Scrapping Everyday Miracles

Monday, June 17, 2013

June Sketch Challenge is here!

Tracey G. here with this month's sketch challenge! Hope your June is finding you productive and happy! If you need a little scrappy mojo-I present to you these lovely sketches from the designing mind of Leah Schaeffer. Leah is one of the co-founders of Stuck on U Sketches, where I am lucky enough to be on the DT with these talented ladies. SOUS has loads of inspiration and challenges-check it out when you get the chance!

You may create either the Layout or the card sketch and the scrap twist is to include at least one handmade flower-any material is fine!

Card Sketch

Here are some links to flower tutorials:

http://softsideofsandi.blogspot.com/2013/06/pueblo-rose-tutorial-for-scrap-that-kit.html

http://scrapthatchat.blogspot.com/2013/04/bookpage-blooms-tutorial-with-tracey-g.html

http://gracescraps.blogspot.com/2013/02/full-open-rose-tutorial.html

http://wendysscrappincorner.blogspot.com/2011/07/tutorial-tattered-hibiscus.html

Here's what the Design Team created...remember to hover your mouse over each photo to see what each gal has to say about her project!

First,our Guest Designer, Roberta Meyers-Edmisten

Nicole

Cara

Helen G.

Our sponsor this month is Citrus Twist.

Citrus Twist Kits grew out of one girl’s love of all things crafty, with just a little love of vintage thrown in. Here is the story: My mom and I shared a love of the art world. I grew up tagging along to Art in the Park shows, quilting fairs and more. Early in 2012 my mom passed away and as I was going through her lifetime of art and crafts supplies, the idea for Citrus Twist Kits was born. It was the vintage scraps that inspired the handcrafted item that goes into each main kit.

Citrus Twist Kits are color-based, inspired and great value for your money. A box arrives on your doorstep each month filled with scrapbooking gifts to keep you playing all month long.

LINK:

http://www.citrustwistkits.com

http://www.citrustwistkits.com/blog/

Trina has provided us not one, but TWO prizes to give away this month! The first is the May Project Life Kit:

And the second is the April main kit:

Subscriber special, for our site members, June only: Free alphabet set with 3- or 6-month sub.

You will need to mention in the comments box at checkout that you are a member of our site and want the promo that will ship with your first kit.

**NOTE: You may submit the project you create for Scrapping Everyday Miracles to other challenge blogs but your project must be mainly created for the Scrapping Everyday Miracles challenge in order to win the sponsor prize**

All entries must be linked HERE by June 30th, 11:59pm PST.

*Important: Make sure your link is to the blog post with your project & not just your blog in general...and be sure to remember the SCRAP TWIST!

Monday, June 10, 2013

Guest Designer Inspiration - Roberta Meyers-Edmisten

Hi everyone! I created this layout, entitled "love" specifically for the June Main Challenge at Scrapping Everyday Miracles! The June Main Challenge: Love Never Fails focuses on scrapping about a husband and wife relationship and the love you see/experience because of it. The challenge topic was really quite special to me this month of June, as I began dating my husband, John, in this month, 17 years ago! And the Scrap Twist was really quite tricky - only cardstock, NO Patterned Paper! Whew! So, I got busy and decided I would scrap about my husband, John and I.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

This Bible verse keeps me focused in my marriage on what God designed marriage to be: an earthly example of His love for us. Being married for 12+ years has come with many trials, much heartache at times, and yes, lots of joy. My husband and I met 17 years ago, through his children.. Almost 5 years later, John and I married on a Blue Ridge Parkway overlook, on a blistering January day, in our ski coats, with my now son's Corey and Danny as witness and ring bearer. That same year, my 14 year old Corey was tragically killed in a motorcross accident. We separated for 13 months in the wake of our monumental grief. Miraculously, we reconciled, under the immense weight of God's grace and mercy, and grew in our relationship with each other and in our commitment to love as God commands. In the years following, we faced years of infertility, our younger son's drug addiction, forced treatment, and eventual recovery, my mental breakdown and ongoing treatment, and various other events common to life. The saving grace of our marriage has always been the Lord, and our promise to never divorce just because it wasn't easy anymore. The first 12 years of marriage, I think we have been able to "bear" and "endure" the trials that have come against us with hope and steadfast trust and that inspires me to keep loving as God instructs throughout His Word. My prayer for our marriage is that we have many, many more years together, and that we can triumph through the coming trials while reflecting His Glory.

Now on to the Scrap Twist! To create some patterns on the cardstock I chose, I used Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalking Ink, bubble wrap, the negative shape of a Martha Stewart star punch, corrugated cardboard, a sheet of rubber alphabet stamps, and a single round sponge dauber! It was actually quite fun, and I encourage you to give it a try for this challenge!