Highlights for Challenge # 190 - TV or Movie

Thanks to the DT and our subscribers who played along with the first challenge after the break.  you all deserve this highlight!
What caught my eye the most was the funky sky background on the Halloween card by:
  2. *Vicki*

The Frozen shaker card by 1. MaxiBelle Studio; her daughter is just going to love it!

and I really enjoyed the "Friends" card with the diverse birds by 4. Julene By Design


Thanks again all entrants and don't forget to come back and enter challenge #91 using Stencils!
Karrie

Challenge #191 - Use Stencils on your project ♥

Hi, it's Majo here.

I follow Karrie to welcome everyone back to Use Your Stuff Challenge Blog!

 I hope you all enjoyed your summer.

I have chosen to use stencils on my project.

Since I know me and also the fact that I tend to cover a lot of my background, I show you what I started with, a canvas on which I used Gelatos and a heart stencil.

I added the birds from Darkroom Door and a sentiment from Crafty Impressions.

I mixed texture paste with distress ink "Wild Honey" and added some dots for more texture. I also randomly stamped with a sentiment stamp all over the canvas.

One of the little birds needed a goggle eye ;)

Have fun crafting, hope to see you here, where I can enjoy your creations ♥

Martha Lucia Gomez

I used the partial stencil to create special designs. I used the Steampunk Clockface de Rebecca Baer Inc. to create the Christmas Trees.

Renee Hagler

My original plan had been to cut a silhouette file stencil out and mist a background on my card.  However, once cut, I realized I really liked the look of the stencil applied directly to my card. The white mat is a smaller version of the file, cut out on my die cut machine and then cut down to serve as a mat for the card,

Julia G

Here is the layout I created with a stencil background, you can get a better view of the stencil on my blog. I don't use stencils often so this challenge really helped inspire me to get one out and give it a go.

Karrie

I used 3 different stencils with mists and modeling paste + stamps to create my whimsical page.

Amanda

I used a stencil and some chalk ink to create my background. I also traced a star stencil

 for the star cut outs. 

Sept 7 - Challenge #190 - TV or movie

Hi, Karrie here.  I'm first up to welcome everyone back to Use Your Stuff! 

 I hope you all had a fabulous summer. 

Well I am not going with the traditional beginning of September "back to school" for my challenge. 

 My hubby and I have been catching up on shows on Netflix lately so I came up with this instead:

 I want you to be inspired by a favourite movie or TV show. 

 It could be a title of the show or episode, theme song, quote, or stars or topic.

 It can be yours or anyone's. Actually this challenge is pretty much wide open to your interpretation,

 just have fun with it and explain in your blog post how it relates to a tv show or movie.

Karrie

Here is an art journal page with one of my fave TV shows Supernatural, 

with the delectable Jenson Ackles as "Demon Dean" 

and a lyric from the song "Demons" by Imagine Dragons. 

The title (left side) was ripped from a magazine.

I found both images (right side) online, thanks and if they are yours 

please let me know and I will gladly credit you.

Here are some other DT interpretations! 

 Majo

Amanda

Julia

Lori

Around our house we love "The Walking Dead". We look forward to it every fall, and we are so happy to have the spin off - "Fear The Walking Dead" - on now to hold us over until the new season starts! So, of course I was inspired to make a Halloween card with a couple of glow in the dark zombies on it!

Tammy 
So lately my big TV passion is Sons of Anarchy!  I'm totally obsessed with watching it! It is seriously going to be hard to keep watching it as well as my new & returning fall shows, but we will see what happens.  I created this masculine birthday card.  I went with black and white and 'chrome' with just a touch of red (for the blood that SAMCRO always seems to spill).

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Challenge #189 Winners

Wow, even over the summer you have all been so busy! I cannot believe how many of you entered our challenge/giveaway!  436!!!!    I admire your mojo, as mine has been stunted over the summer months.  I so hope to get back into it as we step into fall ....

Thank you so much for sticking with us and playing over the summer.  Your projects were just all so awesome to check out and visiting your blogs was a treat!

Our random winners are

#191 Einat


#238 Lisa 


#38 AJ


CONGRATULATIONS!  to our three winners and again, thank you all for playing along with us.
Please contact me directly via email at tampatha01@gmail.com with UYS summer challenge winner in the subject line.  I will need your full name and mailing address so that I can send you your prize.

Join us on Monday for our first fall challenge!

See you then,

Tammy

Challenge Highlights from June 22's - Wood

Big thanks to everyone who played along and showed us what to do with wood.  I loved all the entries and it was super hard to pick just 3 favourites. 
In no particular order:

17. Paper Profusion   the beautiful layers and the lovely scene outside the wood"window"


































Don't you agree the directional wood arrows complete this card by  13. DebiB ?



 I cannot believe it is a card - it is a gift in itself! 10. Pamellia


Happy Summer everyone!



Challenge #189 Anything goes!

Hi Everyone!  

Welcome to this week's challenge which is an anything goes challenge!  We will be keeping this challenge open for the summer, while the DT has some time off to enjoy with their families.  Our next challenge will be September 7th!

You may enter this challenge as often as you want.  At the end of the summer I will pick 3 names to win a small prize pack from me! 

Have a wonderful summer everyone and see you back in the fall!

--Tammy and the UYS DT! 

** Update** Hello everyone!  The DT is getting the new season of challenges ready for you! It was brought to our attention that we had the wrong challenge # for this one previously! THANK YOU!  That was my error (tammy) and it has been corrected.  We will absolutely be doing something special for our #200th challenge which will actually come up in November!

Thanks to all of you that have been participating in our challenge.  We haven't been able to comment on all your entries, but we do appreciate them and we will be posting the 3 winners in a few weeks!

Thank you!

Karrie

I made this album for my cousin's baby shower gift.  (click my name link to see the rest!)
 Simple Stories Baby Steps is my all time favourite baby line and yes,  I have tons of it hoarded. 

My plan for summer is to get out other hoarded things and make gifts.

 

Lori

With Independence Day coming up here in the states, I decided to make a patriotic card.

Renee

I have been working on my coloring skills.  I used one of my colored images to make this note card that can be used for a number of situations.

Tammy

I realized that I don't have any pictures of my son in the leaves, but oh so much stash of autumn stuff so I purposely took pictures this last fall to scrap.  Here is a simple layout that I did!

Amanda

Summer time this year is full of weddings for us to attend! I made this simple wedding card for to give to one of the newlyweds!

Majo

I have decided to go with a "summery" theme and created an ATB with a Sizzix die, designed by Eileen Hull. I used Rubber Dance Stamps and Rub Ons and Stickers designed by Tim Holz.

 

 

... and last but not least the bottom of my ATB .......

Happy Crafting and Happy Summer ♥

I have so many special birthdays coming up I choose to make a split fold easel card for a special friend.  Being in Australia it is winter here so I choose to use a combination of a winter Anya stamped image from The Greeting Farm along with some lovely flowers (like the ones in real life I see each day from my garden).

Happy Crafting <3

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Challenge Highlights #188 Colour Me Happy

Firstly thank you all for taking part in my Colour Me Happy challenge.  I was so touched to see so many gorgeous entries.  Each and every one so unique and different and highlighting so much creativity. This is truly the hardest part for me, trying to choose only a few to highlight.  In my eyes you are ALL winners! I have loved seeing each and everyone of your great creations,  So thank you again for joining in my challenge.  My choices were made to highlight just a few of the many different elements that were added to your submissions:

Aunty Sue

Kathy - Stamps At Play

Julene By Design

Thank you all again so much and please ladies don't forget to grab your pin from the sidebar.  Have a wonderful day :)

Hugs

Shirl