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Blog Party Week 2 Giveaway!

Are you ready for Week 2 of the Mosh Posh Blog Party?? We have lots of fun planned! Kristen has been kind enough to pull together another prize for you guys for the big giveaway. I spy Sassafras Lass, Prima, Jenni Bowlin and Pink Paislee! Oh, my!

As always, If you'd like to increase your chances:

-send a friend to this thread and have them leave a comment and she'll get her chance and you'll get an extra one, too OR/AND

-post a link on your personal blog about our Blog Party and we'll give you 2 extra chances (make sure to leave us a comment here so we can check it out)

For this giveaway, I would like to know what your very favorite scrapbooking company is. I know it's a hard decision, but let's hear it!

You have until 10:00AM CST on Friday, November 20th to enter your name for this giveaway. We will be announcing ALL of the winners on Friday. Have fun and good luck!

Time to be Thankful for Another MP Blog Party!!!!-GIVEAWAY

Yep, it's that time again. Time for all you Mosh Poshers to join us for a TWO WEEK Blog Party. We have lots of fun stuff planned. We're going to have challenges (better get those creative juices flowing), DT Blog Hops, Giveaways and Prizes, fun projects to spotlight from both our Design Team and our members!! Woot woot. I. can. not. wait! The fun runs from 11/9-11/20.



To start things off right we have to have a Giveaway. Who doesn't like a Giveaway?!? Picture is forthcoming as soon as we overcome our small technical difficulties. (edited to add: DONE, see above, Yep, it's a whole lotta Sass). But in the meantime, get those comments started. Leave me a comment in this thread. We'll draw a name on Friday at 10 pm EST. What should we discuss?.... How bout you leave a comment here telling us something you love about Fall, or what signals the beginning of Fall to you?



If you'd like to increase your chances:

-send a friend to this thread and have them leave a comment and she'll get her chance and you'll get an extra one, too OR/AND

-post a link on your personal blog about our Blog Party and we'll give you 2 extra chances (make sure to leave us a comment here so we can check it out)



Alrighty, get those Cutterbees sharpened and make sure your adhesive drawer is stocked up and we'll see you tomorrow with more fun!

November Kit Give-Away!

That's right were giving away one of our yummy November kits! Simply leave us a comment about how you heard about Mosh Posh. You have until the 20th of November. Good Luck!

Rak of Fabulousness Winner

*****Tffny email me your address at scrappinjen(at)verizon(dot)net. I'll get your rak in the mail. Congrats and thanks to all for playing.

A Whole New Look at Butter

Happy Hump Day, Ladies!!! Jenny checking in today enjoying the sunny sunshine after yesterday's First Day of School rainout AND here to bring you this week's installment of Behind the Scenes Wednesday. I want to share with you some things that inspire me to want to scrapbook til all hours of the morning.

I don't know about you... but, there are two things I spend way too much $$$$ on: childrens' clothing and scrappy stuff. Now, what in the world could those 2 things possibly have in common?!? Well, I see scrapbook pages when I look at my kids' clothing, especially my girls'. See here? This cute line from Gymboree is called Rockstar Academy and I bought a pile of it to send Julia off to First grade in style this Fall. Take careful note of the hearts all in rows and the hearts with the argyle stitching, as well. I see this showing up in this month's Mosh Posh gallery. I haven't decided if I'm going for spray ink with hand stitching or patterned papers with machine stitching. But, it will be there on the 15th! (hint, hint).

Alrighty, so what the heck was that silly "butter" reference?!? Well, for the last several months, I've been a big fan of the color yellow. Yellow is so NOT a Jenny color, but alas, I dig it. Specifically, the color of butter. I talked about yellow back in June and you can see it in the card up top. Back then I like the butter mixed with robin's egg blue and cherry. Then, among came my 8 year old's new school clothes. Gymboree mixed my beloved butter with grey (think September's mp grey Lullaby Thickers) and a blue-grey. See here...

Me likey... Here's June's color inspo, still love this one, too:

Some pages I've done this summer also show that cool yellow color and one even has the grey. See here...

Hope you enjoyed a peek inside my little brain and how it works. Stay tuned for the argyle layout and also the butter/grey combination showing up in the DT gallery real soon. Thanks for stopping today.

*************Congrats to The Grissoms Page. You won Estee's button drawing. Please email her at EsteeLynn(at)gmail(dot)com and your butter, er buttons (ha ha) will be on their way!

I've Got a Winner!!

Hello ladies! Well, it's Sunday and I am back with a "Fun Friday" winner. But before I let one lucky lady know she is getting a fabulous add-on, I wanted to mention...Did you notice all of the fun going at Mosh Posh this past week? We had Estee on Tuesday and Wednesday with a RAK, Jenny on Thursday with a RAK, and myself on Friday with a RAK...Wowee! I really am sorry to have to break the news to ya...this FUN is here to stay! If you haven't left a comment for Estee and Jenny's RAKs, take a stroll on down the blog and leave your comment, but most importantly make sure you visit next week.

Ok, Ok...I won't keep my secret any longer. When I made up this challenge I actually did not have my kit, and I was a tad panicked. Kristen saved the day, and I am here to tell you that there are 613 precious little pieces of the September "Fabulous Finds" kit! Can you believe it! And if you take a look at our guesses...KateB is our winner with a guess of 600. So...

Congrats KateB!!!

Email your full name and address to me at fasylvia_6@yahoo.com and I will get your add-on in the mail ASAP! Thank you sooo much ladies for making my first challenge a success and happy scrapping!

It's Friday...Whoot! Whoot!

