled Pink scrapbooking kit:
• Place a minimum order of $75 in stamp sets (excluding K-size and Stamp of the Month) between April 15-May 31 to receive a Tickled Pink scrapbooking kit FREE! (limit one free kit per order.)
• Purchase the Tickled Pink kit at just $43.50—well below retail value!
•Sign up as a new Consultant between May 1-May 31 and receive a kit
FREE.
• Host a Home Gathering between April 15-May 31 with minimum sales of $500 and receive a kit FREE.

Celebrate spring, bling, and everything you love—you’ll be so happy,
you’ll be Tickled Pink! *Tax and shipping/handling may apply. Available for a limited time while supplies last.

This kit features the colours Blush, Crystal Blue, Twilight, Hollyhock, Sweet Leaf and includes a D-size stamp set called I Am, 4 sheets of B&T Duos papers (2 of them with glitter), 6 sheets of Textured Cardstock (1Blush, 1Crystal Blue, 4 White Daisy), 1 sheet of White Daisy Textured Cardstock die-cuts, 1 foam tool, 1 White Daisy Mini-Medley Collection and an instruction brochure to create 2 double page layouts with this fabulous set. **pictures available on my new blog http://www.burstofcreativity.blogspot.com/ . A PDF file will be included with the next newsletter. If you are not on my newsletter email list and would like to be, leave a message in the comment section.

I will be placing an order on April 15th for anyone that would like to receive this kit in time for the NSD Celebration Crop in May. That date is firm to allow for shipping time so please place your order prior to that date.

If you would like to host a gathering during this campaign, contact me soon for open dates. This is a time sensitive, while supplies last offer so the earlier the better.

A Blogger Puzzle

I'm puzzled. Blogger has me flusterated.

Why is it that sometimes when I upload photos they become clickable links that open up in larger formats but othertimes (like the 3 pages I posted Sunday night and the card Saturday morning) they do not become clickable links to bigger pictures. WTH! I'm not doing anything different each time I post pictures (aside from the amount of grumbling I do when my dial-up is being particularly finicky).

Grrrrr

Any thoughts from experienced 'Bloggers'? Please leave a comment if you know what the heck the deal is with this.


~K

Crop Highlights

While there weren't a lot of us at crop on Saturday we sure had a lot of fun. Yummy food - and tons of baking. Lots of chatting. Many pots of coffee. NO visiters - usually someone stops in for coffee. Oh wait. Heather stopped in TWICE. I think she wished she hadn't been curling and could have come to play with us. We played many rounds of 'when was this picture taken' and quite a few of 'what was happening here'. I'm embarassed to admit I actually asked who the pictures were in one page my mother in law was working on. Turns out it was my youngest SON! Boy did he need a haircut!


Speaking of my mother-in-law....you should see her idea book. WOW! She has a 3ring binder notebook (actually it's an old Reflections Program binder) and it is FULL of inspiration. She has of course a set each of Reflections and Originals pages but also sheets of paper that she has sketched ideas from magazines that have inspired her. She's also cut out images from all her old catalogues of her favorite cards and layouts and examples of various uses for different materials such as buttons, ribbon, safetypins, flowers etc. It's the most amazing thing. I'll have to take pictures of it and post them.


I got out-scrapped by everyone and did NOT come anywhere near getting 8 (or more) pages done like some people but I did manage to complete* three. And by complete I mean, for the most part they are done and if I'm lucky I'll get some journalling onto a couple of them. Journalling is not what I do best some days.

This first one was from Weekend Challenge #2 and the inspiration came from that $20 platter I loved and the sketch I posted. It turned out better than I expected and I think I did a pretty good job of getting what was 'in my head' translated out onto paper. My sister-in-law gets credit for the beautiful photo of my youngest daughter.



All supplies are ctmh unless otherwise stated: Sunkissed Yellow Textured CS; Sweet Leaf CS; Dutch Blue Textured CS; Bubble Gum CS; Chocolate Ink; the square is the back side of a stamp from the Solo E set; Just Blooms - White Daisies & Summer Posies; Bubblegum brads and White Daisy Bigger Brads, the leaves are wired silk leaves - source unknown; EK Success Corner rounder with the guard removed to make the scalloped border & a regular office hole punch for the holes.



