A Graphic45 Mini album

I found these Graphic 45 papers TransAtlantique for my pictures from the train ride I and my daughters and grandchildren took last June to Santa Barbara and they were perfect for a mini book!! So excited!! It was a great trip! We took Amtrak to Santa Barbara, then caught an open air tram, for 25 cents each, to the Zoo. The tram ran right along the beach and the weather was awesome, the kids loved it! The Santa Barbara Zoo is a small friendly more hands on Zoo than the typical big city zoo's and it is one of our favorites! After our visit at the zoo we rode the open air tram back to the beach, at the pier and we were able to enjoy a little bit of time on the sand and in the surf before we headed back on the train. The kids loved it, the adults loved it and it was a great day that is also a great memory, so I love that I was able to put together a book about this day and the Graphic45 papers lent to that memory in preserving it. Here is my mini album:

















Thanks for taking a peek!

We Love Our Members Contest

At Treasured Scrapbooking!!! And we want YOU!!! Its such a fun contest, weekly prompts, a great message board community, and PRIZES!!!

Treasured Scrapbooking - We Love OUr Members Contest
Annual Contest
March 1st-28th

Please join us for a four week long contest involving challenges, games and prizes!

Each Monday morning (or late Sunday night) I will issue a challenge based on a design principle, and you will have until Sunday at midnight PST to complete your layout. If you don’t complete a layout, you are out of the contest. Entries will be “judged” by the Design Team and given a score according to the following parameters:

1. Following the challenges directions
2. Photographs
3. Overall composition
4. Success of using design principle

It sounds complicated, but I PROMISE it will be fun! Each design principle will be something easy, most likely it will be things you already do! Digital scrappers are welcome to join in on the fun, but there may be occasion where paper scrapping will be necessary, so be careful to read the challenge outlines each week.

At the end of the four weeks, the participant with the highest score will be our grand prize winner. There will also be a random name draw winner and a weekly winner. There will be games and prizes to go along with the fun all month long!

Hope to see you! All Newbies welcomed!
Erin,
Treasured Scrapbooking Owner

http://www.treasuredscrapbooking.com/

A New Desigs by Helly kit & a Freebie QuickPage

I love working with DEsigns by Helly's kits, each and every one is just pure goodness. Today I worked with her new kit With Every Breath, which you can pick up at Scrapbook-Bytes. This kit features the most amazing shades of purple that I have seen, just AMAZING!!
This is the preview of the kit:


My first layout from the kit:


And if you love the page as much as I did, you can grab the Freebie Quickpage HERE :)

Enjoy!

Digital layouts from the weekend Crop at Ready Set Create

I did some of the many challenges that Ready Set Create posted this weekend during their crop and wanted to share them with you! I ended up doing all of them Digital too!

This layout was a challenge to do a digital layout
Digital kit ViVa Artistry - Ugly Duckling


This layout was a challenge to use a white background
Digital kit ViVA Artistry - What Alice Saw There


This layout was a challenge to use a kraft background with orange accents
Credits for the elements here vary (you can request them from me if you would like)


This layout was an ad challenge
this is the ad:

and this is my layout:
Credits vary (inquire if interested)


And this layout was a challenge to do a layout about winter
Digital Kit - Designs by Helly and By Becca - Wintersong


I had alot of fun doing layouts just for fun! Thanks REady Set Create!!

Random Winner for Treasured Scrapbooking Blog Hop

Hope you enjoyed hopping all about gaining inspiration from the Design Team blogs for Treasured Scrapbooking!

I used Random.org to choose a random commenter from my blog and that winner is:

Rebekah Williams

Congratulations!!!

Rebekah please send your email addy to:
Erin at: flutterinby at peak.org
so that she can coordinate with you to get your prize out to you!

We hope to do another blog hop at the beginning of next month so keep an eye out :)

Its a Treasured Scrapbooking Blog Hop

Welcome to the Treasured Scrapbooking Blog Hop!

We are celebrating the release of our February Kit and itching to give away some prizes! The newest kit is to die for, I have loved working with it so much! Check out the fabulous February kit and add ons. There are limited quantities, and you won't want to miss out! The add ons are extremely limited!
Be sure that you post a comment on the Treasured Scrapbooking Blog, your start point, to let us know that you are playing along! There will be a random drawing done from all the comments left for a Gift Certificate to the TS store, and there is a way to get more than one entry into the drawing! For extra entries into the drawing, post something about this blog hop on your blog and note it in your comments, you can also send a friend,and have them say that you sent them in their comment.
What can be easier than that?
Also, along the way you will find challenges issued by the Design Team,and for every challenge you complete before the end of the week you will earn an entry into another RAK drawing! Please post your challenge layout(s)in the forum at Treasured Scrapbooking, each layout you complete is an entry into the drawing!
This is my layout and coordinating sketch from the February Kit at Treasured Scrapbooking:





My challenge for the month at Treasured Scrapbooking is to use a sepia toned photo in your layout. The kit just begged for a sepia photo, I love how the papers and embellies in the kit really bring out the best in the sepia photo. This is my layout:


Cant wait to see yours!!

You have come from the Treasured Scrapbooking Blog and you will be visiting Ginger's blog. If you become lost head on back to the Treasured Scrapbooking Blog for a complete list of the links for the Blog Hop.

The Blog Hop goes on from Feb 1 to Feb 5 !!!

Rusty Pickle Projects

I havent had a chance to post all of my projects I created with Rusty Pickle product, lots of fun and lots of projects!

My favorite is the mini album I did using the Shazaam line. The papers are so rich and vibrant and heavy weight. They were perfect for my grandson's Halloween pictures since he was Spiderman. All of the product is Rusty Pickle, including the mini album.







And I did a couple of layouts too!
Snow Day is my interpretation of the Sketch Challenge on the Rusty Pickle Blog for January:


And this last layout is done with both the Thiller line and the Lucky Line:



I did do one other layout this month, which was quickly picked up by REady, Set, Create and is in their latest issue called Will You Be My Valentine?

Its been a fun month with Rusty Pickle :)

Feb 1st Blog Hop at Treasured Scrapbooking

What may you ask about Feb 1st????

Why thats the day that you can participate in the very first Blog Hop by Treasured Scrapbooking!!!

We will reveal the Design Team work with the Fab Feb kit and each Design Team member will issue their challenge for the month. Sound good?

And I hear that there will be prizes and incentives. Sound better?

Lastly, you will discover the very active message board we have and meet some great new friends! Thats the best part!

See you here on the first!!!

Oh and here is the Feb kit:



and this is the Vintage Add on kit available:


and this is the Embellishment Add On kit:

CHA Winter 2010 - Day 2 Part 2

From Ruby Rock-it, these are from their card making line but I LOVED the alpha booklets, 1440 letters!!! Definately want some of those ;)




LOved these two Fancy Pants lines



Bazzill had alot of product that really wowed me too, awesome new cardstock with glazed designs, stunning new buttons and flowers, check out the vintage rhinestone buttons, talk about bling, wowee! I likey what I am seeing here :)












Had a real nice conversation with Layle at Basic Grey, and really loved the Basic Collection. So versatile, I love this one!! Along with the 'boy bling' as she called it, the studs...that are self adhesive ;)






And my last stop of the day and my 2010 Winter CHA experience was at Melissa Francis. Actually spoke with her for quite a while and really enjoyed that. She has some really amazing vintage lines out and some unique packaging that just begs to be recycled!! I love how she offers embellie sets, all ready to go right into a kit and check out the spools the trims are on....just begging to be altered :)






In a bit, I will get photos of all the make n takes I did and share them with you :)