Let's Get the Party Started - introducing our BOO CREW

Can you believe another month has passed already? It is such a joy to share with you three days of project inspiration from my store - Lucky Girl Crafts. The Lucky Girl design team is amazing, and even though this is a Halloween themed kit, not all of the projects have a Halloween theme. I can guarantee that they're all gorgeous - with details like these, how could they not be?!


If you're just joining the party, be sure to check out the rest of the sites, too. There's daily project inspiration at each one of the sites, plus the more you visit, the more chance you'll have to win! (Read on for more details!)

Store Blog
Emily
Jessica - You Are Here! =D
Kim
Natalie

Here's the Boo Crew kit in all of it's glory - can you believe it's all offered for just $25.99?! Seriously a steal - but there's only a few kits left in the store, so if you want one, you better get one now!

Shop during our October Blog Party (October 1-3) and take advantage of some great Lucky Girl Savings:


SAVE $10 WITH ANY PURCHASE OVER $50!
Use code BOOCREW at check out.

Pre-order any Epiphany Crafts tool and you'll receive a free bonus kit with shipment of your tool.

And finally, how about we start the party with a little cake? Check out this sweet *clear* cupcake card I made with the fun Bo Bunny & American Crafts papers & embellies in the kit:

I totally dig those vinyl Thickers!

If you love the little things in life, you'll definitely want to check out the great deals on all of our "extras" - from flowers to alphabets, past kits, papers & more, the discounts are to die for!

Want a chance to win a little scrappy love of your own? I've got an inspiration scrap pack filled with Sasafrass Lass & My Mind's Eye yummies for you to try your luck with!

Lucky Girl Scrappy RAK giveaway:
One Lucky Girl from each blog in the party will win a packet of scrappy treasures - a mini inspiration kit filled with an assortment of ribbons, embellies, rub-ons, etc. for playing along during October 1-3.

Here's how you can win my RAK:

- Earn 1 entry for answering today's prompt

- Earn 1 entry for posting about our party on your blog, Facebook, My Space or Twitter (please leave the link here)

- Earn 10 tickets for placing an order!

TODAY'S PROMPT: What's your favorite October treat?

For the love of a good book...

Our challenge this week at Frosted Designs celebrates my other addiction- books! I'm always in the middle of a book, finishing two or three a week. Good thing my husband is so patient, since the bedroom is littered with books everywhere!



My favorite guilty pleasure is a certain series - maybe you can guess which one by my project this week...

I know - a respectable 30 year old mom of two really shouldn't be obsessed with such a book series, but I can't help myself! It's way to addictive. If, for some reason, you haven't figured it out - I'm talking about the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer.

Oh - on a totally different subject, did you hear about the Design Team call at Frosted Designs? Check out the details here and send in your submissions by October 15.

Lucky Ghouls & the Boo Crew!

The Lucky Ghouls, er, Lucky Girls, will be bringing you some AMAZING projects this week featuring the latest kit in our store!

Join us October 1-3 for our monthly Blog Party and some Boo Crew inspiration (but here's a hint - it's not all about Halloween, or even scrapping this month!)


We also have some amazing new tools from Epiphany Crafts available for pre-order. These tools make it super easy to make custom embellishments in literally less than 30 seconds! My seven-year-old daughter mastered the tools within 10 minutes of me busting them out of their package - seriously, these things rock. Check out all the different shapes & sizes!


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Ribbon Monster...

Hi, my name is Jessica, and I am a ribbon monster. I've got it falling out of drawers, hanging on hooks, tucked into pockets and tied onto just about everywhere. A girl could just get lost in all the different varieties of satin and grosgrain, shiny satins, patterned & pleated - it's just heaven! Ribbon is one of the main reasons I could never switch to full digital projects, because I just love the different textures and appeal that real ribbon holds.

Good thing this week is devoted to my guilty little pleasure over at Practical Scrappers. So many new ideas to play with! You've got to check them out.

Here's my contribution for the week - a super fun Halloween card I created with new products from my massive Epiphany Crafts prize pack that I got last week, plus some May Arts Halloween ribbon that I'm creating with for a guest blog post in a few weeks...

Patterned Papers, Stickers, Journaling Sprout: Jillibean Soup // Ribbon: May Arts // Epoxy Charm: Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio w/ Jillibean Soup Paper // Cardstock: Stampin' Up

How fun are those little monsters? They crack me up. I wove my printed satin ribbon through holes I created with my Crop-o-Dile, then slipped a strip of ribbon through one of the stitches for my bow. The back stitch I used held the ribbon in nice and tight, so all I had to do was adhere my ends, which I did with glue dots after I tucked under one of the back stitches on the inside of the card.

