Scrapbooking with American Crafts
Happy Saturday morning party-goers! Shall we put a little party music that won’t shake the place too much at this early hour?
So a new layout and a new challenge for you! Your challenge is to create a layout with a background of four patterned paper squares, like the one above! I used American Crafts papers for my page but you can use any supplies you like.
Make something, take a picture and upload it to your blog or a page gallery. Then leave a comment on this post to enter!
One project will be randomly chosen to win a prize package filled with scrapbooking supplies from American Crafts. You can enter until 6am UK time on Monday 19th April.
My five favourite products from American Crafts?
Albums. Almost all my albums are American Crafts D-Ring binders. My general albums are black fabric-covered and then I also have some of the patterned and the modern albums (which are great for creating your own cover design) for special themes. I’ve also used the 8×8 AC albums for lots of smaller projects, including two Christmas journals, and they stand up to lots of travel and wear and still look beautiful, plus I think the whole line is very reasonably priced.
Pearl Brads. I love these and could add them to everything I make. I used to staple the ends of my ribbon always. Now I tend to add pearl brads. They also look great in the middle of a flower, and I love that they come in so many pretty colours – not just white and cream.
Ribbons…like this one. I love the entire line of AC ribbons, but seriously this is just too lovely to believe. The fact that they call this card ‘Lovely’ by name is just the perfect description.
Adhesives. I went to CHA this year with ‘Search out decent adhesives’ literally written on my to-do list. I had loved Kokuyo, but it was never available in Europe and now wasn’t easy to import either. Surely someone was going to realise that every scrapbooker wishes they had an adhesive that was reliable, simple to refill, easy to find and not ridiculous in price. And presto, I tried the new This to That rollers from American Crafts. I loved them. I ordered a zillion. I still love them. End of story.
And this stamp. It has the teeniest dotted grid on a wood-mount stamp and it’s just perfect for adding a little something to tags, backgrounds and cards. It’s my go-to stamp right now.
Do you have a favourite AC product? Feel free to share! You can also find American Crafts on their blog and Twitter and shop here for American Crafts products.
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17 April 2010, 03:39
just testing…can’t seem to comment on woodgrain post
17 April 2010, 03:44
I agree Shimelle, I love American crafts products, they are lovely!! My favourite are the papers. Having a pattern one side and a solid colour on the other gives you the best of both worlds! The patterns are usually bold and bright so they can be cut up for embellishments. Fab!
17 April 2010, 03:51
Here’s my layout:
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/gallery/member/341561-ansos/1616656-crab-time/?c=t
17 April 2010, 03:56
I love AC. I have loads of their patterned papers, cardstock, stamps, brads and my absolute favourite – ribbon :)
17 April 2010, 04:22
Oh my god!!! I love, love, love that film. I now have the uncontrollable urge to go and watch it :)
17 April 2010, 04:58
Loved this challenge – esp as I rarely use lots of patterned papers. It made me work the problem!
Mine is here
http://dollysdreamings.typepad.com
17 April 2010, 05:04
I love AC too. I still am lovin the blue skies papers and am Documenting 2010 in a black AC d-ring binder.
17 April 2010, 05:14
I am off to start scrapping in a little bit but I just HAD to come and say thank you for that song – Pretty in Pink is one of my all-time fav movies, I adore Andrew McCarthy and I was a huge OMD fan back in the 80’s, fabulous choice, thank you so much x
17 April 2010, 06:40
Loved this challenge – nice and easy. Here is mine
http://minty-magic.blogspot.com/2010/04/shimelle-cyber-crop-saturday-8am.html
17 April 2010, 09:56
Another one from me
http://urbanblog-tianne.blogspot.com/2010/04/saturday-8am.html
17 April 2010, 10:27
Ah, my favourite American Crafts products are my 2 sets of stamps from the “Blue Skies” collection last summer – I have “Laughter” and “Fun” and the packs are filled with little animals, birds, clouds and sunshine, tiny flowers, tree branches, the days of the week in a lovely cute font and some of those bracket-frames with fun phrases like “You make me happy”, “best friends” etc etc… I love them and I’ve been using them everywhere, especially my “Project 2009” album – a work in progress: http://lizziemade.blogspot.com/2010/04/progress-on-project-book.html. There were some papers, stickers and rub-ons in the set too, which I bought a bit later. I used the rub-ons and stickers on my “Favourite Things” layout the other day… http://lizziemade.blogspot.com/2010/04/april-is-here-99-things-challenge-scrap.html
(You’ll have to scroll past the “99 Things” list to find it!)
17 April 2010, 10:31
Finished at long last. I didn’t use American Crafts on purpose, it just happened!!
http://myslightlycrazyworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/time-to-party-8am-saturday-challenge.html
17 April 2010, 10:38
now I am working out of order – mmm not a good sign
http://wendy-technophobicnotme.blogspot.com/2010/04/saturday-prompt-ok-gave-up-on-one-of.html
17 April 2010, 11:51
I love American Crafts but didn’t use them on this layout. I have recently discovered their beautiful D-ring albums ~ scrumptious!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21446162@N02/4527914269/
17 April 2010, 11:59
Actually, I did use one American Crafts paper on my layout, sorry, going slightly mad!
