Scrap Your CRAP

Challenge #61: Something Old - Something New

2012-01-15T08:00:00.009-06:00

Welcome to 2012 - here's to another year of challenges and fun!

We enjoyed looking at your entries for the last challenge and have been inspired by different ways on how to make use of those buttons!

For Challenge No #61 we would like to see you use something OLD and something NEW.

We tend to buy the latest and greatest stuff that is available to adorn our projects but what about the older stash we still have sitting gathering dust?

This month we challenge you to create a project which uses 50% of the oldest stash you have in your possession and 50% of the newest stuff you bought.

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Be sure and comment with a link to your *newly created* project so we can see and comment on them.

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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

Please also consider to switch of word verification on your blogs if you would like our DT to leave comment. If you are worried about Spam you may want to have commen moderation enabled instead

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And here are our DT examples to give you an idea on how to combine the old with the new

Dana

Something old: Basic Grey papers, Magic Mesh, Fibers

Something new: 7 Dots Studio paper

Martine

Something old: papers (MME Lost & FoundChristmas); felt gingerbread man (Favorite Findings); poinsettia (The GirlsPaperie); Christmas brad (BoBunny); glitter cut border (Fancy Pants)

Something new: 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)

Jenifer

Designer Notes: "I found Pink Pailee's NEW Snow DayCollection ephemera a while back in my LSS, but they never purchased the paperto go along with the collection, so I was able to find older papers in my stashto mimic the collection and match the ephemera."

Norine

Something Old: Studio Calico tags,fabric strip, cloud rub on, mists.

Something VERY old:Heidi Swapp alphabet masks, #sticker, SEI epoxy bubbles, "Cute kid"fabric tag and the photos too - 2005!

Something New: Pink PaisleeNantucket die cuts, background paper.

Nat
Something Old:: Crate Paper (Emma's Shoppe)
Something New: Crate Paper (Random)

Nitasha

Something Old: Create My Keepsake Kit -Jan or Feb 2008 kit:Patterned Paper: Doodlebug Design Inc. (Polka-Dot), Fancy Pants (Penguin);Embellishments: Heart Pin and Felt Heart Paperclip.

Something New: Scrapbook Circle Kit- Jan 2012: PatternedPaper: Fancy Pants (heart cu out; Embellishments: My Mind's Eye (felt borderand ticket), Doily, Heart Shaped Paperclip; Stickers: Glitz

Kate

"I used a combination of new Authentique papers andembellishments with older Making Memories and K&Company embellishments,Crate Paper (Portrait Collection) and older American Crafts and Sassafrasalphabet stickers."

Regina:

Something Old: DCWV Alphabet Stack,

Something New: Echo Park Victoria Garden,Webster's PagesWestern Romance Line Dance. La Blanche Stamp Item 1225, The Girls Paperie VintageWhimsy, template by Crafter's Workshop.

Caryn
Something Old: Bo Bunny
Something New: Bo Bunny

Renee

Renee created a card and a layout this month to share with us

DT Call 2012 - March - June

2012-01-01T11:49:00.000-06:00

Another DT Call - Is it that time already????

Our current DT are still rocking the crap until the end of February but as you all know, we like to keep things cool and stress free. So we give you loads of time to get your application in if you fancy becoming part of our fabulous Design Team.

Are you a hoarder? Do you surround yourself with pretty papers, chipboard, embellishments and continue to add to your stash rather than use it?

Well then you are the prefect crafter to become part of our DT.

Scrap You Crap is looking for four to six team members and ideally we would love to have a good mixture of cardmakers and scrapbookers.

**What do we ask of our Designers?

Just one project per month – due on the 7th as our challenges will go live on the 15th.

Register for our DT forum, where we will be throwing ideas around for future challenges and communicate with each other. We do not ask for gazillions of posts, just a bi-monthly check in

Promote SYC wherever possible, for example on your personal blog, online communities.

Commit to a four month term with the possibility of extending this for another term.

Leave comments on all challenge entries <- this is super important and will be monitored

**What do our Designers get in return?

The gratification of having used up all that stash which gathered dust. As the concept of the blog is to make use of the stash you already own, it would be kind of defeating the object to compensate with product, right? And also, this gives you the perfect excuse to go and buy more stash...seeing that you used the old one up for our challenges :)

Designers will have a permanent link to their blog (or homepage) on our site.

If you want to become part of this well-established challenge blog, send an email to: sycchallenges@gmail.com and don’t forget to put SYC DT Call in the subject line.

We would like you to submit three projects (layouts or cards) which you feel represent your style the best but they don’t have to be newly created. You can email us images of stuff you have already done before no need to recreate and keep it a secret. Please DO NOT embed images within your email we require them as attachments only. Please make sure that our pictures are not blurry and of a maximum size of 700 x 700 pixels.

Don’t forget to include a link to your personal blog (if you have one) as we are nosy like that and fancy checking you out...

Internationals are more than welcome and the deadline for this call is February 10th 2012. If accepted, your term runs from March 2012 through to June 2012. No prior DT experience is required.

We will contact the successful applicants no later than February 15th 2012.

If you have any questions, please shoot us an email to: sycchallenges@gmail.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible. We look forward to hear from you all!

Merry Christmas

2011-12-24T23:50:00.000-06:00

Wishing you and your families a most wonderful Christmas

Challenge #60: Button up, buddies

2011-12-15T08:00:00.020-06:00

Welcome back to our challenge for December.

Thank you so much for playing along with us last month - it was great to see so many wonderful entries and that you are all still happy to scrap your crap along with us :)

Buttons have become a permanent staple in the crafter's stash box and if you are anything like me, you have more BUTTONS than you will ever be able to use up in a lifetime.

This month use a handful (or more) buttons on your project. Think outside the box, maybe use them as a picture frame, create a shape outlined with buttons, or create a title.

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Be sure and comment with a link to your *newly created* project so we can see and comment on them.
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Martine

Renee

Norine

Natt

Jenifer

Regina

Nitasha

Caryn

Kate

Challenge #59: Mist away

2011-11-15T08:00:00.020-06:00

Welcome to our very first challenge for 2011.

We are so excited to start to start the blog again and hopefully inspire you all to Scrap Your Crap!

For this month we thought we would ease you back into the swing of things and make use of an element that has been seen on almost everybody's projects this year: MIST or SPRAY PAINT

Many of us crafters have built up an array of mists but I bet we only use a fraction of the colours we have.

So, we want to see you make use of at least THREE different mists/colour sprays.

If you don't have mists/sprays use paint instead.

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Be sure and comment with a link to your *newly created* project so we can see and comment on them.
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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

Please also consider to switch of word verification on your blogs if you would like our DT to leave comments. If you are worried about Spam you may want to have commen moderation enabled instead

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And here are our DT examples to give you an idea on how to make use of those mists

Dana
"I used six colours of mist on this layout, all from the Spring 2011 Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist collection. I sprayed my mist down an empty toilet paper roll to make the circles"

Jenifer

Nitasha
"I used: 5 Studio Calico Mister Hueys, 2 Glimmer Mists, and 2 Shimmerz to create the cover of my Gratitude Journal. I used the mists on different textures such as just spraying randomly on the chipboard cover itself, the heart is made of Tim Holtz grungeboard, I covered the Maya Road chipboard girl with dictionary paper, and the flower is a Pink Paislee mistable."

