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Hello, all!  Joan here with another weekly challenge for you.  First things first, though.  Congratulations to our winners from last week’s yummy challenge, HeatherKS and scrappychic!  Make sure you PM La for your prize!  

Ze winners’ wonderful layouts!…

We Love Fair Food by HeatherKS

Stuffed Chicken by scrappychic

Now, on to this week’s challenge!  Blocking is hot these days, and I have a blocking template for you to play with.  I made this layout for Shannon’s (ZaCola3) Recipe Challenge @ Sweet Shoppe Designs last month, as well as for Alina’s food layout challenge here on the blog.  

CREDITS: Everything from And I Love You by La @ Sweet Shoppe Designs, EXCEPT: felt cupcake from Let Them Eat Cupcakes by Angela Powers & Kate Hadfield @ We Are Storytellers, FONTS: LDJ Socialite & LDJ Flirty @ scrapNfonts.com

Shannon’s recipe called for blocking and scallops to be included, and once I knew what I wanted to scrap I had a good idea of how I wanted those two things to look.  So I made a template for them to get them just how I wanted.  I don’t know about you guys, but I do that a lot when I get a set idea for certain aspects of a page.  I thought they turned out kind of fun, so I decided to carry on and make my first complete page template and use it for my turn here on La’s blog challenge.  I hope you like it and have fun playing with it! 

La and the team played and here are the fabo pages they came up with:

by Elizabeth (mummytothree)

CREDITS:  Everything from Pasha by La & Libby Wiefenbach @ Sweet Shoppe Designs, FONT: Pea Gretchie

by La

CREDITS: Pasha by La & Libby Wiefenbach, Funktified Swirls & Border-Line by La, all at Sweet Shoppe Designs

by Amy

CREDITS: 5th Avenue Sunrise by La & Robin Carlton @ Sweet Shoppe Designs

by Vanessa (nesser1981)

CREDITS: Everything from Pasha by La & Libby Wiefenbach, EXCEPT: Funktified Swirls & Border-Line by La, and the alpha, which I’m not sure on… I’ll have to find out from Vanessa, lol

As you can see, there’s lots of different ways you can use the template, and I’m sure you will think up even more.  I used to freeze up when I first started using templates, and I hated them because I felt like they were forcing me to scrap a page a specific way.  Then I realized I could just use them as a jumping off point, and it was more than okay to make the resulting page very much my own.  Now I love ‘em, because sometimes our mojo needs a big ol’ kick in the butt, and they can be just the thing.  I’ll use one to get me started, and let the page flow from there in whatever direction feels right.  Sometimes they look very close to the template, with a few tweaks on my part, other times the page develops its own personality that completely takes over.

So..

DOWNLOAD IT HERE

get scrapping, get creative and, most importantly, have fun!

(EDIT: Sorry for the bum link, folks, but it should be fixed now.  Let me know if there are any other problems!)

I can’t wait to see what you all come up with!  DON’T FORGET!  Be sure to link us up to your finished page in the comments so you have a chance to win some yummy La goodness!  There will be one prize awarded for the challenge this week.

Have fun scrapping and have a fabulous week!

Hello faithful La readers! Alina here, getting all ready for today’s yummy challenge. But before I do that, allow me to announce the winners of last week’s template. Congratulations to all who participated, I can tell you personally that it was a hard one for me!

Take a look at these beauties:

Beep Boop hello? by breakinbrie

Elephant ride by tlcaudle

Dear winners: please PM Lauren for your prize!

This weeks challenge obeys my hungry stomach. At the moment I took on the date, I happened to be very hungry. Mind you, I’m a food lover, so that’s no strange. That is why today I ask you to

SCRAP ABOUT FOOD!

you can
* scrap a recipe
* scrap something inspired by a dish you like
* use “food” elements
* scrap a pic of a messy eating kid

or basically, anything you want to do, even just use food colours… surprise us! Have fun doing this, you may win something great from our dear La

delicious recipe by Elizabeth (I really need to try it!)

Cute instructions on feeding a baby sis, by Jamie. Gotta love big bros!

And how to make a snake cake by me (this was my kids 3rd birthday cake).

Have fun! I can’t wait to see what you have to show us.

