June's Happy Mail Challenge

 

 Each Month rukristin papercrafts issues a Happy Mail Challenge. There are two ways to  participate in the challenge. First create a project with this month's theme and share the project with a link in the comments section of this post OR by uploading to instagram, tagging @rukristin and using the hashtag #HappyMailChallenge. 

Happy June!! In honor of Mini-Album month, this month's Happy Mail Challenge is to create and share a mini-album that tells a story!

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Scrapbook Challenge Sites

Do you ever sit down and really want to scrapbook, but you have no idea where to start? Like all your creative energy is just lost in another world.

I'm always looking for new ways to get un-stuck.

Here's a list of some of my favorite scrapbooking and memory-keeping challenge sites from around the web. 

These sites offer regular challenges that are great for that burst of inspiration when you're stuck in a rut. Some of these challenges are weekly, some are monthly, but all of them are places that I go to when I'm looking for something to jump start my creativity.

Leave your favorite challenge sites in the comments below and I'll add them to the list. 

Pin or bookmark this page as a resource you can come back to time and time again. I know I forgot a few and I'll definitely be updating this list periodically to reflect any changes or additions.



My Favorite Challenges

• Currently Journaling Challenge
• Happy Mail Challenge
• Studio Calico Weekly Challenge
• Document Life Workshop
• 30 Days of Lists
• Adventures of Glitter Girl
• Two Peas in a Bucket
• Scrapbook Starting Points
• Shop Your Stash 
• Social Media Butterflies

Sketch Sites

• Sketchbook365
• Studio Calico Sunday Sketch
• Sketchabilities

Suggested Sites

• Color Combos Galore 
• Crate Paper Weekly
• Life. Paper. Scrapbook.
• Scrap Your Story 
• Skissedilla
• Scrap Stash Kit Club

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Write Your Ten Minute Love Story

Every year, for Valentine's Day, I give Jeffrey something handmade and memory-related. This year v-day came up super quick; somehow it was February 13th and I still had nothing started. Luckily I had gotten my Studio Calico box earlier in the day and had the evening to throw something together.  

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Freckled Fawn October Color Challenge

Freckled Fawn: October Color Challenge

I've had the best time guest designing for Freckled Fawn this month. Doe, the owner of FF is one of the kindest most generous people I've had the pleasure of working with. 

Check out the Freckled Fawn October Color Challenge and enter your project for a $5 Gift Card. 

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Freckled Fawn October Sketch Challenge

Each Month Freckled Fawn provides a sketch challenge. I played along with the design team and had a great time.

Check out the challenge, and if you play along, make sure to link up your project on the Freckled Fawn blog!
 http://www.iamdoe.blogspot.com/2012/10/october-sketch-challenge-some-lucky.html

Here is this month's inspiration layout from the amazing Christin Gronnslett. 

And my take on the layout:

I changed it around to an 8.5x11 and added a little bit more red to my layout.

I LOVE making a mat with washi tape! 

http://www.iamdoe.blogspot.com/2012/10/october-sketch-challenge-some-lucky.html

please leave a link to your project by Monday October 15th.

I'll have a Washi Workshop up on the Freckled Fawn blog this week as well. I hope everyone has some extra office supplies lying around! :) 

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Scrapfreak’s Summer Points Challenge is here again!!

Monica is hostessing an AMAZINGLY fun challenge this summer at ScrapFreak. I plan on playing along and getting lots of great stuff done, and I hope you'll join us too!!

From www.scrapfreak.com:

This has always been a favorite among the freaks and I’m so excited to be hosting it once again. The points challenge is simple. Everything you create between June 1, 2012 and July 31, 2012 will earn you points. Every patterned paper, photo, rub-on, washi tape, brad, etc. will earn you points. The goal is to get stuff done. The more you scrap, the more points you earn. 

This year, you'll have two choices on how to play…you can play along just for the fun of it OR you can play along for prizes. To play for prizes, you need to send me $8 via USPS by June 10th. All prize money will be used to award and ship prizes at the end of the challenge. 

The prize categories will be:

Most Points Overall 

Whether you scrap 10 layouts or 100, the person with the most overall points wins.

Most Layouts Completed

Don’t use a lot of embellishments? No problem. The person with the most layouts completed wins.

Random Drawing(s)

Random drawing(s) of everyone that participated in the prize portion of the challenge. 

The exact number of random drawings and amounts won for each category will depend on the total prize money collected. You may only win one category. In the event one person would have both the most points and the most layouts, one of the prizes would be given to the runner up. 

Get your friends to play and pay for more points:

The more people that play the better the prizes so we’re going to give you 25 extra points right off the bat if you convince someone* to play and pay! Know a freak that hasn’t participated on the site in 2012, get them back here (they have to say you convinced them) or get a friend to join for the first time. Both you and the friend will earn the points if you both play and pay. 

