Oh, My Word! Blog Hop: Connect

It's the beginning of a new year and, we hope, a fresh start to your creativity. The Design Team at Two Scrapbook Friends, plus some special friends, have been busy putting together some amazing paper crafting projects that are sure to kick start your new year of creativity. We challenged our designers and friends to choose a special word that captures what they would like to manifest in their lives in 2013.

To see all the great projects, begin the hop at the Two Scrapbook Friends Blog and travel from blog to blog.  If you comment on each blog, you will qualify to be in a draw for a special prize from Two Scrapbook Friends! We hope you are inspired to choose a special word of your own to inspire you in 2013. Once you have completed the hop to all our designers blogs, leave a comment on the Two Scrapbook Friends Blog. To receive an extra entry to win, send us an email of your own special word!

In addition, if you create a project representing your word and upload it to our Gallery (by February 28, 2012, 11:59 pm) we will award you 10 Forum Buttons! (See our Forum Button Policy here for more information.)

The hop will remain open from January 18th to January 21st at 11:59 pm (EST). Winners will be announced on January 22nd on the Two Scrapbook Friends Blog. So, be sure to stop back at the Two Scrapbook Friends Blog and check to see if you are the winner of a fabulous prize!

So remember, in order to be entered to win:
1. Leave a comment on all the blogs as you go and then go back to the Two Scrapbook Friends blog and leave a final comment there.
2. To have a second chance to win, send YOUR special word that inspires you in 2013 in an email to  2friends@execulink.com. Put "Blog Contest" in your subject line.
3. Create your own design based on your special word and upload it to our Gallery and Forum before February 28 at 11:58 pm, and receive 10 Forum Buttons towards gift certificates in the store!
4. Check back at the Two Scrapbook Friends Blog on January 22nd to see if you are the prize winner. (Winners will not be contacted personally.)

Be sure to stop by each of the following blogs and leave a comment!  Enjoy the Hop :)

Two Scrapbook Friends

Carolyn

Ann

Christa (you are here!)

Jan

Amanda

Lynn

Laureen

Jayne

Shelby

Joanne
Two Scrapbook Friends 

I always have a hard time choosing just ONE word to represent my vision for a WHOLE year, perhaps because I have so MANY things I'd like to focus on! For 2013, however, I found one single word came to me quite clearly: CONNECT.  It has so many implications in my life and in my desire to CONNECT with those around me in different ways. 

For our Blog hop at Two Scrapbook Friends, I chose to focus on the SCRAPBOOKING connotations this word has for me. Last year, my BFF Ann Jobes and I began a challenge group called Inspiration Elevator. It was just a group of like-minded artists looking to grow in their own personal journey of creativity through challenges. We contacted friends in the industry; designers who had blogs and wanted to challenge and be challenged.

Here is a design I made using photos of my IE friends for 2012/2013 (I used their FB photos). 

I began with Pebbles Walnut Grove background paper and added white splatters of paint. 

I arranged the photos in this format to represent that Ann and I began this joint adventure and matted each on white card stock. The large patterned chevrons are cut from Pebbles Walnut Grove too.

They represent movement and facing inwards show that I am trying to make a CONNECTION between the two pages of this double.

I also added Studio Calico wooden, boxes, hexagons and arrows which I coloured with ink, and stitched on.

I also thought I would hand stitch the title in hand writing to better illustrate the idea of CONNECT.

I was thrilled with how this turned out and I am so grateful for such wonderful ladies in my life to bolster my creativity and help me grow.

Now, off to Jan's blog and be further inspired! Until next time, keep doing what you love!