Mini Albums.......Don't you just love them?

I have been on a mini album roll. Well for one reason, that is what is being sent to me to create with for Serendipity Design Team. And for anothe, well I actually do love to create them. Who knew?

When I first started with Serendipity Design Team over 2 1/2 years ago, Kristen sent me my very first mini album to create. I was a nervous wreck but was excited to try something new. I love a good challenge. Since then I think I have created a mini album just about every month. I have a huge pile of them. I do need to find a good way to showcase them in my house instead of having them all piled in the cabinet the way that I do.

But now I want to share a few with you since I haven't showcased anything in such a long time. Well I don't think I have ever showcased my mini albums. So without further hesitation. Here they are. Let me know what you think. I'm actually pretty proud of each and every one of them.

This first album was created for Serendipity Scrapbooks February 2008 Altered Kit


This really cute and fun album was created for Serendipity Scrapbooks April altered kit.



The next mini album is one of my favorite that I created this year. It's wild, fun, funky and very personal. It's all about Family Baby!!! The album was from Serendipity Scrapbooks May Altered Kit



Here is a fun album about my daughters experience and little photo shoot before her prom in the year of 2004. About time I got this done. It was from Serendipity Scrapbooks June Altered Kit.



This is the first album that Kristen at Twisted Cherry Designs made. It is the cutest little mushroom mini album. I love that the very top of the cover page is a die cut chipboard piece. It fits right on the cover for that extra added dimension. Love it. This was an exclusive design for Serendipity Scrapbooks July kit.

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Here is another exclusive to Serendipity Scrapbooks design from Twisted Cherry Designs. It was for their August Altered Kit



I love working with bright colors and this September Serendiptiy Scrapbooks Altered kit hit the spot. There was even cork board in this kit. How yummy!



Kristen, the owner at Serendiptiy Scrapbooks never gets to themey with her kits. They are for you to create with how ever you like to create with them. But I love when she includes Halloween papers. It's one of my favorite holidays to scrap.



This is really a gorgeous mini album. Loads of drying time on this one. I used these really big crystals to make the snow on the albums. They are much chunkier than glitter but the look is fantastic. To make the white really pop out on the album for the snow, I mixed the glue with white paint! Now you can really see the sparkle in the snow cover roof tops



Here is another exclusive to Serendipity by Twisted Cherry Designs. This album is wonderful and it's the total manger scene. I went a little different with this one and created a book for my children. It has become a new tradition in our house and features the Birth of Christ on Christmas.



Another exclusive for Serendiptiy by Twisted Cherry Designs. That girl was on a roll and I love creating with these album. They are different and wonderful. Much better than some of the other mfg designs in my opinion. But I do have a little sneek peak of all of the designs before they are published. This makes it even cooler! LOL



Well that was my year for mini albums. I'm actually not creating with one for this month for the March reveals. I'm taking a little break. But to be honest, I really do miss it. Maybe now is the time to break out one of those clear acrylic albums. Hmmm, what do you think? LOL

Have a wonderful day and happy scrapping.

Stacey

Guess who I contacted? MAYA Road!

Serendipity Scrapbooks www.serendipityscrapbooks.com

Announces their first chat for the 2009 year with an amazing company...
Maya Road

The owners of Maya Road and their Design Team are eager to share information about their new release that will be hitting the stores any day now. Their innovative products are a wonderful way to round out your creations.

Where: Serendipity Scrapbooks www.serendipityscrapbooks.com
When: February 17, 2009 9pm EST
Who: Maya Road owners and their Design Team

We will be chatting in the chat room under the General Chat area

If you are not familiar with Maya Road then here is a little background information from them.

For The Journey Of A Lifetime http://www.mayaroad.com/
Maya Road was born in 2003. My sister and I were spending the weekend together, and we went shopping for all of the latest scrapbooking supplies. As we browsed the aisles, we were frustrated by how difficult it was to find unique scrapbooking products and how expensive products were. We started chatting about products we wanted to see, and we brainstormed how we could combine our business knowledge and design skills to produce the unique products for scrapbooking. Thus, Maya Road was formed.

