April Bring in the Sun Challenge by Sarah

Design Team Member Sarah submitted this layout for the April Bring in the Sun Challenge. She said:

Another 'was getting to it' picture... I love that Scrap Our Stash keeps coming up with *just* the right topic. We spent the day out at a local (-ish) Dinosaur 'walk-around' Theme Park then went for a picnic at nearby Chrysler Beach, after lunch the boys were water bound.
The coast line was beautiful and the beach was empty so we had it all to ourselves; made for easy picture taking.
You can see all 4 of my boys messing around at the waters edge just beside the cross with the Safety Float... and all that wide open sky!
I dug out the Summer Soiree by Fancy Pants kit for most of this page. Pattern Papers, Calvin & Hobbs Quote and 'The Sweet Days of Summer' Strip are from the kit. Brads are all BoBunny (along strip, in flower centers and above quote). The eyelets (green & suns) are unknown stash sh-tuff. The strip of rub-ons above the journaling are DaisyD.Fun in the Sun: August 2009
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April Bring in the Sun Challenge by Donna

Reader Donna submitted this card for the April Bring in the Sun Challenge. She said:

I am entering the attached card in your April Challenge. Thank you. :-) Donna Davis

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April Bring in the Sun Challenge by Sue

Design Team Member Sue submitted this layout for the April Bring in the Sunshine Challenge.  She said:

I sure hope April brings warmer weather to my corner of the world! This layout celebrates not only the sunshine, but Easter when I was a little girl. This was back when getting that new Easter outfit was still a big deal, even if you're only two and a half.

The idea for the rays of sun was inspired by this card. Need to give credit where it's due, right?

I took the cue for the color scheme from my little outfit, which included a new hat, coat, dress, purse and a yellow corsage from my dad. How sweet!

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Pagerize Helena by Joni

Design Team Member Joni submitted this layout for the Pagerize This Challenge # 8.  She said: 

I really liked the "feel" of Helena's layout, so I also used some paper that was solid, but distressed (Basic Grey).  I also liked the background stamp concept, so I used that and then added some doodles to the stamped image to match my photo.  I also wanted to keep the "grungy" feel I was headed for, so I framed the area with a metal chain (I stitched it on using clear nylon string....that took a long time).  I hung a couple embellishments from the chain to add interest.


This was my son allowing me to use his back as my canvas to practice my first attempt at a henna tattoo!

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Frugal Friday Tip by Christy

Phrases Can Be More Than Meet the Eye

Every so often, the kits I choose come with a pre-made word or phrase that I find difficult to use. These will often then sit, unused, as I don't have a clue what to do with them. In this particular case, I had the word "girly" in the form of a rub-on. There is nothing really girly in my house (other than me and my female cat). Everything else is well...very much male dominated as I have a son, my wonderful husband and 2 other male pets. So the question was " when will I ever use this?!?"



Crate Paper Seasons rub-ons

The answer arrived while making my latest page. It's probably not new to some, but it's new for me. I could simply cut the word apart and use sections of it in the title!

Scraphappy.org March Inspiration Scraplift of Maggie Holmes'
" I Absolutely love your Laugh"

Using the rub-ons and a variety of letter stickers made the title more interesting and allowed me to use up an otherwise unusable item in my stash. I invite you to also think a little more out of the box with the words and phrases in your stash. You just might like what you end up with. If you use this tip - please share the results with us here at Scrap Our Stash. Send a picture along with a description to scrappinpsycho@live.com. We will post your project here.

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April Bring in the Sun Challenge by Joan

 Design Team Member Joan submitted this layout for the April Bring in the Sun Challenge.  She said:

Hi!  Well, I am really loving these challenges and the opportunity to use up my stash!! The sun theme got me thinking about the beach and so I dug out some beach embellies that I have had for over a year. Plus some BoBunny jewels and paper and I came up with a bright sunny layout of my daughter at the beach.
Thanks!
Joan Liddle

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April Bring In The Sun Challenge by Mary Pat

Design Team Member Mary Pat submitted this card for the April Bring in the Sun Challenge.  She said:

Hi Everyone,
It is me, Mary Pat here to bring you my take on the April Challenge.  I have to say that I was at first very stumped by this challenge.  I had never included a sun before in any of my work.  I had been thinking about it and thinking about it all day and I was at a loss for what I was going to do.  I went to bed that night and I had a dream about a card with a sun and clouds with some rolling hills.  When I woke up I immediately sketched out my design.  I was so excited because I had just purchased this cute little bee stamp and I was set, and this is what I came up with:

I loved that I was able to use almost all my favorite things on this card: die cuts from my Silhouette, distress inking to make the sky, and coloring with my favorite copic markers.  I was in heaven creating this.