Renee
Credits: Kids @ Play Kit by Shelby Design Shoppe (Papers/corner scroll)
Wordart by Bethany
Live and Learn Kit Schmooangel Designs (Blue Paint)
Play Kit by De Crow Designs (Paint A- Black)
Derby Kit by Chelle's Creations (Red Paint Splatter)
Christy Haig Creations Template 8 Pack
Font: Raavi
Created in Photoshop Elements 7.0

Martine

“Instead of spraying, I decided to paint with the mists.

I stamped the lighthouse with StazOn on white cardstock then painted it using these: 1 Adirondack Color Wash, 1 Shimmerz Spritz, 1 Glimmer Glaze, and 6 Glimmer Mists.”

Caryn
"for my layout, I used four different paints"

Kate

Regina
"I used the feminine line of Echo Park Victoria Gardens. To conform to the challenge, I used Memories Mists in Mango Lemonade, MR Maya Mists in Charcoal and Tattered Angels in Pineapple. I likewise used Tattered Angel's Glammer Glaze in Mellow Yellow for some shine. I painted the Dusty Attic with Dabber Paint in Pearl."

Norine
"Here's mine: I used 3 shades of Mr Huey and 2 of Maya Road, - sprayed the title box and removed the letter stickers and then splatted (my new fave technique!) some color spots elsewhere."

Natt
"Who doesn't love using spray mist right ? I use it really simple - spray for background."

Meet the DT - Part II

2011-11-01T08:00:00.044-05:00

We hope you enjoyed last weeks introduction and the wee insight into the worlds of our resident Queens of Crap.

So how about some more - are you ready? Well, here we go!

Natt

http://tinynatt.blogspot.com

”I'm originally from Bangkok, Thailand and have been relocated here in beautiful Colorado for almost 3 years.

I've been traveling a lot before I settled here so I have over 5000 photos in my hard drive that just sitting in there until I went to a party at my friend's house and she introduced me to scrapbooking world a year ago it's like love at first sight.The only thing I regret is I should 've found this hobby earlier When I was a little girl I had a dream to become a gift wrapping artist. I knew that I always have a small place in my heart filled with pretty papers.My scrapbook style are chic and simple.I try to use up my scrap papers as much as possible.”

Nitasha

www.myeyesandheart.blogspot.com

”I am a full-time social service worker, but that does not stop me from daydreaming about paper, glue, embellishments, and glitter all day! I am constantly writing down ideas and conversations that "need" to be documented! Scrapbooking is the perfect outlet for me to express all the random daily thoughts that I want to remember as well as the milestone events for my family.

When I am not working or crafting I can be found spending quality time with my husband and our two sons at the movies, park, or sporting events or curled up with my sweet bulldog, Bella, watching TLC, HGTV, or some cheesy Chiller movie. I love looking at things through a creative lens because I think everything is better with a little embellishment.”

Norine
www.thevelvetlemon.blogspot.com

”Hello, my name is Norine. I'm a not-quite-50 yr old, mother of 4+ a daughter-in-law, married to Paul for 30 years, misplaced Canadian living in Arizona. I've been "scrapping" since my teens, but made it my official hobby in 2003. Before that it was cross stitch, folk art painting, pretty much anything "crafty".

All my life I have loved photos. Even ones of people I don't know. And I've loved the stories that each photo tells. But eventually the story-tellers are gone and (if we’re lucky) the photo albums remain and while it's fun to imagine the story behind each picture, it's much more satisfying to know the real story. That is what motivates me to put pictures and pen to paper. Well, that and the patterned paper. Oh, and the mists and rub-ons and ribbon and chipboard.

Four kids, one endlessly supportive husband and many varied interests (cooking, reading, snowboarding, travel, photography, cottaging) provide me with more photos than I will ever get scrap booked, but in the meantime, I'm having a great time messing around with fun and artistic techniques and products. And when I need to sound more credible, I refer to myself as the "Guardian of my Family's History". I'm thrilled to be part of the Scrap your Crap DT and look forward to alleviating some of my "hoarding guilt" by contributing here!”

Regina
http://reginastakeonart.blogspot.com/

“I am Regina "Reggie" Castillo from the Philippines. I am a wife to my ever supportive and appreciative husband of 10 years and a mom to my lovely 9 year old daughter and adorable 2 year old son. I am a lawyer by profession but I do scrapbooking as a passion. I started with scrapbooking in 2007 and since then my addiction to this craft, as well as the scrap shopping that goes with it, has not been controlled. Since I started, I have been a bystander in this craft waiting to be inspired by the seasoned scrappers around the world until I finally decided to turn tables and attempt to inspire fellow scrappers. I wish to accomplish this as DT of SYC.”

Renee

http://reneez-mnmommy2.blogspot.com/

“Hello! My name is Renee and I'm a 34 year old mom of two boys, ages 10 and 7. I live in St. Cloud, Minnesota with my husband of 14 years and I work part-time as a Paraprofessional in my boys Elementary School. I love being home in the Summer and on holiday breaks with my boys. It is truly the best after being a SAHM mom for so many years.

I've been Papercrafting for over 10 years, but I've been crafty all my life since I was a small child. About 5 years ago, I started Digital Scrapbooking. I primarily digital scrapbook nowadays, but still love to play with actual paper and embellishments. I love to rubberstamp and am addicted to making ATC cards (Artistic Trading Cards) and greeting cards. I also love making altered crafts and mini albums. I am really excited to be a part of the new team here at SYC and hope I can show off my creativity and inspire you a bit to try something new.

When I'm not crafting, I enjoy volunteering in my boys' Cub Scout Pack and helping out with my boys' school as the Yearbook Adviser.”

There you have it - all the skinny on our brand spanking new DT, who have already been mega busy to bring you our first challenge for this year on 15 November 2011.

See you then!

Meet the DT - Part I

2011-10-25T08:00:00.002-05:00

Are you ready to learn a little bit more about our wonderful new DT ladies, who - come November 15th - will inspire you to use that stash?

We asked our Queens of Crap to tell us a little about themselves and hope you enjoy learning a little more about them as much as we did.

And when you have the time, don't forget to check out their blogs for some fabulous inspiration.

This time in alphabetical order, here are our first five Queens

Caryn

http://thescorpiancrafter.blogspot.com

"I hail from Maryland. I am married to a wonderful husband of 12 years who happens to be the best flag football quarterback that I know (in my own opinion).I have been blessed with 2 of the most fantastic children (Kyle & Kassie). My family are the reason why I scrapbook. They provide me inspirations for many of my scrapbook pages. I am a diehard Redskins fan! You can always catch me behind a camera taking lots & lots of pictures. My scrapbooking style is just me doing what I love!"
Dana

http://datatar.blogspot.com

"My name is Dana Tatar and I am a stay-at-home mom. I have two daughters, Claire (4) and Scarlett (3). I married my high school sweetheart in 2003 and have been happy ever since. I graduated from MSU with a B.S. in Biochemistry and worked in that field for about 3 years before I gave birth to my first daughter and decided to stay home full time. I have had many hobbies over the years, but scrapping is the one that really gives me satisfaction.

