Scraps Challenge @ ScrapTiffany

Hello all! Don't forget about my challenges starting this Monday, October 4th!!! These challenges will run through at least the second week in December!! ALL SEI giveaways!!!! If you haven't seen their 4 new lines, please take a peek and you will get excited about entering our challenges!


Also, I have a couple of Blog Hops coming up in November:


November 1st- Dia de los Muertos Blog Hop (It will start HERE!!)


November 8-9- ScrapTiffany Holiday Blog Hop


So, on to today's ScrapTiffany challenge. If you saw my other posts during the week you have probably noticed I used the new SEI collection "Monsterville" for two different challenges and so I had some left overs... 


I decided to create an invitation explosion box. I have had Halloween Bday parties for my boy Sebastian since he was born (11 years!) and this year since we moved.... well, it will be the first time we don't have a huge celebration :(


I still felt inspired to create an invitation...

I got inspired to create this box from Mary from Made by Momo. 


Hope you like what you see!!!


Oh! Did you notice something I did wrong on my project?? If you do I just might send you a little something! 


Comment about it!! Have fun!!

1st Ever Bottle Swap/ Winter~Christmas Theme CLOSING SUNDAY OCT. 3rd!

Good morning my dear followers and viewers! I was facebooking yesterday and I commented on someone’s post. They were asking if we knew about a bottle swap going on.

So, to not bore you with all the chit-chat Tanya and I had, I decided to host my very first bottle swap!!

Here is what you have to do:

• Send an email to me, scrapbookaholicbyabby@yahoo.com and put "Bottle Swap Sign  Up" in the subject line.
• Please include your full name, blog address and your full street address.
• U.S. swappers only, sorry. It can be very pricey to ship internationally.
• 2 Liter bottle 
• You must spend at least $25.00
• Value of things will be retail, for example, if you use a 40% coupon for a Tim Holtz distress ink, you will count the retail value of it, not the discounted price. 
• I will be contacting everyone as a group when sign ups close on Sunday October 3^th.
• I will have a survey/questioneer asking about your favorites and other things to help your partner choose/buy your goodies.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP IF YOU CAN'T 

COMMIT TO SENDING THE BOTTLE WITH $25 WORTH OF 

GOODIES!!!

I have Mr. Linky up so that we can start visiting our blogs and get to see our styles.

Don’t forget to send me that email no later than October 3^th.

Week 3 of Playing with Serenade

Hello my dear followers!! Before I show you my newest creation with the Serenade cartridge I want to remind you of my BFF, Gaby and yours truly Weekly challenges starting this Monday, October 4th. We have an AWESOME sponsor, SEI!!!!! We will have SEI paper and embellishments EVERY week!!! For at least 10 weeks!!! Don't forget to join in the fun!!!!

Today it was my turn to play with image #15/a vase with a swirly thingy in it J

I found another awesome phrase and used it here. But, after printing the phrase I thought it sounded a bit negative… I wouldn’t want to receive a card with this phrase… hehehe

Here is the phrase:

“Trust is like a vase… once it’s broken, though it can be fixed, it will never be the same” Unknown

With that in mind I used Crackle Accents from Inkssentials to make the vase look cracked. I loved the way it came out!


Paper is from K and Company and I used a MS border punch.

SO I thought I could ask you to interpret this phrase for me…… and I will have my BFF help me choose whose interpretation we like the best and I will send you the card! YEP! You get to win the card!!

You have until next Monday night to comment about your interpretation on the phrase!

SO now you get to hop along and see more creations from Serenade from this group of talented ladies!

Have fun!!!!

Agnes

Jessica

Gaby

Helen

Melissa

Ohh Snap!

Momo's Challenge!!!

¡¡Hola a todos!! Hello all!! Quick reminder that my BFF and I will be hosting our very first Blog Hop!!! Dia de los Muertos/A Celebration of Life Blog Hop will be on November 1^st!! Write it in your calendars! If you go HERE you can read more about the Blog Hop and a bit of history of what El Dia de los Muertos is. And I have a little giveaway going on if you grab my Blog Hop button!!

Today is challenge day over Made by Momo. She is a really talented chica! I just love to see all of her creations and for some reason, that I don’t even know why, I had not entered her challenges!  BUT, there is always a first… right?? And I know I will be doing this challenge all the time!!!

All the supplies used were from my new sponsor for the new challenges that will start here!! SEI!! This is the Monsterville collection and it is very colorful and fun!!!

Hope you like what you see!!

Dia de los Muertos Blog Hop/ A Celebration of life and a GIVEAWAY!!!

Hello friends!! My BFF and I will be hosting our very own BLOG HOP!!! and we have some very talented ladies joining in the fun too. For those of you that just love Halloween time.... and well, just need more of it... what a better way to continue celebrating this time!!

