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Posted on May 30, 2014May 29, 2014 by Michelle

Get It Scrapped Creative Team 2014

Thanks for helping us to celebrate our announcement of the 2014-2015 Get It Scrapped Creative Team. Here’s a list of the things we have going on in conjunction with our Creative Team Announcement:

GUESS WHO CT TRIVIA (May 30-Jun 2)

Join us in the forums and help us celebrate the announcement of our awesome new team! We’ll have a few rounds of CT trivia going on throughout the weekend to help you get to know our team a little better. And thanks to current team member Amanda Robinson of Amanda Robinson Studio and team alumni, Jana Morton of Pixels2Passion we’ve got some fabulous prizes for a few lucky winners.

INSTAGRAM PHOTO CHALLENGE (May 30-Jun 30)

That’s right Get It Scrapped is now on Instagram and we’re kicking things off with our first ever photo challenge! We’re providing you with 25 prompts based on some of our favorite Get It Scrapped articles from the past year. Use the prompts to inspire some fun photos or even your next scrapbook page, then share it with us on Instagram using the prompt’s hashtag as well as #getitscrapped.

All photos uploaded before July 1, 2014 will be entered to win a lovely handmade camera strap cover from team alumni Leah Farquharson of Bluebird Chic, LLC!

Click here to print the list of photo prompts + contest rules and get snappin’!

GIS MEMBERSHIP PROMO (May 30-Jun2)

All who have signed up for a free membership at Get It Scrapped by June 2nd, will also get Scrapbook Your Story free. Register today and look for “Scrapbook Your Story” added to your Get It Scrapped membership on Wednesday, June 3rd at 9am ET. It will be in the last column of the Your Materials page of the Get It Scrapped membership.

Happy Instagraming and Trivia Hunting!

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Michelle

New Creative Team Member at RubberMoon

Have you seen the new blink in my sidebar? I am joining the team at RubberMoon for 4 month of creativity.

I am over the moon excited (he he) to be joining such a creative, artistic group and can hardly wait to share their beautiful stamps and a few new Copic and mixed media projects using their stamps with you!

My first posts will be both here and at the RubberMoon Art Blog in April so stay tuned!

Happy Tuesday!

Posted on March 10, 2014May 28, 2014 by Michelle

Mixed Media Scratch Art – Sneaky Peek!

The third of my mixed media classes is going to start next Wednesday at Creative Passion! This third installment is all about scratch art, and I have to tell you this one is HANDS DOWN my favorite of the 3. I like both the painting and the mosaic/collage, but the scratch art lessons are the bomb! If you love getting messy and trying new things this class is going to be for you! Check out a few of the techniques we are trying!

Do you like texture?

How about hand created details?

Maybe whimsical is more your style?

Come by and check it out HERE! We are going to have a BLAST!

Happy Monday!

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Michelle — 4 Comments

Calvinball!!!!!

Do YOU know what Calvinball is?

The Get It Scrapped crew is holding a full out Calvinball throw-down!

This month, March 1st-31st there will be a heap load of scrapping, trash talk, rules changing, point adding and laughter in general at the GIS site. Come one come all and join in the fun! You do not need to be a member to play along and whatever your crafty preference you can be included. There are points for just being there!

The festivities kick off tomorrow with a live, on-line crop, and yes, you get a point just for stopping in and saying hi! So kick off your month right and keep playing all the way through to spring it is going to be the best! OH and tell them I sent you…you each count as 1 point ha ha!

START HERE!

Posted on February 6, 2014February 6, 2014 by Michelle — 2 Comments

Plaid and a painty peek!

I have been getting inky and painty lately, come to think of it lots of my layouts recently have major portions to them that are in the artistic realm. No real surprise I guess but they seem to gather in clumps 🙂 This week I am tackling plaid in my layout for Get It Scrapped and my first instinct was to create my own. I love using a wide Copic marker to create my own plaid pattern. This particular plaid turned out very subtle and suited the layout just right.

Lori 8 by Michelle Houghton | Supplies: cardstock; American Crafts and Bazzill Basics, ink; Copic, Washi tape; Lil’ Bee, letters; American Crafts, stick pen, star and ribbon; unknown

To create the plaid I used a wide Copic marker. I then touched a darker sketch marker to the wide tip in 2 spots, holding it there to transfer color onto the wide tip. (this does not ruin the tips! Copics are great this way!)

I then pulled the wide marker across the page once or twice. I added the darker color onto the wide marker again and then pulled a few more times. I continued the process until I had completed the area I wanted to cover going horizontally.

I repeated the entire process going perpendicularly over the original set of lines. The example I have uses a different color going into the vertical lines.

In my layout I used the plaid as a base for my layout. The pictures were not spectacular but very representative of our quiet birthdays, so the plaid added a little pizzaz! I LOVE the plaid variations in the article check them out HERE

A week from today I have the second class in my Mixed Media series starting. We are getting painty! We will be looking at 4 famous painters and using their techniques to learn painting styles we can use on our mixed media crafting projects. Here is a peek!

Happy Thursday!