#53 - We have a winner

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Now this is the feeling we have each month when we pour over all submissions from you gals...the projects you share with us are always truly inspiring and what's more, you are all indeed using up your crap!!!

Our winner for May and officially crowned QUEEN of the CRAP is

Annalisa

It is truly inspiring how Annalisa used all the letters to create such a touchy-feel background. Wonderful work with the sewing as well and how can resist that kissable-chubby little hand....*drool*

Congratulations, girl!!! Please E-mail us! to claim your prize, generously sponsored by Some Odd Girl.

Thank you all again for playing along - we hope to see you all again in June, for another fun challenge

Challenge #53: A to Z

We are all guilty of having 2362569852 packages of thickers, stickers, mini alphas, rub on's, etc. So our challenge this month to you is use up some of those letter stickers/thickers from A-Z on your project, card, altered art, canvas, anything you chose.

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Be sure and comment with a link to your *newly created* project so we can see and comment on them. From all entries linked no later than 20th May 2010, 16:00hrs EST we will choose one overall winner, who will be crowned our Queen of the Crap no later than 25th May 2010.

Please welcome SOME ODD GIRL as our May Sponsor. Not only will our Queen of the Crap be able to choose 5 (yup, that is F-I-V-E) free digi stamps, but all our blog readers can shop for some super fun digi stamps and receive a whoppin' 30% off any order during the month of May by using the SYC30 code at checkout.

*** If you link us to an online gallery, make sure that you only use one for which we do not need to register in order to view/comment ***

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Greta:

This layout was made using the Seaside Cottage Kit from Noel Mignon.com"

Kim:

I have sooooo many alpha stickers, that I could quite possibly write a short novel just using them all up....

Don't you find though that there are always some letters left over, which you find hard to use? I had quite a few alpha stickers left on a small My Minds Eye sticker sheet, so I used them all on this layout which shows me on my first day of school.

Angela:

A short novel! Kim, that is too funny!!

I had fun using my alphas to create this layout documenting the challenge of cutting my three-year-old's hair. Beware when buying alphas at the dollar store - the letters in my journalling only went to "T" and so I had to create my "V" by cutting up a "K". Watch for letters that you can re purpose when your most-used letters start to run out - the other day I took a 9 and used it as a lower case g and I don't think anyone will notice!

Michelle:

For some reasons this didn't come to me until the last minute. I was struggling with the photo. I didn't have one. So I took the camera outside and took some self portraits and played around with the filters for a bit. Used my assorted chipboard and rub-ons and finally completed it. I hope you have a great time with this challenge, I know I did.

Illy:

I have a package of pink alphabet stickers that I find difficult to use on a project, I don't know, maybe the letters are too much "old style" for me... So I decided to use them to create a background on a kraft cardstock and I love the result!

In this card, near the pink butterfly, I glued a feather that I found in my bedroom: my little cat likes to pull the feathers out of the duvet with her teeth so I think she was guilty of that!

Sarah:

I had so much fun creating this layout and using up the last of a sheet of alphas that I was never going to be able to finish otherwise! First I used a scrap piece of yellow embossed Doodlebug cardstock, then I started to randomly choose letters from the letter sheet and place them (overlapping style) onto the piece of card. Then when I had enough, I used my Cuttlebug die to punch out a stamp shape. I raised the alpha-squares with 3D foam dots to help them stand out a little against the other stamps.

This layout is all about my top ten songs that remind me of something significant from my life - it's for my BOM.

Tara: 

I feel like I really accomplished something with this layout. I used up quite a bit of old stash and tried a new technique that I've been wanting to do for awhile now.

Before I even decided on my photo or paper or embellishments, I took a piece of white cardstock, a piece of black cardstock and covered them with white and black foam thickers. This font was one of my favorites when it first came out, and although so many letters were used that I couldn't spell out a whole title with them anymore, I couldn't bear to throw them away. Once they were pieced together, I sprayed the whole background with Before Dawn Shimmerz and then Jenni B Blu here and there on the white. If I'd planned a little better, I probably would have only used the letters where they would show, but as it is, most of the letters are hidden. At least I used up 3 partial packages of letters which were just taking up space :)

I was even able to use up some wee bits I'd saved from a kit from a few years ago.