Oh, and notice that fun little stripy accent in the bottom right corner? That's a handmade epoxy charm that I created with my new Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio - definitely one of the coolest, easiest tools I have ever been lucky enough to play with! Watch for those soon in the Lucky Girl Crafts store - they're stinkin' awesome!!!

Just one more day left...

to get some awesome FREEBIES with the purchase of a Lucky Girl Crafts kit!

Visit our store and look closely for our BIG DEAL freebie codes that are hidden throughout the store within the descriptions of several different, totally random products... I promise it'll be worth your time! ;)

Some of the freebies in store... (all valued at more than $15!!!)
*Basic Grey Kioshi Page Kit
* Nikki Slivis Card Kit
* Alphabet Assortment (featuiring 2 packs of Thickers, Prima Dimensionals & Prima Expressions)
* Bonus Project Kit featuring My Little Shoe Box papers, alphas & stickers
& more!!!

Remember, for our Scavenger Hunt Sale, each discount code can only be redeemed one time! Get your shopping fingers ready, because with this sale, the early bird gets the best deal! =D

Are you brave enough?

Our challenge this week at Frosted Designs was definitely adventurous but definitely worth the risk! Are you up to the task?

We're talking about cutting photos - *gasp* I know, right? Admittedly, I was wary at first, but it is such a cool way of bringing out the focus of a photograph, and boy, do my Frosted Design sisters have some awesome ways of doing it! Seriously - go check them out here.


For my layout, I didn't want to detract from the beauty of the photo - a pic of the hot air balloon ride my mother-in-law took in the middle of the Colorado Rockies a few summers back. I simply added a few clouds cut out from my Cosmo Cricket Togetherness paper, and a Prima Say it in Studs swirl, along with my title. To make the photo *pop* I used two different sized circle punches (starting with the smallest size) to punch out the balloon, then again in the next size up to punch out a frame. I popped up the balloon with foam pop dots to add a little extra visual interest.

I dare you to go & be brave, and cut into your photos! Or at least try it a couple times. Then, post your projects to Frosted Designs by next Thursday for a chance to win some fun digi stamps!

Are you ready for one AWESOME sale?!?!

Join us for our first-ever Lucky Girl Crafts Scavenger Hunt Sale - September 16-20!

5 days of awesome deals hidden throughout our store!

You know that saying, the early bird gets the worm? Well, at Lucky Girl Crafts this (extended) weekend, the early birds will get the best deals!

Throughout our store, we'll have special discount and freebie codes listed - you might them hidden in the product description, our guest book, FAQs, or calendar - but we're not telling where! You'll just have to see if you've got a keen eye for a good deal!

What's in store, you ask? How about enjoying some of the following BIG DEALS with the purchase of any kit in the store:

* FREE BONUS KIT - valued at over $15
* FREE EMBELLISHMENT ASSORTMENT - valued at over $15
* FREE ALPHABET ASSORTMENT - valued at over $15
* FREE CARD KIT - valued over $10
* SAVE 50% OFF YOUR ORDER OF $60+

Pretty great deals, right? These are only a few of the perks you might get by shopping at Lucky Girl Crafts this weekend - but hurry, because each BIG DEAL is redeemable just ONE TIME! (One BIG DEAL code per person, please.) There's 10 BIG DEALS to find - and these aren't even the best ones!

If you're not quite an early bird, don't worry - we've got something special just for you! A limited-edition inspiration kit - valued at more than $5 - will be added to your order when you purchase any of our great Lucky Girl Crafts kits!

Go and get your shop on, and spread the word! Deals as sweet as these don't last long!

Change is in the air this fall - join the adventure!

Practical Scrappers is going to have a new format beginning in October. We are seeking project submissions for the following topics and will be featuring some of the great work that comes our way. These projects will be featured in the first two weeks of October. Projects should be submitted by October 3rd. In your email please include a link to your blog, if you have one, and tell us what country or state you live in.

Layouts: Submissions can be sent to practicalscrapperslayouts@gmail.com

Layouts that use five or more photos

Layouts that use black and white photos

Layouts that use distressing techniques

Cards: Submissions can be sent to practicalscrapperscards@gmail.com

Cards that use distressing techniques

We also will be running a regular feature showcasing projects that are displayed on our message board. If you have an awesome project you would like to share, post it on there and it may just show up in our October message board feature!

I *heart* sketches!

