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Monday, October 22, 2012

Highlights from challenge #55 & 56

Journaling Strips #55

Anita

Jayne

Awesome job ladies!

Back to Basics- Brads challenge #56

Fabulous creations gals!

Be sure to check out their blogs and leave some love.

Don't forget to grab your badge if you were highlighted this week :)

Monday, October 15, 2012

Challenge #56 Back to Basics

Glad to see you back again :)

Hi it's Joy here with this weeks challenge and we are going back to basics. I think brads are a basic embellishment that most paper crafters have in their stash. Although just because the are a

basic supply does not mean that I use them often.

Your challenge is to get 3 or more brads onto

your project this week.

I dug into my kinda large stash of brads for my project and....

I managed to get 7 on my layout.

Lets see what the girls made this week.....

Lynne

I love brads. Always have. Always will.

I used just 5 here.

Bronwyn

My two oldest children are off to birthday parties this weekend so I needed one girl card and one boy card. Same design, different look... Can you tell which is which? :)

Round brads on the left and heart-shaped ones on the right.

Barb

I love brads too, but like Joy, I don't use them often enough. It's the perfect finishing touch.

I added just three brads on this layout.

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Highlights from challenges 53 and 54

Challenge # 53 An Apple a Day

Tameko

Monica M

Angela P

Challenge #54 Banners

Thank you to everyone who participated.

Monday, October 8, 2012

To all the Canadian readers, Happy Thanksgiving to you all. May you feel especially blessed today.

I use a lot of journal stips and/or word strips on my projects. I just love the look of it. For me, it just makes the journaling into more of a design feature. So, my challenge this week is to use either journal or word strips on you project.

On this layout, I put strips of white-core cardstock through my dymo labeller and then used my sanding tool to sand the raised bits to reveal the white underneath. It's a much cheaper alternative to buying dymo tapes, and you can match the colours to your project.

I hope you can join us in this challenge. Don't forget to come back and link your project up here with Mr. Linky below. We can't wait to see your projects.

And now, here's what the other Creative Team Members have come up with:

Lynne

HI everyone. I am a little late to the 'party' this week. I am still getting settled in from my road trip vacation so here is an 'oldie but goodie' from my stash.

Joy
I cut up some words into little strips for this canvas project.
It says 'she loved her life and the ones in it'.

Bronwyn

Almost all of my layouts use journalling strips. I love how you can fit them in anywhere!

Her is a double page LO of the family visiting Riverdale Farm in Toronto in the summer.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Challenge 54 - Banners

Hi everyone! Lynne here. I have fallen in love with BANNERS. I think this is the best scrapbooking fad that has come along in a long time. So my challenge for you this week is to use a banner on your layout or card. Have fun and thank you for creating with us here at Use Your Stuff.

Barb

Well, I haven't used a whole lot of banners in my projects, so I was very excited when I found out what this week's challenge was going to be. What I had originally planned on doing, ended up on the back burner when I was working on this layout and decided to add banners to it. I really like how banners look and enjoyed playing with them this week.

Joy

I'm SO happy this week to be back posting here & back to crafting after our move.

I love banners Lynne!

I dug into my stash and found some BG Life of the Party chipboard and papers.

I added some glossy accents to the stars and used a Stamping Bella sentiment.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Challenge #53 - An Apple a Day

Happy Autumn everyone!

Fall has definitely arrived in my part of the world. The kids actually asked for mittens before they walked out the door this morning!

What do you think of when you think, "Autumn?" Sweaters, hot chocolate, pumpkins, scarecrows??

And what about apples??

They are truly a "FALL" thing!

So this week I challenge you to use the image of an apple on your creation- stamp it, cut it out or use some patterned paper just as I did.

I made this Thanksgiving card for my sister who won't be attending our family's annual dinner. She'll be so happy to receive it and know we are thinking of her even though she is far away!

Lynne

I am going out of town in the morning so I pulled this layout from my archives, I took l took a little liberty with the 'apple' theme, but I think it works.