CHALLENGE #263 FEATHER HIGHLIGHTS

Thank you to all of you who participated in my "Feathers" challenge here at Use Your Stuff.   It's always so fun to see how others interpret a challenge.  I loved each and everyone!  After much consideration, these were the ones I thought deserved a shout out ...

Billie A

I love the "shiplap" and the bundle of feathers on this card.   Such a masculine, rustic Father's Day card.  Beautiful work!

Lisa DV

The translucent feathers are the perfect touch to this scrapbook layout about catching a bird.

Maria Rodriguez

Cardinals make me happy!  I love the colors and the frame around the bird stamp.

Thank you again for playing along, and check out this week's challenge!

Highlights #263- Galaxy/Star Wars theme

Thank you to those crafters who jumped into their stash to make some fun pieces for my first blog post.

I loved each persons take on this theme, from using a star wars background or using a space theme. 

All three of the entries this week were a brilliant use of their stash and various papercrafting; cardmaking in this instance.

Emily

Willa

I really liked entry #3 Sarah.N and thought the card was quite a fun version of star wars.

Thank you again to those who participated in this blog challenge.

Amy. 

Challenge #263 Feathers

Welcome to this week's challenge at Use Your Stuff Challenge Blog.  This is Stephanie, and I'm challenging you to use feathers on a project.  Perhaps you have a cute bird embellishment or an adorable sheet of paper with feathers. Maybe you have a cute digital stamp of a feathery friend you have been dying to use.  Let your creativity "fly!"  We can't wait to see what you create!

Alice K.

I made a triptych with bird postage stamps and feathers. More on my blog - welcome!

Gail
I used one of those colouring book pages, cut out some of the images and used them on a card.

Stephanie

For this project, I was inspired by the Native American print papers, namely the feather design sheet.

  I created a double page scrapbook layout to highlight pictures of my children playing at a park that is the home of one of the two largest Indian mounds in the USA.

Chris C. 

I went a little out of my comfort zone and used a feathers stencil with some light texture paste and then used water colors to paint the feathers.  I used all Fancy Pants Attwell goodies on my page featuring my two youngest grandsons.



Karrie





Got these cool feather veneers, and this 70's LO just appeared! 

Tammy

Tina

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Challenge #262 - Star Wars/ galaxy theme

Hi all, Amy L here and for this weeks challenge I am challenging you to use your scrappy force and create something using a star wars/ galaxy theme.  You could create a whole STAR WARS themed project or maybe just stars and/or planets.  Maybe its space travel and space ships. Perhaps there is a part of the actual movie that inspires you or a quote.  Be creative and inspired.   I have done a 2 page project life spread documenting my sons star wars birthday. I have used my stash to create the project life cards and embellishments on the spread, as well as some printable I found online to create the character cards. 

So may the force be with you this week as you use your stash to get creative.

Gail

Hubby and I were at Disney World a couple of weeks ago and rode the Star Wars ride (called Star Tours). So great timing for this challenge. I used a PageMaps sketch. For more details, check out my blog.

Amanda

We had my daughter's second birthday party a couple of days ago. I chose to do a 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' theme and was inspired by a photo I saw on Facebook to create this star 'chandelier'. I also made a star banner and star tags for the gift bags from my scrap supplies! I apologize for the photo quality - with that window there I just couldn't get a good shot!

Majo

 Well, I'm not too much into the Star Wars scene, so I decided to go at least for the stars. I inked my tag and applied texture paste with a stencil. Please visit my blog for close ups.

Heather R

I actually scrapped some older pictures.  Hard to believe the little guy in the pictures is about to graduate from high school in less than a month.  We have always loved the Disney Star Wars Weekends and Star Tours. I have another Star Wars themed layout on my blog.

Kristin
Hello! I used a Star Wars themed paper I've been hoarding to make this 12x12 page. Photo was taken at a White Sox game last summer during Star Wars night.

Lori

I have used a star patterned paper and a star die cut on my card.

Renee

For this challenge, I used lots of scrap paper and my Silhouette Cameo to create this fun slider birthday card for a little boy.

Guest Designer Teresa
Teresa will be joining us as a Guest Designer for the month of May!

I have been crafting for over 20 years...at first falling in love with scrapbooking but most recently having developed a strong passion for card making. I absolutely love sharing, giving and receiving homemade cards. I especially love coloring cute little images to go on my cards. I am so extremely passionate about this hobby that I decided to turn it into a business several years ago. I own/operate a Facebook group where I sell hot, trendy supplies at less than retail price...it is called Scrapping for Less. Recently, (last October) I decided to branch out and open a website and even more recently (in March) introduced a card kit like no other kit on the market. I am honored to be sharing the month with you here at the Use Your Stash Challenge blog as I sure have lots and lots of stash to use up!

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HIGHLIGHTS - Challenge #261 - Circles

I want to thank everyone who participated in my first challenge at Use Your Stuff.  Your designs with circles were amazing!!!

That being said, it was very difficult to pick just three but these were a few of my favorites:

#1 Barbara Greenberg

#8 Laura

 

 

#16 Marlene

 

 

 

 

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Thank you all for playing along!  We will be back tomorrow with another new challenge for you!

Challenge #261 - Circles

Hello Everyone - Chris C. here with your challenge this week. I can't believe this is the last week of April.

For this week's challenge, I would like to see some circles (at least one) on  your project.  There are so many options for creating circles - hand drawn, stitched, punched, die cuts, or cut files to name a few. I've used a cut file from Paper Issues and backed each circle with a piece of patterned paper from the Fancy Pants Joy Parade 6x6 paper pad. I look forward to seeing the cards/layouts/projects you create this week using circles.

Chris C.

Gail

I,  too, used a cut file on my layout and backed it with papers from a 6x6 paper pad by Pink Paislee - Oh My Heart.  

Khristina

Amy

I created this layout using a Kaisercraft bubble mini stencil to create the background, then using my fiskars cirle punch and my diamond press dies to cut out various circle shapes. The circles create a fun and slightly wacky theme, perfect for documenting Willy Wonka.

Karrie

got some dot-print paper, circle stencils and stamps, brads

Stephanie

-When I think circles, I think soccer!

Alice K.

My circles are layered on the background. Hop over to my blog to learn how I made the backgrounds.

Beth

I used pieces of the April 2017 Paper Pumpkin to make my "circle" card.

Amanda

I used some die cut circles to highlight the cow on this birthday card for my father in law. 

He has just recently purchased some livestock!

Tina

I used some stickers that are circles for embellishing on my layout in various clusters

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HIGHLIGHTS: Challenge #260 - Eyelets and Brads

Thanks so much to the few who played along with my first challenge. Hope you all were able to make even a small dent in your stash of eyelets and brads and that more of you will be inspired to do so in the future.

A few of my favorites...

#6 Brenda B

#1 OlgaB

#3 Light Whimsey

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