It's Lucky Girl Crafts week over at Sketch Inspiration, run by the super-sweet Trisha. Go check out the sketch that inspired this layout (and three other beauties by my fellow Lucky Girl DT) and play along for your chance to win!

Patterned Papers & Green Journaling Block: My Mind's Eye // Blue Journaling Card: Cosmo Cricket?? //Bingo Card & Rub-Ons: Jenni Bowlin // Bling Flourish & Printed Flower: Prima // Red & Yellow Flowers: Petaloo // Green Alpha: Echo Park Paper // Blue Ribbon: Lucky Girl Crafts July Kit // Large White Bling Brad: Pink Paislee // Ink: StazOn (brown)

Getting to the "core" of things...

This weeks' challenge at Practical Scrappers was to use white or color-core cardstock.

Lucky duck I am, my sweet friend Juanita recently gave me a whole pad of Coredinations Cardstock that was already dry embossed with Cosmo Cricket patterns. If you've never played with Coredinations, you must! Their cardstock is so much fun to sand, tear and play with because it always has a different color core than the main outside color. Too much fun!

My layout for the challenge is a mixture of (way) old and new products in my stash and combines the latest sketch from Sketchy Thursdays:

Patterned Paper: Paper Pizazz, Studio Calico // Cardstock: Coredinations/Cosmo Cricket, Bazzil // Alphabet & Large Bling Brad: Pink Paislee // Pearls: Close To My Heart // Gold Pen: American Crafts // Large Flower: Wal-Mart

For the color-core cardstock portion, I sanded the dry-embossed design and tore along the edge to bring the inner color to the fore front. I cut out some fancy flowers from a sheet of Studio Calico paper, and added a big peony (shamelessly from the fake floral section at WalMart) centered with a gorgeous bling brad from Pink Paislee. For the title, I smudged some PearlFX powder across the foamy Pink Paislee Artesian Alphabet. You can't really tell here, but it's nice and shiny now!

Have you had a chance to check out the rest of the amazing projects with white core and color core products that our great DT has come up with this week? Go check them out by clicking here and playing along for a chance to win some beautiful digi stamps from Robin's Fetish.

One project over the long weekend...

I had big plans to do not a whole lot of anything this weekend. Maybe organize my craft area, do some laundry, and finish a few layouts, but alas, the weekend was just as busy as the rest of our summer. Only two projects were completed - one of which I can't share until next Saturday.

Part of the reason I only completed two projects was because I was searching everywhere for my Bo Bunny papers so I could play along with their latest sketch challenge. Hmmm... maybe organizing should have taken a higher priority after all.



Here's my take on their fabulous sketch, using primarily products from their stinkin' cute Love Bandit line.

Patterned Papers, Chipboard Letters, "Paper Ribbon", Rub-Ons: Bo Bunny // Cardstock: Bazzill // Ink: StazOn // Button: Jenni Bowlin // Pearl Brad: Reminisce // White Paint: Delta Creamcoat

I used a few strips from their Love Bandit Cut-Outs to use as ribbon, just dying the backside with brown StazOn so it was solid instead of looking funky from the patterns on the reverse. I added a pearl brad through the center of a Jenni Bowlin vintage button for the center of the bow, and voila! Insta-paper bow.

For the circles, I just used very liberally applied white acrylic paint to the bottom of the paint lid for the larger dots, then the tip of a new pencil eraser for the smaller, solid dots. I liked how the drips looked, and the texture is really fun.

Thanks for visiting me today! I hope your week is fantabulous!

Yeah for our Lucky Girl!

Hello again friends! I'm so glad so many of you were able to join us for this month's Lucky Girl Crafts Blog Party! It was great to see the response this month and watch my little company blossom and grow. Thank you!!!

The Lucky Girls had 5 prizes to give away - four mini-inspiration kits from each of the Lucky Girl Crafts DT, and a gift certificate to the store that we were giving away on our main store blog. Prize winners will be announced on everyone's blog no later than Tuesday, but I've got the name of one of them right here!

Without further ado, the recipient of one of the mini inspiration kit is...

Debbie said...

Love this kit Jessica! I did a little shopping after I saw it and also took advantage of some of your sale items! Beautiful layout! Also saw your kit over at Creative Scarppers!!!

September 1, 2010 6:44 AM

Woohoo, girl! Thanks so much for playing along! Please verify your mailing information with an email to jasafras98@yahoo.com and we'll ship the fun stuff out early next week.

Thanks again to all of you! Please have a safe & happy holiday weekend - I'm off to enjoy the rest of mine with lots of scrapping!

