"Back to School" Layout by DT Patricia Barnett

Hello!

Today we are showcasing a wonderful back to school layout created by DT Patricia

inspired by the 

September Book Inspired Stash Challenge:

Patricia:

"Hi crafters! Here are a few pics I was able to snatch for back to school day! My daughter is getting to the age where she has no time for pics! I feel like I have to chase her down lol.

I used paper from The Scrap Room monthly kit, Simple Stories, Bloom & Grow collection. 

Thanks for looking!

And here is a look at the challenge that inspired Patricia's wonderful layout:

Our team would love for you to create a layout inspired by this month's book cover and share with us.

For complete challenge details and rules, click HERE.

Link up your entries by September 29th, 11:59 PM PST for a chance to win this month's

awesome prize:

$20 gift card to shop at 

THE SCRAPROOM

'Work Hard" Layout by DT Marie Rodier

Hi there!

Today we are showcasing an amazing layout created by DT Marie,

inspired by our 

September Book Inspired Stash Challenge:

Marie:

"What a beautiful shade of yellow, a color I should use more often. This month book cover was real fun to play with. The colors are so vibrant. I torn a few pages from an old dictionary and created straws that I tucked under my picture. Happy back to school!"

Here's a look at the challenge that inspired Marie's beautiful layout:

For complete challenge details and rules, click HERE

You have until September 29th, 11:59 PM (PST) to upload your entries for a chance to win this month's awesome prize.

Enjoy the rest of your day and make sure to return tomorrow for more Design Team inspiration!

"Today's Adventure" Layout by DT Renee Timmerman

Good morning!

Today we are showcasing a lovely back to school layout created by DT Renee

inspired by the

September Book Inspired Stash Challenge:

Renee:

"I saw the school theme and I knew I had to use a back to school picture of my niece & nephew. Only to find they don't go to school til after Labor Day! So I had to rush to get this done once I finally got some pictures!! Dear Lizzy's Saturday was the perfect line for Back to School - I thought! Backpacks, glasses, apples! I can't wait to see what you all come up with for this inspiration!!"

Here's the challenge that inspired this lovely back to school layout: 

We would love for you to play along with us this month and show us what inspires you about this month's book cover.

You have until September 29th, 11:59 PM (PST) to link up your entries for a chance to win

this month's prize:

$20 Gift Card to 

THE SCRAPROOM KIT CLUB

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and make sure you stop by tomorrow to see 

what our next Designer has created to share with you inspired by this month's book cover!

"Back To School" Layout by DT Asa Johansson

Happy Friday everyone!

Today Designer Asa is sharing the adorable back to school layout she created 

inspired by our 

September Book Inspired Stash Challenge

Asa:

Lovely book cover to work with! It is just so cute!

I was inspired by the school theme. This is my twin girls heading to school first day after the summer break.

I was also inspied by all the colours and I wanted to do some messy doodling on my page. 

One of the chevrons is made of book paper. It´s paper from a famous Swedish book for children. 

I hope you want to join us for this fun challenge! Can´t wait to see your lovely work!

Hugs Åsa!

The challenge that inspired Asa's layout..

Click HERE for challenge details and rules.

Have a wonderful weekend and if you are getting your scrap on this weekend, 

why not create a layout based on the challenge and share it with us,   Our team would 

love to see how this challenge inspires you.

"Year 11" Layout by DT Michelle Henderson

Hello !!!

Today we are showcasing a wonderful layout created by Designer Michelle

inspired by our

September Book Inspired Stash Challenge:

Michelle:

"Like so many of us I have loads of formal school photos waiting to be scrapped, so I was inspired by this book cover to do one using these colours, and I love the little chipboard house which reminded me of a school house.

And I had to include this quote about maths - even at 15 I still have to spend time with my daughter sometimes helping her with her maths homework, and I know that sometimes we both end up more confused than at the start!

Lots of great Tim Holtz products on this layout!

I hope you take some inspiration from this to create your own :)"

Here is a look at the challenge that inspired this wonderful school themed layout:

Click HERE for complete challenge details and rules!

