Stash Buster Match Week 1 - Who is @ the Zoo?

Another Stash Busters Challenge coming your way! Click on the link below to play!

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This month, I am challenging you to use up certain items from your stash and then link your completed layout at Splitcoast Stampers so we can all get excited over it! I'll post a new list each Thursday this month, and you have until March 31st to scrap your layout using the products. If you complete all four layouts, you will get an honorable mention for the month. This month, I thought I'd include some neglected tools, so be prepared to dust off some tools you haven't used for a while!

Please use:
• 3 patterned papers
• 2 pieces of chipboard
• A die-cut
• A crimped or pleated item

I finally got a chance to do my layout based on my monthly sketch!

Recipe:
Hodgepodge Alphabet, Chocolate Alphabet Small, Distressed Backgrounds & Whooo's Your Valentine stamp sets
Babycakes Level 2 papers
Chocolate, Whisper & Colonial White cardstock
Chocolate, Buttercup, Sunset & Slate ink
DE Hearts & Signage (chipboard)
3-D foam tape
Crimper
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: overlay
Pattern: EMS Sketch 54
Challenges: Heart 2 Heart March Scrapbooking Challenge (I used an overlay from the Artbooking cartridge); Frosted Designs Punctuation or Keyboard Symbol (I used @ and ?)

San Diego Zoo Layout

Since Monday was the third day of the third month, Heart 2 Heart challenged us to create a triple play. For me, that meant adding three felt shapes to my layout. I'm trying really hard to use up older papers before buying a bunch of new ones, so I pulled out the old Twitterpated paper pack and used some large pieces of patterned paper. I also used my last three pieces of chipboard that matched the Twitterpated papers, plus I added three craft buttons for another triple play. My title has three words in it, I used three patterned papers, and my final triple play is the three stitches near the title. Wow, that's a lot of threes! Don't forget to hop over to Heart 2 Heart to play along with the challenge.

Recipe:
You Are My Happy stamp set
Twitterpated Level 2 papers
Crystal Blue cardstock
Chocolate & Sorbet ink
Chocolate marker
Heartfelt Wonder felt die-cuts
Dimensional Elements Chipboard - Organic
Craft buttons
Licorice Opaques - Black
Chocolate baker's twine
Chocolate embroidery floss
Liquid Glass
Pattern: Nuts About Sketches Week 302

Orlando Layout

Sketch 'n Scrap had a new sketch I wanted to try, so I pulled out some of my Laughing Lola paper to create one last layout for my family's 2010 Orlando trip, an intro page for our vacation. The pretty blue in the papers seemed a good match for the shade of the water in my pool photo, so I think the papers work even though there's no purple in either photo! I'm trying to loosen up on the matchy-matchy thing (since everyone tells me my colors don't have to match exactly), but it's always a struggle for me to try something new. Anyone else have this issue?

Recipe:
Save the Date stamp set
Laughing Lola Level 2 papers
Crystal Blue & Laughing Lola Gold cardstock
Crystal Blue, Hydrangea & Black ink
Flutter paper shapes - butterflies
Craft buttons
Black & Sunflower embroidery floss
Turquoise ric-rac (Craft Essentials)
3-D foam tape
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: title, ticket
Pattern: Sketch 'n Scrap 52

EMS Sketch Challenge 54

Welcome to the March sketch challenge! This month's sketch is a single pager, but it could easily be spread over two pages simply by duplicating and reversing the elements, and exchanging the title circle for a journaling spot on the second page. Enjoy the sketch, and don't forget to link your completed layout based on the sketch below so I can leave you some love. For every five participants, I will choose a guest designer for May!

Due to out of town guests and lack of foresight on my part, I haven't picked up my photos from Costco that I want to scrap for this sketch. I'll try to get my layout done later this week, so be sure to check back!

Please link your completed layout here by 3/31/14 at 11:59 pm PST! 

Monthly Sketch!

Don't forget that tomorrow is the last day to use the February sketch and link it to my blog! If you have a beautiful 5"x7" photo (or even two 5" x 3.5"ers) that is begging for its own page, this could be the sketch for you! I've been able to use it twice this month, once as it and once rotated upside down. Click on the sketch in my sidebar to go to the sketch challenge linkup.

Stash Busters February Week 4

Another Stash Busters Challenge coming your way! Click on the link below to play!

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This month, I am challenging you to use up certain items from your stash and then link your completed layout at Splitcoast Stampers so we can all get excited over it! I'll post a new list each Thursday this month, and you have until March 5th to scrap your layout using the products. if you complete all four layouts, you will get an honorable mention for the month.

