I've been scrapping today...

with the December kit, of course!

This kit is like magic! It is sssoooooo easy to work with it!
And I love the two layouts I did with it!
More layouts will be done for sure!

Aren't the kits fabulous?! Lately, I often cropped with lots of people and as I was working with some past or current Crop Suey kits, people that see them are amazed by their beauty!

Aren't you excited to finally see the December kits on Monday? Personnally, I can't wait to see the first one. Looks great!

I think I'll be back tomorrow with some sneak peeks of my two layouts! What do you think?

It's Black Friday!!!!!

So who went out and Braved the crowds this morning at Dawn????? Who got some Shopping Done? And who is putting the Tree up today? I set my alarm for 4:45. It went off I crawled out of bed, shut it off and went back to bed! LOL

I was in no shape too go shopping that early this morning! I was recovering from a Wine Hang over! A Whole bottle to be exact:) I have no self control! LOL

I did however go out for a few hours around 9am. I scored some really Cheap DVD's that I will put next to the one's I got this time last year that I have failed to watch:)

I had a wonderful Thanksgiving and even made an Awesome Turkey with a new recipe! I stuffed the cavities with Fruit! YUP. Oranges and Lemons:) It was so Delish:)

I have also had a pretty scrappy week too:) So these will be my last LO's for this Month using the November kit! Cause Monday the *New* kit Rolls out:) I can say I have no idea what it looks like yet:(

 I haven''t gotten mine yet. Hopefully this weekend! By looking at the sneaks it's going too be awesome!  So I will leave you with my 2 LO's that I have created over the course of the last week:) One of them you have seen the pic before. I scrapped it a few weeks ago, and well I really didn't like it! So I tore it apart and re-did it. LOL Yeah I work like that too often and it's scary! But I totally Love the new one, so I shall leave it:)

Hope everyone had a Wonderful Turkey Day!

xxx

December Sneaky Peeks!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone.

Well, at least my beautiful American friends.

December is fast approaching... MONDAY!

So I thought I would give you a little something to look forward too.

Can you guess which peek belongs to Camille?

To me?

I can't wait for you guys to see the new kits... they are to die for.

I've purchased one of each for myself.... an early Christmas present you might say.

And keep your eyes posted for the big SALE coming soon.....

Happy Turkey Day!

Bree

Busted!

**Disclaimer: Sorry I am late, I have been battling a headache, and have not had the energy to post!**

So, if you follow my blog at all, you will already know that I am training for my first (and possibly only!) marathon!

One month, 2 weeks, 2 days away!

Well, I have hit a block! I have done SO great so far, just right on target. BUT--------NOT NOW! I am stuck, stuck waivering between 13 and 17 miles!

Now you also MUST know that I LOVE ice cream! In particular, Mayfield Extreme Moose Tracks! It is my guilty pleasure.

So, my husband suggest that I use my ice cream as motivation! And, when I had my plan ready, I immediately thought of my Crop Suey Kit!

The sticker sheet in this kit is PERFECT ( i cut a strip of the paper, and added the busted! sticker and the tag: NO Extreme Moose Tracks until Mile 18)! See the pictures! I will keep you posted on my progress!

Happy Day before Thanksgiving!!

At least it is here in the U.S....:)

I have been running around trying to get all of my pre-holiday prepping done and I am ready to relax. We are going to my mom's ranch tomorrow and we always have a great time. My hubby and the kids are staying through Sunday so I will have tons of time to get my Christmas preparations underway. I bought some pretty new fabric and I am going to attempt to make stockings. Let's hope for the best....:)
Anyways, I haven't had a ton of scrapping time this past week but I promise I will have tons to share next week. I got my December Crop Suey kit in the mail yesterday....I wonder which one it is. You'll have to wait until next Wednesday to find out.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

Fun With Cards...

