9 Layouts, 1 Digital Hybrid Card, and Tons of Free ALSB Instructions!

I just had to share a few more creations before posting more FFC Exclusive kits!

The first is a Digital Hybrid Invitation that I made with the brand new Club Scrap After 5 Digital Kit... Log into http://clubscrapchat.com tonight at 7 PM Central for a live online class with Jacqueline Carney, using this kit!

After that, I have a bunch of layouts to share using my favorite ALSB instructions from Club Scrap's Pro Scrapbooking League Scrapper Bowl Scramble Challenge! In under two days, Club Scrap challenged us to create as many layouts as we could, using any of the 28 new ALSB designs that they released for the challenge! Download all of the layouts for free at http://www.clubscrap.com/08PSLScramble.pdf! In this post I'm just using the instructions for layouts 11, 12, 15, and 16!

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Club Scrap: After 5 2008 Digital Kit - DP02, DP05, DP08, Expansion16, Expansion17, Tran03, Tran07, Tran11; Sparkle 12/07 - Brown Metallic Paper; Serengeti 11/07 - Yellow Paper;
Font: Spellbound;
Ranger: Distress Ink Pad - Walnut Ink;

Planning a fun get together? Grab a few kit elements, create an exciting layout, print it as a photo and slap it on some coordinating paper mattes, pop it in the mail, et voila! You're sure to have a full house!

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Club Scrap: PSL ALSB Scramble #11; Farmer's Market 10/06 Digital Kit - CSBlue, CSLeaf, CSPBlue, CSPBrown2, CSPPumpkin Trans Sunrise;
Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0; Blend Modes - Difference, Exclusion, Overlay; Altered Hues, Sharpen; Drop Shadows;
Font: Zero & Zero Is;


Club Scrap: PSL ALSB Scramble #11; Bistro 7/07 - Gold; Chapter One 6/07 - Red; Stratosphere 4/07 - Dark Blue; Refresh 3/07 - Dark Green; DIY 2003 - UM Font;
Ranger: Adirondack Pigment Ink Pads - Pitch Black, Snow White;


Club Scrap: PSL ALSB Scramble #11; Retro 9/06 - Dark Raspberry; Wheel & Sprocket 8/06 - Black Print, Red Plain, Purple Cut Outs; Evergreen 12/03 - Green Handmade;

Note: There will be a companion page with journaling about this trip in a tow truck... the girls got official police authorization to share a seat and it got a bit funny, especially when we had a police escort in the breakdown lane during a traffic jam!


Club Scrap: PSL ALSB Scramble #12; Avant Garde 3/08 - Light Aqua Sr Print; Chapter One 6/07 - Red; Stratosphere 4/07 - Dark Blue, Jr Alphabet Stickers; Refresh 3/07 - Dark Green; DIY 2003 - UM Font;
Ranger: Adirondack Pigment Ink Pads - Pitch Black;


Club Scrap: PSL ALSB Scramble #12; Avant Garde 3/08 - UM Stamps, Starburst Stencil; Bistro 7/07 - Grape; Farmer's Market 10/06 - Blue, Leaf; Wings 7/05 - Apricot Raised Print;
Ranger: Adirondack Dye Ink Pads - Ginger, Pitch Black;


Club Scrap: PSL ALSB Scramble #16; Avant Garde 3/08 - UM Stamps; Sparkle 12/07 - Brown Metallic; Serengeti 11/07 - Brown, Dark Teal, Light Teal; Farmer's Market 10/06 - Leaf;
Ranger: Adirondack Dye Ink Pad - Pitch Black;






Club Scrap: PSL ALSB Scramble #16; Serengeti 11/07 - Yellow, Brown; Fossils 8/04 - Rust Print, Kraft Print, Green, Jr Alphabet Stickers;


Club Scrap: PSL ALSB Scramble #16; Sparkle 12/07 - Brown Metallic; Serengeti 11/07 - Brown, Dark Teal, Light Teal; Farmer's Market 10/06 - Leaf;
CTMH: Make New Friends UM Stamps;
Crayola: Watercolor Paints;
K&Co: Brownies Scrap Pad;

Note: I used up a bunch of scraps on this layout! Not only did I use tiny cuts from my Club Scrap scraps, but also unused remnants from a cardmaking event that I put on for our Brownie troop!

Outdoor Crafter Classic Layouts

I'm such a sucker for browns and greens, add that to nature prints and you've got me! So, of course this Outdoor Crafter Classic appeals to me! It combines imagery from the long-extinct November 2000 Outdoor kit with papers from Be Still 9/07, Simply Beautiful 5/07, and Retro 9/06 for a wonderful new combination!

