As you can see, the background is unlike anything that could be done unless you used random pieces of garbage!  {{lol}}

 Okay, one more thing about this lo….if you can’t figure out from looking at it how to make that pink flower

I don’t very often do girly lo’s so this was kinda fun for me to use some flowers and some girly colours too! 

and also I made a pinwheel :)
To learn how to make the pinwheel or to see how DIFFICULT the drop technique is, check out this video here:

How about this circle?

Well, that’s it for me, I have loved being here and hanging out with y’all and I really, really, really hope that you have found not only some inspiration but also maybe a new technique to try or an idea to check out! 


Thanks so much to the Snobby Walrus gang for having me here!!  Enjoy the rest of your summer!

XOXO ~ Mia
http://www.makepositivechanges.blogspot.com/
http://www.theeverydayscrapper.com

The past couple of weeks have been chaotic, but at last we have our next challenge up! We are still in the process of checking out everyone's layouts and projects from last month, so bear with us!

Now, onto the Challenge...
This Challenge is another Recipe challenge. What we do for this is give you a list of items that you need to use in your layout, pretty simple right?  Here are your Ingredients:

-3 types of ribbon
-Stripes
-the color yellow
-at least one flower
-Journaling directly on paper/layout

Hopefully it shouldn't be too much of a challenge to use all of those in a layout! And remember, it doesn't have to be a layout necessarily, it can be a card, ATC, altered art project, whatever you choose so long as it's got some paper on it!

Here's what I made:

I can't wait to see what you create using this Recipe!

You've got all month to participate in any of our challenges! We choose 2 winners each month, one based on random drawing, and then we choose one winner whose layout really stood out to us. The more challenges you participate in, the better your chance of winning!

Just leave a link to your layout (if you link to your blog, please link to the actual blog post), or you can upload your layout/project to our image gallery (see the tab at the top under our banner) and mark it as Challenge #7.

As always, our Challenges are open to the international community. We will ship out to anywhere in the world, so go ahead and play along with us!

Thanks for dropping by!
~Tracy

Hi this is Tracy!

Not sure what happened to the last blog post... I guess our server got hungry and ate it?

We recently discovered that a number of our packages had been stolen, meaning a lot of our winners did not receive their prizes from last month. We have already re-sent out the prizes, and rest assured, the local police have done a wonderful job and we have taken a lot of extra measures that will make our packages impossible to be stolen again, unless the postal worker himself decided to steal it, LOL!

Don't worry, although things were a bit hectic here with the stolen packages, CHA, and an unusually high number of sales, we've been very busy, but in a good way! I've been trying my best to get back to everyone who has left comments of concern over the matter, and please don't hesitate to send me an email!

overlord@snobbywalrus.com

Thank you everyone!

We have brought in a couple new people to the Snobby Walrus team during this time, so all our regular store orders and kit orders are still shipping out by next business day, so you can rest assured that there aren't any delays in shipping during this busy time!

Hi everyone! We've been clearing the way for CHA (very exciting), so we weren't able to get Challenge #6 up sooner, but here it is now!

The talented Sarah Slade created this lovely sketch for us!

Flip it, invert it, make it your own unique interpretation! You can make this whatever size you want, and if you want to use this sketch for a card, that's fine also! It doesn't even have to be a layout =)

We can't wait to see what your creations inspired by this sketch!

Remember, you have ALL MONTH to play along with any of our challenges for July! Play along with one, or with all 4 of our weekly challenges! Your due date for any/all challenges is JULY 31st. Either leave a comment here with a link to your project, or upload your project to our image gallery, marked as Challenge #6 (or 4, or 5... etc.)

At the end of the month, we choose 2 winners who will win fabulous RAKs from us! One winner is chosen by random drawing (with one entry per challenge you participate in, up to 4 entries a month!), and the other winner is someone we choose whose layout or project really stood out to us!

Also, if you want to COMBINE our challenges, that is perfectly fine, and it will still count as you participating in those challenges. (for example, you can use Ink in the layout you make for Challenge #4, which is a humor-based layout, and you'd still get 2 entries in our drawing for the RAK) Just have it marked as all the challenges that you are combining, so we know to count it for each one !

ALL OUR CHALLENGES ARE OPEN TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY! =)

Thanks for stopping by everyone, and have a great weekend!

