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american Literature: 
Today's class is simple. It's about the power of a good book. If you love to read, and even if you don't, it's likely at some point in your life that an author or character in a book influenced you. 

Maybe Frodo and Sam reminded you how much you love your best friend. 

Perhaps Atticus inspired you to stand up for something that you believe in, even if it wasn't popular. 

Perhaps Bridget Jones made you laugh and give yourself a little grace. 

Did Katniss remind you what it is you believe about entertainment? 

I bet Ichabod Crane sent chills up your spine! 

And Mr. Darcy.... how many men now have to live up to his standard?! ;) 

Today's challenge is to reference a character, book, or author on a layout. You don't have to even make the layout about that book necessarily (although you can), but you need to reference it in some way. 

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Math Homework:

Alright class, here we go! Another FUN day of class for you!
Are you ready? In your seats? Everyone present? Smiles on your faces?

Today let's get our Math on!
I'm going to go a bit easy on you guys today.
Anything math is FAIR game. What I mean is...
you can use ANYTHING as LONG as it has to do with numbers of some sort.
Flash cards, Bingo cards (vintage or current), old school papers, anything! 

Let's get started!

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Class Assignment:
Good morning students!
Are we ready for class?  

Pick up those scrap supplies & let's get going!

You will need the following for this class:

-old music paper (or if you don't have any - something you downloaded from the internet, vintage...whatever, I'm easy)
-paint
-lyrics to your favorite song
-either a single photo in 4x6 or 2 wallet sized photo's that is in reference to your favorite song.
-ruler
-favorite journaling pen

Are we ready to begin? Ok, let's go!

Today I want you to learn how to be comfortable with music. Think and reflect on a song that reminds you of something.
It could be anything. Your life right now, something from the past, a photo, whatever. I'm leaving that part up to you.
We're going to scrapbook using lyrics from that song. You as students are going to fall in love with that favorite song all over again by using the lyrics as your journaling.

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20th century history assignment:
Good Morning Students! Welcome to the 20th Century History challenge. What can I say about the advancement of technology that this timeline, highlighting many (not even close to all) significant accomplishments of our ancestors over a mere 100 years, doesn't prove? For better or worse, it is undeniably impressive. 

1903-The Wright brothers make the first flight at Kitty Hawk 
1903-The first silent movie is shown, it is "The Great Train Robbery". 
1903-The first World Series is held (Boston Americans (w) vs Pittsburg Pirates) 
1904-New York Subway system opens 
1905-Einstein proposes his "Theory of Relativity" 
1909-NAACP is founded 
1912-The Titanic Sinks 
1913-Henry Ford creates the assembly line 
1913-Personal income tax is first required in the U.S. 
1914-The Panama Canal is opened 
1914-World War I begins 
1920-Women earn the right to vote in the U.S. 
1922-Tomb of King Tut discovered 
1922-Insulin discovered 
1924-First Olympic Winter Games (Chamonix, France) 
1927-The first talking movie, "The Jazz Singer" is released 
1928-The first Mickie Mouse cartoon is seen 
1928-Penicillian is invented 
1931-U.S. gets a national anthem 
1932-Scientists split the atom 
1937-The Golden Gate bridge is opened 
1939-World War II begins 
1939-First commercial trans-atlantic flights 
1944-Ballpoint pens are introduced 
1945-The first computer is built 
1945-Microwave oven is invented 
1946-The bikini is revealed 
1947-Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier 
1947-Polaroid cameras are invented 
1948-Big Bang theory introduced 
1950-First organ transplant 
1952-Elizabeth is crowned Queen 
1953-DNA is discovered 
1955-Disneyland opens 
1955-McDonalds corp is founded 
1958-NASA founded 
1964-The Beatles invade America 
1967-First heart transplant 
1967-First Super Bowl (Kansas City Chiefs vs Green Bay Packers(w)) 
1969-Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon 
1969-Sesame Street begins 
1975-Microsoft Founded 
1979-The Walkman is intorduced 
1981-The PC is introduced by IBM 
1990-Hubble Telescope is launched into space 
1991-The Soviet Union collapses 
1993-The internet takes off 
1997-Scientists clone sheep 

To think that a mere 100 years ago most people had never even ridden in a car is mind boggling, considering at this point in time we are all sitting in different areas of the world, having on online crafting challeng together on our personal computers. Anyway, I really want to use this class to capture a piece of the 20th century for our future generations to get a glimpse of, so that is the crux of my assignment for you! 

YOUR ASSIGNMENT FOR THE WEEK: 
*Please do a LO (size of your choice), which can be single or double paged. 
*Please use a photo, or set of photos, from the 20th Century (the more detailed the better) If you already scrapped all your photos from the 90’s, find an image from the internet that you’d like to document.
*Please highlight the year you are documenting prominently on the piece. 
*Please document who is in the photo and where it was taken (if you know). 