Here is a little history about what Day of the Dead is:

Day of the Dead (Spanish: Día de los Muertos) is a holiday celebrated in Mexico and other countries. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died. The celebration occurs on November 2. Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed and visiting graves with these as gifts. The Day of the Dead is a time of celebration. (www.wikipedia.org) 

(keep reading for GIVEAWAY)

Here are some pictures about the Day of the Dead. You can see how colorful and festive it is. 

I see it as a celebration of life, a beautiful life that our loved ones had when they were here. 

So in honor of this day, my BFF and I will be doing a Blog Hop to celebrate the life of our loved ones. 

Don't forget to come back for more info later in the month.

Grab my button about the Blog Hop and help us start passing the word! It will be fun!!!

OH! And there will be nice CANDY!! 

SEI products and much more!!!

IF YOU GRAB MY BLOG HOP BLINKIE... AND ADD YOUR BLOG ON MR.LINKY.... 

YOU GET A CHANCE TO WIN 

MARTHA STEWART CIRCLE CUTTER!!

I will leave this open until the night before the BLOG HOP!!! 

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ScrapTiffany Challenge and the winner!

Hello friends! Well, my BFF and I have been super extra BUSY organizing the new challenges we have coming for you... so far here are some of the details. It will be called:

Gaby Abby Challenges with SEI

We will start October 4th

There will be at least 10 challenges ALL with SEI paper and embellishment GIVEAWAYS!!

There will be a fun theme for each week

We are so excited about this new adventure!! 

Hope you can all join us!!

So, on to today's Scraptiffany challenge! We had to create a layout with 4 pictures or more. My BFF and I started this layout and I never got to finish it... so I got it out and did just that for Scraptiffany!

Don't remember the paper we used :( It's been a while... maybe my BFF will see and comment what paper it was! 

I just noticed I took the picture of the two page layout wrong!!!

I hope you like what you see and don't forget that I live for your comments!!!

OH!! The winner of the Bday Girl card from yesterday is......

 CELESTE B!! 

please email me at scrapbookaholicbyabby@yahoo.com with your address!! you have until Sunday night!

Beautiful Monster Gal!

Hello all!! Guess what day of the week it is? You got it! it's Thursday and that means....... My Creative Time with Miss Emma!!! I just love Thursdays, but by now you probably already know that... right??

Well, today Emma has challenged us to NOT USE OUR CRICUT!!! Loved the idea!!! 

I got to use the AWESOME new collection from SEI called Monsterville! If you haven't heard, my BFF and I are being sponsored by SEI and we have something great cooking for YOU!!! 

So for my card I did another trifold card! I love the way this card looks. I got to use my PKS for the monster gal. I will enter this card for the new PKS challenges.

Here are the items I used to create this card:

SEI assortment paper pack Monsterville

SEI Monster Stickers

Uniball white pen

Michaels ribbon

Tim Holtz Distress Ink

PKS face stamp 

Thrifty Thursday at ScrapTiffany

Today I get to share with you some money saving tips. In these times of hardships we are always on the look-out for things around the house that we can use in our scrapbooking needs. I found that pop-ups can get really expensive, even with our coupons! So, I found on the internet something we can use to replace those expensive pop-outs!

Mounting tape is one way to go.

It runs about 3.99-4.99 and we can use coupons at Michaels and Joanns. What I really love about using this is that it is HEAVY DUTY! The only negative about this is that it's not thick enough. I usually double it up, it's still a good deal because you can cut it any length you wish.

If you really love the pop-out to come out then I have another money saving tip for you. Styrofoam! It is at least three times thicker than the mounting tape!!! 

Another great thing about using styrofoam is that you can cut it ANY size you want!!! 

I found candy on styrofoam by the pound and decided to use the styrofoam for popping-out. I use the Quick Adhesive from Scotch to glue the styrofoam.

I LOVE the super popped-out look! Since I found the styrofoam with candy I was not that concerned about contamination issues; I still cleaned it really good. If you do decide to use the styrofoam that comes with other food products please make sure you clean it good. Use some bleach to really get it clean. Here is a really simple card I made.... I wish you could see how the super pop-out looks. If you look close at the shadows you can tell it works awesome!!! 

And, as promised on ScrapTiffany, leave a comment on this post for a chance to win this cute card!!

Don't forget to come back and check to see if you won it tomorrow!!

Week 2 of Playing with Serenade by Flowerdisco and Friends

I hope you guys enjoyed last week's creations by all the gals that are participating in this series.

This is week 2 of the series and it was my turn to do image #8. It is the cloud with heavy rain. I have always loved clouds but would have never thought of using it by itself in a card.

Here is my take on it! I hope you like it!! I found the beautiful quote on the internet.

I tried the easel card for the first time.

I heat embossed the cloud. I used a flourish stamp that I purchased at Michaels.



The patterned paper is from Tim Holtz idea-ology Paper stash Lost and Found and ribbon from Michaels.

Please don't forget to visit the other talented ladies:

Agnes

Jessica

Gaby

Helen

Melissa

Click on her link to go see her creation!

Ohh Snap!



Hope you are enjoying this series!!