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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Time for the Third Round of the Layout Contest

Well we've made it to round three! You all voted for your favorite layouts and we have those designers showcased today!
This week you can vote for up to 7 designers that you think should advance. The admin team here will choose three and together we'll present you with the Top 10 next Saturday! Voting and the layouts for this round will be available from 12:01 a.m. Saturday January, 28th until February 1st.
A special thanks to our contest sponsors!

Saturday, January 28, 2012

3rd Round Layout Contest - Vote here

As chosen by our readers and the admin team of Practical Scrappers here's your top 15 contestants! This week their layouts were to be based on one of three quilts that we showed them as well as four specific embellishments. If you want to check out the exact details check out the tab up top about the 3rd round. This week you may vote for your seven favorites to advance!

Janet Zeppa

Andrea Friebus

Donna Durand

Jamilie Rader

Mary Pat Siehl

Julie Comeau

Julie Koets

Lynn Shokoples

Audrey Yeager

Genevieve LeBlanc

Camilla Vitchi

Denise Coulter

Carrie Walz

Ulrika Wandler

Wendi Robinson

You may vote for 7 people to move on!

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Friday, January 27, 2012

Fabulous Finds Friday: January 27th

I love this time of year in the crafty world! Seems people are revving back up after their holidays and embracing all the new ideas from CHA sneak peeks.

Here are few of the wonderful things I've spotted around the blogging universe!

1. Lowri at Papervine shows us how to use some Pink Paislee's vintage vogue buttons to create wine glass markers. Very sophisticated!

2. I found this really cool Valentine's craft for your to do with your kids! All you need is some red paint!

3. Pinterest has been the source of fabulous scrappy inspiration like this doodle from Paisley Bits.

4. Sharon Nassagar Designs have made this gorgeous bouquet..makes me think of spring and all those CHA palettes!

5. Marie shows us how to crochet the cutest butterflies for your cards and layouts..feelin' like Spring!

6. Elena made this gorgeous design on the Proper Feeding and Care of a Teenage Boy.

7. Jamie Warren's creative genius as illustrated by blue wood grain, brown accents and some awfully cute pictures!

8. Scrapping in AK made this gorgeous heartfelt layout. LOVE it!

I certainly hope you will be inspired as I was by these amazing creations.
Until next time, keep doing what you love to do!
Christa
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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

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.