Happy New Year! Here is a little stack of goodies that you might be able to use on some upcoming New Year 2007 or Holiday party type pages....We have for you lots of free clip art sites appropriate for vintage or modern clip art needs for digital pages, cards, or printables for standard pages. Check them out, save the images and add to a page set.... Happy 2007 and may all your resolutions and goals come true with a little hard work and perseverance! vintage look postcards http://holiday-clipart.net/new-years.html all kinds of New Years graphics http://www.fotosearch.com/clip-art/new-years-eve.html more black and white styles -use like rubber stamps http://www.designedtoat.com/newyears.shtml rubber stamps to buy http://www.1stopsquare.com/newyears.html coolest of the cool for 2007 from SHABBY PRINCESS I can see lots of these digital items on a New Years Party page set http://www.shabbyprincess.com/downloads.asp

Here we are! This was our hoilday photo 2006 Dh and I are in center. My babies are sooo grown up. We look forward to the New Year and wish you lots of success in all you do! I have the start of a very nasty throat cold today. Feels like a chest cold is next-- I am having trouble talking. Leave it to hubby and dear son to tease me and say that was a GOOD thing! LOL Big goobers. Nite all Rock

artwork from eroundlake.com/.../ rummage-754205.jpg Ohhhhhhh let's ring in the new year by getting RID of the old one! Purge all the old stuff you no longer want, use, or like and make room for the best of the best. Keep only what you LOVE. Your home and your life will feel so much more in control. Purge the old stuff to charity, ebay, friends, new college students, or wherever you feel it needs to go that is OUT of your home. Start in the craft room and scrapbook area and work your way around the house. Let's start GATHERING UP STUFF for our great purge for 2007 RIGHT NOW! Leave me a note here ( in the form of a comment) about what you are purging and YOU could win a $25 dollar value prize!! This Great Purge Comment Challenge lasts until January 15th. Rockester

I am so very happy to present the listing of the Scrappers Challenge Design Team! Here they are...ready and willing to help make Scrapperschallenge even more inspirational and vibrant. They are such a wonderful, gifted and enthusiastic bunch. I love them already! In no particular order: Here are the 24 winners! Rebecca Murman Sherin Miller Geri Brown Fran Kawakami Faith Malazarte Carolyn Winslow Carrie Romero Laura Weber Kathyrn Stapleman Allie Gower Jennifer Roth Cathy Lucas Carol Paskovitch Christina Castellano Dianne Nelson Jo-Anne Price Kiria Martinez Chelle Perry Melanie Harris Karen Bodie Laura Roberts Julie Van Der Pol Gretchen Edwards Dorothy McCarthy Debbie (d10d7) Dawn B CONGRATS!!!!!!

Don't you love fresh flowers? We have been seeing a lot of them around our home the last two months. Dd is taking a floral class and brings us creations on a weekly basis. We love the fresh flowers and the little lift they give us in spirit when we walk by. The only thing we don't like is the fact that the two cats have taken a definite liking to leatherleaf and statice! Maybe it smells like catnip or something? Dd has also been making silk arrangments for a client and those are all the winter whites and blues on the upper right photo on the long table. She does great work! The cornucopia is of course for Thanksgiving last week and below is one she did for Halloween.

Vintage ribbons and trims are a wonderful accent for a christmas page, heritage page or altered project . Heck i just love them because they look and feel so fantastic! I would rather spend time in a ribbon store than a candy store! dolls and lace.com http://www.dollsandlace.com/cgi-bin/dalshop.pl?cat=VintageRibbon&view=cat Ribbon jar http://www.ribbonjar.com/Vintage_s/45.htm french ribbons http://www.hymanhendler.com/french.htm JKMribbon has newer ribbons http://www.jkmribbon.com/main.html retro 1960s http://www.renaissanceribbons.com/ and Relient Ribbon has tons of selections http://www.reliantribbon.com/ Simply beautiful! Rockester

Wow! These are sooooooooo darling and timely and CHEAP! (One of my main criteria in online purchasing.) Look at all you get at Chatterbox.com for the $1.95 download fee: http://www.chatterboxinc.com/fonts.asp mmmmm scrumptious! This one is called CBX Celebrations (Tell them Rockester sent you!)

