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Event Reminders, Don’t Miss Out on the Fun

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I have FOUR things I wanted you to know about.  I didn’t want you to look back and say, “She never told us that!”  So here we go!

1. Paper Pumpkin April Sign-up is due by April 10th!

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My Paper Pumpkin

Don’t forget to sign up if you want to participate in this month’s kit shipped right to your door.  All you need is adhesive and you have a fun little something to make. Our first Paper Pumpkin kit video is online, and there will be more.  I’ve tried to take out the confusion, given you a lot of info about the program, but you’ll go directly to sign up at the MyPaperPumpkin site, and please indicate you’d like to work with me for the “demonstrator” – Kristie Sloan,  Eden Prairie 55347.  Thanks!

2. Get a Clue!  Join up for LOAD513

Artful Adventures Invites You to LOAD513LOAD513, otherwise known as Layout A Day, May 2013, is a challenge to create a scrapbook layout everyday for the month of May. Any scrapbooking method will do!  Paper, digital, hybrid, 12×12, 8.5×11, 8×8…..  made from scratch or by template…. it’s not as hard as it sounds.  I will happily tell you that I have numerous pages with so many stories that would have gone untold, which are a result of prompts or ideas we have received from previous LOAD events.

Space if filling fast!  Hurry to grab a seat with you, me, and 498 of our closest scrappy friends!  Use the code FNF to save $10.  HURRY!   For more info and to sign up, click here! 

3. Scrapbooking Wonders Sketch Challenge

If you’d like to join a scrapbook sketch challenge, go check out the the April challenge at ScrapbookingWonders.  It’s never any fun to play alone – make a page and link it up for a chance to win a prize!  Go check it out! I’ve already submitted a page.

iScrap-n-Snap April Sketch Challenge

iScrap-n-Snap April Sketch Challenge

4. April Free Scrapinar

April Free Scrapinar

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Envelope Art with Windy Robinson

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Envelope Art with Windy Robinson.  Windy will show us how to create gorgeous hand-crafted and hand-embellished envelopes and mail art that will make even the postman smile!

Sew Thankful – Sew Loved

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Those who know me well, know that there is just not an end to my interest in all things crafty. Sometimes I jump from one thing to another, and that is why scrapbooking and card making became interesting to me. It was like making miniature art projects!  Then when you throw in art journaling, mixed media, doodling, oh my – my head starts to spin with all the excitement of possibilities!  This website will never become a sewing focused place, but I just want to give some love to all my fellow crafters who know how to rock out a sewing machine!  Here’s why:

This month I am participating with over 400 other people in Lain Ehmann’s LayOutADay for February 2013. You can Scrap Happy and participate next time. During LOAD, she gives us a prompt each day, and everyone creates a page and uploads it to a private Flickr gallery. Obviously every prompt elicits an individual response from each person, so there are a multitude of layouts and stories!

Artful Adventures Kristie Sloan LOAD213-09My layout for today was from thoughts I had about being crafty from a young age.  With so much talk these days about actually stitching on scrapbook pages and cards with a sewing machine, it reminded me of how much sewing I have done in the past.

My grandmother learned to sew on a Singer treadle machine which I still own.  If you walked into the room when she was sewing, you could hear it practically singing, and it was going so fast you would think it was an electric machine!  Even after she had an electric machine, she often would rather use the treadle, especially for quilting.  It became hard to find the belts and she eventually just used an electric all the time.

My mother also knew how to sew and she made most of the things she and I wore. She wanted me to learn to sew, but instead of really trying to teach me herself, she had me join 4H and we learned some basic sewing skills. I think I made the obligatory apron. Hmmm…. I didn’t think it was all that hard!

By the time I started eighth grade, I was making all my clothes, except outer wear, sweaters, and jeans.  I really enjoyed selecting my own fabric and patterns, and not wearing what my mom picked.  Let’s just say we don’t really have the same taste!

Between my mom and grandmothers, they enjoyed sewing, quilting, embroidery, smocking, needlepoint, knitting, crochet….  It was no wonder I felt that these needle crafts were awesome!

After marrying and having three girls, I did a lot of sewing until three things happened:

  1. I had better luck being able to try something on and knowing if fit and looked good, and just buying it.
  2. The girls decided it wasn’t cool to wear “homemade” clothes.  They wanted to shop at stores with trendy clothes.  It would almost kill me to buy things for them made with such cheap fabric and poor workmanship.
  3. Family who couldn’t/wouldn’t sew wanted to take advantage of my skills, and have me do all kinds of alterations for them, or things I didn’t even like doing for myself.

The love of sewing was lost.

Lately, my oldest granddaughter has been so happy to have me mend some of her favorite pants, and I’ve seen so many beautiful quilts, stitching on paper projects, cute aprons, that I’m starting to get the itch to do some sewing again.  I’m thinking I may start with a cute apron.  I feel like I am coming full circle. Thank you grandmas, mom, and 4H!

In case you are interested, check out this Free Webinar coming up on 2/13, “Get Your Stitch On with Jennifer Larson” –  Sewing on Scrapbook Pages.

LOAD 213 Blog Hop

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LOAD 213Welcome to my Artful Adventures post for the LOAD213 Blog Hop!  If you are following in order, you have come here from my talented friend Beth Soler’s Scrapping Wonders website.