Link up your entries by September 29th, 11:59 PM (PST) for a chance to win this  month's

prize:

$20 Gift Card to The ScrapRoom

Thank you for stopping by and remember to return tomorrow for more 

awesome inspiration from one of our Designers!

Enjoy your day!

"Celebrate Class Party" Layout by DT Zsoka Marko

We are back on the blog today sharing an awesome layout inspired by our

September Book Inspired Stash Challenge.

Today's incredible feature was created by talented SOS Designer Zsoka!

Zsoka:

Hi there scrappy friends, Zsoka here with you today with a new layout for the book inspired stash challenge.I was inspired by the ABCs and 123s on the cover as well as the school theme, so I created this cut file from the Open Letter Alpha cut file from The Cut Shoppe. I had the idea to back the cut file with some script paper. For my background I used a Kraft card stock (which I never use but it was lying around on my desk and I thought I'd challenge myself) :). I then used modeling paste and one of my favourite stencils from TCW to add some texture to the background. Afterwards I took some of my spray inks and did the packaging technique over my modeling paste.

For backing my photos I used a lot of layers of scrap pieces of papers I had from Basic Grey Barista and B-Side. I added some embellies, journaling and I called it done. 

Hope you like it and will be inspired to join us in this month's challenge! 

Here's the challenge that inspired this incredible layout:

Inspired by Zsoka's layout and/or the challenge?

Why not create a layout based on the challenge and link it up with us 

by September 29th, 11:59PM (PST) for a chance to win this month's prize:

Click HERE for complete challenge details and rules!

Return tomorrow for more awesome inspiration from our Design Team!

"School Days" Layout by DT Carmen Henriquez

Hello!

Today we are featuring an amazing layout created by SOS Designer Carmen

inspired by the

September Book Inspired Stash Challenge:

Carmen:

"I was inspired by the colors of the book cover and also by the image. I found this vintage picture from my husband and his brothers ready to the first day of school, circa 1958... I did use a book page, gesso and watercolors. I have lots of alpha leftovers, so I decided to use it here as embellishments. The little house chipboard has been in my stash for a long time, not sure if it's from Crate Paper, Basic Gray....or?"

And here is a look at the challenge that inspired Carmen's layout.

Click HERE for complete challenge details and rules.

Thank you for visiting us today and return tomorrow for more Design Team inspiration!

" Those Eyes, That Face" Layout by DT Sherri Caramico

Today's adorable inspiration is the creative work of talented Designer Sherri

inspired by our 

September Book Inspired Stash Challenge

Sherri:

"Well, this month's Book Cover Challenge looks like it is pretty much about "school" but look closer... I drew my inspiration from the cute dog at the bottom/center of the cover. Since my "boys" are in their 20's and I started scrapping "late" in their lives, I don't have very many school type photos around. I decided to focus on the dog, as my newest dog, Tino, is my almost 3 year old "baby," and also the YELLOW background color! So, you see, the book inspired challenges are pretty much all about what "inspires YOU" about the photo - so come on, and join us in this month's challenge! I can't wait to see what INSPIRES YOU! 

Be SURE to include a BOOK or DICTIONARY Paper in you Layout too!!

As you can see in my "Inspiration" Layout - I focused on our youngest Portuguese Water Dog - Valentino, or TINO as he is very affectionately known!! I used the color YELLOW as my background color, just like in the book cover. I also used a page out of an old children's fairytale book, as he was just a 4 month old little guy, when these photos were taken. 

I can't wait to see how what you "see" when you play along with us this month!!"\

The challenge that inspired Sherri's layout..

Click HERE for challenge details and rules.

Thank you for visiting our blog today!

Make sure you return tomorrow to see what Designer Carmen has created to share with you inspired by this month's book cover!

"Big Smile Champs" Layout by DT Cassie Wiscarson

Good morning!

