ScrapMuse Design Team Call!

Calling all Scrappers. ScrapMuse is growing and as a result we have the need to add four additional design team members to our company to design for our two additional kit offerings each month. We are looking for motivated scrappers that can commit to daily participation in both our message board and gallery. We are looking for a variety of Scrapbooking styles.

Design Team Submission Deadline: November 15, 2009

Design Team Duties to Begin: December 1, 2009

Please Send all Submissions and Questions to: melissa@scrapmuse.com


Guidelines for Submissions:

1. ScrapMuse is an exclusive kit club. You may not design for any other kits clubs. Challenge blogs, manufacteurs websites, sketch blogs and magzines are permitted and encouraged.

2. International submissions are welcome. International design team members pay actual shipping cost minus $10.00.

3. Applicants must maintain an active blog.

4. Please submit 4 layouts. Two must be newly created for this call only. Please show us your best work. More than 4 layouts are welcome per entry.

5. Please share a link to your blog and online galleries.

6. Please answer the following questions

Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where are you from? Any kids? Pets? We want to get to know you!

Are you or have you been active on another Design Team, challenge blog, sketch blog, or manufacteur website?

How would you describe your scrapbooking style?

Do you participate in any other scrapbook sites? Please share a link and your username.

How long have you been scrapbooking?

What is your favorite product?

What is your favorite candy bar?


7. Participation in our message board and gallery are encouraged and recommended during this call.

8. Currently we do not have terms for our designers. We only ask that you give us a month notice if you need to leave the team.


Design Team Duties

1. Create 4 layouts or projects each month using only the ScrapMuse kit.

2. Post your layouts to our monthly gallery on the 15th of each month.

3. Participate daily in our message board and gallery.

4. Promote ScrapMuse on your blog and other sites where allowed.

5. Create one step by step instruction for one of your layouts each month.

Designer Compensation

1. One of our new smaller kits each month to use for your designs.

2. Generous Design Team discount on additional kits and add-ons.

3. Featured on our Blog and Design Team page.

4. Additional products and freebies are occasionally sent to our Designers.

What are you waiting for? Send your entries right away!

I haven't posted these yet!

Here are the rest of my layouts for the ScrapMuse October kit. The newsletter is out and you can check it out here! This kit is really fun to work with. There are lots of different patterns and the colors are just wonderful. Among my favorites in the kit are the jillibean journaling spots, and the canvas cut-outs!









Our theme for the month is using a photo of an inanimate object. I scrappred about my desire to get fit and healthy.



Thanks for looking!

Bundle of Joy

My daughter Julia was almost 5 years old when I started scrapping so she doesn't have a lot of baby layouts. I was looking through her albums and found this picture. It is a little bit blurred but I love the way Daddy is looking at baby Julia.


Title: Bundle of Joy
Journaling: Words cannot express how happy I am to finally be able to hold you in my arms. love, Daddy. 9/20/02


I made this layout for the October Challenge at Let's Get Shabby. I got the lace I used from my mom's drawer filled with sewing supplies. She used to sew identical dresses for me and my sister when were little.

Need More Inspiration?

The celebration at Inspired Blueprints is still ongoing! Another amazing sketch is up so head on over to the blog for more inspiration.





Title: Pure Joy
Journaling: These are the moments I live for.
I used one of my faves...Basic Grey Lemonade pps!

A New Sketch for the Week

We have weekly sketches for you at Inspired Blueprints since it's our first birthday. Here's the 2nd one for the month!





Here's my take...



Title: Seven
Journaling: I can't believe you are now seven years old, it seems like such a grown up age BUT deep in my heart you will always be my baby. I love you my sweetheart.
Used Webster's pages & 7Gypsies pps, and Prima flowers, alphas, epoxy sticker for this one.


Just a few gorgeous details...





I really hope you can join in the fun, the sketches are really fun to work with.

P.S. I think the layout matches the background of my blog :)

Happy 1st Birthday to Inspired Blueprints!

It's Inspired Blueprints 1st birthday and we have 4 sketches for you this month instead of the usual two. The first sketch for the month is up and I really love it!

Here's the sketch...



And here's my take...


This picture of Ally is one of my faves. I just love the expression on her face!
Title: What's on your mind?
Journaling: When you give me a smile like that, you make me wonder what's on your mind.
Used the yummy BG Lemonade line for this one.

I hope you can join in the fun at Inspired Blueprints!!!

Flight to School

"Flight to School" is the October kit of ScrapMuse, and it's so much fun to work with! This month's kit is loaded with bright, happy papers from Jillibean, Scribble Scrabble, Making Memories, and Jenni Bowlin. Here's what the kit looks like:




Here's my first layout with the kit. I'm into "white space" layouts lately.

October is here!

It's the first of October...and its my birthday month, it also means Christmas will be here before we know it. Sadly though, Typhoon Ketsana (Ondoy locally) brought severe devastation to the country. So many people have lost their homes and some even lost loved ones. Let us all continue to pray for those who were affected and also pray that the new typhoon Parma who's supposedly on its way here doesn't cause us more trouble.

On the lighter side of things... here are some layouts I finished recently.




Did this for Moments Recorded Challenge #16. A sketch was provided and book paper, staples, masking tape, and paint should be used.
Title: Sophie and Ally
Journaling: When you started school, you refused to be left behind BUT things changed when you became friends with Sophie. Now, the two of you are inseparable. Everyday after school, you play together in the swing. sophie is your 1st best friend. (DCL Playground, Sept 09)




That's Julia on her birth and her first bath ever! Can't help but feel sentimental while doing this layout coz my baby is now 7 years old! This is for Dotty Divas challenge #3. The challenge is ad-inspired. You can see the ad and the details here.


A little close-up:






And this one is for Kaya challenge for September. The good news about this layout is... I WON in the random drawing!!! Yipee!
Title: Pasta Night
Journaling: I’m not an expert when it comes to cooking but I try my best to come out with something new. Tonight I experimented with chicken thigh fillet and some pasta. It must have been good coz Julia said…”mommy’s cooking is the best!” Now, we have “pasta night” at least once a week! (12Sept2009)

I'm now working on the ScrapMuse October kit which is filled with lots of YUMMY stuff!!! Stay tuned for the layouts!