Hi everyone! Jamie (newfiemountiewife) here with a blog challenge freebie! I am loving all the different challenges our Punky Girls have done so far, so mine is a little different. But first, I want to congratulate the winners of last week’s blog challenge by Anna, Scrap Your Cause


This super sweet LO by Shelly:





And this bright LO by Tracy:





PM La for your prize! Congratulations to you both!!!


I have a template for everyone today, based on this LO that I completed with everything from Mark It Up by La.





I asked my fellow Punky Girls to help me out, and I got some awesome LO’s, including one from our fearless leader La LOL. Here is what they came up with for you!





Now, I want you to grab the template, decorate it, and link your LOs up for us here! We’ll pick at random two winners for a sweet prize!


DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE HERE!!!


I can’t wait to see what you create!

Hi everyone!  Anna (mommy2aria06) here with my first blog challenge!  Woohoo!  Everyday we hear about causes that touch our hearts and make us look beyond our point-of-view.  For this challenge I want you to pick a cause that is important to you- it could be anything from health issues like breast cancer or heart disease to global warming and other social issues- and scrap about the issue or scrap with the colors associated with the cause (like pink for breast cancer or red for heart disease).  As long as a cause is your inspiration feel free to interpret it as you wish.  When you are done link us up in the comment section by Sunday, September 21st so we can leave you love and two winners will be picked to receive a prize.  Below are some layouts by my fellow CT members and our hottie lovin’, QT rockin’ leader, La.

Now find your cause…and scrap it!   

:hugs:
Anna

Layouts:

Me (Anna)

Credits:
In this important election year, my cause is to make sure people are registered, educated and ready to vote.

For this LO I used Penny Springmann’s “Politics as Usual” kit. The red and blue papers are from Libby Weifenbach’s “Tattered Cardstock”.

La

Credits:
beep boop & font ss whimsy

Sheana

Credits:
Lauren Grier’s All The Sweet Flavors, Doodle My Snips & Toxic Rainbow (with Christy Lyle)
Emily Merritt’s Paper Block Templates 3
Jenn Patrick’s Stapled The Wrong Way- Really Bad Paint Job

Alina

Credits:
Lauren Grier & Christy Lyle ~ toxic rainbow
Lauren Grier ~ Falalaflowers

Lizzy

Credits:
2Scoops Beep Boop
tape from Teenage Wasteland
staples from Julie Billingsley
worn overlays from SBS

Thanks for playing!

Lizzy here with my very first La Bloggie Team Post. WOOT WOOT!

Before we dig into our Customer Spotlight, I need to announce the 2 winners from last weeks challenge! The winners are Sara and Diana! Please pm La at SSD to claim your choice of product from her store! YAY! Congrats ladies!

Onto our post today…we are here with one of La’s dedicated customers and long time doodle enthusiast, Emmy Boesch.

{insert applause here}

Hey Emmy…here goes. A little Q & A for ya!

Q. Tell us a little about yourself, outside the digi-world.

A. Well, I’m a mom to 4 boys that are 2, 4, 6, and 8. My husband and I have been married for 14 years. He is one awesome guy - a wonderful father and great husband. We laugh a lot and really enjoy the craziness of our life with 4 little boys. We homeschool as well, so between house and school and kids and just laundry - I keep pretty busy! In addition to scrapping I really love to knit and to read.

Q. Back to digi…how long have you been scrapping?

I started scrapping in paper 8 years ago just before my oldest son was born. My SIL was an avid scrapper at that time and I remember looking over her books and liking the idea of doing a book for my soon-to-be born son. I recall telling myself that I certainly woudln’t spend as much time and money as she had though - I would just do a simple book and be done. HA! I had no idea what I was in for! It’s been an awesome hobby for me and a great creative outlet. More than anything though, I’m so grateful I found scrapping just before my kids were born because I took more pictures and wrote down more journaling that I probably would have thought to do otherwise. I started digi scrapping in May of 2004 and that fueled the obsession even more since I could scrap faster and easier.

Q. How would you describe your scrapping style?

I’m a pretty simple scrapper and not terribly trendy. I really like the photos to be the focus and I try to journal on most pages. I scrap a lot of event pages as well as moments style pages - I’m kind of traditional overall. Sort of a digital Becky Higgins with more stitching and staples than she would ever use.

