January New Challenge by Ren-Yi

Design Team Member Ren-Yi submitted this project for the January NEW Challenge.  She said:

This month at Scrap our Stash we're doing something New for January. For the details hop over to this post. This year I did something completely new, I threw myself a huge birthday party. With all this Project 30 talk on my blog, I want to share something new I did - party favors.
Since Project 30 was very food centric, I was trying to find the perfect party favor, when I stumbled upon this Bambu Pot Scraper at Crate & Barrel. I bought one and tested it at home and have been in love with it. I use it on all my pots & pans, or pyrex dishes, and it works like magic. It doesn't scratch anything up, so it's the perfect kitchen must-have tool.
At $1 a piece, it's quite the thrifty party favor too. I added a fun little wrap around it. Cut each pattern paper down to, border punched with Upper Crest and stamped on "thank so much."

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy... Check out the Scrap Our Stash's January Challenge. You have until the end of the month to get your inspirations in. What new things have you been up to?

 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.

January NEW Challenge by Wendy K.

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.

January New Challenge by Tammy

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.

January NEW Challenge by Sue D

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.

January NEW Challenge by Sarah

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.

January NEW Challenge by La Vikinga

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.

January NEW Challenge by Sue

I recently purchased the We R Memory Keepers Sew 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?

January Challenge by Faye

Reader Faye submitted this layout for the January New Challenge. She said, "Even though the "New" Challenge seemed to be wide open, I was having such a hard time with it. That is until last night. I was working on a layout and pulled out this paper lantern stamp I bought a few months ago. It was a $1.00 and I almost didn't buy it cause although I thought it was cute, I had no idea how I would ever use it on a page. It sat in my stamp drawer until last night when I decided to pull it out and use it. Since the stamp is new and it is a very new technique for me to stamp and cut out images to make my own embellishments, I thought that fit the challenge perfectly. Hope you like! Thanks for helping me scrap my stash!


Faye :)

January Challenge by Tammy

Design Team Member Tammy submitted this layout for the January New Challenge.  She said, this is a simple LO I did of my son with his new Nerf gun he got for his birthday, the thing is just about as tall as he is! I also included the word new in the title, "There's a New Sheriff in Town". For this LO I used Fancy Pants patterned paper from the Like Father Like Son line, Bazzill cardstock, Adorn It journaling sticker, and October Afternoon mini market letter stickers.

Now it's your turn to take the January New Challenge. See all the details HERE.

January Challenge by Stephanie

Design Team Member Stephanie submitted this calendar for the January NEW Challenge.   She said, "For this month's challenge, I designed this cute little birthday card! I've been on a bit of a streak for creating little cute cards (instead of scrapbooks), I'm terrible at sending cards if I have to make them in advance so I'm working to get better about that by making them in advance. 

Other than my work-ahead approach, you may be wondering what's new about this card? This card uses a cupcake from my favorite new paper pad (SEI, Happy Day Collection), my new homemade light box, one of my new stamps from The Ink Pad, and a new technique (the shadowbox layout) that I picked up from the WMS Grand Calibur party! All in all, I think I'm getting the hang of CAS!"
More details and links can be found at Stephanie's blog here. Now
it's your turn to take the January New Challenge.  Check out all the details HERE!

January Challenge by Ren-Yi

Many moons ago, two friends of mine bought their first home together. Yours truly was on a business trip, so I missed the official house warming event. So we finally got together early summer of last year. These two wonderful people got married recently. So when Kathy issued out the January Challenge, I knew honoring this couple was the way to go. Their lives have taken many "NEW" things in the last year or so: a New home, became Newly engaged, and now are Newlyweds :)

So here a card to look back on their first "new" chapter ...



This is one of those cards I did not get around to sharing with you. If my camera  did not lie, then this card was created exactly 265 days ago...I know hardly a NEW item ;)

I promise to be getting back to my crafting. After all, I just placed a crafty supply order and new toys need to be played with...! 

January Challenge by Laurie B.

Reader Laurie submitted this layout for the January New Challenge.  She said, "Good morning,
Attached please find my challenge I completed for the “new” challenge.

For my challenge I chose pictures of my hubby and I taken a few years back at a New England Patriot’s game we went to. The pictures are in a store nearby the stadium. We sat in a luxury box and we thought we were all that, and quickly realized we are diehard fans and need to be in the stands with the other diehard fans. We did manager to have a great time!!

I also used a “new” technique on this page, I used glimmer mist. I have had this forever and couldn’t figure out what layout I should use it on. I thought about these pictures and figured if I use white cardstock you would be able to see the glimmer mist. It worked well and I will use this more often (thank you for making me get this out!!).

I cut the banner using the design studio and welded it together, I used the Sports Mania cartridge for that. George and the Basic Shapes for my letters and everything else is from my stash!!


Thanks for an awesome blog and fantastic challenges!!!


Best regards,


Laurie

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

January Challenge by Christy

With Just 15 minutes ...give or take a few, you can make a complete page and find that you will like it. Lately, I have been trying out some 15 minute layout ideas from Scraphappy.org. If you are like me, you have more photos than you know what to do with. There is, after all, only so much time in the day and never enough of it. I do my best not to focus on whether or not I am behind or caught up with scrapbooking. It's supposed to be about enjoying the process and then enjoying those moments when you can share your stories with others. That being said, I do love the process...and sometimes I go overboard with it. How many times have you sat down to work and then enjoyed embellishing and moving everything around on the page to make it "just so"? I know that I can take hours on a page before I am happy with it!


