July 25- Christmas in July

Posted on | July 25, 2010 | No Comments

PAINLESS JOURNALING SUNDAYS with SarahKaye

Welcome to the fourth and last week of Painless Journaling! I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have!

Many people say journaling is the hardest part of scrapbooking and these exercises are aimed at helping you unblock your creative writing mojo! Basically, Painless Journaling is designed to get your creative juices flowing and open a part of your brain that will allow you to better express yourself in your journaling efforts.

For those of you that didn’t catch the PJ posts the last three Sundays, you can find the introduction and first exercise, Color Me, in this post. You might want to read through it to get the most benefit from each lesson. The second post, The Whole Picture, can be found here, and last week’s post, Word Bank, is here. Try them, they’re lots of fun!

WEEK 4- CLUSTERING

PART 1

This is a fun and easy exercise that only takes a few minutes, is extremely helpful and I’ll bet you refer to it over and over!

You simply start with a single word in a circle in the center of the page and write words that pop into your mind. Then go from there and see where it takes you! See the diagram below as an example. It’s a free association exercise to get your brain out of your normal rut and into a creative mode. Use as many branches in as many directions as you want!

Here’s a word to get you started. Feel free to use your own word (especially if you have a set of photos you need to journal!) but here’s a suggestion if you just want to loosen your brain and get creative.

SMILE

PART 2- APPLICATION

If you have photos you need to journal but want to find a unique presentation, use this technique to see what your mind tells you that you didn’t know was in there! LOL

For instance, if you have birthday photos, use “birthday” or “age” or “party” or something like that for your center word and see where that goes. If you have photos that aren’t for any occasion, pick something in the photo at random- maybe part of the landscape in the background like “tree”, something like “silly” if that’s what pops into your head. Then set aside the photos and see where that word takes you. It may do nothing more than warm you up for your journaling, or it may inspire you with that perfect way to present those photos.

Let us know what you come up with!

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Unscripted Sketches #65

Posted on | July 24, 2010 | 2 Comments

Hello Everyone! Welcome to Sketch it Saturdays at Unscripted Sketches! If you are just finding Unscripted Sketches, every Saturday morning we post a sketch for the week. Flip it, Rotate it… create a card or a scrapbook page with our sketch. There is no right or wrong way, as long as you are using the Unscripted Sketch as the basis of your creation!

GIVEAWAY!!!

Remember, whoever plays along and posts at least 3 projects using any 3 of the July sketches (including bonus sketches) will be entered to win a Zutter Distrezz-It-All!!! The details are in this post. It is offered by our own designer, Liz, at her store Thoughts 2 Paper. And here’s a DISCOUNT CODE! All Unscripted followers will get a discount on their orders if you enter this code: 254u2shop during the whole month of July! (The code must be entered exactly as you see it.) So go check out her great store for lots of items to make your next project fantastic!

Unscripted Sketches #65

We hope you will visit the Unscripted Sketches Designers’ blogs:

Alanna, April, Arielle, Caryl, Debbie, Jenny, Linda, Liz, Marcy and SarahKaye

GUEST DESIGNER- KELLY!!

This is week 4 of 5 Saturdays in July that we’ll have a guest designer!

This week’s guest designer is Kelly. Click on her name above to zip over to her blog, Crafting Creatively, and check out all the other wonderful projects she’s done! Thanks for joining us this week and showing us this sweet little winiter card, Kelly!

Ready to Play? Using this week’s sketch, upload your creation to your blog or gallery. When you add your link below, please be sure it is a direct link to your Unscripted Sketches project. Please give credit to Unscripted Sketches #65.

TOP 3 Announcement!

Once again this week, there was a lot of wonderful work to choose from. We look forward to seeing more great projects using this week’s sketch!

Our Top 3 picks for last week’s sketch #64 are Peri, Lisa and Heather. Congratulations!!!!

Here are their projects! Click on their names above to visit their blogs and see their projects full-size.

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No more Bingo words because we had a winner today! Congrats, Jenn! If you didn’t win or if you didn’t have a chance to play, there is still a chance to win a Bingo prize in the SECOND CHANCE Bingo guessing game! The details are here in this post! Good luck!