If you would like a closer look on this and for more details pop on over to Siehled With A Kiss
Thanks so much!




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April Bring in the Sun Challenge by Joni

Design Team Member Joni submitted this layout for the April Bring in the Sun Challenge.  She said:

What a fun challenge!!!  I used the new Crate Toy Box line (yellow & orange) and MME Stella and Rose (blue) a nice array of different flowers to create this layout.

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April Bring in the Sun by Kathryn

Design Team Member Kathryn submitted this layout for The April Bring in the Sun Challenge.  She said:  Scrap Our Stash Challenge theme is Sunshine. What a lovely challenge this has been during a chilly March, although the sun is shining as I type this, so lovely! Here is a layout of my daughter Emma, at about 20 months old here during our first overseas holiday in Mallorca in 2008. I have used the bright colours to reflect the sunny day at the beach (it was sunny, just doesn’t look it in these photos for some reason!), and to compliment Emma’s lovely bright swimming costume and Quack Quack the duck, which we still have! Recipe: · Making Memories Hilary Stamp shaped paper, with a selection of Bo Bunny yellow and orange dotty papers to make a sunshine background shape (Kitchen Spice and Ella Bella Blossom) · A mixture of Prima, Mulberry and other flowers in bright colours, highlighted with a variety of brads and diamond stickles. The flower pins are Maya Road trinket pins, which I love. I bought them recently passing a craft shop on my way down to my head office a few weeks ago (well I only made about an hour’s detour, lol) and I am desperate to get more of them in other colours. · I used a selection of bright ribbon and buttons to finish off and the title ‘Sun Girl’. I think the title is Papermania, but I gleefully throw all my packaging away all the time so I never have much idea who made some of my older stash!
Thanks!
Kathryn

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April Bring in the Sun Challenge by Karen

Design Team Member Karen submitted this layout for the April Bring in the Sun Challenge.  She said:
Here is my version of the challenge- I went with the song- "you are my sunshine" and used a variety of sunny colours to make the page- I love this photo of my son Arthur- his face is just soo funny and it looked great with the colours I had chosen Hope this is OK KarenNow it's your turn to take the March Challenge. See all the details HERE!http://scrapourstash.blogspot.com/2011/03/march-challenge.htmlBe sure to scroll down the page - Scrap Our Stash posts something new everyday.

April Bring in the Sun Challenge by Christine

 Design Team Member Christine submitted this card for the April Bring in the Sun Challenge. She said:

I was excited about this 'sun' challenge and set to it straight away! I've made a card this time.

I tend to forget about my embossing folders and while I was having a tidy up I came across them and decided I should use them more often. I've gone for a simple design with scalloped bunting, faux stitching and a chipboard sun which I've sprayed with gold mist. I stamped the bottom section of my card using the same tea-dye distress ink which I use on pretty much everything! Finally, I added some butterflies with gems.
Christine :-)

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April Bring in the Sun Challenge

The April Challenge is to Bring in the Sun! Most everyone is ready for winter to end and spring to be here.  So this months challenge is to do something with or about the Sun.  It can be a layout, card, album, or anything you want to create that has something to do with the Sun.


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 April 30th. A winner will be chosen and offered the opportunity to become a Guest Design Team Member for the month of June.


So let the Sunshine in - and lets see what project you come up with!

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March Dust it Off Challenge Winner

Once again, it was difficult to choose a winner. There were so many outstanding contributions to the March Dust if Off Challenge - see all the reader's submission HERE.

I picked:


Theresa & Helen




   

Both ladies will be offered a spot on the May Guest Design Team. Make sure you come back to see what they contribute. 

Meet April Guest Design Team Member Helena

Hi! My name is Helena and I'm originally Finnish but I moved to Italy some 30 years ago. I have 3 children, Kristina 27, Valentina 26 and Andrea 13, who are my major inspiration along with my very supportive hubby.