At first, we made limited quantities of these products available to other scrapbooking enthusiasts on eBay and through our individual websites. After much soul-searching, we decided to launch Maya Road nationally with 38 unique products at HIA 2004. Since then we have added over 600 new products to our line including fun lines such as our chipboard collections, sheers, ribbons, fibers and much more!

Maya Road was founded on a belief in each person's creative ability and on the commitment to making high quality scrapbooking products available and affordable to everyone. We believe that scrapbooking and memory keeping should be an everyday event available to everyone.

We provide free ideas cards in stores, as well as free downloadable support information on our website. Our signature products are carried in over 1000 scrapbooking stores in the US, Australia, Canada, the UK and beyond.


Mark your calendars ladies for February 17th, 9pm EST. You will not want to miss this awesome opprotunity to chat with one of the industries leading manufacturers.

I'm Back...........well at least for today

I'm a bad bad blogger! LOL Life is just to hectic to try to cram in the blogging scene. But I have committed myself to try a little harder. I do so much online, why can't I do this for myself. If nothing but to jot down memories and moments and a bunch of scrapping.

Over at Serendipity Scrapbooks, we have so much going on. Kristen and I just picked a new Design Team over there. We have 12 of us in all on the Design Team. Now that is a whole bunch of us gals that have a single common goal. Ah yes, creating wonderful art work.

Let me show you some of that wonderful art work that I created with the Altered kit for February at Serendipity Scrapbooks. This kit is jammed packed. Just like every other kit that is sold there. Nothing new here but I LOVE LOVE LOVE the colors in this kit. They are some of my favorite to scrap with. That would be red, white, black, with a little pink thrown in.

Take a look at this mini album. I used fabric and have it poking out of the negative space that is on the first page of the mini album. I then put batting in the negative space and adhered the first page of the album to the back of the cover. This way it would hold everything in. I added pearls to the front of the album. For some reason the wings were just screaming for those pearls. I think it added a nice touch. Without further hesitation.....here it is.














And guess what...........I didn't stop there with the album. I created not one, not two, but 5 layouts with this kit. Here they are..... (well look up top for those layouts. One of the reasons that I don't like blogging is because it takes to much effort! LOL Now I can't seem to copy and paste the images where they need to be) Oh well you get the "picture"!

Have a wonderful evening and I will talk with you soon.

Stacey

Celebrity Chat with TIM HOLTZ at Serendipity Scrapbooks

I will have to tell you that I have been having wonderful luck setting up these awesome Celebrity and Designer chats for the past couple of months!!!

Boy have we got one awesome designer chat set up for you. We are pleased to announce that the one and only Tim Holtz has agreed to come chat with us.


WHEN: Tuesday, June 17, 2008

WHERE: Serendipity Scrapbooks chat room www.serendipityscrapbooks.com

TIME: 9pm EST, 8pm Central, 7pm MTN, and 6pm PST


For those of you that might be new or unfamiliar with Tim Holtz, here is a little bit of background about him.

Tim Holtz is a Designer & Senior Educator for Ranger Industries, one of the leading manufacturers of innovative inks, paints, and embossing products. Tim plays an integral part in the development and design of cutting edge paper crafting products. Tim has teamed up with various key companies like Advantus, Tonic Studios, and Stampers Anonymous to bring unique products that work hand in hand with Ranger’s extensive lines.

Tim has a vast knowledge of techniques and is always willing to share. You can also check out his blog http://www.timholtz.typepad.com/ for some very informative tutorials.

This is just one more way that Serendipity Scrapbooks has teamed up with this wonderful industry to help you on your creative way.

Hope to chat with you soon!!

Feb Reveal and a few new layouts

Well Serendipity finally had it's reveal of their new design team and I have to say that I am always excited but it is so much work!!! I have been really busy getting everything in order so that it is easy for the incoming DT to take over where the outgoing DT stops.

I really haven't had much time to do a whole bunch of scrapping but I do have some FEB reveals of some kits for you. These kits were so much fun to work with. Both kits that I got to play with have very new papers.

Here are a couple of layouts that was created with the altered kit. The altered kit has a really cute worded mini album for you to create but Kristen always packs the kits so full that you can continue creating even after using everything for the altered item.