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Christmas in July- Bingo winner and Second Chance prize opportunity

Posted on | July 23, 2010 | 18 Comments

Congratulations to Jenn Borjeson, our Bingo winner! She was the first to get a “blackout” of her list of Christmas songs and post “Bingo”! Jenn, send your address to sarahkozy@hotmail.com and I’ll get your prize out to you!

Your last words didn’t get called? You were too late to post “Bingo”? You were too late to play at all? WORRY NOT! I’m giving away a Second Chance prize! And ANYONE can play! There is one song from the master list that was chosen by 23 of you- more than any other song! All you have to do is comment on this post with your guess as to which song was chosen most! Guessing will be open until midnight EST Tuesday, July 27. One entry per person. A winner will be picked at random from all correct answers and announced on Wendesday, July 28th. Remember, anyone can play- I’m the only one that has seen everyone’s list of songs, so even the design team can play! Check out the master list below and post a comment with which song you think was picked the most. Good luck! ~SarahKaye

A Child This Day Is Born

Adeste Fideles

All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth

Angels We Have Heard On High

Auld Lang Syne

Away In a Manger

Blue Christmas

Chestnuts Roasting On an Open Fire

Deck the Halls

Do They Know its Christmas?

Do You Hear What I Hear

Feliz Navidad

Frosty the Snowman

Go Tell It on the Mountain

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

Good King Wenceslas

Grown Up Christmas List

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Here Comes Santa Claus

Holly Jolly Christmas

Home for the Holidays

I Saw Three Ships

I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

I’ll Be Home For Christmas

It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Jingle Bell Rock

Jingle Bells

Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

Joy to the World

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Mary Did You Know

Mr. Grinch

O Christmas Tree

O Come, All Ye Faithful

O Holy Night

O Little Town Of Bethlehem

Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Silent Night

Silver Bells

Sleigh Ride

Suzy Snowflakes

The Christmas Song

The First Noel

The Holly and the Ivy

The Little Drummer Boy

The Most Wonderful Day of the Year

The Twelve Days of Christmas

The Wassail Song

There’s Always Tomorrow

This Christmas

Twelve Days After Christmas

Up On the Housetop

We Need a Little Christmas

We Three Kings

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Welcome Christmas

We’re A Couple of Misfits

What Child Is This?

White Christmas

Winter Wonderland

July 23- Christmas in July

Posted on | July 23, 2010 | 6 Comments

Christmas Song Bingo

Here are today’s words.
Several of you should complete your list today!
Don’t forget, the FIRST person to call “Bingo” by
posting a comment is the winner! (The winner will
be determined by time stamp.)
Good luck!

Deck the Halls
Sleigh Ride
Do You Hear What I Hear?

DESIGNER SPOTLIGHT!!!

Each Monday, Wednesday and Friday in July we will spotlight one of the fabulous members of our design team. At least until we run out of designers. Each and every one of them contributes to the team in their own unique way and this is our way of helping you get to know them! They have each prepared a special Christmas in July blog post on their personal blogs. It might have to do with special memories of Christmastime, a special holiday project they’ve been working on recently, favorite projects they’ve done in the past, perhaps someone might even choose to go with the “July” part and reflect on some of their favorite summers! The blog posts will be as different and special as the designers themselves and they will all be interesting to see! While you’re there, take a look around their blogs, read previous blog posts, see other projects they’ve done. I guarantee you’ll find lots of good stuff to enjoy!

Today’s Designer Spotlight is on…

SARAHKAYE!!!

“It’s Christmas in July! It also happens to be my big brother’s birthday! (Happy birthday, Jeff!!!) I love Christmas time and always have for as long as I can remember. My spotlight post is going to feature special Christmas memories from my past. Come join me on my blog Three Girls and a Hubby for a trip down Candy Cane Memory Lane!”

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WEEKLY SKETCH

And don’t forget about our regular weekly sketches! This week’s sketch post #64 can be found here. We want to see your projects using this week’s sketch!

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