2 min Christmas card

Sorry for breaking the chain but I can't even see the top of my desk nor have I been in my room in over a week so there is just no way I can straighten it out right now.  But since I no longer have a spot at my desk I was forced to make a 5 min card and to be honest it took maybe 2 min to make.  That's it!  I was surprised how fast it came together, mind you it's a CAS card but sometimes I do manage to pull one off!! LOL

Just so you know I have a bunch of cards cut and folded and ready to decorate.  I keep about 5 kraft,white,red,blue,pink and what ever other colour I have on hand.
Take your die Elegant Reindeer from Cottage Cutz and cut one piece of white and one piece of red cardstock
Assemble the reindeer and add 3D Foam to the back.
Stamp sentiment and then adhere the reindeer.
That's it!!

My most beloved work bench

HI everyone! Becky really inspired me with her scraproom post yesterday. The problem is, my scraproom is in NO SHAPE to be photographed at the moment, even if I could find my camera under the piles of paper, ha!

But inspiration should never be taken lightly, so I decided to share my favourite item in my scrap space: my work bench! Yep, not my storage or my shelves, my "table" is my item by far.

The thing is, I built it myself (OK, hubbie helped a little)! I bought and old dresser (thanks Kijiji!), sanded, painted, added a top and voilà! A standing work bench:

I found out a while a go that I really like to stand while scrapbooking. It was easier to move around and find things in my stash. I'm odd that way, but hey, it works pretty well for me! As you can see, I just added a top to a dresser, and all of a sudden I had a work bench and 9 drawers to store my inkpads, templates and tools. Cool, huh!

Now here is another shot, I took it as soon as I finished organizing. I have to say that look lasted less than 30 minutes after  an F5 Tornado hit it I started working on a new page. :)

So, why don't you share with us your favourite spot in your scraproom?

Thanks or stopping by,

Dani Donner

my happy scrappy place :)

Hi friends! Today I want to introduce you to my happy place :) It's not much, but it is all mine and I love it. We live in a tiny cramped little house, but my hunny has been nice enough to allow me to take over this corner of the kitchen for my scrapbooking.

I love to see how other people store and organize their scrapbooking stuff so I thought I would share my space with you.

This is pretty much my workspace right here...Let me break it all down for you.

This is the area to the left of my workspace. Our family computer is here and on the shelves you can see where I store my full sheets of cardstock as well as some other mixed media goodies on the top shelf.

This antique sideboard holds most of my stuff. I have labelled everything for you, but keep scrolling down for some close ups. Let's first take a look at the stuff on the top of the sideboard...

For now my copics live in this green bag. Right now they are organized into warm and cool colors. I have plans for alternate storage but I haven't been able to put it into use yet. I store my ink pads in the plastic bin on the bottoms there and all the other inky stuff like embossing ink, mists, heat gun, sponges etc, and probably a few more ink pads are in the basket on top. 

The blue box holds my dies and embossing folders. I don't have that many right now so the box works quite nicely. When my collection grows, which I am sure it will do, I'll have to figure something else out. The large hanging folder box keeps my papers all contained. I organize them by manufacturer so I can find what I'm looking for. At the back of the bin, I have some files organized by color to hold smaller paper scraps.  Then of course there is my ancient cuttlebug....it's about 8 years old I think, and it's still kickin!

Now for the inside...

This is the top left drawer of the sideboard. As you can see it holds my punches, although I am rapidly running out of room in there. I may have to figure out something else soon, cause I love punches! they are just so darn heavy!

In the bottom left door I keep my bigger containers.

This embellishment basket holds most of my misc embellies. I like to keep them in the manufacturer's packages so I can remember the names etc. for blog posts and project submissions. This basket usually lives on my desk for easy access, but when I get all tidied up it lives in the bottom right cupboard door.

The long drawer that goes the length of the sideboard holds a mishmash of other 'stuff.' I didn't take a picture of the inside of it because you wouldn't be able to tell what anything was in the mess so I took a few things out to show you...

I am using old plastic containers from Stampin Up stamps to hold my flowers. I have one for each color family: Red/Pink, Orange, Yellow, Green, Purple, Blue, Black/White, Brown/Cream.

