Wednesday June 29 WEEKLY encouragement challenge… continued

****** Feel free to post completed pages to the Mister Link at my blog site, but all contenders for the RAK must be posted at scrapbook.com in the daily/weekly encouragement forum.

STEP THREE- - select one of your pictures and do any two to the picture or mat

A) distress the edges of one by rough them with scissors, filing, sanding

B) use paper strips- placed or weaved under pic as mat: [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/527639/view/3126477/-1.html]example[/url]

C) add decorative corners(use punches, stickers, rubons- be creative)

D) Use at least one mat but do not place it directly under the picture. Place it cock-eyed.

STEP FOUR-

Add three or more flowers and flourishes of your choice and number but THREE must be one of the following:

A)[url=http://mycreativescrapbook.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1743]6 petal rose bloom[/url]

B) [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB_lOpnbJC4&feature=related]Camelot type flowers

[/url]

C)[url=http://simplypaperandcreativity.blogspot.com/2010/07/elegant-ruffled-flower-tutorial.html]elegant ruffled flower[/url]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~or~~~~~~~~~~~

STEP FOUR-

Add any number of flowers and flourishes of your choice and number but ONE must be one of the following:

A) [url=http://flyingunicornllc.blogspot.com/2010/05/tecchnique-tuesday-another-flower.html]puffy ribbon flower[/url]

B) [url=http://wendysscrappincorner.blogspot.com/2011/06/tutorial-grunge-delight.html]Grunge Delight Flowers[/url]

C) [url=http://increations.blogspot.com/2009/02/fringed-flowers-ii.html]double fringed flower[/url]

D) [url=http://foldingtrees.com/2008/11/kusudama-tutorial-part-1/]kusudama flower[/url]

E) [url=http://scrapperlicious.blogspot.com/2011/06/porcelain-flowers.html]Porcelean Flowers[/url]

STEP FIVE- Time to add embellishments. Feel free to add others or more but ONE must be stickles or glitter type of trim or fiber

Wednesday June 15 DAILY encouragement challenge

STEP ONE- select a sketch you want to complete. Add the URL or link to the post so we know which layout you will lift. If you post a sketch without the correct amount of pictures, be sure to note how you plan to alter the sketch to meet the picture requirement. A great site to get sketches is: http://pagemaps.com/

STEP TWO - gather your papers that you will use today paper do any one of the following to these papers

A) add texture to your page... try embossing or any creative measure you can. here's a tutorial on [url=http://kayskreativekorner.blogspot.com/2011/04/brick-texture-chipboard-tutorial.html]brick texture[/url]

C) Use an old book or magazine page as one of your papers

D) Paint on one or more of your papers

STEP THREE- - select one of your pictures and do any TWO to the picture or mat

1) Crop at least one to a shape other than the original

2) silhouette crop at least one picture (to make it fit the area on your sketch or scraplift place it on a mat that is about the size of the original

example:

[url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/2626557/-1.html][img]http://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/public/2626557_8_187619.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/2626557/-1.html]Keep Going & Going- LIFT[/url] By [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/2626557/-1.html]Ms.Schwiet[/url]

3) paper roll (or fake paper roll by glue paper behind picture). Here’s a tutorial on how this should be done, but feel free to improvise. [url=http://52sketches52weeks.ning.com/forum/topics/tutorial-creating-paper-curls]Rolled paper[/url]

4) add decorative corners(use punches, stickers, rubons- be creative)

5) do pleating around the picture- [url=http://www.scrapbookcircle.com/2010/01/faux-paper-pleating-tutorial ]Pleating 1 Tutorial[/url]

or here [url=http://bootscraps.blogspot.com/2010/02/making-ruffled-paper-border.html]Pleating 2 Tutorial[/url]

and here too [url=http://ideasforscrapbookers.blogspot.com/2010/07/circle-punch-demo.html]Circle Pleating[/url]

STEP FOUR- The economy is tough so make your own embellishments! Make TWO handmade embellishments but ONE must be:

1. [url=http://razzledscrapper.blogspot.com/2011/05/counterfeit-kit-may-blog-hop.html]Jean bow ties [/url]
2. [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/videos/?m=view&v=1271]Tissue Paper Butterfly[/url]
3. Homemade [url=http://crystalscraftycreations.blogspot.com/2011/05/homemade-washai-tape-mini-tutorial.html]washai tape[/url]
4. add [url=http://scrappinmargie.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-make-decorative-page-pebblesa.html]page pebbles[/url] or [url=http://andreawalford.com/stampin-up-tutorial-tuesday-faux-page-pebbles]more page pebbles[/url]

STEP FIVE- Time to add embellishments. Feel free to add others or more but ONE must be stickles or glitter

STEP SIX-- Title Time with a Twist. It's up to you about placement, product and size, but whatever you use ONE of the following-

D) "bling it up" in some way

E) Glossy Accents: just add some glossy accents

F) make it pop add pop-dots or even cardboard, balled up scrap paper, or anything to make the title the whole or part of the title pop

STEP SEVEN- Add whatever doodles and journaling you want to the page, but you use ONE of the following-

5) at least two lines of journaling on the page or hidden on the page

6) Doodle a flower or florish. Here's some [url=http://www.papercraftjunkies.com/content/2009/01/doodling-made-easy-series-3/]examples[/url]

7) Make an envelop from one of the templates [url=http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/mirkwooddesigns/templates.htm]here[/url]and tuck a note into it.

8) Find a spot to create a Zen-doodle

[url=http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-zentangle]Zendoodle[/url]

Tuesday June 28 DAILY encouragement challenge

****** Feel free to post completed pages to the Mister Link at my blog site, but all contenders for the RAK must be posted at scrapbook.com in the daily/weekly encouragement forum.

STEP ONE- select a sketch you want to complete. Add the URL or link to the post so we know which layout you will lift. If you post a sketch without the correct amount of pictures, be sure to note how you plan to alter the sketch to meet the picture requirement. A great site to get sketches is: http://pagemaps.com/

STEP TWO - gather your papers that you will use today paper do any one of the following to these papers:

A) moisten the edges and curl a side up

B) crumble, wad, and then unfold and straighten

C) created a ruffled edge by following GabriellaP's tutorial- [url=http://mycreativescrapbook.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1831]ruffled edge[/url]

D) [url=http://mycreativescrapbook.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1831]ruffled edge[/url]

E) Use stamps on the paper

F) Use an edge punch

STEP THREE- - select one of your pictures and do any one to the picture or mat

A) Crop at least one to a shape other than the original

B) distress the edges of one by rough them with scissors, filing, sanding

C) [url=http://ideasforscrapbookers.blogspot.com/2010/08/create-your-own-rolled-paper-frame.html]Rolled Frame[/url]

D) use a fan flower as a frame. See Sherry's incredible example [url=http://canadiancandy.blogspot.com/2011/05/friends-forever-new-layout-finally-done_24.html?showComment=1306295884118#c3607987703273774070]here.[/url]

STEP FOUR-

Add any number of flowers and flourishes of your choice and number but one must be:

A) [url=http://kayskreativekorner.blogspot.com/2010/09/dogwood-flower-tutorial.html]Dog Wood flower[/url]

B) [url=http://4crazykings.blogspot.com/2009/04/button-felt-barrettes-disected.html]felt flower[/url]

C) [url=http://flyingunicornllc.blogspot.com/2010/05/tecchnique-tuesday-another-flower.html]puffy ribbon flower[/url]

D) Make a [url=http://gabriellepollacco.blogspot.com/2011/01/video-tutorial-how-to-make-floral-vines.html]vine[/url]

F) [url=http://increations.blogspot.com/2009/02/fringed-flowers-ii.html]double fringed flower[/url]

G) [url=http://foldingtrees.com/2008/11/kusudama-tutorial-part-1/]kusudama flower[/url]

[color:red]New for JULY[/color]

H) [url=http://scrapperlicious.blogspot.com/2011/06/porcelain-flowers.html]Porcelean Flowers[/url]