One other great thing about this Crafter Classic kit is that it coordinates perfectly with the images from the Centennial Casual unmounted stamps, which include the cat tails from the Outdoor kit AND some of the same imagery is used in the collage prints in the Centennial kit!



Club Scrap: Outdoor Crafter Classic 2007 - Light Green Plain, Dark Green Print, Brown Plain, Tan Print;
EK Success: Inspirables Outdoors;
Ranger: Distress Ink Pad in Brushed Corduroy;
Zig: Millennium Pen in Pure Black;
Personal Swap Stash: Uknown Fiber and Tag;



Club Scrap: Outdoor Crafter Classic 2007 - ALSB #3, Light Green Print, Light Green Plain, Dark Green Print, Dark Green Plain; Centennial 2007 - Casual B&B UM; Friendship 4/04 UM Font;
Ranger: Adirondack Ink Pads in Juniper and Hazelnut; Distress Ink Pad in Brushed Corduroy;



Club Scrap: Outdoor Crafter Classic 2007 - Brown Plain, Light Green Plain, Dark Green Print; Great Outdoors 10/07 - Nature's Best Pressed Grass; Salsa 11/03 - Sketch #3;
Ranger: Distress Ink Pad in Brushed Corduroy;



Club Scrap: Outdoor Crafter Classic 2007 - ALSB #4, Light Green Print, Light Green Plain, Dark Green Print, Brown Plain; Centennial 2007 - Casual B&B UM;
Ranger: Adirondack Ink Pads in Juniper and Hazelnut; Distress Ink Pad in Brushed Corduroy;
Zig - Memory Writer in Chocolate;



Club Scrap: Outdoor Crafter Classic 2007 - Dark Green Plain, Tan Print, Brown Plain;
Die Cuts With a View: Metallic Accents Nature;
Joann: Neutral Mini Brads;
Ranger: Distress Ink Pad in Brushed Corduroy;
Zig - Memory Writer in Chocolate;

Working With Children... What Keeps Me Busy!

The start of March is filled with children's projects that keep this mother very busy! First, we finished up my son's Pinewood Derby Car, without any scrap-supplies! Then we moved onwards to making Japanese Stab Bound Books with 1st Graders in my daughters' classroom... And now, we're hard at work finishing up mini chocolates to give in thanks to our Girl Scout Cookie Customers!

These lovely books were all made by 1st Graders! I used my handy, dandy Club Scrap POPs, some jewelry cord from Walmart, and some bargain-bin ribbon to set up small kits for the kids to choose from. I had already prescored the covers and the thicker pages with my ScorIt, using Club Scrap Cardstock, copy paper, envelopes, paper bags, and lined paper as the pages. The kids pressed all the folds with a bone folder and then stacked and clamped the pages together while I made the holes. My daughters helped me show the binding technique and each child bound their own!

Clockwise, from the top left, the papers used are: Wild Wild West 10/05 Terra Cotta with paper bag pages; Fossils 8/04 Kraft Print with a miniature lined notebook inside; Musical Interlude 12/05 Ochre with manila envelope pocket-pages; Retro 9/06 Dark Raspberry; Science 9/05 Amethyst with Chocolate Shoppe 2/05 pages; Let Me Count the Ways 2/06 Dark Cherry with lined paper pages; County Fair 7/04 Red; Wheel & Sprocket 8/06 Purple with lined paper pages; Surf's Up! 7/06 Light Green with copy paper pages;

Today, the girls are hard at work making a pair of miniature chocolates for approximately 70 families who ordered Girl Scout Cookies through us! (They sold 226 boxes in just 3 days, with Mimi helping out with 50 of those boxes through her friends!) Each family will get a pretty little tag that lists their order and thanks them, along with one Caramel deLites (aka Samoas) flavored chocolate and one Thin Mints flavored chocolate! I have to say that they are beyond delicious!

The Caramel deLites include a milk chocolate shell then a small dollop of caramel. On top of that are some toasted coconut shreds and crushed GS Shortbread cookies! Then they are sealed with another coating of milk chocolate, et voila! The Thin Mints are made from a thick layer of mint flavored dark chocolate, a thin layer of dark green colored white chocolate, and a final layer which mixes milk chocolate and crushed chocolate cookies! (Make sure that you seek out the harder style cookies for that!)

