Have you ever experienced that you are SURE that you have letters in green or blue, but that you have no clue where they are? Or that you have yellow envelopes somewhere, but WHERE?! It drove me insane… so I had to do something about it. After some deep thinking, I realized that when I’m working on a layout I often look for something in a specific color to spice it up. And that’s where this idea came from: I started organizing and sorting my embellishment by COLOR. Buttons, ribbon, alphabets, tags, envelopes, and everything else you can think of.

First step: buying clear plastic containers for each of the colors I had in mind: blue, red, green, yellow/orange, pink/purple, brown/natural/kraft, black, white, clear and metals.

Second step: I picked a few buttons in a color, poked holes in one of the sides of a container, and attached them with embroidery floss (this was a lot of work and gave me some blisters, but hey you gotta love the result, right?!)

Third step: Put all the “sorted by color” stuff away. Store all the containers in a closet or open rack like I did.

Fourth step: Take a few steps back, make yourself a cup of coffee, take a seat and enjoy how it looks. And it doesn’t only look nice, it actually works too! Here’s how it looks inside a container:

I’m curious about how you guys sort your embellies: please share and leave a comment!

See ya next time and happy organizing!

Liesbeth

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When it’s my turn to provide a sketch, I prefer to see the kit before I design a sketch to make allowance for embellishments, ribbon, etc. Sometimes I first make a layout myself and then I make a sketch. To be honest; for this one I checked my file of favorite layouts and chose one I liked best to go with the kit stuff. Then I made a sketch quite similar to that fun layout and came up with this one.

And it is so much fun to see how Petra gave this ‘twist’ to the sketch. Great reflection! 

Mandy must have spent hours and hours of cutting when you see what she did with the papers. LOVEly one! 

I didn’t have the sketch in mind when I made my first layout with the kit. At least I thought it wasn’t on my mind but much to my own surprise I recognized it as a mirror image of my sketch.  So this is un unconscious example  

This one isn’t unconscious at all because this backpack is on my mind for quite some weeks/months.

While I’m carrying this weight over the French Alps I hope you all have a wonderful late-summer time and lots scrapbooking inspiration with this great kit. Have fun,

monique

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I think this is one of my favorites! Perfect for all your vacation memories (or every day stuff!). My advice: order in time, this is a “must have” kit! 

Hugs, Petra

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Did you all have a wonderful vacation? Well select and print your pics for an awesome September kit. These sneak peeks only show a glimpse of the content and I hope the make you curious enough ;)  So get ready and have fun!

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Do you enjoy summer? With all it’s outdoor activities, ice cream, BBQ and cold drinks like this punch f.e.?

Well, we always celebrate 3 Birthdays (of our family of 4) during our vacation abroad and all the confetti and lemon circles in this punch inspired me to some ‘punch-art’ :) 

During our 2010 vacation Ivo turned 13 but believe me - when you have a 13 yrs old in the house, you often long for the good ol’days when he was just a little cute guy with his natural curls i.o. sticky jelly

I punched the 7 after painting.

and I did the same with the letters…

We always spend the summervacation where mountains are. I enjoyed the hiking days with the kids; nowadays they stay on the campsite when Erik and I go out for a hike.

So again I went on a sentimental journey with the layout WIJ samen (= we/us together). The trees got punches and so did the punched out flowers, which were now turned into buttons.  

 By the way, for both layouts and the cards I used the Scrap-Club July Kit. The negative of the Jenni Bowlin stickers looks like punch art too

And for this last card with best wishes I used square punches. 

Well, let’s hope we’ll have another warm August and September and some more sunny punch.

Cheers!

monique

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The August Main and Maxi Kits are ready and shipping to members already on Monday 19th, after this we will be away until Friday 23th and any order placed after today will be shipped this day.

It’s time to think about Holiday photos and New Jenni Bowlin, Fancy Pants Rusted Sun, Little Yellow Bicycle, Sassafras , Making Memories and more  to give your Holiday photos that special touch.

I also take the opportunity to tell that this month is our sweet Revlie’s last month, I want to thank her for all the beautiful inspiration during the last years and I’m sure many of you will miss her as much as I will.  Thanks sweetheart!And here is our Monthly Sketch along with the gorgeous Design Team interpretations, this time I chose a sketch from Page Maps. and I love what the girls have made with it .

Liesbeth

Revlie

Petra

The Kit idea gallery  will be filled in the coming days. Any e-mails will be will answered on Friday 23th, until then!

Adriana

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Did you ever use one of your pictures to create a personalized card?

I must admit that I’ve hardly used pictures to create a card myself so I gave it a try. In combination with the materials of the July kit (and especially those funny nerdy flag banners) I made 3 cards:

I started with this picture 

and added cardstock, paper, butterflies and text

Or this picture of Tim and his 2 best friends

I changed it into this version

 and pimped it

Also I used this picture of Lotte

 so I could make a birthday card for her.

Give it a try yourself and enjoy!

Hugs Petra

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Let me introduce our newest addition to the Design Team! Mandy has delighted us this month with her gorgeous creations, she has a clean and fresh style which I totally love and I’m sure you will too!!

 Hi! My name is Mandy, 35 years old and I live in a town in the middle of the Netherlands.
Eleven years ago I met my sweet husband on stage during an improvisation theatre play and later decided to turn my theatersports-hobby into a fulltime job and became my own boss. That also meant I needed a new hobby and luckily I came across scrapbooking in 2003, when i was travelling Australia with my husband and read a scrap magazine on the beach. I knew I had to go home quick to dive into this new hobby
Today I still improvise as a mommy of two boys, a fun lovin’ 4 year old and his sweet 9 weeks old brother. Trying to combine this with working part time for my company and attempting to find time to create a layout or a mini book.

When Adriana asked me to join the Scrap-Club design team I was doing happy dances all over my scraproom, what an honor! The kits are wonderful and inspiring and I love finding and sharing inspiration on the web. Let’s have fun!
 

  She also has provided the sketch for this month, don’t forget to check out the rest of her work in the Kit Idea Gallery and a visit to her blog is highly recommended

All layouts created with the July 2010 Kit available now online.

Mandy

Petra

Monique

Adriana

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Just to make sure that you get curious

Hugs and until the 19th!!

Petra

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Customize your stamping

Make stamps look different in your projects!

To achieve this, first stamp several times the same stamp on different paper sheets.

PERSONALIZA TUS ESTAMPACIONES

Haz que los sellos que tienen todas, en tus proyectos sean diferentes!

Para ello vamos a estampar varias veces un mismo sello en diferentes papeles.

A continuación recórtalos y haz combinaciones con ellos y pégalos en 3D.  

Look at other examples using different stamps:

Os pongo otros ejemplos con otros sellos:

Lourdes

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