STEP FIVE- Time to add embellishments. Feel free to add others or more but ONE must be something quilled.

tutorial:

[url=http://www.scrapbook.com/university/stvol1/lessons/overview/19.html]Quill tutorial[/url]

[url=http://mycreativescrapbook.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1558]butterfly quill[/url]

[url=http://ohschwietscrap.blogspot.com/2010/08/teddy-bear-multi-strip-quilled.html]Teddy bear Quill[/url]

[url=http://blog.whiteracoon.ru/search/label/quilling]Quilling Inspiration[/url]

STEP SIX-- Title Time with a Twist. It's up to you about placement, product and size, but whatever you use ONE of the following-

A)Make your title a game. Use puzzle or game pieces. Use whatever game like quality you can create for the page. Here's a tutorial on [url=http://what-a-beautiful-mess.blogspot.com/2011/01/faux-scrabble-letters-tutorial.html]scrabble letters.[/url]

B) you must include a subtitle

C) Make your title within a shaker box [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/university/stvol2/lessons/stepbystep/12.html]Shaker Box Tutorial[/url]

D) Place title on some type of texture like mesh

E) Make it foreign - use a foreign language as a title

F) Place your title on a heart or hearts

STEP SEVEN- Add whatever doodles and journaling you want to the page, but you use TWO of the following-

A) journal on a tag and find a place (even tucked a little under something)

B) stitch a pattern on the page- if you did this during the embelly stage you must add an additional stitched pattern

C) find an area to do [url=http://scrapperlicious.blogspot.com/2009/01/3d-stitching.html]3-d stitching[/url]

D) Search the gallery focusing on doodling. Find a doodle you want to scraplift. Be sure to include where the inspiration for the doodling came from when you post.

Daily Scrap Encouragement Progressive Style june 27

Daily Scrap Encouragement Progressive Style

To encourage one another to create pages I will post daily and weekly steps to creating a page. Feel free to follow along and to come by everyday and create a page. Or you can collect instructions for completing one page a week. The weekly instructions will be posted in steps the first two instructions on Monday, the next three instructions on Wednesday, and the final three instructions on Friday. The instructions are like the instructions we use for the progressive challenge.

Feel free to complete one page for this challenge or up to six pages for the challenge. Each completed page that follows a specific set of instructions will be eligible for a small RAK. This RAK will be awarded randomly.

Best part yet, use this as you complete pages for other challenges. Add the requirement for the other challenge into the steps assigned here.

RULES:
* Your layout must follow the directions posted.
**Any size of layout or card, \ one or 2-pages are allowed. Sorry no digi layouts since one step will be to add something handmade to the page,
*** You can only upload new layouts from Monday the 13th June until Sunday 19th of June, 2011 at midnight sb.com time
****In your post include the date of the instructions you followed to complete your page,
***** If you get love, leave love. It’s important to complete pages but if you find the time pass on the love.

****** Feel free to post completed pages to the Mister Link at my blog site, but all contenders for the RAK must be posted at scrapbook.com in the daily/weekly encouragement forum.

Monday June 27 WEEKLY encouragement challenge

STEP ONE: select a page you want to scraplift . Add the URL or link to the post so we know which layout you will lift. If you post a scraplift without the correct amount of pictures, be sure to note how you plan to alter the lift to meet the picture requirement.

STEP TWO - gather your papers that you will use today paper do any two of the following to these papers:

A) do a mask

B) add stickles or glitter to the entire page, the edges, or select parts of the patterns

C) Fussy cut one of your pattern papers. This means following a pattern on the paper and using it as a guide and making intricate cuts that follow the pattern.

D) [url=http://selahscrapping.blogspot.com/2011/05/together.html]Bow distressed corner[/url]

E) Use an old book or magazine page as one of your papers

f) [url=http://ideasforscrapbookers.blogspot.com/2009/12/creating-your-own-die-cut-paper.html]Homemade Die-cut[/url]

Monday June 27 DAILY encouragement challenge

STEP ONE: Follow this sketch. Feel free to alter the number of pictures to suit your needs.

