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I finished an altered tin today, its for a competition at scrappersgalore AND its for a special someone who reads my blog so not posting it! I have to do a mini album for it also, using the chloes closet papers from scrapologie Jan kit too! Super nice papers and ribbons! So this is a card for a friend on 2peas who is going through some rough times right now. Loving the autumn leaves paper! Rub-ons are Joanns.

Ok quick update to add this card, submitted to the card mag call for july/aug edition. Love the chloes closet papers! I'm not normally a pink kinda gal but I do love these. I think its the mixture of pinks and browns. Anyway this is one of a few submissions I made to the call, fingers crossed!

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Update: pink thanks card published in Ready Set Create Dec/Jan 07

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The Altered Scrappers

The Altered Scrappers found this site this morning and wow great challenges! Kinda like the Effers but altered ;) Definately gonna try to do some of the challenges! Get me thinking more creatively. On that note I can't wait till mid March to show K her birthday gift!
Plus I really should get some of those effer dares done too!

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Memories

So I've been thinking alot the last 24 hours about projects I want to do for end of the month competitions and submissions. The first one today is this card for friend at 2peas who lost her father recently. I wanted something uplifting yet subdued. I have to say I am really enjoying card making lately! And altered projects.
Yesterday we bought a TON of photo paper and I've been busy trying it out :) So I have a ton of photo's to scrap. My main mission lately is to get "stuff" in my gallery for potential design teams. I was looking at some blogs yesterday for ispiration, wow there are some talented people about.

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March Coming!

It'll soon be March and a new month marks a new kit from scrapologie! Wowsers this one is awesome! Yummy A2Z papers and the alphas look amazing! Ranjini does fantastic kits! I'm so happy I joined scrapologie! Now to decide which add ons to get! This kit is DEFINATELY my style! I struggled a little with the last two, mainly cos one was pink and well I don't "DO" pink, and the Feb one was bohemian chic and its not my usual style. BUT thats what getting a kit was all about for me! Breaking out into new things and trying new papers and techniques that I wouldn't normally try. Definately looking forward to this one! Full list of items:
Kit Contents:
(All cardstock and paper are 12" x 12")
12 sheets of Groovy Patterned Papers from a2z Essentials (2 each of six double-sided patterns)
2 sheets Bazzill Green Tea
2 sheets Bazzill Lily White
2 sheets Bazzill Beetle Black
2 sheets Bazzill Jetstream

1 American Crafts Kennedy Stickers - color set two
1 a2z essentials Groovy Diecuts
1 package Lil Davis Designs chipboard frames in green
4 American Crafts brads in medium blue
4 American Crafts brads in black
3 Making Memories Charmed Enamels - "Thank You"
1 SEI Kinda Bold Stickers - Black
1 Heidi Swapp Fuzzy Rub-ons - Travel
6 Gin-X Coaster Flowers - Raw White
1 May Arts Ribbon - Black and White Polka Dot
1 American Crafts Ribbon - Green and White polka dot
1 American Crafts Ribbon - sky blue and white flowers
2 diecut large photo corners - black
2 diecut large photo corners - sky blue

Just so I remember for submissions!

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2 layouts.

..done this morning! The first I can't show ya cos its for a competition. But I can say that its about fashion, has pics of ME! *shock* and has handjournalling, handcut arrows and my favorit paper - christina cole!
The other one is for the midmonth challenge at Scrapologie. Theme: Scrap the one thing you think plays the greatest role in your day to day life. I chose to do this layout.
I fluffed around with it for ages, pushing around fibres, ribbons, epoxy stickers, flowers and in the end I left it as is.. bare. The odd thing is this is the 2nd attempt at this layout, I had it all layed out in my head. But the first one I foam stamped on. I liked the look but it was too messy for my graphic linear self. I'm getting very into list just lately, and putting cardstock off centre.

Edit: I ought to add that the white outline is just there for show, so that it pops off this black backgound, cos the first upload you couldn't really tell the background was black.

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This is a test!

Ok been putting a banner up there (looky up there!) and hopefully I didn't break anything! I still dunno how to get rid of that other dang header thingy though! HELP!

Edit: Oh Yeah! I am the html queen! LOL!

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What have I been doing?

Making plans! Laura @ dream elevator has been urging us to organise ourselves in order to get where we want to be both personally and professionally. I already started on the personal stuff earlier this year when I found the cyclediet. Business wise I am slowly getting round to stuff. Do you know I've had a website for my ebay stuff (spotoncreations) for months and done nothing with it? Come to mention it I haven't done any projects for ebay this week. I applied for a Design Team that I got a little heads up on (thanks Alsmom!). I have my submissions notebook here on the table, all up to date and ready for me to start work on, thats something! I need to start organising 'business time' though. Sitting down for 15 mins a day and getting that site up and running (its half there). I need business cards, letterheads etc. Also I need cards for ME plus spotoncreations, so I can keep submissions stuff separate. One thing I have noticed is that Scrapbio doesn't always work (maybe its not 100% compatable with firefox?), but instead it redirects you to microsofts msn homepage. I'm wondering whether to include this in spotoncreations or a special dedicated site, maybe trying scrapbook resumes instead? Decisions!
In other news I won the January "outta the box" competition at creatingwithpaper! Whoo!
I'll update later with a marketing plan, promise...

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