The girls started singing my praises when they tasted the chocolate! "Oh, Mommy, you have such great ideas! You make the yummiest chocolate recipes!" I had to blame it on the delicious flavors of the Girl Scout Cookies that we just copied!

We promise to share more photos later! There will be at least 19 books that are part of the classroom contribution to our school's auction! Plus we'll have photos of the wrapped chocolates and the Thank You tags! Stay tuned!

Another Last Minute Gift Idea

Did you manage to finish everyone's gifts? Target and Starbucks both have wonderful hot/cold Travelling Tumblers that allow you to create your own designs for them! A great way to make use of this is to grab up a digital scrapbooking kit (or get a clean scan of a layout that you make) and print it on glossy paper or even plain copy weight paper! (I love owning a small ream of glossy paper from the office supply stores! It's great for alcohol inks, Posh Rainbow Sponges, and other inking techniques . . . It's also wonderful for using with Versafine Ink Pads and photographic rubber stamps!)

You can taper your images to match the shape of your tumbler, like I did, or simply scrap away! Plus, you can continue to give new designs as gifts at each new holiday or birthday!

Insulated Tumbler Liner - Club Scrap Digital Retro Trial Kit
This layout is printed on a sheet of glossy paper (not cardstock, but lighter weight paper) and trimmed to fit a slightly tapered "Create Your Very Own Tumbler" from Starbucks with a little modification for some other tumblers as holiday gifts! How could I resist this photo! A woman at IKEA made Uatchet's wreath on the left and I made Nekhebet's on the right at their Midsommar Festival this year!

Club Scrap Digital Trial Kit Retro Sept 2006, Iron Orchid Designs Figgy Pudding Kit for ribbon, Leonardo Font, and custom made brushes complete with hue, color, and lighting alterations and perspective shifts in order to get the tapered mat.

Insulated Tumbler Liner - Club Scrap Digital Retro Trial Kit
Here is another version of the same layout, altered to fit on a smaller mug and with a coffee theme for the children's teachers and Scout Leaders. The photo is one that I took when we visited the American Girl Place Cafe in NYC this year!

Club Scrap Digital™ (CSD) Now Available in Smaller Monthly Kits!

Here's more proof that Club Scrap™ listens to their members! Some members wanted just the pre-made digital layouts, some wanted only the digital papers and embellishments, and others wanted the whole kit 'n' kaboodle! Well now, you have three choices for membership! And three choices for individual kit purchases! They've even re-released the previous CSD kits in the new smaller versions!

This layout was created using the Farmer's Market 10/06 CS DigiLayout #7 with the Zero & Zero Font. It is a very quick layout and a lovely design to work with!

These two layouts were created using a portion of the Interior Designs 11/06 DigiLayout #19, DigiGoodies Xtra #19 (laminate brads) and the font Script MT Bold. In the left hand layout I adjusted the Hue & Saturation to change the colors of the layout, enhancing the pattern in the paper through the color shifts! The smaller blue version uses the original color scheme, which just wasn't a match to this pair of photographs! Changing the colors of the papers and embellishments is always a wonderful option to exercise and you may also easily add as many of the DigiGoodies that you like to a premade DigiLayout! This time around, I simply added some digital brads, but other times I've gone hog wild with alterations and additions!

You can also always work from scratch! The Artist's Trading Card shown to the right is one example! It uses mostly the Retro 9/06 CSD Free Trial Kit along with the ribbon from the Farmer's Market 10/06 CSD Kit. I went to http://jacksonpollock.org to create the paint splattered background! (At that website, each move of your mouse will splatter digital paint all over your browser... click on your mouse to change colors!) I saved separate layers of the Pollock paint splatters and cut and pasted the textured CSD Paper into the shape of the splatters, added shadows, and adjusted the brightness to better fit my photograph! In "real life" I've matted a photographic print of the piece on actual papers from the kit and edged the photograph in Ranger's Black Soot Distress Ink!

The piece below made more use of a single printed paper and a coordinating transparency image from the same Retro 9/06 CSD Free Trial Kit. I copied the pattern within the foiled border image to create the page border and fill in the Transparency border images. I also used swatches of the paper, altering the Hue & Saturation to create the deeper shade of pink for my mats and finished the piece out with the Fabulous 50s font!





Made with Club Scrap Digital's Farmer's Market 10/06 Digital Kit. Club Scrap's ALSB Layout #11; "Zero & Zero" font; Digitally "chalked" edges from the Farmer's Market 10/06 DigiRap; Korean text translates to "girl" and "tiger";