Merry Music with MOXXIE

HaPPY HOliDays and MeRRy ChristMas.

These pics are of my sister and her family on Christmas morning. They are a very musical family. Hubby teaches music to minors and leads the worship team at church. A couple of her kids have toured the world in choirs and all know an instrument or 5. These joyful Christmas pics of the family playing music together just called for a wonderfully music line like MOXXIE's Musically Inclined. The colors are both cool and warm and really sing! A bit of tearing and inking added just the right roughness to the formality of the beautiful papers.

You can buy it online at scrapbook.com or ask your local scrapbook store.

Moxxie - Musically Inclined Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Band

Moxxie - Musically Inclined Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Brass

Moxxie - Musically Inclined Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Strings

Moxxie - Musically Inclined Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Piano

Moxxie Holiday Challenge- Dashing through the Snow

Hello and welcome to the Moxxie Holiday Challenge and Hop!

Here is a beautiful picture of my beautiful sister-in-law and friend. She is a photographer and set up this shot herself to work on capturing snow. Isn't it pretty? And it just pops with the beautiful purples of MOXXIE's Winterland line. Looks at those gorgeous colors!

Today our Muses have many eye-popping designs to inspire you. We also have a fun challenge and a Prize! So lets get right to it shall we?

Our theme this month is Holiday/Winter/Christmas

and the prize, you say? 

Oh just one of these amazing lines!

 For all your furry friend's fun, holiday antics!

This line is perfect for documenting all of that holiday fun, but it's not just for your pets. Check out the awesome projects our designers created with this line, pets or no this is perfect for the holidays!

But if you're not in the market for this fun holiday line you can opt for the gorgeous Winterland!

Details on how to win are below and here is our fantastic line-up of inspiration:

Julie McGowan

Wendi Robinson

Daniella Hayes

Jennifer Taylor (aka JenT)

Joan Liddle

Samantha Taylor

Renee Robbins

Amelia Harris

 Amy Allred

Leslie Mitchell

Rebecca Price

Ange Weisbeck

 To be eligible to WIN all you have to do is comment on the Moxxie blog.
(US addresses only please) 

Extra chances to win include:
  Comment- on any (or all) of the designers blogs
  Facebook- share the blog hop post (let us know by leaving a link on theMoxxie blog)
  Pinterest- pin any (or all) of these wonderful projects (leave a link for each pin on the Moxxie blog)
  Challenge- Enter your holiday project in our challenge! 3 extra entries if you use MOXXIE product! Link directly to your project or project post. (link up using the inlinkz tool at the bottom of this page)

Commenting and Challenge end Dec 31st. 

Winner announced Fri. Jan 2nd.

Kindergarten Memories with MOXXIE

My boys are growing up and it is so apparent when I scrap pages from a few years ago (Is any scrapper ever caught up?!?). Here is my baby on his first day of Kindergarten. I used a combination of the current BRAINIAC School Moxxie line with the earlier School Zone Moxxie line. I adore how the colors are the same so they mix and match perfectly. They took a great line and built on it to make it fuller.
 
I used the School Zone "Eleventh" for the background and Brainiac "Make the Grade," "Bookworm," and "Brainiac Stickers."

And see that cute owl die cut? That was a RAK from Design Team member Renee Robbins. So cute!
Now let's see your school pics cropped with a MOXXIE school line!

Wizardry by MOXXIE

After Halloween, I'm anxious to scrap those pictures of costumes from the past. One year, my son was in love with all things Harry Potter. So for his Christmas present, we went to Orlando Florida's Universal Studios to the "Wizarding World of Harry Potter."

Moxxie has papers for that! The WIZARDY line is so warm and dark and fun.

This double page spread uses both the themed paper and stickers. 

The first page is my boys entering the "Wizarding World of Harry Potter" which is awesomely realistic to the movie and page two is us eating authentic English vitals at Hogsmeade restaurant complete with Butter Beer. 

This line can still be purchases online. 