I found an older photo of our first Pit, Bandit.  Photo was from 1995 in our first house, and it was just Mark, myself and Bandit, and boy was she a spoiled little girl.

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A challenge given today for FTS on facebook.  September we will be going back to school, today was English class.  Our assignment was to: -Make a layout in the size of your choice 
-Incorporate a speech bubble(s) for your title and/or journaling 
-Use colorful paper/embellishments to match the playfulness of speech bubbles

You get extra credit if you use your speech bubbles to quote someone in your photo, like in the example.

If you don't have speech bubble stamps, die-cuts or a cutting machine to make some you can either free-hand some or download a free printable speech bubble. 

Fun challenge, not so much fun going to the ER with Michael for his wrestling injury.

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Michael's two girl crushes!  They could pass for sisters, I guess he has a type!

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Santa at Old Silver Tavern (OST).  Another childhood hang-out all boarded up. :(
Shout out to Deanna for that awesome Santa piece

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This week's sytycs we had to use a sketch, primary colors, hand stitching, misting and fussy cutting.  Photo is of Bryan in 5th grade when he presented his school project on Neil Armstrong.  He was smart enough to think to use Mark's motorcycle helmet for a space suit helmet.  We cut vinyl letters and attached them (and after presented...removed, Mark didn't want to ride with NASA on his helmet...can't imagine why)

Here is the original challenge: colorfulcreations

Use the sketch below to create a layout. You MUST stay true to the sketch. You MUST use ALL of the following items on your pages:

Hand Stitching

Misting

Fussy cutting (List in the gallery what items you fussy cut)

Use primary colors ONLY (red, yellow, blue, & green)

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Here is my SYAO week 55, which was to follow the CSI blog challenge.
So I used the scheme of all 5 colors, for evidence I used: jagged edges for the photo mat, vellum, wood letters and twine and for the testimony, I put it under the piece of vellum, and I used the composite sketch.  I am enjoying these challenges and this is the last of our cruise trip from April 2012.  A complete 2 albums done for this trip. :)

Here is the original:

Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page over there to see the following

For those new to the challenge, you can learn more about the challenge rules here and here.
THE SCHEME (USE ALL 5 COLORS)

• Drift Away - light aqua, taken from her skirt - 183.222.221
• Aqua Breeze - medium aqua, taken fromt he folds in her skirt - 137.190.182
• Golden Getaway - golden wheat, taken from the  mast - 242.221.176
• Apparent Wind - pale gray, taken from the cloudy sky - 234.235.237
• Take the Helm - Dark brown, taken from the top of the hull - 85.69.53

EVIDENCE (CHOOSE AT LEAST 2 ELEMENTS)

• wood
• metal
• string, fiber, twine
• jewels
• fabric
• leather
• create a jagged edge
• lacing
• clouds
• sailboat or other transportation accent
• something sheer, e.g. vellum
• washers/eyelets

TESTIMONY (CHOOSE AT LEAST 1 ELEMENT)

• Document a getaway.

• Look at your picture and let your thoughts wander and just write about what comes to mind.

• Write a comparison/ contrast paragraph or essay. Find ideas here and a how-to here.

• Be inspired by travel journaling sites, like this one or this one or this one.

• Put your journaling behind something sheer.

• Inspiration Words: -- romance, escape, reverie use these as inspiration for your journaling, not just as a title

COMPOSITE SKETCH: Feel free to rotate, substitute elements, etc., but use as inspiration for the design of your page.

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I double-dipped challenges for this layout.
First I did my C, from the abc challenge on Scrappiestdisneyswaps by using chevron paper.

I then used the sketch and challenge from colorful creations for the sytycs week 5 challenge.  I used the sketch, distressed all paper with Tim's distress ink, tore the left side of the patterned paper, and recycled a punch from a package of scrapping stuff I bought for the date tab.

Here is the original sytycs challenge:

Challenge 5

Use this sketch

Your layout MUST have distressing, a recycled item,  & tearing.

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why is it upside down...I have no clue.  It is right on my computer screen...well...unless I can figure it out...it will remain upside down.
I double dipped this challenge.
First one is for ACOT Cherryland challenge where I used 2 pieces of paper, 0 computer generated journalling (hand journalling was permitted), 1 photo and 3 embellishments (bling, star brads and ric rack)

Then since the photo was of my son, and I used lots of blue, it also qualified for Colorful Creations For the boys challenge.  Here I had to use 1 masculine photo (my son), 3 brads, stars and lots of blue.

