Use Your Stash..

Here's an idea that's perfect for using up all your scrapbooking stash...gift tags!!!

If you are anything like me, you have tons of scrapbooking supplies, stamps, stickers, and especially paper.

So I decided to get out all my supplies and have some fun.

I stared with tags that I've had forever, because you can buy them at your local office supply store for $5.00 for 100 tags, so they last a long time!

I tried stamps first. You can't get any easier than these! A little glimmer mist or stickles and ink the edges. Perfect!

Next I used some scrap pattern paper, round tags, stickers, brads, and buttons. 

Finally, I got a little more fancy, layering some paper with punches, embossing, and using a left over 3D stickers sheet from last years

I also found these adorable printables (free) and thought they'd be really cute to use on tags or on presents alone.

So enjoy them!  

And please share a link with us if you make some tags!

Happy Holidays!



xoxo-Kim

http://lovejoyscrap.blogspot.com/

Music Book by Kim

December is here and it’s time to finish up decorating for the holiday. What? You don’t want to spend a lot of money. Well, no worries. You can make decorations using some old paperback books, old music books, magazines, and even newspaper that you probably have lying around the house. And many of these are great for making with the kids!

Here’s a Christmas tree and a wreath I made using an old paperback book that was just lying around the house. I love the simple, vintage look.

Here are some awesome links to projects you will love:

Ornaments: here, here, here, here and here

Wreaths: here, here, here and here

Garlands: here, here, and here

Trees (these are my favorite!): here, here, here and here

And a few other decorating ideas: here, here and here

And in case you used a hard cover book, don’t throw away the cover….check this out!! Maybe you can give it as a gift!

Now run...find a book...and have fun creating! 

Kim

love joy scrap blog

Summer Add on Sketch Challenge

Now for a little something we decided to add to the Counterfeit Kit Challenge (in addition to the 3 mini challenges we do every month)...

This month one of our Master Forgers, Kim, created her own "summer add on kit" to coordinate with the main kit.


Kim's "summer add on kit"

Next, Kim choose a sketch.  To see the sketch she choose, click on this web page from Page Maps (she choose the very last sketch on the bottom right).

Then Kim created this layout using her "summer add on kit".

For more of Kim's work, please visit her blog at http://lovejoyscrap.blogspot.com/

You can link your "Summer Sketch Layout" to this month's Mister Linky, found here.

Masters of Forgery Introductions Part 1

We are excited for you to get to know our very talented Design Team this month before they WOW you with their creative genius next month!  We asked each Forger to make an I-Spy Photo collage that tells us about them and gave them a few scrappy words to choose from to make an accrostic that tells about some of their favorite things!  Here are the first few designers we want you to get to know!

Kim



My word: COUNTERFEIT

C reate

O pen spave

U PS (as in delivery!)

N irvana

T ape runner

E mbellishments

R ibbons

F riends

E njoy

I nnovation

T echniques

Crystal

My word: SCRAPBOOKING

S ketches

C orrugated or circles

R oad, Maya that is!!!

A ltering or Alphabet stamps

P OLKA DOTS!!!!

B o Bunny

O rganizaing

O dds and Ends

K its

I inks (chalk!)

N otebooks

G eorgia Pacific Card Staock/ Graph paper

Susanne



Here’s how I am prepared to be one of the COPYCATS:

C ardstock – colors by the crateful

O rganized - baubles and bling by the way I scrap

P atterned Papers – plentiful & pretty, pretty, pretty

Y ears - of memories to scrap, pages to come

C lasses – countless taken, more to learn

A dhesive – to attach every kind of bling accumulated

T ools - many to be used with easy Techniques

S tudio – my little papered piece of heaven on earth

We will have more introductions coming up in the next few days!  

Let's Welcome Your Masters of Forgery!

Numer of DT applicants: 41

"Folders and Notes" sections we created to keep track: at least 6

Days spent agonizing over our decision: 36

Number of times we changed our list: too many to count

Number of DT members: 8...no wait...let's do 10....no wait, how about 11...

Okay, 11...and here they are:

 Crystal

Jessica

Melissa

Sherri

Kim

Shazi

Jemma

Margie

Susanne

Lisa

Gabrielle

Interesting note: we have 5 first timers on our DT!

Congrats to our new team!

Now head off to their blogs to leave them some love!

A very sweet RAK

One of our players is doing a sweet RAK on her blog!  Kim Strother is offering the kit she made for the challenge to one lucky person who leaves a comment on her blog by Friday! 

Head over to Love Joy Scrap and leave her a comment to get a chance to win!  Thanks, Kim for such a great RAK!