Stickers

Dragon's Lair Paper

Loyalty Paper

Wizard Wares Paper

full collection

and plenty of other online sites

or ask at your local scrapbook store if they carry Moxxie. 

Yee Haw Stagecoach ***MOXXIE***

My sons were cowboys for Halloween. And that put me in the mood to do a cowboy page. The perfect paper- MOXXIE's Western Round-Up. I scrapped some "old" photos from 2000 for my mom. This is a family trip where we went to an Old West Town called Columbia and rode on the stage coach. Being held-up was definitely the highlight for the unsuspecting kids. I glued on hemp string for a lasso effect.

Although not really a double page spread, I like my left and right pages in my albums to coordinate. And I had more pics so I made another COWBOY page.

 The paper is perfect as is, but that didn't stop me from altering it. To get that distressed look, I ran the center strip of paper and the edges of the mat under regular tap water. Don't be afraid. It makes the paper just right to wrinkle and alter and squish to lay flat. Then once dry, it gets a wrinkled leather look that is perfect for this page.

 Want some cowboy paper for yourself? 
Ask your local scrapbook store or look online. 
MOXXIE Western Round-Up 
Scrapbook.com

MOXXIE Cards Blog Hop

MOXXIE has great scrapbooking collections.
Including a jazzy Easter collection called Easter-ific.

But of course, they aren't only for layouts.
I must admit, I'm a layout scrapbooker. I feel comfortable there.
So altered objects and card are out of my comfort zone. To push myself, here are 3 cards I made for random upcoming birthdays. We can always use cards ready to go.

And for a twist, I used MOXXIE's Easter-ific Collection.
The bright colors and patterns just sang party to me!
Now How about you have a look at more cards and hop on through MOXXIE cards today?

And of course there is a PRIZE involved!

None other than the amazing New Winterland!!!

This line has a fantastic color combo, fun patterns and cute embellishments for all of your wintertime activities!

Details on how to WIN this line are below.

Samantha Taylor

 Amelia Harris

Jen Taylor 

Leslie Mitchell

Joan Liddle

Wendi Robinson

 Julie McGowan

Renee Robbins

Amy Allred

Daniella Hayes

Rebecca Price

Ange Weisbeck 

 Moxxie

 To be eligible to WIN all you have to do is comment on the Moxxie blog.
(US addresses only please) 

Extra chances to win include:
  Comment- on any (or all) of the designers blogs
  Facebook- share the blog hop post (let us know by leaving a link on the Moxxie blog)
  Pinterest- pin any (or all) of these wonderful projects (leave a link for each pin on the Moxxie blog)
  Challenge- Enter your card in our challenge! 3 extra entries if you use MOXXIE product! Link directly to your project or project post. (link up using the inlinkz tool at the bottom of this page)

Commenting and Challenge end Nov 30th.

Magical Memory ***MOXXIE***

Hey Mickie, You're so fine, you're so fine- you blow my mind.

MOXXIE has some great lines- both new ones and older ones.
I found this line that is PERFECT for the Disney pictures that I'm currently scrapping.
They made it so easy. I scrapped this double pager in less than an hour.

Ask your local scrapbook retailer if they have MOXXIE in stock. It's so easy to use and packs a punch with great colors. 

Scrapbook.com MOXXIE Magical Moments Collection

Moxie Supplies carries MOXXIE too

Halloween MOXXIE Blog Hop

My friends and I go Halloween camping every year together. The fun is where 50 of us all dress in a theme and decorate our cabins for the trick or treaters. MOXXIE's ZOMBIE ATTACK is the perfect line to showcase our MONSTER PROM.

Want to see more awesome Halloween MOXXIE stuff? Hop to it! And maybe even get a treat, no tricks about it. 

Welcome to the Moxxie Halloween Hop & Challenge!
We have a fantastic line-up this month!! You won't want to miss a single project.
And of course we have an awesome prize up for grabs!
Your choice of Zombie Attack! or Autumn Glory!

