Friends Furever Blog Hop! :)

Good morning! 

Welcome to the "Friends Furever" blog hop :)

If you are coming from Sue's blog, you are in the right spot! If you are just stopping by my blog today, you'll want to go to Suzanne's blog to start from the beginning.. or here is this hop order in case you get lost.

Suzanne - Scrap With Suzy

Kim - Me Ma Kim's Place

Sandi - Slightly Off Center

Kristie - Scrap, Color, Read and Repeat

April - Scrapper Forever

Sue - The Scrappings of Sue

Abby - Midwest Memories - You're here!

You don't want to miss the "furry" projects we have for you, as well as chances to win some awesome blog candy! 

There are 7 of us participating in the hop; we are all online scrapbooking friends from the Yahoo group Scrappin N Chattin. SnC is an email forum where we share our love for this hobby, as well as everyday life. Don't be intimidated by the amount of emails that come through our message boards - there are a lot of fun activities, challenges, and prizes - to jumpstart your creativity and keep your scrappin' goals.

I host 2 activities at SnC.. The Monthly Layout Contest (MLC) and the SC'12 Layouts and Cards (which Sue just told you about!). The MLC, like all the other activities, is a lot of fun. I provide our group with a layout sketch to draw inspiration from and also I provide a recipe to follow. The recipe usually consists of adding a color, technique, pattern, and/or embellishment. It's really cool to see how everyone uses the same sketch/recipe but yet has such different and unique layouts :)

Fun right? You can visit our SnC homepage here and join in if you'd like. We love meeting new people!  We also love blog hopping and sharing inspiration we find around the web! For today's hop, we each created a "furry" project.

I have 2 pets :)
A 6 y/o calico cat, Logan (who we call Logie) and a 3 y/o beagle/basset hound, Cooper. For my hop project, I created this layout featuring Logan and used my 3 Bugs in a Rug "Frisky" Caboodle kit.

Not sure if you can see it or not.. but the white cardstock has "k-i-t-t-y" letters added :)

I love this "Frisky" paper collection! So fun and colorful :)

Also, here are a couple layouts I created in the past that feature my Cooper..

It wouldn't be a blog hop without CANDY! ;)
I'm giving away a 3 Bugs in a Rug "Frisky" Caboodle kit.. the same kit I used for my Logan layout :)

Just become a follower and comment for your chance to win :) You do not have to join SNC to qualify. Just follow and comment, that's all :) Blog candy winners will be announced Thursday.

I'm the last stop in the hop :) 

Hope you enjoyed all the furry projects, blog candy and hopping along to learn about SnC :) 

Hope you'll join us at SnC!

Imaginisce & Canvas Corp Blog Hop - decorative pillow

This week Canvas Corp is teaming up with Imaginisce for a blog hop - fun fun fun!! The projects created by the design teams are so beautiful and so creative, you'll love them! And you'll also love the hop prizes.. huge collections of goodies to win at both blogs! Don't miss out on your chance :) See the Imaginisce blog for all the details :)

For my project using Imaginisce and Canvas Corp, I created this decorative pillow..

Supplies used: Imaginisce (i-top 2.0 tool, i-top punch, petal roller, Fabric Roly Rosies, iron bling motif, i-rock mini iron); Canvas Corp (canvas pages, canvas minis, canvas flower, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists); Misc: Floss, thread, red jewels

When I noticed that the Canvas Corp 12x12 fabricpage was actually 2 big pieces of canvas sewn together, I knew right away that I wanted to make a pillow :) I added pillow fluff inside the two layers, then I added that gorgeous canvas flower. The center of the flower is an extra large brad daddy and piece of glimmer misted canvas put together using my i-top. I also added Imaginisce fabric roly rosies, iron-on bling, and canvas leaves also spritzed with glimmer mist.

This pillow pairs up so nicely with my red lap blanket and it really makes a nice addition to my livingroom. :)

Check out Imaginisce and Canvas Corp everyday this week for beautiful inspirational projects and also for your chance to win awesome prizes! Don't miss it :) 

Hop along with Imaginisce & The Twinery :)

Welcome to my blog and my addition to this super fun and exciting hop! This week Imaginisce and The Twinery are teaming up to bring you beautiful inspirational projects and wonderful prizes! We do hope you'll join us all week!

Here is the hop order for today :)

Imaginisce blog 

The Twinery blog

Abby Laubenstein (You are here)

Helen Bird

Cari Locken

Angi Barrs

Tiffany Hood

Jen Carter

For my project to share, I created this bright and colorful headband which includes several colors of The Twinery twine and also Imaginisce "Making Waves".

I cut out the hibiscus flower bunch from Makin Waves paper, gave it a few areas of dimension and placed the bunch atop the large zigzag orange base flower (also cut from Makin Waves). I surrounded the flowers with sprays of colorful twine - making this piece burst with color! It will surely be a fun addition to any girl's spring or summer dress :)

Both Imaginisce and The Twinery 

are having a prize giveaway!

