DT Inspiration with Sarah!!

Hi there! I have a quick little tutorial today to add some quick texture to your layouts, cards and other projects.

I created this layout using the October Double Shot kit. I am in LOVE with this Jillibean Soup collection!

I wanted the pictures to be the focus on this one so I went easy on the embellishments. To add some texture to this simple design I used embroidery floss and twine. I also wanted to stick with the sewing theme so I added just a few stitches on the page with embroidery floss.

Here's some of my stitches below-

To create some stitches on your own page here's what to do-

Step 1: Using a paper piercer poke holes through the layout where you want your stiches to go that look like this

Step 2: Thread emboidery thread through a sewing need.

Step 3: Place needle through top first hole from the back until only an inch of thread is left behind layout. Using scotch tape, tape that inch of thread to back of layout.

Step 4: Place needle through bottom second hole and pull thread to back of layout. You should have one stich that looks like this:

Step 5: Place the needle through the top second hole and pull all the thread to the front of the layout. Then place needle through bottom first hole and pull all the thread to the back of the layout. You should have another stitch overlapping the first that looks like this:

Step 6: Repeat steps 3-5 starting with the top 3rd hole and continue untill you have four stitches.

When you are done all the thread should be hanging off the back of the layout. Trim it leaving one inch of thread. Tape that inch to the back of the layout.

There you have it! A quick way to add some fun stitches to your layouts.

Have You Seen Our Gallery?!?!

I mean really? Have you seen our gallery?

I'm not sure if you noticed, but our design team is pretty stinkin' talented!! They are!! Every month they pull out ALL of the stops. When you browse our gallery, you are sure to find something you will like. Like new techniques, great color combinations, new and innovative ways to use embellishments, and the best use of each and every kit...they are AWESOME!!!

If you frequent our gallery, you will find that there are 2 NEW sections...the Flavors of the Month Recipe Card Gallery and the DoubleShot Recipe Card Gallery. What are Recipe Cards you may ask? Recipe Cards are a full, step by step explanation of how to create a double-page layout using each of the TSR kits! Yep, each TSR kit!!!! The catch...you only get the directions if you are a member of TSR!!! So, yes you can browse our gallery, but you will NOT get to feast your eyes on the directions into you join us! To take a look at this months' kits go HERE, and magically you will be emailed the passwords to this month's Recipe Cards! It's that easy!!

Here is a look at this month's Recipe Card layouts...

A Delicious Fall by Sarah (DoubleShot)

Sew Thankful by Kim (DoubleShot)

Halloween Fun by Jenny (FOTM)

Home Sweet Home by Frances (FOTM)

September Fun by Aphra (FOTM)

My Boys by Melanie (FOTM)

Happy Thursday and thanks for visiting!!

October Sketch Time!!

Hello ladies!!! It's time for our monthly........
Super fun, huh? Well let's get right to it! Here is a look at this month's sketch...

October Sketch by Aphra

And here is a look at our super talented Design Team's interpretations...

1st Taste by Sarah

Bon Appetit Cajun Style by Kim

{Cousins} by Jenny

Happy Birthday by Frances

2 of a Kind by Aphra

I Do It by Melanie

Once again, love, love, love!! Now we wanna see your interpretation of our sketch! You have until Monday, October 31st to leave a comment IN THIS POST with a link to your layout. Your name will then be entered into a random drawing to win a $10 gift cert to our TSR Store!!!!

Sound good? Now get BUSY!!!!

Ok, almost finished. First, I would like to thank EVERYONE for participating in September Sketch Challenge...hope you enjoyed it! The winner of our September Sketch Challenge is...


BIG CONGRATS Mandy!!

Please email Tammy at admin@scrap-room.com with your real name, email address, and the name of the contest you won. She will in turn, email your gift certificate to you. Congrats again, and thanks again everyone for playing along with us this month!