Here are some holiday card ideas (Not all are christmas and many can be adapted with change of sentiments) Tearing and stamping http://tinyurl.com/y2m5hp Drywall tapes! yes you heard me right... http://www.kent.ca/scrapbooking/card_07.htm more http://tinyurl.com/y6p3s9 dimensional small accents Vary the card size to fit your envelopes on hand! http://www.craftgenie.co.uk/cardmaking_ideas.gal.shtml pocket card for those wonderful family photos (I plan to do a variation in the spring on this one for grad invitations/announcements!) http://tinyurl.com/y4qrgu lots of themes http://www.docrafts.co.uk/asp/authors/?id=340 green buttons http://www.docrafts.co.uk/asp/projects/project.asp?id=762 circle punch http://www.docrafts.co.uk/asp/projects/project.asp?id=1040 So pull out those holiday colors and the scrap bin (and some pop dots) and make some cards this long weekend. Instead of sitting around bloated ater thanksgiving, get moving on some cards! It will get you in the mood for th...

Ok gals help me out here..... Where have I seen these kinds of shaped clips before and tossed them out???? On socks? when you buy a new pair??? LOOKS SO FAMILIAR... and bravo for Cropper Hopper for making something that will hold down the ribbon ends! Yeah!! Rock

Need another blast of creativity in the CARDMAKING department this week? How many cards did you make so far? Here we go again and the theme this set is for BIRTHDAY cards and Birthday projects with SCRAPS! Take a peek. Get out the scrap bin and make a few spare cards to have on hand all year long or better yet make a dozen and give them as gifts! colorblocking http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=158615 snips and strips http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=157704 templates and stamps http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=156841 coordinating papers and punches http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=158616 mini file folder http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=158489 rub on leftovers http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=158142 corner rounder and rubber stamped sentiment http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=158141 circles and photo turns http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=157393 one big flower an...

thanksgiving card inspirations vellum pocket and tags http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=156747 stampled wording http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=155619 dry embossing http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=153046 trifold http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=130770 stamped leaves http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=126602 stencil http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=126497 thanksgiving placecard for the table http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=126360 watercolor pencil and labeler http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=126273 tearing and twine http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=125697 rafia and a flower http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=118035

(artwork by tia bennet for the susan komen foundation) Today I was waiting for my daughter and her friend to get up from a very fun but very exhausting sleepover here at the house. I don't generally get up early on a sat. morning but hubby went fishing and I wasn't tired enough to go back to sleep so I made pancakes and bacon and chocolate milk and went to the laptop. Browsing blogs I see that a fellow scrapper webfriend Shel of my online friend kelly has just been diagnosed with a aggressive breast cancer. And she has two small children. I sincerely wish Shel the best even though she doesn't know me at all. Do what you can to support foundations that fight this disease like The Koman Foundation. That brought to mind my own mom and her fight two years ago with the same illness. My mother was very fortunate. Early (but shocking) diagnosis and fast Mayo Clinic treatment (lumpectomy) along with radiation when she got back to the west coast helped my Mom. But you know it is ...

Wonderful helpful links to HOW TO for cardmaking even if you have never made one before. (It's not as hard as you might think!) http://www.scrapbooking101.net/articles/april2006doingdoubledutyscrapbookingandcardmaking.html http://www.scrapbooking101.net/articles/february2005introductiontocardmaking.html http://chicago.craigslist.org/cls/214854328.html http://www.papercraftz.com/ http://www.docrafts.co.uk/asp/projects/project.asp?id=842 http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/hd_christmas/article/0,2025,DIY_13889_2276835,00.html You too can make wonderful cards. Give it a try this month! and if you have questions, we can help. Rockester

