Creative Scrappers

Sketch #192

2012-01-22T05:52:00.000-04:00

Good Morning Creative Scrappers!

It's a new day, a new reveal and wow it's almost CHA time! Have you been drooling over the new goodies being released this season? Me? Yes I sure have!!! Christy Tomlinson, Bella, Jillibean, and October Afternoon will certainly have a share of my yearly income !! ;-)
What about using this sketch and some of your scraps? or older papers maybe to make room for some new products !??!

Enjoy our reveal and our next Creative Call has been posted! this is your chance to be a CS Designer ;-)

Hello! I’m Cheryl! First up, I’d like to say a huge thank you to Kristine and Creative Scrappers – for starting off my 2012 with the happy news that I get to guest on this blog, and for constantly providing superbly inspiring layouts from their endlessly talented Design Team.

I’m a freelance editor, recently married, living in the interesting (e.g. it’s very green, yet also very grey) city of Brussels in Belgium with my husband and our fun but too-wild dog. I enjoy baking, interior designing, going for walks in the countryside, travelling, getting to know my camera better, and of course, crafting. I’ve also started singing with my husband’s band – an attempt to shake off my timidity, it seems to be working!

But back to scrapping. I started scrapbooking in a very amateur way about 5 or 6 years ago, after my mum handed me down some of her stash. I’d always made my own cards, but this was a new challenge to me, and it took me a long time to get on board. But then we left the UK and moved to the European mainland, and I set up my blog so that I could more easily share my creations with my mum. Suddenly I was exposed to the online community – active, supportive, motivating and inspiring but also quite daunting and intimidating at first. Slowly I became immersed in this community and am now an active member of it.

I love scrapbooking 12 x 12 and 8.5 x 11 pages, but what I really love to do is make mini (or not so mini!) albums. I like the freedom they permit in terms of layout and style, and this statement best reflects my own style, I think. My style is always evolving, but I really like to be free to layer, to use found objects like flyers and tickets, to apply paint and ink and find textures, and generally to make my creations a true feast for the eyes. Scrapbooking, in contrast, reigns me back in and challenges me to use these principles but in a more controlled way. I am constantly in search of the white space on my layouts.

These days I’m fairly pressed for time, so I mostly turn to sketches when I come to make a layout. And that’s where Creative Scrappers comes into play – time and again they’ve saved me hours of frustration by providing me with a sketch every week. So, thanks again to Kristine for giving me guest spot this week! I hope you all like my take on the sketch!

Cheryl x

http://craft-thing.blogspot.com/

Our Guest - Cheryl Whittaker

Amelia Khalik

Felicitas Klink

Katarzyna Grzegorzewska

Marielle LeBlanc

Marie-Anne Kimpton

Marina Yazawa (Kanga)

Mariska Walter

Marianne Sjoberg

Marie Johansson

To win a prize package from our January sponsor The Paper Bakery you simply need to complete at least one layout from our sketches # 189-190-191-192 and upload it using our inLinkz at the bottom of our reveals.

The deadline to submit your layout(s) is January 31 2012

Enjoy your week!
Kristine

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Creative Call

2012-01-20T06:51:00.000-04:00

It’s time for another Creative Call at Creative Scrappers!

Submissions will be taken until February 8th
New Designers will be posted February 10th

Please include in your application:
Name, address, email address,
link to your blog and online gallery
List of Current Design Teams

Please Send us:
3 of your recent layouts to showcase your scrapbook style
Atleast 1 Layout using a CS Sketch, indicate Sketch #

The Design Team will be required to:
- Complete 2-3 layouts per month with sketches provided
- Exclusive to Creative Scrappers*
(no other sketch blog is permitted)
- post our CT Blinkie in signatures & on your blog!
- Posting our sketch & your layout on your Blog/Facebook

- This is a Term position from March 1 - June 30 2012
- Call is Open to Past and Present Design Team Members
- We have a Private Group on Facebook for CT Members Only
- Call is available to all countries!

Please Mail your entries to
Kristine@Creative-Scrappers.com
Subject line - CS Creative Call

LCOM Giveaway take 2

2012-01-19T23:24:00.002-04:00

We have a sponsor giveaway today!
The last LCOM Giveaway went unclaimed

To win all you need to do is leave us a comment on our facebook page that you SHARED our Fan Page and get a chance to win a 20$ Gift Card to LCOM! Deadline Saturday Night ;-)

CLICK HERE for Facebook --

https://www.facebook.com/CreativeScrappers

and of course click HERE to visit our sponsor!
LCOM has generously donated a gift card valued at 20$ to one lucky lady ;-)

LCOM is located on the East Coast of Canada in Fredericton New Brunswick.
Tanya has the latest and greatest in scrapbooking ! So make sure you visit ;-)

you can participate in their forum, add yourself as a blog follower or find them on facebook

thank you Tanya for sponsoring Creative Scrappers!

Shop at LCOM

Read the Blog

Like them on Facebook

Sketch #191

2012-01-15T06:00:00.002-04:00

Hello Creative Scrappers!

Good Morning to you on this FREEEEZING Cold Winter Morning! Wow it's freezing here on the east coast... like BRRRR! Can't really complain too much it's been a very mild winter for us. It's certainly a great day to cozy up in the scrap room with some comfy pants, oversized shirt, cup of coffee and some scrap paper LOL!! :-)) Enjoy our reveal today and stay tuned cause we have a new CT Call Coming up SOON!!!

Hello everyone, I'm Leila Cassimira.

I am very happy to be here. I'm addicted to sketches and is an honor to be guest designer this time.I'm 35, I am married and have two beautiful children who are my greatest source of inspiration, love being in touch with nature and also am passionate about pets, dogs, cats, turtles and many others.