Hey there fellow Crop Suey fans! Michelle here and it's Tuesday again! (Nothing like stating the obvious) :0) I love Tuesdays because it means I get to share another kit project with you! This week I made two more notecards with Bree's November Strawberry Cream Gelato kit:
The first one is this fawn card. Some layering, inking and doodling here. I just love that chipboard fawn! Everything is from the kit except the newsprint flower, which I had leftover from my September "Over the Rainbow" kit.

With my second card I had some fun with the little gnome stamp that comes with the Strawberry Cream Gelato kit - isn't he adorable? I punched a hole in the front of the card, and then stamped him through the hole onto the inside of the card, and colored him in with colored pencils. Last week I used the Prima flower packaging as a stencil on my bunny card, and this week I used the leftover inked-up stencil on this card - it was too pretty to throw away!

The double-sided patterned paper in this kit is perfect for cards because the inside is just as beautiful as the outside!
That, along with the bunny card I showed you last week, completes my set of three notecards. I hope you like them! I had a lot of fun making them with my awesome November kit - which I don't mind telling you STILL has a ton of stuff left in it!!! I will share a secret with you - If you like these cards, stay tuned to Scrapping The Music in December, because I am donating all three of them as part of a holiday RAK we are having over there! I can't say exactly when....shhhh....

Til next Tuesday my friends - take care and happy scrapping!

Life's crazy!

Life's crazy right now for me!
I don't have a minute for me these days... not even to play with my November Crop Suey kit that is still full of stuff, even after four layouts!

My new love these days is... Ink! I want to spray ink everywhere!

I've done this layout *I cannot share right now* on which I sprayed ink over a tree branch! It's awesome! Can't wait to share it with you guys!

And I can't wait to receive my Dec Kit. I bet it's going to be awesome!

Have a great week-end and sorry for the late posting...

It's Here... It's Here....

 Well NO, not my LO! Well that too. I mean Twilight Friday:) YES... The day I have been anticipating for Months!!!! So tonight I will be at the movies:) with Crop Chick Kristina:).. Well NO not together (I Wish)

SO Is everyone getting ready for next Thursday??? Turkey day in the States! Oh Canada already had there's..  SO.... I finally get my Pumpkin Pie. YUM!!

 Any Family Traditions you guys have and what to share??? I am Hosting this year and looking for some new recipes and great ideas to keep my guests entertained other than Football! Cause we all know the Lions (they play every Thanksgiving)are not gonna win:) LOL

I had a pretty good and busy Week! My Son's Birthday is tomorrow and he will be 12! Where does the time go???? I think we are going Roller skating! Looks like a great Photo op for Me:):)

Well I also had a Good Scrappy Week too. I managed to get another LO done using Bree's November kit! I Love these Sassafrass  Lass papers so much! They play right into my Bright Funky style! I did this LO for Scrapping the music. And did you know Crop Michelle is on the DT??? How cool is that! The Song is "Just a girl" by No Doubt. And this pic is of my DD 2 Summers ago at the tender age of 8! Posing as if she were 20! LOL

Don't forget to email Bree and Camille your LO"S. As always we LOVE too see what you guys/Girls are creating out there:)

Oh and did you see Bree's post about the $ALE!!!! Yeah make sure you keep your eye open for that. I bet you will be able too score some Wonderful goodies at fabulous prices!

Ok well that sums it up for me!

Have a Safe and Happy Weekend ya'll:)

xxx

Somethin' a little vintage/heritage for ya!

Hey there girls! Hope everyone's doing great today, I know I am. (The kids are finally napping! hehe!) But seriously, the weather's great outside, I was able to pick up lots of goodies at Ms for $1 ea, and I get to share one of my fave LOs with ya! What could be better than that?! (Well, maybe a nap, but I bet I can still squeeze that one in!)

So here's another one of my LOs using Camille's Nov. Cream 'n Sugar kit. For some reason, I got all nostalgic on this one. I had some photos of my grandparents sitting around and I was inspired to do something with the vintage postcards that came in the kit. So I put 2 and 2 together, and this is what I got. A LO that shows my grandparents through the years.