Fall Cards Remember that cards for notecard sized envelopes are usually 4.25x5.5 inches but you can make 6x6 cards too. Some stores --especially scrapbook stores-- carry 6x6 envelopes now but you can also make your own envelopes. (More on making envelopes and FREE templates in the next post) 6x6 cards: haloween- love how she used the dymo labeler for her sentiment/saying http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=157762 use small punch for color blocks http://www.dsmemories.biz/Halloween%20card2.jpg use up some of those neons and stickers! http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=92230 square punch and a few bean shaped simple cuts and pop dots http://www.pinetreedesigns.com/Halloween.html work in some normal pattern papers in the right color scheme and Quikutz http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=92231 6x6 just scraps http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=98154 Have fun!! Rockester

image credits: http://www.masterpiecestudios.com/theme_halloween.cfm I know you may have been working on halloween layouts and halloween cards or gift baggies this week. Let's use up some of those leftovers--and some from your stash--in our first set of inspirations. If you use browns, oranges, beige, tan, rust cardstock as a base and as blocky backgrounds you can easily slap on a leftover halloween theme tag, button, or pumpkin item. Heck just tie 2 or 3 different fibers around a 1x3 inch torn piece and poof you have a simple accent right there. Add wording (or not) and a card is done. One tips I use is to make at least 3 cards in the same 'format' or layout at a time. It saves thinking up a new idea time after time and the people who GET the card don't know you made two other identical cards to send other people ...nor would they care! LOL Halloween card inspiration and ideas seen at all these sights quick and simple colorblocking and stickers. Love how she used small...

Look at the differnet cards you can make! Use your scraps up this month! Photo by http://www.homeofthesampler.com/peeks/0411.html Want to get a grip on all those scraps? Want some ideas for how to use them up? Would you like to give cards as gifts for the holidays or simply send some homemade cards for once at LOW COST using up some of your stash? Our November challenge on this loop (completely optional in case you are new) is cardmaking with a highlight on using our scraps and odd embellishments up! So if you have a stack of 'somewhat boring' 8.5x11 cardstock, a file of scrap papers (or 3 files or 10!!) and a bunch of embellishments.....lets do it! Sign up to do this challenge here http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ScrappersChallenge/surveys?id=12457104 Just vote to join in the fun and you will be eligable for a prize at the end of the challenge worth over $25. Participate and win! Well, let's get it started in here! Make 20 or more cards this month....some of you can do this ...

........ok on to the catagories this week...Let's get sorting and get DONE with this cookbook. this is our last set of catagories. Finish up your cookbooks and report back in your pogress! I want to hear if you have gotten them into a system you can use and enjoy! * • Pasta http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=147972 http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=132948 * • Quick & Easy 30 minutes or less http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=154408 http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=96756 http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=135315 * • Salads http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=132192 http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=132190 * • Soups http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=157750 http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=126734 http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=19600 * • Vegetables http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/sh...

this darling recipe title card/page is made by jacquie at Scrapjazz.com using SEI paper. Bravo! Time for a few more catagories! I was able to work on my little 2-up cookbook of my grandmother's recipes this morning for a few hours and added in a couple of the dimensional stickers from Daisy Hill at Walmart. Very cute. I basically added these at each tabbed dividor page. I made my own tabs with cardstock and darling brads also from Walmart that are shaped like pots, pans and rolling pins. When I am ALL done I will share some pics. I need to add rubber stamped wording to each dividor tab and cuten up some of the page cards with doodles. Here is a idea shared at scrapjazz for an altered/homemade recipe book http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=110661 another cute recipe box http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=128656 http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=132467 Here are the next catagories to get finished this month: * • International Favorites ht...

Continuing on our october challenge posted below in previous posts here at the blog w e are sharing tons more ideas for recipe cards and files and pages here.... more card Dividers http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=130911 It is time to start sorting the next group of recipes including: * • Diets for Special Needs http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=144029 http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=134174 * • Entertaining http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=99768 http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=61311 * • Eggs http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=94701 * • Grilling and outdoors http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=127454 * • Healthy Eating http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=143874 http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=131093 Let's get these recipes into the books and get those loose recipes organized into something we can treasure and share! We are bout halfway done with ...