I live in Arararuma, a beautiful region in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil,where we have beautiful beaches and lagoons to enjoy and relax.

xoxo
Leila

http://lolo-artesanato.blogspot.com

Our Guest -- Leila Cassimira.

Ana Castro

Brenna Smith

Daniela de Sá

Fiona Kenward

Hilde Aaslund

Janna Werner

Myriam Mantion-Ginel

Machiko Matsuura

Ulrika Blomfelt

The deadline to submit your layout(s) is January 31 2012

Enjoy your week!

Kristine

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eBook Update!

2012-01-13T16:11:00.002-04:00

Hey Ladies!

just sending out a reminder ...
To all those that have been asked to participate in the publication process of my eBook -- please don't forget the deadline to send in your pages is coming up quickly (JANUARY 31)

If for some reason you are unable to complete your layout and won't be participating please let me know ASAP so i can find a replacement for your sketch... i have a long list of people who would love to participate ;-)

thank you again and I'm looking forward to the reveal!!!
I hope to have the eBook ready to go by March 1st with over 100 sketches and 25 participants !!

Exciting for me... and thank you all for your support and encouragement!
I am sure you'll LOVE IT as much as i do ;-))

talk soon
Kristine

Be Our Guest

2012-01-09T12:01:00.002-04:00

I have a few positions available for featured designers!
This would be for February / March

Interested?
Send me an email (kristine@creative-scrappers.com)
title of email "CS FEATURED DESIGNER"
your full name
blog address / or gallery address
Also please attach 2 of your latest pages to showcase your style
and that's it!!! ( a CS blinkie/badge on your blog helps!)

*those that have never been featured will be given priority*

Deadline for submission - Wednesday January 11 2012

Sketch #190

2012-01-08T06:00:00.000-04:00

Good Morning Creative Scrappers!

It's 2012 and a New Year to start creating with sketches perhaps?!
Today we have a great sketch from Amarylis - get out those Christmas pics and start scrappin!

Hi, my name is Karen. I live with my husband Chris and 5 children, Ashlee, Matthew, Samuel, Jack and Harrison, in Victoria, Australia, where we own and run a large cropping farm. In a former life, I was a nurse, but I am very fortunate now to be a stay at home Mum. I am completely obsessed with scrapbooking, and spend any spare time I have in my little scrap room.

I started scrapbooking about 10 years ago. My Grandmother had recently passed away, and had left us with a huge box of old photos, we didn’t know who half the people were in the photos, and I found it very sad that these people were my family, and I would never know them, or their stories. I didn’t want that to happen to my family photos and stories after I was gone. Not long after that, I stumbled on a scrapbook magazine in a newsagency, and the rest is history. My only regret is I didn’t start scrapping earlier, when my eldest child was a baby, it certainly would have changed the way I took photos.

My scrapping style has evolved and changed a lot, and is still changing. I suppose if I had to give it a name, I would say “shabby chic vintage” I love flowers and bling, and am especially fond of creating my own embellishments. I love the world of online scrapbook galleries, blogs and forums, and have met some amazing women online, who I now consider to be very dear friends.

I am very fortunate to be on 2 magazine design teams, “Scrapbook magazine UK” and “Australian Scrapbook Ideas ‘here in Australia. I am also a proud member of the Zva Creative and a few other design teams. My work is published regularly in all the Aussie magazines, as well as Creating Keepsakes.

I am very honoured and excited to be the guest designer for Creative Scrappers this week.
A big thank you to Kristine for having me.

Karen
http://karenshady.blogspot.com/

Our Guest - Karen Shady

Amelia Khalik

Felicitas Klink

Katarzyna Grzegorzewska

Marielle LeBlanc

Marie-Anne Kimpton

Marina Yazawa (Kanga)

Mariska Walter

Marianne Sjoberg

Marie Johansson

Natasha Naranjo Aguirre

The deadline to submit your layout(s) is January 31 2012

Enjoy your week!
Kristine

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LCOM Giveaway!

2012-01-06T18:59:00.005-04:00

We have a sponsor giveaway today!

To win all you need to do is leave us a comment on our blog post and of course click HERE to visit our sponsor! LCOM has generously donated a gift card valued at 20$ to one lucky lady ;-)

LCOM is located on the East Coast of Canada in Fredericton New Brunswick.
Tanya has the latest and greatest in scrapbooking ! So make sure you visit ;-)

you can participate in their forum, add yourself as a blog follower or find them on facebook

Leave us a comment before Sunday morning to WIN

Shop at LCOM

Read the Blog

Facebook

thank you Tanya for sponsoring Creative Scrappers!

THE WINNER ---
unclaimed!
please email me to claim your prize ;-)
congrats!!!
Kristine@Creative-Scrappers.com

CS December Winner

2012-01-05T22:03:00.005-04:00

Hello Everyone!

It's January and it's a new year 2012! I'm kind of weird in a good way and happy this is a year with an even number HAHA!!!!! Can you believe i turn 40 years old this year... ? yup... i've started getting a few greys, some part of my body are a bit " softer " than others and the fun part is what to do for my 40th birthday "weekend!" Maybe a shopping spree to some HUGE scrap store with my bestie? Or a weekend in Vegas? What about Breakfast in Paris and lunch in London? Oh so many choices!!!

THANK YOU all for being part of Creative Scrappers as Designers, Readers, and Followers -- I wish you ALL a fabulous scrappy super creative 2012! xoxo

It's time for me to showcase a few fabulous layouts posted in our December reveals and to randomly draw a winner for an awesome prize from our past Sponsor Niklin Designs

Make sure you visit her Etsy Store --

http://www.etsy.com/shop/niklindesigns1225

A few favorites!

Sketch 185 - Jacqueline Vos

Sketch 186 - Doris Widder

Sketch 187 - Marina Khong

Sketch 188 Shinkiko -

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The winners of our fabulous prize
selected at Random is ........

