MAY GUEST DESIGNER FOR PERSONALSCRAPPER!

May is here with a fabulous new kit and Guest Designer. As soon as I saw this paper at CHA, I knew who I would ask. It just reminded me of her and her scrapping style. Our Guest Designer is.
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CORINNE!!!!!

Yay!!! Wahoo!!!! So excited here!!! Corinne is not only a super talented scrapbooker (she designs for PaperTrunk) but she is a wonderful sweet person! I feel so fortunate to know her and call her my friend. Its too bad that every time we see each other, we don't get to scrap (right Corinne? lol).

Here is her bio:

Hello there, my name is Corinne Stevens. I’ve been scrapbooking for about 8 years now. I’m married to my wonderful hubby, Chris Stevens. We live in sunny So Cal. We have no children yet but a cute Labrador that’s like our child. My dh is a football coach so it’s football all the way in our family. During the season I spend a lot of my time scrapbooking. It’s great as it keeps me busy and plus I get a lot of scrapbooking done. I first learned of Personal Scrapper through my sister in law, Carrie Postma. She showed me her kit and knew I had to sign up. I’ve been a member for about 3 years now. Erica and the team are just wonderful and talented ladies! I’m so blessed and honored to be Personal Scrapper’s Guest Designer for the month of May. Thank you Erica and to the rest of the team for this opportunity!

Here are her layouts for May - I love what she did with the kit!!!

A SPECIAL LAYOUT

Wow - I received a treat in the mail today! I posted a contest on our message board about a PersonalScrapper.com contest. I wanted people to create a layout about their experiences with PersonalScrapper and email me their layout for my own business book. A few people have already done layouts (thank you Carrie & Amy). Emma sent me her actual layout and that meant so much to me. Here is her layout, I just had to share! Thanks Emma!!


The journaling that Emma wrote reads:

"So back in April of 2006 I was flipping through Simple Scrapbooks Magazine when I can across a section about scrapbooking kit clubs. I had seen the advertisements before, but there was a little write-up so I decided that with no local scrapbook store of my own, this would be a great thing for me. So I went through about a dozen of these sites, checking out their latest kits, writing the prices… and then I came to www.personalscrapper.com and that is where my search stopped. The kits were packed, the design team pages were great, they were based in my home state of Oregon (What! What!), and the shipping was FREE! I signed up with the idea that I was getting the latest scrapbooking supplies at a great price… little did I know that joining this club would change my life.

A month after my first kit arrived I noticed on the web site that they had a message board. I joined in May and I just kind of watched and read and learned about the other women. Eventually I got up the courage to introduce myself and right away I got welcome responses and even a message from Heidi saying she knew someone from my hometown. From there my interaction grew. I started a blog because I saw these women doing it. They helped me get it looking so great and Carrie Postma even designed my first header banner. My knowledge of the scrapping world grew so much because of my interaction with Erica and all of her design team.
In the years since joining I have been published in scrapbooking magazine, I have been paid to create a HUGE scrapbook for someone, I have been a Personal Scrapper guest designer, I have gone through my own pregnancy with these women and many of their pregnancies too, but most importantly I have gained friends who someday I hope to be able to meet in person, not just in a chat room.

Thank you Erica for no just creating a company that inspires women, but also a community of friends all around the world."


THANK YOU EMMA & ALL OF OUR MEMBERS! I created this company for a few reasons and one of the main reasons was to bring people together through scrapbooking!! It is so exciting to be helping people document their memories and make lots of new friends along the way!!!

BTW - I am doing this contest for this month too so if you have something you want to share, please email it to me at erica@personalscrapper.com

APRIL LAYOUTS - All in one PDF!

Wow - Where did this month go??? I promise to blog WAY more in May!!! We had such a fun kit this last month that I was able to create a PDF.

Ok this file is so huge that I can't (or shouldn't ) email it out. I have attached a link - go check it out! 36 LAYOUTS WITH THIS KIT! You can browse it and/or print it.

http://www.personalscrapper.com/pdfs/aprillayouts.pdf

It may take a few minutes to load - its BIG! Let me know what you think and whether we should do this again??

OUR FABULOUS GUEST DESIGNER: STAR!!