17 April 2010, 12:16
Well here is my LO I had a bit of a play with this one, hope you like it.
http://kittyscrapper-nancy.blogspot.com/2010/04/two-more-crop-layouts.html
17 April 2010, 12:28
I had fun with this one even though my squares ended up being rectangles because my layout is 8.5 × 11.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47427643@N06/4528650238/
17 April 2010, 14:26
Hooray, finally scrapped some photos of the snow in January – with a background of four pp squares! :-) You can see my layout here: http://ispeakmelsh.blogspot.com/2010/04/party-on-and-on.html
17 April 2010, 14:29
Here is my 4 pp background LO
17 April 2010, 14:37
I love AC too so here’s 4 AC pp background LO :)
17 April 2010, 14:42
Helps if the link works!! http://thehappyscrapperuk.blogspot.com/2010/04/shimelles-online-crop.html
17 April 2010, 15:32
here’s mine:
http://jennifersjumbles.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-beautiful-bridesmaids.html
17 April 2010, 15:54
No AC, but I did cut in to the Webster’s Pages, which is a huge deal for me.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ppilgrim/4528511239/
17 April 2010, 17:26
My LO is all American Craft products except for two flowers and can be found at 2Peas :
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/gallery/member/323824-scrappycarrie/1616858-four-patterned-paper-squares/
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17 April 2010, 17:50
Heres my LO for this one :)
17 April 2010, 18:46
Love AC stuff but didn’t use any on this lo except obligatory Thickers Instead used up lots of old stash.
“:http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=209216&ppuser=34751”
17 April 2010, 18:50
I love AC too, especially the D-ring albums & Dear Lizzy (including the Lovely ribbon!) Desperately seeking their Baby Dots stamp in the UK.
Your bright LO is great! I was inspired to create this one:
http://mylifeinascrapbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/all-square.html
18 April 2010, 00:06
Here’s my 4 squares!
http://gluedotsandglitter.blogspot.com/2010/04/shimellecom-weekend-crop.html
18 April 2010, 03:05
i have far too mach American Crafts stuff time to use a bit
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/gallery/member/318101-kwill/1616951-my-butterfly/
18 April 2010, 03:38
here’s my layout
http://nannyjanes.blogspot.com/2010/04/four-patterned-papers.html
18 April 2010, 04:30
ooh, i had to enter this one, I love american crafts!
mine’s here
18 April 2010, 04:40
And here is my version.
18 April 2010, 05:38
Here’s my page…
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/gallery/member/158909-emyb/1616973-i-am-1/?c=t
18 April 2010, 05:55
really enjoyed doing this one.
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/gallery/member/462296-christinec61/1616975-hen-party/
18 April 2010, 06:15
I’m so pleased with this layout … http://occasionalscrapper.blogspot.com/2010/04/take-four-squares.html
18 April 2010, 06:37
Hi,
Had great fun doing this challenge. Absolutely loving AC Letterbox papers.
http://terriann87.blogspot.com/2010/04/monopoly-cc-precrop-challenge.html
18 April 2010, 07:30
Here my layout using four PP squares.
http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/gallery/member/399847-joanneg/1616988-challeng-for-shimelles-online-crop/
18 April 2010, 07:37
I’ve joined in with this one too.
http://scrappyfairies.blogspot.com/2010/04/sunday-scrapping.html
Lisa x
18 April 2010, 08:07
I decided to use smaller squares of PP, but also to use up some of my enormous stash of unused coloured cardstock (shock horror!). Love how it turned out. Thanks Shim.
http://galwaygirl-scrapping.blogspot.com/2010/04/most-productive-weekendever.html
18 April 2010, 08:11
Sorry, no AC but a delicious KaiserCraft on my BLOG
18 April 2010, 08:19
I ended up using a whole mish-mash of manufacturers for my layout. But had a lot of fun doing it!
http://onescrappydoctor.blogspot.com/2010/04/cybercrop-weekend.html
18 April 2010, 09:40
Left my layout on the forum. Was fun doing this, thanks Shimelle.
18 April 2010, 09:40
This one was fun! My take on it is here
18 April 2010, 09:53
no AC but my project is posted in the gallery
18 April 2010, 11:18
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49388137@N03/4530847275/
This my LO for the 4 patterned papers. Better late than never,lol.
18 April 2010, 11:26
Mine is here
18 April 2010, 13:53
This was fun and I even managed to use a fair share of AC! =)
18 April 2010, 14:29
Thanks again Shimelle, had completely lost my mojo, but glad to scrap this photo!!
18 April 2010, 16:12
been scrapping none stop, think this was my first of the day at 10am- http://rewardingmemories.blogspot.com/2010/04/serious-scrapping.html
18 April 2010, 17:29
Here’s mine
Had good fun sorting through my papers and choosing and matching the ones I wanted to use!
18 April 2010, 18:13
I eventually found some quite old AC papers which did seem to be perfect for pj photos.
http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=209298&nocache=1
this will unfortunately be my last this weekend. It’s been great Shimelle. 3 layouts and a card is not bad going fitting around family commitments and church.
18 April 2010, 18:14
Don’t have any American craft stuff but still time!! Here is my LO for this challenge http://chattycraftyartypig.blogspot.com/2010/04/shimelles-online-crop-party.html
18 April 2010, 18:59
Four squared got me rummaging through my scraps and I found 4 from one paperline, yay!
Diane
18 April 2010, 21:16
This is weird but as I go over my stack, I only have one collection of Am Crafts pps so thought this is my chance to use them up. Here is my share.
18 April 2010, 22:44
Great sketch! My layout can be seen HERE and is titled, “He Loves the Water”.