Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have somehing to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Design Team Member Kathryn submitted this layout for the January New challenge. She said:
Happy New Year!! I hope everyone had a lovely holiday? We have had a few ‘new’ things this past year, but the biggest was definitely my daughter Emma starting school after over 4 years at nursery. She looked such a big girl in her uniform! I have also had a go at a new technique - handstitching each piece of paper onto the layout. I do have a small sewing machine, but never got beyond being able to thread it!! I think I’ll have another go now as I don’t want to hand stitch all those panels of paper again, especially when I started having to go through 3 layers. At the time it never occurred to me to just stitch around the single pieces before I stuck them down! Ah, well, you live and learn, LOL. Have a lovely January K x
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have somehing to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Reader Carri submitted this card for the January New Challenge. She said:
Hello! Here is my entry for your January new challenge! All Papers are 100% scraps! The bird is cut from Live Simply Cricut Cartridge.
I used my NEW notebook border punch. I also used a New Ribbon Technique, Stickles colors green and frosted lace, Glue and pink ultra fine glitter, Liquid Pearls Opal White Ribbon Bug stamp from Bug Bites Happy Birthday stamp
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have somehing to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Design Team Member Wendy K. submitted this layout for the January New Challenge. She said:
I have decided (with the exception of CTMH stuff because I'm a consultant) that any new scrapbooking stuff I buy is going into a cubby at my desk and I'm going to really focus on using it right away so it doesn't get lost in my stash. I really don't buy too much new stuff anymore and I am going to try with extra effort this year to use up the stash that I already have. I did have a shopping trip lately and this Doodlebug paper pack and stickers popped out at me and was the bulk of my purchase. I was also able to add some things from my stash to the layout as a bonus. The pictures are from my daughter's first Valentine's Day last year. I used a sketch from Scrapboook Generations Sketches for Scrapbooking Volume 8. All details are on My Scrapbooking Blog. Wendy K.
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have somehing to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us. To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Design Team Member Tammy submitted this layout for the January New Challenge. She said:
For my January Challenge I decided to scrap a New Year's Eve picture, from 1993 to be exact! (See, don't ever worry that you aren't caught up on your scrapbooking, lol!) Anyway, this is a picture of some friends of mine from a New Year's Eve party many years ago. We had dressed up but by this point we had changed into some comfy clothes. In this layout I used the following products: Cardstock--Bazzill; PP, journaling card and chipboard elements--Teresa Collins; rhinestone flourish--Prima; Letter stickers--October Afternoon; misc. flower.
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have somehing to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Unfortunately, I received the following resignation from Design Team Member Sue Althouse:
Hi Kathy,
It's hard to believe that it has been a year since I was a Guest Designer and you so graciously asked me to stay on the Scrap Our Stash Design Team. As I am carefully considering my work load and other commitments for 2012, I have sadly come to the conclusion that it is time for me to end my term as a member of the Design Team at Scrap Our Stash. I have enjoyed working with you and posting my projects on the SOS blog. I know of at least one reader who saw an SOS challenge on my blog and entered, and is now on your Design Team!
I want to wish you and everyone at Scrap Our Stash all the best. Thank you so much for this opportunity. I will continue to check out your great monthly challenges!
Reader Sue D. submitted these layouts for the January New Challenge. She said:
Thanks for giving me the chance to put my work on show.
In this design my NEW part is the string (I have used it on cards - but first time on a page)....and the crochet flowers. It seems to be the "in" embellishment at the moment.
also the family in the photo is my eldest daughter Bec, her husband Kevin, and 2 grand daughters Allira and Simone....this was their first family portrait since having Simone....so its a NEW family portrait.
This set used is the Posh papers....I bought as a kit.
hope this qualifies ok.....thanks, Sue
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have somehing to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
New Year... New Word of the Year. For the past 2 years I've not made New Years 'resolutions' but instead chosen a 'Word of the Year' to guide me through the 12 months ahead. Previously they've been 'Create' and last year was 'Home'... both helped me so much focusing my energies to reach toward multiple goals. This year is: Space.
Started this layout with paper I've been hoarding... it's just so pretty. Lovely Kraft Cardstock paper from My Mind's Eye Life Stories Pad. Though I love how it looks I wasn't sure what to do with it (we all have *those* papers don't we?) it looked 'all done' already.
