Congratulations of the winner of last week's Tuesday Template Challenge!
Skyezak flipped the template for a different look and combined some really fun elements to make a wonderful page about her inspiration (and what an adorable inspiration he is!) Enjoy your gift coupon, girl, and thanks for playing along!
Hey gang! It's Allison (alienhard) again. So I decided to make some hybrid albums for my mom and mother-in-law for Mother's Day. These were SO easy to make and both women LOVED them.
I started with these chipboard albums from Maya Road.
For the inside pages, I just cropped down some of my existing digital layouts. The inside pages were roughly 4.25" x 6.5", so I just opened a layout and cropped out a portion of it at that size. (I opened the .psd files of the layouts because there were one or two occasions where I had to move around an element or two before I cropped.)
Then I just printed out the cropped layouts on Satin photo paper. (Those pages look and feel like a regular photo you'd get printed out at a photo place. I LOVE Satin finish photo paper and it's the only finish I'll use.) I just used adhesive to glue the layouts to the chipboard pages and then I trimmed off the edges.
For the tabs on each page, I just typed the words on one of Jen's digital papers in CS3 and printed them out, cut them out, and glued them onto each tab.
The covers were just as easy. I just printed out some of Jen's digital papers on Matte Photo Paper, trimmed it to fit the covers, and glued it on. I used a standard ink pad just to run along the edges of the covers, but that's a personal preference.
Next I made the flowers for the covers. Those are from Maya Road too. I bought the set that had each petal separate, just because I wanted to make each petal be a different pattern/paper. I, again, printed out some of Jen's digital papers. Then I just traced each petal on the backside of the papers, cut them out, glued them on, trimmed them up, and inked the edges. I glued each petal onto the cover using my hot glue gun.
After that, it was really just the details. I glued on some ribbon and a few buttons, tied a few ribbons around one of the rings, and I was done! SO much fun to make!
Anyone up for another template challenge? Here's the template~
Go ahead and snag the template, then post a link to your finished layout for a chance to win a $5 gift card to Jen Wilson Designs!
I hope all of you mothers out there had/are having an amazingly wonderful day. :)
And don't forget... you have until midnight tonight to get in your layouts for my birthday challenge!
Hey everybody! The CT got together and finally decided on the winners of the NSD blog challenge. The layouts were all fantastic, and truthfully, the CT was all over the place with this one. LOL! But we finally decided and the winners are...
THIRD PLACE ($10 Gift Card to Jen Wilson Designs): Serena
SECOND PLACE ($20 Gift Card to Jen Wilson Designs): Kim
And the FIRST PLACE Winner of a $50 Gift Card to Jen's shop is (drumroll please)... Felicia!!!
CONGRATULATIONS to all of you! They're all awesome layouts! April will be contacting all of you with your prizes. Thanks for joining in on the NSD fun, ladies! :)
Now go use your gift cards and make another layout for my Birthday Challenge posted down below. :)
That's right ladies (and gentlemen?). It's Allison here (alienhard), and today I hit the mark of "halfway to 70". Sounds old, no? LOL! I've never been one to get hung up on my age (half the time I can't even remember how old I am... does that happen to anyone else?), so I'm just rolling with it. Unfortunately, I had to work late today, but now I'm enjoying an otherwise empty house while knocking back a few um, beverages. ;)
When Steve and the girls get home, we're getting some take-out hot wings, and I'm settling in for wings, beer, Survivor, Grey's Anatomy, and LOST. It doesn't really get much better than that. This weekend, Steve and I are heading out with a bunch of friends for (more) beverages, some karaoke, and a good time. I can't wait!
But enough about me. Let's talk about some fun you can all participate in. It's time for a birthday challenge! I have to be honest... I still haven't figured out what the challenge is. So I'm literally making this up as I type. Nothing like being spontaneous, right? LOL!
OK. So let's give this a whirl...
Challenge Guidelines
Theme:
Birthday... Run with it. I don't care if you scrap some birthday pictures of your or your kids, your favorite birthday you've had so far, what you plan to do on your next birthday, what three wishes you'd make on your birthday, how the Titanic sank on my brother's birthday (That's true actually... April 14th), etc. Do whatever you'd like, but it HAS to have something to do with birthdays.
Requirements:
That's it. See? Easy. Pardon me? You want to know what's in it for you? Alrighty then. How about this....
Prizes:
Deadline:
This Sunday, May 11th at midnight EST.
And because I'm feeling particularly generous this evening (thank the beverages for that), I will personally buy both winners a Maya Road chipboard album (haven't decided which ones yet). I'm making two really cool hybrid projects using some of their tabbed albums and Jen's digital stuff for my mom and mother-in-law for Mother's Day and I LOVE them. So I'm all about spreading the love. As soon as I finish them, I'll post pictures.
So c'mon ladies! Jump on in and give it a whirl! I'm excited to see your layouts! :)
It's Allison (alienhard). I'm just popping in to say hi and to sort of apologize. I'm sorry we haven't been updating the blog much. It just seems like everyone on the CT has crazy stuff going on right now. Nothing earth-shattering. Just normal, everyday stuff that seriously cuts into computer time. Work deadlines... kids... extra-curricular activities... illnesses... etc. I swear, it hit everyone of us at the same time.
But don't lose hope. We'll be back on a regular basis soon. We'll certainly update here as often as we can, but don't be discouraged if it isn't daily. I'm totally confident though, that in the next few weeks, life will calm down a bit (or at least we'll all be adjusted to crazy spring/summer schedules a bit better) and we'll be back stronger than ever.
This isn't to say we won't be around at all right now. I just felt bad that we weren't updating here as often as we had intended. But we will again soon. I swear. :)
Check in this Thursday (May 8th) as a matter of fact. It's my birthday so I'm going to post a challenge. I have no idea yet what the challenge or prize will be, but in between a crazy, insane, no-way-on-god's-green-earth-it's-going-to-get-done work deadline, softball practice, t-ball practice, finishing hybrid Mother's Day gifts, cleaning my house, and trying to keep my two girls from beating the living tar out of each other, I should be able to think of something in the next 24 hours, right? Er... um... right? (Seriously, my brain is totally mush these days, but I'm pretty sure I'll think of something by then. LOL!)
Hey everyone, this is April! In honor of (Inter)National Scrapbooking Day, I've put everything in the store up for 25% off (except a few already existing specials).
I'd also like to challenge everyone to create a layout about YOU and what you enjoy or appreciate about this amazing hobby of ours. My husband complimented me to a friend the other day and said I was artistic, and I was so thrilled because I'd just always thought of myself as crafty. Artistic! That just sounds a whole lot better to me. :p I've gotten so much out of digi-scrapping and so much from this community, and I'd love to hear other stories. Maybe it's art therapy for you. Maybe you're a clean and simple gal that's feverishly trying to catch up with a zillion years worth of photos and stories. Maybe getting a ton of praise on a LO gives you the validation you feel you are lacking...whatever it is, it's a positive and beautiful and amazing experience.
Post your LO (using at least one Jen product) in the Jen Wilson Designs gallery by 11:59 pm May 4th and be in the running for a few prizes!
Jen's not around so I'm going to get a little crazy here...
First prize is a $50 gift certificate to JWD
Second prize is $20
Third will be $10
I'm also going to make the CT pick the winners, bwaaahahahahahahaha!
So, enjoy the sale and get on those layouts! I can't wait to learn more about our amazing Jen Wilson fans and see what you create.