Sneak #3

The Cuteness of Isabel by Sarah (Doubleshot kit)

Up Close & Personal with Sarah!!

Hello everyone! Sarah here with a look at one of my layouts created with the September Double Shot kit!

Having two little ones around prevents us from going on a lot of trips and if you can believe it most of the pictures from my pre-kid trips have already been scrapped. Probably because back then I had all the time in the world to scrapbook- LOL! BUT.... That doesn't mean I don't LOVE the October Afternoon Boarding Pass collection in this month's DS kit! I love taking paper that is meant for one theme and letting it tell my story. When I saw the map papers I knew immediately I would use one for this photo of my sweet Isabel on the day she was born. It definitely "helped" tell my story. The world is a much better place with her in it, that I am sure. Now that I'm thinking about it, that could have also been my title!

Have fun with this month's kit and I can't wait to see what you create!

Sneak #5

Going Places by Sarah

***Make sure to check the post below...we have a great steal this week!!

July Sketch Winner and August Sketch!!!

Hello ladies!!! It's that time of the month.......
Super fun, huh? Well let's get right to it! Here is a look at this month's sketch...

August Sketch by Aphra

And here is a look at our super talented Design Team's interpretations...

Summer Hike by Sarah

Easter Boys by Jenny

A Trio of Fun by Kim

Summer Vacation by Lan

Just Me & My Boys by Aphra

Sweet Summertime by Melanie

Beautiful, right? Now we wanna see your interpretation of our sketch! You have until Wednesday, August 31st to leave a comment IN THIS POST with a link to your layout. Your name will then be entered into a random drawing to win a $10 gift cert to our TSR Store!!!!

Sound good? Now get BUSY!!!!

Ok, almost finished. First, I would like to thank EVERYONE for participating in July Sketch Challenge...hope you enjoyed it! The winner of our July Sketch Challenge is...

BIG CONGRATS Michelle!!!

Please email Tammy at admin@scrap-room.com with your real name, email address, and the name of the contest you won. She will in turn, email your gift certificate to you. Congrats again, and thanks again everyone for playing along with us this month!

Design Team Inspiration with Sarah!!

Hi everyone! I am here today to share how to make cards in minutes. Yep, I said minutes! I created two beautiful cards from the August Double Shot Kit and they took me less than 15 minutes combined!

Here are my two cards that only took minutes:

Now let me tell you the tricks...


First of all I always try to make my cards when I have all my supplies out. I am a messy scrapper and I usually have scraps all over the place. I just take those scraps do a little trim here and a little trim there, adhere them to a cardstock base, add a sentiment and a card is done. See the papers, flowers cut from the BG paper, flower ribbon and scallopped chipboard? All scraps I had leftover from this layout. I even used the same letter stickers since I had them out.

Some more tricks I have found to make card making easier...


1. If I have a good size of cardstock left over I will immediately trim it to a card size, fold it into a card base and then put it into a plastic bag to save for later. I use these three sizes- 5 x 10 (5x5 card), 4x8 (4x4 card) and 5.5 x 8.5 (5.5 x 4.25 card). When I have scraps left over from a project I just look in the bag for a coordinating base.

2. I keep all my card sentiment rubons, diecuts, etc in a small plastic bin. I even pop out the sentiment ones from diecut sheets and cut around ones on sticker sheets to keep in the bin if I am sure I won't use them on a layout. That way I have the perfect sentiments all in one place to add to my cards.

3. Sometimes I will leave the sentiment off if I am not sure what I will use the card for. When I need a card I just hop on over to my sentiment bin, pick an appropriate one, adhere it to a card and am out the door. With two little kiddies this happens more than I want to admit! I am always looking for a card 5 minutes before we have to leave!

4. I usually try to keep my cards simple to speed things up. Small embellishments like ribbon and buttons and some faux stitching go a long way to make a card look more fancy than it is.

I hope you enjoyed these tips and always have a card for any occasion!

Up Close and Personal with Sarah!

