OCTOBER FREE-FOR-ME SKETCHIES...

The first Monday of each month, a new School of Scrap Sketchies will post, that will be available to everyone! It's what we're calling "Free-for-Me" and it will be used throughout the month by Christie and I, and will be incorporated into the month's activities in a variety of ways.

For instance:

• a weekend challenge on our SOS Facebook page
• a Make-Something-Monday {MSM} live video
• a Tuesday Make-N-Take, turning a page Sketchies into a card
• a Wednesday Study Hall, using supplies from our monthly "Selfie kit"
• etc.

Here is the "Free-for-Me October 2013" Sketchies...

Three spaces for photos, a big corner for embellies, buttons doo-dads and a title, and a space for your journaling. Remember, I have drawn in flower but those are merely to represent embellies. Use dimensional stickers, use die-cuts, use silk flowers, use journaling blocks, use Project Life cards. Anything can go there, my pink flowers are just placeholders. 

If you're a title person {I am, I admit it!} use this space to your advantage. Sticker letters, computer generated/printed, electronic cutters, die-cut fonts, chipboard letters...goodness there are many ways to get a title on your page. Use as much space as you need, or just drop in a word or two.

Here is the page I created using the Free-for-Me October Sketchies...

This page went together very quickly because I followed the Sketchies exactly. The snowflake border is a 12" die-cut from QuicKutz that I just snipped apart to use in two places. My title was done with Echo Park sticker letters, and most of the word-fetti and journaling spots are from Echo Park as well.

And the navy blue photo corners? I just used a square punch that I cut into two triangles, and snipped away the center. Easy peasie!

If you use put this Sketchies to creative use, we hope you'll share it with us. Feel free to email us a photo of your project{s}, then look to be featured on our Facebook page or here, on the School of Scrap Blog.

It's going to be a busy month. Lots of picture opportunities, numerous ideas to act upon, and as always, plenty of memories I want to document.

If you have questions about School of Scrap, the features we offer, what is available as exclusive content for members, or ideas you'd like to see implemented, feel free to contact us by email or by leaving a message below. 

As we like to say here at School of Scrap..."School has never been this fun!"

GOODBYE SEPTEMBER...

and "Hello!" October! Can you believe it? October! What happened to 2013? We're in the final quarter of the year - YIKES!

I best get busy scrappin', because the holidays are almost upon us.

Luckily, I'm in a rhythm right now, and pages are flowing like water around here. That's School of Scrap inspiration, if you ask me {wink, wink}!

On Monday we were in the SOS Studio for "Make Something Monday". We had three new Sketchies, and a room full of eager scrappers, so a good time was had by all. We were seeking with Week 9 Sketchies, and if you haven't checked out these great page and card designs, you can do so by CLICKING HERE.

Here is a sneaky-peek of the page I made, using Sketchies 9A:

To see the page in its entirety, click over on our SOS Gallery. The Gallery is divided into cards, single-page layouts and double-page layouts. And here 's a hint, Sketchies are always labeled as such:

#A = single-page layout

#B = double-page layout

#C = card layout

So Sketchies 9A will be in the single-page layout gallery...a.k.a. our "Yearbook".

My page was done using up the final pieces of my September "Selfie Kit". If you haven't heard of a Selfie Kit, this is the kit we encourage you to put together from supplies you have on hand. We show you how to mix-and-match papers from different manufacturers, we take supplies from one collection and sticker sheets from other collections. We pull from the bowels of our stashes, and pair supplies with brand new goodies. There are no rules, except that there aren't any! 

A "Selfie Kit" is free for you, because you already have the supplies, we call this 'shopping your stash'. You're simply narrowing down the focus of supplies for the month, and making fewer decisions - thereby getting more things done.

Can you add something that you discover is missing? Heck yes! Can you change your mind half way through the month and swap things out? Of course! Will you get things made? YES! And the best part is - today is the day we start fresh!

Tonight, October 2nd, at 8:00pm CDT Christie will walk you though her process for creating a brand new kit to use this month. You can find the Event Page to RSVP by CLICKING HERE but even if you don't get a chance to RSVP, we'll hope you stop by the studio.

Attending is easy, just CLICK HERE and sit back and watch as Christie works her magic, and shops her stash. She'll assemble a great kit from her supplies on hand, and have a great collection to scrap from this month!

We hope to see you, we'll both be there. Christie will be pulling papers and stickers and I'll be manning the live chat. Remember, if you take a few seconds to sign into the studio you can chat with us, which makes the time even more fun!

So tonight's Study Hall is all about October's Selfie Kit. The rest of the week has more fun in store. Please pop over and LIKE US of Facebook for up-to-the-minute announcements and information. I know for a fact that we have something HUGE up our sleeve for later this week, and you won't want to hear about it too late {more winks!}.

We're here for your scrap-habit...