May Flower Challenge Winner(s)

Once again, I had a very difficult time picking a winner.  I had to call in my husband to help. See all the Reader Submissions HERE! and I'm sure you'll agree it was too dificult to choose one winner. So, I have chosen . . .

Lisa

Ange

Debbie

All three ladies will be offered a spot on the Guest Design Team for the month of July. 

Thanks to everyone who played along.  Watch for the June Challenge to post at noon.  We look forward to seeing your June contributions!

Meet Design Team Member Sharon

Family first in my list of loves and then... I love the outdoors, the ocean, whales, scrapbooking, and working with a torch. Books rank pretty high as well!

Pagerize Lea by Joni

What a fun layout!!  I was really inspired by how Lea used the strips and the large section of rubons.....and this is what it looked like when I was done...lol!!

Now it's your turn to take the Pagerize This Challenge # 10.  See all the details HERE! 

Meet Guest Design Team Member Wendy Crowe

My name is Wendy Crowe and I have been a happy scrapper for almost 13 years now. My main subjects are my 3 great kids and my understanding and patient hubby of 14 years. I am a full time administrative assistant and scrapping is my daily escape. To me, everything in life is one big photo op, as long as we are having fun. I love reliving all those great moments with my family when I am working on new pages. I try to keep my style clean and simple, but I love trying new ideas and techniques. I'll try anything once...or twice. I find inspiration everywhere and I am so glad to have lots of friends who are willing to share my passion for this hobby.
Thanks again for the great opportunity to share my hobby with you!
Wendy***

Meet Guest Design Team Member Holly

Hello, I’m Holly and it’s a great honour to be a guest designer for Scrap Our Stash.


I’m from Queensland, Australia and recently married my partner of 9 years, hence the many wedding themed layouts I have been creating lately. We share our home with two cats, Felix and Villain, who keep us busy until the day comes that we have children.


I started scrapbooking a couple of years ago after a European holiday with some very flat, basic pages. It was not until I started blogging did I realize there was a whole new world of dimension and scrappy tools out there. My stash has since increased at an alarming rate. I get inspiration from my wonderful husband and family, with 9 niece and nephews. I scrapbook mostly every day, as its a good stress relief from my other life – working as a full time psychologist in a correctional center. I also needed my own creative outlet, to keep me busy when my husband is off pursuing his own creative outlet as a guitarist for a band. However, he now tells me my hobby takes up far more time than his does! Oops!


If you want to come visit me to find out more, my blog is : http://harmonydiy.blogspot.com


Thanks for having me as a guest DT and I look forward to seeing everyone else’s lovely creations.


Holly xo

May Flower Challenge by Colleen

Reader Colleen submitted this layout for the May Flower Challenge. She said:

I made the background using paint and a comb and a punch for the borders. The flowers are made from triangles, just folded and glued in place.

This was a challenge I created for Sisterhood of Scrap where you could use ONLY scissors in place of cutting shears, a punch instead of a hoe and a comb instead of a rake. It was a fun challenge and I loved making the flowers. Thanks for looking.

Now it's your turn to take the May Flower Challenge. See all the details HERE!

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May Flower Challenge by Christy

Design Team Member Chrity submitted another layout for the May Flower Challenge.  She said: 

As you may remember, earlier this month, I completed the flower challenge with some unusual flowers on a Halloween Layout.  I am a bit flower challenged because I mainly scrap my son and my husband. So, I get a bit creative when it comes to certain embellishments. Anyhow, I just had to share this flower page I just made. After all, it's such a fun thing to break out of the usual mold for me with a little pink, some flowers and butterflies.


Pencil lines sketch 238
viva pink glimmer mist
Spun Sugar smooch spray
mask by Crafter's Workshop
Paper, brads, stickers, and chipboard from Crate Paper's pink Plum collection
wire for the antennae
Making Memories noteworthy alphas

P.S. if you peek closely at the butterflies, their antennae are made with wire which I hand curled and adhered with glossy accents.

Now it's your turn to take the May Flower Challenge.  See all the details HERE!

May Flower Challenge by Ren-Yi

The irony with flowers is, I love them a lot. But they don't appear in any of my projects, unless I stamp them, or create them from scratch by abusing my balloon die...so, what's really going on?




Thankfully, Kathy tasked us to use flowers from our stash. I have plenty and am not sure I made a noticeable dent...but it looks like a cute bouquet.



Well, I would love to hear inspiration on how you use your flowers. I could use a few inspiration pointers. And who knows, maybe I'll send a random commenter on this blog post a random assortment of flowers ;)

So, come join in on our Scrap Our Stash's May challenge. You have a few more days to enter - and there is a long weekend ahead :)


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May Flower Challenge by Lisa

Reader Lisa submitted yet another project for the May Flower Challenge. She said:

Hi ,
It's me again , I have been having so much fun doing projects with what I have laying around.This is the latest. I had these adorable photos of my granddaughter at my youngest daughter's wedding,( this was the first time she met a little one like her, it was the groom's nephew). I suddenly became inspired by this older paper I had from kaisercraft. I also used the new die from Die-namics to make the flowers. It's amazing what you can do with distress inks and white cardstock. Hope you like it.