STEP TWO - gather your papers that you will use today paper do any two of the following to these papers

A) tear the edges

B) use ink, paint or even a marker to make your own polka dots if you use ink or paint share with the group what strange object you used to make the uniform pock-a-dots (I use bingo markers, bubble wrap, pencil tops)

C) water distress in this style- [url=http://www.swirlydoos.com/page.php?37]Water Distress[/url]

D) Fussy cut one of your pattern papers. This means following a pattern on the paper and using it as a guide and making intricate cuts that follow the pattern.

E) created a ruffled edge by following GabriellaP's tutorial-

[url=http://mycreativescrapbook.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1831]ruffled edge[/url]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~or~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

STEP TWO - gather your papers that you will use today paper do any ONE of the following to these papers

A) Check out Wendy’s site and see her recent tutorials on backgrounds and try one. Here’s her site: http://wendysscrappincorner.blogspot.com

STEP THREE- - select one of your pictures and do any two to the picture or mat

A) add decorative corners(use punches, stickers, rubons- be creative)

B) make a frame and on the frame do your journaling so that your handwriting is the decorative part of the frame

C) Double mat at least one distress the edges

D ) silhouette crop at least one picture (to make it fit the area on your sketch or scraplift place it on a mat that is about the size of the original

example:

[url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/2626557/-1.html][img]http://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/public/2626557_8_187619.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/2626557/-1.html]Keep Going & Going- LIFT[/url] By [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/2626557/-1.html]Ms.Schwiet[/url]

E) use paper strips- placed or weaved under pic as mat: [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/527639/view/3126477/-1.html]example[/url]

Step Four:

STEP FOUR-

Clocks are now all the craze. You will need to take the time to MAKE a clock for your page. Sorry no store bought flags welcome. Here are some tutorials. You could use a stamp or print an image if a clock, but you need to add more details to it.

[url=http://ideasforscrapbookers.blogspot.com/2010/11/faux-dusty-attic-clock.html]Quilled Clock[/url]

[url=http://wendysscrappincorner.blogspot.com/2011/06/tutorial-vintage-clock.html]Vintage clock[/url]

[url=http://www.ustream.tv/user/primaflower/videos]primas altered clock[/url]

Plus [url=http://www.google.com/search?q=clock+face+images&hl=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=iI0DTv6KJsyWtwfttvHrDQ&ved=0CCAQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=610]clock images[/url]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~OR~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

STEP 4- refer to the progressive HQ and go to the second post down where you’ll find the progressive template. Pick ANY flower you want to make but it MUST be a flower you have never tried before

Step Five: Add any and all embellishments that you wish but one must be metal or some beads item.

STEP SIX-- Title Time with a Twist. It's up to you about placement, product and size, but whatever you use TWO of the following-

A)bling it up

B) Make the title sing...the title must be a song title

C) Quill your title

[url=http://www.artistaday.com/?p=4859]Quilled Text[/url]

[url=http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/05/how-to_quilled_monogram.html]Quilled Monogram[/url]

D)cut your title out from unused picture like the word Florence in this example

[url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/1904241/-1.html][img]http://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/public/1904241_9_187619.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/1904241/-1.html]Florence (page 1)[/url] By [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/1904241/-1.html]Ms.Schwiet[/url]

STEP SEVEN- Add whatever doodles and journaling you want to the page, but you use TWO of the following-

A) Make a journaling spot from [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYhqbJtdvVY&feature=related]spirelli[/url] embellishment

B) Select from these [url=http://www.papercraftjunkies.com/content/2008/11/doodling-made-easy-series-1/]doodle lines[/url]

C) use a pre-made journaling spot or print a free one here's a selection of freebies:

http://www.creativityprompt.com/fancy-a-freebie-printable-journaling-labels/

http://www.creativityprompt.com/friday-freebie-fancy-journaling-labels/

http://blog.worldlabel.com/free-printable-labels-gallery

D) Search the gallery focusing on doodling. Find a doodle you want to scraplift. Be sure to include where the inspiration for the doodling came from when you post.

