Psychotic Ramblings from a Serial Scrapper AKA Craft Room Therapy

ok so for our Scrapbook Heaven crop we choose to pick a "holiday" in January to inspire our challenge. I choose Chocolate Covered Cherry Day, which is January 3rd by the way. I challenged everyone to use colors from the yummy treat-browns, pinky reds, & creamy whites. This was my example!

I created this card for challenges at Sisterhood of Scrap and Scrapbook Heaven. I love when I can combine challenges from different sites. Here is the Sketch I created from the card! Hope you enjoy it!

I was asked to join the Design Team at Sisterhood of Scrap . I am so excited to be joining this team! This is a wonderful site with challenges and wonderful scrapbookers who are dedicated to promoting scrapbooking! Can't wait to get started!

Wahoo! This weekend is Scrapbook Heaven's "All About January Online Sketch Crop" . "All About JANUARY!" SKETCH CROP!!! You won't want to miss this weekend of SKETCHES, FUN, GAMES and of course, PRIZES ! We'll be celebrating everything about January -- it's a new year, football, hugging day, and even Boo Boo Bear's birthday Bring a friend to play along with us! We'll have a variety of sketch and card layouts, so there's something for everyone. When: January 21st/22nd Time: starting at Friday 6pm EST Where: http://www.scrapbookheavenga.com/boards/ Challenges due by: January 27th 6pm EST We look forward to seeing you there!! I can't wait to share my challenges and sketches! with you! This promises to be lots of fun! So come on over, register and play along this weekend! I promise it will be fun!

I created this layout for 2 different challenges... One at Sisterhood of Scrap which was to use all new items (in your stash for less than 3 months) and one for at Scrapbook Heaven to use "trash" on your layout! The trash here is the packaging from Pink Paislee stamps. can you spot it? I used it for the journaling strips...it is this really subtle graph paper pattern. The papers and lettering and snowflake are all from Scrapbook Heaven's December kit. This layout attempts to show Sarah at her Christmas Concert. She performed in 2 school Choirs and one of the bands. She loves everything music!

i loved these pictures when I saw them. I don't have a lot of pictures of my kids with their grandparents seems like we are always taking pictures of the kids and forget to include jim and me and the grandparents. I think we need to change that!!! I did this layout for a challenge at Sisterhood of Scrap! The challenge was to use sometimes soft/fluffy. I choose to hand cut some felt flowers! My challenge for you... take pictures of your kids with your loved ones!

I made this card for the monthly challenges at Sisterhood of Scrap . This month they have 10 challenges posted! Lots of inspiration! :D This challenge was to use 4 different colors and 4 different papers! I used some Dream Street papers I won a while back! yummy!!!

I have been down sick for a week. but I did try to create a few new sketches while I was lying around! Hope you enjoy!

For my Guest Designer Challenge at Scrapbook Heaven I choose to do a recipe challenge. I challenge to create a layout according to this recipe. You must include these basic "ingredients" but are free to add your own Flavorings to the recipe 1 photo 3 patterned papers 3 flowers Ribbon Bling and if you are still thinking about getting a SH you had better hurry. The petite is sold out and there is only 1 left of the Elite kits by the way that is my daughter Sarah and my niece Ashley in that picture! Aren't they adorable???

Can you believe I used the Christmas kit from Scrapbook Heaven to create this layout? I love when a kit has more than one use! I used mini alphas to do my journaling. I really need to get into doing more journaling! But this little bit did the trick ....who what when.... how about you how much journaling do you include... a little? a lot? does it depend on the layout?

This is the sketch I started with for yesterday's layout. I have been doing some sketching again so hoping to share those. I did change this sketch to use 2 landscape pictures instead of the 3 portrait pictures. I also moved the title and the journaling around a bit. That's the lovely thing about sketches. you can change them up any way you choose! If you try out this sketch be sure to share!

I was playing around some more with the December kit from Scrapbook Heaven. I loved the fact that is was a Christmas Kit yet not overly Christmas-y. I don't usually make overly themed layouts so this kit was perfect. I made this layout using the flocked Prima paper in the kit! The nice lady with the 2 casts is my grandmother. She fell at the beginning of December and broke both her wrists. So Sarah and Alyssa were more than happy to help her open her packages on Christmas Eve. I have starting trying my hand at layout sketches again. The sketch for this one is posted at Scrapbook Heaven in the forums.

WAHOO!!!!!!!!!!! I was asked to be the January Guest Designer for Scrapbook Heaven ! I found this site about 6 weeks ago and fell in love! They have monthly crop events and those of you who know me know I love online events! I have been so inspired by their events and now I have the chance to help out and play along with their design team! I can't wait to share my challenge and event creations with you! You really need to check out their kits! That's right I said kits! They have 2 different kits every month! Here is the Elite kit and their Petite Kit.... but if you want one you had better hurry as there is only 1 left of each in the store! Stay tuned for more fun! Be sure to stop by and say hi!

Hope you all had a safe and Happy New Year's Eve and New Year's Day!!! This card was made for on of the Christmas Crop challenges at Scrapbook Heaven ! The Challenge was to make a Serendipity Shape! I chose to cover a flower and add it to a card! :D I love the colors of this Pink Paislee line! Hope all is well in your world!