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Cosmo Cricket and Becky Fleck Sketch!

2010-04-10T18:44:00.002-06:00

I am looking through stacks of old photos that my mom let me borrow so I can scan them. They are making me happy! I love to scrapbook them. this page features cosmo cricket chipboard and paper - I used a Beck Fleck sketch for inspiration.

Imaginisce sketch challenge

2010-03-08T12:58:00.002-07:00

Loved this simple sketch. I liked how it worked with my tranquil photos from Puerto Vallarta

Prima giveaway

2010-03-02T22:42:00.001-07:00

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Mission to Create challenge

2010-02-25T13:01:00.002-07:00

I used four of the five ideas from mission to create this time. One photo 3x5 or smaller, primarily black with only one other color, butterflies, and torn paper. this was a really fun easy page to put together!

mission to create card challenge

2010-02-21T14:08:00.002-07:00

yay! i used all 5 concepts - turquoise, 5 hearts, corrugated paper, mist, and lace trim.

2010-01-03T15:46:00.000-07:00

2009-12-30T16:53:00.002-07:00

based on a Becky Fleck sketch. It would be interesting to see what products your Grandma used to beautify herself wouldn't it??

2009-12-29T10:10:00.000-07:00

2009-12-03T12:05:00.002-07:00

my favorite picture of my lovely daughter Paige when she was little. I used a becky fleck sketch.

2009-11-30T09:46:00.002-07:00

loved loved loved this line of paper that I used for the background pp - Webster's pages. I had never heard of them before but am officially in love - you should see the other side of the paper! The little picture of me and my sister on the toboggan makes me laugh. apparently she was not impressed with my arrival into the family and even though I was 3 months old at christmas time she still had not accepted that I was a permanent fixture. They arranged this photo shoot much to her dismay. They convinced her to sit with me but there was no way she was going to smile! love it! we are the best of friends now as adults but growing up was always a bit dicey. I was not her favorite person.

2009-11-04T12:32:00.002-07:00

the BBQ's are truly my husbands babies.

2009-11-04T12:30:00.001-07:00

this picture scared me! I couldn't believe how much I looked like my Dad!

2009-10-31T21:28:00.002-06:00

This Layout is inspired by a Becky Fleck pagemap. It is one of my favorite pictures from the summer - taken at willow creek campground.

Becky Fleck Page Map to the rescue

2009-08-29T20:32:00.002-06:00

used a Becky Fleck pagemap for this LO. I chalked the felt and the elements that I sent through my cuttlebug. It felt seriously old school to use my chalks again. You can't really see it here but in real life the chalk does add some depth.

some summer scrappin

2009-08-09T10:18:00.003-06:00

Love those Becky Fleck road maps. It is great to have a place to start from. This page is a jumble of all kinds of products everything from Basic Grey buttons to Making Memories old school metal!

2009-07-17T09:30:00.002-06:00

used some coredinations paper here again. I sanded the sun over top my cooling rack and the letters of summer and pool had a sanding over top the cooling rack and cheese grater. even though it is hard to see in the photo - I like how the letters were "softened" a bit by first sanding the coredinations paper before cutting out the letters.

2009-07-17T09:26:00.002-06:00

using coredinations paper with a little bit of a twist. the challenge on their blog was to take something unusual and sand the paper over top of it. I used a cheese grater under the title circle - I love how it makes it look like an orange and a cooling rack under the horizontal strip. fun!

2009-07-15T13:52:00.002-06:00

We decided to start a new family tradition - the wearing of the crown on your birthday. Julia was the first and she loved it - she wore it to heritage park and to the grocery store. I wonder how the "boys" will feel about wearing it?? I may have to get a manly crown if I have a hope of getting them to do it!

the page is based on a pagemap by Becky Fleck - it sure simplifies things to have a jumping off point like these pagemaps!

Projects...

2009-07-10T16:47:00.005-06:00

I apologize for being behind in getting this posted. Here is a picture of the project from the last crop in June. We're looking forward to cropping again in the fall with all of you! It's been a fun year getting to know so many awesome scrapbookers in the area and we hope that we've been able to support you in your pursuit to record your life.

"The future is not someplace we are going to, but a place we are creating.
The paths to it are not found, they are made." [John Schaar]

I saw this quote and it made me stop for a moment and think...what am I doing to forge my future? Whatever it will be I'll be ready, camera in hand to capture it!

2009-06-22T21:19:00.003-06:00

Becky Fleck pagemap once again. This was an interesting experience for me, I started down the road that would become this page and realized it really wasn't turning out the way I wanted it to, but decided to keep going anyways. The end result is something that isn't really my "style". I did like how the layering of elements worked out - too bad it's so hard to see in a photo!

2009-06-06T08:48:00.002-06:00

Love Becky Fleck page maps - used the June page map as the jumping point for this layout of my daughter a couple of days before her birthday - we knew it was supposed to snow on her birthday and there was no way we were going to have snow in the background of her June birthday - so we did the "photo shoot" a couple of days early. I used a combination of basic grey mellow paper and crate paper samantha papers.