Aren't they gorgeous?
To be eligible to WIN all you have to do is comment on the Moxxie blog.

Extra chances to win include:

  Comment- on any (or all) of the designers blogs

  Facebook- share the blog hop post (let us know by leaving a link on the Moxxie blog)

  Pinterest- pin any (or all) of these wonderful projects (leave a link for each pin on the Moxxie blog)

  Challenge- Enter your Halloween project in our challenge! 3 extra entries if you use MOXXIE product! Link directly to your project or project post. (link up using the inlinkz tool at the bottom of this page)

 Here's our fantastic line up:
Amy Allred
Renee Robbins
Wendi Robinson
Leslie Mitchell 
Samantha Taylor 
Jennifer Taylor
Amelia Harris
Joan Liddle
Daniella Hayes
Julie McGowan
Rebecca Price
Ange Weisbeck
Moxxie

PB&J Gelli + Paste

What goes better together then Peanut Butter & Jelly?

I've showed off some of the my gelli plate work and some of the molding paste (like modeling paste or thick gesso).
Now I've combined gelli & paste.

It's GO TIME ***MOXXIE*** style

I love to see a paper theme and twist it. It takes creative thinking to see Christmas paper and scrap summer park pictures with it. Sometimes, scrapping for me is just playtime.

This page uses the new #MOXXIE line RACING. I used the orange B side of the "Racing" paper and cut the black "Motorcross" paper for the base. Then I splashed yellow paint all over and added some random embellishments. This page even leaves room for 3 tags of journaling about my son at this age.

So your challenge- twist you next project. You don't have to play by any rules. No "scrapbook police" will "get you." And have fun with it.

Need for Speed

Moxxie created a RACING line that is full of bold color.

http://www.gotmoxxie.com/site/index.php?cPath=247_255

What better pics to use then race car pics. But my son doesn't race....or does he?

Looking through some Amusement park pictures, I found these snaps of my boy and his buddy Elyza in a race car ride. Zroom, zoom. He loves this ride and now I love these pictures now that they are paired with such fun colors, papers and elements.

The stickers from this RACING line are seriously fun and easy to use. They do all the decorating for you!

Third Grade- MOXXIE Fall Hop

Fall is when summer ends and we start back to school. Check out this fun new line from MOXXIE called BRAINIAC. The adorable owl with eyeglasses reminds me of my son wearing his "readers". The colors are hip and happy.

The Muses have some wonderful inspiration for you this month. Here's a little peek at what you'll find along our hop:

I know you're intrigued and excited to get hopping, but before you go I want to tell you about something NEW we're doing on the Moxxie blog.

We challenge YOU to join us! That's right!
We want you to jump in on our challenge and create something with a fall theme, then go back to the Moxxie Blog and link it to our post for an entry into our giveaway!
You will find all of the details below.

Here is your inspiration list:

Wendi Robinson
Samantha Taylor
Amelia Harris
Julie McGowan
Jennifer Taylor
Joan Liddle
Leslie Mitchell
Rebecca Price
Daniella Hayes
Renee Robbins
Amy Allred
Ange Weisbeck
Moxxie Blog

You might be wondering what your prize will be?
If you are picked for our winner you will get this gorgeous Autumn Glory line to create some gorgeous fall projects of your own!

All you have to do to be entered to WIN is leave a comment on the Moxxie blog.
(US addresses only please)
BUT, you can get your name in the hat more than once!
Join our challenge and link back to the Moxxie blog for another chance to win!
Use MOXXIE product in your project and get 3, yes I said THREE, more chances to win!
You will have until the end of the month to enter your project and we will announce our winner on the 1st of Oct.

Ways to win:
- Comment on the Moxxie blog.
- Join our challenge! (Link your project with our Inlinkz tool)
- Use MOXXIE on your project and get 3 more entries in the draw!