More detailed photos are up on my blog.

Kristin:

My friend always makes fun of me because I usually design the page and then go find the picture to go with it ...so these challenges are always good for me because I had the idea for the tree first to use up some sticker letters ( I picked about three different types of fonts) and then just started sticking them on there to form a tree and then added the little flowers ...thanks for looking!!!!

Leslie:

Most of my friends live at a great distance, so I've decided that I need to send more mail. I love the idea of bringing back the art of the letter (or card) so I picked a girlfriend, and made this card, just for her. I love thicker letters, don't you?

Brianna:

This was a "think" challenge for me,as i am not one to wish to use my stickers at all anymore, especially in large amounts,so i did an alphabet grid,and stitched between the letter stickers,showcasing the first time my daughter wrote her name!

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We are delighted to present two wonderful Guest Designers for this month to SYC - please welcome Vieve and Carly who have embraced this months' challenge. Get ready for some more eye-candy, right here - right now!

Vieve

This is the cover page for Genevieve's wedding album and we love how she combined the black and white letters to create such funky dimension. Don't know about you but this makes us want to see the rest of the album too!

Carly

How absolutely adoring is this layout? We love the little touches with the different coloured words and how Carly used the number 3 instead of the letter E. Fab!

#52 - We have a winner

Ladies, you floored us once again with your amazing submission for this months challenge to FLOSS like there is no tomorrow:)

We have been wowed by the ingenious methods you showcase on how to use embroidery floss (or twine) in totally different ways...it was totally inspirational and we appreciate every single one of your entries.

It was a tough decision this month to find a clear cut winner as it was neck-on-neck pretty much throughout the voting process, which is purely down to your amazing projects.
However, in the end this lady rushed ahead and pipped everyone to the post. Congratulations to:

Erica Warlow

We loved how Erica used the star shape first like a stencil and "bounced" the paint spritzers off the edge of the star. Then to highlight this by outlining the star with the floss was the perfect way to guide the eyes back to the focal point of the layout. Plain and simple OOEY GOOEY FUN:)

Erica, we are delighted to call you our Queen of the Crap April 2010. Please E-mail us! to claim your prize, generously sponsored by ScrapItalia.

Everyone else who entered challenge #52 - thank you SO much for playing and give yourselves a big pat on the back for having provided us with some of the best entries in a long time. We hope you will all join us on 1st May 2010 for the next challenge, with an Odd prize up for our next winner.

Challenge #52: Floss it up

Embroidery floss is becoming more and more popular and features in the majority of Scrapbook Kits these days. We are sure that most of you have a skein of embroidery floss stashed away somewhere...so, go find it and include it in a prominent way on your project. The more the better. If by some small, itsy bitsy teeny tiny chance or miracle you do not have floss in your stash of crap have no fear as for next month's challenge we feel confident we can accommodate you :)

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Be sure and comment with a link to your *newly created* project so we can see and comment on them. From all entries linked no later than 20th April 2010, 16:00hrs EST we will choose one overall winner, who will be crowned our Queen of the Crap no later than 25th April 2010.

We are also proud to present you with another Sponsor for the April Winner. Scrapitalia, have kindly put together this fun kit - we are so loving the green and pink color combo...yum!

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Greta:

I have lots of floss but unfortunately it looks like a volcano erupted in my room and all i could find was this one. {deep sigh} I guess it's time to clean.
Kit used was Seaside Cottage from Noel Mignon.com

Kim:

I am totally hooked on embroidery floss and I can honestly say that even if I continue to use it on every layout or card - if will not run out until 2025. Yep, *stands-up-and-raises-hands*: "my name is Kim, and I am a floss-a-holic".

Angela:

I used to cross-stitch, so I have lots of floss. While I like to stitch on layouts, for this one I used the floss to wrap around my chipboard shapes - the flowers at the bottom with just a little floss as an accent, while the heart is completely covered! Next time I will paint the chipboard first so any gaps in the floss don't show as much.