APRIL CROP

2009-03-31T16:21:00.006-06:00

We hope you can join us for our next crop on:

Sat. April 18th, 2009
6 - 11pm
Cost: $15.00 per person
Location: Tuscany - Calgary, Alberta
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Let us know by emailing us at admin@scrapbookaway.com or posting below.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!

PS
Remember our crops come with snacks, a class, use of our cricuts (we supply the mats and blades), tons of space and supplies for those last minute inspirations from our store.
Contact us at admin@scrapbookaway.com

2009-03-15T09:20:00.006-06:00

Doodling right on the actual page. I thought we may give our croppers a wee bit of a heart attack with this technique but they didn't even bat an eyelash. This is the original version of the "love you" mini class at our crop last night - I should have taken pictures of some of the others - the doodling our croppers created was fantastic. Looking forward to April 18th 6-11pm our next crop. - Serena

2009-03-02T19:51:00.004-07:00

As scrapbookers we keep hearing over and over again that we need to document a little bit about ourselves in our scrapbooks, but how many of us have? we decided to help our group of croppers create a page about themselves in the mini class at our crop on February 28th. Here is the page I created about myself. My daughter took the picture (I had none of just me in recent years) and I printed the list of "25 random things about me" that I had posted on facebook a few weeks ago. It was actually kind of fun! I hope everyone else enjoyed it too! -serena

NEW CROP DATES!!

2009-02-11T10:09:00.006-07:00

Sorry for being away for so long...I've been incredibly busy since December began and am just finding time to fit more in. We are happy to announce crops for both February and March...

Saturday, February 28th 6 - 11

Saturday, March 14th 6 - 11

Cost: $15.00 per person

Location: Tuscany - Calgary, Alberta

Let us know by emailing us at admin@scrapbookaway.com or posting below.

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!

Remember our crops come with snacks, a class, use of our cricuts (we supply the mats and blades), tons of space and supplies for those last minute inspirations from our store.

Friday Night...

2008-11-13T17:38:00.003-07:00

We are really getting excited about the up coming crops. Friday Night has only 1 spot remaining and a few spots left on Saturday. The project for the FREE Mini Class is using Basic Grey's Dasher line of Christmas Papers. It's really cute! You won't want to miss it! Email us at admin@scrapbookaway.com to ensure you don't miss out on this great opportunity to scrap with friends.

Run Away with your Friends for an Evening AGAIN!!

2008-11-03T10:04:00.003-07:00

Join Scrapbook Away for an evening of fun and cropping in November for our second...
Friends Night Away. Why not get a group of friends together to join you for our crop. You will be provided with a warm environment to scrap in, lots of space, snacks, tools to borrow, a store on-hand for those inspirational ideas or last minute needs, and a free mini class. Tools that will be available are: two Cricut machines, Crop-a-Dile Big Bite, punches, scissors,100s of stamps, and two knowledgeable scrapbookers to assist you with your designs or questions. It's a great way to get started in scrapbooking or to find time to work on projects that you never seem to complete at home. Email us @ admin@scrapbookaway.com to reserve your date today!

Dates Available in November: Fri. Nov. 21st or Sat. Nov. 22nd
Cost: $15.00 per person
Time: 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Tuscany - Calgary, Alberta

Friends Night Away...

2008-10-27T12:11:00.003-06:00

We held our first crop, A Friends Night Away, to a full crowd on Saturday and it went really well. There was plenty of room for each person to scrap at and the Cricuts were going the entire night cutting this that and the other thing for layouts and cards. One cute idea one of the ladies had was to cut out big butterflies to put into a child's little butterfly net for invitations to her daughter's birthday party. What a fabulous idea! The mini-class was a mini colours album using the ROY-G-BIV (Colours of the rainbow - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo & Violet (purple) Core'dinations paper. We embossed the pages and sanded them to reveal the beautiful colour core. Keep an eye out for our next crop coming in November. Spots are limited so when we post be ready to sign up.

Kelli

Crop Crawl...

2008-10-17T12:54:00.003-06:00

We are really excited to be setting up a booth for the Crop Crawl...
Calgary's Crop Crawl
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Carriage House Inn 9030 MacLeod Trail SE
Bus Tour: 12:00 noon to 6:30pm
Crop Party: 7:00pm to midnight
It is sold out but we'll be there to provide some of those last minute needs to all you croppers lucky enough to join Allison Orthner on the crawl. We have a really great make'n take planned as well. Hope to see you all there!

Kelli

Inspiration...

2008-10-14T12:34:00.003-06:00

I was looking through a Home Depot flyer and found some interesting colour combinations. I'm always looking for new ideas for colours when putting together layouts. My goal is to try a layout with one of these combinations. If you do a lyout using one of these send a scan, we'd love to post it!

Kelli

Run Away with your Friends for an Evening

2008-10-03T10:37:00.006-06:00

Join Scrapbook Away for an evening of fun and cropping in October.

