Practical Scrappers

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Mini Album Feature

Mini albums come in all shapes and sizes and today we have a few to share with you. It's been awhile since we've featured them and thought it was high time. Click on their names to find more at their individual blogs.

Practical Scrapper Angie Gutshall

Practical Scrapper Corinna

Practical Scrapper Christa

Practical Scrapper Dyane

Practical Scrapper Jayma
(For family friends whose mom passed away.)

Fresh Face Designer Monika Wright

Practical Scrapper Caz To see the rest of this mini please go here

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Time for the Second Round of the Layout Contest

Well we've made it to round two! You all vote for your favorite layouts and we have those designers showcased today!
Voting Details on the Second Round can be found in the post with their layouts.
The Top 15 will be announced next Saturday
A special thanks to our contest sponsors!

Using Ribbon on Layouts

Monday, you got a peek at some fantastic ideas on how to use ribbon on cards. Today, we share with you some fun, fresh, fabulous ideas on how you can use that ribbon stash on your layouts. Ribbon is a great way to accent color and texture to your pages. It may even be the deciding factor for the little bit of character or charm you want to capture in your layout. Take a look at how our designers and readers use their ribbon to create their flare for their pages...

Practical Scrapper Christa

Addie Otto

Practical Scrapper Aymee

Practical Scrapper Claude

Addie Otto

Practical Scrapper Fern

Practical Scrapper Claude

Addie Otto

Practical Scrapper Liz

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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

CMT:Getting Krafty

( scroll down for next week's challenge)
We challenged you to break out the Kraft embellishments and paper this week, and we've got some great examples to show you.

Practical Scrapper Jenny
This layout melts my heart! A beautifully soft page accented all over with kraft.

Practical Scrapper Jenny
used kraft based paper and embellishments to create a fun masculine page

Practical Scrapper Carolina

allows the bright summery patterned papers to really shine against her Kraft background

Ulrika Wandler used some of the new papers and embellishments by My Mind's Eye to create this stunning page.

Jennifer McDermott made this bright and pretty card shine with a kraft base.

Practical Scrapper Erin used yummy kraft papers from Jillibean Soup for her Valentine page.

Brettany Quinton

I love Brettaney's use of sewing and brads to create this colourful card.

Becci Manies used a kraft base for this sweet card.

Practical Scrapper Cathy
created this sweet boy page with a kraft base and lots of kraft couloured touches.

Lynn S added splashes of black and red on kraft to liven up her kraft background.

With all the great kraft products on the market, we'd love to hear about your favorites in the comments!

**Next week we'll be featuring banners, but banners made without the triangle pennant shapes. Consider yourself challenged, and submit your projects ( blog link please) to practicalscrapperslayouts(at)gmail(dot)com. Your work may just end up featured here!

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Using Ribbon on Cards

This week at Practical Scrappers we are zoning in on ribbon. It's a topic we visit regularly because we know everyone has it in their stash (and probably more than we can ever possibly use!). You can find even more ribbon ideas under our Idea Central tab, where we've archived many of our old features on ribbon. Today we kick things off with cards made by our designers.

Amber Goble

Practical Scrapper Sue

Practical Scrapper Jayma

Practical Scrapper Christa

Practical Scrapper Cathy

Practical Scrapper Dyane

Practical Scrapper Aymee

Practical Scrapper Kristy

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Sunday, January 22, 2012

Clean and Simple Projects

***If you are looking for the layout contest please scroll down***

We're starting a new monthly feature of Clean and Simple projects. We know there are a lot of you out there looking for Clean and Simple and we would love to have you submit your projects for our February feature! This month we've got our designers up with a whole bunch of Clean and Simple ideas to share!