Happy Halloween!!!!!!!

Happy Halloween Crop Suey Bloggers:)

It is the Last Day of the Month!!!!!!

So I guess you know what that means..... Well yes of course the kids get to don there Amazing costumes and running frantically all over the neighborhood in search of the ultimate Prize. *Candy*... I will be ready and have wine & a bubble bath waiting for me when the slaughter is over! LOL actually I am really excited!!! I haven't taken the kids trick or treating since 2002. (they have been with their Dad, so this is a big Day for me)

But also Tomorrow is the 1st!!! And the November kit goes Public!!! I am also excited about that, it is such a fun kit as I am sure you can tell in the sneaks:)

...... Ok so on my quest to scrap nothing but Halloween LO's I did pretty good! I will not show you all of them. Just the latest & greatest:)

The Wizard of Oz one I used the September kit on. And my journaling is quite funny, you cannot see it cause it's hidden. So I will leave you with that....

"It takes allot of courage and Brains to find your Heart and follow it down the golden Path to Happiness". I made that up.LOL

Ok see you all next month;)

Happy Halloween!!!!!!

xxx

NOVEMBER KIT BOOK

I was so inspired by a class I'm taking 

that i pulled out my November GELATO kit 

and made this altered children's vintage book.

It going to be my 2009 planner,

I've been saving that headband tag for a while and i finally had the best use for it. 

(I bought the vintage headband just for the tag..lol)

Now I can look at it all year.

My beauty!

Don't forget to place your NOVEMBER KIT order on Saturday!

These will not last!

toodles,

Bree

Craziness!

Sorry ladies! It's been a hectic day capped off by my dd busting her lip open while at the grocery store. If it's okay, I'll be back tonight with a more interesting read. Just didn't want you to think that I was M.I.A.

Deanna

Good morning...

It's Crop Chick Kristina here, waving hello.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful day. It's freezing here right now and it's supposed to rain tomorrow and Friday. i hope that changes because trick-or-treating in the rain does not sound fun. My kids are all set with their costumes. My son, Sam is going to be a bat and my daughter, Emma, is going to be a geisha. I even bought her a little geisha wig. It's so cute. I can't wait to take pics and scrap them.
In other news, I got my November kit, and it is A-MA-ZING. I have already done one layout but I have to keep it a secret for now. I will just say that it is super fun and I am so inspired by it.

Here are a few other layouts that I have made in the past few weeks.......





I will be back next Wednesday with some projects to share from the November kit. :)
Have a wonderful week!!!

Feast your eyes...

Ok, so here's a little look at Camille's November kit "Cream n' Sugar".

It's some Dream StreeT Papers and a whole bunch of goodies. The pics do not show it all, but give you a good idea.

So there's a little peeky!

I love the work that our Crop Chicks have been doing. I am tackling making Christmas gifts this year and I am now overwhelmed with great ideas about what I can make. It makes me wish that I had more family members to make things for...why did my mom only have two children???!?!?

Just kidding...I have just enough family...I just have to be more selective about what I make them!

Have a good day ladies!

Camille

SNEAKY PEEK!

Here's a little sneak peek of November.....

The Bree  kit "Gelato" Available November 1st!

So what do you guys think?

I am off to try and create a few projects with mine today....

I'll show off another little sneak on Thursday...

And I know Camille will be posting Tomorrow a sneak of hers.....

Remember the more comments you leave

 the more likely she is to show you guy more... and more.. and more....

toodles,

Bree

Crafty Rolodex!

Hello hello hello out there! It's Michelle here! It's Tuesday again and I have an idea for you that will use up those leftover scraps as you get to the end of your kits! It's an old book that is altered into a Rolodex for my scraproom! Credit for coming up with the idea goes to my friend Aimee (Colmeec at SiStv). I've been wanting to make one ever since I saw hers - and I finally did it with the scraps from my September "Over The Rainbow" kit! Here's how it turned out:

It's super simple to do! You just take an old book (I got mine for 50 cents at the library) and saw it in half to make this shape: (Aimee did hers with an exacto knife. I just asked my hubby to use one of his electric saws out in the garage):
Then you fold each page in half:

When the pages are all folded it looks like this:Take your scraps and make little tags. I think it's fun to make each one different. Then you attach them onto the page with staples or tape or whatever way you choose:
You can fold the pages backwards or forwards depending on what side you want to show. For instance if there are colorful illustrations in your book, you may want to fold your page the way that lets them show:

Aimee chose to decorate her cover and put a ribbon on so you could close it and put it in your purse. Mine will just be sitting on my scraproom table, so I didn't do that.

When you're done you've got a one-of-a-kind piece of altered art, and lots of room to collect addresses for all your scrappy friends!

I hope you like this idea! Take care everyone and until next Tuesday - happy scrapping!

S'more Kit!

Now, Bree's kit had some good stuff in it too! (i would not want her to get her feelings hurt, since I am usually playing with Camille's kit!)