Now, before I show you my page, I will admit that it took me a little over 15 minutes to do. I did not, take longer than 30 minutes though. This little experiment has allowed me to let go of my need to keep adding things to the page. Simple is the name of the game: a simple example, a simple set of supplies, a simple page....and voila!




October afternoon papers,Fancy Pants felt flower, colorbox white ink and crochet doily cut from place mat

 I was so glad to finish this page. It is page two of "Can I Have a Cup of Co?" which I made months ago. So now I challenge you to try something new and share it at Scrap Our Stash!  See all the detail HERE.

January Challenge by Danielle

Former Design Team Member Danielle submitted this project for the January New Challenge. She said, "this is a project that I completed to showcase my new house. Since HOME is the word I chose to be mine this year, I wanted to create something that allowed me to see it each day. I wanted to be reminded to be thankful that I have a nice home to be in and that Home is what I make of it.


I used leftover scraps of paper from another project to fill the spaces of the frame. The embellishments are pieces that I saved throughout the year from other projects. I cut apart a 4x6 photo of my new house to serve as the focal point of my frame. I used pattern tissue paper to create my rolled flower and added a pearl button for the center.


Thanks for the challenge-


Danielle


Thanks Danielle - it's great having you stop back in.


Now it's your turn to take the January New Challenge. See all the details HERE.

January Challenge by Wendy

Here is my January Challenge layout starring my NEW baby. It is so much fun scrapbooking baby photos! This is the additional layout from the Wings Workshop Kit (available until July 31, 2010). I just love the black and white photos and may need to do that more often.

Now it's your turn to take the January NEW Challenge.  See all the details HERE.

January Challenge - Layout by Kimmarie

I just love this picture of my Emma. She was 2 years old, now she is 8. Time sure does fly by. She was modeling a new swimsuit and accessories. For the "New" I used my new felt Thickers for the title and I borrowed my cousin, Kelly's "New" Martha Stewart scissors that cut paper to look like grass or shredded paper. This was a fun and colorful layout for me to do. Now it's your turn to try the January Challenge.

The January Challenge is to do a NEW project. This can be a layout, card, or any kind of project having to do with NEW. You may want to use the word new in your title, this could be about a new year's resolution - or could be a new technique or tool you used to complete your project. 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 January 31st. A winner will be chosen and offered the opportunity to become a Guest Design Team Member for the month of March.

January Challenge by Holly

Reader Holly submitted this layout for the January NEW Challenge. She said, "I would like to submit my latest layout for the current January NEW challenge.


My new technique is creating an interactive layout. The photo works like a flap and can be lifted to reveal a journalling section. It is also relevant to the 'NEW' theme as it is a layout from our honeymoon, with our new status of husband and wife.


On My blog I have posted a more detailed blog post in relation to this new layout.


Thanks for posting up the challenge.


Holly, Australia

Now it's your turn to take the January New Challenge - see all the details HERE!

January Challenge By Kathy

These are the layouts I did for my NEW Guest Design spot at Scrap A Little.  I used the attached sketch. 

The Define Naughty layout is of Niko with Santa this year at school.  He wasn't going to take his picture with him this year - because he's creepy!  Luckily his attitude didn't show up in the picture.

Twins is a layout of my 8 month pregnant niece and "Cletus the Fetus" and her older brother with a basketball!

You can see my other submissions at Scrap a Little.

January Challenge by Tracy

New Design Team Member Tracy submitted this calendar for the January NEW Challenge. She said, "this project was inspired by the something NEW challenge at Scrap Our Stash. This frame was found at a local thrift store for $2.50 and when I saw it I thought it would be great for a scrapbook page display. But after our family scrapbook calendar kept falling off the wall, I decided that we needed something more sturdy and nicer looking.



The frame was white and since our walls are white I decided that I could pull some of the colors from my favorite kitchen decoration (which is a metal rooster) and use them on this project. I really like the end result. And although we don't have a monthly scrapbook page we still have some of our favorite photos from 2010 displayed. I first sanded and then primed the frame, and then I painted it black (using acrylic paints from my stash) once dry I painted it red (the red was mixed with black to make it a darker red) and then I wiped off some of the red paint with a damp cloth, I repeated that step a couple of times allowing the paint to dry for a few minutes in between each coat. The end result is a red distressed with black looking frame.

This month's challenge has really got me thinking about all the new things that I want to try with home decor as well as scrapbooking. Smiles, Tracy"

Now it 's your turn to take the January New Challenge. Check out all the details HERE!

January Challenge by Debbie

Reader Debbie submitted this layout for the January New Challenge. She said, "Here is my New technique-I painted the whole background of my 2-page layout to represent the clothing that the skaters are wearing in the photos. I used 4 acrylic colors and did a graffati look. I then matted the photos and tore the edges in two spots and added a red cord to make it look like the skater's leggings . I am really happy about how this turned out and it was fun to do. I will be doing this technique to futurelayouts. http://debbiebakk.blogspot.com/2011/01/painting-on-project.html

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