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Monday, February 15, 2021

#416 It's My Favorite.....

For this fun challenge we want to see what your favorite is.....it could be a favorite sketch, embellishment, tool, color etc....Let us know in your post which of your favorites you used.

Here are some favorites of the DT

JULENE

I like using green on layouts,especially the soft mint and teal colours.

On this layout I used red flowers as contrast.

Gail

I love the colour BLUE.

Heather R

It's not secret that I love Disney and so scrapping Disney is my absolute favorite thing...and then throw in a little Star Wars and it is perfection!

Amanda

One of my favourite techniques, especially when using patterned papers, is outlining around the edges with black to make the pages pop! And of course, one of my favourite topics to scrap - my kids!

Helen

I've used my (current!) favourite stamp set, stamping which is my favourite card making technique, my favourite colour combination (red and brown) and my favourite colouring medium (Promarkers).

Renee

This spread is all of my favorites. It's my favorite medium (planners), in my favorite color (pink) and has my favorite set of stickers on it (my custom sorority stickers). I love this so much!

Doreen

Our Mini-Pig Hamlet is one of my favorite subjects to scrap
6x8 Traditional Paper Layout

Monday, February 1, 2021

Highlights #414

We were so happy to see so many of you find some old stuff in your stash to play along with us on this last challenge. I bet it felt good to use up some stuff hanging around!

In no particular order, here are the top 3 random winners for this challenge as chosen by my son ...LOL

#7 Debi B

#13 Billie A

#27 Lisa Lynn

Congratulations Ladies! Don't forget to grab your badge from the sidebar. Everyone make sure you check out the post for our new challenge here!

#415 Hearts

Oh here we are into February now! The month of love...**sigh**

Our challenge for you is to create a project that has HEARTS into it. It could be the focal point or the embellishment but we should be able to distinctly see the hearts in your project.

Let's check out the DT projects for this fun challenge!

JULENE

I made this wedding card, or it could be anniversary card by tracing around a heart template then overlaying them on the background.

Stephanie:

My daughter took this picture of my dog sporting some cool heart shaped sunglasses over the summer. I thought he would be the perfect subject matter for a heart themed challenge.

Helen

I have used up some heart patterned paper from Stampin' Up that has been in my stash for quite a while along with a new stamp set that I've been wanting to try out. Rather than a traditional Valentine card, I've made a birthday card.

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

#413 Highlights

Thanks so much everyone for the great entries highlighting your new product! It was great to see what you had! Here are our highlights in no particular order:

#23 Vicki

#46 Joyce

#53 Sidan

Congratulations ladies! Grab your badge from the sidebar! Don't forget to check out our current challenge which you can find here!

Monday, January 18, 2021

#414 Out with the Old

Welcome everyone! Last challenge we talked about the new. Today we are working with the old! Our challenge for you for the next two weeks is to create a project using your scraps or left over bits from previous projects...just look on your table and see what you have to work with, I'm sure there is a lot more than you think!

The DT has some amazing projects to get you started!

Gail

I used scraps of paper leftover from my last layout to make this border.

Helen

I used some left over patterned paper to create the background for my card:

Heather R.

I have been working on a project that I started back in 1999 and been hoarding Christmas paper ever since...especially anything with Santa. I had to tape together the scraps of my Santa paper to make a piece large enough to fit this 8x8 page. I was able to get a couple more pages completed which you can view on my blog...

Doreen

My project includes a 2020 Wood Veneer that I purchased at the beginning of 2020, and was intended for the first page in my Project Life Album, but had misplaced.
Instead I'm using it for the last page in my album.
6x12 Traditional Pocket Page

Amanda

I used some scraps from a baby layout to make a baby card.

Renee

It is no secret that I have a massive sticker stash, many of which contain only a few stickers left on a page. I created next weeks spread with little bits from 5 sheets of stickers, including bits from 2 floral pages. You can see my empty sticker sheets.

Saturday, January 9, 2021

#411 & #412 Highlights

Hey everyone! I'm a bit late with the highlights posts so please forgive me. Thanks so much for all of you who play along with us each month.....some of you have been with us forever and others are new to us...we love you all and are so glad you are here.

Here are the highlights for the last 2 challenges in no particular order:

#411 Highlights:

#16 Epie

#2 Judy

#17 Scrappy Horses

#412 Highlights (there were so many entries for this one, I decided to do 6!)

Please grab your badge from the sidebar. Again, there were just so many fabulous projects for this challenge. Thanks again all of you for playing along with us!

Monday, January 4, 2021

#413 All About the New

Hey everyone! Happy New Year and welcome to another great year at Use Your Stuff...we are happy to be here with you again.

Our first challenge of the new year is all about the NEW!

We want you to use a new product or tool that you have...either something that you got for Christmas or something new that you have bought but not used yet! Make sure that you tell us what your new product is ok!

Here is what the DT has created for you!

Stephanie:

For this project "all about the new," I used new products from Crate Paper's "Hey Santa" line that I purchased a few weeks before Christmas specifically for my 2020 Christmas pictures.