~Tracy

Hello everyone! I'm Catherine from The Everyday Scrapper and I'm here with a tutorial on different uses for Tim Holtz's Rock Candy Crackle Paint.

First, you're going to spread on a medium layer of paint over your surface. For my first example, I'm going to use chipboard. 

Here, you can see three things. Bottom center: chipboard that is painted with a medium layer of paint, about halfway through the drying process. Top right: chipboard that has been inked with Tim Holtz ink, then painted with the Crackle paint (still wet). At at the upper right hand corner, you can see how all of that compares to naked chipboard.

My paint took about 45 minutes to dry. Then it looked like this:

You can clearly see the little cracks in the chipboard. It looks very pretty as-is, and can be used this way. I decided to rub in (with my finger) some Tim Holtz distress ink. That gave the cracks a lot of dimension.

Then I attached that to my LO, which was made using almost exclusively materials found from the Snobby Walrus shop.

Then I wanted to play with paper flowers and see what would happen. Here is my flower, covered in dried crackle paint:

You can see the cracks well in this photo. I wanted to create even more cracks for the ink to fill, so I crumpled up my flower...

It's fantastic how malleable the paper was even after being dried with the crackle paint. I had no problems crumpling it and fixing the flower petals to the shape I wanted.

Again, using my finger rubbed into directly into the ink, I rubbed the ink from my finger along the flower. I preferred using my finger because it gives the most control over the color, letting you spread exactly the quantity you want exactly where you want it.

I think that came out pretty well!

I was also curious to see how the ink would look on regular patterned paper. It was subtle once dry, and it did turn up the corners... but for a distress, vintage look that is going to be layered onto another piece of paper or cardstock, I would recommend it.

Then I put everything onto my LO:

Once the chipboard, which I had inked first, then applied crackle paint to, was dry, I adhered that to my LO as well. It gave a darker, wet-looking effect with more subtle cracks:

I hope you'll be inspired to pick up some Crackle Paint from Snobby Walrus and play around with it! Let me know how it turns out by visiting The Everyday Scrapper or following us on Twitter.

See you soon!

Catherine 

Hi everyone! Tracy here! I've got your next Snobby Walrus Scrap Challenge! The Smooch tutorial should have probably tipped you off...

For Challenge #5, let's see some INK or PAINT on your layout! The ink can be Smooch, ink from an ink pad, India Ink... any kind of ink at all! Or paint! Crackle paint, craft paint, watercolor... get as creative as you like with this!

And if you need some ideas, check out the Smooch Ink Tutorial

Here is what I did for this challenge:
Talking about ink and paint made me of course think of canvas! (I like to oil paint, so I have a LOT of canvas lying around). I made a small mini album (we're talking REALLY small, 3"x3") with 2 framed canvases for my covers, and gaffer tape to "bind" them together. The frames create little "shadow boxes" inside when you open the cover, and I used Smooch Ink "Ocean Soul" to paint the inside of it.

So pull out those brushes and get messy!!! I can't wait to see what YOU make!

You have ALL MONTH to play along with any of our challenges for July! Play along with one, or with all 4 of our weekly challenges! Your due date for any/all challenges is JULY 31st. Either leave a comment here with a link to your project, or upload your project to our image gallery, marked as Challenge #4 (or 5, or 6... etc.)

At the end of the month, we choose 2 winners who will win fabulous RAKs from us! One winner is chosen by random drawing (with one entry per challenge you participate in, up to 4 entries a month!), and the other winner is someone we choose whose layout or project really stood out to us!

Also, if you want to COMBINE our challenges, that is perfectly fine, and it will still count as you participating in both challenges. (for example, you can use Ink in the layout you make for Challenge #4, which is a humor-based layout, and you'd still get 2 entries in our drawing for the RAK) Just have it marked as BOTH challenges, so we know to count it twice!

ALL OUR CHALLENGES ARE OPEN TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY! =)

Thanks for stopping by everyone, and have a great weekend!