Q. What is the one embellishment you can’t live without?

Probably a great alpha - I’m really into my alphas.

Q. What made you fall in love with La’s designs?

Lauren’s designs are perfect for kid pages and I do a lot of kid pages! She always has great kits in kid friendly colors with cute artwork and a perfect alpha. Her designs work really well for my pages and they are always really original and fun.

Q. Ok, now we want to see your handywork with some La Designs…show me your 2 fave layouts using La’s products.

Roar! using Dino-riffic!

I Heart My Nerd using Geeks are Hot

Q. Lastly, show me your very favorite La Grier Product and tell me why it’s your absolute fave.

A. The Dino-riffic! kit is probably my absolute favorite Lauren product! This kit has all the aspects of a perfect kit to me - awesome color palette, cute little dinos, fun alpha AND a perfect stripe paper.

Well, that was fun! Thanks for being with us Emmy and thank you everyone else for reading along with me.

Here’s a little gift for hanging out with us today. It was created by August Guest- April! Thank you April!

DOWNLOAD HERE

Hope you all enjoy it and have a great week! Don’t forget to leave some love.

<3 Lizzy

ShannonG here with a new Challenge for all you La freakazoids…

1st let me add the winners of LAST weeks challenge: Aaron, with this fab LO & Brie with this wonderful LO. You 2 need to contact La via PM at SSD, for your prize!

This week I have a recipe of sorts to inspire you!

This week I want your LO’s to include the following components…

A BOLD Patterned BG-La does them SO well!

ONE photo, Repeated 3x’s, with a different photo treatment on each one & to make this one even more difficult…ONLY ONE frame!

I’m so excited to see your LO’s!

Post your links back to this post by next Sunday so I can leave them some love and you have a chance to win a great GC from La’s SSD store!

Here are some team LO’s to get your juices flowing…

Mine:

From Corey:

Miss Sheana, our fearless leader…

Soooo there you have it…Another week of fabulous fun from Team La!

Have a wonderful week!

Good morning scrappers! Today is my daughter’s first day back at school, so if I make a million mistakes in this post please forgive me. I’m a bundle of nerves right now!

Last week Sheana gave us a fabulous first challenge. Thanks to everyone for playing along and creating some smokin’ hot layouts! Our winners are brooke22 with her “Angelina” layout, and VooDoo Brynn’s hottie, “The Doctor“. Congratulations ladies! You can contact Lauren via private message at the Sweet Shoppe with your choice of a product from her store . Thanks so much for playing!

Now on to this week’s challenge. We’ve had a good time drueling over the pages of the newest Ikea catalog and I think you will too. Have a look through the catalog, right here, and be inspired! Scrap a page, link us up in the comments section by Saturday night, August 30 midnight eastern time and tell me what inspired you. Two lucky scrappers will be entered to win a product from Lauren’s store. One by random draw, and one picked by Lauren. Here’s what my fabulous fellow creative team members (and Lauren!) came up with!

From me-

I was flipping through the bedding section and the shelves behind the bed gave me a starting point for my layout.

Credits- All the Sweet Flavors by Lauren Grier

Junebug’s “Key to My Heart” was inspired by the Trofast storage system for kid’s rooms

Credits- Where the Heart is by Lauren Grier, Summer Stripes ribbons by Natalie Braxton, and overlays by Something Blue Studios

From Jennilyn, inspired by the wall unit on page 39-

credits- Mark it Up by Lauren Grier

Lauren played along with us for the challenge and she was inspired by pgs 88-89

Credits- Eco-Friendly by Kristin Cronin-Barrow and Meghan Mullens, SBS worn overlays

Lunafaerie was inspired by the Hedda Go-Graphic spread here

Credits- First Bell by Lauren Grier and Amanda Heimann, Mark it Up and and I’ll Twirl to You by Lauren Grier

Next up we have Joan’s layout inspired by the colors and patterns here

Credits- Mark It Up, Cool Dude Crocodile, both by Lauren Grier. Some of Me Some of You by Lauren Grier and Robin Carlton, Sand toys & sand overlays from In The Sandbox by MK Designs, Acrylic circles from Words In Circles by Kasia Designs, “2008″ Alpha is Messy Chalk Alpha by Nancie Rowe Janitz, Worn Photo Overlays 2 by Danielle/Something Blue Studios, Back To School CU Overlays by Amy Wolff, fonts - Fontologie Giggles & CK Ali’s Hand

That’s all from us. Now let’s see what you can come up with. Don’t forget to link us up to your page in the comments section by Saturday night. Have fun!

