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Monday, September 16, 2019

Challenge #375: Tags and Frames + Double Trouble Team Up

Happy Monday all!

Doreen here ::waves::
Okay, I'll admit I'm not a Monday person but, having a fun new challenge to motivate helps make it just a bit better, amirite?!

Today we challenge you to use your tags and/or frames.

Also we are Teaming up w/ the Double Trouble blog.

Their challenge is to include plaid on your project.
Click on the link to take you to their blog:

https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/2019/09/challenge-38-something-plaid-partnering.html

To help motivate you, here are some examples from me and the rest of the Use Your Stuff Team:

Doreen
2-page Travelers Notebook spread

Turns out I dont have any frames in my
stash so I went with tags.
I used 1 whole tag and the top of another.
I also included "something plaid"; the BG paper.
BTW - it's older than my daughter, who will be 18 in January.

Julene

Gail

Here's my outdoorsy card.

Amanda

In Canada red/black plaid is like it's own color! It fit very well with this camping themed layout!

Hagler

Our this challenge will run from September 16th until the 28th on our blog...
And until the 29th on the Double Trouble blog
- when you use both our themes you can enter both our challenges!
How awesome is that?!

Link up your creations below...
and let's make this Monday, and the rest of the week, a good one!

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Highlights for back to school challenge.

Many thanks to all 9 entrants for our Back to school challenge.

I'd like to congratulate the 3 following people for their outstanding entries.

Anna

Jessica

Karen C.

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Monday, September 9, 2019

Challenge #374: Mood Board Challenge

Hey everyone! It's Monday Monday! **insert ABBA song here** :) It's challenge day! It's a fun mood board challenge this week! Lot's of soothing colors, some neat icons and textures. We really love these ones as it is so neat to see what each individual takes away from the board to incorporate into their projects! Here is this week's board!

The DT has some projects to get you started!

Stephanie:

I featured a picture of my daughter and I a few years ago at one of our favorite pumpkin patches having our favorite fall treat; the caramel apple.

Julene
I visited a cafe in a chemistry building at Christchurch University. All the containers were based around chemistry items.

Amanda
Two years ago my husband and I visited Disney for the first time for both of us. This is a close up of us waiting on our first ride (Ariel). The photo ended up being a bit blurry as it was darker in there but I couldn't resist scrapping it anyway to commemorate the moment!

Dawn

Card maker here, I went with that cute chocolate lab that grabbed my heart for inspiration as well as the warm soothing browns.

Now it's your turn! Link up below so we can see what inspires you this week!

Monday, September 2, 2019

Back to School

Hi everyone I'm the newbie.
My name is Julene and I'm from Sydney Australia.

Your theme or challenge for this week is BACK TO SCHOOL

It can be interpreted however you like so long as it is based on that theme.

As a school teacher, I have many layouts on this theme.

I've chosen to make one of my 2 nephews at Presentation Day at the end of the year where they both won awards.

The alphabet paper was perfect for this layout.

Now let's see what inspires you!

Gail

Wouldn't you LOVE to go to Hogwarts School of Magic?

Amanda

My little man will be starting Grade 2 this year but I was inspired to scrap his

Kindergarten school photo for the theme this week!

Doreen
No "Back To School" photos for me!
Instead, I was inspired to create a 2-page Traveler's Notebook spread
of this photo of my girls hanging out in the front yard on a
bright, sunny August day. It was on the 24th
so almost the end of August, right before going back to school!
Left to Right: Ivanna, Madison, and Panini
08/24/2012

Heather R

My youngest just started Kindergarten. He tends to be quite the character these days when we try to take a picture of him and his Kindergarten Open House was no different...

Renee

We have only college aged children in our house and neither is cooperative with first day of school pictures. So I decided to document my own first day of class in photography school.

Monday, August 26, 2019

Sports

Hello Tina here with you today for this fun challenge :)

Here it is everyone, the last week before school starts up again for most of us anyway. Some may have already started! As we think about school, we are inspired about all the sports teams that start up in the fall....thats our theme this week...SPORTS!

We can't wait to see what you have to show us, but in the meantime, the DT is here to get you started!

Karrie

Our oldest GK's are both sporty so this was an easy one,

and A joined girls fastball this year!

Julene

My family are not sporty but back in my young days I played hockey.

These 2 photos are from Dad's old slides and show me with my hockey stick and Dad in his bowls outfit.

Stephanie:

I featured action shots of my daughter going after a ball during a soccer tournament.

Dawn

a bit of play on golfing terms

a cute card for a guy

Majo

I made an ATC, using a Katzelkraft image ...

Sunday, August 25, 2019

Highlights for Challenge 371 Mood Board

It's always fascinating to see how different people interpret a mood board. Thank you all for such great entries.

But since I can only pick 3 favourites, here are mine (in no particular order):

Wendy Jackson - this cute little mermaid is just adorable.

Cheryl Even - Love this layout that includes lots of fun photos.

Esther Asbury - the flowers on this card are stunning!

Congrats ladies and don't forget to grab your buttons from the sidebar.
Check back here tomorrow for a brand new challenge.

Monday, August 19, 2019

Challenge 371 - Mood Board

Hello all! Gail here. I hope everyone is enjoying their summer and able to keep cool!

For this week we have a mood board challenge based on this beautiful photo.

For my card, I was inspired by the green walls and large lamp shade. Here's my card:

Here's what our other talented designers have come up with. Hope you can play along.

Julene

I was inspired by the lime green, the red books and the plants.

The butterflies are wood veneer I painted.

Doreen

The photos of the dogs on the wall, and the green color of the wall, inspired me to scrap these photos of my dog frolicking outside, near the green grass.

These photos mean a lot to me because Spotty lost the use of his back legs last March (2018) but regained use of them around Christmas time (2018), YAY!

Amanda
I was inspired by the green, orange and brown in the photo to use this p
hoto where my son is wearing similar colors.

Heather R

The green is the first thing that pops out to me, followed by the brown of the table and the lighting...and the books reminded me of school...so I was inspired to scrapbook these photos of my daughter from her senior session last August.