Breads: Include photos if you have them! cards: http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=150539 pages http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=150932 http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=147214 Comfort Foods: This catagory is whatever YOU decide and it could include any favorites that say comfort to YOU. Grandma's soup, Grandpa's toffee, or your own pot roast! Whatever you decide goes here. :) Or just do a page or two about the PEOPLE who cooked and comforted so well. cards: http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=154896 pages: http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=107939 http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=156233 Dessert and Chocolates: cards: http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=154471 pages: http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=155756 merangues page http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=62914

Cookbook Challenge: Appetizer and Beverage examples You might need more examples to get you going on your beverages and appetizer recipes. Let's get these two catagories sorted and filed in the next day or so. Great project for watching a movie over the weekend! I bet you have time for that! This really won't take long if you GET STARTED :) recipe file folders http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=128655 recipe lunchboxes http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=153263 http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=146102 recipe box dividers http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=128652 recipe cards http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=144031 http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=128639 Beverage pages 12x12 http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=79572 http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=124032 http://scrapjazz.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=115062 And here is a great article on altered recipe...

Cut and paste these sections into your own format, use colored cardstock and pattern papers, and print out to make a page for reference in your cookbook. Or make several cards to fit your 2-up or 4up albums. You may not need all this info but you can pick and choose what to include for your use in your cookbook! source: http://chocolateandzucchini.com/ Volume 1 cup = 240 mL (milliliter) 1/2 cup = 120 mL 1/3 cup = 80 mL 1/4 cup = 60 mL = 4 tablespoons 1 tablespoon = 15 mL (= une cuillérée à soupe in French) = 3 teaspoons 1 teaspoon = 5 mL (= une cuillérée à café in French) 1 fluid ounce = 30 mL 1 US quart = 0.946 liter ~=1 liter Weight 1 ounce = 28 grams 1 pound = 16 ounces = 454 grams Length 1 inch = 2.54 centimeters 1 foot = 12 inches = 30 centimeters Temperature 400° F = 200° C = gas mark 7 350° F = 180° C = gas mark 6 300° F = 150° C = gas mark 5 Volume-to-weight conversions Note: Since the volume measurement of an ingredient depends on how you pack the measuring cup/spoon and...

Time to get started on our cookbook projects. The poll revealed that most of you are happy with a 5x8 or 8.5x11 sized scrapbook style book with movable pages and page protectors. I will try to show lots of examples of this style when possible. For our next assignmentin this month's recipe organization challenge, let's take a look at our recipes--rmember you have already pulled out your collection and finished tossing out the duds. Now let's begin on our table of contents. Take an 8.5x11 piece of cardstock that will go through your printer and create a CONTENTS page. Depending on your recipes, it could have any of the following alphabetical catagories. Pick and choose according to your recipe collection or add in some if needed. If you include a catagory it should have at least 5 - 10 recipes. * • Appetizers * • Beverages * • Breads * • Comfort Food * • Desserts or Chocolate * • Diets for Special Needs * • Entertaining * • Eggs * • Grilling and out...

October Family Recipe Challenge: WHich project appeals to you the most to make this October with your recipes? Recipe File box 4x6 size Recipe File box 9x12 size Photo Album style 2-up or 3-up cookbook Altered cookbook using a real cookbook as a base Altered cookbook notebook style with altered cover with real page protector 8.5x11 or 12x12 pages inside A pretty file folder system for a filing cabinet drawer A gift cookbook about 5x8 size with 20 recipe favorites A gift cookbook about 8.5x11 with 20 recipe favorites View Results Free Myspace Polls

Recipe File Box photo credit from ebay.com seller "tina653" : Photo Credits: Recipe easel by Catherine at Scrapease Let's get busy on our October challenge right away ...No time to waste. Can you smell the apple crisp baking? Do you have Grandma's cider recipe at hand? And where did that great popcorn ball recipe go from grade school? What happened to all those cards and recipes over the years that you just tucked away for organizing later? Well "later" is here and we want to create some great recipe files, cookbooks, or folders for your treasured recipes. Using scrapbooking supplies, you can create some wonderful containers for those recipes or duplicate and give the entire collection as a gift. But this will take a little organizing and we want to start NOW before the holidays are upon us and we get too busy. Cookbook photo credit: Celia at ScrapGirls.com Decide first of all what kind of container system you like for your recipes. SOme people are used to ...

Homecoming 2006 pics of our talented girl. She made his boutieniere herself and is wearing a vintage coral dress from 1956. They had a wonderful time! Aren't they cute?