LOL I had to go back and edit my title– so I spell it flavours all the time- and get yelled at for it ALL THE TIME. (just like my colours thing LOL). I’m trying here people!! :p

Anyways.. Here’s a quick peek at what’s coming to the shoppe later tonight/saturday It’s way fluffier than normal- I’m pretty sure I’ve never made a kit with quite this pastely feel, but I think it turned out just right and hope you love it too! (It actually started with a standard la bold brights & black scheme hahaha.. not sure what happened LOL).

hmm my bloggie is being naughty.. LOL need to add photos the other way.. please hold (because, as usual.. in la’s world.. you’re actually sitting there patiently waiting while I post this, I’m a dork LOL)

and here are some pages

by one of my fab guests this month becca

by and another super guest chickie, crystal

by the fizzster (aka lizzy)

and by me

TFL and have a GREAT weekend everyone!!

PS don’t forget, those pages for Sheena’s challenge have to be posted by Sunday

*muah* La

Hey Everyone! It’s Sheana here, bringing you some exciting news about the changes that are taking place around here. Lauren has decided to turn her blog over to her creative team, so we’ll be posting here regularly and we have lots of fun things in store for all of you. So, be sure you’re checking in here regularly so that you don’t miss anything.

I’m a challenge junkie. I find that participating in scrapping challenges helps me to “scrap outside the box” and to find inspiration on days where I’m just absolutely mojo-less. So that’s what I’m bringing to you today.. a challenge! There is one key requirement to being on Lauren’s team and I just had to incorporate it into the very first team challenge.. and that is a love for HOTTIES. Lauren has all of her favs.. Leo, Mark, Tory and the list goes on. :o) And for this challenge, I want to see yours!

So your challenge, if you choose to accept is to scrap a page about your favorite Hottie(s). Wanna see what the team came up with?

Mine

Credits: MandaBean & Robin Carlton’s Gitchy Gitchy & Two Sisters’ Split Photos Template

Lauren’s #1

Credits: Mark It Up

Jody’s

Jill’s

Credits: Lauren & Julie Billingsley’s Every Which Way & Cause and Effect

Amy’s

Credits: Lauren’s Robo-Boy, Mark It Up, Fabric N Paint, All Washed Up Doodles & Mess In My Head with Darcy Baldwin

Lauren’s #2

Credits: Penny Springmann’s Who’s In School & Something Blue Studio’s Worn Photo Overlays

Tania’s

Credits: Lauren’s Mark It Up

Of course, no challenge is complete without a prizes. So two lucky scrappers that play along with us will be selected (one by La & one by random draw) to win the product of your choice from Lauren’s shoppe at The Sweet Shoppe.

So for a recap, all you have to do is scrap about your favorite hottie(s), upload your layout to a public gallery and come back here and leave us a comment linking us to your layout by next Sunday (8/24). That’s it!

Happy Scrapping!

We have some exciting changes coming up starting Moooonday (that is if I finish the team pages LOL I will I will.. ) so be sure to check back here on the 18th to see what’s up

I do have two  new kits this weekend (woo)..First up is this adorable pet themed scoop Purrfectly Doggone Cute with Christy Lyle

I  just love love how it turned out!! I’m not a big pet scrapper, I do have a cat.. but LOL I dunno, maybe it’s just because he’s a CAT, but he’s moody and I don’t really have nice pics of him haha but I can so see this being used for gobs of pet layouts.  Mikkel Paige also made TWO coordination Abby albums with our kit– one doggie themed and one kitty themed. They are ADORABLE!! Be sure to check them out too

I also have a solo kit this week.. It was definately a uh.. labour of love LOL I’ve been seriously sitting on this for about a month… trying to find time and motivation to finish it up.. and FINALLLLLLLLLLLLLY got it done.

Mark it up is all about being unique in yourself, leaving your mark on the world.. and just celebrating who you are individually.. Forget the rest- that is what really matters

anyway.. that is all for now. Be sure to come back monday TFL

Have a GREAT weekend!

*muah*

La