*Applies to anyone that hasn’t participated on the site since January 1, 2012.

So come and hang out with some awesome friends and get lots of fun scrapping done! 

http://www.scrapfreak.com/forum/showthread.php?2077-Mark-Your-Calendars-for-Scrapfreak-s-Summer-Points-Challenge!

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Right Now: A Me Layout

Happy Tuesday Everyone! 

Today I wanted to share a quick and fun layout that I created over the weekend, inspired by a challenge over at Scrapping From the Inside Out. 

I wanted to record a bunch of things that I love RIGHT NOW--a very 'in-the-moment' type layout. I didn't care if they were trendy things, or things that might not even be around in a few months, I'm into them right now and that was important enough for me.

I used my silhouette to cut a heart shape in the center and my 'right now' title at the bottom. I then backed the heart with some contrasting patterned paper and poked ten holes around the page for the brads. I wrapped a piece of twine around the brad before sticking it into the paper--and then pulled the twine through the center of the heart. I did this for each of the brads and then added a whole bunch of handwritten journaling around the page. 

Thanks for stopping by! If you do any 'in-the-moment'/right now scrapping, please leave me a link in the comments, I'd love to check it out!

Kristin

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Freaky Friday Challenge: Everyday - Food

Freaky Friday Challenge | Everyday: Food

Every Friday, ScrapFreak offers a layout challenge in one of four categories: Trends & Design, Storytelling, Random, & Everyday. You can see all the challenges here.  

This week's everyday challenge is all about Food:

There are very few things in the world that impact everyone on a daily basis. Food is definitely one of those things. Food can be the centerpiece for traditional holidays and ceremonies, but on a more day to day basis: we eat multiple times a day, we make our own food, we let others make food for us, we stay home, we go out, sometimes we even grow our own food. We have very strong opinions on food. Food can be the centerpiece for traditional holidays and ceremonies. 

The everyday challenges coordinate really well with Project Life, and can be used over and over again from week to week. Especially if you are stuck with a few open pockets and need an idea or two to finish up your spread.

Here are a couple of different food-related Project Life pockets.

Thanks for stopping by! Make sure to check out the rest of the awesome samples here. 

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Layout: ScrapFreak Crop Challenge

Happy Friday!!!

Hope everyone is having an awesome day. If you have some free time this weekend, please head over to ScrapFreak for our Leap Year Crop! We have some great challenges in store for you.


I'd like to share part of my challenge with you: 


Everyday we come across things that appeal to our sense of aesthetics. We are naturally drawn to images that we find attractive, it might be a magazine ad, a poster on the street, or a picture of someone's home. But in order to take those things that appeal to us & turn them into inspiration, we have to first figure out what makes them appealing to us. 


For today's challenge, I want us to take a look at these three images from graphic designer Christine Wisnieski. Figure out what about them appeals to you, and then use that as inspiration to create your own project. 

There are a few more images at the challenge page here. 

I love looking at these images, they really just resonate with me. I'm going to deconstruct that first image to figure out what I'm really drawn to. 

• The first thing that pulls me in is the idea of 'organized chaos', I love that all those buttons are scattered just about the page, but yet its not a destructive type of disorganization. 
• The second thing is that deep woodgrain background. I think it really makes the buttons pop off the page. 
• Third is the fabulous variety of typefaces and graphic images that appear on each of the buttons, I'm really in love with that 'new retro' type look -- the modern vintage.

Here's a layout I created inspired by these awesome images:

And a couple of smaller closeups: 

As you can see, I was obviously pulled in by that woodgrain pattern. I picked out this photo because I really loved all that greenery on the right hand side and thought it went well with the whole conservatory theme. 

Please come check out my challenge, as well as the rest of the challenges over at ScrapFreak! We'll be handing out some awesome prizes and having lots of fun!

-- Kristin

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Country Fair

A quick layout up for the ScrapFreak Freaky Friday Challenge.

ScrapFreak - Freaky Friday Challenge

This Month's Storyteller Challenge is: Who, What, Where, When, & Why?

Sometimes it can be really difficult to get the words out right when journaling those special events. Too much? too little? What details do I leave in, which do I take out?

Use these five quick questions when asking yourself, where do I start? Grab a sheet of scrap paper, and start jotting down some notes. 

Who?
What? 
Where? 
When? 
Why?

I used the latest Studio Calico kit: County Fair (how perfect, right?). I added in a couple of embellishments from etsy and my stash to tie everything together.

This layout also has one of my favorite pictures of all time, the top left photo of the baby piglets drinking the milk from their mother, was one of the most precious things I've ever seen!

Thanks for stopping by!

-- Kristin

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