Congratulations to the new Crop Addict Design Team!

January means more than the start of a new year - it also means it's time for a new Design Team at Crop Addict. I am very fortunate that Debbie has asked me to come back for another term as the Design Team Coordinator - super excited! Without further ado, please welcome the new team....

• Sophia Allison
• Sandi Johnson
• Monique Liedtke (returning for a second term)
• Debbie Schroeder (store owner)
• Lisa Spiegel

Congratulations ladies! I am looking forward to working with you over the next six months! And to the outgoing team - it has been wonderful working with you. Good luck in all your future scrapbooking endeavors and I hope to see you around the boards!

Top 10 of 2010

It's that time of year again. To reflect of the past year and look forward to what the future year brings. As I reflect back on my 2010 year in scrapbooking, I successfully preserved many fond memories and enjoyed the creative outlet in the process. I even completed two gift albums - an 88-page 2-volume scrapbook for my baby cousin Cece (which I began in April 2008) and my cousin Peter's high school sports album. Below are ten of my favorite layouts I created in the past year. They should all look familiar!

Start the new year off right with the January Crop Addict kit!

Did you make any scrappy resolutions for the new year? Well, start those resolutions off on the right foot with the Crop Addict January kit! This kit is chock-full of amazing double-sided heavy-weight papers from Fancy Pants and Bo Bunny and six coordinating sheets of Bazzill cardstock. Embellishments include American Crafts Thickers, AdornIt alpha stickers, Basic Grey rub-ons, Scenic Route chipboard hearts, a bunch of Luxe Designs jotters, epoxy teardrops and more! Get your kit here for only $32!

Be sure to check out the coordinating kit option too! It includes coordinating Bo Bunny stickers, coordinating Fancy Pants rub-ons and a set of chipboard sentiments from Creative Imaginations. Pick one up here for only $14!

This kit is great for all sorts of layouts - I used mine for a layout about my scraproom, a wedding layout, a generic love layout, a baby album layout, a set of greeting cards and a wedding mini-album. Check out my creations below and also be sure to check out what the rest of the Design Team did with the kit here in the Crop Addict gallery.

Peter's High School Sports Album Was A Success!

Back at Christmastime 2008, my aunt Nora bid on a custom-made scrapbook that I had offered up for our biannual Haas charity auction. She asked that I create an album for my cousin Peter that documented his four years as a three-season athlete at Walsh Jesuit High School. Giving him this album on this past Christmas Day was a memorable experience. My aunt cried and the smile on Peter's face the whole time he flipped through it was priceless. This is why I scrap.

P.S. If you are looking for supplies for ANY sport, check out Scrappin' Sports Stuff. They have it all! If I hadn't found their site, I wouldn't have been able to get this album together as quickly as I did - all the sports-themed supplies were purchased there.

Cece's Album is FINISHED!!

30 months, 88 pages, two thick albums, hundreds of photos and mementos and countless hours later and it's done. Completely done! I am thrilled with these albums. It was a lot of work but so worth it. I miss my baby cousin who is no longer a baby but a little woman. We moved to Oregon just a few weeks after she was born and it was tough to leave her. I haven't been able to watch her grow up in person but I did from distance through making this album. I am so excited to see her over Christmas and present her parents with these albums. I hope they love them as much as I do!