July 15th, Prompt #39

Please join me in hopping over to the Scrap Your CRAP blog and shouting at the gals over there! We SWAPPED with their Design Team!!
Before you head over their way, take a look at what their team did with our PROMPT!!
THE PROMPT: Mindless
THE SONG: Dickhead by Kate Nash
PRODUCT/TECHNIQUE: Trash
Kristin Fougeron
I would say most of my page is "trash" ...well, lets say when i was going thru all my scrapbooking supplies this is what stood out to me...
First I used the piece of packaging from some chipboard pieces as my background and spray painted the clouds onto it, then used the top of my snack for the sun and some plastic that you line you shelf with for the rays, then I had all these stamps so I thought that I would put them all under the picture and then I painted the fence and added some crackle to it with the bathroom fixtures as flowers ...
I also like the line in the song ....
Will you stop, no don't show
Just have a think before you
Will you stop it, oh will you just have a think before you..
My son sometimes does not think before he acts ....he does not use his mind... Thanks for letting me play along!!!!


Sarah
I used part of the lyrics but changed the “f” word to “yucking”, as I found a rat out on my daughters play mat and it completely yucked up our play time! Rats remind me of rubbish (you know they’re scavengers and disgusting), so the “Trash” theme worked perfectly with this. I made a ruffle from a Milky Way packet, I used a bottle top, old cardboard that I tore the top layer off and then used the curls as embellies as well, I found a ring pull from a can, some scrunched up paper balls that my daughter had used for craft and no longer needed, some staples and lots of scraps of paper that I tore up. I also used some new bug stamps. All together this created a rubbishy theme to go with my disgusting rat! Thanks for making me think outside the box! This was a real challenge!

Angela
I found the prompt VERY challenging because the song uses language I don't use and hate hearing. I tried to get past the language to the meaning in the lyrics, and I ended up thinking about how I refuse to let other people ruin my life. They may make bad choices, but I get to have a choice about how I respond and how I see my life - a life truth that I do want to record as a scrapbook page, something I believe to be true. As for using trash in the prompt - I used some embellies that were nearly garbage, they'd been sitting on my desk so long, as well as an old key that doesn't belong to anything.

Kim
Even though I swear like a trooper I could not find a use for any of the lyrics in my layout (maybe I haven't met a proper dickhead yet...LOL) but the MINDLESS prompt did work for the picture of my with a "fat" lip.
Being someone who detests flying, the only way I was going on a plane after 5 years of refusing to do so, was to get completely wasted. I did not think of the aftereffects this had, as my boyfriend who only speaks English, had to pick me up from the airport floor in Salzburg/Austria, when I tripped and split my lip. Apparently we had to sit for about four hours at the airport until I sobered up enough to find the way to out hotel....needless to say I never acted so mindless again.
TRASH: the part of sequin waste tucked underneath the picture on the left hand side of the layout. Thanks for swapping with us!

Leslie
Here is my image for your Kate Nash challenge. This song made me think of being stuck in LA traffic, and dealing with jerks on the roads. You know, the ones who drive on the shoulder and cut everyone off, the men in mini vans who drive like maniacs. The endless stop and go of the freeways... God I love LA!!! That awesome K&Co sticker of the man's mouth wide open is me, screaming in my car!! Thanks for letting us play, I had a lot of fun on this one!

Illy

I had so much fun doing this layout! For the background I used a torn page from a composition book and I added a piece of a broken paper-doily (directly from the trash bin). For matting the photo I used a piece of the paper that I usually use as a cutting mat (paper written on a side). Then I glued and stapled tiny bits of patterned papers (I keep them in a box, even the smallest scraps). I also used masking tape, white ink and a brown chalk. The page (and the title!!!!!) is dedicated to my ex boyfriend.Thank you very much!!!!!!!

Thank you SO MUCH all you gals at Scrap Your Crap!! I love design team swaps!! This one is no exception! It's so fun to see what other gals will do with our prompts, and what directions they will take. You did NOT disappoint!!
Stay tuned on the 30th for another great prompt, and don't forget to play along with us here! Leave a comment and be in line to be invited to be a guest designer!

End of the Month MOJO JUNE '10

Nikki Z brings us our honorary Gutter Girl this month!! This month's Honorary Guest Designer is Susan!

I just love Susan's work! She has such a unique way of putting together pictures, paint and words....Here is her take on this month's prompt Fingerprints....

And check out some more of her fantastic work...You can tell her whole heart goes into all of her pages!





Let's learn a little bit more about Susan shall we?
Are you artistic in other ways/mediums?
Yes I am. I sew but it really is not my thing (meaning I don't enjoy it that much). I am going to make a tutu for Miss Aubrey right now ..shhh.don't tell Sarah. I also can create a a stunning table scape. I just started creating alter art and love collage.

Is there a scrap technique/style you are afraid to try or feel clueless about?
There is nothing I am afraid to try and several things I am clueless about. I continue to learn new techniques all of the time.