- Visit each designers blog and leave a comment. The more you comment, the more chances you have to WIN!
- Go to the Moxxie facebook page and share our post about this hop for another chance to WIN! (if you're not already, you will need to be a follower of our page to do this) Come back to the Moxxie blog and leave another comment letting us know you did this.
- Go ahead and Pin It! If you do, leave a comment on the Moxxie blog with a link letting us know that you Pinned!

Lumpy, bumpy Modeling Paste

Mold grows on cheese. I like cheese. I like molding paste.

Check out what I made using MODELING PASTE.
The first time I heard someone call it molding paste, I assumed they meant modeling paste and were just saying it wrong. Until I bought some. 

I use both  & 

All the above were created with plastic templates. I then used a plastic knife to smear on the modeling paste and removed the template and let dry. Two I left white. Several I used color mist sprayed over to alter the color. To create the yellow stars I added yellow ink into the modeling paste before spreading it on. All are rough and lumpy and imperfect- just how I wanted them! 

Volleyball? Having fun with MOXXIE

MOXXIE just put out a bunch of new lines. They alway have some great sports lines. I showed off the Football line last week. Well they have this fun, playful Volleyball line. I don't have any Volleyball pictures....but that did not hold me back.

Here's what I started with - Volleyball by Moxxie

And here is what I did with it. The rainbow paper just sings joy so I had to use that all. Then the fun yellow and grays in varying shades add to the page.

Admittedly, I wanted to get funky with techniques before I started so I inked on the arrows from a mask. Then I spread Modeling Paste over a template of circles. Once dry, I misted that with yellow. I think the yellow circles mimic balls to me and are a nod to the line being a sports line even though I used a playground pic of my son. I must admit, I sloshed glue all over the page while trying to glue down the twine, but you know what? I'm okay with that. Scrapping isn't about perfection. For me its about the memories and the process of creating.

I had fun with this line and I think the page reflects that.

Are You Ready for Some Football?

Just got some of the new paper lines from MOXXIE and boy, am I excited to create with these.

Looking back in time, I found this pic of my son a year ago playing "football" with his Daddy. Maybe someday he'll play "real" ball, but for now a day at the park is all this Mama can handle.

Moxxie created a super sporty line called Grid Iron. I distressed edges and added some metal brads and a little wooden word embellishment to round out the page.

I love how these papers have such strong contrasting colors- the browns, greens and creams really pop. I'm a huge fan of this sticker set too. It creates the fun for you.

So, are you ready for some football? Or maybe ready to scrap some football?

Autumn Glory & Awesome MOXXIE Newness

So MOXXIE is releasing 7 awesome new lines. I want to show off the gorgeous, deep, rich, warm line called Autumn Glory. It has great stickers (I plan to do so many more pages with this line just to get a chance to use the beautiful stickers I haven't yet taken advantage of).

I couldn't hold back and had to create not 1 but 2 pages with these beauties.

My first son first- look at him and his buddies playing in the fall leaves. We don't get that chance enough in California where I live. I just love the rich flowers floating across one of the pages so while watching TV, I fussy cut them and overlapped them over the photo and some textured burlap. There really is so little I needed to add as the colors and beauty of the paper alone is stunning. 

My second son second. Here he is in Indian headdress. I loved all the rich colors so I did a triple mat to show off the depth of colors. Added some texture with burlap and skeleton leaves (old timer scrappers remember those) and a bit of bling. I love flourishes and wanted to show them off a bit by adding my journaling along one of the wavy lines. 

Now go check out more of the awesomeness using ALL the new MOXXIE lines!

Your inspiration list:

Peggy Stolley aka Moxxie Guest Designer
Amelia Harris
Amy Allred (you are here!)
Daniella Hayes
Jennifer Taylor
Joan Liddle
 Julie McGowan
Leslie Mitchell
Renee Robbins
Samantha Taylor
Wendi Robinson
Rebecca Price
Ange Weisbeck
Moxxie Blog

You might be wondering what your prize will be? Well, the winner will get to pick ONE of these awesome new lines for their very own!Yep, if you win you get to pick one of these awesome 7 lines that you will see along our hop.