I started scrapbooking to preserve memories after the birth of my first daughter. I love to mix products from different collections on my layouts and I frequently find inspiration in music, poetry and pop culture. I love fussy cutting and flowers and both can be seen on the majority of my layouts. I would say that my dominant scrappy styles are clean and simple and pretty chic, but I do like to mix things up a bit, depending on the paper or photos I want to use. When I'm not scrapping, I enjoy cooking and baking, reading, listening to music and spending time outdoors with my family and basset hound."
Jenifer

http://heldscraptive.blogspot.com

"My name is Jenifer Evans known on many scrapbooking sites as "Jennaroo"! I have 5 kiddos and am married to my high school swetheart! We live in a small farming community....and honestly there's not much to do besides scrap and chase my kids from one sporting event to the next! I have been seriously scrapping now for 2 years but started many years ago when my first child was born. I scrapbook to preserve memories for my children and theirs to come but I also scrap as a creative outlet for myself!

My friends and family make fun of me because I see things differently than they do, I get inspired by surroundings and often wonder how I can scrap them or incorporate them into my crafting somehow, whether it be something that would make a great title or something that could be altered or sqeezed onto a layout. I would say I have more than one style of scrapping because I don't want to limit my creativitey. My dominant style is shabby/pretty chic, but I've been known to produce grungy as well as clean and simple layouts once in a while. I pretty much go where the pictures and paper take me! "

Kate

http://www.scrapsation.com/

"I am a wife and mother of 3 small children, ages 7, 3 and 19 months. I live in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. I have scrapbooked seriously for about 4 years now, but I have been interested in arts and crafts my entire life. My style is kind of eclectic and a bit cluttered. I’m not a big fan of using a lot of white space, as I’m sure that you can tell. If I see and empty space, I feel compelled to fill it! Fast! My favourite manufacturers are Crate Paper (my #1 fav), Echo Park, Glitz, GCD, Authentique, Little Yellow Bicycle, October Afternoon, Cosmo Cricket and Sassafras. I have a real love for retro and funky paper lines.

My real job is freelance Web project management, design and development. In fact, I designed, developed and wrote all the content for my own Blog. I have my own small business – Vickers Media, and I work part-time as a Web Project Manager at a marketing company in Mississauga – Spyder Works Inc. My specialty is open source content management systems like Joomla and WordPress."
Martine

www.scrapcatslove.blogspot.com.

"I'm from Quebec in Canada. I share my life with my boyfriend, my three cats and more scrappy supplies than I'll ever be able to use! I'm particularly addicted to paper, clear stamps and flowers (okay… and glimmer mists, and bling, and chipboard, and … you get the picture! lol!) I love to travel, and scrapbooking fits right into that passion for me. I scrap mostly my trips, and while I'm working on a layout, I'm immersed back into the place I'm scrapping. I forget everything else other than trying to find the perfect papers and embellies to match my photos! It's my escape!

I'm so excited to be on this team! I hope you'll join us! "

Check back next Tuesday to learn more about our other five DT Members

Announcing....

2011-10-20T08:00:00.002-05:00

We are super excited to introduce our new DT Members to you.

I know that we said we are looking to add between six to eight new members but we just could not stop there.

We had OODLES of talent responding to our call and after many a-tantrums we were able to narrow it down to ten new DT members.

So, without further ado here are the new Queens of Crap 2011/2012 (in no particular order)

Please take some time and check out their awesome blogs, these girls rock the crap like mad :)))

Natt Smith:

http://tinynatt.blogspot.com/

Regina Castillo

http://reginastakeonart.blogspot.com/

Renee Zieglmeier

http://reneez-mnmommy2.blogspot.com/

Caryn Kidwell

http://thescorpiancrafter.blogspot.com/

Martine Labelle

http://www.scrapcatslove.blogspot.com/

Norine Borys

http://www.thevelvetlemon.blogspot.com/

Nitasha Griffin-Johunkin

http://www.myeyesandheart.blogspot.com/

Jenifer Evans

http://heldscraptive.blogspot.com/

Dana Tatar

http://datatar.blogspot.com/

Kate Vickers

http://www.scrapsation.com/

And then there are the two Mothers of Crap - who work behind the scenes to bring you the new challenges

Greta Adams

(SYC Founder)

http://meocracy.blogspot.com/

Kim Sonksen

(Blog Admin and DT Coordinator)

http://kimsonksen.blogspot.com/

Finally we would like to give a very special shout out to all you wonderful ladies out there who put their name in the hat for the team, but who were not successful this time around.
Every single submission was appreciated and you certainly did not make it easy for us.

Thank you so much to all of you for having taken the time and trouble to apply - we are honoured that you wanted to become part of the team and sincerely hope that you give it another try in four months time, when we have another call.

DT Call - update

2011-10-16T05:26:00.000-05:00

Our DT Call is now closed - thank you SO SO much or the many wonderful submissions. It's fantastic to see that you haven't forgotten us during our hiatus and that you are all so excited to see this challenge blog returning.

It will not be too long until we announce our new DT members and I can promise that we will email EVERYONE who applied for the DT position before we announce the team on the blog.

Have a fantastic Sunday everyone!

DT Call 2011

2011-09-13T15:57:00.001-05:00

Scrap You Crap is returning!!!

(Can we get a YEEEEEEEEHAW, purlease??!???)

We have been taking a break since the beginning of the year but now we feel it is time to come back.

That is why we are looking for you, yes YOU over there.

Are you a hoarder? Do you surround yourself with pretty papers, chipboard, embellishments and continue to add to your stash rather than use it?

Well then you are the prefect crafter to become part of our Design Team.

Scrap You Crap is looking for six to eight team members and ideally we would love to have a good mixture of cardmakers and scrapbookers.

**What do we ask of our Designers?

Just one project per month – due on the 1^st as our challenges will go live on the 15^th.

Register for our DT forum, where we will be throwing ideas around for future challenges and communicate with each other. We do not ask for gazillions of posts, just a bi-monthly check in

Promote SYC wherever possible, for example on your personal blog, online communities.

Commit to a four month term with the possibility of extending this for another term.

Leave comments on all challenge entries.

**What do our Designers get in return?

Designers will have a permanent link to their blog (or homepage) on our site.

If you want to become part of this well-established (but naughtily neglected) challenge blog, send an email to: sycchallenges@gmail.com and don’t forget to put SYC DT Call in the subject line.

Don’t forget to include a link to your personal blog (if you have one) as we are nosy like that and fancy checking you out...

