June HOMECOMING Challenge by Jean

Design Team Member Jean submitted this layout for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:

Hi this is my second submission for this challenge. It's the front cover of a little book I made from some cardboard packaging to mark my "Homecoming" to my new life. You can see the rest of it at my blog http://apaintaholicsprogress.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/changes-book-challenges-zeusandzoebitw.html













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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Karen

Design Team Member Karen submitted this layout for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:

This LO is about our homecoming last August. We moved back to the UK after three years in Holland and moved right back into the house we had lived in before. We had rented it out while we were away. The photos are of the boxes and the removal.



















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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Mary Pat

Former Design Team Member Mary Pat submitted this layout for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:

Hi Everyone,

I was so excited when Kathy emailed me and let me know about the Homecoming Challenge. I loved my year here at Scrap Our Stash. Kathy was the first to give me a Design Team position and I had so much fun. Thanks so much Kathy!

So much has happened to me since I left SOS. I have been keeping busy as always with paper crafting. I have been a guest over at Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker. I have a guest spot this summer with Jillibean Soup and I am currently on the Moxxie manufacturer Design Team as well as the Kite Tails Design manufacturer Design Team. I have been having so much fun!

For my project for the challenge I knew what I wanted to submit. We moved into our house 3 years ago and it took me awhile to finally scrap it. My hubby and I scrimped and saved until we could finally afford our Dream House. We were so excited to move in. When I found the Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker paper I knew that this was the perfect paper that I was waiting for to scrap our house. I can say now that we have lived here for 3 years it is still our Dream House.

Thanks so much for letting me stop by today! I had so much fun here at Scrap Our Stash! It is such a wonderful place to come and be inspired by so many wonderful and talented ladies!

Have a wonderful and craft day!

-mp

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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Sarah

Design Team Member Sarah submitted this layout for the June HOMECOMING Challenge.  She said:

Sooo... 

A project about any changes since joining the Design Team here at Scrap Our Stash:

As an encore to last month's page about our Celtic Betrothal Handfasting Ceremony in 2009 I made a page for our 1 year Wedding Anniversary in 2011. When I joined all the wonderfully talented ladies here at SOS it was January 2011 and I had *just* gotten married. Now we're swiftly heading towards Wedding Anniversary #2. 

The wheels of time keep turning!

On our 1 year anniversary we had a nice lunch out, then since the weather was so beautiful we went for a walk in the park our Betrothal Handfasting Ceremony was held. We brought a pretty stone from our garden with us and placed it on the large flat rock we'd stood on to say our vows when we had our hands tied together. We also took some pictures... my favorite being the one of our shadows over that special rock. 

Page base is a My Mind's Eye: Life Stories sheet... part of the much drooled on, but barely used stash.

I cut a piece of white vellum to go across the page, it's slightly wider than 12" so I folded the extra around the base paper on each side. Dug out a Fiskar border punch (threading water) and punched along each edge and threaded the ribbon through. Ribbon is a Celebrate It St.Patrick's Day pattern of wee plaid shamrocks. When threading them through I flipped the vellum around so the stems are facing the photos each way.

Photos were cut using the cutter I saved that never worked right... cuts the edges all 'shaggy' which has it's uses... then I sanded them with an emery board. When attaching the largest photo I left is open underneath on the right so I could hide some journaling underneath. Journaling block is from Little Yellow Bicycle's 'Lucky Me' Journaling Tablet. I punched it with another border punch (leave it to weaver), sliced off that strip and attached it the bottom of the block, then punched the top again to match. 

My favorite part of this page is the LYB Clear Cuts Lucky Me 'logo' with the 'EST.2009' on it: The Year of our Betrothal Ceremony. The September is a rub-on from Bohemia. 

Will be slipping this page into the back of our 'I'm still working on it' Wedding Album, lol. 

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June Homecoming Challege by Tammy

 Design Team Member Tammy submitted this layout for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:

I decided since my family is getting ready to relocate and find a new house, maybe I should use photos I have of our first house for the June Homecoming challenge. These pictures are from the day we moved out of our very first home here in Raleigh, North Carolina. The house has some very special memories, it was the first house my husband and I ever bought, plus it was the house where we brought two of our children home from the hospital as newborns. It was hard to sell it, but we just needed a little more space (like a house with a playroom for example!) In this layout I used both Bella Blvd and MME papers and embellishments. The blank chipboard in the lower right corner is for the exact date these pictures were taken, I just need to look that up! Now it's time to see what you can do for the June Homecoming Challenge!

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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Jean

Former Design Team Member Jean submitted this project for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:


My submission for HOMECOMING is another house I decorated for my NEW HOME. That’s right I’ve moved out of the home I shared with my husband and now live in a flat in a small town in Shropshire near to my daughter. My marriage wasn’t working and my health isn’t good so I made the decision to go before I was too ill to do it. I’m loving the peace and quieter lifestyle here, I'm near the countryside and the market town of Much Wenlock which was the birthplace of the modern Olympics.

I used another of my little wooden houses and altered it to make it into a key holder, in the hopes I don't have to keep searching for keys anymore. Lol. Hope you like it. You can see more of my work at my Blog www.apaintaholicsprogress.blogspot.com

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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Deborah

Guest Design Team Member Deborah submitted this layout for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:

Hi, I am Deborah and for the HOMECOMING challenge I know exactly what I wanted to do! My daughter is at home on stage as a dancer and when it came time for recital she was pumped and ready to shine on stage. I made this layout to represent her favorite home place.