This first layout is of my hubby Earl and my oldest son Trevor. They are so much a like it is unreal. Hence the name Carbon Copy!!! I loved creating this layout. I really wanted to try some of the rolled paper look on a layout and this really took the not so masculine papers and made them appear masculine.



The next layout is of my sweet boy Mason. This was the first day of school for the older boys and he was the only one that got left behind. He was longing and wishing that he could go to school with them. Only a few more years buddy!!!

The only items that I added extra was the Liquid Applique. This stuff is awesome and gives the layout so much dimension. It's kind of like puffy paint. I actually added it directly to the flowers on the base paper to make them pop just a little. I also added the pom pom ribbon for a nice touch.



And just because I love this layout and had so much fun doing it, I just have to share. This layout came from the Just Enough Please Feb Kit that will be for sale on Feb 1st. This coming Friday. This is Brayden meeting his Aunt Emily and his Grandma Cindy for the first time.



I used some packing from something that I got for Christmas to make the background. Take the white paint and cover a plate. Then drop coordiating colors in a random fashion on top of the white paint. Press the packing into the paint and then press it on to your cardstock. This makes a wonderful textured background. Then I just embellished it with a little cut work. Cut work is a girls best friend when it comes to working with kits and creating layouts.

Well that's it for today. The rest of the layouts that the Design Team has put together with the feb kits can be seen in the Serendipity Gallery on the first of each month. The link is to the right.

Happy Scrapping!

Stacey

My newest job!!!

For those that are new around here, I have a new grandson. He is 6 weeks old today. His name is Brayden and he is just precious.

Little background...........I have a 6 year old son and a 3 year old son still at home. I also have a 5 year old grandson and now a 6 week old grandson by my awesome daughter.

Today is the first day of him staying at Grandma's house!!! I tell you, even with Mason just being 3 years old we are in a cool routine and adding a little one is work!!! LOL

When Dylan was born, Trevor was just 11 months old so I was use to it. Who would have thought that just 3 years would make a difference and you would get out of the routine.

So far he has been a really good baby and is sleeping right now. Problem is that mommy is breast feeding and grandma hasn't done that in 2 years!!! LOL I can't put him to sleep as easy as his mom can. You know the pacifier syndrom. But he still isn't a fussy baby and doesn't even cry. Little man just wimpers if he is hungry or just wants to be held and that's it. He such a good baby.

Mason is thrilled to have Brayden come stay with us during the day. He's so thrilled that he won't shut up and stop jumping on the bed and what not so that Brayden can sleep!!! LOL I know this newness will wear off soon and things will get into a better routine.

Now Dylan and Trevor will be home around 4pm when the bus let's them off and I will have all 4 of them. We will see how that goes. Good thing I only have to watch all 4 of them for about an hour and a half. I don't know if I could do that every single day. I think it would definitely make me even crazier than I am!!!

I always wanted a big family and now I have one. So far the count is 5 children...........because you know they are all my children wether than are biological or grandchildren!!! I love it...............and when I'm really old they can fight over who gets to take care of me!!! LOL

Here's a pic of my little cutie patootie, Brayden!


Have a wonderful weekend!

Stacey

Design Team Call at Serendipity Scrapbooks

Serendipity Scrapbooks Design Team Call

Are you creative, full of ideas? Love to share ideas, techniques and inspiration? Then this may just be for you!!

Starting Jan 1, 2008 to Jan 19, 2008 we will be accepting Design Team Submissions. We are looking at bringing on at least 6 new designers to our team: I will place here, the requirements for submission and the details of the contract with Serendipity Scrapbooks.

You may apply for the Serendipity Scrapbooks Design Team by submitting the following to: Designteam@serendipityscrapbooks.com starting Jan 1st until Midnight Eastern Time Jan 19, 2008. At this time we are unable to consider International applicants, however, you may submit to all our site contests & challenges. NOTE: Canadians that would like to apply may do so under the understanding that should you be picked for the DT team, it may take up to 10 or more days for you to receive your shipment of design products, and that the layouts and projects need to be completed in the timeline. Also, you must be willing to pay the difference to ship your design products to you, costs are based on weight & postal code.

