The April Challenge is to Bring in the Sun! Most everyone is ready for winter to end and spring to be here. So this months challenge is to do something with or about the Sun. It can be a layout, card, album, or anything you want to create that has something to do with the Sun.
The possibilities are endless. Just complete your project and send a picture along with a description to scrappinpsycho@live.com . Your project will be posted here at Scrap Our Stash. The challenge will end at 6:00 PM on April 30th. A winner will be chosen and offered the opportunity to become a Guest Design Team Member for the month of June.
So let the Sunshine in - and lets see what project you come up with!
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March 31, 2011
March Dust it Off Challenge Winner
Once again, it was difficult to choose a winner. There were so many outstanding contributions to the March Dust if Off Challenge - see all the reader's submission HERE.
I picked:
I picked:
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| Theresa & Helen |
Both ladies will be offered a spot on the May Guest Design Team. Make sure you come back to see what they contribute.
March 30, 2011
Meet April Guest Design Team Member Helena
I discovered scrapbooking in 2005 and it was love at first sight. My style has changed and evolved during these past 6 years and nowadays I like to create layouts with more paints, mists and inks and less patterned papers and embellishments. I like to think that my children will enjoy all the albums I've made but, I scrapbook because I love the creative process. It is also very therapeutic and relaxing. You can find my creations on my blog: http://scrap4all.typepad.com/scrappassion/. Here is one of my latest layouts. It's about my son Andrea.
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Meet April Guest Design Team Member Kathryn
I live in the North of England and have been married to Dan for 7 years, we have Emma, 4 and two cats, Poppy and George. Emma will tell anyone who asks or who doesn’t ask for that matter, that George is fat and Poppy is little! My layout here is Emma when she was about 20 months old, sitting in my mum’s garden and making funny faces!
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Meet Guest Design Team Member Melissa
first of all i wanted to thank Scrap Our Statsh challenge for inviting me as one of the Guest Designers this month. it is an honor to be able to share with you my creations. My name is Melissa but many of you know me as Isay. i am a mother of three beautiful blessings, 2 boys and a girl, a wife to a very supportive husband, and a full time nurse. i've been scrapping for almost 5 yrs now and i can say i am very inlove with this hobby. i have no particular style in scrapping but i love to add a lot of details and layers in my layout. my scrapping style has improved significantly and i am very blessed to have met many good friends through blogging and scrapping. thank you again for having me as one of your Guest designe team members. here is my blog addy where you can come and visit me- http://isay-creativegenius.blogspot.com
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Goodbye!
Design Team Member Denise has decided to resign her spot on the Design Team. She has lot of new and exciting things going on in her life. You can continue to follow her blog - on the sidebar.
Thanks Denise, for all your contributions and inspiration. We wish you the best in your future endevors.
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Thanks Denise, for all your contributions and inspiration. We wish you the best in your future endevors.
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March Dust it Off Challenge by Meital
Hello! My name is Meital and here is my layout for the March challenge. This layout is very special to me. I never made a layout with a picture of me by myself, not including my pregnancy album which in a way includes my beloved son.
The picture was taken a few minutes befor heading out to a PURIM party which is my favorite jewish holiday. In Purim it is a custom to wear costumes and masks. This year I went as a Ballerina and I loved my costume! I used for the background a shaped cardstock from Making Memories that I have more than two years and never had the chance to use it since most of my scrapping is about the boys. Here is a link to a video I shot while working on this page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxdRUOvgKa0 Have a nice day! Meital http://moominit.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.html
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March 29, 2011
March Dust it Off Challenge by Gemiel
After a really hectic month, I’ve finally found the time to work on my Dust it Off Challenge layout.
Years ago, I belonged to a scrapbook kit club – Club Scrap. I stockpiled their kits for years, not using them because I was waiting for the “perfect photos” to showcase the beautiful papers. For this challenge I decided to dig into my stash and use one of the kits. The kit I chose was the Moody Blues kit from March 2002, perfect for this layout of Hurricane Katrina memorials that we saw during our trip to New Orleans. In addition to the kit, I used some silver pearls by Recollections and a circle punch, a tool I haven’t used in ages.
Gemiel Matthews
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March Dust it Off Challenge by Sharon
THANKS so much for inspiring me--- I needed to make a couple layouts from our spring break this year, so I pulled out an old paper pack (the Pet Stack—buried beneath so many other papers)—used some of my little sizzlets (literally had to DIG through dust to find one, I thought I might have {bowl, and bone}) and I used an ollllldddd little rubber paw print, that was in the back of my embellishment drawer so all in all this was great inspiration for me, to make a cute NEW layout, out of lots of older things! (I love this challenge, thanks)! Oh, and my paper punch for holes, haven’t seen that in years.