I looooove washi tape, but I am just starting to grow my collection. Right now they live in a little cardboard box in that long drawer...nothing fancy. I would love to have them out where I can see them while I work, but as you can see space is limited.

On the first picture of my space you might have noticed a green cloth bag hanging from the door of the sideboard. That bag holds my cardstock scraps...let me show you...

I have an 8.5x11 page protector for each color of paper. All the scraps of a certain color are thrown in there and all the page protectors are kept in the green bag.

This box is my FAVORITE storage item! It is actually meant to organize photos but I just love it for keeping my stray embellies in check (in rainbow order of course). I've got everything in these; brads, buttons, jewels, twine, paperclips etc.

This is the view from under my table. The green grocery store bin holds my projects that are already organized and ready to go, or projects that I have started but not completed. In the old suitcase I have stamp sets that I am currently using so that they are ready and on hand.

And now for the top of my workspace...

And my scrappy buddy Paisley, who loves to sit by the window and watch for the neighbours kitties to go by!

Now I cleaned up my space to share it with you but let's be real here. My table is never so tidy! it usually looks something like this...

or WORSE! lol ;)

What does your happy scrappy space look like? I would love to see it! Link it up to the comments secion so I can see!

Have a great day!
~Becky
Scrap Circus



Fall along with us challenge

Hi there!
Welcome to the Scrapbooking Cafe Online's first ever challenge! Since school is in and Halloween is just around the corner we thought our first challenge should be a Fall Theme.  So create any paper item with a fall feel to it.  That can be a card, scrapbook page, mixed media or what else you like to create as long as it has something that represents fall on it. Easy peasy!  And the best part is there's a prize :)

Challenge Details/Rules:
- You have until September 25th, 2012 to join in our challenge.
-Only new projects, no back linking to old projects.
-You may combine with other challenges
-You can enter up to 5 times.
-You must link the SCO blog in your entry post.
-You must become a follower of the SCO blog

One random Challenge participant will win our  awesome prize.... 

($40 value)

Here is a list of what is in the prize:

Prima rosarian 6x6 pad
Prima welcome to paris 6x6 pad
Uniball gold pen
Memory box petite umbrella
Three bugs in a rug bee happy stamp set
Inkadinkado minis You Lucky duck
Inkadinkado minis. In a jam
Imaginisce snag ems Hot chocolate
Imaginisce snag ems bat

 Our DT are really excited to share their creations with you so hop along to see what reminds them of fall then come back here and post your creation.
So let's get hopping

Upload your challenge project here...

Those Eyes

Hi ladies welcome to my friday post :) This week I used For The Record 2 by Echo Park I love how the designs are so eclectic and vintage.

Supplies Used: Echo Park For the Record 2, White Bazzill Cardstock and Oil Slick Glimmer Glaze.

Almost everything from I used is from the kit. It's very easy to create your own dimension with these collection kits just add layers. ;)

Thanks for stopping by.

Masculine Fall Card

Hello!  Happy Thursday!  It's Anita from http://www.craftygrldesigns.blogspot.ca/!  I don't know about you but here in Winnipeg the Fall weather has found us.  All traces of our gorgeous summer is gone and we've been left with dreary fall weather!  :>  Today I have a fall card to share, not sure why but I often associate fall cards with masculine cards and since I always need more masculine cards I may as well right?  Today I am sharing a card featuring the Poppy Stamp die Lorelei Leaf!

I stamped the newspaper background by Hero Arts onto white cardstock.  I than die cut the Lorelai Leaf and used the negative, placing the solid back sheet of a Basic Grey paper behind it (I like how it's not a solid color but has other colors in it)  Than I distressed the paper with both a Ranger distress tool and Tim Holtz Distress Ink antique linen (I inked the middle of the paper) and Vintage Photo (the edges)  The sentiment is from Hero Arts All Occasion Messages, and tied some red Baker's Twine!

Hope you've been inspired!  :>  See you next week!

Make a Splash

Good morning!  Today I have a fun little card to show you using the new paper set called Cake Walk by October Afternoon.  I love this paper pack, it's so cute and vintage.  I didn't have a wave punch so I drew some random "c" shapes and cut them out of blue cardstock.

The clouds are from Memory Box and I added glitter from Stampendous called Shaved Ice and the stamps are from There She Goes called Make a Splash.

Thanks for stopping by :)