E) Using left over scraps make a tag. I'll sometime rip pieces and modge podge them back together, but here's another great [url=http://creativeoperation.blogspot.com/2011/05/counterfeit-kit-challenge-blog-hop.html]tutorial[/url]

F) find an area to do [url=http://scrapperlicious.blogspot.com/2008/08/net-stitching.html]net stitching[/url]

G) find an area to do [url=http://scrapperlicious.blogspot.com/2009/01/3d-stitching.html]3-d stitching[/url]

Another Family Ties

This is my husband at our wedding. This is the front cover of his oldest daughter's "junk mail" album. That's right we're using that highly useful junk mail envelopes as the base for the album. I made it using my counterfeit kit and for the I wish I was "In Shape" challenge with a large cardboard circle under the picture. The artist Two Dogs' layout "Butterflies" was AGAIN the inspiration.

This month Two Dogs AKA Toni is the muse of the month at Pages In Times. So I made this page for the Scraplift the Muse challenge.

It is also a part of the Daily Encouragement challenge based on the June 20th directions:

STEP ONE: Scraplift yourself. Find a page you have already created and lift it.
~~~~ See post below

STEP TWO - gather your papers that you will use today paper do any ONE of the following to these papers
B) add stickles or glitter to the entire page, the edges, or select parts of the patterns
~~~ stickled the edge of the blue paper

STEP THREE- - select one of your pictures and do any TWO to the picture or mat
A) Double mat at least one distress the edges
B) distress the edges of one by rough them with scissors, filing, sanding
~~~ I did a black matt that I scissor distressed and I also matted with the edge punch on the pattern paper


STEP FOUR-
Add any flowers and flourishes of your choice and number but TWO must be scrap a little website. I did the 6 petal Gabriella P flower that they linked and the card stock daisy.

STEP FIVE- ONE must be____. Plus you pick at LEAST TWO things from the following list to embellish your page with. Feel free to add other and more.

A. Sticker, die cut, or stamp ~~~opps I just realized I punched the butterflies and thought they counted here.
B. Buttons, brad, or eyelets
C. Lace or trim ~~~~ lace around the cardboard circle

okay fixed it I added a butterfly brad to the title




STEP SIX-- Title Time with a Twist. It's up to you about placement, product and size, but whatever you use ONE of the following-
B) "bling it up" in some way
~~~ I added pink bling


