November Kit featuring Simple Stories Harvest Lane

Fall is officially here and we have a 

 November kit this month!

I loved a lot of things about this kit.  The papers were GORGEOUS and both sides were awesome.  We added a sticker sheet with 4 different alphabets and various word stickers.  I also loved the felt woolies from Basic Grey.  **Scroll down for a contest!

We had a guest designer this month, Kelly Holifield.  She has been a member for several years and has always created beautiful work on the message board.  I love seeing what she does with our kits.  She is an expert at layering and doing creative pages.  I think my favorite from these 4 was the blessed page.  Thank you Kelly for being part of PersonalScrapper.com!

KELLY's LAYOUTS:

Jenny always does an amazing job of coordinating patterned papers!  Her applesauce pictures went perfectly with the kit!  Love the cute photos on Mia and Logan and how she incorporated the flowers!  Her layouts are always neat and flow so well together.  Awesome job Jenny!

JENNY'S LAYOUTS:

Carrie always amazes me with the awesome things she can do with a kit.  I know her layouts will always be very unique and cool!  She does a great job of layering embellishments and using them in different ways.  Even with the felt basket, she added her own flair with an additional flower and ribbon. She always finds great ways to use photos off of her phone too.  GREAT job Carrie! 

CARRIE'S LAYOUTS:

  

MY LAYOUTS:

I LOVED this kit and can't wait to sit down and scrapbook again!  I have plenty left in my kit after doing these 3 pages!  I had fun cutting out the flowers for the reunion page and loved the variety of layouts that can be done with these papers!

 

** CONTEST - Please leave a comment!  We would love to hear what were your favorite layouts from each designer!  We will be sending out a grab bag of scrapbooking goodies to one lucky person who posted (we will draw on November 11th).

October Layouts

  Where did October go????  I have had a lot of customers do some incredible layouts for Croptoberfest.  I will post a few of my favorites this week :)

Before I show you November kit, I forgot to post our October layouts from Carrie & Jenny.  These designers do fantastic work (and usually under a tight deadline).  Take a moment to check out the variety and awesomeness of their layouts :)

CROPTOBERFEST CHALLENGES

We are having a spooktacular time scrapbooking this month!  All Month long we have posted challenges and even a few games!  If you are just joining us or last track of the challenges, here is a comprehensive list (in PDF form).  Print and scrapbook!  You have until November 4 to post your layouts :)

CROP CHALLENGE LIST

October kit Guest Designer: LISA!!

Ok, I admit it.  I am embarrassed my last post was June 15th!  We had such an awesome 100th kit celebration in June that I guess I got caught up and forgot to keep posting.  I will do my best to catch us all up in the next few weeks.

   Today, I wanted to do a quick blog about our Guest Designer this month.  Yay, we have a guest designer!  Her name is Lisa (LHidy to the PS message board members).  You all know her by her awesome sketches she has posted over the years.  She has been a key customer of PersonalScrapper for years!  We love her fresh ideas.  She is always getting people involved on the message board and great about encouraging others.  I have always loved her enthusiasm and friendliness to everyone!  I am so greatful to have some awesome friends all over the world because of PersonalScrapper.com.  Here are a few of her layouts using the October kit. I love her style and how she layers her product!!  Which layout is your favorite.  It was a hard choice for me, but I think I would pick number 3.  Great design and picture of her son!!

   

    I wish she lived closer so we could scrapbook together, but for now virtual scrapbooking will have to do.  In fact, we are having a month long scrapbooking crop "CROPTOBERFEST" at PersonalScrapper.com!  Come and join the fun!  We will also be posting on facebook and even twitter.  Lisa has created an awesome sketch just for this Croptoberfest.  Get your supplies out and show us what you can do with this sketch!

June KIT :)

Here is some of the layouts, we have created with the fabulous June kit!  We will be posting more after the crop!  What are some of your favorites?  What pictures will you use for this kit?

Day 13..... Jenny

Today we celebrate another important team member of PersonalScrapper, Jenny :)

Las Vegas (I was 34 weeks pregnant with Ezra)

 Jenny has been with PersonalScrapper since 2005.  I met Jenny one Halloween night years ago, outside my house.  We were still fairly new to the neighborhood  we instantly connected. 

    Jenny has been an awesome part of PersonalScrapper!  She has been instrumental in helping pick products with me for the kits.  We have attended several CHA shows together, CK shows and crops.  We always love working fun and food into our trips.  As a child I never hit Disneyland but as an adult, I love to go to Disneyland.  Jenny and I were able to go together a few times.  It was awesome :).  We make every trip fun in all ways!  We love what we do!!!