~Tracy

Now wasn't that easy and fun!!!!???!!!  Now run to order some Smooch from the Snobby Walrus!!!  Only $3.59 a bottle, and that is the everyday price, not a sale! (normally retails for $4.49) Then come visit us at the everyday scrapper, you can also  follow us on Facebook or Twitter (EverydayScrap)

 Juliann Marchant
Mom to Alexa Wil and Gavin
http://scrappylife.blogspot.com/

Tracy here! And I have a lot of RAKs to give away! 7 to be exact! I want to thank everyone who played along with our first ever Snobby Walrus Challenges, and to everyone who checked out our featured Style Spotlight businesses!

So let's get down to business, LOL!

First, our June Snobby Walrus Challenge Winners!

Congratulations to Adrienne Pierce! Your layout really stood out to me. I love how you layered the papers and the embellished doily. I love the clean lines, the hidden journaling, and the way the clusters of embellishments create visual balance on your page. Thank you so much for playing along with us!

For our second winner, we chose via random number generator.

Congratulations to Mindy32! You really took the color scheme and made it your own, while staying true to the essence of the Challenge. Well done!

And now for our Style Spotlight Winners! I chose one random person from each Style Spotlight blog post, for a total of 5...

 Congratulations to:

Andrea MacDonald
Audrey Yeager
Kate Blue
Nicole Brenna
Jus

(PS- I also am unsure of what a "willie straw" is, and I am far too afraid to google it, lest my computer get bogged down with porn-tastic images, LOL)

Remember you have one week to email me your mailing address to claim your prize! overlord@ snobbywalrus. com Congratulations to all of our winners, and don't forget, we've got Challenge #4 up right now, so check it out and play along! =)

~Tracy

Here at Snobby Walrus, we like to find the humor in things.  I wanted to play off the challenge last month when "Bella" from The Twilight Saga was my challenge inspiration. So, take this as a quick example:

One of the most funniest ways to throw in some humor when scrapbooking is through the journaling aspect of it.  We want to see what "wording" you can put to your pictures to make them LOL hillarious!

Remember, you have all month to play along.  We give you one new challenge every week to keep you inspired and to keep you creating and you have until the end of the month to work on each and every one of them.  You can either leave a direct link in each of the comment sections or submit your creation in the Snobby Walrus Gallery and put Challenge #4 in the subject line.  

Here's my inspiration layout for you in July.

I don't know what the reason was, but when my baby girl was 2 years old, she would not for the life of her, relax her feet on the sides of her 4-wheeler. Her feet were always to the side, held high, like so. So, it was only natural for me to title this LO "This is how I roll!" LOL

 

Play along to this challenge and be entered into the prize drawing at the end of the month when not 1, but 2 winners will be announced.

 

xoxo

Lynnette Davis


***Note from Tracy: Hi, we are looking through all of our fabulous entries for the month of June, and will have the winners chosen next week and announced right here on the blog, so make sure to check back! One layout will be chosen by random number generator, and one layout will be chosen based on style!
Also, we will have our Style Spotlight Winners chosen on July 4th! You have until midnight July 3rd to leave comments on our Style Spotlight blog posts for a chance to win some great new My Mind's Eye products! You can just click on Style Spotlight under the Categories on the right hand side to play along! Thank you everyone! We can't wait to pick some winners and mail out some RAKs! =)

When it comes to fireworks and firecrackers, I generally just tend to think of 4th of July (which is just around the corner!), but the fire crackers from Designer Crackers can be used for virtually any occasion you can think of! Holidays, weddings, bachelorette parties, birthdays... Trust me, a party with Table Top Fireworks is going to be memorable! But don't worry, there's no fire hazard; your guests will be showered in shimmery streamers and confetti!

Now THIS party bomb sounds like a lot of fun! I think every bachelor/bachelorette party needs a "Naughty Novelty Bomb"!

You have a lot of options for what you can have pop out of those, including but not limited to XXL condoms, Willie straws, and naughty novelties in general! Ooh la la!

Aside from their lovely selection of pre-made party bombs and crackers, they also offer customization options! Also, every item they create is crafted by hand, so you can rest assured that you are getting a high quality and unique product!

Visit Designer Crackers and leave a comment below with your favorite item or an item that caught your eye, and one lucky commenter will win an awesome My Mind's Eye paper and embellishment kit from us at Snobby Walrus, featuring some of the new So Sophie products! The drawings for our Style Spotlight winners will be held on the July 4th! There will be a winner drawn for each Style Spotlight feature!

Stay tuned, our next Snobby Challenge will be up prett so