STEP SEVEN- Add whatever doodles and journaling you want to the page, but you use ONE of the following-
D) add doodles in a color OTHER than black, white or blue
~~~I doodled with pink and teal dots around the corners


Sure hope you'll come back to my blog on June 3oth when the PIT team will be having an "INTERACTIVE" blog hop. There will be lots of prizes and tutorial sharing.

Thursday June 16 DAILY encouragement challenge

STEP ONE: Today you must use the Pages In Time sketch of the week that will be posted sometime today. Here’s a preview…(Insert picture you knuckle head)



STEP TWO - gather your papers that you will use today paper do any one of the following to these papers
A) add stickles or glitter to the entire page, the edges, or select parts of the patterns
B) add one of these store bought mediums or click the links to get homemade types:[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjeUvJQtxW8]glitter glaze[/url], [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0vq6tD2oBA&feature=related]twinkling h2o[/url], [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zep2692JRR4]shimmer paint[/url], or [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5AClDAKGF0&feature=player_embedded]glimmer glam[/url]
C) [url=http://selahscrapping.blogspot.com/2011/05/together.html]Bow distressed corner[/url]

STEP THREE- - select one of your pictures and do any one to the picture or mat
A ) silhouette crop at least one picture (to make it fit the area on your sketch or scraplift place it on a mat that is about the size of the original
example:
[url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/2626557/-1.html][img]http://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/public/2626557_8_187619.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/2626557/-1.html]Keep Going & Going- LIFT[/url] By [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/2626557/-1.html]Ms.Schwiet[/url]
B) instead of a mat use a frame!! That means it must extend over the picture and have the center cut out. You can place it anyway you want over the picture and any frame type transparencies count
C) Improvise on digital effects. Check out this tutorial for an [url=http://wendysscrappincorner.blogspot.com/2011/05/tutorial-non-digi-photo-alteration.html]example[/url]

STEP FOUR- Add any number of flowers and flourishes of your choice and number but one must be:
A) [url=http://52sketches52weeks.ning.com/forum/topics/tutorialpaper-bag-vine]Paper bag vines[/url]
B) [url=http://increations.blogspot.com/2009/02/fringed-flowers-ii.html]double fringed flower[/url]
C) [url=http://foldingtrees.com/2008/11/kusudama-tutorial-part-1/]kusudama flower[/url]
D) [url=http://wendysscrappincorner.blogspot.com/2011/06/tutorial-grunge-delight.html]Grunge Delight Flowers[/url]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~or~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Add at least three flowers and flourishes of your choice and number but three must be any one of the following:
1) [url=http://ashleyvanetten.blogspot.com/2011/05/fan-flowers-with-twist-tutorial.html?showComment=1306075605669#c2634710630576434177]Fan Flower with a Twist[/url]
2) [url=http://thislittlescrapper.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-just-wanted-to-share-with-you-new.html]Allison's folded flower[/url]

3) Make a simple flower. Here are some samples:

[url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/305839/view/3089319/-1.html][img]http://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/public/3089319_5_305839.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/305839/view/3089319/-1.html]Sample Simple Flower 1 for Progressive[/url] By [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/305839/view/3089319/-1.html]Provinca[/url]

[url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/305839/view/3089321/-1.html][img]http://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/public/3089321_5_305839.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/305839/view/3089321/-1.html]Sample simple flower 2 for progressive[/url] By [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/305839/view/3089321/-1.html]Provinca[/url]

[url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/305839/view/3089323/-1.html][img]http://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/public/3089323_5_305839.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/305839/view/3089323/-1.html]Sample simple flower 3 for progressive[/url] By [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/305839/view/3089323/-1.html]Provinca[/url]

and here's another simple flower idea:
The flowers are from an old dictionary, punched with my scallop punch (five layers per flower), and held together with a brad. I crumpled up each layer into a ball around the brad head, then uncrumpled them, looser on the outside, leaving the inner one still tight to be the floral center.

STEP FIVE- Time to add embellishments. Feel free to add others or more but ONE must be a button, brad, or eyelet.

STEP SIX-- Title Time with a Twist. It's up to you about placement, product and size, but whatever you use ONE of the:
A)DISTRESS in some way
B) add ribbon to the title
C) illuminated manuscript- this is a decorative font usually the first letter is dolled up more than the rest
D) Title on paper scrolls. Here's an [url=http://chellethescrapper.blogspot.com/2011/05/power-walk.html]example.[/url]


STEP SEVEN- Add whatever doodles and journaling you want to the page, but you use ONE of the following-
