Welcome to our Three New Design Team Members...

Happy New Year's Eve everyone! I'm so excited today to introduce you to our new design team members - Sharon, Bina and Linda! All three are members of the Scrapping The Music Hall of Fame, and have been dedicated participants in our past challenges! We are thrilled to have these talented women joining our team full time! Please welcome:

SHARON FRITCHMAN

Hi everyone! My name is Sharon. I am a registered nurse by day and an avid scrapbooker by night. I have 2 beautiful daughters, Katie, who is 16 (and driving - yikes), and Anne, who is 7. My fantastic hubby and I have been married for 20 years . . . when did that happen? I have always loved art and even got A’s in art class in high school. Yes, I was one of those nerds!! Ha-Ha! I became interested in scrapping after my husband and I adopted our second daughter from China. Once I learned about lifebooks, my creative side opened up for the first time in a long time. Slowly but surely, I started making more and more pages, and now I am totally addicted to anything and everything that has to do with paper crafting. You should see my home - there are so many albums and projects here. Believe it or not, I do not have a blog, but you can see my work at scrapbook.com under my username, "Fritchey." I really want to thank Michelle for asking me to be on the team. I can’t wait to get started . . .

BINA KEWELOH

Well I´m over 40, I´m a mother of four awesome boys. In my real life I´m a doctor and manage a pratice now for three doctors. My scrapping life started three years ago with a card. I´m totally addicted since then. I´m also a member of a kit design team in Germany. We live in the southern part of Germany. I´m really looking forward to joining the team.

LINDA PHINNEY (AKA PHIN)

Hi! (clears throat self-consciously…) My friends call me phin. I'm also known by my (not so) secret superhero monikker, DeathGrrlRunningGoddess!

If we met on the street, I’d probably start talking your ear off immediately! (blah, blah, blah! LOL!) I’ll tease you, A LOT, if we’re buddies. I’m very direct, but I won’t say anything if I don’t think it’ll make an improvement or a difference… Well, unless you ask and then…(See blah, blah, blah above!) I have a lot of energy and have a hard time sitting still. I get distracted easily… SQUIRREL!!! hee!!! I’m a crazy perfectionist and get on my own case way too often.

I love: Laughing, sunshine, Starbucks soy chai lattes, words, physical effort (and sweat!), running, spin class, eating, music and movement, artistic process, the family of my heart (my friends), reading, stalking blogs, browsing the internet, black nail polish, taking pictures, off-color humor (heh!), my car ZooMZooM (aka Pieter), and my pet Betta, Mike (named after Mike Ness of Social Distortion!)

I’ve been playing with paint, glue, and paper, making messes for as long as I can remember… My first ‘scrapbook’ as we currently know it, was completed in 1994 when there really wasn’t much in the way of scraping fun and you could only find ugly background paper and flat stickers, hahaha! Now I’m more into collage/mixed media, creating my own supplies & embellishments, and upcycling products I'd recycle, like catalogs and cardboard. I really like grunge, gesso, texture and layering. I also enjoy making and trading ATCs, ‘cause of the small space to work in and the quickness of completion.

I'm very happy to be invited to be on the team and SO happy to meet YOU!

We will be back tomorrow with our first challenge of 2011. See you then!!!

Farewell and Thank You to Three Fab Women...

As 2010 comes to a close we have to bid farewell to three of our design team members - Kristii, Jess and Donna. These three women have been a wonderful asset to Scrapping The Music - not only with their beautiful designs, but also their kind souls and dedication to music as inspiration for art! We will miss them terribly!!!

Thank you so much to...

Kristii Lockart

Jessica Chastain

and

Donna Whalen

I've put together a slideshow of just some of the work from these three talented women over the last year. Take a look...

Kristii, Jess and Donna - we wish you all the best on your creative journey!!!! Thanks again so much!

We will be back tomorrow to announce our three new designers so stay tuned!!!

Times Like These Winner and an Announcement...

The design team has voted and we have a winner!

Congratulations goes to HERMA who created this beautiful layout...

Congratulations Herma! Your layout will now hang in the STM Hall of Fame!

Thank you so much to everyone who participated in our challenge - we appreciate each one of you so much!!!

WE ARE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE SOME CHANGES THAT ARE COMING UP AT SCRAPPING THE MUSIC!

We have been listening to your feedback, and also talking amongst ourselves about new ways to make Scrapping The Music fresh and fun for you in the coming year, and we've come up with a plan that we are excited about! Here is an overview of some of the changes coming your way...