Thank you for stopping by today to check out today's feature, created by SOS Designer Cassie

inspired by the 

September Book Inspired Stash Challenge:

Cassie:

"I took inspiration from the school theme and went with this group photo from my daughter’s school last year when they were named Think Through Math March Madness National Champs. Since the book cover has lots of colors, I knew I wanted to make sure that I added lots of colors on my page. Both the background paper and the horizontal strip of paper have text on them. I can’t wait to see how this book cover will inspire you!"

And here's the challenge that inspired Cassie's lovely page

Click HERE for complete challenge details and rules.

Our team is looking forward to visiting your blogs and galleries to see the layouts you all create inspired by this month's book cover!!!!

Enjoy the rest of your day!

"A Fresh Start" Layout by DT Natsuko Suzuki

Hey there crafty friends!

Today Designer Natsuko is sharing the stunning layout she created 

inspired by our

September Book Inspired Stash Challenge:

Natsuko:

This challenge reminds me of the time when my daughter was getting ready for elementary school. She was anxious but really excited, wondering what school was going to be like. Now she's in 5th grade, and enjoying her school life:)

I was inspired by the colors, house and fence, so I chose a colorful paper for the background, die cut houses and a punched fence for embellishments. I used book paper, which is part of the challenge in the center underneath the photo. You can see more details here;

Natsuko's Little Craft Room

I'm so looking forward to see everyone's layouts!! Enjoy!!

Natsuko xxx

Here's a look at our challenge that inspired Natsuko's layout:

Now it is your turn to create a page based on the challenge, upload it and share it with us!
Our team is looking forward to all of the wonderful inspiration everyone creates inspired
by this month's book cover!

Enjoy the rest of your day and make sure you stop by tomorrow to see what our next designer created to share with us!

"First Day of 2nd Grade" Layout by Designer Steffanie Seiler

Happy Friday!

Today we are sharing a super cute school themed layout created by Designer Steffanie,

inspired by the

September Book Inspired Stash Challenge:

Steffanie:

"I have been taking first day of school photos for what seems like an eternity. So finding photos to fit this theme was easy. I knew I had a piece of text print paper that I purchased off a clearance rack so I pulled that out along with some cork print paper and a school themed kit from Bella Blvd. After selecting a sketch, it all came together pretty easily!"

And here's the challenge....

Click HERE for complete challenge details and rules.

How does this month's book cover inspire you?   

Why not create a layout and share it with us, our team would love to see your take on this book cover!

Enjoy your weekend and return tomorrow for Designer inspiration!

September Book Inspired Stash Challenge ~ Guest Designer Anna Uhras

Hello and thank you for stopping by today for the reveal of our

September Book Inspired Challenge
and to meet our talented

 September Guest Designer

Here's the challenge:

Your challenge is...

Create a layout inspired by the BOOK COVER.. 

You are allowed to use anything from the cover that inspires you,

for instance, the colors, title, outdoor or school theme, etc.

AND...you must include BOOK or DICTIONARY PAPER on your page.

When posting your layout, you must include in your write up

what inspiration you pulled from the book cover, to be considered for the 

random prize drawing.

Click HERE for SOS Challenge Guidelines

Entries are due: September 29th, 11:59 PM (PST)

Here is the prize you are playing for this month:
$20 gift card to shop at 
THE SCRAPROOM KIT CLUB

Now it is time to meet our 

September Guest Designer

Anna Uhras

"Hi I'm Anna and I'm from a little village in the middle of Sweden. My family of seven, hubby, five kids (21 - 3 ) and me are living at our farm, where my hubby works, and I work halftime as a hairdresser. I have to admit I'm addicted to Scrapbooking and all the pretty papers and supplies around our awesome hobby. As often as I can I love playing along at Scrap Our Stash, therefore I'm so happy and honored that Brenda and Rochelle asked me to guest this month. I´m also a member of some design teams, which is so fun and very developing. My first contact with this hobby was about 2007, mostly cardmaking. But I think my "real" start was about Fall 2012 when I discovered Scrapbooking with layouts. I mostly do traditional 12 x 12 but also letter size sometimes. My style is hard to define for me, it depends of what has inspired me at that moment. But I love rich and bright colors, layers, white space, thread and even machine stiching is often to find on my layouts.

