Happy 10th Anniversary Scraps of Color!!!!!!!!!! ENTER TO WIN!

Woot Woot!  Today is the day!  Today we celebrate 10 years of sistahood!  And all week long we are going to be Turnt up for 10!  Yeh, baby!

I cannot even express my excitement and gratitude for this day and the AMAZING SOC Family!  However, what I can do is have a bit of fun!  Woohoo!

It's the SOC 10th Anniversary!  So let's celebrate the number 10.  This day represents relationships, creativity, fun, laughter, crying, dancing, joking, sharing, caring, growing, ....LIFE!  It represents so many wonderful things, people, places and qualities. So why don't we celebrate all that is good and wonderful.

Leave a comment below telling us 10 wonderful things about the last 10 days of your life.  Every comment that includes those 10 wonderful things will be entered to win a $10 gift card to Michaels. 

BONUS:  By listing your 10 things you are sure to experience feelings of joy and gratitude.  Therefore, brightening your day and the day of others.  YES!  Win! 10!

Happy Anniversary SOC and to all the incredible ladies and gentlemen who have helped to build this AWESOME community!

Thank you for 10 great years!
Tiare and Robert Woods

PS. Stayed tuned and "turnt up," there's more!

Putting Left Overs To Good Use

If you have not joined Scraps of Color what are you waiting for?  If you are on Scraps of Color and are not joining an event you are missing a lot of excitement!  I recently joined a few swaps and the ladies are creating awesome high end projects!  First let me share what I've been working on.  My inspiration started with Tiare's Art Party.  Although late coming in, I was determined to make it.  This canvas journal was left over from a kit.   The cover was painted and I selected paper to stamp a few clocks, used modeling paste with a brick template on the middle left, sprayed some Tattered Angels mist all over and distressed the edges.

Check out the back cover, which was inspiration from my blog Papercrafting Paradise.  Guess what?  There are 16 pages in all so you know a Sistah is inspired to complete it right?  I used watercolor pencils with this one.  It seemed a little difficult even with a coat of Gesso.  Maybe I'll try the acrylic paints on my next page.

Let me go back to what I was telling you earlier, because it all started with this blank canvas by Recollections.  I participated in the Altered Prima Journal swap and my partner Tia B's color was pink.  This kit had lots of pink and cute chipboard embellishments to work with.  Everything was used except the canvas journal.  So do you think I put the left over canvas in good use? 

By the way, this was the Altered Prima Journal made for Tia B.  Kevin Hart may say "Turn it Up", I say pull out those kits and "Use it Up"!

Thanks for stopping by, 

Princess

Happy 2014 Scraps of Color!

May the new year be filled with health, happiness, creativity and inspired living!

You will surely be inspired this year at SOC!  We've got a lot going on!

• Word of the Year!  You chose the word and let it inspire your life throughout the year.

• Bloggers' Challenge:  All year long we'll challenge bloggers to stay up-to-date, share and create.

• Monthly SOC Challenge - Look for a new challenge and a prize to be posted each month in the SOC Challenge Forum.

• 52 Week Money Challenge - We'll be saving together and encouraging each other all year long. Starts Monday!

• And I'll be challenge SOC Members to Make it Meaningful in 2014!  Every other week, in the forum, I will post a question.  This question will prompt you to create a meaningful page. By the end of the year you will have an album with 24 very meaningful pages...an amazing keepsake!   The first question is when and where were you born?  Check back tomorrow to see my completed page!

And this year we are introducing a few great new features!!!

We now have a gallery on the blog!  Woohoo! This will allow you to share your creations inspired by our Creative Team, swaps and/or challenges so we can visit you and leave a little love.  We also want to feature your work on our networks:

Twitter
Facebook
Pinterest

That's right share and connect with Scraps of Color in your favorite spot!!!  How cool is that!

Here's to an AWESOME, crafty 2014!

Working together. Great results.

Happy June SOC!

Did you know that today is National Dare Day???  Wow!  There is a day for EVERYTHING.  Well of course, I have to play along.  Therefore, today I dare you to get with your scrappy pals and make something wonderful together.  Yes, a combined effort, just as we did here with this layout.

At a recent retreat, we did a round robin.  Each person added a photo or two to a blank piece of 12x12 cardstock.  T hen we passed it around to each sistah to add an accent to complete the layout. Once the layout was returned to you with all of their added goodies you could add a title and journaling.  Your completed layout includes a special touch by each person.

See my layout above.  I love how it turned out.  I was a bit nervous going in, but all of the layouts were fabulous.