Fabulous Friday & Lucky Girl Blog Party Finale!

Hello my lovely scrappy friends! Happy Friday! I'm so glad you could join us for our final installment of our Blog Party celebrating this luscious Lucky Girl Crafts kit:

Falling For You - only TWO KITS LEFT!

I hope that our Lucky Girl DT has inspired you to create wonderful projects with your Lucky Girl kits! Remember - we've got FREE SHIPPING on any order in the store through September 15, plus awesome deals on some of our past kits, our extra embellies & paper packets that you don't want to pass up on. Supplies are limited, so once they're gone from the store, they'll be gone for good. Go get your shop on at www.luckygirlcrafts.com

For my final project with the kit, take a peek at this beauty:
The layout didn't turn out too shabby either. ;)
I thought I'd go a different route by pairing such a pastel-y photo with the dark, rich Eggplant cardstock and some of the Prima patterned papers. The addition of the loose glitter and glitter trim keeps it from being too serious - perfect for such a girly girl like my sweet niece. Again, everything seen on this layout is from our latest (and most loved!) kit, our September kit - Falling For You

Check out my Lucky Girl sisters to see more from this beautiful kit:

Store Blog - http://luckygirlcraftkits.blogspot.com
Natalie - http://vegetablog.wordpress.com/
Kim - http://memoriesinthyme.blogspot.com
Emily - http://emilyseyes.com

Remember, today is the last day for you to participate for chances to win one of our FIVE prizes. Be sure to visit each of the Lucky Girls and follow their RAK rules to get your entries in!

Want to win a mini inspiration kit filled with scrappy sweetness?

For today's Blog Party prize entries, tell at least one person via Facebook, Myspace, Twitter or your blog about our party - just paste your link in the comment section below for your entry.

And, since today's the last day of the drawing, I'll give each person who places an order in our store today 21 (TWENTY ONE!) LUCKY ENTRIESfor the drawing!!!! Insane, right?!

What are you waiting for - go spread the word & cross your fingers! Good luck!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Day 2 of our Lucky Girl Blog Party! This one's for the fellas...

Thanks for joining us for day 2 of our Lucky Girl Blog Party!
Remember - each day we'll have new projects, and each day you can enter to win. Each of the DT has a special scrappy surprise to give away to one Lucky reader - mini inspiration kits filled with ribbons, rub-ons, embellies and more! Plus, there's a grand prize on the main blog that you'll want to try your hand at winning too!
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I know what you're thinking. You see big, bright pink flowers, sparkly trim, glitter and bling, and you're thinking that I might just be a little wacky. What must I be thinking to use such a bright color palette for masculine projects?

Well, I'm thinking how easy it's going to be for some girl to fall in love with these handsome fellas...Cardstock: American Crafts //Alphabet: Pink Paislee // Journaling Block: My Mind's Eye // Flower, Pebble & Pearls: Prima Marketing Inc.

Every single thing in this layout - except for the gold paperclip - came from our amazing (and hugely popular) September kit - Falling For You -

Not only is it filled with fun, bright, well - frankly, girly colors - but combined with the cardstock in Eggplant, Butterscotch, Slate & Vanilla - you've got a kit that can pack a powerful creative punch!

For this layout, I added one of the Prima Pebbles in Script - already on a pop dot - directly onto a gold paper clip as an accent. The Slate and Butterscotch cardstock were perfect for such formal attire, and the My Mind's Eye journaling block had a great sentiment. I doodled a frame around the entire edge of the layout and added just three tiny Prima pearls to dress it up.

So tell me... have you fallen for this amazing kit too?
Because there's only TWO SEPTEMBER KITS LEFT!

Love it, need it, gotta have it?
Hurry to the Lucky Girl Crafts store to get your kit before they're gone!
You'll get FREE SHIPPING through September 15 - but don't wait that long because I have a sneaky feeling that they'll be sold out by then. Oh - and we have some great deals on extra embellies & alphas, plus some of our past kits, in our Out With The Old, In With The New sale section!

Check out my Lucky Girl sisters to see more from this beautiful kit:

Store Blog - http://luckygirlcraftkits.blogspot.com
Natalie - http://vegetablog.wordpress.com/
Kim - http://memoriesinthyme.blogspot.com
Emily - http://emilyseyes.com

For today's Blog Party prize entries and a chance to win a mini inspiration kit filled with scrappy sweetness, visit our store & take a peek around, then tell me how you'd use your favorite embellishment from any of our kits.

Earn SEVEN LUCKY ENTRIES for our prize drawings when you make any purchase in our store!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!