Do you ever get together with others who share your love of a particular hobby?  If so, you know they can identify with your feelings of how wonderful you think your hobby is!  If scrapbooking is something you like to do, and you want to find some others who share that passion, then Lain Ehmann’s Layout-a-day (LOAD) February 2013 may be just for you!  The goal is to create at least one scrapbook page each day for a particular month, and this time it’s February. Does one page a day sound overwhelming?  It’s not — read on!

Along with the basic goal, each LOAD has a theme, daily prompts, and at least one sample layout for each day.  If the theme doesn’t particularly tickle your fancy, you can still participate — just get your pages done!  There have been LOAD months where I have completed a page day, and others that I ended up with my total number of pages for the month, but perhaps didn’t get them done on the 1 per day schedule.  I didn’t care — I still ended up with a pile of completed pages!  Yeah ME!

If you are afraid that you won’t be able to complete a page each day and have time for your day-to-day life, never fear! With a little planning, I’m sure you can do it.  We all handle it a little differently.  Some people may slack off on having a spic-n-span environment, some may use the crockpot for help with meals, some people have a stack of pictures they want to get put on pages and have their own theme…. You get the idea, it may be a little different than other months of your life, but it can be done!

This is one of my favorite layouts!  It is a 2 page layout at the end of LOAD212.  It is digital and has a mini version of all the other pages I had made during February 2012.

Artful Adventures Final 2 page layout for LOAD212

Whether you are a digital scrapper, traditional paper scrapper, or combination “hybrid” scrapper,

You Will Have Fun and Complete Scrapbook Pages!

There is a private Flickr group for the event.  You upload your completed page, and receive comments about how fabulous your page is, and how smart you were to think of doing that way!  Of course, you reciprocate the favor and pass on the love by commenting on other people’s layouts they share with the group.  Soon you will be pinching yourself to see if it is really true — your dream of having a whole bunch of scrapping friends really has come true!

Artful Adventures Progressive Page Sample

Progressive Scrapbook Page Technique

If you do paper layouts, be sure to have paper, pictures, adhesive and some embellishments for your pages.  If you’ve been scrapping for awhile, only buy adhesive.  USE the stuff you already have!  THAT is one of the benefits of LOAD — you can use up your stash. Sshhh….and then you’ll have a reason to get new stuff!  I won’t tell, if you don’t!

For digital pages, you may want to go through some of your pictures as a reminder of all the people who live in the digital world of your hard drives.   Stop holding them captive and let them get out onto some scrapbook page layouts. I don’t print digital pages at home, but if you do, you’ll want to be sure and have plenty of ink on hand for your printer!

If you sometimes feel stuck in getting a page together, you may want to try the “progressive” page technique.  I did a post on the technique last year, and you can find it here.

Artful Adventures Using Templates

Templates and Scraplifts

Also, remember that you can use templates, and by rotating or flipping them, you can really give a page a run for the money!  Here’s a few thoughts on using templates or doing some scraplifting.

If you aren’t signed up yet, click here to learn more and to see if there is still room and join us!

Stop by again, any time!  I enjoy comments and try to always reply!

Here is the list of the LOAD213 Blog Hop Participants and you’ll see where to hop to next!

Heather Dubarry: http://noexcusescrapbooking.com
Alison Day: http://adayinthelifeor5.blogspot.com/
Danielle Taylor: http://scrapperonthestreet.com
Alison Charlton: http://scrappinginsingapore.blogspot.com/
Christy Strickler: http://myscrapbookevolution.blogspot.com/
Lynnette Nagle: http://sassyscrapper2010.blogspot.com/
Julie Shepler: www.sheplerfamily.com
Joy McHargue: http://www.studiowowjoy.com/
Kelli Panique: http://scrapbookgirl71.com/
Cathy Holiday: pikespeakscrapper.blogspot.com
Leslie Smith: http://lcsmithsaved-outofthemire.blogspot.com/
Lori Martin: http://www.chaosandcraziness.com/   
Connie Hanks: http://ClickyChickCreates.wordpress.com
Betsye Erazo: betsyerose.blogspot.com
Marcia Fortunato: mfortunato.blogspot.com
Regina Huminski: http://ginabeth1.blogspot.com/
Beth Soler: http://www.scrappingwonders.com
You are here:  Kristie Sloan’s Artful Adventures: https://kristiesloan.com/blog/
Next:  Danielle Hunter: http://ecoscrapbook.blogspot.com/
Katrina Forman: http://k84mansramblings.blogspot.com
Jessica Baldwin: www.inkyaddict.com
Cheryl McCain: http://cherylmccainphotography.com
Briel Schmitz: http://scrappingwindow.blogspot.com/

Ready, Set, Scrap

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Today is another special month to some of us as we again band together to each complete at least a layout each day each day for the whole month!  Our fearless leader, Lain Ehmann, will be providing scrapbooking prompts for LOAD512 Scrapbooking Outside the Box.  Lain’s blog at LayOutADay.com and her regular podcasts provide inspiration and fun!

During our last LOAD in February, I didn’t post every layout.  I’ll try to do better this month.

Here is a page from today’s prompt — a self portrait.  I find it difficult to scrapbook about myself, but if don’t do it, who will.  I wish I had stories from other women in my family who are no longer with us to share their stories.  I’ll share mine, while I am here and can remember some of them!

I love to know you stopped by, so leave a comment!