The more I scrap, the more I find that I really do love the simpler scrap pages with clean lines and white space- maybe it's because I'm so left-brained, but I've been definitely leaning more that way of late. I love my good friend and old roommate Amy's pages because they are just that- you can see her stuff on my sidebar under Amy's Crop Room. Anyways, I scraplifted this layout from her Thanksgiving '07 and I absolutely love it! (Thanks Amy for being my inspiration!)

(Gypsy Song kit by Suzie Belle Designs)

Here's another lift I did from a page I saw in a recent magazine, I really wish I would have written it down, but I didn't, so if you happen to recognize it- let me know!

(Slightly Askew paper by Andilyn Designs)

Just wanted to let you all know that ScrapMatters.com has another speed scrap planned for tomorrow night! Go here to participate and read more about it!

I've found a new love- I just participated in my first ever Speed Scrap- and it was so much fun! We had 2 hours to finish a layout with 6 specific guidelines (each step given progressively every ten minutes:

Step 1 three photo minimum

Step 2 Papers 1 solid 3 patterened coming from three different kits

Step 3 Border you photos completely or partially, it's up to you but no pre-made frames are allowed. Be creative with the other resourses you have literally at your finger tips.

Step 4 Add a tag that must be incorporated into your title. You can put your whole title on the tag. You can put one word on the tag or even just the beginning letter but part of you title must be ON TOP of the tag.

Step 5 Add swirls and a word element

Step 6 Add your journaling around your LO. It must go all the way around so repeat if you need to.

Step 7 Take a deep breath and enjoy the next 56 minutes to complete it and post it here and in the gallery.

So.... 2 hours later here's what I came up with:

Thanks to Shari from Sharing Creations for hosting!

Join us for the Speed Scrap at ScrapMatters tonight!

6 pm Pacific Daylight time--(my time zone)
It's hard to keep track of the different time zones so here are some others:
7 pm Mountain Daylight time
8 pm Central Daylight time
9 pm Eastern Daylight time

You need to let Andrea (of Andilyn Designs) know if you want to play along! If any of you who live on the other side of the world wish you could play along, also let her know and we will see about adding another one for your time zone. You will have one hour of prompts from Andrea and then have another hour to finalize your LO.

There will be a participation prize--which is still being worked on! There will also be two other prizes: My favorite layout = Kit of your choice from Andilynn Designs Random layout = $5 gift code to the SM store.

Go here to check it out and let us know if you'll be joining in the fun:
http://scrapmatters.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=828

Can't wait to see you there!

May Queen of Scrap

Wanna see something really fun ScrapMatters is doing for the month of May:

Join in the fun here:

http://scrapmatters.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=3876#3876