Please feel free to check out our blog at: http://scrapyourcrap.blogspot.com but bear in mind that we have not updated anything since the beginning of 2011 and it looks a little bit unloved...we are working behind the scenes to revamp the site. At least it should give you an idea of what we are about.

Internationals are more than welcome and the deadline for this call is October 15^th 2011. If accepted, you term runs from November 2011 through to February 2012. No prior DT experience is required.

If you have any questions, please shoot us an email to: sycchallenges@gmail.com and we will get back to you as soon as possible. We look forward to hear from you all!

happy new year

2011-01-01T21:04:00.000-06:00

with much consideration and thought i have decided that for now i am taking a break from scrapping and SYC. I have been at this for 3 years now and i am tired.

I will not be taking this blog down because who knows i may start back not to mention there is killer inspiration in the archives.

thanks for all your participation through these last months and years.

xo,
greta

Challenge #58: Mix & Match

2010-10-01T01:07:00.004-05:00

Happy Fall Ya'll..Yea I am from deep in the south ;)
I don't know if you know or not but quite a few months ago we were approached by ScrapStreet Ezine about participating in an article. How cool is that? So we did and it is out in this months issue. We chose to use 10 different manufacturers on our layout. So that is the challenge this month. It was harder than one expects but it was very fun.
So pull out your manufacturers and give us what you got.

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Kristin

Here is my page ...I used 10 different papers and then cut out a mask and then started adding white paint, Gesso and chalk mist ...I had alot of fun using scraps on this page ..thanks for looking!!!!

Angela

Isn't Kristin's page SO inspiring? Love those strips!

I wish all the details showed up on this bright pastel layout. I was inspired by a Starbucks magazine ad to create this layout. I used a mix of ten products plus rubber stamps and NO patterned paper! So you can mix up a lot of products and skip paper entirely - how's that for variety?

Sarah:

I had so much fun with this layout - using so many different manufacturers turned out to be a breeze! I got to dig around my stash too for all sorts of bibs and bobs. I worked on a layered effect to get everything to fit. So there's a lot of texture and 3D elements. You can't quite see it, but the page curls at the top are used to hang a silver 3D wire star over the clouds. There are closeups on my blog of this.

The photos are of my (nearly 2 year old) daughter driving a Cozy Coupe and munching down party food at a birthday she was at.

Michelle

So many things were put on tis LO. Things that I had forgotten all about. 10 different manufacturers. Things lost in a drawer. in a basket, Even things tucked away in envelopes. This is one of the most favorite challneges to do. Its basically what you want and where you want to put things. Anything goes. Isn't that what its all about...So what are you waiting for. Just have fun with what you got!!!

Illy:

I had a lot of fun doing this layout, searching for almost ten supplies from different manufactureres. In my layout I used even old Halloween papers that match with the colors of the photo, an old cheap ribbon and other accents that were closed in a box.

This months guest designer is the fabulous Michelle Perkins and here is what she did : Here is what she used:

Die Cuts With a View - Brights Stack
Bazzill - Black and Sunflowers Lite
Zva - Black Bling
Kaiser Kraft - Black and White Flowers
Tim Holts - Frayed Burlap Distress Ink
Provo Craft - Cricut Expression, Songbird Cart, Storybook Cart and Simply Sweet Cart
EK Success - Double Embossed Dotted Lace punch and Open Scallop punch
Basic Grey - Sugar Rush pattern paper
My Minds Eye - It Time Breaking Free pattern paper
Fancy Pants - About a Girl button

Thanks Michelle for playing along with us.

Challenge #57: Christmas with a Twist

2010-09-01T08:00:00.039-05:00

Can you feel it? Christmas is almost around the corner (well sort of...), so this month we are challenging you to grab you Christmas supplies and create a project that is NOT christmassy in any way shape or form. Use the colours green, gold and red and see if you can get a project done that does not evoke the feeling of presents. Maybe you have oodled of Xmas embellies but not quite sure how to use them? Be creative - be totally unique and use them on a summer layout, no?

We want to see how "twisted" your imagination cam run riot when faced with Christmas in September!

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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 September 2010, 16:00hrs EST we will choose one overall winner, who will be crowned our Queen of the Crap no later than 25th September 2010.

*** 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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Kristin

I pulled different Christmas paper that I had in the colors of green, gold and red and then went to my embellishment drawer full of Christmas stuff and thought I would try and find some trees and stars to add to the page and then found this "wish" from 2002 in my stash ...found a place for it on the page to go with my title .Next, I pulled out my Disney pictures ....and this is how this page came about ....thanks for looking!!!

Sarah:

I absolutely love Christmas and love the fact that I'm using Christmas themed paper on a non-christmas layout!! I used a lot of red and green, because thankfully my photo has lots of this colour in it. I used Christmas patterned paper, bold red cardstock for journalling, a blingy star embellie and I tore apart a christmas wreath (removed the word Christmas and the red bow), then separated the leaves and added them as individual embellies behind the flower. I also used Christmas ribbon.
Angela:

I pulled out my last year's Christmas stash for this layout. I love Basic Grey's Eskimo Kisses paper and while there's plenty of green, the aqua and pink tones make it quite versatile. I brought out those pinks & burgundies by using a pink cardstock base for my page, and tinting my letter stickers with raisin alcohol ink. Using Christmas paper is fun because it's put away most of the year - it's like discovering a new stash just waiting to be enjoyed!

Brianna

I was intrigued about using the festive colors on a non-holiday layout.It was a great challenge and so much fun.Sadely past that I just couldnt bring myself to add christmas-y decor to the layout,just a tad bit too much for me...haha,but i love the way the colors worked for this layout!

Illy:

In these days my scrapbooking style is "shabby and simple", I use less 3D embellishments and I use a lot of masking tape and inks. For this layout I choose two Christmas patterned papers and a simple green one.

Challenge # 56 Winner

2010-08-26T08:42:00.003-05:00

After having such a hard time picking we decided we couldn't do it so I took matters into my own hands and put your name in a jar and had my 6 year old pull one out....

drumroll please:

TIFFANY!!!

You will be Queen of the Crap until the next winner is announce.. woot woot!!!

Send me your snail mail address to greta(dot)adams(at)gmail.com
and i will put together a small something something for ya!!

We'll be back on the 1st with a new challenge!

Challenge #56: Measure me up

2010-08-01T08:00:00.071-05:00

How many of you have succumbed to the new(ish) craze that is masking/washi/kawaii/artisan tape yet? You may even have some lying around from when it was just called bookbinding tape, offered by Making Memories and 7Gypsies...

Or you may be clever and just use your low priced, household masking tape and stamp it with your own images, or paint it to suit your project.

We would like to see you stick it all on - go wild with the tape, be inventive: if you don't have any decorative tape around, why not cut up a tape measure and use that? Everything goes and we want to see it.

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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 August 2010, 16:00hrs EST we will choose one overall winner, who will be crowned our Queen of the Crap no later than 25th August 2010.

