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!

If you cannot see the images on Blogger, check out this link for the PDF version in WORD at Scrapperschallenge files home pages. http://tinyurl.com/zxmb8 October Unit By Unit ideas and sketch by K. Aho (Rockester) Here is a pic of the freebie download for the October Unit Challenge. I used part of the Shabby Princess HOLIDAY SAMPLER set for this layout. Here comes our OCTOBER unit. This SHABBY PRINCESS digital art HOLIDAY SAMPLER set will be great for such a variety of photo pages! NOTE: for Nov, use the same sketch with the Thanksgiving art to create an entirely different page set! Here is the sketch. (K. Aho) And here is the Halloween page sample. Don't feel you have to have all this same stuff. IMPROVISE using papers and accents you have on hand. Not comfortable with digital? Don't get bogged down. Use real papers and accents in a simular way. Just do the page! Need some accents or artwork? To get the great artwork featured here, you will need to go to the SHABBY PRINCESS ...