Lisa

Now it's your turn to take the May Flower Challenge. See all the details HERE!

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May Challenge by Wendy K.

Honestly, I have more flowers in my stash than I know what to do with. Lucky for me I have 3 girls! I use flowers on so many of my pages that this challenge should have been a breeze. So why was I so stumped? Because I didn't want to do just anything, I wanted it to be something different. We bought $1 flip flops the other day at Michael's (yeah, we'll see how long they last!) and Christine wanted to decorate hers. So what did we add but flowers of course! Here they are:See all the details HERE!

Now it's your turn to take the May Flower Challenge.

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Pagerize Lea by Kathy

I love Lea's Pagerize This Challenge # 10.   I  knew I wanted to pagerize it. But how? So I decided to dump this jar of "random stuff" and use only things from the jar as my Random design on the right hand side of the page. I used only "random stuff" that I had. Thus the random fonts ect. It's hard to tell from the picture - but the title came from the fact that the Little Princess is wearing her cowboy (or should I say cowgirl) boots.


Now it's your turn to take Pagerize This Challenge # 10. See all the details HERE!

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May Flowers Challenge by Stephanie

Design Team Member Stephanie submitted this card for the May Flower Challenge.  She said:

I struggle with using flowers on my scrap pages because I love the huge 3D flowers that are popular, so I decided to try the rolled flower.

I chose to do a card because I could put it in a box with a gift and not worry about it getting smashed as it would in my scrapbook. The flowers were pretty simple, I just punched a circle and started cutting in a spiral. I scrunched it up (to make it more pliable), rolled, and then went nuts with Glossy Accents to hold it all together. I had to use hot glue to get the flowers to stick and I'm happy to report that I didn't burn myself. I wanted the flowers and the sentiment to pop, so I kept the rest neutral with kraft and white items. This could have easily been a wedding card, even though I used it for a birthday. Super versatile!

Now it's your turn to take the May Flowers Challenge. See all the details HERE!

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May Flower Challenge by Tammy

Design Team Member Tammy submitted this layout for the May Flower Challenge.  She said:

In this layout I actually used photos of myself (how often do we scrappers do that??) I am dating myself because they are from my high school graduation! I used Bazzill cardstock, Bo Bunny patterned paper, American Crafts Thickers, and misc. flowers and pearls from my stash. Don't you just love that 1980's hairstyle? I couldn't figure out how to do a Madonna-do with that cap on, which might actually be a good thing!



Now it's your turn to take the May Flower Challenge. See all the details HERE!
 
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May Flower Challenge by Lisa

Reader Lisa submitted two more cards for the May Flower Challenge. She said:

This gate fold card was done with an older stamp I had. .I colored it with colored pencils ,gamsol and copic markers and then used Glossy Accents to add dimension to the flowers and tag.Now it's your turn to take the April Bring in the Sun Challenge. See all the details HERE!Be sure to scroll down the page - Scrap Our Stash posts something new everyday.

For this card I used memory box card stock, memory box stamp and die-namics rolled rose die with vellum.

Now it's your turn to take the May Flower Challenge. See all the details HERE!

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May Flower Challenge by Maggie

Reader Maggie submitted this layout for the May Flower Challenge.  She said:

Some of the flowers on this layout are handmade, some are really old from my stash, and the sunflowers are new. I loved doing a fall themed LO with lots and lots of flowers!


This is a picture I took in 1997 of a grizzly bear fattening up on berries for the coming winter. I took these pictures in September on a beautiful fall day. In September, winter is just around the corner and it can snow any day. In fact, I have been at Denali in September when there was snow on the ground.

I used the May sketch at Dusty Attic for this layout.

Now it's your turn to take the May Flower Challenge. See all the details HERE! 

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May Flower Challenge by Ange

Reader Ange submitted this layout for the May Flower Challenge. She said:

This lo is about how fast my kids are growing, kind of. lol My oldest is helping my youngest with his first local Easter egg hunt because she's now too old to participate. It's a bit of a bittersweet thing. But I just loved how this photo turned out and really wanted it to shine on my lo. So I used sketch #162 from Nuts About Sketches: http://nutsaboutsketches.blogspot.com/ This Making Memories kit has been in my stash for at least a year. I cut the flowers out of the background paper and pop-dotted them for decoration. Then added some other embellies from the kit.

Thanks for the great challenge!
:)Ange
http://scrappingcompulsion.blogspot.com/

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May Flower Challenge by Lisa

Reader Lisa submitted another floral card, for the May Flower Challenge. She said:

This time I used a Hero Arts stamp and colored with copics and pencils, also some flower soft.