Sharon Bessinger http://sharonbscraps.blogspot.com/2011/03/march-dust-it-off-challenge.html
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Pagerize Helena by Christy
Design Team Member Christy submitted this layout for the Pagerize This Challenge # 8. She said:
When I was a child, I learned my times tables by rote memorization. I recall hating it! While it did work for me, when it came time to homeschool my son, rote memorization was just not his way. He is always in motion, constantly chattering and just seems to need to "do" to learn. So we opted for some multiplication games. I think maybe it takes him a little longer this way than if I made him sit down and memorize everything. Then again, maybe not, because he'd fight me the whole way. Either way, we are having a ton more fun together. I documented it with this page. We are playing multiplication UNO. It's the same as regular UNO only you choose a multiple and work through it as you play. For example, every number card you draw is multiplied by 3. So if you play a four then you multiply it by three. When we first start out, my son gets to use a chart. As we advance, the chart goes away. He sees the problem, hears the problem and says the problem and his hands are active. It's a win- win scenario!
White acrylic paint with doodled black pen made a great border for this page. I then cut some K & Co. ticket style border strips apart and used scraps of Sasafrass and crate paper as accents. The brown ribbon is unknown. The scallop was a scrap of a crate paper border. I inked a Sassafrass paper whimsy card. It reminded me of the symbol for multiplying. I added some patina glimmer mist for some fun flair
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When I was a child, I learned my times tables by rote memorization. I recall hating it! While it did work for me, when it came time to homeschool my son, rote memorization was just not his way. He is always in motion, constantly chattering and just seems to need to "do" to learn. So we opted for some multiplication games. I think maybe it takes him a little longer this way than if I made him sit down and memorize everything. Then again, maybe not, because he'd fight me the whole way. Either way, we are having a ton more fun together. I documented it with this page. We are playing multiplication UNO. It's the same as regular UNO only you choose a multiple and work through it as you play. For example, every number card you draw is multiplied by 3. So if you play a four then you multiply it by three. When we first start out, my son gets to use a chart. As we advance, the chart goes away. He sees the problem, hears the problem and says the problem and his hands are active. It's a win- win scenario!
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| Pagerize this Scraplift #8- of Helena |
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March 28, 2011
March Dust It Off Challenge by Missy
Design Team Member Missy submitted this project for the March Dust it Off Challenge. She said:
When I found out about the Dust It Off Challenge, my first thought was to use my Fasenator, but I thought that I had given it away long ago. So I was going through my "old stuff" box, and guess what? I found it! Now what was I going to do with it?
I was making a banner as a gift in a swap. So I used the Fasenator as the way to attach the banner together. I had some of the decorative staples and just slid the ribbon under each side and tied knots. I learned alot about my Fasenator, and it has since earned it's spot back on my tool shelf! I'm not so sure it won't get dusty again though!
I used my Cricut Storybook cartridge for the letters and used my Gypsy to alter some of the shapes for the letter backings. Both the hot pink ribbon and the light pink scalloped oval were distressed with my mini mister filled with water and then scrunched up. I inked around the edges with Close to My Heart Bubblegum stamp pad.
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Pagerize Helena by Tiffany
Hello! attached is my submission for the latest pagerize challenge. I chose to "pagerize" the title, using 3 lines of puffy letters for my title, placed in the bottom right corner. Thanks for another great challenge!
=) Tiffany
http://bkfastattiffanys.blogspot.com/
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March 27, 2011
Dust it Off Challenge by Wendy
Design Team Member Wendy submitted this layout for the March Dust it Off Challenge. She said:
I pulled out all the stops with this layout. Everything I used is old, old, old and I literally had to dust off my border punch! I used a sketch from My Little Sketch Book which made a perfect layout out of these boring pictures. For more details, visit My Scrapbooking Blog.
I pulled out all the stops with this layout. Everything I used is old, old, old and I literally had to dust off my border punch! I used a sketch from My Little Sketch Book which made a perfect layout out of these boring pictures. For more details, visit My Scrapbooking Blog.
Now it's your turn to take the March Dust it Off Challenge. See all the details HERE!
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March Dust it Off Challenge - By Colleen
Reader Colleen submitted these cards for the March Dust it Off Challenge. She said:
I have had these metal frames forever and what a great way to use them but on a card. I painted and sanded them down and glued them onto card stock. Added some embellishments to complete the cards.
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March 26, 2011
March Dust it Off Challenge by Sarah
Is 2007 dusty enough? I was cleaning out some older bins of sh-tuff in the Studio over Christmas Break when I ran across this Halloween Mini-Album... I put it aside so it wouldn't get 'sucked under' again and boy, am I ever glad I did! I had started it right after Halloween that year: got the pictures printed, cut the back paper and then... I dunno. I think part of it was that being the year of my separation and my Ex was along for this trip (Bless Cropping!), maybe Christmas Rush??? It's a mystery! But...
I'm so happy for this challenge giving my Muse a good kick in the rear to get it done. As soon as it was finished my 4 boys were passing it around to look at. It was the last project I got done before this killer virus that's been going around put me out of commission for over 2 weeks. I had to hunt it down on one of their dressers after I was feeling better just to get the photos. That, right there, is why I scrapbook.
