You know you have them in your stash! Tons of brads and a healthy dose of eyelets too. This month's challenge at Scrap Your Crap is to dig them out and use them! You can use brads only, eyelets only or a combination of the two. Try to make a dent in your stash!
Here's my layout. I used up 45 eyelets! Woohoo!! The page is about the "Wet Jet" tour we took in Niagara Falls back in 2008. It was lots of fun, and definitely wet!! You can see that where we were sitting was completely submerged in water!
My layout is based on sketch #4 by Susan Stringfellow at Sketch Savvy.
Go to the blog to see the other creations by the DT. Why don't you join us too!
Happy scrapping!
Martine
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The new monthly challenge at Scrap Your Crap is all about twine! I'm sure you have some in your stash... it's been so popular lately!
Here's my layout. I wrapped twine around one of the photos, and threaded a button with it.
It's based on a sketch by Becky Fleck. I used a collection from My Mind's Eye. It's about all the dogs we saw during our trip to Cuba in the winter of 2011. It was sad to see them begging in the streets!
Check out here what the rest of the DT did with twine and let them inspire you! Hope you join us and use of some of your stash with us!
Scrap Your Crap is looking for the next batch of "Queens of Crap"! lol! There's a DT call going on. You can check out all the details here. It's a great team to be on! You should give it a try!
Happy scrapping!
Martine
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Hi!
The challenge this month at Scrap Your Crap is all about embossing! Wet or dry, or both! I made this layout for the challenge. I inked, heat embossed and cut out the letters for the title. Then I dry embossed the black panel behind the top right photo on regular pattern paper. I applied embossing ink with a brayer on the raised areas, then heat embossed with clear powder. I then inked the whole piece of paper with black ink, and the embossed areas acted as a resist. There's a great tutorial here if you want to see how it's done!
This is the Italian garden at Butchart Gardens in Victoria, B.C. I used the Ambrosia collection from Basic Grey.
Go check out what the rest of the DT did with their embossing techniques on the blog!
Have a creative weekend!
Martine
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You heard right! It's time to get that chipboard out and use it! I'm sure you've got tons of it in your stash... There's so much you can do with it: paint it, ink it, cover it with paper, use it raw...
Here's my layout. It's Tintagel in Cornwall in the UK. I used a chipboard bird which I covered with paper then inked with distress ink. I kept the chipboard flowers raw. They're from Magenta and I love the color of their chipboard. I distressed the chipboard alphas by sanding them.
Check out all what the rest of the DT did with their chipboard on the blog here! Hope you join us and make a dent in your chipboard stash!
Happy scrapping!
Martine
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There's a new challenge up at Scrap Your Crap today and it's a good one! Use paper only! I'm sure we almost all have way too much paper in our stashes. This is a good challenge to use up some of that! Everything paper... background, embellishments, title! I found it quite challenging! You can fussy cut, use paper strips, make rosettes... I'm sure you can come up with tons more ideas!
Here's my layout, about the beautiful flowers we saw in Butchart's Gardens in Victoria, B.C. I fussy cut the big flowers out of Basic Grey Lily Kate papers. I punched different sized circles and popped up a few of them for my embellies, along with a stamped bird.
Go check out what the rest of the team did here. I hope you join us this month and create with your paper! Looking forward to see what you come up with!Happy scrapping!Martine
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Hi there!
This month's challenge at Scrap Your Crap is all about masking/washi tape! It's become increasingly popular, and comes in all colors and patterns! There are so many ways you can use washi tape... to adhere photos, use as journaling strips, frame photos, make flowers, etc. In my layout, I used washi tape and toothpicks to make little flags as embellies.
It's a layout about the Lerner Garden of the Five Senses, near Boothbay Harbor, in Maine. It's a small but beautiful garden, and is arranged in such a way as to stimulate the five senses. I used the Lemonade collection by Basic Grey.
I hope you go visit the blog here to see what the rest of the team did with tape! There's lots of inspiration to be had! Thanks for stopping by!
Martine
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Hi there!
The latest challenge is up at Scrap Your Crap today and it's all about stamps! If you're like me, you've got tons of stamps but most of them go unused... Well today we're challenging you to use at least three stamps on a layout! They could be alpha stamps, background stamps, you can stamp an image and cut it out to use as an embellie on your page, you can stamp ribbons or flowers...
Here's the layout I did for this challenge. It's a page about my brother which I made for my parents' album. I used two different background stamps, alpha stamps for the title and a journaling stamp.
You should check out the work of the rest of the DT here for some fun inspiration! I hope you can join us for this challenge!
Happy scrapping!
Martine
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Hi!
It's up! Challenge #61 at Scrap Your Crap, that is! This month's challenge is all about mixing the old with the new. We all have paper and product that we've been hoarding, don't we? Well the challenge is to use 50% of your oldest stash and 50% of your newest products!
Here's my layout. The title means "On the Christmas Market Trail". I used:
- new for me (not always the latest collections, but my latest purchases): papers (MME Lost & Found Christmas); felt gingerbread man (Favorite Findings); poinsettia (The Girls Paperie); Christmas brad (BoBunny); glitter cut border (Fancy Pants)
- old: gold bling (Forever in Time); alphas (Jenni Bowlin, American Crafts, Forever in Time)
- oldest (2005!): Christmas postage stamp stickers (Pebbles Inc.); Christmas ornament sticker (for the letter "o") (Jolee's)
So come on! Let's see yours! Don't forget to share it here so we can have a look and leave you some love!
Happy scrapping!
Martine
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Hi!
Challenge #60 is up at Scrap Your Crap and it's all about buttons! I'm sure pretty much everybody has a whole bunch of buttons in their stash... This is your chance to use some up!
Here's my layout. It's a companion page to one I did earlier about the biplane ride we took over Seattle in the summer of 2010. It was so much fun! The original layout was based on a sketch by Cherie Averill from Sassy Lil' Sketches. I threaded buttons and "glue dotted" them to the ends of ribbons of different lengths to create sort of a banner. I love the little touch that it adds.
Please go visit the blog to see all the different ways to use buttons that the rest of the team came up with! They're fabulous! I hope you'll join us too! You know you've got buttons just sitting there waiting to be used!
Happy scrapping!
Martine
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It's here! Scrap Your Crap's first new reveal and challenge of 2011! The challenge this month is to use at least three colors of mists. If you don't have mists, you can use paints.
Here's my layout. It's for the cover page of my Maine album from our trip this summer. Instead of misting, I painted with the mists. I stamped the lighthouse image with StazOn on white cardstock then painted it using some Adirondack Color Wash, Shimmerz Spritz, Glimmer Glaze and several Glimmer Mists. I machine stitched on a layout for the first time on this page! (This LO has been done for a while, so I did it before the one in the previous post.) I also used up some old stash on this one (title alphas, woodgrain paper), which always feels good! The strips were paper scraps, and the burlap is cut from a jute bag I got at the dollar store!
Make sure to visit the blog to see all the wonderful inspiration provided by the rest of the team!
Happy scrapping!
Martine
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Just another quick note to invite you to go meet half of the Scrap Your Crap team (including me) over on the blog today! The other half of the team will be introduced on November 1st. There's a lot of talent over there!!
Oh, and by the way, did you know that we're called "Queens of Crap"? Ha! So perfect for me with my overflowing scrap room! lol!
Thanks for stopping by!
Martine
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