"remember the good times"



I love it, but that may be that I love THEM so much! They've both had a special influence on my life. Anywho, I also used the Riff Raff chipboard, dry-brushed it with paint. Oh my word I LOVE that chipboard! It's got such a unique quality to it, like it's a die-cut or laser cut, but then it's chipboard too. And it lends itself to so many different techniques! I love playing with it! So Bree, Camille, y'all keep packing my kits with those little babies! They're so fantastic!

Hope you ladies have a great day! And don't forget to see the post below by Bree about the special happenin's coming up! I can't wait to see myself! :D

Bye y'all! :D
Deanna

GUTTER GIRLZ

So Camille and I spent the entire afternoon 

organizing and putting together kits

 of all shapes and sizes for our Big December Sale.

What was that Bree?

Did you say SALE?

Hmmm???

It's all so exciting.

But it's all only  a rumor...

(I think I just spilled the beans, oh crap!)

Camille is going to kill me.

So get counting those saved pennies,

 and break open those piggies,

cuz I se something BIG in our Future!

I better change the subject before you-know-who....

starts sending me threatening emails...

Soooooo

 We are sponsoring a challenge over at the Fabulous GUTTER GIRLZ!

How fabulous is that.

Did you know that the incredible Kristina (Crop Chick) was a designer for them?

I am very excited because I love playing along.

So watch for the January Prompt,

because you could win a FREE KIT!

Gotta run (fast)  before I get caught.

Bree

Happy Wednesday!

Hey everyone. Today has been a busy day and I finally have about five minutes before I have to go pick up my so from preschool.
I am super excited for tomorrow because my sil and bestie are coming over for a night of Christmas project crafting. I have a really fun idea but I have to see if I can make it happen. If I can I should have some fun pics to show you next week.
Other than that, I only managed to get a few pages scrapped this week. Here's one I put together using the November Crop Suey kit. I added some of my own things in, including this fab new deco tape that I got designed by Shinzi Katoh. I got four different rolls. Some of which is ALice in Wonderland themed....so fun!!
Anyways, here's what I came up with....



Hope you have a good day!!

Gratefulness and Greetings!

Good morning and Happy Tuesday! It's Michelle here again, with a couple of projects I'm excited to share! I've been having fun playing with my Strawberry Cream Gelato kit again, and I have to say I really love how whimsical it is! It just makes me happy!

Okay, the first project is a layout I created for the current challenge over at the Dreamgirls Blog. The challenge was to scrap something you are grateful for, and you had to use a mask, and something metal. I am SO grateful for my sweet hubby Michael! Here's what I came up with:
I did the masking by handcutting three hearts from plain cardstock; laying them down on the green paper, and coloring around the edges with oil crayons. Then I blended the edges outward BEFORE picking up the masks. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE oil crayons?!!! The colors are so intense, and they make me feel like a kid again! If you haven't gotten any out lately, I highly recommend it! Anyway, after I was done masking, I doodled around the inside of the hearts with a white Souffle pen. The required metal comes from the brad inside the red prima flower. Everything is from the kit except for the "4" which is a thickers I had in my stash. The word "you" is hand drawn and cut from patterned paper in the kit.

My second project is a notecard. Everything for this card is also in the kit, except for the black and white gingham ribbon, and the green paint behind the "hi." The flourish in the upper right corner was made by using the prima flower packaging as a stencil with some brown ink.
I hope you like the projects! Remember, you can always click on the images to make them bigger and see more of the details.

I hope you have a lovely day! I wish for you smiles, sunshine and scrappiness! Take care everyone and I will see you next Tuesday!

A mini.......and a surprise party!

Well, I am just now posting the pics of the mini that I made using my kit this month! I had too much fun playing with these coasters! They were perfect for the pics of our little getaway weekend to Hilton Head!

So, I will just share a few of the pics here! I used the fabric to bind it, and so it is a little bit of a floppy album, and I like it that way!