You are more than welcome to visit me at my blog:

 http://urascrap.blogspot.se/"

Anna xo

And today Anna is sharing the amazing layout she created inspired by the challenge:
"Practice In Writing"

Anna:

"I was inspired by the colors, the alphas and the school theme. The design on the book cover gave me the idea of the design of my layout. I found some pages from an old dictionary and used it with a picture wheel die. The papers as well are pretty school/alpha inspired.

Hope you found some inspiration here so you will join us for this lovely challenge."

Anna xo

Our team is looking forward to seeing how this month's book cover inspires each of you,
so go get your scrap on and share your creations with us!
Have a great day!

August Winners Announced!!! :)

Hello Everyone!

First of all, Thank you to everyone who played along with our August challenges!

It's time to announce our August winners!

There were so many awesome interpretations linked up for both challenges,

it makes it a really hard task to narrow down to three.

And as always, it is great seeing such diverse creative ideas!

Our Design Team has voted and here's our August

Top 3 Picks

( in order of link up)

#2 ~ Lisa M

#17 JudyW 

#20 AnnaU

Congratulations!!!

One of you will be contacted and invited to be our Guest Designer for the month of October! 

Please grab our new TOP 3 blinkie below so that you can BRAG on your own blog:

And now for our August RANDOMLY drawn winner…

Congratulations 

#18 Leah Burgett

You have won the following prize:

Please leave a comment below AND...email us at scrapourstash@gmail.com

with August Winner in the subject line and we will get your prize sent out to you!!!!

Here's our WINNERS blinkie below to add to your blog:

Thank you for stopping by today!  

Make sure you visit tomorrow for the reveal of our

September Book Inspired Stash Challenge

and to meet our 

September Guest Designer!

"You Are So Cute!" LO by DT Rachelle

Hello Crafters! 

Today Designer Rachelle inspires us with this beautiful layout inspired by the Sketch +3 challenge:

Rachelle said this about her layout:

"Hi there SOS friends. Rachelle here and so happy to share my design inspiration using the awesome sketch.

I went with a clean and simple style, using fave colors. I started off with a clean background and added layers of paper. Olivia is all smiles on her first day of school.

I hope you have been inspired to start your creative project. Can't wait to see it. Thanks for stopping by and see ya soon!

Huggies!!!!

Stash List

*Various MFGS-3+{Simple Stories,Echo Park,Pebbles

*Washi Tape-top of LO!

*Xyron- Adhesive runner for title & filmstrip backing"

Here's the Challenge:

Visit the current challenge tab above for more information on this challenge!

Enjoy your day!

"XOX" LO by DT Aurelie Cormier

Happy Saturday!  Who's scrapping today?

Here's some inspiration by Designer Aurelie to get your mojo going! :) 

Here's what Aurelie said about her layout:

"Set on a piece of Carta Bella's Rustic Elegance patterned paper, I layered a ton of elements from the Basic Grey J'adore collection - 12X12 and 6X6 patterned papers, die-cut cardstock and transparency pieces, chipboard stickers, stickers and alphas. I also added some Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze, a hand-stitched title using an American Crafts stitching template and some DMC floss, Queen & Co. washi tape, Stampin' Up vellum, a Prima tag, and finally random brads and a clothespin I found in my stash. See the three items from each challenge list provided? You got it - vellum, washi tape and the letter X (stitched one and on one of those brads!).

Hope you're inspired to start those layouts you've been telling yourselves you'd get to one day. And if you upload your own layout inspired by this challenge over on the SOS blog, you'll get a chance to win some sweet, scrappy loot!"

Here's the Challenge:

For more information, please click HERE! 

Happy Scrappin'! 

"Go Big Al!" LO by DT Renee Timmerman

It's Hump Day!