All you have to do to be entered to WIN is leave a comment here on the Moxxie blog.

(International players are more than welcome to play but you will be responsible for shipping should you win.)

Winner will be announced one week from today on the 22nd.

Extra chances to win:- Visit each designers blog and leave a comment. The more you comment, the more chances you have to WIN!
- Go to the Moxxie facebook page and share the post about this hop for another chance to WIN! (if you're not already, you will need to be a follower of our page to do this) Come back to the Moxxie blog and leave another comment letting us know you did this.
- Go ahead and Pin It! If you do, leave a comment on the Moxxie blog with a link letting us know that you Pinned!

Little Mountain Man **MOXXIE**

I've gone camping every summer of my life since I've been alive. And now that I have my own little family- we camp together too. One of my husband's favorite activities is hiking. This MOXXIE line called Happy Camper is just that- HAPPY!

 For this Hiking page, I used rough, distressed edges. I misted the green with "dirty" brown and inked edges of photo mats in green and brown.
   

I loved the trees on one patterned paper but wanted a green background. Easy solution- fussy cutting. It's inexpensive and can be done in front of the TV.

 

 I'm in love with that family photo right now. Isn't my family cute?
 Happy Campers!

Buy some MOXXIE Happy Campers yourself:
Gone Camping Paper
Stick-y Paper 
Happy Camper Die Cuts
Happy Camper Border Stickers
Element Stickers or Element Stickers

Summer Blog Hop with MOXXIE - PRIZE available too!

Hello!

Welcome the the Summer time fun Moxxie blog hop!

Summer to me is all about great weather and relaxing fun. Living in California means sunshine and beaches. This fun, relaxed line from MOXXIE features beautiful colors. Beach Bum with great die cuts.

Surfer Boy- my son has grown his hair out for a "surfer" look. He's got those beautiful golden locks too.

I'm all about adding that little extra something to a page- an unusual technique, recycled embellishment or just a mix of products. So this page is actually different for me. It uses ONLY the MOXXIE beach line and my photos. With great colors and papers like this, it just doesn't need anything more!

Today our talented designers are going to show you fun summer projects using many different lines. So let's hop right to it shall we? Here is the list of blogs to check out:

Amelia

Amy 

Daniella

Jen T

Joan

Julie

Leslie

Renee

Samantha

Wendi

Rebecca

Ange

Every good hop has a prize right?

You could win this totally awesome BRAND NEW release!!!

You help your kids go back to school in style and now your scrapbooks can too!!

There are many chances to WIN!

Rules of the hop:
- Visit each designers blog and leave a comment. The more you comment, the more chances you have to WIN!
- After you've been to all the blogs head back to the Moxxie blog and leave a comment letting us know you hopped.
- Go to the Moxxie facebook page and share the post about this hop for another chance to WIN! (if you're not already, you will need to be a follower of our page to do this) Come back to the Moxxie blog and leave another comment letting us know you did this.
- Go ahead and Pin It! If you do, leave a comment on the Moxxie blog with a link to it letting us know that you Pinned! 

(International players are more than welcome to play but you will be responsible for shipping should you win.)

Kitty Kitty

Previously I made a page for my cousin Alicia using MOXXIE's Paws & Claws line. The line features cats & dogs and yet I made it neutral. I wanted to try it again, but this time using the cat theme. I used another pic of my cousin Alicia for her graduation album. This pic came from her Facebook page (love that kids post stuff for us to use now a days).
 
This playful pic of her with kitty whiskers and nose just begged for the Claws & Paws line.
Look how great the rub-on of the kitty is (these are high quality rub-ons unlike SOME that bite).

And for a little fun touch, I had to add a cat scratch. To create, I cut with an Exacto Knife then just wiggled and wiggled the knife in the cut to rough it up and give it distressed definition. 

If you want to buy this line, I found it for sale at www.scrapnesia.com