I love the colors with it, a good "boy-ish" color scheme for me! It was a fun little project to make!

A Clients Point of View

I just wanted to share a little layout from one of our favorite customers...  now friend, Jessica.

Here is a layout she created using Camille's "Just for Starters" Kit.

I absolutely love what she did  here...

Thanks for stopping in.  

Count down to Decembers reveal is starting.....

The design teams kits have shipped......

We thought we would mix it up a bit, 

we're not even sure which designer is going to receive what kit.

Even Camille and I closed our eyes and are dying to see who gets which one.

It's all so exciting.

I guess we'll have to wait to see what they post when they get a few projects done.

And aren't they the BEST Design Team Ever?

We think they are FABULOUS with a capital "F"

Want to see your project featured on our blog?

Send us an email with your completed project, 

and I GUARANTEE we'll show it off here.

Two layouts to share!

Yay! It's saturday!

And I'm going to crop with some friends!

Again, two layouts to share. The first one is about my grand-father in his garden. The title comes from a well-known French song, which is mostly sang for kids: "J'ai du bon tabac, dans ma tabatière, j'ai du bon tabac, tu n'en auras pas." In fact, it's a bit strange to sing to children this song, because it mean "I have good tabacco, but you won't have some." Why sing a song about tabacco to children... I so don't know!!!

The second layout was so fun to make. I love this graph paper so much... and it comes from Camille's kit!!!

I've also worked on a Christmas ornament made with products from the kit, but it's not quite what I wanted. I'll work more on it and share it later.

Have a nice day!

WEll It's a first!!!!!!

I have NO new LO's too show you girls! I cannot believe it and am almost embarrassed:) Well I do have Strep throat and a Sinus infection! I am using Bree's Gelato November Kit to do the Scrapping across the universe Challenge. I could'nt Leave Crop Chick Kristina and Jessica Hangin all by themselves out there with their Prom pics now could I! LOL

So hopefully I will have that wrapped up tomorrow. I am at work right now  Shhhh.... I am about to leave for the day and go pick up some Hockey Tickets for the game tonight. YAY!!! We love our Hockey in the North:) going too see Michigan State vs. Miami of Ohio. Should be exciting!!!

Have a great weekend ladies:)

Home

There's nothing quite like home. And while I LOVE to travel, visit family and friends, and just run errands out and about, I always love to come home. There's just something about it that's warm and comforting, peaceful. Camille's Cream 'n Sugar kit seemed just right to help me document all my feelings about our home. Call me sappy, but I'm sure years from now when we've moved, or outgrown our little house, I'll still remember that this is the place that we first called home. It's our haven and our safe place. And the colors in the picture just happen to go perfectly with the Dream Street papers and fun ribbons in the kit.

*the background paper is more Dream Street that I had in my stash.

Hey there...

I hope everyone is having a fabulous Wednesday. I have been going non-stop today. After my daughter and I dropped my son off at school, we went to the bank, the chiropractor, Office Depot, her dance class and to the grocery store. I was hoping to have a bit of time to scrap today but no such luck. I don't have anything going on for tomorrow so I hope I will get some time in the afternoon.
The only page I have scrapped this week is one I did for Bree's fun new challenge blog, Scrapping Across the Universe.
I decided it would be fun to scrap my senior prom photo. The journaling is hidden underneath the bit of fabric.



I hope everyone is having a great week and s getting geared up for the holidays. I have already begun my Christmas shopping and have my kids outfits all ready for our Christmas card pictures. This is such a fun and festive time of year.....:)

Today is a Playday...

Hello everyone! Michelle here! I hope your Tuesday is going well so far! I have the day off of work, and I am home playing with my Crop Suey kit! Here's a layout I made to celebrate our son Stevie's 17th birthday! I love that this kit came with some beautiful bazzill solid color cardstock, and the patterned paper has so many elements that can be cut out and layered!The colors in the kit were perfect for my photo of Stevie blowing out his birthday candles!