AMARILYS!
email me at Kristine@Creative-Scrappers.com to claim your prize

Thanks for participating everyone!!!!!

Sketch #189

2012-01-01T09:53:00.008-04:00

Hello Creative Scrappers!
HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and your families! I wish you Happiness and Good Health in 2012!

We have SKETCH 189 today!

I’m Amy Lynne Lassiter, and I am the mom to 3 beautiful girls, a spoiled cat, an Ewok dog, and the wife to one amazing husband. I work part time as a librarian, and as a vocalist (I am a classically trained soprano).

I started out scrapbooking after my youngest daughter was born, but in a very simple way. In 2010, sort of by accident, I took a class that began my movement in a different direction in my scrapbook art. It was a revelation to see that I could put little bits of myself….my feelings, my stories, and my photos; not just on paper alone, but with vintage items, dimensional items, paint, and fabulous embellishments……and see a account of my individual and family life.

Now, I create at least 2 layouts a week, and about one mini album a month, in a distinctive style that is uniquely mine. Scrapbooking has truly changed my life; through the amazing, kind and creative friends I’ve made, and through the therapeutic and beautiful artistic process.

http://sparklinggnome.wordpress.com/

Our Guest --Amy Lynne Lassiter

Ana Castro

Brenna Smith

Daniela de Sá

Hilde Aaslund

Janna Werner

Myriam Mantion-Ginel

Machiko Matsuura

Ulrika Blomfelt

The deadline to submit your layout(s) is January 31 2012

Enjoy your week!

Kristine

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Sketch #188

2011-12-25T09:35:00.003-04:00

Good Morning Creative Scrappers!
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas this morning! Would you believe me if i told you i didn't know it was Sunday today?! LOL yup... i actually remembered to post by reading my google blog reader and found Felicitas blog post... and then I panicked! ;-)

Today we have a great sketch from Nicole, and some of our designers even created 2 page ;-)
I hope you got a few scrap supplies under the Christmas tree and anxious to play with our sketch this week!

Hugs to you and your families during this holiday season and remember to take a few pictures of those special moments xox

My name is Agnieszka but in the scrapbooking world I go by Bellaidea.

Together with my husband - I'm still dating him - we're taking care of our two treasures - a Girl and a Boy.

I love traveling, taking photos, oranges and African bush aroma, cheesecake with real vanilla, Pavlova dessert, old; books, pictures and houses, doilies, trips with friends to Italy, evenings by the fireplace, milk chocolate from Lindl, mystery perfumes, nut ice-creams, reading books to my children(no matter they can read by themselves), audiobooks during long distance drives , praising people for their talent and creativity and meeting with other nice ladies for a cup of coffee.

I scrapbook for many reasons-to preserve memories, to make my kids remember I always care about them, to have MY time when I need it, to keep in touch with all my scrap-friend all over the work. My style is ecletic , part of romantic, touch of whimsy, lace, chipbords, doillies, torned corners, fussy cutting etc but never forget the most important is the photo and a story. Sometimes I hide my journaling when it`s very personal...

I cordially invite you to my blog, where you can find out what I'm doing at late night when my family members are sleeping: http://bellaideascrapology.blogspot.com/

Our Guest - Agnieszka vel Bellaidea

Amelia Khalik

Felicitas Klink

Katarzyna Grzegorzewska

Marielle LeBlanc

Marie-Anne Kimpton

Marie-Anne Kimpton (2)

Marina Yazawa (Kanga)

Mariska Walter

Marianne Sjoberg

Marianne Sjoberg (2)
Marie Johansson

Natasha Naranjo Aguirre

To win a 50$ prize package from our December sponsor Niklin Designs you simply need to complete at least one layout from our sketches # 185-186-187-188 and upload it using our inLinkz at the bottom of our reveals.

The deadline to submit your layout(s) is December 31 2011

Enjoy your week!

Kristine

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Sketch #187

2011-12-18T06:37:00.000-04:00

Hello Creative Scrappers!

We have SKETCH 187 today! It's a bit more advanced but I think you can do it ;-)
I personally think this is a fabulous reveal for you today and i am more than positive you will get a bit of a creative push when you see what the girls have created for you !
enjoy ;-)

Hello everyone! My name is Yana, I'm from Ukraine. I'm super excited to be a guest designer at Creative Scrappers! Kristine, thank you so much for this opportunity!
I'm 24, married and I love to travel, especially to far and exotic places. My dream is go to equatorial Africa someday. I also love to scrapbook, specifically the photos I take abroad. I love to experiment and try new styles in scrapbooking hoping yet to find my own :)
You can see more of my work at my blog www.zrobysama.com.ua

Thanks again!
Have a nice day, Yana

Our Guest --Yana Smakula

Ana Castro

Brenna Smith

Daniela de Sá

Hilde Aaslund

Janna Werne r

Myriam Mantion-Ginel

Machiko Matsuura

Ulrika Blomfelt

The deadline to submit your layout(s) is December 31 2011

Enjoy your week!

Kristine

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Sketch #186

2011-12-11T06:31:00.002-04:00

Good Morning Creative Scrappers!

It's Reveal Day!!! All I can say is after this reveal I am sure you'll want to scrap! We have a great sketch from Juliana and our team ALL did an amazing job with this sketch. We have a special guest with us today Evgenia Petzer with a fabulous layout!

I am still accepting submissions for the ebook! If you want more info please click on the link on the right side of our blog ;-) the time limit to send in your submissions will be Thursday night December 15.. for those that have been selected and received a sketch - the deadline is January 31st. Hopefully our ebook will be complete by March 1st !!!! A presale will be in January ;-) WOOP WOOP!

Enjoy our reveal and Happy Holidays!

My name is Evgenia Petzer, I am 27 years old. I am from Russia initially, but since last year we've lived in South Africa, as my husband is from this beautiful country. I am a mom to a 3 year old boy, and a photographer, which gives me a lot of time to scrap during the week.

