COngrats to Amanda!  Amanda Thank you for partaking in our challenge!  Thank you for supporting our troops!  Please contact us with your mailing info!

Hello all and Happy 4th of July!  As you celebrate your Independence day with your families with BBQ's, fireworks, block parties or perhaps just a simple and quiet day off please take time to quietly reflect and remember the men and women who have dedicated their lives to serve our country and given us this freedom.

Today I have listed a few simple ways that we can help out the men and women of our armed forces.  The video above is about a program started by two young kids called "Cell phones for soldiers".  You can click on this link and learn more about it HERE.  More or less donating your old cell phone will  provide soldiers with free calling card minutes to call home and to speak to their friends and families. What a simple and kind thing to do. I know most of us have old cell phones lying around. :0)

Another  kind and easy thing to do today is to go and vist the USO support site and leave a message to our soldiers to wish them a Happy 4th and to thank them for their continued service and dedication.  GO HERE :0)

Hey Scrap It Forward readers and friends thanks so much for playing along and participating in our first ever Blog Hop!  We had a BLAST!  It was so much fun to follow along with you and read your comments.  Wasn't it so interesting to see how different those canvases all came out?  What fun...so many creative and diverse brains and work!

Well as you all know, as I promised....  For those of you who "hopped" on to all our DT's blogs there would be a prize name drawn for one random post.  And...I did go back and check......  SO....I did put all thos girls posts into a  random number generator and guess who was chosen?  The lucky gal is.......STEPHANIE.  Congrats to you!!! Please email us with your contact info !
Thanks to all who participated you made it a huge success!  And... thank you to our wonderful desgin team!  We couldn't have done this without you! We will miss you! You have made the last 3 months a lot of fun. Your creativity has given our blog a lot of inspiration, new followers and fun!  Moreover thank you for your friendship! 


Much love,
Christine


And readers..... Come back in a few days for a fun 4th of July Celebration Just for you!

Hello all! The past three months have been wonderful!!! We have had a lot of new faces here! A lot of new readers, a lot of new friends, a lot of new challenges and a new design team to boot! It has been fantastic!!! The inspiration has been wonderful, the teamwork has been fantastic and I couldn’t be happier. I am so very pleased with it all.


To celebrate what a huge success that it all has been, the Scrap it Forward team has decided to host its very first BLOG HOP! WooHoo! And…It all starts today, Wednesday, June 23rd! This Blog Hop will last for one week…so you have until the 30th to visit each and every one of our blogs! I know you can do it!

So let me tell you how it is all going to work, it is rather simple you see…. This is our current guest DT’s send off. Sadly their terms are ending and we want to send them off in a special way. So go visit their blogs…give them a little love…and in return each member will have a little RAK for one random reader.

You must first visit Illyse’s blog…you can follow this link…. She will then tell you where to go next and the following DT member will share with you which blog to go to next etc. etc. If you happen to visit each blog, then come back here and let us know. ONE lucky winner will be entered into a drawing to receive this RAK below, but remember… you must go to each DT member’s personal blog and leave a post. 

All winners will be announced on July 1st! So good luck and pass the word on!

Our Crafty how to gal, Cher came up with this fantastic how, to just for you.

So the time is near to recognize our fathers, or our children’s father’s. Or as I like to call them, “our dear old dads”. They are good at fixing things and carrying heavy stuff, and yet, so much more. So this month we will recognize them …as we should!

Well …ALL YOU Moms out there, it has been a few good days  since Mother’s day has passed,so we are thinking that you have probably got your photos uploaded and are ready to scrapbook them from mother’s day. Or perhaps you have another photo that you just adore of you and your kids that you would like to scrap. This prompt is just for all the moms out there. It is a simple one…..



Our challenge, this time around is:


To Use the prompt…”Being a mom means”….. You may use this directly on your layout or just use it as words of inspiration. We would love to see what you come up with.






