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Sunday, September 11, 2016

Highlights - Challenge 232 Watercolor

Hello scrappy friends!
Thank you for playing along with us last week. Your projects were all so wonderful. Here are the my top three pics in no particular order:

Sewpaperpaint

Paperpalet

Tanja

Thank you so much for playing along! Don't forget to grab your badge for your blog. Hope you will all play along with our next challenge!

Until next time... Happy Scrapppin'!

Tammy C

Monday, September 5, 2016

Challenge #232 Watercolor

Welcome back! Tammy C here to host the next challenge. This week, we would like to see your watercolor creations! Use watercolor to create a background, or to color your stamped image.

For my card, I used Distress inks and a water brush to create the background, and watercolor pencils to color the bird. Pop on over to my blog for all the details.

Be sure to visit the blogs of my very talented Teammates with their creations and leave some love ;)

Martha Lucia Gomez

I used Distress Inks over watercolor paper, to create the texture I prayed with water and when the paper was dry I stamped my images and sprayed again. Here is the complete Tutorial.

Sarah

Amanda I used some watercolor markers to color the Santa.

Gail I used Crayola Twistable Slick Stix as my watercolours on this card.

Majo

I used water colors for my background, watered them down a bit with water drops and heat embossed my stamped images with Stampendous Detail White Opaque Powder.

I took off some of the color on the flower and the leaves with bleach.

Renee

For today's challenge, I created a water colored background scene to showcase this image that I colored with Copic Markers. I wanted a background that mimicked a painted wall and wood flooring. Watercolors were the perfect answer given the texture that they naturally create.

Show us your creations! Happy Scrappin'!

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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Our DT needs you!

Hey there! We hope you had an amazing month of summer holidays! The DT will be back next week with some new challenges and inspiration for you!

Speaking of the DT, we are sad to say good bye to DT members Sarah, Jana and Lori....we have loved having them on the UYS team and we hope that you have been inspired and amazed at their amazing creations each week. Make sure you continue to check out their blogs! We wish them all the best in the future and hope that they will stop by now and then to say hi and let us know how they are doing!

So, we have 3 positions to fill! If you are interested in being on a DT here's what we are looking for:

You need to have access to a blog so that you can post your creations for the team and talk about our challenges

You need to have access to facebook as that is where we meet and discuss all our team stuff!

You need to love to scrap - it can be layouts, cards, mixed media, altered art whatever! As long as you love to create it and it fits within our weekly theme for your team!

You need to be able to create a minimum of 2 projects a month (each team alternates) and host your own challenge about once every 3 months!

You need to send me via email to tampatha01@gmail.com some samples of your work or a link to your blog as well as a short blurb about yourself

You do not need previous design experience! Everyone is welcome to apply!

The call is open until September 10th 2016. The new members will be announced on September 12 and you can expect to see their work starting on September 19th!

The term is September - March with first option to stay on again for another term after that.

If this sounds like something that you might be interested in, the email me! :)

Monday, August 1, 2016

The DT is on Vacation!

Hey there everyone! Thanks for checking in this week......

The Design Team is taking the month of August off for some much needed vacation time with their families!

We will be back on September 5th for our next fun challenge for you! We hope to see you then.

Have an amazing summer!

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Highlights - Challenge #231 - Floral Prints

Hello everyone! Thank you all so much for joining in our floral prints challenge last week! There were so many beautiful projects to look at. That makes my job of picking a Top 3 very difficult! I would have loved to pick them all, but here are my Top 3...well, Top 4, in no particular order:

Janis

I love this pretty pocket letter that Janis made. Every little pocket is a piece of art!

Colour and Sparkle

I love the watercolored sentiment on this card.

DebiB

Love the embossed panel on this card! Such pretty colors, too!

Birgit

This is the cutest little frog ever, and I love that it is a pop up card!

Thank you all for playing along with us! Be sure to grab your "Featured" button in the right side bar!

Monday, July 25, 2016

Challenge #231 - Floral prints

Hello everyone! Lori here, and I will be hosting this week's challenge. This week I am challenging you to use floral patterned paper on your project. You can use as little or as much as you want on your project, I just want to see some floral paper!

Floral prints are some of my favorite patterns to work with - especially on cards - which is what I have created for you today.

Lori

Here are the beautiful projects from the rest of the team:

Jenna

Gail

A Halloween/Birthday card done up with Graphic 45 papers.

Tina
Lots of florals on this Birthday card

Karrie
I made my page with this pic of my dad and stepmom around their 5th anniversary, using several different floral patterned papers with similar colours, and black and chalkboard for cohesiveness.