I layered two of the die-cut paper edges and topped them with the chocolate pom pom trim
I added a few little embellies from my stash. I love the look of the brown patterned Sassafrass paper - doesn't it look like cordurouy? Perfect for a young-man page!

I hope you are enjoying your kits - I'd still love to see what you are creating with them! I hope you will link us up!

Have a great day my friends! I will be back next Tuesday with more creations to share - see you then!

No pics yet!

Ok, so I had the most amazing weekend!

I was HERE, hanging out with Crop Chick Deanna!

And, I spent time with my Cream and Sugar Kit! I already made the one layout, but I was using almost all of the other papers, to make a little mini album with the coasters in the kit!

I had so much fun with this kit!

But, I did not get it completely finished. I have one more little thing to do, and then take pics of it!

I will say, that I only got about 6 hours sleep all weekend, so when I sat down to work on it today, my eyes felt crossed! So, I decided to wait, and I will work on it tomorrow!

I will post pics soon, but for now........I've gotta get some sleep!

2 layouts!

Well, well. Kim here. Sorry for the two last posts that were short and not telling much. These two past weeks have been crazy.

I'll show today two layouts I did using the Cream and Sugar Kit.

The first one I did, once again, matches Félix's T-Shirt.

I added Glossy Accent on the flowers.


I also used a technique shown by Mariemily. On little circles of paper, I added some Stickles and then, some Glossy Accent. The result is AMAZING!!!


My second layout, using the Word Stickers. Not really the type of products I regularly use, but it just matched the theme of the photo so well! I love it!



Have a great day!

By the way, did you see the new add-on kits? These are just so great!!!

NEW MINI KIT & CK Mag!

Waaaaaay back in July, during our trip to Chicago, 

to go to the BIG CHA Show.

Camille and I decided to advertise in this FAB magazine.

I had totally forgot,(Camille hadn't cuz she's the organized, pay the bills on time girl...lol)

So I was flipping casually through the new November issue,

 (hubby was watching Family Guy BLECH!)

when I stumbled across this....

It was late, I jumped up off the couch,

much to my hubbies surprise,

and started squealing......

I mean, I read the cover front to back,

gotta get my money's worth,

and on the second to last page....

There it was.

In HARD PRINT!

I know it probably seems small to some of you.

But I finally feel as if things are falling into place for CROP SUEY.

I DREAM BIG, you know.

And this is it.

We're in the big ring!

So with all that being said,

I want to say thanks to all the girls

 who have been there from day one and shortly after....

and who have continued to support our little shop.

THANK YOU! CROP SUEY-ERS ARE THE BEST!

And to celebrate I have finally put together our MINI kit.

It's only available right now in our ETSY SHOP

until our fabulous Web Guy Kevin can hook us up.

I was just too excited and wanted to get it up NOW....

Here it is

"H'or D'oeuvres"

This fabulous NEW Mini-KIT is designed for all us girls on a budget.

It is packed full of the hottest new papers and even a little vintage flavor. This is a LIMITED EDITION KIT

THERE IS ONLY A LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE,

so Hurry and get yours today!

Paper:

1 PRIMA transparency "Icons" ( with white design)

1-BASIC GREY Ambrosia "Winsome" paper

1-BASIC GREY Ambrosia "Tangy" paper

1-Silver foil cardstock

1-PRIMA Youth "Chuckster" paper

1-Vintage Yellow 8.5X11 transparency

Embellishments:

3-BAZZIL Just the Edge cardsto

ck strips (white)

1-package PRIMA Youth brads (9 total)

1-package FANCY PANTS Rub-Ons

2- CROP SUEY vintage Theater letter/numbers (these will be random)

1-vintage game card (Dealer's Choice)

2-vintage photo slides

1-vintage length of black twill tape

DON"T FORGET

When you order a kit, shipping is $12.00.

BUT everything else you add to your package will ship FREE!

That's a GREAT SAVINGS.