Across the bottom are a picture of me and some clip-art images representing just a few of the 'Space' things I want to work towards this year: Life, In Home, Freedom, Finding and Financial. Almost everything on this LO was sized and printed to 'fit' inside the sections already laid out on the Pattern Paper.
Sized and Printed the 'official' dictionary definitions of Space to fit along the side. Listed under 'Supporting Material' (Photo, Memorabilia or Additional Documentation) on the Paper.
Wanted a real office-y, file feel so in addition to gluing it on I stapled it. When everything was on I spattered some light brown glimmer mist on (coffee colored) and messed it all up with a kleenex rubbed on a light brown ink pad. Some finger prints too!
The middle section was made up using 2 sheets I ripped out of a small art-pad and made to look like they were held in with paperclips.
The General Information section was filled in with printed papers to look like filing stickers.
Main image was played with on PikNik... Vintage edge shading, some 'stickers' and added journaling: Space: the Word of the Year. This is the artwork of the Artist Sarah Cooper. Her one-year mission: to explore this word, to seek out it’s meanings and build upon these things, to boldly go where no one has gone before…
The coffee ring is legit, it was made with the bottom of a mug 'painted' with the glimmer mist. An inked thumbprint for good measure, then the last thing added was some 'file notes' along the side.
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have something to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Design Team Member Wendy C. submitted this layout for the January NEW Challenge. She said:
I finally got the new I-top tool!! I was so happy! Now I just need lots of practice. Here is my first attempt. I used the brad maker and some patterned papers for the centers of the flowers.
Wendy***
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have somehing to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Design Team Member Elizabeth submitted this Frugal Friday Tip. She said:
I’m sure I’m not the only one of us who has lots of leftover snippets of design paper, cardstock, ribbon and trims tucked away in boxes and drawers, considered too lovely to throw away but too small to use on most projects. These little tree decorations are the perfect way of using up even the smallest snippet.
I just made them up as I went along. The only tools used are circle and label punches. The basis of three were some pretty die-cut shapes I already had tucked away but the base of the top one is just made from punched circles of packaging materials covered in circles of patterned paper, including one cut from the leftovers after poinsettias have been cut out of it. I just backed it on to another co-ordinating circle of paper. Even the gold ribbon bow was saved from the packaging of a 2010 Christmas gift. The backs have a little bit of decoration too so they look good from any direction.
They don't take much of anything ... a little bit of ribbon, twine and some interesting trim, a few flowers, glitter, brads, gems, card candy, peel-offs, various adhesives and a hot glue gun and they can be made in super quick time ... ready to go on the tree or hung on a wall. I’ve even taken the idea a step forward and made one for my little granddaughter, Shari-Ann, to hang in her newly decorated bedroom ... it’s pink, of course.
It’s a little bigger than the others allowing me to add her initials. I made the concertina flowers some time ago, just practicing, and I’m happy to have found a use for them at last.
The floral paper on the back is from a Prima paper stack, Romantique. I hope these have given you some inspiration to pull out your leftover bits and pieces to create these pretty little decorations.
Now it's your turn to go use those leftover snippets - send a picture along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com and we will post it here.
Do you have a frugal idea to share? Send your tip along with a picture to Scrappinpsycho@live.com . You could be featured as a future Frugal Friday Tip.
Guest Design Team Member Lynn submitted this layout for the January NEW Challenge. she said:
I got so excited to see the January NEW Challenge. I had just the idea in mind for this layout. This is my daughter and her husband on their first Christmas together as a "NEWLY married couple". I paired that idea with the NEW snowfall paper from Bo Bunny and was on my way. I've wanted to use this paper for awhile but all my photos were in color and I love to stash my new products. Thank goodness for Photoshop and the sepia button and to the ladies here that challenged me to use my new things. Happy NEW Years Everyone! Lynn http://scrappyhappymom.blogspot.com/
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have somehing to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Reader Lisa submitted this card for the January NEW Challenge. She said:
Hi! Here is my submission to the January challenge. The new products I’ve used are Studio Calico Cameo Mister Huey Mist, Intertwined circles masking template, kraft butterflies, and Webster’s Pages bloomers. I know just about everyone has now used bloomers but it was my first time – for the ribbon that is J.
