Hey Teacher!!

I was just doing some school shopping the other day (gotta hit those sales!!) and it hit me that school will be back in before I know it! Sheesh! Where did summer go? But luckily, I already have a teacher gift all done thanks to Midnight Oil!

Their board books are AWESOME and you can even get them with an acrylic cover!!! Now how cool is THAT? My biggest problem with a lot of board books is that they are sort of vunerable. But with an acrylic cover, I can breathe easy knowing that my hard work is safe! Make sure to give them a try! Ask your favorite store to carry these books. They will be glad they did!! And just in case, our website also has a list of retailers that do carry them!

OK, and since it is Sunday...I must leave you all with some inspiration for the week. Here is a sketch designed just for you, our faithful readers!!! Give it a try. Got MOSD? Use it!

Have a GREAT week!!!

Oh yeah...and Lynda...you are our stacker set winner!!! E-mail me your e-mail and I will send you a set of stackers!!! Great ideas everyone!!

~Shannon

Christy's Challenge

Happy Saturday everyone! I'm glad it is Saturday - although I will be working today! I am so blessed to have a job I absolutely love. My boss, well I won't mention the slave driver she is :-) - Kidding. Alison and I make a great team!

Ok - onto my challenge... I was looking through some older layouts

I did and came across this one:

Park Play Satcker Collection Featured

I love, love, love this layout! Did it get published? NO... Did it win a contest? NO ... Am I some famous scrapper you should want to scraplift??? Ba Ha HA - absolutely NOT! But the fact remains I love this layout - I remember finishing it ( about 2 years ago) and being proud of the way it came together - handwritten journaling and all.

So today my challeng is to look back at some older layouts and find one you are really proud of. Make it a Family thing, sit with the kids, DH, the dog - whoever and do some reminicing.

Have a great Weekend!

And the Winner is>>>>

Congratulations!!! I asked my Son to pick between numbers 1 - 4 and he picked 4 --- Paula M you win the entire Football Stacker collection - just because "I'm 4 that's why I picked it Mommy" Shoot me an email through the CONTACT US page at www.mosdinc.com and give me your address. It will ship out Monday!

Fun Friday on a Small Scale

Who says fun has to be BIG? With MOSD, you can have fun with the small stuff too! This little baby is called the Clearly Cute Petite and is small enough for your key chain, purse, or backpack. I made this fun, little album in about 30 minutes with some left-over photos of my son's 2nd birthday. (Please, do not comment on the fact that the boy will soon be 8!) The covers are acrylic and the inside pages are chipboard. Each album comes with a binding chain.

If you have a lot of small photos or "distance shots," get out your square punch and corner rounder, and have fun making this cute little album. As always...HAVE FUN!

- Gloria

Acrylic Tags

My thoughts for this Thursday are about the MOSD acrylic tags. I love these little guys! They look great on layouts, and are great accents for those clear albums. I have even seen them grouped together to make a mini-tag album. I used mine with the acrylic tabbed album and love the added punch it gave my cover. Let me know what you think!

Simple Scrapping

Howdy all! Christy coming at ya today for our MOD Squad post of the day... Veronica our regular Tuesday hostess has quite the sick little one - we send get well wishes out to her!

Tuesday's theme is Tips and Techniques - so my tip for you today is to keep things simple. Here is a layout done by Sherry of the Scrapbookers Bag.

Sherry is a busy mom, like all of us and she advocates getting pages done, by keeping them simple! Here is a quote from her site:

I want to focus on all of you SIMPLE scrapbookers who are like me. Those of you who love to use many photos on your pages; want easy, but beautiful embellishments; have a quick turnaround time in preserving your family history, and products that won't break the bank.

Sherry is a fan of MOSD products because they go together quick, are innexpensive and add just the right touch to simply scrapped pages. So all you scrappers like Sherry - give a shout out in our comments section for a chance to win the entire MOSD Football Stacker Collection.

I'll draw the winner and let you know who it is on Saturday July 19th, my "regular" blog day.

Sherry used the Football Edger on this simply scrapped page.

Monday Muses...

Hello Everyone! It is Monday again so you are back to me (Ali). I have a winner to announce and some fun samples to show you - so let's get to it.




Drum roll please >!>!>!>!>!>>!>!>!>!>!>!>!>!>!>!>!>!>!>! The winner of the custom Expressions Wordbook from last Monday is.......PaulaM. This was a random drawing, but incase you missed what Paula had to say, here it is...



"When I first heard that one of the LSS had these albums for special order, I was thrilled. I have 6 children and the first thing I though about was wanting to order one for each of them. I will either give each of them the blank book and allow them to embellish, or for those that are not 'into that' (the boys) I will embellish it for them with pictures and memorabilia about them!! What a fun item."




Paula send me an email with your address and what word you would like and I will get your book in the mail to you.




Now onto another fun Acrylic album. Have you seen a Clearly Designed Steps Album? They are a lot of fun. They are 5 inches wide and the pages are graduated stating at 4 inches long/tall and going upto 7 .5 inches. Here is a beautiful sample done by our own MOD Squader Debbie Fitzgerald entitled Family Hike






Did you notice how her title is Family Hike- but the family part of the title is actually on the second page with the photo of some of her family- LOVE THAT! Love that with the clear nature of these albums you can stack and layer and get two titles for the price of one!

Still not to sure about putting together a clear album? Angela from The Button Farm is using the Clearly Designed Steps Album for her class at all the CK Conventions. Her 'Ramdom Musings' class sells out quickly. If you are interested in taking this class at a CKC you might want to go here and see when registration is in your area. Here is a picture of the album she is teaching...









If any of you have taken the class leave a comment! We have heard rave reviews about Angela as a teacher and this project. You won't be disappointed!

Well I think I have been long winded enough today. I hope I have provided you with some inspiration. Have a terrific Monday!



-a