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Kim:

I am totally hooked on tapes - always have, always will. The humble masking tape appeared first on one of my cards by accident way back in 2004, when I used the tape to actually mask something off :)
Whenever I see some pretty tape, I buy it and I had oodles of fun with four different type of tapes on this layout

Angela:

I love the pretty patterned tapes you can buy - but I don't have any yet! They've been on my wish list, but since Scrap Your Crap is about using what you have, I chose to use hockey tape on this page about my son. Hockey tape is a white, fabric tape that takes ink easily, so I inked it with blue and brown and used it to border the photos at the top and also on the bottom right corner.

Leslie:

Well, that was fortuitous! We are in the middle of moving so all my stuff was packed! No paper, no pictures, nothing. I literally had this one picture sitting out, and luckily I had pre-made this mini album a long time ago. I was able to stick this picture on, dig out my Heidi Swap tape (which I've had forever, but never used) and call it quits!

Sarah:

Oh I can't believe how versatile tape can be!! Firstly I recently bought some florist tape to make some sock roses and would you believe it wouldn't stick! So here I had a roll of $6 and nothing to do with it - bring on our challenge!! I used it as the border here. I simply pleated and sewed it to my layout! I also cut up some actual measuring tape cause the colour looked nice, and I also used some Heidi Swapp tape that has lived in my stash about as long as I've been scrapping and turned it into a flower! I pleated it into a circle and then embellished it up. Tape is so much fun!! By the way, the little critter in my photos is an Australian Brushtail Possum - this little cutie stopped in at work one morning (on pyjama day!) and I got to feed her some apple and banana.

Kristin:
Here is my take on using all these different tapes ...I used some old Heidi Swapp tape that I had and then some new Pink Paislee tape that I just bought ...I just love using this stuff ....on this page I cut my paper 10x10 and then cut little pieces to make a border around my page ...thanks for looking!!!

Illy:

I bought some adhesive measure tape by 7 Gypsies almost two years ago... it's quite intact! This is the perfect occasion to use it, because I bought it for USE IT and not to keep it in a box. The same for the adhesive lace in black and white. I have it since forever! In this layout I used it to add a romantic touch.

Michelle:

I wanted something simple, to the point and I had these measuring tapes around for a long time. Perfect for what I wanted to do. I also love these adhesive circle tapes. Makes my heart smile.

Tara:

Some of my very favorite layout ever have included regular old masking tape,

but this is my first time playing with the beautiful Tim Holtz tissue tapes.

I covered the bottom portion of the envelope with strips of one time and made the pleated floral centre with another.

Created with the June main kit and add-on from Up The Street.

Detail shots on my blog.

Brianna:

I was super excited how this layout came together.I just got this awesome tape by pink Paislee in the mail and was waiting for the right layout to use it on,and a week later(without this prompt in mind),I snapped this picture of My daughter,and it just all came together!
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This month we are joined by two fabulous Guest DT's - we are so proud that we have such awesome scrappers donating their time and talent to share their layouts with us.

First up is the amazing VELVET who couldn't stop at one layout -she is such a fan of using tape on her layouts that she created two projects for this challenge.

Next up is KT who bought the tapes some time ago, waiting for the "right moment" to make use of them :)

Challenge #55: We have a winner

2010-07-25T08:00:00.000-05:00

Thank you to everyone who played along with our DT Swapees; the GUTTER GIRLZ this month. We saw some fantastic entries from you all and were once again vowed by the fabulous creations.

The winner of the personalised invites from our July Sponsor MOMMIES INK and crowned Queen of the Crap July 2010 is:

Amanda Coolidge

WOOT WOOT, Amanda!!!! We loved the different textures and how you carried the theme of five throughout your layout. Outstanding entry!

Please email us to claim your prize.

Don't forget to all check back on 01 August 2010 when we have a somewhat "sticky" challenge for you all *wink wink*

Challenge #55: Brought to you by the number 5

2010-07-06T09:02:00.002-05:00

This month we have very special guests. We did a Design Team swap with the fabulous girls over at Gutter Girlz.

This challenge is all about the number 5...

We are on challenge number 55 so how fun would it be to use increments of 5.

Ex: 5 different pattern papers, 5 buttons, 5 pictures, 5 misc embellishments...you get the drift....if you use it make sure it is in increments of 5... easy peasy right? This will be a great way to finish off those packages of embellishments that you bought and used a few of them and still have a gazillion left...or better yet..do you save your scraps of pp? Pull those out and use them...just make sure you use 5!

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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 July 2010, 16:00hrs EST we will choose one overall winner, who will be crowned our Queen of the Crap no later than 25th July 2010.

This months sponsor is Jen over at Mommies Ink. She has a fabulous etsy shop filled with lots of options for custom invites. The winner will get to choose an invite that she already has designed in her shop or work with her to create a custom one for any event. Is that cool or what? I have worked with her for Mason's birthday invites and I am super pleased with her work. I will be definitly using her for all my invitation needs from here on out! Please be sure to check her out.
Here is an example of some of the things she does:

I'm such a sucker for hot pink and Zebra :)
Anyway on to the inspiration for this challenge:

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Here is what the Gutter Girlz did:

BECKY:

GLENDA:

LARA:

MARGARETHE:

AND HERE IS WHAT SOME OF THE syc GIRLS DID:
Kristin:

I found this great picture of my mom and niece in the bluebonnets from some years ago ..and made me think of how close they are now and how much she loves those girls ...5 different papers, 5 flowers, 5 brads, 5 label stickers, 5 stamped hearts and a title with 5 letters...thanks for looking ...have fun with this challenge!!!

Michelle Jacknicke:

Hello gang!
I used the number 5 in my title as well as 5 letters for the subtitle. I also used used 5 different tags all over the LO. 5 different dymo label items that best represent my grandpa (jadka) in polish. This is his staple, he has to have these things on him at all times. Like a woman and her purse.

This month we also had another two Guest Designers joining us here at SYC , let's see how they embraced this fun challenge:

Melissa Priest:

I really loved
using the '5' challenge.
Lets see, I used 5 pieces of paper, 5buttons, 5 different colors of
thread/twine, 5 alphabet sticker words, and 5 banners with a word that
had a 5 letter word on them!
Thanks for letting me play along!

Stacy Greening:

Thanks so much for allowing me to GDT for July. Here is my LO. I used 5 pics, 5 patterned papers, five word title, five buttons, five clusters of liquid pearls, and 5 journalling strips. This challenge was a lot of fun!!!

#54 - We have a winner

2010-06-25T08:00:00.001-05:00

What a wonderful selection of entries we received this month - we saw a plethora of different techniques, fantastic use of different paints and inks and overall an amazing array of superb projects.

This month, there was one outstanding contributor to this particular challenge and we were just blown away by every single one of her three entries. Dust off the glitter and paints off our hands and give a huge round of applause to our Queen of the Crap June 2010:

Irit Shalom!!!!

Just look at her beautiful creations and make sure that you check out her personal blog (by clicking on her name) - Irit's projects are to die for.

Thank you all for playing along and in particular those of you who submitted more than one entry and HUGE congratulations again to Irit!!!!