I discovered scrapbooking in 2005 and it was love at first sight. My style has changed and evolved during these past 6 years and nowadays I like to create layouts with more paints, mists and inks and less patterned papers and embellishments. I like to think that my children will enjoy all the albums I've made but, I scrapbook because I love the creative process. It is also very therapeutic and relaxing. You can find my creations on my blog: http://scrap4all.typepad.com/scrappassion/. Here is one of my latest layouts. It's about my son Andrea.

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Meet April Guest Design Team Member Kathryn

 Hi my name is Kathryn Adamson and I am really, really, really pleased to be a guest DT member this month for Scrap Our Stash! I have been scrapping now for nearly 4 years, since my little girl Emma was about 6 months old and I discovered my local craft shop and the rows of 12x12 paper. Since then I have also discovered a love for making cards and altering items, but my first crafty love is scrapbooking.

I live in the North of England and have been married to Dan for 7 years, we have Emma, 4 and two cats, Poppy and George. Emma will tell anyone who asks or who doesn’t ask for that matter, that George is fat and Poppy is little! My layout here is Emma when she was about 20 months old, sitting in my mum’s garden and making funny faces!

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Meet Guest Design Team Member Melissa

first of all i wanted to thank Scrap Our Statsh challenge for inviting me as one of the Guest Designers this month. it is an honor to be able to share with you my creations. My name is Melissa but many of you know me as Isay. i am a mother of three beautiful blessings, 2 boys and a girl, a wife to a very supportive husband, and a full time nurse. i've been scrapping for almost 5 yrs now and i can say i am very inlove with this hobby. i have no particular style in scrapping but i love to add a lot of details and layers in my layout. my scrapping style has improved significantly and i am very blessed to have met many good friends through blogging and scrapping. thank you again for having me as one of your Guest designe team members. here is my blog addy where you can come and visit me- http://isay-creativegenius.blogspot.com

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Goodbye!

Design Team Member Denise has decided to resign her spot on the Design Team. She has lot of new and exciting things going on in her life. You can continue to follow her blog - on the sidebar.

Thanks Denise, for all your contributions and inspiration. We wish you the best in your future endevors.

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March Dust it Off Challenge by Meital

 Reader Meital submitted this layout for the March Dust it Off Challenge.  She said:

Hello! My name is Meital and here is my layout for the March challenge. This layout is very special to me. I never made a layout with a picture of me by myself, not including my pregnancy album which in a way includes my beloved son.
The picture was taken a few minutes befor heading out to a PURIM party which is my favorite jewish holiday. In Purim it is a custom to wear costumes and masks. This year I went as a Ballerina and I loved my costume! I used for the background a shaped cardstock from Making Memories that I have more than two years and never had the chance to use it since most of my scrapping is about the boys. Here is a link to a video I shot while working on this page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxdRUOvgKa0 Have a nice day! Meital http://moominit.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.html

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March Dust it Off Challenge by Gemiel

 Reader Gemiel submitted this layout for the March Dust it Off Challenge. She said:


After a really hectic month, I’ve finally found the time to work on my Dust it Off Challenge layout.

Years ago, I belonged to a scrapbook kit club – Club Scrap. I stockpiled their kits for years, not using them because I was waiting for the “perfect photos” to showcase the beautiful papers. For this challenge I decided to dig into my stash and use one of the kits. The kit I chose was the Moody Blues kit from March 2002, perfect for this layout of Hurricane Katrina memorials that we saw during our trip to New Orleans. In addition to the kit, I used some silver pearls by Recollections and a circle punch, a tool I haven’t used in ages.

Gemiel Matthews

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March Dust it Off Challenge by Sharon

 Reader Sharon submitted this layout for the March Dust it off Challenge.  She said:

THANKS so much for inspiring me--- I needed to make a couple layouts from our spring break this year, so I pulled out an old paper pack (the Pet Stack—buried beneath so many other papers)—used some of my little sizzlets (literally had to DIG through dust to find one, I thought I might have {bowl, and bone}) and I used an ollllldddd little rubber paw print, that was in the back of my embellishment drawer so all in all this was great inspiration for me, to make a cute NEW layout, out of lots of older things! (I love this challenge, thanks)! Oh, and my paper punch for holes, haven’t seen that in years.