The second layout of the day was inspired by the Weekend Challenge #3 (this weekends) to make a monochromatic layout with 3 rows - title, picture, journalling. Of course the journalling hasn't been done yet and I added an extra picture into the 'journalling row' plus you will notice that one of the 4 pictures on the left side is on there twice. That's because I didn't have a wallet sized school picture of my oldest daughter (lots of 8x10s though) so I either need to find the disk that came with her photos and hopefully print a wallet sized picture or I'm just going to removed the top photo, draw an outline where the picture would be and add the words 'photo not available' in it and depending on which way this goes will determine what the journalling says.





All supplies ctmh unless otherwise stated: Autumn Terracotta Textured CS - the back side for the background and the front for the photo & journalling mats; Parchment CS; Autumn Terracotta Ink Pad & Fine Tip Pen; Classic Caps & Classic Numbers Stamp Sets (both discontinued); Ribbon from Autumn Terracotta Collection (also discontinued); and the safety pin was part of an accent package from a special a couple years ago.

My last page of the day is for my mom's album. She has a collection of photos of my nephew on her fridge and some of them are starting to discolour so I figured I'd better get them into albums. No pre-conceived inspiration for this one. I just picked out a piece of b&t paper and the wavey stitched lines provided all the inspiration I needed - that plus the huge grin on my nephews face.

All supplies are CTMH unless otherwise stated: Dutch Blue Textured CS (the reverse side...I LOVE that it has different colours on each side!) and the B&T is from last January's Heart Of Winter Special; Cranberry CS; Outdoor Denim Ink; the alpha stamp was a hostess/customer special from last year - I don't even know if the set has a name. DE Chipboard hearts were part of the DieCut special last fall - one is backed with Cranberry CS the other stamped with Holiday Red Ink and Spot On Background; Sparkles. The photoclip & brad are Queen & Co brand.

So those are the highlights from March Crop Day. Small group but Big Fun!

The next crop isn't until the BIG National Scrapbook Celebration Weekend Crop on May 1st, 2nd & 3rd. There is still plenty of room and registration is still open. I'll be booking upcoming dates in the coming weeks so if there are any requests for a particular weekend get them to me asap. I also have an order going in early this week if anyone needs anything.

~K

You Rock

I'm heading out for a day of scrapping at Minerva Hall but wanted to share a little something something with you before I left.

Here's a card I started as a '10-minute technique' post that my 8yr old daughter tried to confiscate to use as a base for birthday card for a birthday party this weekend. I told her I would finish it up just for her friend and she could have it.

The base is Bubblegum Textured Cardstock and a little bit of B&T paper from a Sweet Harmony L2 paper pack. The White Daisy cs is randomly 'smooshed' with Blush & Petal ink using crumpled up pieces of stretch/cling wrap (saran wrap). You could use any thin plastic for this.

The sentiment and the guitar are from D1346 - You Rock. The guitar is stamped in Blush and then I used a sponge dauber to add Petal ink in places, matted with Petal Textured CS and 3 Bubblegum brads. It is attached to the base using Foam Squares for dimention. The sentiment is stamped in Petal and then I ran tape runner over top and added Prisma Glitter ---- because what 9yr old girl doesn't like glitter, and matted on Petal Textured CS.

~K

TGIF - Weekend Challenge #3

I'm still working on last weekend's challenge. It looks great....at least the picture of it in my head does. I'm still struggling with how to get the stuff in my head OUT and onto paper.



I was digging through a file of old layouts I have scanned onto my computer. I'd been talking to my niece last week about my experience with babies & sign language and I was looking for a layout I did quite a few years ago, in 2003, about Emily's signs. I absolutely LOVE this layout. It's so clean and simple with it's three rows - a title, a panoramic photo and a narrow block of journalling plus a few simple accent pieces for balance. I'm also a big fan of monochromatic layouts (using a single colour in various shades such as the pink/red used in this layout)


Use this layout as your inspiration for this weekend's challenge. Three rows - a title, a photo or series of photos and journalling and also try a monochromatic colour scheme.


Happy Scrapping Everyone!

Have a great weekend.


~K