Challenge #54: Color me Happy

2010-06-01T08:00:00.085-05:00

This month our very own DT member Illy decided the crap we needed to dig out and use is anything that you can color with.

Watercolors

Crayons
Watercolor crayons
Color pencils
Acrylic paints
Gesso
or any other mediums you can think of

A minimum of 3 colors is the challenge!

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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 June 2010, 16:00hrs EST we will choose one overall winner, who will be crowned our Queen of the Crap no later than 25th June 2010.

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Kim:

I love these pictures from my first ever winter holiday. My Nan, Aunt and Uncle took me skiing at the tender age of four (bless) and my Uncle taught me that whenever I fell, I should be laughing as:

a) snow is soft
b) it is so much cooler to laugh than cry like a baby

Most of the pictures from that holiday show my lying on the floor laughing my head off....so, I guess I fell.A.LOT... tee hee

Having used the wonderful double-sided papers from Norwegian Manufacturer 3ndy, I added for colour: white gesso, walnut ink to define the distressed paper edges and blue cosmic shimmer, which was spritzed all over the background paper.

Michelle:

This whole entire thing was painted on canvass with so many things, I had acrylic on here, some pencil, gesso, some ink. It was very very fun to do and I think I'll adventuring in more things like this. And why not, its just crap that I have in my art box. Bust out the crap ladies!!!

Leslie:

This is one of my favorite photos from a trip to Colorado last year. We found this field with the biggest dandelions I had ever seen. I used three different oil pastels to create a frame around the edges. I love the smeared effect you can get. I had a blast with this challenge, thanks Illy!

Sarah:

I have absolutely loved this challenge - I have only just bought my first set of Copics and couldn't wait to use them! I added some colour to the pink paper flowers you can see, with the buttons in the middle. I feathered the brush tip out from the middle to make the flowers a little more realistic. I also stamped some butterflies in the top left corner and coloured them in with the pens. The photos I used are of my youngest daughter playing on her musical horse outside on a gorgeous Autumn day.

Kristin:

I used a old Heidi Swapp Mask that I found and sprayed my different mist on the right side of the page and then cut it up to also make the flowers on the page and then hand cut a heart out of chipboard and used it also as a mask on the left side of the page ...next I added a little glitter around the edge of the page and to the flowers and added a little journaling around the edge of my page ...had fun playing with all the different color mist!!!!

Angela:

As a professional artist, you would think I would be more comfortable with drawing on a layout, but it's not something I usually do. So I put my doodle cap on and grabbed some markers to make my own patterned paper on kraft card stock. I also reserved the right to cover up the first doodles that didn't go so well - hence the collage effect in the lower left corner!

Tara:

When I learned what this month's challenge was, I decided I would be using Gesso. I didn't know what else I would do, but Gesso for sure. I dribbled big blobs of it onto my background and used a piece of cardboard to swirl it around, leaving some ridges for texture. While the Gesso was still wet, I used a stamp to further texturize the background. Once the Gesso was dry, I spritzed with Shimmerz. I also used Shimmerz on my stamped flower and Glimmer Mist on the Maya Road envelopes. See more detail shots on my blog. This layout uses the June Add-on Kit from Up The Street.

Illy:

For my page I decided to use old watercolors. I painted randomly on a white cardstock, then I "stamped" some circles with white acrylic paint. I built my page using scraps of paper, some journaling tags used as patterned paper (I wrote the journaling on the empty space of the photo) and then I decided to use some of my *newly bought* stuff, because I don't want to stash it anymore, I want to use pretty things in my pages, without the fear of wasting them.

Brianna:

I loved this idea right away,I used my crayons by taking two wax papers,placing strips of crayons I made by sharpening them with a pencil sharpener,and placing the second wax paper atop it,and ironing them down to create this great mosaic looking heart!very fun and easy to do!

Once again, we were joined by a wonderful Guest DT Scrapper who enjoyed getting her elbows deep into the paint/ink pots :)

MELISSA used three different colours of ink for the layout and the chipboard. The colour combination is gorgeous and the use of white space fantastic.

#53 - We have a winner

2010-05-25T13:05:00.002-05:00

WOW

WOW

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

2010-05-01T08:00:00.158-05:00

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.

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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

2010-04-25T08:00:00.002-05:00

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

2010-04-01T08:00:00.082-05:00

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

2010-03-25T08:00:00.007-05:00

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

2010-03-16T13:56:00.001-05:00

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

2010-03-01T08:00:00.037-06:00

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 :)

*** 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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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.

Announcing....

2010-02-15T14:32:00.005-06:00

You have been waiting so patiently and we are really very truly sorry that it took us SO long to make our announcement but here they are, our new SCRAP YOUR CRAP DT gals.
It will be a surprise for them to see their name too as we did not email them beforehand - so let's hope they still all want to be part of this crazeeeee ride :)

Initially we wanted to add five to the team, but we just were not able to narrow it down, so we decided to take eight of you. That's how we roll at SYC, make up some rules and then totally ignore them *tee hee*

Please help us welcome the following ladies to our team (in no particular order):

Tara Van Moorsel (CAN)

Leslie Rehm Hunt (USA)

Ilaria Gianquinto (ITA)

Brianna Marshall (USA)

Kristen Fougeron (USA)

Michelle (CAN)

Angela Fehr (CAN)

Sarah (AUS)

Congratulations to you all - we cannot wait to work with you and hope that you are as excited about scrapping your crap, as we are.

Thank you again to everyone who submitted to our call - we have been so overwhelmed with your entries that we decided to offer a GDT spot to all of you, who have not made the final team and most of you have already responded to my email, accepting the spots. I am pleased to say that it looks that we will have the most wicked GDT throughout this year...WOOHOOO.

If any of you (DT or GDT) have any questions, please E-mail me and I try to get back to you as soon as possible.

Oh and in case anyone is wondering - there will be another DT call in six months time....so get your scissors at the ready :)

DT Call - update

2010-02-13T08:50:00.001-06:00

We know...we know....isn't is AWFUL when the deadline for an announcement has passed and all you see is a big fat N-O-T-H-I-N-G ??

So sorry - Greta and myself have been so busy trying to narrow those awesome submission down (without tearing too much of our hair out), so we are a wee bit behind.

But fear not - the new DT members will be revealed here on the blog shortly...and there may even be more than five (ooooooh, but I ain't sayin' no more otherwise Greta is gonna clip me around the ears)

Thanks so much for your patience - we just wanted to make sure that we have given all your submissions the attention they deserved.

Challenge #50: Hearts and Glitter

2010-02-07T14:15:00.000-06:00

I don't know about you but i have to admit i loathe V-day...yes despicable i know but i do...as a matter of fact i am cringing to have to acknowledge this silly holiday or whatever you call it...but alas...alot of people like so i shall roll with it. :)

Your challenge is Hearts and Glitter....the more the better..run with it...felt hearts, paper hearts, fabric hearts, chipboard, chunky glitter, fine glitter doesn't matter. YOU HAVE TO USE WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE! no buying. after all this is a using up your crap challenge blog :)

my layout is minimal and the reason is.....that's right you read it up top... BLECH!
my anniversary is on new year's eve so i thought it would be ok to use for this. Now that my friends i celebrate. hehehee! After diggin for about an hour i realized i have lots of glitter but not lots of heart stuff (lucky me) so this was the best i could do....

