**NEW** Challenge!! with Prima Prize!!!!

I'm running a challenge this month at My Creative Scrapbook! We all love the distressed/grunge style pages.......if you haven't tried it yet, GO FOR IT!! Your layouts can be done in a feminine or masculine style. If you have tried it, you know how much fun it is to create a page using distressing techniques (see the 'tips and techniques' thread at MCS for some helpful ideas!

You have from April 1st to April 30th 2009 to upload your entries to the MCS gallery and link your layout to the challenge thread......So come check out the challenge, an awesome Prima Prize is up for grabs!! 3 full bottles of Prima blooms (January ~ Pink Carnations, February ~ Violets, and March ~ Daffodils) Winner will be announce May 3rd! Here is a link to the challenge thread, hope to see you there!! Distress/Grunge Challenge

~Gabrielle xx

So Excited!! Published in Scrapbooking and Beyond Magazine!

I was so excited to come back from our winter vacation in Florida to find my copy of Scrapbooking & Beyond Magazine in the mail!! I and 3 of my uber-talented friends Liz Qualman, Robbie Herring and Debbie Davidson (the whole thing co-ordinated by Liz -thanks Liz!) were asked to do a series called 'A Flourish for Every Season'. The magazine is printed quarterly and the Spring issue just came out!! For the Spring Issue we focused on using crystal flourishes on layouts.....and for the next 3 issue's we'll be focusing on a different flourish style for each season. Here is the page I made for the Spring issue......


To add interest to the crystal flourishes I handcut some blooms from some BasicGrey paper and intertwined them in the crystal flourishes using some Pop dots by Zva creative to give them some lift.....here are some close-up pic's....


I just finished my work for the Fall issue .....whew! a tight squeeze after getting back from vacation!.....thanks for having a peek!!

~Gabrielle xx