Pay it Forward 2011... are you game?

Pay it forward 2011.

I promise to send (or deliver) something handmade to the 1st 5 people who leave a comment.

They must in turn post this and send something they made to the 1st 5 people who comment on their Blog Post.

The rules are that it must be handmade by you and it must be sent to your 5 people sometime in 2011.

SOS: Pagerize This #5... Still time to get your entries in!

Pagerize This #5

psstttt...
Look on the right hand side of the Scrap Our Stash Page... my Name is on the DT list!
I'm so happy and proud to be part of this awesome Design Team!

Da Boyz by Sarah is our 5th Page to be "pagerized" in our "Pagerizie This" Challenge. Sarah was chosen by Dawn as the winner of the Pagerize This Challenge #4.

Each month on the 15th we will post a new layout for you to "pagerize" (plagerize, copy, lift, steal) whatever term you want to use. The idea will be - to use the posted layout as your inspiration to create your own layout. You can "pagerize" as much or as little of the original layout as you choose. You may want to make a layout just like the one posted - or you may just want to use something about the layout as your inspiration. It's totally up to you.

Once you've completed your layout - email a picture and brief description to scrappinpsycho@live.com . All entries will be posted here at Scrap Our Stash. The challenge runs through midnight central time on January 12th. The "Pagerizer" (in this case Sarah), will then choose a winner from all the entries. The winner will be announced on January 14th. Then the winner will be asked to submit a layout for us to "Pagerize" starting on the 15th of January. Then on the 12th of February - the winner will be chosen by the winner of the "Pagerize This Challenge #5" and on and on it goes.

When Sarah found out she was chosen as winner she said, "Wow! Thank-You! Again, I'm honored... and floored, there were some awesome entries.

I tried to pick something with a variety of embellishment options but also a few unique things (like the cogs).

This is the description I had posted on my Blog when I made the page:

da boyz!

This is one of my favorite pages... Cogs, Cogs and more Cogs... and some screws.

Bo Bunny: Grease Monkey Patterned Paper, Little Yellow Bicycle Lacey Cardstock, cardstock 'vintage' embellishments, screw head brads, mesh metal tag and metal flower. The cogs are all appliance-rescues (mostly VCR) and the Big Blue ones (I love this!!!) are from my Mono-Adhesive tape runners.

How cool is that?!

The picture is of my 4 boys: one of the rare Pictures they *all* behaved."

So your challenge - if you choose to accept it - is to use Sarah's layout as your inspiration.

Macabre Monday HDH070 - Nightmarish New Year

Ok, my little pretties... your challenge this week:

Nightmarish New Year

You are to create a dark, Gothic, or Halloween-based Winter Holiday card representing those long forgotten resolutions that NEVER seem to be carried out.

I dearly love my own In-Laws.
I have married into quite the large crew,
having not much extended family of my own beforehand...
I'm SURE there more than a few who would agree with the sentiment on my Postcard:
'I resolved to spend more time with our extended Family...
but, Man it's hard... they're all such deadbeats!'

Last Project of 2010: Blood, Sweat & Gears!

Managing to slip oooooone more project in juuuust under the wire.

This one is not for a challenge or Design Team...
Just For Me (& Greg!)

Picture used with every gratitude possible to
Photographer: Michelle Budzinski.
Thank-You!!!

Pattern Paper and Paper embellishments: Graphic 45
Times Nouveau and Steampunk Debutante Collections
Key: Pixie Press
Ribbon: unkown source
Cog Die-cut: Tim Holtz
Screw Head Brads: Keepsakes Craft (Multicrafts)
Newspaper, Character Sheets, Curse Saving Hex Signals and Title Strip:
Blood, Sweat & Gears
http://www.documentia.ca/steampunk
Gear and other Metal: R.I.Pieces of a Clock
Button: Steampunk Ottawa
Glimmer Mist sprays: Tattered Angels
MUCH paper scrunching, sanding, inking and spraying.
Wanted that worn, weathered beaten look...
and just a bit grungy.
Even added a few fingerprints, it was a mystery after all.

(Click on Picture to Enlarge)
Journaling:

On Saturday October 16th 2010
the Heart & Crown on Preston
Street in Ottawa slipped back
in time to the year 1897...
becoming the home of Lady
Cholmonderly-Mainwaring in
Bromleys End.

A gather for the occasion of
King George Science College's
annual science exposition has
begun... but deceit was afoot!

Greg and I were playing the
roles of James and Agatha
Savage, husband and wife,
proprietors of Savage Scientific
Supply: Providers of Magnets,
Gears, Cogs, Tesla Coils, Wires,
Steamworks, Piping, Goggles
and other Scientific
Paraphernalia out of London.