Who or what gives you the most inspiration when you create?
Other artist, other scrappers, the world around me and my family

If you had a super power, what would it be and why?
The power to heal cancer!

What cause or charity organization is most important to you?
Project Ed Bear is a not for profit all volunteer organization dedicated to providing comforts and needs for pediatric patients. My son Ede had bone tumors when he was 11. He is a healthy 27 year old young man now. We started Project Ed Bear together 16 years ago.
What was your most embarrassing moment?
I have had many but the one that comes to mind is when the back of my sundress became pull up with my panties after I went to the bathroom and I walked down the street with my husband for a long time before someone (woman) pulled me aside to let me know that my ass was hanging out. She said it much nicer than that! :)

Have you ever had plastic surgery? Would you?
Yes!! I had a tummy tuck last year. I will probably have nips and tucks as I get older and sag more. : )

What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Seriously? How much space do I have..lol
Weaknesses:
I procrastinate
I say YES too often
I fail to schedule down time and then get mad about it
I am messy
I sometimes spend more money than I should
and the list goes on and on

Strengths:
I am an encourager
I am confident
I am not pretentious
I love and accept my friends and family as they are
I don't try to change anyone
(the last two strengths have only come after years of working on them and I am so much happier now)!

What was the most useful criticism you ever received?
Don't ever go to bed angry at your husband (or anyone really).

Are you the life of the party or do you blend into the background?
Depends on the party and the people but most the time I am the lie of the party.

Are you always on time or always late?
Almost always about 5 minutes late....drives my husband crazy as he is an always early kind of guy!

Are you spontaneous or do you prefer to plan everything out?
I plan but I am much more of a spontaneous person

What's your favorite Holiday tradition? Why?
The Gold gift! I give each of my children, grandchildren, husband and mother a gift wrapped in gold paper each year at Christmas that is just from me and not from Skip and I together.. This is a special gift chosen just for that person by me. It rarely is anything that they have asked for but often times their favorite gift . I shop for them all year long and when I find the perfect something that I know each person will love.I buy it. Examples are I gave Ede a first Edition of Catcher in the Rye one year and Buddy Holly's first album that was released another year(both things he LOVES but would never have even have thought to ask for. I gave Sarah's husband a picture of the first Massillon football team ever.. etc.

If your friends were asked to describe you, what 3 words would they use?
caring faithful and creative (I asked Sarah and this is what she said).

If you could be anyone famous, who would it be?
Myself..I AM famous you know! lol

Tell us ONE thing about you that nobody else would know?
Sarah is here with me and she says I should say that I am not a good driver and that I drive too slow...I think I should say that I was invited to the White house to meet the President (and I went)! OR maybe it should be I am not as nice as everyone thinks I am..lol Take your pick!

We'll be changing the way we are running our prompt schedule coming next month! I'll be creating a post in the next couple days about how things will run this coming year!!

Our random number generator picked
BEKAH "I keep trying to post this...
http://reflectionsbyrebekah.blogspot.com/2010/05/...
to win a $20 gift certificate from Studio Calico provided by Margarethe!! Bekah, please send us an email using our contact email here on the blog. In your subject line, please write JUNE PRIZE. Congratulations, and THANK YOU for playing with us!

We're taking part in a design team SWAP on the 15ht, so we won't be having a guest designer. We're swapping with the crew at SCRAP YOUR CRAP!! We'll be hosting them on the 15th, but THEY are sharing our work for their blog on July 1st!! Be sure to hop over and say HEY to an amazing group of talented ladies!

Oct. 15th, Prompt 9

HOLY COW!! I LOVE what you laydies have been DOING with our prompt!! We have MORE yumminess for you this month!!

First, WE have raised nearly $100.00 for Breast Cancer Research with the Susan G Koman foundation!! Don't forget to check out our sidebar to see the prize that Tonya created for you all especially for donating to this cause!! It's only 5 dollars to be entered!!

Second, we've got a few of our DT who are away right now... Stacey has had some family things she had to take care of... and then to top it off, her computer quit on her!! She hopes to be back in the next month.
Kirsten is away also... she's back in her homeland, waiting for papers to come back to her-

FIANCE.... :) He gave her THAT ring... isn't it beautiful!! She has been doing a GREAT job of trying to keep as active as she can with limited scrap supplies.
What does all this mean to you? It MEANS... that we'll be having TWO guest designers this month!! :) More on that in a sec.
So lets pick our winners for this month.
The winner of our Design Team Sponsored prize from Kammie...
Roni said...

loved this! it inspired me to scrap, which i hadn't done in over a month and a half!

here's mine

Roni, please email me with your mailing information, and include KAMMIE'S PRIZE in your subject line!! So cool that we inspired you to SCRAP this month!

The winner of our Bonus Sponsor's prize from Ruby Street Designs...
southernbellescrapper said...