Sharon Bessinger http://sharonbscraps.blogspot.com/2011/03/march-dust-it-off-challenge.html

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Pagerize Helena by Christy

Design Team Member Christy submitted this layout for the Pagerize This Challenge # 8.  She said:

When I was a child, I learned my times tables by rote memorization. I recall hating it! While it did work for me, when it came time to homeschool my son, rote memorization was just not his way. He is always in motion, constantly chattering and just seems to need to "do" to learn. So we opted for some multiplication games. I think maybe it takes him a little longer this way than if I made him sit down and memorize everything. Then again, maybe not, because he'd fight me the whole way. Either way, we are having a ton more fun together. I documented it with this page. We are playing multiplication UNO. It's the same as regular UNO only you choose a multiple and work through it as you play. For example, every number card you draw is multiplied by 3. So if you  play a four then you multiply it by three. When we first start out, my son gets to use a chart. As we advance, the chart goes away. He sees the problem, hears the problem and says the problem and his hands are active. It's a win- win scenario!


Pagerize this Scraplift #8- of Helena

White acrylic paint with doodled black pen made a great border for this page. I then cut some K & Co. ticket style border strips apart and used scraps of Sasafrass and crate paper as accents. The brown ribbon is unknown. The scallop was a scrap of a crate paper border. I inked a Sassafrass paper whimsy card. It reminded me of the symbol for multiplying. I added some patina glimmer mist for some fun flair

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March Dust It Off Challenge by Missy

Design Team Member Missy submitted this project for the March Dust it Off Challenge.  She said:

When I found out about the Dust It Off Challenge, my first thought was to use my Fasenator, but I thought that I had given it away long ago. So I was going through my "old stuff" box, and guess what? I found it! Now what was I going to do with it?

I was making a banner as a gift in a swap. So I used the Fasenator as the way to attach the banner together. I had some of the decorative staples and just slid the ribbon under each side and tied knots. I learned alot about my Fasenator, and it has since earned it's spot back on my tool shelf! I'm not so sure it won't get dusty again though!

I used my Cricut Storybook cartridge for the letters and used my Gypsy to alter some of the shapes for the letter backings. Both the hot pink ribbon and the light pink scalloped oval were distressed with my mini mister filled with water and then scrunched up. I inked around the edges with Close to My Heart Bubblegum stamp pad.

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Pagerize Helena by Tiffany

Reader Tiffany submitted this layout for the Pagerize This Challenge # 8.  She said:

Hello! attached is my submission for the latest pagerize challenge. I chose to "pagerize" the title, using 3 lines of puffy letters for my title, placed in the bottom right corner. Thanks for another great challenge!
=) Tiffany
http://bkfastattiffanys.blogspot.com/

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Dust it Off Challenge by Wendy

Design Team Member Wendy submitted this layout for the March Dust it Off Challenge.  She said:

I pulled out all the stops with this layout. Everything I used is old, old, old and I literally had to dust off my border punch! I used a sketch from My Little Sketch Book which made a perfect layout out of these boring pictures. For more details, visit My Scrapbooking Blog.

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March Dust it Off Challenge - By Colleen

Reader Colleen submitted these cards for the March Dust it Off Challenge. She said:

I have had these metal frames forever and what a great way to use them but on a card. I painted and sanded them down and glued them onto card stock. Added some embellishments to complete the cards.

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March Dust it Off Challenge by Sarah

Is 2007 dusty enough?  I was cleaning out some older bins of sh-tuff in the Studio over Christmas Break when I ran across this Halloween Mini-Album... I put it aside so it wouldn't get 'sucked under' again and boy, am I ever glad I did!  I had started it right after Halloween that year: got the pictures printed, cut the back paper and then... I dunno. I think part of it was that being the year of my separation and my Ex was along for this trip (Bless Cropping!), maybe Christmas Rush???  It's a mystery!  But...
I'm so happy for this challenge giving my Muse a good kick in the rear to get it done. As soon as it was finished my 4 boys were passing it around to look at.  It was the last project I got done before this killer virus that's been going around put me out of commission for over 2 weeks. I had to hunt it down on one of their dressers after I was feeling better just to get the photos. That, right there, is why I scrapbook.

The Album is a K & Company Brag Book which was part of  a kit. I bought the kit for the stickers and other embellishments then the book sat around for a year.  Dusty even before this challenge! lol

I started all the pages by 'wallpapering' with pattern paper...

Then added the Photos...
Then went through and embellished.
I used up papers that had come with some $ store mini-album kits. The boys had taken the albums to do some small books of their own.
Stickers were a mish-mash of leftovers in my Halloween Stash.
Then a final go through to do the journaling.All Done!!! ...at last.

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