Scrapbooking is my passion and I scrap almost every single day. I started my scrapping journey about 4 years ago, when I was pregnant. My style differs depending on the objects of scrapping. Most of my layouts are made in freestyle, they are colorful and playful, while my cards represent shabby chic style. Most of my layouts are about my son, he is the main inspiration for me.

Now I am honoured to design for Melissa Frances and Tattered Angels brands and being a part of Pencillines team.

Thank you to Kristine and Creative Scrappers for having me here today.
http://evgeniapetzer.blogspot.com/

Our Guest - Evgenia Petzer

Amelia Khalik

Felicitas Klink

Katarzyna Grzegorzewska

Marielle LeBlanc

Marie-Anne Kimpton

Marina Yazawa (Kanga)

Mariska Walter

Marianne Sjoberg

Marie Johansson

Natasha Naranjo Aguirre

The deadline to submit your layout(s) is December 31 2011

Enjoy your week!

Kristine

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Sponsor Giveaway | Contest

2011-12-07T12:26:00.004-04:00

We have a sponsor giveaway today and news about a CONTEST!
Today we have Ninabrook Designs hosting a sponsor giveaway!

Information about the Ninabrook Design Contest!
They are looking for someone to design a CARD KIT!!! How awesome is that? If selected then you will receive $100 in FREE NINABROOK PRODUCT!

Here's the scoop:

-POST a PIC of your 3 BEST handmade cards...any size, any theme on their Facebook page Just make sure they're YOUR designs and please submit only ONE photo picturing ALL 3 cards.

-photo MUST be posted on their FB page by MIDNIGHT, DEC. 20th/2011
-Just 1 entry per person please!
-Heather and Sharon will pick their TOP 3 FAVOURITE DESIGNERS and send them all the product they need to create a CARD KIT

-THEIR FANS will get to see the 6 finished cards from each designer and VOTE on who THEY think is the TOP DESIGNER. The winner will get the $100 in FREE PRODUCT and their cards will be used to create a Ninabrook Kit!!!

PLEASE JOIN IN ON THE FUN!

Leave a comment on the Creative Scrappers Blog
before Saturday night to WIN the giveaway!

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the prize goes to

blsd2scrp

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please email me to claim your prize!
Kristine@creative-scrappers.com

thank you ladies for sponsoring Creative Scrappers!

CS November Winners!

2011-12-06T20:40:00.005-04:00

Hello Everyone!

It's December and your schedule is probably just as crazy as can be! Make a List, and check it twice ;-) It's time for me to showcase a few fabulous layouts posted in our November reveals and to randomly draw TWO winners for an awesome prize from our past Sponsor

C'est Magnifique Kit Club.

Thank you EVERYONE who participated, and if you created a layout using one of our sketches ... show us what you created!

A few favorites!

Sketch 181 -- picotine
Sketch 182 -- Libeeti
ALL Layouts in this reveal were AMAZING!!!
Sketch 182 Helena

Sketch 183 - Stacey

Sketch 184 - Helen
Sketch 184 - Carmen

The winners of our fabulous prizes
selected at Random are ........

Kelly

FERN

If you could email me at
Kristine@Creative-Scrappers.com
to claim your prize

Thanks for participating everyone!!!!!

Sketch #185

2011-12-04T06:38:00.002-04:00

Hello Creative Scrappers!

We have SKETCH 185 today, our guest is Eva Dohn and we have a beautiful sketch by Amarylis. Amonst all the hustle and bustle of the holidays, i hope you take some time for yourself ! Enjoy the reveal!

Hi everyone. My name is Eva, I'm 38 years old, from Denmark and I'm addicted to scrapbooking. I live with my husband and two beautiful girls age 6 and 1½. The girls are my main scrap-object and luckily they don't mind being photographed.

I have been a scrapper for almost 10 years now but I really became an addict i 2005 when I became mom for the first time. I love to escape into my little scrap world in the evenings when the kids have fallen asleep. Scrapbooking do for me what yoga does for others, it relaxes me and fills me with positive energy.

I love trying new techniques and different styles, but people have told me that they can always see, when a layout is done by me and they call my style "vintage with a twist".
Every once in a while I get a so called scrappers blog and all creativity leaves my mind, then I always find a sketch to get me started again, so with sketches being a "life safer" for me, it means a lot to me that I have gotten the chance to be GD for Creative Scrappers today, I'm very honored.

If you want to visit my blog, you are very welcome http://www.evadohn.blogspot.com/

Our Guest -- Eva Dohn

Ana Castro

Brenna Smith

Daniela de Sá

Fiona Kenward

Hilde Aaslund

Janna Werne r

Myriam Mantion-Ginel

Ulrika Blomfelt

The deadline to submit your layout(s) is December 31 2011

Enjoy your week!

Kristine

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December Sponsor

2011-12-01T08:52:00.003-04:00

We welcome Nicole Lombardo from Niklin Designs
as our sponsor this month!!!

To win a prize valued at over 50$ from Nicole
complete 1 layout from sketches 185-186-187-188
the more entries the more chances of winning!
upload it using InLinkz in our weekly reveals.
The deadline is December 31st - 11pm EST.

Make sure you visit her Etsy Store --
http://www.etsy.com/shop/niklindesigns1225

and her blog --
www.nicolelombardo.typepad.com

Thanks Nicole for being an awesome sponsor for CS!

eBook Pub Call

2011-11-28T16:29:00.007-04:00

eBook Publication
We are excited to share with you today
that we will be creating an ebook of sketches!

"Creating With Sketches"

A publication you can download and print yourself or just save it to your iPhone, or iPad and use it as you wish! Limited printed copies will also be available.

