It Takes All Kinds

Brought to You by the Letter B

B is for BBQ: Nothing says summer more than chicken on a BBQ grill.  During the summer months our BBQ grill gets quite the workout - chicken, fish, corn, veggies - everything just tastes better when it is grilled.  Of course it also helps to have my very own grill master at the helm.  Thanks Babe!

 

B is also for Baby: Two of my friends are having baby girls this summer and my sister-in-law also recently had a baby girl.  Since I missed my sister-in-law's baby shower (she live in another state) I am making her an album for all those baby pictures.  So far I have the cover completed and here it is.
So what projects have you done so far this summer?

In keeping with a theme free month...

I present you with a theme-free post.  Just chock full of random free-for-allness.  First up, some general feel-the-love cards:

Or maybe you're more in the mood for a general cute-for-cute's-sake layout:

Or maybe a theme *is* what you need.  Maybe you've had a few graduations in your social circle recently.  I bet they'd like a gift of green that would coordinate nicely with any one of these cards, celebrating their stellar achievement:

Or perhaps you need an end-of-school gift for a supremely frazzled teacher:

(The Do-It-Yourself part?  It was a bag full of fancy chocolate.  :-)  Self-medicating, indeed.)

Maybe you want to document the everyday summer surrounding you right now:

Well, whatever your poison, have a great weekend, go get your scrap on--and try to stay out of trouble! 

In a Circle

So the loop starts again - here we are at the beginning of the year and what better idea when to start with a circle album. Usually a group finds together - and each of the person chooses a topic for an album. Each person creates this album and tells the others the rules for creating and the album goes on it's journey. And at the end every person of the group filled a page and the owner gets it back.

We are ten persons in my group and at the end of this year I should hold it in my hands again.
Honestly in the beginning I had a hard time to find a topic for the album and then I realized what I really want - I want to know something about the people who play along - regarding their hobby

And so The Art Files were born…free associated after the X-Files- LOL. So we are all little agents and we have to create files of us!

This is my cover:

how it works:
my file:

I can't wait to see the files of the 9 other agents :-)

So why don't you start a cirlce journal with a group of friends- I'm sure it is going to be as much fun for you as it is going to be for me!

A new year, a new start, a new piece of decor

January is an odd month. It's the month of fresh starts but it's also a little sad because the holiday decorations come down and the house doesn't look as festive any more. I decided to remedy that by making a piece of home decor to brighten up my living room. I'm not usually a big "altered" art person but I enjoyed this because it's interesting but still has the clean lines that I prefer - both in my home and in my scrapbooking.

Check on my blog for a complete supply list. This might be fun project to create using your resolutions or goals for the year as the subject matter. I think that might be my next altered piece!

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Tell your friends about It Takes All Kinds and be entered to win a RAK. It's easy-peasy!

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3. Leave us a comment on this post telling us where you posted the blinkie!

We will draw a name from all the comments on November 15th and send the winner some scrapping goodies!

september = TV premiers = happy caroline

my favorite part about september? the fact that all (or most) of my TV shows are having their premieres! most of my favorite shows have their premieres next week, and i am soooo excited to watch some fresh episodes! i am looking forward to: heroes, how i met your mother, grey's anatomy, private practice, 30 rock, and most of all....my favorite, the office!

i've become such an office nerd recently, and my partner in crime in all things office-related is my fabulous friend linda. we're always discussing the show, quoting random lines, or arguing over who jim belongs to. one day we did this:

yeah, we're dorks. but jim (or john krasinski) is just waaaay too adorable. don't judge :P

anyways, i think it's a fun idea to create a page based on your favorite TV show. i'm sure many more office pages are in store from me in the near future :)

I Had a Dream (with apologies to Martin Luther King Jr)

I had this idea about a place where scrapbookers and papercrafters from all walks of life could share their work and inspire each other as well as others. I asked some people I admired if they would like to be a part of it and It Takes All Kinds was born! Welcome! Together with the wonderful team you see to the right, I am hoping that this blog will become a place for all scrappers regardless of why they scrap, where they scrap, what topics they scrap, who they scrap for or how they scrap. Each month expect to see inspirational projects from a diverse team, diverse in all possible ways.

This is not a challenge blog (but who knows, we might throw a challenge or two in along the way), this is a place where we will showcase all the wonderful diversity that exists in scrapbooking today. And hopefully a place that will inspire you to tell your story the way only you can.

Over the next few weeks you will meet all the contibutors, then the fun starts September 1st. We hope you'll join us for the ride!