WINNER!

Good morning!

We hope you had a fabulous weekend Trick or Treating!  The weather here was great and the kids are already on their way to emptying there loot bag... (with a little help from mom and dad!)

It's time to announce our winner for the October Sketch Challenges!  Once again you have all linked some amazing projects!  We so love going through them all!  Thank you for coming back every week to share with us!

The winner of the 20$ Gift Coupon to the Let's Capture Our Memories store is...

KARRIE (SweetScraps) 

Congratulations Karrie!  Please email me your full name and address to isabelle@letscaptureourmemories.  Please indicate October Winner in the subject line.  You have until November 10, 2014 to claim your prize.

Make sure you join us for our next reveal this Saturday!  Our new design team is ready to rock it for you!! 

Happy scrapping!

LCOM - October Color Spot

Good morning everyone!

Welcome to Fall!  Have the color of the leaves been turning a beautiful shade of red, orange or yellow in your neck of the woods?  They sure are here!  I love this time of year.  There's just something special about the warm, fuzzy feeling I get when I'm out in about in the woods this time in the year.

Speaking about warm, fuzzy feelings, this month's Color Spot is that and so much more!  I always love searching the web for that perfect picture to create the spot each month.  And I love it when I land on one that makes me sing inside!  This month's spot comes Design Seeds.  You should now by now that I love this place!  This one made me sing inside for only one specific reason:  my daughter.  In recent months, my 9 year old daughter has, in various forms, learned how to knit.  She has learned to knit with looms, her arms (so cool!) and as of couple of weeks ago, with knitting needles.  She has done this on her own (with a little help from YouTube).  So when I landed on this image, it was the one I wanted to share with you!!  It's rich colors was perfect to showcase the Fall colors all around us.

I asked my friend and fellow Design Team member, Beatrice Lawson, if she would have a go at this month's Color Spot and I was so excited when she said yes!  She did a super job with the Spot! She shares with us the story behind her layout.:

"The International Day layout captures some memories of my son's third grade celebration of the USA. Every year each class picks a nation and for a month the children study the history and culture of that country, culminating in a huge exhibition day for the families, when the kids showcase everything the learned, all the projects they made and wear traditional costumes, both historic and current. On the last day of their International month the class celebrates with a huge potluck lunch featuring dishes from their chosen country and that year, the class studied the US. Being our neighbours and all you'd think they already know enough about it but they actually learned a lot! And they all loved the lunch!"

What I lovely way to learn new things and celebrate each other!  Such a great story!  Beatrice was so kind to send along another project to share with us.  This card is so fitting for our October Color Spot, with Thanksgiving and Halloween just around the corner!  What a fabulous card to receive!

Thank you, Beatrice, for sharing your projects with us this month!  I hope that you were inspired with this month's Color Spot and that you'll take the time to share your projects with us.  You know how I love to see them.  Make sure you link them below using our linking tool!  You can link up all month all.

Happy scrapping!

LCOM - Layout of the Month

Welcome to October's Layout of the Month!

Every 15th of the month we showcase a project from our member gallery.  There's SO much talent in our gallery.  You'll find some great projects and you're sure to be inspired!  If you haven't signed up yet, now is a good time to do so!!  You can sign up here.

While I was perusing the gallery this month, I came across this card by member Emily.  What a great card!! And just in time for Halloween!!  That little vampire is just too cute!! The sentiment is just perfect!! Emily makes note to her project.  The inside verse is as follows:   ... anything except apples and treats.  Happy Hallowe'en!

Congrats Emily!!  Thank you for sharing your cards with us!!

Make sure you join us in the gallery.  You can find all of Emily's projects and so much more!!  

See you next month!

October Color Spot

Welcome to our newest feature here on the blog!

COLOR SPOT

Color is everywhere.  It's what makes the world around so beautiful!  With Fall now upon us, the leaves are changing color and what a beautiful canvas it makes!   I've decided to share with you some of my favorite color combinations.  

Starting today and followed by every first of the month, I will share with you a color palette.  Use this color palette as inspiration to create your next project.   Make sure you link your projects to this post using the Inlinkz at the bottom.  I'd love to see what you create.

Let's get to this month's Color Spot!  It comes from Design Seeds.  I love Design Seeds.  They have such amazing color palettes!  Since school is in full swing now, I found this one to be fitting for our first Color Spot.  

I've invited my friends and fellow designers Aurelie Cormier and Jocelyne Roy to play with this month's Color Spot.  

Be Mine by Aurelie Cormier

Mascaret by Jocelyne Roy

Although, this color palette was inspired by the school crayons, I love the fact that both Aurelie and Jocelyne didn't used the school theme for their layouts.  They both used one color as their starting point and added the rest of the colors as accents all over their pages.   

Thank you for join us today.  I hope this month's Color Spot will inspire you and I can't wait to see what you create with it.  Make sure you link it at the bottom of this post!