The first issue of this ebook will feature exclusive sketches created for you! Sketches will be created by the founder of Creative Scrappers, Kristine Davidson.

We would love to see your application to be published in our first ever eBook! To submit your application to be considered for publication send the following -

email to Kristine@Creative-Scrappers.com
Subject line - CS eBook

Please include your name, your email address, blog address or gallery and of course attach 2-3 of your layouts so we can get an idea of your scrappy style.

If you are selected we will contact you by email before December 31st and we will send you a unique sketch to create a layout with and you'll be required to send it back to us by January 31st.

Compensation for being selected will not include products or monetary value but a free eBook for you and one for your blog readers.

This is an OPEN call and this call will be CLOSED when we have enough applicants.
So Don't Wait!

Submit today for a chance to have your layout featured in our first ever eBook!

www.CreativeScrappers.blogspot.com

Sketch #184

2011-11-27T06:04:00.001-04:00

Hello Creative Scrappers!

It's Reveal Day! It's time for SKETCH 184 and a great reveal from our team members. Our guest today is Amanda Reddicliffe! I hope you enjoy the reveal today and get some inspiration from our sketch and sample layouts.

Hi there! I'm Amanda and I'm so excited to be a guest designer here at Creative Scrappers!

I'm a mum to three gorgeous yet cheeky kids who regularly feature in my layouts, wife to a very patient, arty man who has been my best friend since we started hanging out 13 years ago.

I've been scrapbooking since 2003 and taking photo's and journalling since 1988. I discovered scrapbooking when was pregnant with my first child, and although my style has changed since my first Creative Memories party it was love at first embellishment, and many pizza boxes later I still love sitting down late at night and arranging my photo's on a piece of 12x12. I also make the occasional card. If you want to pop over to my blog for a visit you can find me at www.stampin-style.blogspot.com.

Our Guest - Amanda Reddicliffe

Amelia Khalik

Felicitas Klink

Katarzyna Grzegorzewska

Marielle LeBlanc

Marie-Anne Kimpton

Marina Yazawa (Kanga)

Mariska Walter

Marianne Sjoberg

Marie Johansson

Myriam Mantion-Ginel

Natasha Naranjo Aguirre

To win a prize from our November sponsor C'est Magnifique you simply need to complete at least one layout from our sketches # 180-181-182-183-184 and upload it using our inLinkz at the bottom of our reveals.

The deadline to submit your layout(s) is November 30 2011

Enjoy your week!

Kristine

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Featured Designer

2011-11-24T22:40:00.002-04:00

I have a few positions available for featured designers!
This would be for December 18-25 & January 2012

Interested?
Send me an email (kristine@creative-scrappers.com)
title of email "CS FEATURED DESIGNER"
your full name
blog address / or gallery address
Also please attach 2 of your latest pages to showcase your style
and that's it!!! ( a CS blinkie/badge on your blog helps!)

Deadline for submission - Wednesday November 30

Meet Our Designers

2011-11-21T11:27:00.023-04:00

You've seen their work, now let's get to know them a little bit better shall we?

Please welcome our design team members ---

Amelia Khalik

Hello everyone, My name is Amelia Khalik from Malaysia. I’m a wife to a supportive husband and mother of two adorable kids. They have been my constant inspiration. I started scrap booking about 3 ½ years ago and never look back ever since. I was a bored mom without a hobby and one day while browsing decided that I should try my hands at card making. I took my first lesson at a local scrap book store and start buying my basic tools.

My first few layouts were actually done during a crop party at lss. It was so basic with no layering or technique whatsoever. Every time I look back at those pieces it reminds me of how far I’ve come and how much I’ve learn along the way. Scrapping to me is a no hard rules, no perfection and no right or wrong. It’s more of a hunch and instinct of what looks good on my page at that moment. Most of the time I don’t plan my page in advance, I am a very impromptu person, even on a last minute I could still add or remove items on my page! Nothing fix and certain.

My style is always evolving and i love to try everything there is out there. I am drawn to mixed media and altered project but layout has always been my number one favorite!

I am honored and happy to be given this opportunity to be with Creative Scrappers.

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Ana Castro

Hi! I'm Ana Castro from Brazil. I live in a city localized in an Island in the south of Brazil, called Florianópolis. I'm clinical engineer and I have a company that manages medical equipment for hospitals. I am married to my husband Rafael and am mom to my 5 year old son Daniel, who is the subject of most of my scrapbook pages!

I began scrapping in January 2009, mostly creating 12x12 layouts and some altered items. I’ve started by accident while looking for a gift for my niece. It was love at first sight, and I've couldn't stop! At beginning I used spent hours looking at magazines and blogs, just watching and learning every details from some page. The idea to preserve memories are the most important thing of scrapbooking to me.

Nowadays, the scrap occupies a very special place in my life and it brought more creativity to my daily routine. I feel that my vision of the world took another look and new colors. I love (sometimes obsessively!!) new collections and new materials. My favorite techniques are distressing, stitching and adding dimension to my pages. I'm not sure how to define my style because I like to try new things every time. I think my style is clean and whimsical. Boy’s pages are my passion because I have a cute (and funny) model at home and a lot of pictures to use, after all, my pages are dedicated to my son and my family. I think my pages are funny and colorful. I find inspiration in my life and outdoor.

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Brenna Smith

Hey everyone! My name is Brenna, I'm 25 and live in a small farming town in Ontario and commute to our nation's capital for work. I am an aspiring police officer with a passion for arts and crafts! I fell in love with scrapping 8 yrs ago when I moved off to college and wanted to make a special personalized gift for my BFF who I was moving away from. I haven't been able to stop since and continue to use scrapbooking as a means to capture stories, thoughts and feelings about my experiences and the people I love.