The sketch itself I've had in my stash of sketches for a long time, not sure where I originally got it from, but here it is:

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So here is my week 2 of the colorful creations so you think you can scrap challenge.  Journalling reads: "18 years ago today I said I will to the most wonderful man.  For 18 years you have gotten me roses to remind me how much you do love me."  Believe me, I love you right back.  These were the flowers from 2012.

For the challenge: I used ribbon, chipboard, pin, layers and flowers

Here is the original challenge:

Please use at least THREE of the following:

Ribbon

Beads

Chipboard

Glass

Layering 

Wood

Pin

Banner

Flowers

Tags: SYTYCS02

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This was a double-dipped challenge.
First was my ABC for Scrappiestdisneyswaps A = Animal or Animal themed.  The challenge didn't state that animal had to be real...so I used the towel monkey from our cruise.  I'm told by the kids that he was holding a real banana, and they ate it...so I took their word on it...documented it that way too.  The elements were all from a swap on my group Swaps_that_work. (link on the right side if you want to join).  I made the topper and the banana...others in the group made the photomat and the journal box.

The second challenge was Twisted Blueprint from Colorful Creations.  Here is the original on that one:

here's the twist use buttons & ribbon!

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Week 49 of SYAO.  I used 8+ repeat shapes, tags, canvas, 10+ printed papers and ric-rac and then I used machine stitching and distressed with ink.
Here is the original challenge:

SYAO2 Challenge #49 - due 1/8/13

Complete a layout based on the following sketch provided by PageMaps

You must also use 4 of the 8 Products listed & 1 of or the Techniques listed.

PRODUCTS
8+ repeat shapes-butterfly's-birds-hearts???

real wood embellishment

tags

canvas/burlap

10+ printed papers

paint

corrugated cardboard or paper background paper the full size you scrap in

 rick-rack

TECHNIQUES

machine stitching & distressing

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Twisted Blueprints challenge from Color Creations

This weeks Blueprint is by Bev

here's the twist use metal & stickles!

So in case my layout photo isn't clear...the metal is the sign (I used a rubon onto a metal tag that I had in my stash, some of it didn't rub-on as well as I wanted, but it works) and the stickles used is crystal as the centers for the 3 flowers, the 4th flower has a rhinestone.

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A challenge I did for Colorful creations.  This is an older photo of my niece and nephew from a holiday card from 2005.  The challenge For Girls Only challenge would be to pull out old photo's and get them scrapped.  The only rule is that there has to be a girl in the photo.  Since we all know I have boys...I turned to the pile of holiday card photos that were just too cute to toss...so now it is on a page and will be put into the album to be cherished by all.

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Here is this weeks SYAO challenge.  I used a 12x6 photo, which was not an easy task to get printed.
For products I used: twine, TH film strip, 5 different washi tapes, paint and chevron paper.  I also stamped my stitches and distressed the chevron paper.

SYAO2 Challenge #47 - due 12/25

You must use the size photo shown on the sketch on this one ladies!!! 12"x 6" to 12"x 8"

                                                           

PRODUCTS
chevron paper

twine/string/wire

Tags & tickets

envelope

5+ different Washi tapes

paint

number(s)

Tim Holtz film strip

TECHNIQUES

stamping, stitching & distressing-all 3

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A double dip while cleaning up. :)  I found this photo of Mark and his co-workers on my desk left over from the layout that I had to do for him back in June.  Anyway...instead of tossing it, I decided to scrap it.  The kids one day will look thru the album and get a chuckle of daddy and the bus.

I also utilized two challenges for this one. ACOT die cut challenge as found here: http://www.acherryontop.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=246046&p=4514938#p4514938

and FTS December sketch challenge, which was this sketch:

dec sketch

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Week 12

Use 2: Stamping, Tearing, Embossing, Distressing, Misting. Use 3: Bling, tags, tickets, household item(non-scrap related), 5+ buttons, eyelets, brads, ribbon slide

 Here is my take:  I tore both my tin foil and the journal card (one of the many from my SS today), inked the edges of the journalling card for distressing, tickets/tags, household item (non-scrap related, the tin foil), 5+ buttons.

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SYAO2 Challenge #44 - due 12/4

Complete a layout based on the following sketch provided by Scrap Friends

You must also use 4 of the 8 PRODUCTS listed and 1 of the TECHNIQUES.

 
PRODUCTS

chevron

twine/string/hemp

Tags & tickets

some type of metal embellishment

15+ buttons/stickers/hole reinforcers
7+ patterned papers

chipboard

3+ different washi tapes

TECHNIQUES

stenciling-stamping-splattering-all 3

Here is my take of the sketch:

I used the stenciling (chevron), stamping (light pink triangle) and splattering (glimmer mist splats) for the techniques, and then I used: chevron, 7+patterned papers, 3+different washi tapes and metal clips.  Photo is of  Bryan (2nd from right) at a friend's bar mitzvah with some other kids that attended.