Make sure you post a comment with a link so we can see your stuff...

happy sparkles and glittering :)

Kim
Yeah, I am with Greta on this one - so NOT a fan of V-Day..never have, never will. I dunno, there is something about the commercialisation that totally bugs the heck out of me...and the fact that I refuse to be all lovey dovey on the day when everyone else is too. I much rather have my own special lovey dovey day some other time.

BUT heart and glitter - now THAT I can do....I am chick after all. I have to admit that ever since Glimmer Mist/Cosmic Shimmer has entered my life - I prefer to spritz some Slitter on my projects rather than faffing around with Glitter post and heatgun. The layout is spritzed all over with Glimmer Mist - even on the chipboard heart. But I can also do glitter the "normal" way as shown in the card :)

OH. M. GEE

2010-02-05T11:59:00.000-06:00

DT CALL CLOSED!!!!

Seriously... girls ya'll are off the chain that sent in submissions...
Kim and I have a very very tough decision... I am so glad we gave ourselves a week... i promise we will need every bit of it. i am over the moon with all the talent and inspiration out there.

WOW!! Thank you girls.

Greta and Kim

3 more days

2010-02-02T09:32:00.005-06:00

Girls there is 3 more days left for you to get your submissions in for the DT call.
We have received tons of fabulous stuff already. the talent out there is amazing.

if you are interested you can read all the details here

DT search ends at 11:59 a.m cst on Feb 5th

We're looking for 5 girls

2010-01-19T12:48:00.005-06:00

to join the SYC team.

If you are interested in becoming part of this crazy ride

Email me at greta(dot)adams{at}gmail(dot)com and PUHLEEZE put SYC CALL in the subject line...thanks girls

we are looking for
2 layouts
an altered item
and a card that represents your style. you surely can use stuff you have already done cause i am cool like that... no need to recreate and keep it a secret and all that hoopla :)

There are really no big "rules" other than 1 project a month due on the first.
You will be responsible for uploading your own project to the blog and throwing ideas out for future challenges.

easy Peasy....

Closing for this will be February 5th (that's a friday)
Kim and i will make the selection by Feb 12th and notify everyone so you will be on board with us by March 1.

Can't wait to see some eye candy from ya...

Congrats to

2010-01-15T09:57:00.006-06:00

DRUM ROLL...............

KT....you won the $20.00 gift certificate to noel mignon
just in time for her new release on monday as well...

how cool is that?

please meail me at greta.adams@gmail.com to claim your prize!

Sneak Peeks of the new kit she has appropriately named OBJECT OF MY AFFECTION

Kit is for sale Jan 18th and if you want one be sure to get it fast hers always sells out within the first 48 hours but most of the time within 12 hours.

Be sure to check back in about a week For an announcement ...YIPPEEEEE!!!!!

In honor of the New Year

2009-12-26T05:21:00.001-06:00

a year that is an even number I am offering up a $20.00 gift certiciate to Noel Mignon.

In case you haven't heard she has the best kits around that are jammed packed full of goodies. Her newest kit goes on Sale today so if you want it you better grab it. They sell like crazy. She also has a store for extras and tons of inspiration that can be found on the challenge blog on the Layouts blog and a tips and technique blog.
And as a bonus she has a message board.

As a thank you to everyone who has played along with our shinanigans we appreciate it.

2010 markes our 2nd year at this crazy ride.

We do have a few rules you have to follow though in order to be eligible...not many and they are not complicated...but you must follow them to be eligible for the GC. Here they are:

leave a comment with a link to you blog
and
Blog about Noel's store with a link.

That's it!

Good luck and the drawing will be on Jan 14th so you have plenty of time. :)

Merry Christmas Crap Scrappers

2009-12-24T07:19:00.001-06:00

From us to you....Geaux SAINTS!!

Challenge #49: Decorations

2009-12-01T02:04:00.008-06:00

Sorry i am late..i don't know where the time is going...someone slow the time switch down...okay on to the challenge
...this challenge is all about decorations...and i am not talking about christmas ornaments either. For this challenge I want you to think outside the box, look around your house, and see what you can find to make some kick ass decorations from. the sky's the limit. Here are some of the things i am thinking you can use:

Cereal Boxes, Doilies, pattern paper, old sewing patterns, brown paper bags, craft foam... ect...see where i am going with this... HAVE FUN!

GRETA

i took tissue paper, flowers, doilies and did my thing... junk it up as much as you want...my next bow i am making will go on top of my pink sparkly tree in my office and it will be lime green and zebra...fun right!!

show us what you have!!

Challenge # 48: Halloween

2009-11-01T02:03:00.004-06:00

With halloween over now is the time to pull out the halloween papers (old or new) and make a page or mini or project..whatever floats your fancy.

Since i don't have anymore paper left from halloween except for last months kit from Noel Mignon Kits that is what i went with.

Here is your twist though...you have to use fabric on whatever you choose to create. :) and if you don't have fabric...cut up a dishtowel if you may. This idea came from the kit (sold out) because noel included 2 pieces of halloween fabric in it.

Kim

I always struggle around Halloween a wee bit as a) we don't have children so wouldn't celebrate Halloween anyway and b) Halloween is not all THAT celebrated in the U.K. full stop.
So to create anything spooktacular proves quite a challenge for me. I had to look through my Past and present Halloween projects but I have nothing at all with fabric on, so you just have to accept the ribbons as being some sort of fabric (well, that is my excuse and I am sticking to it....)

Challenge #47: Old Layouts

2009-10-01T06:21:00.007-05:00

So remember when you first started dabbling in scrapbooking...or if you were like me you collected forever before you made your first layout...well.....we want to see your first layout or some where close to it. Now i have to admit....one of my very first layouts i still look back at because girls i can't lie....it is hysterical....i mean i was cool before i knew i was cool {eyeroll} in my mind at least.

and without further ado for your laughing pleasure (and mine too) i present to you my (greta's) ridiculously awesome tooth layout..

yep yep....here it is in all it's glory....and it still cracks me up. and yes that IS dental floss in between those fabulous cutout pictures made to look like giant molars that may have came out of the jolly green giants mouth....but hey... i was cool..or so i though {huge deep sigh}
layout was done appx in 2002 ....go ahead...be brave...show us what you got or thought you had back in the day ;) oh and don't be trying to sneak one in on us with some layout that looks all spiffy with no cutout pics or bobble heads hanging in the air or better yet....frames that were not cut out with deco scissors....cause we all know you have some layouts hiding like that :) :)

Kim

Oh my...I have to admit that my very first scrapbook pages are not as cringe worthy as my first cards - but we have to leave that for another time.
May I present to you - anno December 2004, my first official layout. I had no idea about sizes and bought a 10 x 10 ring-bound album (don't ask...) and had to cut all my 12 x 12 papers to size.

