"Um-Um Good" LO By Brenda R.

Our last inspiration for "All About Our Guys" challenge come from Brenda R.  Look at how cute her layout came out using Basic Grey papers! She did an awesome job on the paint spatters and rings and made great use of her brads throughout her layout. Take a look:

This is what Brenda said about her layout, "This was an awesome challenge for me for several reasons: (1) I love scrapping photos of the lil guys in my family (2) Months ago I purchased this BG collection with all the matching embellies and have only completed one layout with it. (3) I used brads, which is one item in my stash that I always forget to use. The brads used were part of the matching embellies for this collection, which made putting this layout together, easy! Combined with a few paint splatters and twine, I am pleased with the "GUY" page I created. Looking forward to seeing everyones cool "guy" pages and how you use your stash of brads!"

Our next challenge will be up soon but don't forget that you have until June 29th to complete this challenge and upload it to the sidebar.  

Be looking out for our Design Team Announcement too!! :) 

"Boy Rules" LO By DT Wendy K.

Wendy shares with us a double page layout she created of her nephew!  What a great "guy" layout! Love the tire marks and the brads in the wheels... how creative! Take a look:

Wendy had this to say about here layout: "With three girls I don't do masculine very well or very often but it's fun to do every once in awhile for a something different. When I was looking through pictures and came across these of my nephew I knew exactly what I would do with them. I added brads to the wheels of the truck and mixed other metal embellishments on the layout. I often have 4 pictures for a layout and can get stuck on the design. These pictures worked well to overlap between the two pages."

"Our Guy" LO by DT Haley

Haley brings us another double page layout! :) Check out how she used her brads from her stash  throughout her layout.

Here is what Haley had to say about her layout, "My husband grew a beard and mustache this winter to mixed reviews from family and friends! He just shaved it off with the onset of warmer weather, so I couldn't resist immortalizing the beard in this layout all about our favorite guy. All of my supplies are from Close To My Heart, and it's a mix of old and new. The layout sketch is from the "Imagine" how-to guide (retired). I used the new Surf's Up paper pack, but the brads, the metal embellishments, and the sassy strands are all retired. If you look closely, you can see that I distressed the edges of my photos and my Outdoor Denim card stock with a sanding block. I used Cashmere ink to distress the Colonial White card stock to give the layout more texture."

"Brothers" LO by DT Heather G.

Today Heather brings us wonderful inspiration with this totally "Guy" layout!!!  Love the collection she used and the border punches.  She also did a great job using up her brads by creating a border along side her paper.   Check it out:

Heather said, "Triplet boys . . . who ever would have thought that as one of 3 girls growing up that I would end up with triplet boys? Legos, hot wheels, dinosaurs, and most importantly, SUPERHEROES!!! I love these Guys soooo much!!! Pun intended . . . our last name is GUY! Lol"

Thank you to all who applied for the Design Team Call. We will be announcing our new team real soon! :) 

"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" LO By DT Tamara

Tamara shares with us a great page she did about her son sharing a evening with his Nana.  She did a great job incorporating her brads throughout her page.

Tamara said: "A night out with "Nana" to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It was a very fun show for my little nine year old, he makes a great I love this guy page! I used We R Memory Keepers for my background paper. Added some ribbon and rick rack as well as a journaling card. Brads are around the flower under the third picture as well as all of the flower centers."

Today is the last day of our Design Team Call.  We will be announcing our new team soon! :) 

"Casa Mila" LO By DT Charlotta

Today's inspiration comes from Charlotta! Look at her awesome layout with lots of beautiful color and masking.  Love how she incorporated different size brads throughout her layout. Take a look:

Charlotta said this about her layout, "I created this layout just days after an amazing workshop with lovely Amy Tangeringe in Barcelona, so I used scraps from her American Crafts collection (left from the projects), a Mr. Huey stencil and several spraycolours. Finally, at least 9 brads from my stash. That's when I found out I have almost only pink and purple brads... Good luck in creating for, or with, your boys!"

Lets how you use your brads! :) 

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"Brothers" LO by Sarah

Happy Saturday! Today we have this awesome layout from Sarah.  She did a fantastic job on the background of this layout.  Read below to find out how she use mist and paint to create this layout!

Sarah said this about here layout:

 Boys... My Boyz... are goofs!

Have been waiting to do something with these pictures and, yet again, perfect SOS theme!

Every year we go the last-ish week in November to have Family Holiday photos taken, they know us there... and so they indulge us 'frolicking' a wee bit. Which means some awesome outtakes! Really my eldest, Arthur, should have known better... be careful what you do when your Mother scrapbooks. 