Another great altered clipboard example from the Creative Life and Cheryl Fall http://www.thecreativelife.tv/projects/projectsdisplay.asp?search=category&show=paper+crafts&item=20040923224518 Love it!

Jessica B at The Shabby Shoppe Gallery made this wonderful example: http://www.theshabbyshoppe.com/photopost/data/505/0806_shabbyclipboard.jpg Here is a great intro to these beauties http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_home_accessories/article/0,1789,HGTV_3255_4224856,00.html and another article on them http://www.scrapjazz.com/topics/Techniques/Altered_Art/423.php You can either make them with photos and with lumpy elements and hang them up as a display piece or make them without photos and lumps for actual use to write on. I have made them both ways. One as a gift for actual use and one with more embellishments for display. You can also make them to hold 8.5x11 office calendars for the new year. Use some papers, photos and embellishments that reflect the interests of the person you are giving it to. These take about an hour to do with Mod Podge and overnight to dry. I usually try to make several at a time and minimise the time taken and the mess made! If using Digital artwork, make sure y...

Using our scrapbook supplies to make holiday gifts is not only smart but economical! If you start now you have time to create your own handmade gifts that are truly special. Better yet you can use STASH up to do so and it will hardly cost a new penny! You have seen here my Lunchboxes on Parade using side opening lunchboxes. Today I am going to share a little more on other kinds of boxes you can use, sources to look for them or buy them and some idea galleries. In later blog posts I will share a few more gift ideas like 2-up recipe albums, altered clipboards, journal jars, and altered school supplies. So stay tuned and check back often! I will also share tips with you for finding alterable items CHEAP. I consider it a form of earth-friendly recycling. Check ebay for project inspiration. Some of the most talented scrapbook artists in the world sell there and boy are they creative! Our first task is to search under keywords SCRAPBOOKING and LUNCHBOX together in the search box and you will...

Jodie C , YOU are the winner of the Pioneer album! Let me know your postal details at Rocketer@magnaspeed.net and I will ship your album out to you. Rock ============================= jodie c said... Knowing that we are about half way down has given me a renewed energy. June is our celebration month! It was be a fun section to do. 10:07 AM

If you cannot see the images on Blogger, check out this NOV-DEC UNIT link for the PDF version in WORD at Scrapperschallenge files home pages. Tinurl: http://tinyurl.com/pp3dr November and December Unit By Unit ideas and sketch by K. Aho (Rockester) Here is a pic of the freebie download for the December Unit Challenge. I used part of the Shabby Princess HOLIDAY MAGIC . You can also use HOLIDAY SAMPLER set for this layout sketch in a Thanksgiving theme. Here comes our Nov and Dec.unit. This SHABBY PRINCESS digital art HOLIDAY MAGIC set will be great for such a variety of winter photo pages! NOTE: for Nov, use the same sketch with the Thanksgiving art and title to create an entirely different page set! Rotate the layout upside down or a quarter turn right to gain a new sketch format idea. Here is the sketch. (K. Aho) And here is the December page sample made by ME! :) Don't feel you have to have all this same stuff. IMPROVISE using papers and accents you have on hand. Not comf...

example by Shannalamb of Two Peas in a Bucket I sent a bunch of links like this several years ago to our Scrapperschallenge loop so I think it is time to do so again! The interest in making journaling jars as gifts or conversation jars for the supper table is popular to do for holidays as gifts. Cut and paste the questions to a word document and make sure each one has enough space below it so you can cut the questions into seperate strips with your paper trimmer. Alter a mason jar or a cookie jar to put the slips into. Decorate and gift it. Make one for your own family at the same time. general instructions on how to do these jars http://www.jorbins.com/crafts-magazine/articles/journal-jar.html Links to questions for your jar http://www.christysclipart.com/journal_jar_yw.htm http://www.omnicron.com/~fluzby/sister-share/journal.htm http://www.scrapyourstories.com/journaljars.htm http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art962.asp and here are pics of what they can look like http://www.twopea...

Something so UGLY can turn out so cute if you alter it! From Fairly Odd Parents....... to Finished and Oh So Pretty!