When I'm not scrapbooking I am playing organized sports (most recently hockey), volunteering with the Humane Society (animals are my passion), catching up on classic films, listening to classic rock music (attempting to see most of the legends in concert before they start to kick the bucket :) and spending time with my amazing boyfriend of nine years, Richard. I like to share that I've gone skydiving, travelled to Australia and chauffeured a manager of the Rolling Stones around for a day while they were shooting a music video in Ottawa (Random, but true!)
I hope I can inspire you with my love and passion for this awesome craft!
Brenna

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Daniela de Sá

Hello, I am Dani de Sa, I am Brazilian, married and mother of two beautiful children who are my greatest source of inspiration.

Since I was a teenager had daily and paper cuting, but scrapbooking came into my life even in 2006, by chance.

I was searching the internet for something to make the birthday invitations the first year of my 2nd daughter, and I fell in love. At first, I learned a lot on the internet, where I also met many dear friends. Scrap to me is fun, memory and friendship.

Paper is my favorite scrapping supply. I always enjoyed photography, and looking through the scrapbooking record the moments of everyday life of my family, our history.I love using sketches and I'm very happy with the opportunity to be part of the Creative Scrappers DT.

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Felicitas Klink

Hi everyone!
My Name is Felicitas Klink. I'm 31 years old and live in Stuttgart, South Germany with my lovely husband Steffen and our two "little ones"…our bunnies.

I've been a paper crafter for over 2,5 years but I've always been creative since I was a little girl.

I write weekly DIY-Tutorials for ongoing projects and I also started designing free digital stamps. My art is very detail oriented. I have a passion for mixing different colors, styles and supplies in my projects. By combining funky mixed media items, I create beautifully layered scrapbook layouts, cards and mixed media art projects.

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Fiona Kenward
My Name is Fiona Kenward however I go by the nickname Fi, I live in Australia half way between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. I live with my husband and our two teens.

I started scrapbooking in 2002, before that if I wasn’t quilting I would be painting. I can’t remember a time when I was creating in some form.

I must admit I have only really started dabbling in Sketches as I found they can be a little restrictive for my style, but I have decided to challenge myself and incorporate my style into the sketch. I am a candid photographer, which basically means I have no photography skills at all. I try and make my photos more exciting to look at through my scrapbooking style.

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Hilde Aaslund
My name is Hilde Aaslund and I am a sketch addict! I live in Norway with my hubby, two boys 9 &12, FIL and a number of pets: dog, cat and budgies. I work full time as an engineer at construction sites and spend my leisure time driving kids to activities, running this place called home and scrap.

I started my paper craft career as a card maker in 2005, but transformed to a layout scrapper a year later. My main scrap subjects are - quite naturally- my family, but I also scrap about subjects found in our everyday life – the pets, our friends, funny signs and anything that makes my day special.

As life is busy, I hardly have time to sit down and scrap for hours, and this is reflected in my scrap style: often simple with lots of white space or linear. But on occasions I get carried away and keep adding details as if I were paid by the number. Currently, I am on the DT for one of the US’ largest kit clubs, I have been published several times and I still enjoy participating in challenges on challenge blogs!

I am, as I said, a sketch addict, and I am thrilled beyond words to be a part of the Creative Scrappers DT!

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Janna Werner
I was born 1978 in Germany and still live in the northern part of it, together with my husband and our dog Sindri.

I started crafting in April 2010, cardmaking had been my favourite subject at that time but soon scrapbooking captured my heart. So did mixed media in 2011 when I got to know some very inspiring mixed media artists and was totally amazed by their work.

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Katarzyna Grzegorzewska
My name is Kasia (in the Web I'm called Katharinka) and I live together with my family in Bydgoszcz in Poland. I am a lawyer, but I'm not working in the profession ... yet !

I'm optimistic and look at the world through rose-colored glasses and all about trying to infect it.

With scrapbooking I started first in 2008, looking over millions of blogs and fell in love. I love all the colors of the rainbow, and my scissors ;) and I try to showcase this throughout my layouts.

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Machiko Matsuura
Hello!!

My name is Machiko Matsuura, I live in Osaka, Japan. I am twenty eight years old. married with 2 children- 1 year and 4 years old. My hobbies are taking pictures by a single-lens reflex and creating scrapbooking. Both are very important for me because I can relax when I do my hobbies. I so love to scrap and chat my friends.

The reason why I started scrap booking is because I wanted to keep memories for my sons. Now, I am addicted to scrapping and enjoy creating everyday. I always strive to create pages where my pictures can shine, so I like simple layouts.

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Marianne Sjoberg

Hi. My name is Marianne, and I live up in Northern Norway together with my boyfriend and our two children. I started scrapbooking after giving birth to our firstborn five years ago, and it has been an obsession of mine ever since. It feels like Christmas every time I get my hands on new papers, and I guess that is why I have so much of it.. I am a totally paper addict!!

I do not consider myself having a particularly style, as it changes as often as the weather up here. My favorite layouts are the ones telling a story, and I try to have some text on all my layouts. I feel very lucky being on the design team to a local Paper Company.

Being a sketch lover, I feel no less lucky being chosen to be on the fabulous team here at CS. I only hope I can live up to the rest of the ladies here, and that some of you can get inspired by me…

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Marie Johansson

My name is Marie, but in the Scrap World I´m known as Mison. I am 37 years old, and live with my partner and my two children (7 and 3) in a small village called Nordmaling in the North of Sweden. I work as a Intensive Care Nurse (with Cardiology as specialty). My main interest is Scrapbooking.

Since my early teens I´ve been creating cards (drawing, painting etc). In 2004 when my son was born I found a lot of beautiful colored papers and embellishments in a craft shop, bought some and that was the beginning of it all… Now I spend as much time as possible at the scrap table, and it has developed to be my biggest hobby, as well as a big part of my life.

For me scrapbooking is a way of contemplation. As I have a job that can be rather stressful, and two intense children, scrapbooking gives me time to relax and run away from the “real world” for a while. It gives me a chance to use my creative nerve, and focus on my needs for a while.