1) add doodles in a color OTHER than black, white or blue
2) journal around a picture or element on the page
3) Folded journalings spot with a center punch. Check out what Mandy made [url=http://forscrappingoutloud.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-first-official-urban-lily-layout.html]here.[/url]

Tuesday June 14 DAILY encouragement challenge

Daily Scrap Encouragement Progressive Style

To encourage one another to create pages I will post daily and weekly steps to creating a page. Feel free to follow along and to come by everyday and create a page. Or you can collect instructions for completing one page a week. The weekly instructions will be posted in steps the first two instructions on Monday, the next three instructions on Wednesday, and the final three instructions on Friday. The instructions are like the instructions we use for the progressive challenge.

Feel free to complete one page for this challenge or up to six pages for the challenge. Each completed page that follows a specific set of instructions will be eligible for a small RAK. This RAK will be awarded randomly.

Best part yet, use this as you complete pages for other challenges. Add the requirement for the other challenge into the steps assigned here.

RULES:
* Your layout must follow the directions posted.
**Any size of layout or card, \ one or 2-pages are allowed. Sorry no digi layouts since one step will be to add something handmade to the page,
*** You can only upload new layouts from Monday the 13th June until Sunday 19th of June, 2011 at midnight sb.com time
****In your post include the date of the instructions you followed to complete your page,
***** If you get love, leave love. It’s important to complete pages but if you find the time pass on the love.

****** Feel free to post completed pages to the Mister Link at my blog site, but all contenders for the RAK must be posted at scrapbook.com in the daily/weekly encouragement forum.

Tuesday June 14 DAILY encouragement challenge

STEP ONE- Use this week's Page of Week sketch. You may adjust the sketch to fit the number of pictures you wish to sketch.

When you complete this age feel free to show it off in the PIT gallery and the forum for sketches here.

STEP TWO - gather your papers that you will use today paper do any two of the following to these papers:

A) moisten the edges and curl a side up

B) crumble, wad, and then unfold and straighten

C) created a ruffled edge by following GabriellaP's tutorial- [url=http://mycreativescrapbook.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1831]ruffled edge[/url]

D) [url=http://mycreativescrapbook.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1831]ruffled edge[/url]

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STEP TWO - gather your papers that you will use today paper do any ONE of the following to these papers

A) Check out Wendy’s site and see her recent tutorials on backgrounds and try one. Here’s her site: http://wendysscrappincorner.blogspot.com

STEP THREE- - select one of your pictures and do any two to the picture or mat

A) Crop at least one to a shape other than the original

B) distress the edges of one by rough them with scissors, filing, sanding

C) Improvise on digital effects. Check out this tutorial for an [url=http://wendysscrappincorner.blogspot.com/2011/05/tutorial-non-digi-photo-alteration.html]example[/url]

D) [url=http://ideasforscrapbookers.blogspot.com/2010/08/create-your-own-rolled-paper-frame.html]Rolled Frame[/url]

STEP FOUR-

Add any number of flowers and flourishes of your choice and number but one must be:

A) [url=http://kayskreativekorner.blogspot.com/2010/09/dogwood-flower-tutorial.html]Dog Wood flower[/url]

B) [url=http://4crazykings.blogspot.com/2009/04/button-felt-barrettes-disected.html]felt flower[/url]

C) [url=http://flyingunicornllc.blogspot.com/2010/05/tecchnique-tuesday-another-flower.html]puffy ribbon flower[/url]

D) Make a [url=http://gabriellepollacco.blogspot.com/2011/01/video-tutorial-how-to-make-floral-vines.html]vine[/url]

STEP FIVE- Time to add embellishments. Feel free to add others or more but ONE must be something quilled.

tutorial:

[url=http://www.scrapbook.com/university/stvol1/lessons/overview/19.html]Quill tutorial[/url]

[url=http://mycreativescrapbook.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1558]butterfly quill[/url]

[url=http://ohschwietscrap.blogspot.com/2010/08/teddy-bear-multi-strip-quilled.html]Teddy bear Quill[/url]

[url=http://blog.whiteracoon.ru/search/label/quilling]Quilling Inspiration[/url]

STEP SIX-- Title Time with a Twist. It's up to you about placement, product and size, but whatever you use ONE of the following-

A)Make your title a game. Use puzzle or game pieces. Use whatever game like quality you can create for the page. Here's a tutorial on [url=http://what-a-beautiful-mess.blogspot.com/2011/01/faux-scrabble-letters-tutorial.html]scrabble letters.[/url]

B) you must include a subtitle

STEP SEVEN- Add whatever doodles and journaling you want to the page, but you use TWO of the following-

A) journal on a tag and find a place (even tucked a little under something)

B) stitch a pattern on the page- if you did this during the embelly stage you must add an additional stitched pattern

C) find an area to do [url=http://scrapperlicious.blogspot.com/2009/01/3d-stitching.html]3-d stitching[/url]

D) Search the gallery focusing on doodling. Find a doodle you want to scraplift. Be sure to include where the inspiration for the doodling came from when you post.