Happy August to all! Don't you just love the August Kits? They are fabulous!

Here are two layouts I created with some Basic Grey "Out of Print" in the Double Shot kit. The flowered paper was just screaming out to me to be cut up. So I fussy cut some flowers and popped them up with foam tape on both layouts. I thought the stripes were a little overpowering for my photos so I cut strips from it and used them above and below my photos to bring the focus on my photos.

I stamped some clouds onto the text paper and then cut those out too! The letter are from the embellishment kit and I couldn't resist using them on this layout. I just needed to outline them with a white pen to help them stand out.

I added the Pebbles flower from the kit to the middle of one of my cut out flowers to give it some more dimension. And of course I had to add some faux stitching!

Next time I will show what I did with the extra flowers I cut out, but didn't use.

Have fun with the August kits! I can't wait to see what you create!

Sneak #4

Summer Hike by Sarah

Up Close and Personal with Sarah!

Hello everyone!! Have you seen the kits this month??? They are GORGEOUS! I just can't pick a favorite line, but I have to say the Girl's Paperie line in the Double Shot kit was perfect for photos of my little girls. I don't usually scrap with red, I am more a pink kinda girl, but red looks so good with these papers! Does Tammy know how to pick them or what? Just another thing I love about the kits- they get me to try something new. I would have definitely picked pink cardstock, but Tammy knows best and the red is a much better choice!

This is one layout that I created with the Girl's Paperie in the Double Shot kit. If you have a bunch of punches sitting around waiting to be used this layout is for you! I used the following punches on this layout- circle punch (two sizes), scalloped circle punch, heart punch (two sizes), photo corner punch and butterfly punch. So thats a total of 7 punches on one page!

I punched a bunch of the circles and then tried to randomly place them around the page. The photo is of me and my sweet Frances on Mother's Day. She may look like her Dad, but inside she is all me! She is also my little shawdow and best friend at the moment. This inspired my title because we are two of kind.

Here's some of my punched shapes. I punched the butterflies from the packaging the brads in the kit were attached to. I couldn't let that pretty packaging go to waste!

Look at these awesome flowers! They fit my circle design perfectly :)

And that stitched circle? I used my favorite faux stitching technique. I used one of my punched circles as a template, traced around it with a pencil and then pierced holes around the pencil lines. Then I erased the pencil lines and connected them with my white signo pen. Look's like real stitching, doesn't it?



The yellow letters are from my stash and I love how they stand out on the red cardstock. The little red stickers are from the embellishment kit and I LOVE them. They are the perfect size to finish my titles. The paper I punched the heart from is my favorite from the kit. I am a sucker for plaid prints and I used every last inch of that sheet!

I hope you liked this peek at my layout! I can't wait to see what you create with the kit!

June Sketch Winner and July Sketch Challenge!!

Hello ladies!!! It's that time of the month.......
Super fun, huh? Well let's get right to it! Here is a look at this month's sketch...

July Sketch by Jenny

And here is a look at our super talented Design Team's interpretations...

Live, Laugh, Love by Jenny

Sweet by Lan

Family Reunion by Melanie

Piles of Laughs by Frances

So In Love by Sarah

Imagine by Kim

Cool in the Pool by Aphra

Beautiful, right? Now we wanna see your interpretation of our sketch! You have until Sunday, July 31st to leave a comment IN THIS POST with a link to your layout. Your name will then be entered into a random drawing to win a $10 gift cert to our TSR Store!!!!

Sound good? Now get BUSY!!!!

Ok, almost finished. First, I would like to thank EVERYONE for participating in June Sketch Challenge...hope you enjoyed it! The winner of our June Sketch Challenge is...
BIG CONGRATS Janet!!!

Please email Tammy at admin@scrap-room.com with your real name, email address, and the name of the contest you won. She will in turn, email your gift certificate to you. Congrats again, and thanks again everyone for playing along with us this month!