My “style” is colourful and playful. I often use a lot of papers and embellishments. I try to have the photo in focus, and to reflect the feeling of the photo in the layout. I also makes cards and altered projects. If I had to call my style something - then I might call it Playful Punk Chic? (if i do a romantic layout, I can´t help giving it a playful twist…)

Since I LOVE sketches I can´t wait to begin my journey with Creative Scrappers!!

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Marie-Anne Kimpton
My name is Marie-Anne Kimpton and I live in Quebec city, a French-speaking town of Canada, with my husband Alexandre and our three children – Jules (7), Paul (5) and Béatrice (almost 2).

I began scrapping 5 years ago. In my scrap, I love using contrasting colors, polka dot paper and flowers. But above all, I prefer to use recycled materials or handmade ornaments, It gives originality to my layouts and it goes with my green values.

I am currently part of two design teams (for an online store and a color combo blog challenge). But my biggest realization has been to be part of the editorial and design team of a magazine. When I'm not scrap for my dt projects, I do challenges... Because I love doing challenges !!! That's how I discovered the wonderful blog of CS. I am super excited and honored to be a designer for Creative Scrappers, and I hope that my work will provide inspiration for everyone !

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Marielle LeBlanc

My name is Marielle Leblanc (marilou64 on many boards) , I live in Dieppe, New Brunswick with my husband of 10 years and our 2 great little guys. Gabriel is 9 and Felix is 7, you'll be seeing them often on my layouts ! I work part time as a nurse in the outpatients clinics.

I have always been a crafty person but really got addicted to scrapbooking after the birth of Gabriel in 2002. I love the "me" time it creates and I love the beautiful things I can create with my hands, imagination and gorgeous papers!

I'm so happy to have been chosen as a member of Creative Scrappers sketch blog, the sketches are fantastic and the community is so friendly !

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Marina Yazawa (Kanga)

I'm Kanga. I live in Japan with my husband and 5-year-old daughter and four Chihuahua and a rabbit.

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Mariska Walter

Hi there ...... My name is Mariska, 37 years old and married to a great German guy called Jürgen. Together we have one son, called Fabian and he is almost 6 years. We have an extra family member in our little rabbit Hobsie. He is already an oldie.. but soo cute.

I work three days a week at a real nice company as sales assistant. Love to do that and be in the working space every now and then.

Scrapbooking is something I started doing just before Fabian is born. A friend of mine took me to a workshop in a little shop here in the Netherlands and I was hooked right away. It felt like everything I liked came together ! My friend never got hooked.. but I did.... and infected some other people around me too ! I am a real layout scrapper. Somehow when I start a mini album I loose my interest half way. Too bad because I really love it when I see it from others.

I am really happy to be part of this team for this term and will give my best to make nice layouts !!

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Myriam Mantion-Ginel
I am MyriamMG, I live in the North-East of France. I am 45 years old, I am married, have 3 children and 2 cats. I fell in the magical world of scrapbooking more than 7 years ago and for 5 years I am responsible-assistant in a crafts store where I am in charge of the scrap area. You understand : in the heart of the temptation all day long, my small brain dreams up and in the evening, I restitute all this in my LOs !!!

I am a sort of meddler in scrapbooking : I like testing different techniques and styles : from the shabby to the free, which often gives a colored shabby or a free with lace !!! Generally, as soon as I have the click between THE photo and THE paper : the inspiration comes then in a evident way. I practice challenges and sketches : I find it rewarding.

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Natasha Naranjo Aguirre

Hi! My name is Natasha and I'm the mother of two wonderful children and the wife of an amazing and supportive man. I am a floral designer by day and a scrapaholic by night!

I first discovered my love for scrapbooking in 2004 but was unable to scrap because I was a single mother and had no spare time for myself or for hobbies. For years I was unable to scrapbook, but my passion for it never faded. I got married in 2010 and my husband inspired and encouraged me to start creating again. If it weren't for him, I would have never been able to begin doing what I love.

As for my scrapping style... well, I don't know what my style is exactly LOL. I just create using products I love. I love to incorporate different techniques on my layouts and use a variety of different elements.

Every day I am inspired by the amazing work and talent of others, and I hope to be able to inspire others with my work as well. I am very excited to be able to share my work with you all!

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Ulrika Blomfelt

My name is Ulrika Blomfelt and I live in Sweden, close to Swedens capital Stockholm. I live here with my husband Anders, my son Viggo and our dog Molle, which is the breed Shetland Sheepdog.

I have always enjoyed creating with my hands and have tried many different things like patchwork sewing, embroidery and picture painting. I got my first camera when I was nine.

Since then I´ve been taking a lot of pictures but I´m still an amateur. My goal is to learn to be a better photographer.

In 2006 my mother celebrated a special birthday and I wanted to create a memory album for her. This was the fist time I came in contact with Scrapbooking and fell head over heels in love with it.

I can combine taking pictures and create with my hands while saving memories for the future. Can you have a more perfect hobby?

Through this hobby I have met many new friends and a whole new world has opened up for me. I have wonderful design team assignments that challenge my creative side and allows me to develop creatively.

My scrap style is very diverse and I like to try different and new techniques all the time. I create layouts, cards and altered projects so I´m quite versatile in my Scrapbooking.

I really looking forward to be part of Creative Scrappers lovely and talented team and be able to create after the beautiful sketches.

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Welcome ladies!

Sketch #183

2011-11-20T06:08:00.001-04:00

Hello Creative Scrappers!

We have SKETCH 183 today, our guest is Jenifer Evans and our sketch is created by Nicole Nowosad. I certainly hope you have a few minutes to create this week!

Enjoy the reveal today!