Now it's your turn to take the May Flower Challenge. See all the details HERE!

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May's Flower Challenge by Missy

Design Team member Missy submitted this layout for the May Flower Challenge.  She said:

Here is my layout for the May Flower Challenge. I used up a few of my printed paper scraps as the background. I originally made this layout to submit in another challenge for National Scrapbook Day. (The original layout can be seen on my blog .)I really liked the layout, but the subject was not about something that I wanted to put in my scrapbook, (what would you do if you won the lottery). So I took it apart and re-worked it with the picture of me and my twins at their pre-schools Mother's Day Brunch. I will definately add this on to my scrapbook!


I made the crepe paper flower white and then sprayed it with my lime green glimmer mist.
I was also able to use up some flowers, pins, and brads that I had gotten in some swaps!


Now it's your turn to take the May Flower Challenge.  See all the details HERE!  Be sure to scroll down the page - Scrap Our Stash posts something new everyday.

May Flower Challenge by Colleen

Reader Colleen submitted this layout for the May Flower Challenge. She said:

I created the flowers using a couple of flower punches and then used the snowflake punch by MS as the backing for the flowers.

Thank you.

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May Flower Challenge by Tammy

Design Team Member Tammy submiited this layout for the May Flower Challenge.  She said:

I have a ton of flowers in my stash and love using them, so this challenge was a treat. This is just a candid photo of my oldest daughter last 4th of July waiting for the fireworks to begin, her sneaky older brother is giving her bunny ears in this picture, she has no idea! In this layout I used Bazzill cardstock, patterned paper and cardstock stickers from Adorn It--Carolee Creations, flowers by Kaiser Craft and Making Memories, and a rhinestone flower and pearls from my stash. Now let's see your flower creations!!


See all the details HERE!

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May Flower Challenge by Kathryn

Design Team Member Kathryn submitted this layout for the May Flower Challenge. She said:


I am really, really super, super pleased to be on the DT for Scrap Our Stash Challenge!!! Scrapbooking is a huge part of my life and I love being challenged to really use up my stash. Like many of us, I am sure, I buy way too much stuff and I need to be pushed to actually use it!! For the May challenge it was great to be able to use some of the jars of flowers I have gathered over the last few years, especially the purple ones. I love purple and I have a big kilner jar full of purple flowers, but I never seem to need that colour. The photo I have used this time was perfect though and I have gone to town! This is Emma at 2 years wearing my sunglasses on holiday. Sadly, as she gets older the willingness to pose for photos is receding rapidly!
Recipe:
Bazzill leaf embossed cardstock. I have painted a frame around the background to break up the empty space using willow and lettuce Adirondack dabber paints. I painted it in quite a slapdash way so it didn’t look too precise. · The papers are off cuts of Basic Grey Euphoria papers arranged so they are peeping out from behind the photo, and the edges inked with versa magic purple hydrangea ink. · The flowers are a mixture of Petaloo, Prima leaves (love these, on my second packet) and some lovely purple Iris flowers and roses. I have then added coordinating buttons and some bling gem flowers and a Rockstar gem title. Hope you like!
Kathryn
Now it's your turn to take the May Flower Challenge. See all the details HERE!

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May Flowers Challenge - Stacy H-W

Hello everyone,
Here is the card I made for the May Flower Challenge.
I recently received this adorably sweet S.W.A.L.K stamp set, Old Friend. And I thought it would be perfect for the flower challenge.
I just love the sentiment and how perfectly it works with the image.
I made the card with scraps and ribbon from my stash. I colored the image with my watercolor pencils.
Then, I finished it off with a couple of tiny Prima Sculpture Flowers.
So there you go, my May Flower Challenge creation. Now let's see yours!!Details HERE!

May Flower Challenge by Colleen

Reader Colleen submitted this layout for the May Flower Challenge. She said:

This Easter layout was a photo that was taken this year. Very seldom do I get all my grandchildren together for holidays and this was my first for Easter. I used 2 sided paper and made the flowers from a sizzix die, just layering them, inking the edges and turning the paper over for some different colors. Thanks for looking.

Now it's your turn to take the May Flower Challenge. See all the details HERE!

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Pagerize This # 9 Winner

Karen selected Lea as the winner of the Pagerize This # 9 Challenge. Now, it will be Lea's turn to provide us a project to Pagerize. Watch for the new Pagerize This # 10 on May 15th.

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May Flower Challenge by Lisa

Reader Lisa submitted this card for the May Flower Challenge. She said:


These were scraps laying around and I turned them into a flower pot card. With a little help from sizzix and spellbinders a little distress ink and imagination, I "planted" a card. ;) hope you like it.

Now it's your turn to take the May Flower Challenge. See all the details HERE!


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