Michelle:

Its sad to say, that I had one piece of floss to work with. Can you imagine the shock and disbelief I had when I realized that? 4 million miles of ribbon and 1 string of floss. Well, can't say how long it was in that box but I used it. I tied off all my buttons with it and criss crossed some details. Did I mention that I didn't have a needle? What kind of a scrapper have I become...LOL

Sarah:

I have a many containers of floss as I used to cross-stitch and quilt - a lot! It surprised me though that I've never used it that much in my scrap booking, oh sure I sew with my machine all the time, but by hand? - pfft, I'll always find an easier way! I used thread on this layout by hanging the little letter flags at the top. I concealed some double sided tape underneath to keep them in one place. I also did some cross-stitching around the layout to continue the floss theme. Who said can only floss your teeth? Go on and floss your layout too!

Leslie:

I have this art hanging on the wall of my kitchen that is a collection of collages that are themed cooking/holly homemaker. Every once in a while, I make an 8 x 6 piece that fits in that theme and it gets hung up on a vintage wooden hanger. This time I chose an image advertising Vins Cafe, and used my floss to embroider a vine to complement the image. Please visit my blog here to see the rest!!





Tara:

This challenge kinda backfired on me. I decided what I wanted to do, got half-way through my stitching and ran out of the colour of floss I was using. Which meant I had to go buy more. And it was on sale. So instead of using up my crap, I actually came home with 8 more skeins of floss. Because it was cheap and I couldn't just leave it there. Hmmm.
Anywho ... this is a photo of my dad when he was small. I always think he looked like Spanky from the Little Rascals with his wee hat turns sideways and his short pants. I tried a few different ways to add journaling but thought it looked cluttered. I'll probably just write about it on the back if I can't figure out a way to add it to the layout that I like.

To come up with my background, I used a scrap piece of 12x12 and free-hand drew the design of vines and leaves. I used repositionable adhesive to attach it to my cardstock and punched holes along the design. I love how the ecru floss stands out so much from the dark background.

I used the February kit from Up The Street Kits.

Visit my blog for detail shots.

Illy:

I used to cross-stitching last year so I have a lot of floss in many colors. For this art-journal page I chose pink and white floss, I hand-stitched the edges of the pages and I added a third page sewn at the edge of the right page.
My art journal page has a lot of layers: acrylic paint, inks, collage, watercolors, glimmer mist, wax pastels, etc... The image is a photocopy from an old 1960 italian magazine, "Annabella".
Visit my blog for more photos and details.

Kristin:

Loved diggin through my floss and picking out fun colors to play with and using them on my pages. I just penciled the letters on my page and while watching t.v. i stitched the letters over the pencil markings. Thanks for looking!

Brianna:

This was an easy challenege for me since i use hand sititching with my floss in most all of my layouts,so i took extra time for the v stitch and florish!I cant wait to see what others come up with!

We are also pleased as punch to present you with a layout from Guest Designer Jill Oriente this month. Isn't this layout just darling? We love how cleverly Jill used her floss to create the flowers - gorgeous!

#51 - We have a winner

Thank you all so much for playing along to our challenge this month - you ladies have totally ROCKED and scrapped your crap like there was no tomorrow. There were so many awesome entries but as always there can only be one winner...and this month our Queen of the crap is:

{Lesley Langdon}

We loved how effortless Lesley managed to combine the requirements of using 20 (+) letters for her title and an additional 10 embellishments. The layout is so beautifully designed and the picture is super cute. I think that Lesley may have also started a new trend - a "scratch'n'sniff" layout....
Say what?!?? Check out {this} post on her blog to get the skinny on the sniff :)

Anyhoo, Lesley please email us with your address details so we can get your prize pack - sponsored by {Up The Street} - on its merry way to you.

Thank you again to everyone who played along this month - we hope you will join us again in April, for another fun challenge.

Brief Interuption

Sorry for this interuption but I have been getting swamped with emails regarding Noel's Kits. Anyone interested in taking a look you can find her here. And you're in luck because she just put the April kit (Sonoma County) up for Pre-Order.
Below is a pic of the newest kit. I get these kits and I can tell you they are packed to the gills with loads of stuff.
So you will see lots of my layouts done with these kits.