I feel in LOVE with Mr. Campy, and had to make this fun S'more kit with it! I have been wanting to make something fun with these Starbucks bottles for a while now, but have been waiting on the perfect thing! Well, here it is!

Ok, back to Bree's kit!

I altered this lunchbox that I found on clearance, and wanted to use it for a card holder! I like the way it turned out, and I had fun making cards to coordinate with it! Now, the hard part is actually giving the cards away!

Looks like winter arrived here...

We had our first snow this week... Yeah, well. It's always magical the first time of the year, but then, when you just don't know where to put it since there is just too much, the magical aspect of it is simple no more... magical.

November, the month of my birthday, is also arriving quickly. I can't believe how fast everything goes. But it also means that there will be two new kit at Crop Suey!!!

Mine is in the mail, and it seems that going two times a day at the post office doesn't make it arrive faster. ;) But I'm not realistic. Going the next morning the kit has been posted, hoping it's there... I guess I'm just impatient... lol!

I'm off to Quebec City, which is celebrating its 400 anniversary this year!

See you!

1 Week.....

 Till Halloween and the November Kit! Are you all ready? I am!!! It is has been a very long week for me! Working crazy hours! I put in 90+ hours in the last week and half at the studio! It has left me with little time to scrap:(..It is our busy Season.

Yesterday I got My *New* November Kit:):) in the mail. And let me tell you, it is one of the Best kits they have offered thus far! I cannot wait to dig into this weekend.

 Even though I was busy, I do have 1 LO that I created. I will post it when I get home from work. I was running late this morning:) And it is a Halloween LO too. I have vowed that I will not scrap anything but Halloween Lo's for the next week! A Challenge to use up all my goulish items:)

Have a Safe & Happy Weekend Ladies...

xxx

Some banner love!

Well hi there girls! It's me, Deanna, and I'm back to share yet another project I did with my October kit! This time around I decided to make my own banner. They seem to be very popular right now, and I really like how they add such a fun element to home decor. So of course I had to have one for Fall. However, the small 4 letter word Fall was just too tiny to drape all the way across my mantel so I went with "Autumn" instead.

The first thing I did was cut my pennants out of chipboard, then I covered them with paper. I added the scalloped edge just because I'm still into scallops. Love their whimsy! I decided to cover some HUGE BG chipboard letters with paper but then like the idea of a chipboard shadow instead. I went on to embellishing and this is what I got. If you look closely, not only have I included the owl from the Vintage Moon paper and those fun brads that came with the kit, but I also added the vintage dictionary flowers from my September kit too. Finally, to string the whole banner together nothing says Fall like some rafia, so I tied each piece together and voila! An Autumn banner that now adorns my mantel!

The banner in its entirety


And now some upclose pics

Wednesday again??

Is it me, or is the time going by way to fast? I normally try to blog in the morning on Wednesday because my mornings are jam-packed but I just haven't had the time. So, here I am a little later in the day. :)

One thing I have been noticing about myself lately is that I am not committed to doing a single-size layout. I will do anything from a 6x12 to a 12x12 and I normally allow the photo to dictate the size that I am going to do. The following two layouts are the only ones I have had time for this past week and they are both 8.5x11.
The first one is made with the September "Over the Rainbow" kit, with a few additional items that I threw in.



This picture just spoke to me. My daughter looks so young and free, ready to take on the world. Although, it's only a picture of her back and most people may not get that, this is what comes up for me. I decided to use the lyrics to one of my favorite songs by the Grateful Dead, Sugar Magnolia.

The next layout is just a quick one that I put together. I normally don't scrap with such bright colors but I decided to step outside of my comfort zone and I am pleased that I did.



Anyways, I hope you are having a fabulous week and are getting everything together for Halloween. See you next week!! :)

Kristina :)

It's Great To Be Back!

Happy Tuesday everyone! It's Michelle here - back from my vacation with some new projects to share!

Scrapping was so much fun tonight! I've been working on my entry for the brand new Scrapping Across The Universe Challenge blog! The challenge was to use the opening scene of the movie (a beach scene) for inspiration. The picture is of my hubby Michael and stepson Steve, taken on our family vacation this year. I've been waiting for just the right inspiration to scrap this photo that I love so much, and the challenge was just what I needed! Here's what I came up with:
I used Bree's October "Want Smore?" kit! I just love the vintage look to the happy camper paper! I painted the Riff Raff acorn with acrylic paint to give it some extra depth, and tore pieces of the map that came with the kit to make the leaves by the acorn. I also used a piece of the packaging from the alphabet stickers to make the striped edging below the photo. The fabric is a vintage thrift store find. On the bottom left-hand corner is a piece of birch-bark that I gathered on the trip. I used my favorite tool - the crop-a-dile - to punch holes in the bingo numbers and attached them with my paper tagger. They represent the date of the photo. That paper-tagger thing is pretty fun - this was my first time using it! It's kinda cool because the numbers dangle and give a little movement to the page.