A rather interesting and varied
cast of Characters made small
talk while each subtly trying to
figure out who has killed
Professor Sidney Fortescue.
Each person suspiciously
thinking...

'Am I talking to a Murderer?'

Well we were!

It turned out to be:

Professor Cyrus McLeod

Near the Weather Machine

With the Earth Magnets

ARTastic January Design Team Submission

January's inspiration will come from the painting 'Luncheon of the Boating Party' by Renoir

Luncheon of the Boating Party

by Renoir

(Suggested by Shelee and Peggy)

Diva Demand for an extra 6 bonus points try and

work the following into your layout.

1. Scrap a celebration = 1pt
2. 3 or more people in the layout = 2pts
3. Food somewhere on the layout = 3pts

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I'm sure most people would have a pic of a
celebration of some sort amongst their photos.

Please email your layouts compressed/resized for web viewing to shazzaalleyes@hotmail.com
Also, please add your blog address to your email so I can add it to the post, that way we can come and visit :)

Entries for 'Luncheon of the Boating Party' will close
Saturday 29th January at midnight.

Start off 2011 by joining us here at ARTastic,
we would love to see more of our 'Followers' join in.

Cant wait to see this months entries !!!

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mmmm... food! What a good topic. :O)
I decided to scrap the King of all Foodie-Celebrations: Thanksgiving.
We always have a veritable herd of family over, on top of the herd that already live under our roof. lol
Table laden down with a feast of:
ham, turkey, potatoes, turnip, carrots, olives,
apples, cranberry sauce, corn relish,
pineapples, salad and buns.
This is always my eldest son Arthur's favorite part:
The Food.
Though all da boyz kinda hang around, underfoot, as my Mom & I are getting the buffet meal laid out.

Good-Bye 2010 & Personal FavoriteTop 10 Projects.

Ahh... another Year draws to a close.
2010 was a very, very good year for us.
We celebrated a wedding, a new job, passing probation with that new job, MAJOR positive progress with both of our Special Needs kids, Grade 6 Graduation and *gulp* teenager-dom (or is that teenager-DOOM) beginning, rediscovery of Steampunk... quickly become an addiction with the whole family especially wee ones (all their LEGO is 'Steampunk this, Steampunk that...' now...lol), placement on 3 design teams, creative challenges won, guest spots, court case resolved, negative people cleared from our lives, positive people entering, spiritual renewal, healing in many forms, the forging of a new family unit, positive school changes, community at it's best and good Karma bringing us into the close and onto the New Year.
We are looking forward to an even better 2011!

I'm going to jump the Bloggy Bandwagon here...
Posting MY favorite 10 project from 2010.
These are not necessarily ones I won Challenges with or even Design Team Layouts BUT they are ones I put a little bot of my heART & Soul into and are therefore just a wee bit *more* of me.
If I've linked this up right clicking on the images *should* take you to the corresponding Blog Entry for these project.
Not in any kind of preference order, the newest project is at the top, oldest at the bottom.

The Wedding Watch:
12X12 Scrapbook Page

Steampunk Demon Detector:
3D Mixed Media Prop

Stepping Through the Looking Glass and Falling Down the Rabbit Hole:
12X12 Scrapbook Page


Brass Explosion Steampunk Box:
Mixed Media Giftbox


Da Boyz!:
12x12 Scrapbook Page


Domestic Goddess:
3D Mixed Media Sculpture


Alice In Mixed Media Wonderland:
3D Framed Art


Warning to Time Travelers... the Butterfly Effect:
3D Mixed Media Wallhanging

Valentine's ABC's of You:
Handmade Scrap/Giftbook

Entertaining Angels
Art Journal Page

Tuesday Taggers: Old Father Time...

Old Father time.........
So we are nearly at the end of 2010 - where have the last 10 years gone? It seems like days ago we were celebrating the millenium and here we are now slipping into another decade - how time flies!

Staying with the theme of new year we thought a theme involving the passage of time would be appropriate so have chosen the challenge of
"Old Father Time"

- this theme is open to your own interpretation so please feel free to run with whatever your thoughts are for this one.

I actually made a TAG this time... for 2010 I think this is a 1st for me with this challenge! ;O)
I found this wonderful Clip-Art image...
Base of Burgundy cardstock, heavily inked in Burgundy and Navy.
Clock pattern paper and image inked as well.
I wanted a grungy look with some movement so I inked in circles.
Good-Bye 2010