Friends Night Away

Get a group of friends together to join you for a crop. You will be provided with a warm environment to scrap in, snacks, tools to borrow, a store on-hand for those inspirational ideas or last minute needs, and a free mini class. Tools that will be available are: two Cricut machines, a Sizzix die-cut system, Crop-a-Dile Big Bite, punches, scissors,100s of stamps, and two knowledgeable scrapbookers to assist you with your designs or questions. It's a great way to get started in scrapbooking or to find time to work on projects that you never seem to complete at home. Email us @ admin@scrapbookaway.com to reserve your date today!

Dates Available in October: Fri. Oct. 24th or Sat. Oct. 25th
Cost: $15.00 per person
Time: 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Tuscany - Calgary, Alberta

Friends Night Away...

2008-10-01T14:11:00.003-06:00

Want a night away with friends to crop? Tools galore to borrow? A store of supplies to purchase from? A FREE mini class? Look for more details to follow in the next few days!

2008-09-30T13:48:00.002-06:00

Birthday Party A Success...

2008-09-30T13:03:00.002-06:00

8 little 5 year old boys and a lot of sugar! What was I thinking? Seriously though it was a fabulous time. The boys were all a lot of fun. The party started out playing in the backyard while they took turns having their faces painted. Next was inside to have a lunch of Pizza (cheese, pepperoni or meat lovers) cheesies, peanut M&Ms, and orange pop. One of my friends commented that that's her kind of buffet...I had to laugh cause it's all comfort food isn't it? I remember that being the feast the Friday after final exams. The boys made bugs or anything they wanted out of plastercine. Following that they moved to the playroom for the magic show. It was very well done and the kids just loved it! Thanks Magician Kyle! Off to the garage for the experiments all of which I had tried during the week to ensure they would work. 1 out of 3 worked on the day of the party...it was kind of funny how that worked out. The milk I guess wasn't quite at room temperature in the cooler garage. The 7 up wasn't fizzy enough to make the raisins float and sink...found another bottle later so they did get to see it. Finally we did the baking soda and vinegar volcanos. It worked...and was a big hit. Lastly we ate cake and opened presents. It was a good day!

Birthdays

2008-09-22T15:55:00.005-06:00

Well the kids are back in school and it's birthday time for our family. All 3 of my boys were born in the fall. I hosted a double Family birthday party this weekend. Our baby, Owen, turned 1 and in two weeks our little boy, Eadan (ay-dan), turns 5. Our family here in town is reaching 20 and to get everyone together for two parties seemed difficult so we did a double party. Eadan is having a party with his friends from school this coming weekend and his theme is colours. Does anyone have any suggestions for games or activities? We have a magician coming, he's 12 years old and pretty amazing. We bid on him at a recent Scout auction and were lucky enough to win. I was excited to see our order of the Ribbon Purses arrived. Finally a nice compact easy way to store my ribbons. They are an organizers dream! What themes have you had for your children's parties? Would love to hear your ideas!

Kelli

vacationing and scrapbooking

2008-08-01T17:46:00.002-06:00

So I just returned from a trip to Mexico with my family. Mexico in July - a little odd I admit - but you can't beat the deals for the all inclusives at this time of year. My 8 year old drank 10 pina coladas (virgin of course!) on our first day!! while I truely relaxed for the first time in a long time on the beach, I kept thinking how fabulous it would be to scrapbook in Mexico - no house to clean, no phone calls to return, no grocery shopping or food preparation - it would be the perfect time to scrapbook. The problem, of course, was I had no supplies with me. How do you guys scrapbook when you travel?

Serena

BASIC GREY CARD KITS

2008-07-24T18:39:00.004-06:00

*Does a little dance* I am so excited that our Basic Grey order has arrived. The new card kits that they have put out are fabulous and I can't wait to play with them!! I'm going to try to video tape creating the cards and perhaps post it on YouTube...we'll see how that goes *laughs*. I can just imagine everything going the way of Murphy's Law. We'll have the card kits up on the site early next week for purchasing. I'll post the photos of the card kits in the slideshow so you can get an idea of what to expect. Hope your week is a good one so far.

Kelli

First Post

2008-07-21T15:33:00.006-06:00

Hey Everyone!

Wow...I never thought I'd be one to use a blog but here I am. I'm excited to just sit down and type what's up. A good friend and I decided that since we spend so much time and money on scrapbooking why not see what we could do if we opened our own store. So we did and http://www.scrapbookaway.com/ is the result.

It's summer so I've been reading a lot and I've read three books on scrapbooking lately that have really excited me...Photo Freedom and The Big Picture by Stacy Julian and The Organized and Inspired Scrapbooker by Wendy Smedley and Aby Garvey. I've been revitalized in my love for scrapbooking. I'd been feeling guilty for having so many unscrapbooked photos and events and overwhelmed at times about getting it all done (anyone else out there feeling that too?). After reading these books I have a new perspective and am inspired again. What put me onto these books was having taken a class with Stacy at a recent scrapbooking convention. If you ever get a chance to take a class from her...DO IT! Anyone else reading any books they'd like to recommend...post them please.

The newly inspired,
Kelli

PS I'm a mom of 3 incredibly adorable boys (12, 4, and 10 months) and a wife of one fabulous husband that you can see in the slide show on the sidebar.