I made the second layout with Bree's September "Over The Rainbow" kit! That kit is going a looonnnnggg way - it's packed with goodies folks! Anyway, it's a picture of my sweet cat Johnny (who by the way is sitting on my lap right now as I type this - pal that he is!):
I finally busted into the handmade Crop Suey paper with the cute forest critters on it! I love that stuff! Everything is from the kit except the plain cardstock and most of the buttons. The journaling reads: "Johnny is thoroughly enjoying his transition to life in the suburbs." LOL. It's so true! When I married Michael I moved to the suburbs and the cats have never been happier - they've got more room and so many birds and squirrels to watch!

Okay, last but not least I wanted to share with you a little souvenir I made for myself with some guitar picks I got on our trip to Nashville:

Once again I used my trusty crop-a-dile to punch holes in the guitar picks, strung on a couple of beads in my fave colors and tah dah! - funky souvenirs to hang from my ears! P.S. They are dangling from a roll of paper towels that I happened to have in my scraproom - not toilet paper! HA.

Alrighty then - I best get going to bed since it's late here in Minnesota. It's been great chatting with ya! I'd love to see what you've been making with the kits - link us up!!!

Hoo's Coming for Dinner?!?!

Ok, so I had so much fun playing with this kit! These first two layouts are just fun!

The Disney layout, so plain, so simple, yet I really wanted the focus to be only on the photo......and the 13 of us!

Notice: I could NOT make the alpha stickers go along with my color scheme on this one, so just a little slip of the sharpie, and viola! They are black! I love re-purposing my supplies!

Then, this one! I love those boys of mine, and I love these mini bingo cards.....and the LUCKY one was just perfect for these pics!

So, then after I got done with these, I played some more! More pics to come later!

I have to get some kiddos ready for school!

Here it is!

Here is my layout using the LegWarmer paper that is matching Felicia's shirt!

It's my turn...

to blog...

A bit late posting today. I started a layout using Camille's October kit, but I realised I might not finish it today... So you'll have to wait tomorrow to see it...

I'll just tell you a fun thing about this layout!

When I received the kit, I looked at all the papers very carefully (because they are so beautiful!). The same week, a little girl, who goes to my mother's daycare center, was wearing a sweater that had the same motif and colors... I just had to take a picture, to have a photo that matches my paper...

Come on! I'm sure you've done it at least once... lol!

So, I'll show the layout I'm making with the picture and the paper... tomorrow!

THE picture...

THE paper...

Isn't this fun?

Have a good week-end!

The Magic of Disney!

Happy Friday everyone!!! WOW I can say I am sooo glad that Friday is finally here! I have been so swamped at work, preparing for 2 shows across the country in a couple weeks! So I finally can have my weekend for some scrapping:)!

So how is everyone enjoying there kits??? Has anyone actually been able to use up an entire kit yet????  It's so hard because there is so much stuff in them! Are you anxiously anticipating November's kit yet??? Yes, me too!!!! LOL

And Who has gone over to the Scrapping The Universe Blog yet? Those girls are Rocking over there, With some crazy Awesome Talent!!!  It is a must!!! if you haven't already:)

So I did get some LO's done this week. Since I have been using the Octiber kit my LO's have been really Fallish. I decided I needed some Lo's with color this time!

SO I leave you with 2...

The first is of my Kids and Dad at Disney

and the 2nd is of my son 5 years ago at his Kindergarten Halloween Party! Both Disney Inspired. And did you know that you can find Disney Images on the web and print them out on card stock cut them out and.. Wha-la you have a FREE Disney embellishment:)

Have a great weekend Ladies:)

xxxTracy

It's Thursday! :)

Yay! That means one more day til the weekend! Woohoo! If you're like me, you wait all week for the weekend. I hope you gals are getting some good Fall pictures in. ;) I know I am!

Speaking of which, I did a Fall LO with my fabulous kit! It features my favorite things about Fall, thus the title. Duh! And I think I'm officially in love with wallet-size photos too! If you haven't tried working with these yet, I highly recommend it! They're so fun, and so much easier to fit a lot of them on a page! Anyway, here's my LO:

"Fall Faves"


And a few detail shots:



I turned my ticket upside down so it'd read 08 instead of 80 cents.

And this is another one I did with the Pop Fashion line of Camille's kit. I LOVE it so so so much! I mean, it's just perfect for my pictures! It's sooooo fun to play with! And I haven't run out yet! These kits are packed OUT!

Here's one of dd cooling off at the lake:

"Sittin' Pretty"


and a close-up of the embellie cluster


So that's all I have for you today girls. But I'm still playing with this kit! I've got a fun project to share with you next week, and another LO that's on my table as we speak! If you haven't snatched up a kit for yourself, I think you should hop right over and do it! Seriously, these kits are so worth it! And you'll see more from me soon! I hope everyone's having a great week, and going to have a fabulous weekend!

Deanna, out! (hehe! I've always wanted to say that! ;) )