Scrap Our Stash September Challenge

Now that I'm back I'm excited to take on some new challenges but first I thought I'd go back to a challenge blog that I always enjoyed and undertake the Scrap Our Stash challenge for the month.

This month the challenge is to use a grid layout and transparency.  Lucky for me my last trip to JoAnn's yielded some transparent papers on sale!  I used the black dots one and in all honesty, while this is my first time using them, I'm in love.

I kept the grid them with the squares and the background I made.  I'm really proud that my squares I cut actually turned out to be square (I'm not always the best at lining my papers up on the cutter)!

I had a little bit of trouble getting my camera to "see" the lettering, but I promise, it's there!

Play along with me at the Scrap Our Stash Challenge blog!

Identifiable Elements: 

• Background paper- The Color of Memories by American Crafts
• Transparent polka dots by- "Raven Dots" by Bazzill Basics Paper
• Black flowers- Jolee's Boutique
• Black embossed swirls- Jolee's Boutique
• Gray embossed cardstock- Two Scoops collection by Bazzill Basics Paper
• Tan cardstock- Neutrals cardstock stack by DCWV

Girl's Not Grey

It's been quite some time since I've tried a stamping or scrapbooking challenge so I took a swing at this month's 123 Challenge.  The challenge was to use the color grey, the word great, and the grunge style.  Once again, taking the picture of the page was proving to be one of the biggest challenge of the whole ordeal, but these will do.  I scrapped a photo I found of my cousin from years ago and thought it would work well with the challenge.  I also wanted to get it out of where it was being stored because the photo itself was getting slightly damaged.

I used a grey paper and distressed it and stamped on it to try and grunge it up.  I used ink to distress the other elements as well and make the the numbers for the year because for some reason gray is about the ONLY color I DON'T have.  I really like the way it looks!

Happy Holidays

I'm still making my way through Paper Pumpkin boxes and so, once again, I decided to pull some pieces from one and make a new card only this time I decided to go with a winter holiday card.  I also took the opportunity to play with glitter again because I love it so much.  I like the way it turned out and surprisingly, all but tow of these pieces were pulled from the same kit in the making of the card.

THANKS for the Pieces

Recently I have been working on cleaning up my craft room which currently includes going through many of the Paper Pumpkin kits I have piled up that I don't want to do the actual projects for but want to keep the elements from.  I found one that has a ton of these big felt letters that spell "Thanks".  However, I didn't really care for the project that it came with so I decided to try and re-design a simple way I could use the letters on a card that would actually have a chance at being sent someday.  With a some punched scrap paper and a couple of brads strategically placed, this was what I came up with.  Once again, its a super simple card, but I think it suits the bold, over-powering letters nicely.