Truth or Dare: Adventures in Circle Journals

A circle journal, for those that are unfamiliar with the term, is a scrapbook that is passed around a group. Each member of the group starts her own book with a particular theme. Often each person chooses a different theme, but for this particular circle journal (CJ) each person is doing the theme Truth or Dare. Each member is starting her own book with truths (regular challenges) and dares (harder challenges). We will mail these books at the first of each month, completing a layout based on either a truth or dare for someone else's book each time until we get our own book back at the end.

This is the fourth CJ I've done with several of these ladies and it's been so much fun. I'm excited to get this one going!

My Cricut and Design Studio got a workout getting my CJ set up. The title page words were cut with the Opposites Attract cartridge. Next comes my intstructions pages. I chose to scrap the definitions of "truth" and "dare" just for fun. Then for my sign in pages with the challenges, I used the card feature on the Paisley cartridge (thanks again Amy C.!!!!) As you can see from the Dare page, each card has a cute little cut-out that allows the background pages to show through. Kat choose the background paper. She saw it going through Hobby Lobby and told me I HAD to get it for my CJ. So of course, I did :D. My only disappointment here is the scan of the dare page. The letters are actually hot pink foiled chipboard and they scanned very dark.

Okay, girls, let's get this going! Cheri, mailing soon! Have fun!

Scrap Whispers Challenge 2

This week's challenge at Scrap Whispers was to use watermelon as an inspriation for our layouts. So this one uses a variation on the watermelon's colors. Instead of light red and dark green, I choose light green and dark red. I cut the scalloped sheet in half and placed each half on a page then added 27 pictures from a trip to Fort Worth Zoo. That was only a few of the images we had from that day! It's a great zoo to visit. Oh and the "bat phones"? They allow you to hear bat sounds, but mostly my Batman loving daughter had to have a picture of the old tv show words around the Batphones.

Scrap Whispers Challenge Layout 1

Remember the New Year's Challenge 4? To lift this layout? http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/image/layout/539078.html

Well, I've done it and combined that with the first Scrap Whispers challenge layout of this new round. The challenge was to use purple and turquoise on a layout. I thought these pictures from Kat's senior photo shoot just fit with Jael's layout and wanted to wait till I got them to do it. I'm so glad I did!

These photos were taken by Christa Holland from Green Shoes Photo. See her link at right!

Cabinet Details

I choose to use sets of 3 words on each drawer. The top drawer is faith, believe, grow. Second is dream, inspire, imagine. Third is hard to read--should have gone with a lighter color--home, family, friends. Fourth live, laugh, love. Bottom is joy, hope, harmony. Most of these came from different cartridges, or I welded them myself--Home Accents, Jasmine and a couple of others that I can't remember now.

New (Old) Cabinet

While out antiquing last weekend we found a nautical cabinet that I thought would be perfect scrap storage. It's sheet metal with pasteboard drawers. Someone had tried to paint the drawer fronts on two drawers and didn't do a very good job, so I decided to alter it. I painted the edges white, mod podged paper to the drawers and cut words with my Cricut to decorate those. I'll post detail pics in the next post.

I plan to use it to store stickers, rubons and chipboard.

Challenges 3, 5, and 6

First, yes, I can count. I'm saving Challege 4, which is to scraplift this awesome LO by Luvscrappin http://www.scrapjazz.com/gallery/image/layout/539078.html. I'm saving it till I get Kathleen's senior pictures in. There's one in there that is beyond awesome.

Now the ones I've finished. First you see challenge 3. It was to use pretty, bold pp that you are scared to use, large flowers, black accents, double matting. I had these wonderful shots of rainbows we took around Sweetwater in April, coming back from Lubbock. The stained glass PP is one I've had for several years and have just never gotten around to figuring out how to use. The green is a scrap of one I love. The pics are double matted on light purple and black.

Challege 5 was to use green, 5 sentences of journaling (at least) 3 patterened papers, and ribbon. I love these pictures Kathleen took of Amelia in her laundry basket and have had them waiting to scrap for a while. I used pp from a pet stack, a set of pet pp my Jazzy sister gave me and the blue and green came from an Amy Butler set. The journaling reads, "It's a fact. No open box, drawer and especially laundry basket is safe. Amelia believes they belong to her. Heaven forbid someone try to put clothes in one. As soon as she sees it, she'll jump in for a ride."

Challenge 6: orange, bling, minimum of 4 pictures, and a flower. So of course, I choose my son's robotics pics! I used several ribbon scraps, scraps of 3 different pp, a Deja View journaling block, and a paper flower with a glitter brad (it is a guy layout) for the flower and bling. The journaling reads, "Archie has enjoyed Robotics competition the last few years. This year, he and AC did pretty well with their robot. After 3 rounds, they placed 10th-the best of any team from our school." Oh and the name of their robot was Indybot 2.0--so named for the little Indiana Jones Lego figure on the front and the fact they had to rebuild it, because the first one didn't work well.

Challenges 1 and 2

My next several posts will be about scrap challenges I'm working on. I have several projects going on and this weekend I've been working on some challenges that Mon and Marylouwho have posted on the General Scrapbooking board at Scrapjazz. They have us working on New Year's challenges and I've completed several.

The first challenge was to "use stamping or rubons, buttons, a heart or a star and pink or blue." On this one I used some flocked pp and some embossed pp from Me and My Big Ideas, a stamped journaling star, some vintage buttons and blue letters from The Paper Studio along with some stickers from my stash I'm trying to use up. The theme is this past year's One Act Play, "The Diviner's" The journaling reads, "Kat was 'Goldie' and Arch was an Alternate. Kat was named to All Star Cast at Zone." Challenge 2 was to do a Christmas LO or one with red, do some type of stitching, brads or eyelets, and a circle. This layout uses some green cardstock from my stash, some Basic Grey "cupcakes" pp, a journaling block from Anna Griffin, two green brads, a wooden word from Plaid and some machine stiching in the circle. The kids were playing on my Sister-in-law's trampoline and we just managed to get some fun shots. More LO's in other posts.