Wow - We were so excited to have STAR as our Guest Designer for April! She has inspired and impressed me again and again with her layouts! I knew she would rock this kit!!! Thank you Star for being part of PersonalScrapper!!!

Here is her bio:
My name is Star, and no I am not kidding! My full name is Starlina and I have learned to appreciate it. I have been with my husband for 12 years and started scrapbooking almost 5 years ago when my son was born. I have 3 boys, that includes my 9 yr. old brother that we are raising. I am mostly a SAHM working part-time. We live in Saunemin, IL a tiny town an hour away from any scrapbook stores. I love Personal Scrapper because I get to meet other "obsessed" scrapper's like myself...oh and of course I love the kits!




Thank you Star!!!

Our April Kit & Guest Designer!!

Ah, the April kit is finally revealed! I have been so excited to show you this kit. We picked up these papers at CHA. I fell in love with the Fancy Pants About a Boy line. The colors and patterns were vibrant and fun! Plus it is hard to go wrong with 2-sided papers! Then we found Crate paper with a fabulous and laid back "Static" line. I loved the colors and "cool" patterns!!

I played in Adobe Elements and made the flowers pop on this picture of Ezra. I really didn't need to do much to the layout. The paper was a perfect frame for this large photo. I added a few of the fun FELT flowers and sticker letters and it was done! I spent the most time working on the photo!

I knew I wanted to scrap a page of Larry and his guitar with this Crate paper (how could I pass up the guitar paper!) I used on the journaling cards for the title and just mixed 2 of the papers. For the stars I inked them and then outlined them in black. I like how it came out.
Andrew's team last year had bright orange shirts! So I used the back of one of the Fancy Pants papers as the background. The striped papers was one of my favorite accent papers! I put the journaling rubon, on some green paper, covered the star with patterned paper and the layout was done!
I had more pictures so I decided to do a second page using the Fancy Pants papers.
I am excited to continue to work with this kit!!!

Check back in the next few days for our guest designer creations!!!

FEBRUARY CONTEST WINNERS...

We were so fortunate to have Becky Fleck from Pagemaps design a sketch for us. We had a ton of INCREDIBLE LAYOUTS!!!! I wish I could award a prize to everyone! .The winner of this contest is..
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TEALEYES (Donna) - We loved your take on this sketch!

2nd Place goes to Scrappinstar:

Here are some more layouts that our DT did with the sketch:

March is here!!! We've got a new kit and new Guest Designer!

MARCH KIT
Wow March is already here! We got a fabulous kit this month to get ready for spring! This month we are so excited to be featuring a paperline from PaperTrunk!! For those of you that don't know, Carrie (owner of PaperTrunk) has been on the PersonalScrapper design team for a few years! We are so excited to use her new papers that debuted at CHA! They are bright, fun and have a a great texture!

MARCH GUEST DESIGNER!
We are so exciting to have Mel (Mc3Mom on our message board) Guest Designing for us this month! She has always done a great job and has been so fun to get to know.
Here is a little bio from her:

Hello!! I'm so excited to be Guest Designer for Personal Scrapper this month! Just over two years ago, I met the PS gals at CKC in Bellevue and signed up for Personal Scrapper. It's been fun to get the kits each month and be a part of the message board community. My family lives in Washington, in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. We love the beauty of our area! My husband and I have four children--ages 8, 6, 4, and 2. I am a SAHM and really enjoy it. I also teach piano lessons to 10 students. Some of my hobbies (other than scrapping) include baking, volleyball, reading to my kids, and talking on the phone.

Scrapbooking (in it's current form) began for me when our first child was born. While growing up, I scrapbooked--saving ticket stubs, programs, candy wrappers, etc. And, I've always been a journal keeper. I enjoy telling the stories of our photos and it brings me great joy when the kids want to look at their scrapbooks. They know more about their childhoods than I can remember! I'm so glad to have documented their early years when they were fresh in my mind! My scrapping style is very simple and linear. I love to use sketches or PageMaps to make LO's.

Thank goodness for all the wonderful designers out there :) Thanks again to Erica and her design team. They make Personal Scrapper a wonderful kit club!!