Working idea for August kit-ie sneak peek but not the final thing

This is what I am thinking the August kit is going to look like. Now I do not have everything but this is what I am working with, plus the kit will have a small stamp. What do you think? I am loving the late summer colors. These will be available for preorder starting July 1.
Amber

Paris in the Rain May 2007

Photobucket Album

Spain 2007

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Spain 2007

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Spain 2007

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Could not Stop myself.

Well the full kits are not even here yet but all it took was the paper to get me going. I had so much fun playing with these new papers this morning.

A Birthday Party Game

Win a free kit if you participate.
Here is the link to the contest rules.


Lets see what you can all do.
Here is another sneak peak of one of the lines in the April Kit.

Since there is nothing left of this months kit, I pulled out an old PKBE.

5 Easter Decorations

I used my left over Creative Florals kit to make these 5 MM Easter Chipboard Shapes.

The Gallery is starting to Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check out this sketch by Dalis http://www.thescrappingedge.net/Gallery/thumbnails.php?album=65
And these Layouts by Julie.
http://www.thescrappingedge.net/Gallery/displayimage.php?album=64&pos=3
http://www.thescrappingedge.net/Gallery/displayimage.php?album=64&pos=4
http://www.thescrappingedge.net/Gallery/displayimage.php?album=64&pos=5

And this LO by me,
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Plus the 1st line for April is up and those kits are available for preorder.

April Sneak Peak

The first of 3 lines that will be featured in the April TSE kit.
They are available for preorder now!

March 2007 Kits will ship March 20th

March is here and with it comes our best kit yet, at least I think so. It is so pretty and has all of the things that I love. Rubons, Ribbon, a chipboard alphabet and pretty patterned paper. Plus Fancy Pants new Creative Cards in The Perfect Pen, wonderful 4x6 journaling cards and prompts to help us get more journaling on our pages. Plus a brown chalk ink catseye for the perfect edging of this wonderfully shabby paper.
Check in to see what the design team comes up with.

Here is my first LO with this kit. I think the journaling cards work even better than I thought they would.

March Sneak Peak!!!!!!!
Kit will be posted as soon as all items are in.
Paper only option will be available with the March kit.
All items will ship once a month with your kit till further notice.
We are looking forward to our GRAND REOPENING AND SECOND ANIVERSARY!!!
GREAT CONTESTS COMING IN APRIL!!!!!!!!!!

October Challenge #1

Ok, guys. This week is my week to blog and I'm REALLY late, so I apologize and hope to strike your interest. Today, I'm going to try to dazzle you with a couple of ideas. I read WAY too many magazines and I am known by the edgers to try every technique that I see. So, I have a challenge for all of you. Let's try and make our own embellishments. How about Shrinky Dink charms? A very simple, but fun challenge. Even the kids can do it!!
At my local craft store, I picked up a pack of Shrink paper. It usually will run about $3.99 for a pack of six sheets. You can make a variety of charms using rubber/acrylic stamps and marker. With your shrink paper, I found out that the best ink to use on it is Staz-on. It dries quickly and does not rub off. I found out the hard way that most rub-ons do not work very well and will not shrink with the paper when you bake it. Makes sense, right? It does, but I'm the type that has to prove myself wrong and I tried it. I did discover that the Polar Bear Press rub-ons will shrink with the paper, but that is about all. Too, the best way to adhere them to your pages is with Diamond Glaze. You can run it through your Xyron X, but I recommend something a little stronger.
Now that I have made my charms, I decided to try something else that I read in this month's CK magazine. I laid out my embellishments in sort of a half circle around my picture. Not only did I use my shrink charms, but I used a variety of other different things to make a half circle. This was WAY easy and did not take up too much time. I had this LO done in 30 minutes! I hope that you all like this idea! Have fun!!!

Destiny

On their way.....

So I hear all the kits are on their way!! Woo hoo!! You all are going to love love love this kit!!

So who has their pictures picked and printed for it's arrival??? Well the first one to poat a link here to a LO done with the kit will get a little RAK from me!!

So hurry up and get that adhesive ready ladies, I wanna see some of your work!

Happy Scrappin, Julie

Found Items

You all saw in my post about prepping for the kit to arrive at my doorstep, a cute little Beatrix Potter box. That box used to have a really cute set of books inside, but my DD, well let's just say they never found their way back in. So Mommy decided to recycle it, LOL!!

This is what I did to it....
1. Lightly sanded all outside surfaces of the box where I would be adhering paper.

2. I chose not to paint it only because the colors of the box worked well with the papers in the kit.

3. Measured and cut papers, using a thin layer of Mod Podge to adhere.

4. Sanded, measured & cut and adhered paper to front drawer .

5. When adhesive dried I lightly sanded the edges of all the paper.

6. Embellish!! I added rubons, a brass thingie as a drawer pull, and ribbon. I then added a final coat of Mod Podge to the entire box.

7. For the inside folders I found some mini file folders in my stash, but they were a little too small. What I did was trace them but add just enough to the outside edges to make them fit in the drawer properly.

There are 6 folders, 1 for every 2 months. I have to still make up little month cards to go inside the folders.

Happy Scrappin, Julie

Get your pictures ready!

Get ready... set.... go!!!!!

Start planning which pictures you would like to use w/ your September kit, because they will be shipping sooooooon. Think of sketches, maybe this month's sketch or you can make your own... you can even scraplift a sketch from a LO in a magazine.

1. Get your pictures ready! (yes, this means print or develop them)
2. Look for ideas to scraplift or get inspired at our gallery or in a magazine.
3. Start stalking the mailman!

Layouts are hitting Our GALLERY....

Come and check out the gallery as more and more LOs get posted by the DT.

http://www.thescrappingedge.net/Gallery/

Color Challenge!

Teal blue and Red....

yes, I said teal blue and red. You can have any other colors but these two should be the main colors. This is a color combo that is not my first option but after seeing the Fancy Pants paper and making the banner for the BLOG and WEB SITE I have fallen in love w/ it... so show me your LOs, cards, altered items w/ these 2 colors....

but most important have fun!