Scrappin Mojo's Iron Chef Contest

Can you smell what the Mojo's are cookin?????? Come on over to http://www.scrappinmojo.com/forum/index.php for the Mojo Iron Chef! You could be our first place winner and come join our super fun team for a month :)

Do you have the chops???? Are you creative enough??????? Play IRON CHEF!!! Here’s how it will work: You MUST sign up to participate by February 7th. The first challenge will be posted on February 14th and be due on February 20th at midnight CST. You must register in the forum AND in the gallery. All challenges will be posted in the forum and your creations must be posted in the gallery and linked to the contest thread to count for the week’s challenge. On February 8th, the “secret ingredients” will be mailed to all participants. There will be four secret ingredients, one for each week of the contest. You will be challenged to use the secret ingredients on two separate projects for each week of the contest. You are required to use at least some, if not all, of the ingredients provided. Each week, a secret panel of judges will rate your creations on: ------use of the secret ingredients ------creativity ------overall visual appeal Some of the participants will be eliminated each week. The secret ingredients are yours to keep! At the end, one winner will become Mojo’s first Iron Chef!! She/he will be the recipient of a prize package worth at least $30 AND be an intern Maven for one month….. and be able to post challenges weekly for our members! We will also have two runner-up Sous Chefs… They will receive a little gift from Mojo too. PLUS… we’ll choose one random winner from all the participants who complete at least one challenge to receive a prize too. So, you can win, just for playing!!

WOOOO HOOO!!!!!

I got some great news! I was picked for the DT over at Serendipity Scrapbooks! I am so so excited! I have always wanted to design for a kit club and they also do product reviews which is really cool! When I checked my E-mails I was on the phone leaving Steve a message and I got so excited I hung up right in the middle of talking :) Can't wait to show you what I get to create with the fabulous kits from there!

Valentine's/ Anniversary card

Love, love, love this line by Cosmo Cricket! It was just perfect for this card for my parents who celebrate their anniversary on Valentine's Day! I like that it's got the Valentine's colors but isn't too girly so it can be for both of them! I used the tags that come with the kit as multi layered embellies and lifted them up with pop dots, so it's a very multi layered looking card! Might have to hand deliver this one LOL! Found this great card sketch at

CPS http://cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com/ It's sketch #26!

Materials: Cosmo Cricket PP; Bazzill CS; Colorbox ink; Magic Mesh; My Mind's Eye lace; assorted brads and ribbon

Sketch #27 from Sketches {by tamara}

A big thanks to Dawn for turning me on to a great sketch site! What a super fun sketch :)

http://sketchesbytamara.blogspot.com/2008/01/card-sketch-27.html I made this fun B'day card witgh my leftover scraps from the altered kit over at Serendipity Scrapbooks! I just LOVE this lace paper!

Materials:

Scenic Route Loveland: Jade Drive; Creative Imaginations Sweet Pea Noir; KI Memories lace cardstock; Heidi Swapp flower ghost shape; Bazzill floss; Thickers and misc. ribbon and button.

And one more :)

I made this with the Serendipity altered kit for January. You know I love an altered anything and these kits ROCK! This is a 7 gypsies tag book altered with pics of my girls with my parents for them for Valentines Day and I also altered one of the take out boxes that came with the kit to give it to them in!

and more......

Serendipity Scrapbooks DT call

I dig this new site I found :) Tons of fun challenges and they do a really cool recipe tag swap! Fun stuff! Here is all the stuff I put together for the DT call over there! I had a blast making it and am really pleased with how it all turned out :)

Another great sketch challenge! Mojo Monday week 20

Found this great blog that's new to me http://poeticartistry.blogspot.com/2008/01/mojo-monday-week-20.html courtesy of Dawn's blog challenge over at Scrap City! I had fun with this one! I turned it on it's side and added tags down the side and tags in the center sentiment box for my two girls pictures on this card for Grandma's B'day!

Materials: Colorbox ink; bazzill cs; Arctic Frog PP; K and Co pp; Junkitz PP; DCWV sparkle paper; Fabric strips; Stickles; Studio G stamps

Caardvarks Sketch Challenge

LOVE this Becky Fleck sketch for Caardvarks! http://caardvarks.blogspot.com/2007/12/happy-new-year-happy-new-challenge.html

I am currently working on making ALL my families B'day cards in the month of January and this was a great sketch to work with!

Materials: Heidi Swapp masks; Making Memories paint and glitter paint, Arctic Frog rub on alphabet; gems; American Crafts patterned paper and ribbon; My Mind's Eye chipboard and Colorbox ink.

Where I've been....

I haven't posted in soooo long and here's why! Our area of the north coast got SLAMMED in December by what they are calling "The Storm of the Century" around here. Although the wind blew out the weather center's wind meter, they estimate that the wind gusts were around 123 mph. We lost our power for almost six days..... thank goodness for satellite cable and generators! That was the best large purchase we have ever made! The night the winds were the worst, Steve and I stayed up all night, blocked all the windows as it really sounded like they were just going to shatter, and watched our girls sleep! We ended up losing half our roof, everything in our fridge (it just would not work with the generator and then proceeded to break altogether), our fence, a shed and we have a leaky roof. BUT we are all OK thank goodness! It was a crazy time. Our area was completely cut off from the rest of the state as the freeways were blocked, and we had no phone or cell service. It took 3 days before Steve could get to a phone 2 hours away to call our family! What a month! So we have spent the last month cleaning up and getting back to normal. Glad to be back to blogging :)