So check out the "Extras" page for more fabulous Scrappy Products!

It's a 4 day weekend here in Canada (for most)

due to Remembrance Day Nov.11

So Shipping will resume on Wednesday Nov. 12th.

toodles,

Bree

So Did I tell you How fabulous this kit is!!!!!

Good Morning.....

With a name like Gelato, you just can't go wrong!!!  I have had so much fun playing and creating with it! You have seen the other girls projects, Michelle's little Book how cute is that! And Kristina's Wonderful LO's! I personally Love her LO about the President elect. Just a Wonderful time to be a United States Citizen! I have been sick all week:( I think I have strep? IDK though, never had it. I just know my throat is on fire and has been since Monday. So... Today I am going to the Doctor. Oh Joy! LOL

I did however create these 3 LO's this week. My first LO is a tad bit too interesting for me, and I so want to take it apart and start over! However I just haven't had the energy:)My favorite part of The Gelato kit is that little Gnome stamp!! He's just sooo cute:)I also Love the Sass products! Those Owls and Bunnies have a hold on me! LOL

and lets not forget the cupcake liners!! I have been using these allot in the past month! They make great flowers! And those Amazing Prima flowers!!! It is a must own kit!!! And as we always say please send us your work! We would love too see what you all come up with!

Have a Great weekend everyone:)

xxx

Home away from home

Hi girls! Crop Chick Deanna here and I'm coming to you from my hometown in Alabama. I'm here for a HUGE weekend of cropping, and I'll actually be hanging out with Crop Chick Britney quite a bit this weekend! We're both here working and participating in crop our LSS is putting on, and I'm so excited! I hope to get a some work done, and some chatting too! Usually I do more chatting that working, but isn't that what it's all about too? I mean, who else would understand when you say, "Woohoo! I just grabbed the last of theJB bingo cards and some Sass stickers on sale too!" I mean, you can only say those kinds of things to the girls who speak the language! kwim? hehe! Anyway, I'm here, (away from my computer) and I've brought along my Cream and Sugar kit to work on. It's sooo beautiful! I can't wait to show it off tomorrow, and tell all my friends! ;) Hopefully by this time next week I'll have lots of LOs to share, and maybe a good story or two too! Chat with you girls later!

Deanna

Hello everyone......

Another Wednesday here at Shop Crop Suey but not just any Wednesday for me. This is an important day in the United States, one that will go down in history. I decided that I needed to scrap a page about it....
I used the November Gelato kit for this one....


Here are a few more layouts that I made using Bree's fabulous kit.....





Remember to stop by and show us what you have made with the kits. Have a lovely day! :)

Altered Book Love...

Hello everyone and welcome to November! This is Michelle and I'm so excited that the new kits are out! I've been playing with my "Strawberry Cream Gelato" kit, and I want to share with you what I've made! I took Martha Bonneau's Altered Book Class with Bree - and boy was that fun! I made myself an art journal with the kit and here's how it turned out:

I combined the kit with some thrift-store finds like the tulle and the vintage playing card,

The class called for cupcake liners which just HAPPENED to come with the kit! How fabulous is that! We used them to make divider tabs!

For the title page, I cut a piece of a sheer plastic paper storage folder (you know those kind that are shaped like an envelope and fit 12 x 12 paper?) to fit the page, and stamped one of the cute little gnomes with stazon ink,


added an envelope to tuck some secret journaling in,

The vintage-style animal cards were included with the class.

A little more tulle along with patterned and plain cardstock from the kit,

Here I added a tiny envelope to tuck some ephemera, plus more kit paper,

another plastic overlay which I just drew a cloud on with a sharpie,
and finally, towards the back I added a clear envelope to tuck something in that tickles my fancy when I get to that page...

and that's it! It was a wonderful class full of good ideas, and combined with the ADORABLE papers and embellies that come with this month's Strawberry Cream Gelato kit I really love how it turned out!

I can't wait to start filling it up!