Here's an awesome layout from DT Renee to get you over the "Hump!" :) 

Renee shared this about her layout:

"This sketch has been by far my favorite thus far! I know- I say it every time but honestly- this one rocks! From the lists I chose : 3 Various Manufacturers , Washi Tape and the letter X. - I took the X and turned them to plus signs... Hope that works! :) I love how I could use the Cool Kid line from Crate Paper as well as other scraps I had that matched perfectly, for this picture of my nephew! Even though they live in Boston, my sister keeps us in the loop of all their activities and makes it seem like we're right there with them. I also get the chance to scrapbook my family even when they are miles away. I'm so proud of the young man he's becoming! GO BIG AL!"

Here's the challenge:

For more information, please click HERE.

You still have time upload your layout to the side bar! :)

Can't wait to see your layouts!

"Vindax" LO by DT Asa

Hello!

Today we are sharing this beautiful layout by Designer Asa inspired by our Sketch +3 Challenge:

Asa said this about her layout

"Title: Vindax (that means Time for wine)

I shrunk the sketch a bit and used more straight lines than on the original. I wanted to use this photo and title and it suited better to do so. 

I love this black & white graphic thing, and I wanted to add just a little colour to it. 

Stash used:

1: Various Mfgs

2: Washi

3: Letter x 

Hope you´ll join us for this fun challenge!"

Hugs Åsa!

Here's the challenge:

Click HERE for more information on this challenge! 

Have a great day! 

"In the Pink" LO by DT Michelle Henderson

It's Monday! 

We hope you all had a fantastic scrappy weekend! :) 

Today, Designer Michelle is sharing her beautiful layout:

Here's what Michelle said about her layout:

"I love multi photo sketches - I always want to put more than one on a page..how else would I catch up???!

From the lists I used Various manufacturers (American Crafts,Kaisercraft,Basic Grey) for the papers; washi tape - I think the neon pink washi was just made for these photos! - and the letter X in the little XO embellie at the bottom.

Hopefully I've been able to give you a little inspiration ;)"

Here's the challenge:

You can find all the information about this challenge HERE.

 

Don't forget to get your layouts uploaded to the side bar by the 29th! :) 

"Maxim Not Impressed" LO by DT Zsoka Marko

Hello!

Here's a wonderful layout created by our designer Zsoka:

 Zsoka shared this about her layout:
"Hi there scrappy friends,

Zsoka here with you today with a new layout based on this month's sketch. It's such a pretty sketch again, don't you think?
At the time I created this layout, I just received this Simple Stories line, Sunshine and Happiness, so I really wanted to use it. With its florals I thought it would be perfect - I just fussy cut out some of these gorgeous flowers for my clusters. I also added some cute Jillibean Soup wood veneer flowers here. I mainly used the SS collection, but I also added a piece of washi tape from Freckled Fawn under my picture, then I used some Heidi Swapp chipboards too. Instead of using all the different patterned papers that are there in the sketch, I replaced some with hand stitching. I already had a lot going on on this layout so I thought this tones it down a little.
When I saw the lists first, the only thing I knew was that I was going to use the letter X ha! My son is called Maxim so this was an easy pick. Though I never actually write his name in the title! To draw attention to my X, I used all lower case letters in his name except for the X.
I hope I could inspire you in one way or the other! You still have a few days to link up your projects!
Have a great day and I'll be back next month with two new layouts XXX

List: Various manufacturers (Simple Stories, Freckled Fawn, Jillie Bean Soup, Heidi Swapp), Washi tape and Letter X."

Here's the challenge:

For more information, please click HERE! 

Happy Scrappin'! 

"Magic" LO by DT Carmen Cohen Henriquez

Who's Scrapping on this Scrappin' Saturday?  

Here's some beautiful inspiration from Designer Carmen to get your mojo going: 

Here's what Carmen shares with us:

"When I first saw this great sketch I was inpired to scrap this photo from my son and dil in Machu Pichu, Peru. I did cut it in 3 to adapt it to the sketch. 
I choose Vellum from products List 1. I used it as a background for angled cutted papers.
From List 2 I choose Washi Tape...lots of it in my stash!
I choose Xanadu from List 3, I thinks it's perfect for my photo. 
Also did pick some wood veneers, enamel dots andlittle stars. TFL!"

Here's the challenge:

For more information, please click HERE! 

Enjoy your Saturday!