The Album is a K & Company Brag Book which was part of a kit. I bought the kit for the stickers and other embellishments then the book sat around for a year. Dusty even before this challenge! lol
I started all the pages by 'wallpapering' with pattern paper...
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I'm so happy for this challenge giving my Muse a good kick in the rear to get it done. As soon as it was finished my 4 boys were passing it around to look at. It was the last project I got done before this killer virus that's been going around put me out of commission for over 2 weeks. I had to hunt it down on one of their dressers after I was feeling better just to get the photos. That, right there, is why I scrapbook.
The Album is a K & Company Brag Book which was part of a kit. I bought the kit for the stickers and other embellishments then the book sat around for a year. Dusty even before this challenge! lol
I started all the pages by 'wallpapering' with pattern paper...Then added the Photos...
Then went through and embellished.
I used up papers that had come with some $ store mini-album kits. The boys had taken the albums to do some small books of their own.
Stickers were a mish-mash of leftovers in my Halloween Stash.
Then a final go through to do the journaling.
All Done!!! ...at last. 
Then went through and embellished.
I used up papers that had come with some $ store mini-album kits. The boys had taken the albums to do some small books of their own.
Stickers were a mish-mash of leftovers in my Halloween Stash.
Then a final go through to do the journaling.
All Done!!! ...at last. 
Now it's your turn to take the March Dust it Off Challenge. See all the details HERE!March 25, 2011
March Dust it Off Challenge by Tamara
Design Team Member Tamara submitted this album for the March Dust it Off Challenge. She said:
Here is my "dust off project" for the March challenge. I have had this 6x6 album from All My Memories for a few years, so I decided it was time to put it to use. I chose to do a family album. These are mostly pictures with my grandkids. I used so many misc. pattern papers from my 6x6 pile that I can't even tell you all of the brands. But here is a tip. My scraps stack up so quickly that I had to make the decision to only save a certain size or they would take over my scrap room. I cut all of my leftover paper into 6x6 squares and rarely save a piece any smaller. It is my go to stash whenever I need a small piece for something or anything. This went together rather quickly once I was able to concentrate on it. I used several embellishments that were right at my fingertips. This was a project not to doddle around on. Here is hoping you like the results.
Tamara
http://scrappinsmiles-myblog.blogspot.com/
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March 24, 2011
Frugal Friday Tip: Tin Can Recycling by Christy
Last November, I got a Sizzix Texture Boutique. While I love what I can do with it, I really have not used it to its fullest potential. When I saw a recent tutorial about using soda cans and punches, I had the idea to dust off the texture Boutique and embossing folders to see what I could come up with. The results were quite wonderful!
Materials: Embossing machine and folders
soda cans, rinsed out
old scissors
a Bic Mark it or other permanent marker
optional: a child (My son likes to use my embossing machine. So I cut the soda cans while he worked
the machine. My son thinks this is great fun.)
You will need to carefully cut a slit into the can. Then remove the top and bottom. You are left with a curled piece of aluminum. Then it's just a matter of placing this into an embossing folder and putting it through the machine. I would just advise caution since the can is a little sharp after you cut it.
We experimented with a variety of designs. Some look better than others. You can use some punches to create your own shapes or use the permanent marker to draw a design of your choice.Then use old scissors to cut it out. The marker also comes in handy to draw an inked look to the edges of your cut shape.
I found glue dots to be the best way to adhere the shapes to my page. It's also very easy to punch holes for brads with your paper piercing tool. You could also conceivably choose to hand stitch on your metal embellishment. I plan to dust off my alcohol inks to see how well they would look on my newly embossed designs.
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| Sassy Lil Sketches 3-14-11 design Cream Acrylic paint MME paper Maya road Chipboard motif inked in Colorbox black ink Paper Trunk Carson, black alphas Black paint stamped with a round lid DMC floss |
All in all...a wonderful and inexpensive way to make your own page embellishments and recycle.
Do you have a frugal tip to share? Send the tip along with a picture to scrappinpsycho@live.com. You could be featured as our next Frugal Friday Tip.
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March 23, 2011
March Dust it Off Challenge by Kathy
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| My collection of 12 x 12 post bound albums |
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| Organizing all the complete layouts in chrono order |
For the Dust it Off Challenge I decided to dust off my closet full of 12 x 12 post bound albums and put my completed layouts in them. I use to scrap in chronological order - but that was before my digital camera - and before Grand kids 2 and 3. I have been putting my completed layouts in what was originally 1 3 ring binder. The 1 grew to 5, plus 3 overflow albums - so it was definitely time to get them in a postbound. I was able to file layouts from 2005 - 2009. I decided to keep the 2010 & 2011 layouts in the 3 ring binders. I ended up with 24 post bound albums.
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| 2 piles of complete albums |
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