Once I got it back, I added the title Six Deep.  Just perfect for this picture of my sistah friends and I during one of our twice annual (after the retreat) photo shoots.

Do you accept the dare?  If so, I'd love to see what you make.  Just leave a comment and link, should you decide to play along.

Have a crafty day.

For the love of SOC,

April Happenings on SOC!

Won't you join us for another month of fun and creativity on Scraps of Color?

We've got it going on in April 2013.  Check out what's happening this month on SOC!

The SOC Book Club - We are reading ADA'S RULES: A Sexy Skinny Novel by Alice Randall   (352 pages)  Join us for this wonderful read and a live chat!

Join us on the following Fridays in April for the Friday Night Chat and Challenge(FNC).  April 5, 12 and 19.  We chat, we create, we win!!!

Mema's Crafts is hosting another great monthly challenge.  This month, "Anything Goes!"  Check it out for your chance to WIN!

We are cooking it up in the Craftin' and Cookin' Group where we'll be sharing our "breakfast" recipes throughout April!  Come on in for a tasty treat!

We're altering a Deck of Cards this month in the That's Alterable Challenge.  I cannot wait to see what the crafty SOC ladies and gents come up with!  Get started on your deck now!


Sistah and Brotha Blogger Challenge!  Each week join us for a fun blogging challenge!  Grow your following, share your creativity!

As always if you are looking for some crafting inspiration, visit the SOC Gallery filled with craftigoodness!

This is just to name a few.

All happening now on the SOC Forum, a celebration of African American Paper Crafters!

Happy 8th Anniversary SOC!!! Celebrating 8 Years of Sistahood!

Welcome to SOC's 8th Anniversary Blog Hop! This is where it all began!  The start of the sistahood!

To commemorate Scraps of Color's 8th birthday, some talented papercrafters, have come together to share projects based on the celebrations in our lives. We wanted to have this special blog hop to celebrate this great crafting community where we laugh, play, and create together and encourage and inspire one another. Of course, a blog hop isn't complete without blog candy! There will be giveaways on various blogs throughout the hop! Plus there is a gift awaiting one visitor right here on the SOC Blog!! To be eligible for this prize, you must comment on all the blogs by Monday, Oct. 8 at 11pm EST. From all who are eligible, one lucky reader will be randomly drawn. The winner will be posted on all the participating blogs on Wednesday, Oct. 10.

For this hop, I thought what could be better than sharing a layout, that celebrates sistahood!  Although these photos are of myself and friends celebrating a birthday, it really represents 8 years of SOC, as well.  For most of us met online and they are some of the first members of the ever FABULOUS SOC Community.  We have been crafting together for years and have formed wonderful friendships.  Not only do we craft together, we have shopped together, dined together, retreated together, gone to fairs, traveled together, attended plays and so much more.  We have become good sistahfriends!  SOC does not only bring us together as crafters, it facilitates wonderful friendships!  SOC is family.  SOC is community. SOC is LOVE!

Fun Tip:  Not enough letters to complete your word.  Try a unique, yet fun spelling, like I did here by spelling happee instead of happy...I think it still conveys the message well!

Now to play along and be eligible to win this fun prize, be sure to leave a little love/comment below..and on each of the participating blogs by Monday, October 8, 2012, 11:59pm.  And while you are here: follow this blog (at right), share on Facebook, tell a friend!  It's all about LOVE, sharing the LOVE, spreading the LOVE!

And don't forget to visit the following blogs for more sistahly inspiration and more chances to win!

Celebrate Sistahood!  Celebrate SOC!  

BLOG HOP ORDER: 

The SOC Blog http://www.scrapofcolor.com/ YOU ARE HERE!!!

Tiare (Classygirl) http://www.iclassygirl.com 

CraftySue52 http://craftysue52.blogspot.com/

FranCine http://confiseriespapier.blogspot.com/

Cheryl http://www.onecraftyncpeach.blogspot.com/

Lisa http://www.craftcardrx.blogspot.com/

Cyndi http://nashvillesscrappinsisters.blogspot.com/

Patricia http://www.triciatreasure.blogspot.com/

Kristen http://1206designs.com/

Princess http://www.papercraftingparadise.blogspot.com/

Trina W http://trinamadethis.blogspot.com/

Felisa http://felisa21.blogspot.com/

MJ http://afrocentriccreations.blogspot.com/

Sharette http://scrappernthemaking.blogspot.com/

Christa http://sacredmemoriespreserve.blogspot.com/

Happy Hopping!