{happy halloween...

...from me & my little spooks...

{homecoming 2010...

{Basic Grey + Hero Arts}
::more deets HERE::

{december snow play...

All NEW Bella Blvd - Winter Wonder line.
Check out more inspiration all week on the Bella blog!

{pick of the patch...

Sometimes I start with an inspiration piece and even though it gives me a creative jump start, it often takes off in a completely different direction.

This month I started with this beautiful piece...



The color orange is what jumped out at me first and of course with it being October, I thought pumpkins! So, I pulled a photo from one of our past trips to our favorite pumpkin patch and began the creative process.

When I'm trying to stick to a specific color combination, I love to pull out my scrap drawer and grab those certain colors. It doesn't matter the theme of the paper or the design, we're strickly looking for color here. Sometimes going outside of the box is fun, ya know?

So here's what I came up with...


{Remember at the beginning I was talking about taking that inspiration in a completely different direction? Well, I ended up swapping out the green for a turquoise and that's okay! It's all about the creative jump start!}

I'm also one who very rarely throws away any scraps. I try to keep everything incase I can possibly reuse it later. Like this piece of the chipboard here...





It was originally from the RV There Yet - Layered Chipboard Stickers - The Great Outdoors Collection by Heather Tozzi. I had used the bottom half on a past layout. So save those pieces, you just never know when you might use them!

Those
Woodgrain Alphabet Chipboard Stickers - The Great Outdoors Collection by Heather Tozzi may be my all time favorites! Woodgrain....swoon!



Where does your inspiration take you? Are you one to stick strictly to the theme & colors or do you find yourself heading in a different direction at times?

{new bella blvd now shipping...

Go ahead - Call your LSS to see when it will be arriving at a store near you!

{white space...& a JBS challenge...

In case you missed the announcement...Oct 20th-23rd is Scrapfest over on the Jenni Bowlin forums!



I'm hosting a white space challenge with a chance at a $10 gift card!
Go check it out HERE and join in on the fun!

{are you the paper party winner?

Congratulations to Kathy Reid! You are the winner of the pass to Shimelle's Paper Party class!

Kathy Reid said...
Love your art. Would love to win. Thanks for the chance,
October 19, 2011 7:11 AM

And if you're not the winner, no worries! You can still sign up to be part of this wonderful class! Go HERE!

{Hey Kathy...please email me at meganklauer@yahoo.com and I'll get you in touch with the fab Shemille!}

{Scrapfest with JBS... goin on now...

Come join the JBS design team for a weekend of games, chats, and challenges!!

We will have chats each night at 9pm CST. That's Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
There will be door prizes at all the chats and possibly timed challenges.

We are posting several challenges starting today and throughout the weekend. These challenges all end and winners chosen on Sunday, October 30th at 3pm CST.

Plus, the design team will be choosing one participant to be our December JBS Mercantile Kit Club Guest!!!

{it's party time w/ Shimelle Laine & I've got a giveaway...

Shimelle has been teaching online scrapbooking classes for years - but she's decided it's time to kick it up a bit and go from online class to a four-week online party, and you're invited. Pretty Paper Party is the party to attend if you have a collection of paper stacked up for a rainy day, if you have more scraps of paper than you know what to do with (but you know you don't want to throw them away!) and if you've ever put a piece of paper back in your stash because it was just too special for the photos at hand. Through printable prompts and tutorial videos, Shimelle and dozens of special party guests will share beautiful and innovative techniques you can achieve with the paper you have already collected.

I'm super excited to be one of Shimelle's special party guests for this fun party!

The party has barely started, and there are already goodies to hand out! Shimelle is offering up a FREE CLASS PASS to one of my lucky blog readers! Just leave me a comment below for a chance to win! I'll leave comments open until Thursday (10.20} evening, and then I will announce a randomly drawn winner on Friday {10.21} morning. And if you've already signed up, you can still enter the giveaway. If chosen, Shimelle will refund the cost or you can give the class pass to a friend.

Class started Monday, but as with any good party, it's okay to arrive fashionably late. The class has no deadlines and everyone receives permanent access to all the class materials, so anyone can RSVP to the party at any time!

{scraplifting jenni bowlin...

This month's challenge over on the JBS blog is to scraplift Jenni herself. What a fun challenge!
Waleska and I teamed up today to showcase a fun technique we found on Jenni's blog. {Check out Waleska's post tomorrow!}



Check out all the details HERE!

{homecoming 20 eleven...

I am honored to have been a part of this months JBS Merchantile Gazette.
Here is the layout I created for the sketch challenge found on page 3...





Jenni Bowlin products:
Cardstock: Core Impressions, Pattern Paper: Halloween Mini Pattern, Halloween Accesory, Playmate- Naptime, Stickers: Black tiny dot cardstock alpha stickers, Black tab stickers, Mini chalkboard alpha-black, Doily flowers-black, Pearl buttons, embellished butterflies, felt shapes-butterflies, family tree journaling cards.

{fall happenings...

Today was a perfect day to make caramel apples...











What are you doing to celebrate this beautiful time of year?

{a farewell to sassafras...

My good-bye is up on the Sassafras blog today...sniff...sniff...

I'm going to start with saying what a huge honor it has been to be a part of Sassafras. It has been and still is my "go to" company. The products have always been fun, unique, and amazingly inspiring.
When looking back through my portfolio of pages, Sassafras pops up more often that not. If I had to choose my favorite all time collection, I would go with Athem. The colors and designs were just perfection...



This paper is still my fave...


and played a huge part in the inspiration of this page...


I thought I would share my top 10 faves {which became my top 12, but who's counting?} It was hard to narrow down when I have so many memories captured using Sassafras products.























Thank you to the entire Sassafras team and I wish you all the best of luck in the future!

{jbs oct gazette...

The October newsletter is packed full of inspiration from the JBS design team.
Download it here!

{you get this look...

My layout for the Scraplifted challenge over on the Basic Grey blog.

SUPPLIES : [Hello Luscious] 6×6 Paper Pad, HLO-3230 Inviting, HLO-3259 Felt Stickers, HLO-3266 Die-cut Shapes, [Jovial] JOV-2816 Micro Mini Stickers, [Studio Calico Exclusive] XSC-001 Mini Mono Stickers.

{the way I see it...

With the fall colors and the warm weather we have been having here in the midwest, I am swamped with photography gigs. I'm lovin it! Here's just a few of the wonderful clients I got to work with today!













Back to scrapbooking...soon...

{and the winner is...

Huge congrats to:

Ashley said...
I love your pages! Great job with that kit!
October 3, 2011 8:07 AM

You are the winner of the $10 gift certificate from Studio Calico!
Please contact me at: meganklauer@yahoo.com

Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments!

{have you seen the new bella blvd mid-releases?

Bella Blvd announced their NEW Limited Edition Mid-Releases on Monday and I'm so excited to get to share them with her here today.

First up, New Miniature Stickers...
Bella Blvd is adding to it's Miniatures Cardstock Sticker collection! We have two new designs to share with you today, both of which will also start shipping on October 24th. While our two new collections, that were just revealed today, are both limited edition collections, the new Miniatures Stickers will be a constant item in our product lines!



Go HERE for a chance to win a HUGE prize from Bella!

Next, Spring Fling! Here are just a few of my faves from this new collection!



















Check out the entire collection HERE & be sure to enter a chance to win over on the Bella Blog!

And last but not least, Winter Wonder...



















Lovely right? Now head on over and entire to win that prize! Good luck!