visit with Santa

This layout was done with a lift of the POTW #1 at Scrapbook Challenges.

Supplies Used
pp - Scrapworks, Basic Grey, DCWV and Imaginisce
cardstock unknown
alphas - AC Thickers and Adornit teeny alpha
felt } - Fancy Pants
metal clip - Making Memories
thread - DMC
lace from stash
Bingo card - Jenni Bowlin
chipboard hat - Maya Road
paint and felt from stash

Scraplifting with the XOXO Girls

Supplies used:
paper: Dream Street, Love Elsie and unknown
Title stickers: Glitz Teeny Alpha
Title Rub-on: Basic Grey
chipboard flower - Pink Paislee
Distress stickles - Ranger
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist "Olive Vine"
flowers, butterfly rub-ons and stickers - Stampin Up!
DMC thread
journaling spot, ribbon and crown - unknown

Inspired by Andrea MacDonald

Scrap Attack Scrapbooking is the November sponsor over on the XOXO Girls blog! If you are not familiar with their site, they are a scraplift blog! They have a large design team with an enormous range of scrapbooking styles to choose from. I think everyone get's scrappers block from time to time and scraplifting is a wonderful way to jump start your creating.

What exactly does scraplift mean?

Basically it means copying others' completed layouts in whole or in part, for your own personal use, by adopting design elements and ideas that you like and incorporating them into your own creations. Of course everyone likes to get credit for their ideas so remember it's proper etiquette to give credit to the person you are scraplifting ideas from whenever you borrow someone's ideas.

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oh Boy

The 6th and final week challenge at Dixie Pieces was the "golden oldies". This was a fun one to end on - great list of title and a lot of possible layout ideas floating through my head.

I chose to go with a black and white picture of DH holding his new brother.

Supplies used:
Cosmo Cricket "Cogsmo Cogs" pp and die-cuts, some fussy cutting.
Lil' Davis Designs scrapbook paint for splatters Kelly Panacci 360 Degrees stamps
Basic Grey rub-on
Stampin Up! ink, cardstock, stampin' dimensionals (pop-dots) and chipboard - painted with metallic silver
Glitz teeny brown alphas
Jillibean soup corrugated kraft alphas
Basic Grey buttons
DMC thread
Brads unknown
Cranson photo corners
ribbon unknown
Sakura pen for journaling and doodling

all - American girl

Dixie Pieces music challenge for week 5 was Country Pop. The titles listed were from Carrie Underwood's songs.

Pictures from our trip this summer when we stopped at Mount Rushmore, SD and Katie wanted her picture taken by the flag post for Florida - she is proud to be a Florida girl.

Supplies used:
Stampin Up! cardstock and star brad
Pink Paislee pp, alphas and element stickers. Powdered the back of the banners so the tips would be loose.
Sprayed the cardstock with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist "Black Magic"
Bo Bunny chipboard flourishes
Glitz "frosting" black bling
DMC thread for stitching border
clear embossing power around the edge of the die-cut
Prima flowers, except I'm unsure about the white one.