   

   Jenny always has had an awesome style of scrapbooking.  She is great at layering patterned papers and distrssing!  Her layouts are always fresh and fun to scraplift.  She is great at doing 2 pagers too!  She is also awesome at matching cardstock to the papers.  She has helped me put so many kits together (both physically and planning the monthly kits)

Again, I feel super blessed with my team. Jenny and I have not only shared PersonalScrapper moments but have become great friends outside of PersonalScrapper. I am so greatful for our friendship. I know I can count on Jenny for anything. We talk daily and share so many things. We love to walk together (especially to Starbucks) and recently completed a 1/2 marathon. Since we have known each other we have gone from having 3 boys between us to 5.   She has been an amazing friend and team member!



Please leave her some comments :)


Love you Jenny! Thank you for being part of this awesome PersonalScrapper Journey!

Day 12 - Carrie...

My design team has always been a very special part of my business.  As a team, we scrapbooked our lives together.  I want to tell the stories of my designers :)

Today we will start with Carrie :)

It is a funny story on how I met Carrie.  I was on an online scrapbooking forum (way back when they were foreign).  My memory is starting to fade so i don't even know which one it was?  I found a fellow scrapbooker in the same town I live in.  So we wrote each other.  I am not sure how long it took before we realized we live about 12 houses away from each other!!  I was still fairly new to the neighborhood and with small children :)
   We instantly connected!  Not only on the love of scrapbooking but as friends for life! 

Scrapbooking with Carrie -
   Carrie has a very unique style.  I can always count on her to do something different and out of the box!  She always thinks of new and creative ways to use the kits!  I look forward to seeing what she does with the kit every single month!   There are many times that we are whipping layouts out the night before we put them together.  I can always count on Carrie to get at least 3 layouts done no matter how short of time she had the product and/or what crazy busy lives we have!

Scrapbooking Facts:

• Designed since December 2004
• She has been part of 89 kits
• Carrie designed papers for her own company, PaperTrunk, as well as still designed for Personalscrapper during that time.
• We have held numerous crops and attended shows in Las Vegas, Chicago, Anaheim, Portland, Bellevue (and don't forget Roseburg) together.
• We have so many funny inside joke scrapbooking memories together....
• Carrie has been instrumental on the message board and lots of fun challenges we have done on there.
• We love to brainstorm business ideas together also.

We are very fortunate because not only do we work well togeher but we became good friends.  I know i can count on Carrie for more than just business stuff.  We can count on each other for the ups, downs, need help with kid swapping, walking our dogs and life in general.

I thank GOD that Carrie and I met.

I know for a fact that many of you have scraplifted several of Carrie's creative layouts on the idea sheet.

Please leave her some comments :)

Love you Carrie!  Thank you for being part of this awesome PersonalScrapper Journey!

2005 MemoryTrends

2007 Anaheim CHA

2010 Bellevue CK



Carrie's June 2012 Layout



AppleSauce

The layout created with only items from the show :)

Day 10 - Customers

CUSTOMERS 

    Having your own business is awesome!   When it is online though, sometimes it is hard to put a name and face with your customers.  There are a few ways I got to know my customers.  One of the best ways was through our own message board.  Larry created one for us in 2005.  It opened up so many doors.  This was a way that we could all communicate together.  

    I also got to know customers at shows.  We traveled to Portland, Bellevue, Roseburg, St. Louis and Phoenix for shows.  It was so fun to meet our customers!  It was especially rewarding to watch them scrapbook using our kits!  WE have made so many friends through scrapbooking and PersonalScrapper!

Here is a layout that was posted on our message board today from a customer, Arla.  I think it is great that she scrapbooked about PersonalScrapper and the 100th kit, so I had to share!!:

Day 7 - CHA Shows

  Today I am remembering all of the fun CHA shows I attended with the girls!  CHA is where they have all of the latest and greatest scrapbooking product.  I have attended CHA shows in Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas and Anaheim.         

  The trips gave us a chance to focus on picking out coordinated and quality product.  We were able to establish great vendor relationships.  We always made the most of our trips - no matter where we went!  We even scrapbooked in a hotel lobby because we had a very late flight.  We enjoyed some night trips to Disneyland, fun in Vegas, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, and more!
    I will treasure these memories! 

2004 Memory Trends

2005 CHA Atlanta

2005 Memory Trends

2005 CHA Chicago

2006 CHA Las Vegas (34 weeks pregnant)

2007 CHA Anaheim

2008 CHA Anaheim



2008 CHA CHicago



2009 CHA Anaheim

2010 CHA Anaheim