 

I figured I would share with everyone since I have been getting 2 bazillions emails regarding them :)

Back to our regularly scheduled challenge. See post below.

Challenge #51: 20/10

Welcome the new decade. Now that we are well underway in a new year we want to celebrate the year 2010. Use up your alpha's to create a title with a minimum of 20 letters and add a further 10 embellishments of any sort to your project. Or instead of the title, include journaling of at least 20 words and 10 embellies of any sort. Be creative and choose your own 20/10 combination (20 different papers, 10 different colors...etc etc)

Be sure and comment with a link to your *newly created* project so we can see and comment on them. From all entries linked no later than 20th March 2010, 16:00hrs EST we will choose one overall winner, who will be crowned our Queen of the Crap no later than 25th March 2010.

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One of our very own DT members Tara has so generously offered up a fabulous kit from her store Up the Street Scrapbooking. You can see more pics on the blog.

We will be periodically having prizes up for grabs to those who scrap their crap as a reward for all your hard work :)

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Kim:

I am working on a mini book at the moment, which includes concert tickets/passes and pictures of gigs I have been at. While I still remember the fun times I thought it best to get them down on paper :)

For this layout, I used 10 different papers and created 20 punched cardstock circles as my embellishments.

It wasn't even as difficult as I thought to use so many papers. Go on and have a try yourself.
By the way: the picture shows me and Leatherwolf bassist Paul, after their 1989 gig in Hamburg/Germany

Illy:

I have tons of scraps of patterned paper on my desk, this is the occasion to finally use them! I used 20 different patterned papers cut in stripes, and 10 text lines for my journaling (including the title).
I altered my photo with warm water, sand paper and oil pastels. For the title I outlined chipboard letters with a fine marker.

Leslie:


I have been wanting to scrap these photos for a long time (2005, yikes!) My husband and I spend a lot of time refurbishing our old apartment, so the title was not hard to come by! My full title is 20 letters/numbers, and I used 10 paper embellishments and 10 pieces of paper to frame my photos.



Angela:

I thought this challenge would be harder than it was! My title is twenty letters/numbers and because the theme was "10 Things About You," I bulleted each thing with a button or brad, using ten embellishments! I have three kids so I ended up making a similar page for each of them, which you can view, along with a materials list, on my blog.

Tara:

I've had these photos since last spring and couldn't seem to do anything with them. Yes ... that's a frog eating a mouse. I challenged myself to use exactly 20 letters for my title. And for my 10 embellishments, I've used Prima Pearls & Crystals here and there. I've used Up The Street's February kit and you can see more photos of my layout on my blog.

Kristin:

I am addicted to flowers but with two boys I do not get to use them as much as I would like too ...so I decided to use them as part of my background and then I saw in Scrapbook Trends this cool page that this gal did with stacking their photos ...sometimes I wish there were 10 of me to get things done around this house ...lol


Michelle:

Girls, do I have ribbons. This challenge was just begging to use snippets of the stash I have. So with this challenge I used 20 of them and in a row. I wanted to keep all of the color onto one side and I still had to put 10 somethings on it before I finished, without it looking too ridiculous. BUTTONS, glorious little plastic buttons. I had to refrain from using more than 10 though and restraint is a word I don't like to use much,

but what scrapper does. LOL

Brianna:

I was so excited for this challenge,i have seen the use of jumbled letters in a title before and had to put my spin on it!i am a BIG fan of handstitching on my layouts,so i stitched 20 letters for my title,and for my star border i used,yep you guessed it,10 of them!Yay for 2010!


Sarah

I doodled 20 lines in black pen, created two lines of bling – one has 20 dots the other has 10, there are 20 words in my journaling, I sewed on 10 buttons and added 10 pearls to the ribbon along the bottom. I also inked the edges of the pp along the bottom, the arrows are stamped and the little bird is chipboard. There are more close-ups on my my blog.

Don't forget to link us your work for a chance at the new kit from Up the Street Scrapbooking.