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Sorry for the delay, but with the holiday weekend and numerous internet issues while trying to post, I decided to wait until the new week to kick this thing off.  Starting in July we will be doing a review of a scrappy related book along with a related challenge on our challenge forum in our message board.  I have a copy of this book to give away and a special prize for our related challenge (see details below).  Our first book is this super fun special edition from Creating Keepsakes, Easier than Ever Scrapbooking 2. (Note: We do not plan on selling the books on our site at this time, so we will link you to either the author’s site or an alternate bookstore site to purchase the book). 

As scrapbookers we probably all have the basic staples around to make layouts, and if you subscribe to our kits, you receive a cooridinated group of supplies each month to add to your “pantry” and  make your scrapbooking easy. Cardstock, patterened paper, ribbon, buttons, brads, letter stickers, stamps, these are just a few of the staples we probably all have, or receive in kits each month.   Using the recipes in this book as inspiration we can “cook up” beautiful layouts right from our pantry and with just 1 or 2 extras, we can have some pages that shine.  

This book has a lot of ideas for real life scrapping for the everyday scrapbooker.  There are a lot of 2 page layouts included, I know many scrappers have a lot of pictures they want to scrap and this book can really give you some great ideas.  I typically am a one-page scrapper, and many of the layout ideas could easily translate into a single page.  It also gave me some inspiration to do a two page layout.

This book is three challenges in one.  The book offers recipes , a list of ingredients to use on a page and come up with your own design.  You can follow step by step instructions to copy a layout.  Or you can enjoy the eye candy and scraplift inspiration from a page.   Each layout has a bonus idea like “make it even easier, a strip of handwritten journaling will save enve more time” or “while you’ve got your supplies out, use the extras to create a trendy card.”  Many of the ideas we probably already know, but a bit of inspiration in one place is great when you are stuck for an idea.

There is a lot of inspiration out on the web for ideas, but I also like to have a magazine or book to take with me to flip through when I am out getting a pedicure, riding the eliptical at the gym or waiting at a doctor’s appointment.  This book is a great resource for that, I had several ideas tagged after just 2 appointments this past week. 

There are plenty of layout ideas using 4×6 photos and others that just need a bit of cropping and you can make a layout using those photos you just picked up from the printer. Another great resource in this book is the layout ideas have estimates for the time it took to create the page.  All pages are from as little as 20 minutes to an one hour, perfect for a busy scrapper like me. 

When I have time to sit down and scrap, I reach for a kit and some pictures printed from Costco and I want get to work. I prefer to use the prints straight from the developer.  I can print my own pictures in the sizes I want at home, but I did that this weekend for some pages and I spent more time re-sizing and printing  pictures then it took me to make the pages in the first place.  There are a lot of pages I want to get done and it is ideas like those in this book that help me do that.

I chose to scraplift a page using the Color Me Daisy July Summertime Fun kit the Bazzill Edges Add On and Kelly Noel’s “New Friends” layout in the book (p. 47).  The original layout had a time estimate of 45 minutes, but since I used a kit and scraplifted the design I finished this page with a few modifications in less than 25 minutes. 

 Would you like to win a copy of this book? Leave a comment here on the blog on how this book can help you get some pages finished this next month.  I will leave comments open through Sunday, July 12 and draw a winner for this book, shortly after.  I also have a July challenge based on my layout from this book over on our message board. Participate in the challenge to have a chance to win a Basic Grey Lime Rickey stamp set from Color Me Daisy.