Submit a total of 5 items:
- 1 altered project (does not have to be new)
- 1 newly created Layout with a minimum of 3 photos
- 1 newly created Layout featuring use of embellishments to add dimension
- 1 created card or tag (does not have to be new)
- 1 Layout featuring “you”- using papers, embellishments & word show us who you are (does not have to be new)

All pictures need to be clear, in .jpg format, and no larger than 450 x 450 Pixels. All submissions will be posted without names in the gallery under design team submissions for general viewing.

Send a Scrapbook/artist resume & biography, as well as name, email address & full contact information with your submissions to Designteam@serendipityscrapbooks.com .

You must also Include a list of current design teams & scrapbook communities (forums, message boards) in which you are active in. Please include all links. You may also include an online gallery link if you have one. If you have a blog, please include that link as well.

Please include the answers to the following questions:
* Why do you think you would make a great Design Team member?

* What is your best attribute or skill?

* What is the attribute or skill that is a challenge to you?

* Do you feel that you can give inspiration, encouragement & techniques in the forum on a daily basis?

* Do you challenge yourself with new techniques on a consistent basis? Either each layout is testing a new technique, or monthly trying new items & techniques.

*Share any other information you feel is important for us to know about you.

*During this DT call your presence in the Forum is crucial, since the flow of a board is greatly determined by the activity and connection of the DT members to our registered board members. We do not like to set a number of post in the forums but just know if chatting in the forums and communication is not one of your strong points then this call may not be for you. Communication with forum members and other DT members is highly and strongly encouraged during this term.

If chosen as a Serendipity Scrapbooks Design Team member you will be
Responsible for the following:

1. Creating innovative & unique scrapbook layouts, cards, and altered projects not only for our monthly kits, but with products from our store. (These will be sent to you). Each month you will receive a wonderful Serendipity Scrapbooks kit or numerous Review Items to create with. Each kit/review items should be able to make at least 2-3 layouts and another project such as card, tag, or any other creative project the DT member thinks of. Each month at least 2-3 DT members will be asked to do 2 more layouts beyond the kits for our layouts/ideas page.(DT members will be asked on a rotating basis)

2. All layouts, cards and projects must include a materials list, step by step instructions (one per month), and all review items will be reviewed in the store. This is really simple and standard information that you will easily perform. Plus, any photos for specific techniques you feel would enhance understanding.

3. All DT members are required to be a registered member of our forum and post as much as possible each day. Starting threads and answering thread are a must as well as leaving praise in the gallery for our members and your fellow DT. DT members need to be a moderator for at least one category in our forum.

4. Design Team members are responsible for helping create & hosting forum challenges for our crops which are every other month, providing new tips/techniques, & participate in Serendipity Scrapbooks Cyber events.

5. DT members are to proudly promote www.serendipityscrapbooks.com where ever and whenever allowed without breaking rules on other sites. A Serendipity Scrapbooks DT blinkie will be developed and required in your signatures on our forum and again anywhere without breaking rules on other sites. This may require that it not be linked. Updating and showcasing items on your blog, if you have one, is a wonderful way to not only promote Serendipity Scrapbooks but you as a designer.

6. Communication with management is essential to a great team & Fantastic site. You will have access to the secure Design Team forum.

7. This is a 6 month commitment; DT duties will start up on March 1st 2008. You will be receiving your first kit on or around Feb 1,2008. You will have immediate access to the DT forum as of Feb 1st so that you can get to know the other members and learn all about your responsibilities. Performance of each member during this time will determine whether you are invited to stay an additional 6 months.

8. Each DT member will be asked to review and sign a contract, which at that time if they feel that they cannot commit may pass on the Design Team position. The contract has details regarding position that may not be listed.

9. Design Team members will receive a 25% discount in the store during their contracted time and free shipping if shipped with their monthly kit.

There will be a thread in the forum for the DT call and you may post any comments or questions to this thread. We are here to help you be your best so that you can be the best for Serendipity Scrapbooks.

Happy Scrapping and Good Luck!!!