HELLO Mosh Posh!!! It's me...Frances Sylvia...Do you remember me? I was the Guest Designer for the month of July, but now, I am one of the girls. I am sooo stinkin excited and honored to be here at Mosh Posh and work with such talented ladies. I actually have been a long time lover of Mosh Posh...and that Kristen, she has been putting together fabulous kits for a while now, and I am grateful to be a part of it. Thanks Kristen!

Speaking of kits, did you catch a glimpse of the September kit, "Fabulous Finds"? If you haven't, take a look...

Ok, before I OMG you to death, I think we should all have a moment of silence to pay homage to the September kit...................................OMG!!! Is it not just "fabulous" (Sorry, I just couldn't resist)! That kit is full of Sassafras Lass, Cosmo Cricket, Lily Bee, American Crafts, Jenny Bowlin, and Basic Grey. I mean really, just how many more designers could she have mixed? I don't know about you, but one of my most favorite things to do is mix lines. It is like a scrapbook scavenger hunt. I take a little rummage through all of my cropper hoppers, jars, drawers, and baskets and just put "stuff" together. The only problem...it takes forever! Well, this month ladies, it is done for you...no rummaging! And if the kit is just not enough, the add-ons...goodness the add-ons! They are the perfect complement.

Friday's at Mosh Posh are strictly set aside for fun...yep, were gonna call it "Fun Friday!" "Fun" because each Friday of the month is gonna be a different dose of fun! This Friday...let's play a game! See, I love every ounce of this September kit. From the Sassafras Lass Sweet Marmalade Journaling Stickers to the amphersand in the American Crafts Lullaby Foam Thickers...EVERYTHING! Who remembers the game guess how many pennies are in the jar? Well ladies, that's the question...Can you guess how many little, itty-bitty goodies we are going to get in this kit? All you have to do is be the first one to guess the number correctly, or the closest, and you could win an add-on to match your perfect September kit "Fabulous Finds!" You have until 12 p.m., Saturday, September 5th to leave a comment with your guess and I will post the winner on Sunday. Good luck ladies, and happy counting!

A Closer Look at Pilfered Joy*Rak in Progress*

Happy Thursday, Girlies!!! Is anyone else a tad bit torn between being thrilled beyond measure that the kids head back to school next week AND being a bit weepy-eyed that the kids head back to school next week?!? Alas, I digress... today I'm here to introduce you to what we will be discussing on our blog each and every Thursday. Thursdays are "Thursday Thoughts". On these days we will chat about the stories behind the photos on our pages. I won't lie, journaling is my least favorite part of the story. I don't know what it is, but this is definitely my weakness.

But, for today, I'm going to go ALL the way back to my freshman year in hs and Mr. Levin's writing class. Besides getting an awesome creative writing assignment in which I got to pen a little ditty called "Jello" set to the tune of Lionel Ritchie's "Hello" (think Weird Al Yankovic parodies), I also learned a bunch about what makes for a good story. Since scrapbooking is all about telling a story through pictures and words, the title is really quite critical in the overall design. Mr. Levin taught us that the title of your story and the opening sentence is what will capture your reader... or lose her. I think this is where I get my personal need for the punny titles that I often use in my scrapbook pages. I love a little offbeat title that will draw a person into exploring my layout further. Take my August Mosh Posh layout entitled "Pilfered Joy". When my older children left a ride-on toy out, my youngest son took one look and was off. These photos captured his pure glee at his "found" treasure. See...


While I have you here I thought I'd also show you some closer looks at this page. After I handcut the June Bug paper on the right, I cut out some shapes from the scraps and added them on top of the same shapes with pop dots. Think K & Co 3d stickers. Also, I added various chipboard embellies to enhance the paper's patterns as well. Gotta love that little birdie.

I did add a smidge of journaling on little strips of white Bazzill. And, notice that I referenced the title in my journaling.

Besides punny titles, I also like to use titles that use my kiddos own words. Almost nothing is more precious to me, then capturing my children and the funny things they say when they are young, like I did in June's Mosh Posh layout here...

Here's another page title that leaves the viewer wanting more. She has to look past my title to see exactly what I'm trying to get across. The brief journaling in the corner with the picures from 2 different periods of time tell the story of my need for things to slow down... Not So Fast...

Thanks for stopping by the old blog today. Check back in tomorrow when our newest DT member will be here with Fun Friday. Stay tuned... Anyone want a chance for a big old RAK?!? Tell me something, anything, and I'll enter your name in a drawing for a package of fabulousness. We'll draw the name at 8 am EST next Thursday the 10th!!

Buttons, Buttons, So Many Buttons! (+ a Giveaway)

Welcome to Wednesday! Wednesday will be our Behind The Scenes day on the Mosh Posh blog. Today I want to talk about buttons. I have a lot of buttons. A lot is probably an understatement. As you can see I have buttons in a fish bowl, a cigar box and a ridiculous amount of bowls. There is a method to my madness, I promise.

The buttons that I use the most frequently (plus use for math lessons for Breuklyn, ha!) are in the Ziploc plastic container. It has a lid that I can twist on so my buttons can be portable, if necessary. The buttons in the bowls are from recent projects. Before I start working on a project, I pull out the colors that I am going to be working with. Once I am done I will organize them back into the smaller jars.

A lot of my buttons are from my grandmother. I love to pull out a pile of faded, scuffed ivory buttons. It reminds me of being a child sitting in the floor while Nan ironed my grandfather's dress shirts. She would ask me to find a specific button so that she could sew the extra onto his shirt. He was forever losing buttons it seemed.

How do you store your buttons? I would love to hear some new ideas! Leave a comment here with your ideas and I will choose one winner who will receive 100 of my favorite buttons! You have until Wednesday, September 9 to leave a comment. Have a great Wednesday!