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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Sindi

Former Design Team Sindi Member submitted this layout for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:

I did this layout for the June Homecoming Challenge. Not much has changed with me since I was on the design team. I do have a new blog that can be viewed here: http://smokeyscraps.blogspot.com/

For this layout I combined my two favorite hobbies: crochet and scrapbooking. The photo is of my sweet little great-great-grandparents. Thanks for the challenge!

Sindi


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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Wendy

Design Team member Wendy submitted this for the June Homecoming Challenge. Here is what she said:

I love when the family "comes home" for the holidays! I have such a wonderful time with all my nieces. The best part of being together is that they LOVE the camera!

Wendy***








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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Elizabeth

 Design Team Member Elizabeth submitted this layout for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:

My bio hasn’t changed at all since I joined the Scrap Our Stash design team – I’m just a bit older, that’s all.


The photographs in this simple layout represent what means home to me. Whenever I go away for a while, the first place I make for when I return is the back garden/yard. I drop my bags at the front door and make straight for the back door, I just have to check what plants are in flower and what changes have occurred in my absence. This is the view of it from the window to the left of my computer – the best view in the world! And, as you can see, my husband and our cat, are equally at home in the garden.

Thanks for looking,
Elizabeth
http://silverscrappers.blogspot.com/



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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Wendy C.

Design Team Member Wendy C. submitted this layout for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:

Here is a page I did for the Homecoming challenge.


We recently attended a family wedding where many family members from out of the country were able to attend. It really was a wonderful time and it was great to see the "elders" all together again. It was just like a homecoming. Everyone coming home to be together once again.


Wendy Crowe***


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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Tiffany

Forme Guest Design Team Member Tiffany submitted this layout for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:

Attached is my layout for the HOMECOMING theme. My layout, "We Are Family", features pics of a mini-reunion with my 2 sisters and all of our children a few years ago.


I was a Guest Designer with you in December 2011, and it's so nice of you to include me in this challenge! Thanks so much, looking forward to seeing the other homecoming layouts!


=) Tiffany
The Painted Frog
blog: http://bkfastattiffanys.blogspot.com


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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Tamara

Design Team Member Tamara submitted these layouts for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:

When I think of homecoming, I thought of our second home, the cabin! This is one of my favorite places to go. We go as many weekends as we can. Here I find peace and beauty in the outdoors and I also enjoy my scrapping hobby. I have my own little stash of supplies in a corner in the closet of my bedroom. I just cook meals and scrapbook, nothing else is pressing when we are at the cabin.


Bio~ I am a scrap o holic! Yes that is true. I am happiest when I am scrapping. I scrapbook almost every day as life permits. I would love to quit my full time job and scrap every day away. My life story unfolds in the pages of my scrapbooks. I have been scrapping since I was just a young girl, over forty years now. :0) Yes that is correct. I like to think that I am now a shabby chic scrapper. I love to ink the edges of my paper and give it the vintage look. I have come along ways from construction paper and rubber cement to beautiful pattern papers of every kind, colored acid free paper and mono adhesive. I AM the mono Queen! I love the stuff! Seriously. I have had the opportunity to be on a few design teams, I won 2nd place in the Skinny Cow scrapbook Contest earning a year supply of skinny cow products which was delicious by the way. LOL I have never been published but haven't submitted anything to become such. I am a full time Dental office manager, wife of 34 years, mother of two, grandmother of 3. I love life and I love to travel and I love scrapbooking!!


Tamara http://scrappinsmiles-myblog.blogspot.com/


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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Charlotte

Design Team Member Charlotte submitted this layout for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:


I was very happy to be a member of the Design Team at Scrap Our Stash! What a great opportunity. This layout highlights one of the big changes happening in my life these days! I'm going to be a Grandma again this August! This is my daughter's ultrasound photo. I'm very excited to meet my new granddaughter! If that isn't enough that's happening with me right now, I also have another daughter getting married this June! To say that my life is crazy right now is an understatement. I really haven't had much time for scrapping these days, but after all this excitement is over, I will have tons of new photos that I will be dying to scrap! Thanks so much to all who have supported me! Charlotte http://scrapsational-char.blogspot.ca/

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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Penny

Design Team Member Penny submitted this layout for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:

Since I am new here my bio really hasn't changed. For this Homecoming layout:


This if the first time I tried printing on a transparency so some of the wording on here is a little blurry, but I thought this picture fit the theme the best. The tags on this layout are from a doll, and the star on the left hand side is really a little girls barrette. The photo is my mom's first cousin as he came home from the war. I have loved it since I first saw it.

Love Penny

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June HOMECOMING Challenge by Debra P.

Design Team Member Debra P. submitted this layout for the June HOMECOMING Challenge. She said:


When I heard the word "Homecoming," I thought about when we got our grandchildren their first puppy. They came home and couldn't believe their eyes. They had been asking to get a puppy for so long, I think they had come to think they were never going to get one. It was such a happy day and I don't ever want to forget it!




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The June challenge is our "HOMECOMING" Challenge.  I would like everyone who is or has been on our Guest Design Team or Design Team to submit a project  and maybe catch us up on what has changed in their life since your original bio. This can be anything you want to share and does not have to be new.  Please also include an updated bio with your submission.  If you are not a former team member then your challenge is to do something in regard to HOMECOMING. 



To take the Challenge just submit a picture and brief description of your project along with the an updated bio to scrappinpsycho@live.com.  All submissions will be posted to The Scrap Our Stash blog.  This challenge ends at midnight central time on June 30th.