Self portrait challenge

Lately I've been intrigued by taking self portraits. In the side mirror of my car, my reflection in a mirror, my foot......this is a lot of fun! Take out your camera and play around taking all kinds of funny pictures of yourself. Close-ups of body parts maybe. You let me know. I'll post some of mine too. And then we can make a project together with all our funny pictures. Something different. I have been scrapping a lot lately; some new ideas. I'll post more about these later. Just remember to have fun!

Bandanna Night

I recently hosted a Bandanna Scrap Night for two of my scrap groups. I bought bandanna's for everybody and they put them on. The idea was to make your own "bandanna" printed paper. I bought watercolor paper and got everybody some coasters. They could use any kind of ink: Distress ink pads, walnut ink tintz, Tsukineko antiquing solutions, ecoline ( I don't know what's it called in English). Experiment with different kind of inks; you will get different effects. After you color your paper, glue your paper on the coasters (both sides). And than the fun starts: choose from your stash of stamps: swirls, doodles, paisley etc. and stamp on your painted coasters using a black ink pad. I used black Stazon. After stamping, decorate with a white gel pen. Soooo cool! They all had a different pattern or design, but they all looked very nice. We all had a lot of fun! Bandanna print is one of the hot trends for scrapbooking in 2008.

A special Surprise

Last night the Sassy Scrappies met again at my house for a crop night. As a surprise they all received a bandanna, that they had to wear. It was part of the class (I'll post more about that class another day). The highlight of the crop was a surprise by Miz Lizz; who made a special gift for all, in honor of National Scrapbooking Day. It was a cigar box, beautifully decorated with a picture of each person inside their box. Very special! The box was covered in a beautiful paper and decorated with a lot of flowers (oh, no!) and lots of bling. Lizz, that was really a great surprise! Thank You!!! It was a successful night; lots of laughs, cute project, and great friends sharing the passion of their favorite hobby: scrapbooking!
Happy Mother's Day to all! I wish you all a very special day......

Picture wallhanging

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I've been kind of lazy....... Last night the Sassy Scrappies met at my house and I had a small project for them: a chipboard wall hanging. You need: 4 Pieces of chipboard (5x7), 4 pieces of printed paper, 4- 4x6 pictures, chipboard alphabets, rub ons, stamp- alphabets, and your favorite embellishments. That's it! I made mine with some self-portraits I took on my cars side mirror. I used some all dressed up papers and the letters are chipboard letters (art), letters cut from my cricut (create & joy) and the word "be" is stamped on and "blinged" with diamond stickles. I used some flowers, rub ons and bling to decorate. I'll show you the results from my scrappies too. Thanks to my Sassy's: Louise, Adeline, Sharla & Marisol. We all had different topics and theme's, but they all came out very nice!! I'll post their results too. Thank you ladies! I hope this will inspire you all too to create something special this weekend. Happy scrappin'......