Saturday, May 1, 2010

ART FRECKLES 'BACK TO BASICS' BLOG HOP!!

Wow, National Scrapbooking Day is here!! I hope wherever you are today you are making time to scrap, shop for scrapbooking stuff and enter online contests on the biggest day of the year for us scrapbooking fanatics LOL! In honour of this special day Art Freckles is having a blog hop!

HOW IT WORKS:
Step 1: There are 6 blogs on the blog hop. Leave a comment on ALL 6 blogs and you will be entered into a draw for the Art Freckles NSD giveaway!
Step 2: Check out the challenges on Shannon and each of the DT's blogs. Complete a challenge and link it back to that persons blog in the comment section. For each challenge you complete and link back, you will receive another ballot for the giveaway.
Step 3: Create just ONE layout using ALL of the challenge items from the 5 blogs and link it back to the Art Freckles blog to receive TRIPLE THE BALLOTS!! How fun is that!?

You can check out the prize package on the Art Freckles blog.

Our theme is 'BACK TO BASICS'. Thinking back to the tools and techniques we used when we first started scrapbooking. My challenge for you is to use "die cut frames" on a layout.

Just for fun we thought we would share one of our original layouts with this item from when we first started scrapbooking. I made this layout about 10 or 11 years ago. One of my first layouts. Gotta love it LOL!



And here is my 2 pager from present day! I have had these frames kicking about for a while and I thought they would be fun to use with my daughter's Knex creations pics. The papers are from the Paper Girl line and you can find them HERE.


Left page:

Right page:

So just to recap, don't forget to leave me a comment here today. If you do a layout using die cut frames, then link it here in the comment section also. And if you do just one layout using all the challenge items, link it to the Art Freckles blog. Clear as mud? You will have til 8a.m. EST Monday May 3rd to link your layouts.
The next stop on your blog hop is Jamie. Click HERE to hop on over to her blog!

And just in case you get lost here are the rest of the blogs you will be visiting:

19 comments:

tinascrapbooking said...

Great pages Linda, Mine are way worse!!! I'll show you some time ;)
Happy NSD, glad this great hobby has introduced me to so many great ppl like you :)

Unknown said...

Aw, Tina you are so sweet! Happy NSD also and I'm so glad to know you as well. You are such a generous person!

Jackie L. said...

Thanks for sharing your first pages with us Linda !
Happy NSD !

Unknown said...

great lo linda!! i'm not sure if i have a die cut frame, but i will see!!! :)

Christine VanDenBroek said...

your old pages mind me of some from my honeymoon, so glad we've all learned some new tricks
christine

Renée said...

Love Your Lo's Linda! You Rock!

Cyndi said...

I love your creations! And I love diecuts! Happy NSD!

Pastor Amy said...

The pages are cute! I think we all have grown over the years and I know I have lots that I look back and think "My Goodness, what in the heck was I thinking"!!!! Happy NSD Linda!!

Tanya said...

Awesome layouts!!!!!
Happy National Scrapbooking Day Linda!!!!!

~~Mia~~ said...

here is mine!!!

http://www.artfreckles.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-2598

Jacqueline said...

Great challenge Linda! Love your layout about your boy!

JoanneK said...

Your pages (all of them) are wonderful! Have to dig up some old frames now! How fun!

Veronica said...

very brave to post photos of pregnancy belly!!

Happy NSD!!

Anonymous said...

love the birth pics on that first layout. I'm not sure I have die cut frames around, I may have to improvise if I get to this challenge.

Jill Sarginson said...

Awesome Linda! I love your use of the die-cut frames! Great layouts ... I was die-cut frame crazy too ... haha

JoanneK said...

I dug around for a die cut frame (I threw abunch out not long ago...gasp...didn't think I'd need them!) This is what I came up with!
http://www.artfreckles.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10032/normal_DSC07748.JPG

JoanneK said...

I don't know why the whole link isn't there?
http://www.artfreckles.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10032/normal_DSC07748.JPG

Cyndi said...

Enjoyed this challenge!

http://www.artfreckles.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=1&pos=0

Unknown said...

Thanks for playing along ladies!!