"Home" Slideshow...

Beautiful Beautiful layouts this week everyone!!!!! It's fun to see our regulars back and some new players too! The design team is busy voting, but in the meantime check out the awesome slideshow for "Home..."

As always, if you don't see your layout in the slideshow, and it was submitted by the deadline of midnite on Tuesday - please email us at michellelapoint@yahoo.com. We would never leave anyone out on purpose!

We will be back tonight with the winner and our new challenge! See you then!!!

Introducing our July Guest Designer!

It's the beginning of the month again, which means it's time to say goodbye and a HUGE THANK YOU to Marjan for being our guest designer for June. Marjan, it was wonderful having you with us!

It also means it's time to meet our July Guest Designer!!! Please give a warm welcome to Marit Barentsen!

Hi, I'm Marit and I'm honoured to be a guest designer for Scrapping the Music!

I've used song lyrics in my artwork ever since I started scrapbooking, and when I discovered Scrapping the Music, it was like coming home to a group of friends with the same passion for music as well as scrapbooking!

I am a passionate artist who loves to try new techniques, products and ideas, and I always try to stretch myself in my work. I think of each layout as unique and inspired by an idea, photo, paper or technique, I go from there, driven by my mood.

I’m very concentrated and thoughtful when it comes to creating. I like to put away my work from time to time and look at it later with a fresh mind; my work needs a little time to “grow”. The outcome can be very diverse: from graphical to mixed media like. Although it isn’t always clear to the observer my layouts always come with a “deeper meaning.”

I also love to work on my art journals - right now I have four going on! Scrapbooking and art journaling are my passion! There is a certain cross-over when you look at both fields and I like to explore the boundaries of it.

I graduated as a teacher in arts and last year I built my own website with a community where I teach online art journaling/scrapbooking workshops in English and Dutch.

To see more of Marit's work and learn about her workshops you can go to her website and blog, which are linked below...

Website: Marit's Paper World
Weblog: Marit's Blog

Thank you for joining us this month Marit!!! We can't wait to see what you create!

Feelin Good Winner and Challenge #141 "Home..."

Drumroll please.......................................................

The design team has voted and our winner for the "Feelin Good" challenge is:

LAURY 55!!! Here is Laury's beautiful layout
Congratulations Laury!!! Your layout will now hang in the STM Hall of Fame, AND you win the book "52 Scrapbooking Challenges!!!" Please email us at michellelapoint@yahoo.com and we will get that prize right out to you!

Thank you to EVERYONE who played along with us this week! Your layouts were ALL beautiful and it was seriously difficult to choose just one!

and now
ON TO THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE!!!

Our song for you this week is a rocker anthem called "Home" by Daughtry! I don't know about you, but for me Daughtry has one of those amazing voices that just draws me in. I've been singing this song ever since I made the layout! I hope you find this song as inspiring as we did! You can click on the link in the sidebar to read the lyrics.

We are so happy to announce that this week we will be able to choose TWO winners! Our sponsor is Big Picture Scrapbooking and they are donating, not one, but TWO admissions to their self-paced class called "Permission to Live a Creative Life!!!!"

Big Picture Scrapbooking is a fabulous online workshop site that was started in 2005 as an adjunct to Stacy Julian's "Big Picture Scrapbooking" book.

Here is an excerpt from the description of "Permission to Live a Creative Life:"

"Permission to Live a Creative Life" is just the beginning of a new journey in your life. You will learn tools to help you spark your creativity, ways to keep the creative fire lit, but most importantly, you will walk away feeling like it's not only OK for you to create, it's necessary. You will be able to carve out time for you—and to realize that the laundry can wait. What a freeing thought! After all, it'll be there tomorrow! The mini album you create during this class will serve as a place to keep your dreams safe, to stretch your creative wings, to try something new and different and most importantly, to never be judged. The full description can be found here.

For more information on Big Picture scrapbooking, you can visit their website here. Thank you so much for being our sponsor this week!!!

and now, on to the design team's layouts that were inspired by "Home..."

(click on the images to see more details)

Guest Designer Marjan...


Jeanet...


Julie...


Jennifer...


Michelle...


Patricia...


Frauke...


Yvonne...


Donna...

Now it's YOUR TURN! What inspires you about the song "Home?" Show us in a scrapbook page, art journal, or any other creative project!!!