To create the card, I used the mask on some naturals ivory cardstock and spritzed with the Cameo mister. I then spritzed with some homemade mist using Baja Breeze Stampin’ Up! Ink and Perfect Pearls. The edges were inked with additional bright pink ink. The butterfly was cut on the Cricut, embossed and inked with various blue/green inks. The butterfly stickers were stamped with some white pigment ink. All was assembled to create a girlie card for a mother-to-be expecting a baby boy.
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have somehing to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Design Team Member Stacy submitted this layout for the January NEW Challenge. She said:
Happy New Year!! Stacy here.
I'm so happy to finally have life slow down a bit and go back to normal. I have been dying to scrap but wasn't really able to find the time with all the holiday madness. I was lucky to get a few new scrappy things for Christmas and am happy to now have time to use them!! How about you?? Did you get some scrappy goodness. And are you ready to use it?? Well, I hope that our January NEW Challenge inspires you to scrap some of your "new" stuff and share them with us here!!
I decided to make a layout for this challenge project. It is a layout about my daughter's school field trip to the mountains. I thought documenting her new adventures would be perfect for this challenge! I also was happy to use the new edge punch I got in my stocking. ha
Almost everything on this layout is Basic Grey Origin goodies that I had in my stash! I think the only thing not from my stash was the photo and the sparkly yellow alphas that are from Pink Paislee's Sweetness collection. Look at me using up my stash!! Woo hoo!! lol
I had fun making this layout and the best thing is that my daughter loves it. I hope you enjoyed looking at it too.
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have something to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.
To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Design Team Member Christy submitted this layout for the Pagerize This Challenge # 17. She said:
I have a very vague memory of making an iron on shirt with my mom as a kid. The memory is so vague that I am not sure if it ever even happened. Saying that makes me feel quite sad. So much so that I hope my son manages to have more vivid memories of me. At the least, he will have tons of scrapbook pages to reference what some may believe is an over-documented childhood. Isn't it great to be a mamarazzi?!?! Anyway, When I saw Amanda's page for the Scrap our Stash Pagerize this challenge, I knew I had to lift it. I loved the dynamic look of the circles on her page. I also liked how the smaller cropped photos acted like embellishments to support the main photo.
SEI papers, Basci Grey Brads,DMC floss, glass beads artsylicious green brad, Fancy pants star sticker papr trunk alphas, basic grey woolie Cosmo cricket chipboard arrow with souffle pen in white colorbox black ink
Can you spy my new favourite product? I began using them on my pages within the last few months. They are glass beads. I have some that have been in my stash for awhile now. They are sprinkled onto the word "monster" and then adhered using glossy accents. The little black beads were salvaged from one of my favourite evening bags (I was pretty sad when it broke!). I am finding that glass beads are an economical way to add a little more umph to my pages without breaking the bank. I have made my own stick pins as well as using them to decorate pages or embellishments. I hope to add more colours to my stash at some point in the future. Meanwhile, I am glad I finally pulled these out to play with.
If you would like to pagerize Amanda's page, you can check out her page HERE!
Each month on the 15th we post a new layout for you to "pagerize" (plagerize, copy, lift, steal) whatever term you want to use. The idea will be - to use the posted layout as your inspiration to create your own layout. You can "pagerize" as much or as little of the original layout as you choose. You may want to make a layout just like the one posted - or you may just want to use something about the layout as your inspiration.
Once you've completed your layout - email a picture and brief description to scrappinpsycho@live.com All entries will be posted here at Scrap Our Stash. This challenge runs through midnight central time on January 12th. The "Pagerizer" (in this case Amanda), will then choose a winner from all the entries. The winner will be announced on January14th. Then the winner will be asked to submit a layout for us to "Pagerize" starting on the 15th of January.
Design Team Member Sindi submitted this layout for the January NEW Challenge. She said:
Here is my entry for the January challenge. This is my first attempt at DIY book binding, so it was definitely new to me. I created a journal and used the Coptic stitching method to bind it. The covers are made from old manilla folders covered in fabric. I used regular copy paper for the inside pages and more manilla folders for section headers. Coptic stitching was actually pretty easy. I learned by watching a few youtube videos. It created a tight hold on the pages and took hardly any time to do. The flower on the front is from Sassafras and I added a ribbon that's been in my stash forever to tie it together.
