Scrap Shanty 10.25 Blog Challenge

Bethany (Verro) does weekly blog challenges over at Scrap Shanty

Hope you join in and post a link to your blog in the challenge thread when you are through!

Since Halloween is next week, I thought that I great blog entry would be on your favorite childhood costume. Or you could discuss what you wear now. Or a costume that someone you love wore. Or your philosophy on costuming.

Wow - I really don't remember much about trick or treating as a child. I can't remember any costume that I ever wore - or wanted to wear. Sheesh, thats a bit sad. I love Halloween though - it is about my favorite holiday. I love going with the kids and having them pick out their costumes, and see what they will come up with each year. So far -it seems to follow a theme - Braeden/gory, Brett/military, Emma/princess :)
I don't dress up as an adult, although when I worked at the car dealership we all dressed up and had an employee contest. One of the salesman always won - he was so creative when it came to his costume every year. The year I as pregnant with Emma, there was a lot of road construction and there was a sign that said BUMP - so I wore an orange shirt, and a cardboard sign with a cutout for my preggo belly, with BUMP written on the shirt. One year I went as the wacky gal from Drew Carey Show - Mimi - of the garish clothes and blue eyeshadow. Was a lot of fun.

Ghetto Scraproom Part 2

Wow I can't believe I moved into my new scraproom the end of August and it is still so Ghetto looking :).

Still working off the folding camp table that is pretty wobbly. DH has promised over and over to put up some shelving and buy me a countertop for the room - so it would at least become the white trash scrapbook room LOL. But, that has never happened and now - it is going to become Ghetto Fabulous! DH ordered me some great bookshelves and desks from IKEA for my birthday (and Christmas and anniversary)!! It neccessitated me having to move the existing stuff around so that we could make sure the new stuff would work - and also so it would be easier to put the new stuff in place when it finally gets here in a couple of weeks. This is what it looks like now:

I have a horrible mess made, from pulling apart all the kits I had and organizing them.

Here is what is going to make my room Ghetto Fabulous -



Emma and I are each getting one of those desks and they will be put together so that we face each other. I'm getting 2 of the larger cube bookshelves that will go along the wall behind where I will be working. I'm so excited!! Only bad part is that when it gets here - we have to put it all together before we can put it in the room :(

Please Click

As some of you may know, my sister Janet was recently diagnosed with Breast Cancer. She has had 2 lumpectomies to remove 7cm of breast tissue in her right breast. She is getting ready to begin a chemo & radiation program. She has Stage II Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer - which is a more severe and less common form of breast cancer. It usually mirrors itself in the other breast and often re-occurs. My sister has a long fight ahead of her, but she has a lot of support and a positive mental attitude and a concrete faith in God that I think will help to sustain her. This event has brought breast cancer into full color in our family, and with it being breast cancer awareness month - we see that there are many ways to help. One of them is in the side of my blog.

I am asking that you click daily on the blinky you see under helping others, to help fund mammograms. Had my sister been diligent in getting her mammograms done - this may have been detected earlier. Please help to fund free mammograms with a simple click of your mouse.

During October, if they get 500 mammograms from the clicks - their sponsor will give another 150 mammograms. They are currently only 79% to their goal with 10 days left. So please help them to get those extra mammograms and possibly save a life.

So please Click - thank!
Kim

Grand Opening Celebration Crop

Come and Crop til ya drop over at Scrap Shanty. We have some great make n takes, tutorials, games and challenges scheduled for today through Sunday and are giving you until Wednesday to work on things and get them uploaded to the crop gallery.

We have an awesome prize package from Glue Arts - including 1 pkg repositionable, 1 pkg High Tack, 1 Pkg vellum adhesive, 1 small width glue ring, 1 wide width glue ring, a pen and even a tote - for one lucky participant.

We have an exclusive sketch contest by Becky Fleck - along with a prize for the winner selected by Becky.

and much much more - Come and check it out in our Crop Til You Drop Forum

Scrap Shanty 10.18 Blog Challenge

Bethany (Verro) does weekly blog challenges over at Scrap Shanty

Hope you join in and post a link to your blog in the challenge thread when you are through!

Write about how you create. Some questions to get those juices flowing are:

Do you listen to music? What kind? Loud? Soft?
Do you watch/listen to a movie? What kind?
Do you dump out all your supplies at the beginning and pick and choose what you want to use? Or do you hunt and gather while in the process?
Are you a fast or slow scrapper?
Are you messy or neat?
Do you follow a sketch religiously or do you use a sketch as more of a suggestion?
What are you more inspired by? New products? New photos?

I always get stumped when talking about my creative process - cause I don't really think I have a process. I do listen to music - usually the radio - which is a mix of today's hits and 80's music - I don't keep it too loud as that tends to be distracting. I don't listen to or watch TV - as that sucks me in and I'd never get anything done. I am a medium speed - hunter gatherer when it comes to scrapping. I am extraordinarily mess while scrapping -but have to clean up in between. I love to use sketches - I tend to use them religiously - but occasionally change them up to suite me :) I am most inspired by product and others creations - I am a major league scrap lifter :)

Digital Design Team Call

At the Shanty - we love digital and hybrid scrappers! We have some awesome Digital Sponsors lined up and now we need to get our digital design team together. If you are interested in digital and hybrid scrapping - come check out our Digital Design Team Call

Design Team

We had a design team call over at Scrap Shanty and we had an amazing response. So many talented gals applied - It was a very hard decision.

We were fortunate enough to add to our already fabulous design team of:

Becky T



Carrie G(scrapdabulous_me)



Dawn I (craftygirl)



Elaine N (owlie13)



Stacy D (stinkerbelle)



and our newly added members:

Kathi (Kathi_miniKatie)


Candice (Kansas)



Amy (blksmom_621)



Bethany (Verro)



Mikki (mommamikki)



Didi (Didi R.)



Look for lots of great things in them in the future as we feature our awesome sponsors. We already have lined up Glue Arts, Rusty Pickle, Around the Block, DCWV, KI Memories and more!

Scrap Shanty October Challenge

Scrap Shanty has been fortunate enough to get sponsorship from Glue Arts!! They have an adhesive advice column on our website, and will be providing adhesive information in upcoming planned newsletters. Glue Arts sent our Design Team samples of their adhesives - so be looking for reviews from the DT as they work on their projects. Glue Arts also provided an awesome prize for our upcoming cybercrop. In addition, Tina from Glue Arts posted this:

GlueArts would like to get the ball rolling on the Monthly Challenge! We will be awarding an All Access Pass to the upcoming Scrap-a-Faire Online Consumer Trade Show, that's a $99.00 Value, to one lucky (and talented) entry!

Your mission:

Create the most unique page or card using our GlueArts Vellum Adhesive with either vellum paper or a transparency.

To help you get started, for those of you who do not have a store in your area carrying this product currently, GlueArts will have a special offer for ScrapShanty members, you will get a packet for $4.99 and Free Shipping! Normal MSRP is $5.99.

A winner will be selected at the end of this month by a panel of 3 GlueArts employees. Good Luck!

Check out more specifics here