Here is what the DT came up with to share with you :0)

Well Friends, a teacher has a tough job for sure,and so did we trying to choose a winner for this last challenge.  You all did a fantastic job on your entries.  Not only were they all beautiful,but they were all so very different and creative.  Not one person duplicated the idea of another.  Wow!  Awesome!  That is why I love doing this :0).  Thanks for sharing your ideas!

Okay so before recess is over, let me announce the winner... The winner is
Teenabugg38!

Hey moms out there we have two new winners of the Tammy I cell Phone cases!  Thanks for playing along and we hope that you had a wonderful mother's day!!! Here are our lucky winners!

Jennifer Campbell said...



What an adorable cell phone case. Happy Mother's Day to all of you!

May 9, 2010 7:55 AM


Denise said...



Gorgeous cell phone case! So girly, I love it :)


May 9, 2010 2:16 PM



Thanks for playing along girls!  Happy Mother's day!  Please contact us and via our email with your mailing info :0)!  Congrats! 

And now for our fun tutorial from Cher...

Here Cher has given us a step by step mini tutorial on how to heat emboss a stamped image!  Thanks Cher. Just beautiful!

Good Morning and Happy Mother's day! If you are reading then it just might be your lucky day. Today we are paying tribute to all the moms out there. Today we don’t have any particular challenge. ..Nope! We know that sometimes being a mom, although rewarding, is challenging enough :0).

This week May 3rd through the 10th is teacher appreciation week and we thought it would be nice to let all our kids' teachers know that we appreciate them. As a matter of fact, if you think about it, our children spend the better half of their days with their teachers. To show our teachers that we appreciate them we really don’t have to go out and spend a lot of money. We could just go in our stashes and make them something! So this week the challenge is simple, go in your stash and make them something! This will only be running for 1 week.. ..so hurry and get those assignments in and don't be tardy!.... Here are a few samples from our design team…

Vicki's homework:

Yes..we have a winner :0)   We definitely had many wonderful and impressive entries in our "Going Green" challenge. You ladies..surely know how to upcycle and would definitely make our mother earth proud ;0).


And without further delay....  Our winner this time around is..... DANI!

Happy Earth Day!

Hey Scrappy Friends! While you are working on those projects for our latest challenge take a look what Cher has done as an Upcycling project that you can do with your kids at home!  This is perfect for a rainy day or any old time for that matter! Great job Cher!

A pictoral how to from Cher

Here is an easy going green card to make.



What you will need:


sandpaper


Goldfish box or bag


blue and green card stock scraps


light blue card stock


bubble wrap


scissors


double-sided extra tacky tape


Martha Stewart leaf punch and some scrap yarn optional

Earth day is around the corner you know, and we are paper crafters with a conscience!  We reuse, recycle and upcycle whenever we can and so should you!  Don't just throw your old scrap supplies away, donate them to children's hospitals.  There are plenty of kids who would love to use them and make a big mess while doing so.  Just imagine the difference that you could make in someone's day.


Now for the not so obvious...your daily household items that you recycle or items that you think are old and you want to just throw away... may just be something you could upcycle. What is Upcycle you ask?  It is to  to transform discarded or second-hand resources into a new or altered object.


So that is what the design team did this time around in honor of our upcoming Earth day.  We hope to inspire you as well. Here is what all of us came up with.

Illyse went to the movies and re-used her drink carrier as a little decorative box to put on her daughter's dresser to put her little "girly stuff' in. BRAVO YOU!

Vicki  upcycled a prima flower tin and did a wonderful job. She was able to use a lot of incoroporate a lot of recycled products such as the tin, vintage buttons, vintage wallpaper and book pages well as many popular crafting products such as distressing inks,crackle paints, Prima Pearls annd much more. She ahs also offered a insturctions in word format. If you wold like a copy,please email us :0).

Thank you for all those beautiful entries. April is Autism awareness month and being that Autism has touched my life, I couldn't let this month go by without putting a bit of focus on it.  Thank you helping to for raise awareness. All of your entries were fantastic.  All of you not only submitted stellar work,but you also mentioned it on your blogs or message boards for double pointers..so thanks again! :0)