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have somehing to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.
To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Design Team Member La Vikinga submitted this layout for the January NEW Challenge. She said:
On these pics, the girl is 12 years old, living with her mother in Chile. Now that she has turned 18 she decided to come to Sweden, where she was born, and that is definitively going to be a new beginning not only for her, but also for me, and for her father. Let's hope everything goes well and it turnes out to be a positive new life for us all!! La Vikinga
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have somehing to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Design Team Member Debbie P. submitted this layout for the Pagerize This Challenge # 17. She said:
My layout, which was inspired by Amanda’s Pagerize layout, is a cute story about my middle granddaughter that we reminisce about quite often. Amanda’s layout inspired me to use one larger photo with three smaller photos to compliment it. And I kept the circular feel with the circular die cut paper. You can read more about the story on my blog at www.dpiercey.blogspot.com.
.Each month on the 15th we post a new layout for you to "pagerize" (plagerize, copy, lift, steal) whatever term you want to use. The idea will be - to use the posted layout as your inspiration to create your own layout. You can "pagerize" as much or as little of the original layout as you choose. You may want to make a layout just like the one posted - or you may just want to use something about the layout as your inspiration.
Here is reader Amanda's layout for the Pagerize This Challenge # 17. Once you've completed your layout - email a picture and brief description to scrappinpsycho@live.com
All entries will be posted here at Scrap Our Stash. This challenge runs through midnight central time on January 12th. The "Pagerizer" (in this case Amanda), will then choose a winner from all the entries. The winner will be announced on January14th. Then the winner will be asked to submit a layout for us to "Pagerize" starting on the 15th of January.
I recently purchased the We R Memory KeepersSew Ribbon tool and some of their ribbon packs. So let's see if I can use this thing! (if I can do it, anyone can!)
Punching the design into my paper was easy enough. The magnets keep things in place nicely. It is recommended to do this on a harder mat, not the foam mat that comes with the Sew Easy tool. I agree.
You get these little pieces of plastic adhesive to create a needle at the end of your ribbon, so threading is easy. I just had to be careful not to twist my ribbon and pull gently, but the ribbon slides along easily.
With a little layering and minimal embellishing, I quickly completed this card. The ribbon adds a nice texture without a lot of bulk.
Using the additional tool I purchased, I kept the same basic design, changed the color scheme, and made a similar card. This time, the ribbon has a bit more dimension but I still would not call it bulky.
The Verdict: The tool was easy to use and the ribbon threaded nicely, but I had to pay attention! This is one of those tools I will need to keep close at hand so I remember to use it. I thought the finished result was worth the effort.
Now it's your turn! All the details can be found here. Why not give it a try?
Design Team Member Tamara submitted this layout for the January NEW challenge. She said:
Here is my January NEW challenge: I used Cosmo Cricket papers and added some Bakers twin and sparkly brads. I am looking forward to some new memories to scrap. I love this new flower technique where you punch out a scallop flower and crinkle it up, then flatten it back out and scrunch it as you layer it. I also ink all my edges for the finished vintage look.
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have something to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.
To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Design Team Member Karen W. submitted this layout for the January New Challenge. She said:
This challenge was an easy one for me- my sister had a baby in October so this was the perfect opportunity to scrap another photo of the NEW little one.
Recently we went on a family visit to see my sister and the baby and my three were just so excited and desperate to give her a cuddle- at the end of the day I got this photo of Stanley and Arthur almost fighting to get her on their lap and Nancy reaching in for good measure- poor little one was none to pleased as you can see.
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have somehing to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.
Design Team Member Debbie P. submitted this layout for the January NEW Challenge. She said:
My layout is about our girls and their New Year's Eve celebration. Super quick layout that used up some older product I had laying around.
Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge. The January Challenge is anything doing with NEW - it could be a new tool, a new product, a new technique, or the project could have somehing to do with NEW - like New Years Eve - Our New Home, etc!. Anything goes! Have fun sharing something NEW with us.
To participate in the January NEW Challenge - just email a picture of your project along with a description to Scrappinpsycho@live.com
All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog and on January 31st a winner will be chosen, and given the opportunity to be a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March. This challenge ends at midnight central time January 31st.