To be eligible for this week's prize, remember to link us up to your layout in the comments section of this post, or email your layout to michellelapoint@yahoo.com by the midnight central time Tuesday. The clock in the right sidebar shows central time to help you if you need to convert time zones.

We can't wait to see what you create!

Feelin Good Slideshow...

The design team has a tough job ahead of them with this week's entries!!! While we are voting, check out the beautiful slideshow...

As always, if you don't see your layout in the slideshow, and it was submitted by the deadline of midnite on Tuesday - please email us at michellelapoint@yahoo.com. We would never leave anyone out on purpose!

We will be back tonight with the winner and our new challenge! See you then!!!

Father and Friend Winner and Challenge #140 "Feelin Good..."

The design team has voted and we have a winner...

Congratulations goes to ISAY for this beautiful layout!
Isay your layout will now hang in the STM Hall of Fame AND you win the $20 Scrapbook.com gift certificate provided by Julie Tucker - Wolek! Please send your mailing address to us at michellelapoint@yahoo.com and we will get your prize right out to you!

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who played along this week! Your layouts inspire us so much!

and now...
ON TO THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE!!!

This week's song is "Feelin' Good" by Nina Simone! It's a classic song with so much potential for scrapping! We had a great time working with it and hope you do too! We found the video on youtube and want to give credit to it's creator Tamara Connolly - it's a truly beautiful interpretation of the song. Click on the video itself to head over to youtube and leave some love for Tamara.

Our sponsor this week is our own Patricia Roebuck, who is kind enough to offer up the book "52 Scrapbooking Challenges" by Elizabeth Kartchner...

How awesome is that???? Thank you so much Patricia for being our sponsor this week and offering such a fantastic prize!!!

And now, on to the design team's inspiration layouts for "Feelin Good..."

Marjan, Guest Designer...


Yvonne...

Patricia...

Michelle...


Kristii...


Julie...

Jennifer...

Jeanet...

Frauke...

Donna...
Now it's YOUR TURN! To be eligible for this week's prize, remember to link us up to your layout in the comments section of this post, or email your layout to michellelapoint@yahoo.com by the midnight central time Tuesday. The clock in the right sidebar shows central time to help you if you need to convert time zones.

We can't wait to see what you create!

Father and Friend Slideshow...

Thank you so much to everyone who played along with us this week. We have some truly beautiful layouts to share with you! The design team is voting now, but while we wait please enjoy the slideshow for "Father and Friend..."

As always, if you don't see your layout in the slideshow, and it was submitted by the deadline of midnite on Tuesday - please email us at michellelapoint@yahoo.com. We would never leave anyone out on purpose!

We will be back tonight with the winner and our new challenge! See you then!!!

Crazy Beautiful Winner and Challenge #139 "Father and Friend..."

The votes are in and we have a winner!!! Congratulations goes to......

JESSI W with this inspiring layout...
Congratulations Jessi! Your layout will now hang in the STM Hall of Fame AND you win the beautiful prize package from Jeanet!!! Please send your mailing address to us at michellelapoint@yahoo.com and we will get your prize right out to you!

And once again THANK YOU to EVERYONE who played along with us this week! We were truly inspired by each and every layout!

and now.......
ON TO THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE!!!

With Father's Day coming up on Sunday, we thought it would be fun to feature the song "Father and Friend," by Alain Clark and his dad Dane Clark! It's an awesome duet with great lyrics; and as you will see by the design team examples, you don't have to do a father's day layout with it - it has many possibilities!

We are so thankful to Julie for sponsoring us this week with a $20 gift certificate to Scrapbook.com!

Scrapbook.com is a store that has just about anything a scrapbooker could ever need! Thank you SO MUCH Julie!!!


And now, on to our design team examples for "Father and Friend..."

Guest Designer Marjan...


Yvonne...

Patricia...


Michelle...


Jeanet...


Jennifer...


Julie...


Kristii...
Now it's YOUR TURN! To be eligible for this week's prize, remember to link us up to your layout in the comments section of this post, or email your layout to michellelapoint@yahoo.com by the NEW deadline of midnight central time Tuesday. The clock in the right sidebar shows central time to help you if you need to convert time zones.

We can't wait to see what you create!