Please use:
• 2 patterned papers that are at least one year old
• Ribbon
• Ribbon slide
• Tag

Recipe:
Framework Alphabet stamp set
Loves Me patterned papers (SU)
Whisper cardstock
Ocean & Whisper ink
Ocean marker
Lagoon satin ribbon
White Daisy ribbon slides, metal tags & brads
Blue embossed vellum (from my stash, source unknown)
Pattern: Let's Scrap 2-26-14

SCS Variety Challenge 201 - Supersize Me

Time for another variety challenge for Splitcoast Stampers, and this one may throw you off balance a little! Play along using the link below.

SBVC121 - Daring Diagonals
I’ve gotta confess, most of my scrapbooking marches straight across the page, but I love the look of those tilted pages. For this week’s variety challenge, create a page in which your photo and papers follow a diagonal rather than a horizontal line!

For my layout, I didn't have any patterned papers that quite fit the look I wanted, so I created my own using cardstock and stamps. The french fry box was cut on my Cricut, and it's normally 3-d, but I cut down the sides so it would lay flatter in my album. The journaling is all about the biggest McDonald's my family had ever visited, but we still got to eat our favorite foods!

Recipe:
Alphabet Solos "L" & "M" stamp sets
Bamboo, Cranberry, Honey, Desert Sand & White Daisy cardstock
Cranberry, Honey, Black & Desert Sand ink
Black marker
Yellow grosgrain ribbon (Offray)
3-D foam tape
Cricut Artiste catridge: french fry box
Cricut Artiste cartrdige: title
Cuttlebug embossing folder: Swiss Dot
Pattern: On With the Show from Magic
Challenges: Lasting Memories Food & Beverage Guilty Pleasures; Heart 2 Heart Hearts Galore

Stash Buster February Week 3

Another Stash Busters Challenge coming your way! Click on the link below to play!

Stash14Feb 3
This month, I am challenging you to use up certain items from your stash and then link your completed layout at Splitcoast Stampers so we can all get excited over it! I'll post a new list each Thursday this month, and you have until March 5th to scrap your layout using the products. if you complete all four layouts, you will get an honorable mention for the month.

Please use:
• 3 patterned papers that are at least one year old
• Butterflies or buttons
• Chipboard
• Ribbon or Baker’s twine

Recipe:

Chantilly Level 2 papers and My Complements chipboard

Twlight & Buttercup cardstock

Ruby, Twilight, Cotton Candy & Buttercup ink

Just Blooms Flutter (butterflies)

Baby Pink organdy ribbon

3-D foam tape

Cricut Artbooking cartridge: title, banners

Pattern: EMS Sketch 53

Challenges: 4 Crafty Chicks Things with Wings; Frosted Designs Love Is challenge (hidden journaling is all about my lovely friend Lela + inspired by the color palette; Lasting Memories Love Is in the Air (used the word love in lovely ) + wings

Stash Busters February Week 2

Another Stash Busters challenge coming your way. Click on the link below to play!

Stash14Feb2
This month, I am challenging you to use up certain items from your stash and then link your completed layout at Splitcoast Stampers so we can all get excited over it! I'll post a new list each Thursday this month, and you have until March 5th to scrap your layout using the products. if you complete all four layouts, you will get an honorable mention for the month. In honor of Valentine's Day, you have two options this week. Pick the one you love.

Option 1
Please use:
• 4 red or pink items from your stash

Option 2
• 4 patterned papers that are at least one year old
• Pre-printed journaling spot
• 2 stickers
• 3 buttons

I went with option 2 for my layout!

Recipe:
Stardust Level 2 papers & My Stickease
Bamboo cardstock
Moonstruck & Desert Sand ink
My Crush Best Day Ever Journaling spot
Craft buttons
Adornments blue fibers assortments (EK Success)
Rhinestones (The Paper Studio)
Vellum (The Paper Company)
Pattern: Duplicate Patterns from Jeanette Lynton's Cherish
Challenges: 1~2~3 Get Scrappy board (I chose the row with polka dots, fibers & vellum); Southern Girls Bling It challenge (I used blue rhinestones)

Disney Adventure Layout

Splitcoast Stampers is having a Virtual Scrapbooking Night (kind of like an online crop), and the first challenge was to use "one little word" as inspiration for your layout. I chose the word "Adventure" since the pictures were taken at Adventureland at Disney's Magic Kingdom, plus our time in Florida was a bit of an adventure due to all the rain.

Recipe:
Dreaming & Caboodle Level 2 papers
Pacifica & Colonial White cardstock
Pacifica ink
Pacifica, Chocolate & Goldrush markers
Colonial White Designer Brads
Pacifica brads
Natural Hemp
Liquid Glass
Pattern: Sideline Surprise from Imagine
Cricut Artbooking cartridge: title
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge: flowers, photo corners
Challenge: 4 Crafty Chicks Flags / Banners challenge