Hi everyone, my name is Jenifer Evans known on many scrapbooking sites as "Jennaroo"! I am super stoked and humbled to be a Guest Designer for Creative Scrappers today!

Let's see a lil about me...I have 5 kiddos and am married to my high school sweetheart! We live in a small farming community....and honestly there's not much to do besides scrap and chase my kids from one sporting event to the next!

I have been seriously scrapping now for 2 years but started many years ago when my first child was born. I scrapbook to preserve memories for my children and theirs to come but I also scrap as a creative outlet for myself! My friends and family make fun of me because I see things differently than they do, I get inspired by surroundings and often wonder how I can scrap them or incorporate them into my crafting somehow, whether it be something that would make a great title or something that could be altered or squeezed onto a layout.

I would say I have more than one style of scrapping because I don't want to limit my creativity. My dominant style is shabby/pretty chic, but I've been known to produce grungy as well as clean and simple layouts once in a while. I pretty much go where my pictures take me!

You check more of my work out here: http:heldscraptive.blogspot.com
Jenifer

Our Guest -- Jenifer Evans

Ana Castro

Brenna Smith

Daniela de Sá

Fiona Kenward

Hilde Aaslund

Janna Werne r
Machiko Matsuura

Myriam Mantion-Ginel

Ulrika Blomfelt

The deadline to submit your layout(s) is November 30 2011

Enjoy your week!

Kristine

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2011-11-14T13:39:00.008-04:00

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Sketch #182

2011-11-13T06:30:00.000-04:00

Hello Creative Scrappers!

We have SKETCH 182 today, and the first reveal from our second group of design team members! I hope you enjoy the reveal today and get inspired by our girls. We definitely have a great variety of talent here at CS! Our guest designer this week is Melenia from Greece! She's created a great page with some yellow mist and the butterfly she used is beautiful!

Enjoy the reveal today!

Hello everyone! It's a great honour to be a featured designer in such an inspiring challenge blog, like Creative Scrappers and I especially want to thank Kristine for the invitation! My name is Melenia Agapides and I live in Greece (yes, the country that's usually in the headlines of the news lately). I'm a mother of two, a wife to a sweet Canadian guy and an airport authority officer.

I have been scrapping layouts since August 2009. My style is constantly evolving, due to the fact that I'm the kind of person that gets bored very easily and wants to change and be renewed by trying new things often. What I always strive for when scrapping is to achieve balance and harmony in my creations both colourwise and stylewise. I'm a sucker for sketches and challenges, as they help me improve my style and scrapping skills. If you want to see more of my work you can visit my blog melenia313.blogspot.com.

Our Guest - Melenia Agapides

Amelia Khalik

Marielle LeBlanc

Marie-Anne Kimpton

Katarzyna Grzegorzewska

Mariska Walter

Natasha Naranjo Aguirre

Felicitas Klink

Marianne Sjoberg

Marina Yazawa (Kanga)

Marie Johansson

The deadline to submit your layout(s) is November 30 2011

Enjoy your week!

Kristine

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Sketch #181

2011-11-06T06:27:00.000-04:00

Hello Creative Scrappers!

We have SKETCH 181 today, and the first reveal from our new design team members!
I know I told you I would post a formal intro for our designers, sadly i'm sick these days and not feeling up to much... I have shingles! BLAH!!!! So I do promise you that the girls will be introduced .. hopefully this week ;-)

I hope you enjoy the reveal today and get inspired by our girls.. We have a variety of talent on this reveal and as you can see this sketch is soooo versatile. I might add this is our first sketch from Juliana Michaels.... what do you think!? Chevron... yup it's huge in the scrap industry right now so this would be a great sketch to try if you are trying to be published! Don't forget if you do get published using one of our sketches ... let them know you got inspired by a CS Sketch! ;-) and make sure you let us know... we'll have you featured on our blog!

Our guest designer this week is Chiquita! She's got a fabulous monochromatic layout and some sweet pics!

Enjoy the reveal today!

Hi! My Name is Chiquita, nickname Chic. I like both :-)

Firstly thank you to Creative Scrappers for asking me to Join in as a Guest.

I have tried different crafts over the years mostly because my mum has always been into a new craft idea every month growing up. I have completed Picture Framing and Lead lighting courses. I've tried a bit of mosaic, sewing ect. Now that I'm in my 30's I think I have settled down for a while into the Scrapbooking Niche.

Me and My husband of 6 years have 3 beautiful Children under 6. Two blue and One adorable pink. They provide me with regular scrapbooking Inspiration. My life doesn't revolve around Scrapbooking but rather as something I do to relieve the days stress. I usually Scrap at night with my hubby on the opposite wall playing computer games. At least we are sort of spending time together :-) I don't really have a style, I'm constantly changing and challenging myself. I'm very organized, symmetrical and a bit of a control freak with everything so sometimes I have an aneurism with my pages if they are not well balanced. I find it hard to free style but I am getting better and love where it is taking me. I love been inspired by and trying the next new thing. I'm not as much about pretty photos as the moment that was captured. So usually my photos are not the best but I will have lots of journaling hidden or covering the page.

I have been on 2 design Teams, Taught Classes at 2 LSS and have had several layouts published. I love seeing a photo and journaling of a special memory in print. I always get excited. I don't know how long I will scrap for but I am enjoying the ride at the moment and love that I have some precious memories scrapped for my children and family to look back over in the years to come. Sometimes I think its all just about the pretty embellishments and using them to self express

You can see more of my work here http://hippychiquita.blogspot.com/

Our Guest -- Chiquita James

Ana Castro

Brenna Smith

Daniela de Sá

Fiona Kenward

Hilde Aaslund

Janna Werne r

Kerryn Lawson

Myriam Mantion-Ginel

Solange Marques

Ulrika Blomfelt

The deadline to submit your layout(s) is November 30 2011

Enjoy your week!

Kristine

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