Background is Kraft paper on which I sprayed some Tattered Angels spray over a polka-dot stencil, flipping it around a few times. Then I sponged light green and blue paint through 2 sizes of punchinella (sequin waste) also flipping it around and squishing all the last bits off with a brayer so as not to waste the paint. My Brads are hard to see but each boy's picture has their 1st initial in a Letter Brad and also the line of orange dots marching down the middle of the page. 

I also tacked an 'S' on the end of the title (Chatter Box) to make it 100% authentic boyS.

Titles are My Mind's Eye Bohemia Rub-Ons.

Pattern Paper strip is leftover Fancy Pants Halloween paper.

Chipboard elements are all Basic Grey: Oliver.

Dimensional Pebble is from Prima. 

Orange Brads are BoBunny.

Letter Brads are from the $ store. 

Inks are Stampin' Up!

Pen is black Sharpie PEN.

"Super Star" LO by Lindsey

Today we have wonderful inspiration from Lindsey!  She did a fantastic job with the star brads! Great way to use your stash!!!  

Lindsey said, " So I went a little starry on the page. Once I found that old Cherry Arte, I just had to! He's my star, what can I say? I have so much trouble scrapping professional photos for some reason, so I ran away with the stars. The only small stars I had multiples of were eyelets and I didn't care for the holes. So I slipped brads through the eyelets holes, and voila! Starry brads. 

Thanks for looking - more on this layout at 

http://lindseysscraps.blogspot.com/2013/06/creative-thursday-aristocats-at-sos.html"

Stop by tomorrow to see what DT Sarah brings us! :)

"Waiting for Dad" LO by DT Michelle

Take a look at today's inspiration from DT Michelle.  Michelle really used her stash on this layout and did a great job with her rubons!  

Michelle said, "The Heart just works all around (original title of this challenge/love for Daddy) piece was in my scrap stash and matched! Used a bunch of rub-ons I had in my stash and journaling reads:Here you were waiting for Dad to get home. You pulled the chair over "I DO" by yourself and set up your post for Dad's arrival home!" 

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"Bug Boy" LO by Tammy C.

How cute is this Boy layout! Tammy did a great job utilizing her brads by using them in the center of all the different circles! 

This is what Tammy says about her layout, "For this challenge I decided to bust into my Basic Grey Lime Rickey collection...you know the one I had to have (along with the matching brads) but just opened for the first time when I made this layout, lol! I found a cute photo of my son that matched the colors of the patterned paper perfectly, and used brads with the cardstock stickers to add dimension. I also used an Allison Davis sketch for inspiration."

See you back tomorrow with more inspiration! :) 

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"I Love These Guys" LO by Karen W.

Karen did a wonderful job on this layout! Love the colors and the embellishments she used.  Grad use of the brads and love that washi tape! Take a look:

Karen said, "this is my " I Love those Guys " LO. I cheated to include my daughter with the Guys . I struggled with brads as I don't really have many. I managed to rustle up 6 yellow one so I then chose the papers to match. the photos came last as they had the big yellow slide in ( and hilarious faces from the kids) there is a seventh patterned brad as well."

Now it's your turn! Let's see your "Guy" pages! :) 

"Good Times with My Dad" LO by Kelly H.

Kelly brings us great inspiration today with her lovely father's day layout!  I love the variety and placements of her brads! Take a look:

Kelly said, "Good Times with My Dad - I wanted to get a father's day layout done for my Dad and loved our theme for this challenge! I opened a package of American Crafts epoxy brads and actually USED them on top of my Jenni Bowlin stars as well as various other colored brads. I was happy to use up some of that brad stash but I need a ton more brad challenges to get me to use up my stash! I guess I thought I would actually run out someday? I combined a few different paper lines too such as Simple Stories 24/7, We R Memory Keepers Hall Pass and Echo Park This & That. I used a Little Green Frog Designs sketch for inspiration. I hope this inspires you to scrap the guys and use up some of your brad stash!"

Come by tomorrow for more inspiration! 

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"Another Year Older" LO by Rochelle S.

Our current challenge this month is All About Our Guys and I knew I had to scrap this photo of my son who just turned the big "5".  I didn't really know where to start on this layout so I took a white piece of cardstock to my "messy" area of my scraproom and started playing with my paints/mists/stamps and stencils and this is what I came up with!

I included 5 brads - 4 on the border strip on the right of my photo and another one on the bottom left side of my photo.

Can't wait to see what you do with your brads! :) 

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