Hi! I'm Aymee. I was intro'd to Gutter Girlz by my good friend, Cristal (Pinky). I have to say that all of your work is unbelievable! All of you are some awesomely talented scrappers! I am so glad I found this place! I decided to give this challenge a try. I hope it is ok. Thanks for lookin'!

Here is mine:BringOnTheRain

Southern Belle, please email me with your mailing information too!! Ruby Street Designs is in Australia, so your goodies may take a little longer to reach you!!

This month's PRIZE... sponsored by Christi... is in our sidebar!!
We have another Bonus Sponsor too!! Our sponsor is very near and dear to our hearts here on Gutter Girlz!! The site is the place that the GutterGirlz idea was born! AND the kit this month, was designed by our VERY OWN STACI!!!

NOW.... Our guest designers!! TWO of them!!

NikkiZ, we'd LOVE to have you as one of our guest girlz this month!!
AND
Vickie! We'd LOVE to have you as one of the girlz too!!

This prompt, we asked the
DREAM GIRLS to be our Design Team Guests!! We've swapped once again, and if you'd like to see what OUR girls did, you'll have to hop over to the Dream Girls blog!!

THE PROMPT:
I can't.
THE SONG:
Heaven Help Me by Gretchen Wilson (not able to find this one on project playlist, so please listen to the youtube version)
PRODUCT/TECHNIQUE:
Pink
Our Guest Designer this month also happens to be a DREAM GIRL!!! So she did DOUBLE duty this prompt!! So did our AMY!! She's one of the Dream Girlz too!! lol Here's what the gals from Dream Girls did with our prompt.

Glenda

Amy

Lisa

Tanisha

Cheryl

SJ

Debbie

Dolores

Sept 30th Prompt 8

BIG BIG BIG stuff this month, so I apologize for the lengthy post!! I promise it will be WORTH all the reading!
Kris at Ruby Street Designs is our bonus sponsor this month!! She is sending BEAUTIFUL vintage ephemera from Australia! (she ships internationally too, ladies!!)

Our Design Team sponsored prize is from KAMMIE this month!! You can check out her prize in the sidebar! As always, to be entered to win one of our goodies, you simply need to link to your page or project using all or some of the three part prompt.
ON TOP OF THESE PRIZES... October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month!! We gutter girlz just couldn't let BOOBS go unmentioned!! One of our past Guest Designers is sponsoring a prize in honor of this month, and your boobs!! Tanya will be giving up some yummy goodies to the winner of a drawing SPECIAL for those who make a $5.00 donation to the Susan G. Koman foundation in our name!! We've created a group there, that you can donate under, and we ask that if you make a donation, you also take part in being passionately PINK with us on Oct. 20th!! (I've even changed my blog to pink this month) Make your $5.00 donation, and join us on Oct. 20th in being Passionately Pink!! Let's SAVE SECOND BASE!! CLICK HERE to join in the fun, and be entered to win Tanya's goodies!! (photo of said goodies to be posted in the next couple of days)

This month is going to be FULL of fun!! I'm so excited, I'm sick to my stomach. When we first started Gutter Girlz, one of the things I did, was to link to OTHER challenge blogs from GutterGirlz blog. I knew there was room for everyone, and wanted to share our traffic with them. There are AMAZING challenges to be had out there, and they HAD to be shared. I thought, why not have a link list for you, right here on GutterGirlz? That idea led to another even BIGGER one. What if... we challenged design teams FROM those other challenge blogs? A design team swap of sorts! Our team would take on THEIR challenge on THEIR blog, and their team would take on OUR challenge here on GutterGirlz!! Great for BOTH teams, and fun to boot! Luckily, the FIRST team I contacted about this was TOTALLY ON BOARD!! Are you READY!?!? They ROCKED this challenge, people.
Please welcome....

CATEGORY STORIES!!!

Category Stories' Design Team has taken on this week's challenge, and WE will be featured on their blog TOMORROW taking on the challenge they gave us!!
This month, we thought it might be fun to make our challenge a little more geared toward the bravery and struggles of those who have fought, are fighting, have lost and won the battle of cancer.
The PROMPT:
I am not AFRAID
The SONG:
Bring on the Rain by JoDee Messina
The TECHNIQUE/PRODUCT
Water
Even though this challenge is in honor of breast cancer awareness, your project does NOT have to be about this.
Here is what the gals from Category Stories did with our prompt!! Be sure to hop over to their AWESOME challenge blog, and see what we've done over there!! They post challenges on the 1st of every month. Be sure to give a shout out while you are there, and tell them you saw them HERE, in the GUTTER!!
Karin

Mandy

Sarah

Lee
The song theme of Bring on the Rain in this months Gutter challenge was perfect for these dusty photos I took this week – the worst dust storm in 40 years apparently, due to the horrid drought that is afflicting my part of the world. Anyway, I cannot wait until the rain comes good and proper! BRING IT BABY!

Jodie