Schedule:
We are going to a format of two challenges per month. These challenges will be posted on the 1st and the 15th of every month. The challenge posted on the 1st will be due on the 13th, and the challenge posted on the 15th will be due on the 28th. We have had many requests for more time to complete the challenges and we know how busy everyone is. We hope this change will enable more of you to play along with us!!!

Picking Winners:
The design team will continue to vote for a winner with each challenge, and the winner will have their layout displayed in the Scrapping The Music Hall of Fame, just as we have been doing. Our goal is to also have a monthly sponsor who will provide a prize. If you submit a layout for one of our challenges, your name will go in the hat and the prize will be awarded at the end of the month by random draw. If you submit to both challenges your name will go in the hat twice that month!

Sponsors:
We are currently looking for monthly sponsors for our challenges. What a sponsor can expect is that they will have their prize and blinkie and/or link displayed for an entire month in our sidebar, along with a permanent link as a past sponsor once the month is done. Sponsoring Scrapping The Music is a great way to get exposure for your business and support our effort at the same time! If you have an etsy shop, or any kind of scrapbooking or art-related business of any kind and would like to sponsor STM for a month, email us at michellelapoint@yahoo.com and we can give you the details.

We have more fun changes coming, but those will be revealed as we go. We are looking forward to a fantastic year in 2011!!!

Our next challenge will be posted on January 1, 2011, but keep a watch on our website, as we may have some blogposts before then with more announcements...

Thanks so much for being a part of Scrapping The Music!!! We appreciate you!!!

Times Like These Slideshow...

Thanks so much to everyone who submitted artwork for our "Times Like These" challenge! The design team is voting, but in the meantime, enjoy 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, December 28th - 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!!!

Suds In The Bucket Winner and Challenge #163 Times Like These

The design team has voted and our winner is...

MELANIE with this beautiful and moving layout!!!
Congratulations Melanie!!! Your layout will now hang in the STM Hall of Fame!!!

Thank you to everyone who participated - we appreciate each one of you!!!


Now...
ON TO THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE!!!!!!

The song we have for you this week is the poetic and inspiring "Times Like These" by Foo Fighters. Check out the awesome lyrics for this one by clicking on the widget in the sidebar. We had a great time creating with it and hope you will too!

With the busy holiday season upon us - we are giving you two weeks to complete this challenge!

Here are the design team inspiration layouts for "Times Like These..."

Guest Designer Linda Phinney...


Frauke...


Yvonne...


Michelle...


Patricia...


Jeanet...

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

To be eligible to win this challenge and have your layout hang in the STM Hall of Fame, remember to link us up to your layout in the comments section of this post, or email your layout to michellelapoint@yahoo.com by midnight central time Tuesday, December 28th - that's two weeks. 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!

Suds In The Bucket Slideshow...

Thank you to everyone who submitted a layout for Suds In The Bucket!!! The design team is busy voting, but in the meantime, enjoy 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!!!

Another Week for Suds In The Bucket...

Thank you so much to Sarah, Emily and Karen W for submitting such beautiful layouts for this week's challenge! It's hard to vote with just three entries, we love each one so much!!! It would be impossible to pick one and leave the other two out! We know people are wildly busy this time of year, so we are giving you all another week to create something inspired by our current challenge song "Suds In The Bucket!" Remember to link your creation to this post right here by next Tuesday (December 15th) at midnite central time!

We can't wait to see what you create!!!

Need You Tonight Winner and Challenge #161 "Suds In The Bucket"

The design team has voted and we have a winner for our "Need You Tonight" challenge.......

Congratulations goes to MANDA K who created this awesome layout!!!
Looks like Manda got to meet Adam Lambert - how cool is that?!!! Congratulations Manda, your layout will now hang in the STM Hall of Fame!!!

Thank you to everyone who submitted layouts for this week's challenge! We appreciate every one of you!

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

We are changing gears on your this week with a knee-slappin country song called "Suds In The Bucket" by Sara Evans!!! We had tons of fun scrapping with this song and hope it inspires you to join in and play along with us! You can read the lyrics by clicking the widget in the sidebar!

Here are the design team layouts for "Suds In The Bucket..."



Guest Designer Linda...


Jennifer...


Kristii...


Patricia...


Frauke...


Yvonne...


Jeanet...
Now it's YOUR TURN! What inspires you about this week's song? Show us in a scrapbook layout, art journal page, or any other creative project!!!

To be eligible to win this challenge and have your layout hang in the STM Hall of Fame, 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!

Need You Tonight Slideshow...

It's getting to be a busy time of the year and we really appreciate everyone who took the time to play along with us this week! We just LOVE all of the layouts! The design team is busy voting, but in the meantime, check out the beautiful layouts for our "Need You Tonight" challenge...

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!!!