Three lucky hoppers will win

The Twinery's "I Dream in Twine" (retail $32)

And three lucky hoppers will win

Imaginisce's "Makin Waves" collection! (retail $37)

In order to win, you must leave comments on each participating blog on the hop throughout the week and before midnight (EST), Sunday, April 22. Winners will be announced on each company blog on Monday, April 23rd. Be sure to start at the beginning (Imaginisce blog) so you don't miss out on your opportunity to win great prizes as well as enjoy all the beautiful projects from each designer! :)

You've arrived from

The Twinery

And now I invite you to your next stop in the hop,

Helen Bird

Thank you so much for joining us today! I hope you'll visit again :)

Celebrate No Housework Day!

We celebrate this national holiday by scrapping today and into the weekend with projects that remind us of housework or getting away from it! There's a special blog hop at If It's Groovy and Artful Delight is a part of it, Yay!! There will be so many projects to share as well as yummy blog candy along the way, so much fun!! :)

Artful Delight is giving away an AD April kit as blog candy to
one lucky follower/commenter/hopper!
WoW! Super cool!!

I created a double page layout to celebrate No Housework Day and included several scrappy items from the AD April kit. :) This is a typical day at my place.. lots of housework to do.. but I sit and watch crafty shows instead lol. I know what's priority! :)

I used a sketch from Allison Davis of Sketch Support. LOVE all her great 2page sketches!

We, the DT at Artful Delight, hope you'll join this fun If It's Groovy blog hop! You'll be inspired to put that housework aside and scrap the day away instead.. and you could win that fabulous AD April kit and so many other goodies.
Take the day off, put up your feet and let's hop!

Just click here for all the deets! :)

Thanks for stopping by!
Abby

It's here! Scrappin-n-Chattin Blog Hop!! - Closed

Hello friends! Welcome to the very first

Scrappin-n-Chattin Blog Hop!

Scrappin-n-Chattin is a wonderful scrapbooking community on Yahoo! where friendly scrappers meet to share their creations. S-n-C also has several activities and challenges to keep it's members doing what they love the most - Scrapbooking! We invite you to visit S-n-C as we welcome all scrappers- beginners and pros!

Today you can meet 7 of the many S-n-C members. Each of us would love to share our favorite projects, tools, or techniques with you. With a wide variety of scrappy styles and projects, you're sure to find some inspiration as you hop along!

We have a fabulous grand prize! One lucky winner will receive 2 new Cosmo Cricket collection kits - Togetherness & Mitten Weather - including Ready Set Chipboard. As well as a new Cosmo Cricket Matilda 6x6 paper pad!

Here's what you'll need to do:

*Start here, at my blog (I'm Abby!), and hop over to every blog in the list below.

*Each of the S-n-C members will share a secret word with you. All these words together make a special sentence. Be sure to follow the list in the correct order given, so your sentence is in the correct order!

*Leave a comment on each blog. ALL of the participating blogs also have their own awesome blog candy to offer! So be sure to visit each one to learn how to win even more goodies!! Altogether, that's EIGHT prizes in this hop! Pretty cool, eh? :)

*When you're finished hopping, return here and leave a comment saying that you completed the hop and then also email the secret sentence to: tabbray at gmail dot com with "SNC HOP" in the subject line. (do not include the sentence in your blog comment)

*This blog hop will end Sunday, August 15th, 2010 at midnight CST.

*The winner of the grand prize will be revealed Monday Aug 16th on this blog.

*Winner must claim prize within 3 days or another winner will be chosen.

Here is the list order. If you get lost along the way, return here to follow this list in order.

1. Abby (You are here!)
2. Theresa (Go here next!)
3. Sue
4. Laura
5. Vicki
6. Kim
7. Suzanne

BUT WAIT! Don't go yet!! I need to give you my blog's secret word! And also, I'd love to share my creations with you and offer my giveaway!! :)

I have several favorite scrappy companies. My list can go on and on. But one that's in my top 5 is We R Memory Keepers. In the past couple years, WRMK has really outdone themselves! They just keep those fabulous collections coming, full of fun themes and colorful designs and images.

Here are some of my favorite projects I created using WRMK products.

"72 & Sunny"

"Old Glory"

"Out & About"

New release "Merry January"

WRMK has several new releases in stores now. Two of those are..

"Heebie Jeebies"

And "Maple Grove"

Do you love these products as much as I do?? I hope so, because one of my readers can win items from both of these newly released collections!


All you need to do for a chance to win is become a follower of my blog AND leave a comment saying that you did so - easy peasy!! :) One winner will be randomly chosen and announced on Monday the 16th.

And now, my secret word is... "Scrappin-n-Chattin"

Next, head on over to Theresa's blog!

Happy hopping!!

-Abby :)