It’s Day 9 of the Scrap-A-Thon 3 with Nicole Jones 911 and for this day we needed to use a sketch to create a scrapbook layout.  I don’t usually use a sketch but I have to say it made the process a lot easier because I already had the placement of the major elements which …

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On Day 18 of CalvinBall 2019, I created this layout.  WooHoo!!!! I finally made it to 40 points for one layout.  Some of my points were scored by using a doily, a Llama and a quote (which are 3 things I hadn’t managed to do in my previous layouts). This layout started with the mixed …

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It’s Day 8 of the Scrap-A-Thon 3 with Nicole Jones 911 and the technique for this day of the Scrap-A-Thon was using circles.  I had a baggie of solid brown circles and patterned paper circles that I received as a freebie from someone a long, long time ago. One of my goals for this month …

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It’s Day 7 of the Scrap-A-Thon 3 with Nicole Jones 911 and the technique for this day of the Scrap-A-Thon was to use a stencil.  The stencil I used was from TCW (The Crafter’s Workshop) and it is called Stripe Explosion.  The stencil reminded me of rays of sunshine, so I decided to use some …

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It’s Day 15 of the CalvinBall2019 Challenge and yet another layout with pics of my dogs.   I can’t help scrapbooking my beautiful girls … they are so sweet.  The focus of this layout is a butterfly cut file from Paige Evans.  I backed each butterfly with a different pattern paper … this takes quite …

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It’s Day 6 of the Scrap-A-Thon 3 with Nicole Jones 911 and the technique for this day of the Scrap-A-Thon was creating a background.  I used a stencil, some distress inks and a makeup brush to create a sky, sun, clouds and some buildings.  The 12×12 stencil that I used was from TCW (The Crafter’s …

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It’s Day 14 of the CalvinBall2019 Challenge and I finally finished this layout. Some layouts come together very easily and others seem to take forever … this one is one that took 3 days (off and on) to create. And, yes, it’s another record breaker, this layout scores 39 points. I wanted to use up …

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It’s Day 11 of the CalvinBall2019 Challenge and I created a new layout.  Another record breaker, this layout scores 33 points.  It gets easier every day to get a higher score because I’m getting more familiar with the rules and new rules are added almost every day adding more categories to get bonus points. This …

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After a week-end get-away to the Gulf Coast, I’m back scrapping for CalvinBall2019.  We got back this morning from the Gulfport, MS, so I only have one layout for today.  This layout is my highest scoring so far at 29 points.  The bonus points help a lot and more are rules are added every day. …

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Yet another Scrapbooking layout for Calvinball.  Only one for this day but I started 3 or 4 more that are not finished yet.  After completing this layout, my score is 92 points.  Whew!!!  The leader in Calvinball 2019 has 571 points, so I need to pick up the pace!!! The mixed media background of this …

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