The pictures are of my Granddad as a wee boy and older (obviously) and I think you can totally see how I moved over from card making to scrapping -> look at the vellum and golden glittery paper. Surely those items must be totally illegal by now :)

so get them out girls and show off what you were *so proud* of back in the day!! we wanna see.... and i promise..we will not laugh AT you we will laugh with you :)

because i just got finished bustin a gut with that molar layout....BWHAHAHAHAHAHA

Challenge #46: Chipboard

2009-09-01T06:18:00.003-05:00

yep yep... i know we have done this one before but ya know what....i'll tell ya what...we don't use it enough (unless it is american crafts thickers) seriously....i have like 58674639682652945729572495 thickers and use and use those but rarely i use anything else that is chipboard.... so break it out....sand it up, paint it, doodle on it, color it with a crayon if that floats ya fancy(pants) leave it raw, crackle it, ink it...whatever your hearts desire...we want to see it....

Kim

I am addicted to chipboard - I mean, who isn't?? To me chipboard is one of the greatest "inventions" to use on our scrappy projects evah!!!
On the below layout the alphas and the flower (including the stem) are chipboard and I think they make perfect accents

Greta's:

Challenge #45: Packing Materials or any non scrappy item

2009-08-01T06:16:00.008-05:00

This month we want to see some packing materials or any item that is not a "normal" scrappy item...ya know...like bubble wrap, packing tape, masking tape, band aid's, chop sticks ;) anything that is not a standard scrappy product.

Kim

I love using packing materials on my projects. Whenever I am looking for that "one" thing to set off my layout, I tend to grab some masking tape or stamp parts of the background with the help of painted bubble wrap. In this example I used some white paint on a piece of bubble wrap and pressed it onto the background for a accented look. Additionally I write my journaling on two pieces of overlapping masking tape (which I distressed by running an inpad lightly over them)

Greta's:

Yep that is band aid's. Anyone who knows me or follows my personal blog knows i LOVE LOVE LOVE anything skully...yay for me it is the "in" thing right now because i can find all kinds of stuff...before i had to really search.

We can't wait to see your layouts..be creative..think outside the embellishment box :P be sure to link us so we can ooh and Ahh or slap ourselves on the forehead and say "why didn't i think of that". Dontcha hate when you have that moment?

Challenge #44: Unwanted letters

2009-07-10T06:00:00.008-05:00

Ok, so this didn't exactly show up as scheduled for the 10th...the auto-post didn't work. it was scheduled, but it just didn't publish. but it's here now and i really hope you'll still play along!

Show us how creative you can get and use up those alpha's like ZZZZZ and QQQQQ which always seem to be leftover. Use them on layouts, wall-art...anything! Don't hoard them anymore...use them!!! Here's what we came up with:

Liz's
okay, these are my least favorite, imposter thickers. but i must say, this is one of my fave layouts i've done in a long time. i love tracing the letters and then peeling them up. good way to conserve the letters you actually use a lot of (like the Sassafras ones also used on here, traced and removed). and then the rest of the letters on there--well, this is a good way to use them up too!

Dana's
O.K. Total No Brainer! What else on earth am I going to do with all those "zs"!!!

My sister taking a nap with a lego man at legoland Carlsbad :)

Kim

Well, believe it or not but I rarely have left over letter stickers...honest! I use my "Z's"as an alternative to the letter "N" (meaning I flip them 90 degrees to the left or right). The other letter generally ignored is the Q - but again, I just cut the little swirl off and turn it into an "O".
So, this challenge actually DID turn into a real challenge for me :)
What always seems to be totally ignored on my sticker sheets are actually the numbers and here in particular the number "8". Don't ask - I have NO idea....
So, I took two "8's" and turned them into an embellishment on this card - not too shabby of an idea, don't you think?

Challenge #43: Embellish It!

2009-06-02T00:00:00.005-05:00

This month we are using the pre packaged embellishments. 3 or more will do....but minimum 3...easy peasy...let's see what you do...

Greta's

This is using the June Rise and Shine kit from Noel Mignon. I am in love with this kit and have made some puurty things with it.
I used several pre packaged things on this one. Which made me want to stop hoarding all my packages and use them...i mean seriously it is not doing me any good in the wrappers right...

Liz's:
Once I started digging through my embellies for this challenge, I realized I should have purchased stock in Heidi Swapp photo corners and Love, Elsie epoxy stickers. Seriously. Anywho, I managed to use a decent handful, but could make the same exact layout 12 more times and still have more corners and stickers leftover. I do like the look of the corners as a border; maybe you could even paint yours or mist them for a different look!

The journaling is on a Sassafras chipboard embellishment and the papers are Cosmo Cricket. The Bazzill scalloped I've had since 2007 when I cut a bunch before my lss went out of business 'to keep from running out'. Yeah, like that will ever happen!

And is Greta's little Melana just a beautiful little girl or what?? Watch out!

Kim

I just adore flowers and buttons and you will always find one or the other or more likely even both on my projects. The flowers are Fancy Pants and Hero Arts (I always buy them in bulk) and the buttons are Rusty Pickle

Challenge #42: I can see CLEARLY now!

2009-05-01T00:00:00.005-05:00

use up those sheer embellishments, transparencies or clear albums!
Show us what ya got!

KimmyS

I love working with transparenices and acrylics, especially turning them into minibooks.
The following book was made for myy Mom's 70th birthday, hence the title :)
Isn't is great how can peek through the pages and spot bits and bobs that will appear on a page further on?

Greta's COMING SOON!

Challenge #41: Good Intentions

2009-04-01T00:00:00.017-05:00

Good intentions you ask? Let me explain..You know the altoids tins, or old picture frames that are yucky but you think aww I can make it pretty..or how about cigar boxes. This month we want you to dig something out that you have been hoarding or saving whatever you say you do, I HOARD, and turn your good intentions into a completed project.

Here's what we did:

Greta's

I have been saving these frames forever and seriously had good intentions. I made this for my best friend as a christmas gift.

Kim's

I am a serious horder of boxes and packaging, always saying "don't throw that, I can use it"...but do I ever? In this case I can finally say "YAY, I've done it - I altered a box of tampons..."

So this is what it used to look like

And this is what it looks now.

If you ever get a little box from me for your birthday you never know, it may have been a box of *wotsits" before :)

Dana's

My favorite and least expensive present idea is to buy a really inexpensive picture frame (preferably from the dollar bins at Target) to alter. I love nothing more then getting out all my acrylic paints and going to town on a frame. That way it hardly matters what the frame looks like when you buy it. Just look for a frame that is flat enough to add embellishements to and one that isn't too narrow so you can decorate it. I add patterned paper and whatever fun embellies I feel will look the best and voila!

Liz's:

i found this little number at Michael's a while back. it was supposed to be for a teacher Christmas gift. you can see how that all worked out. i have tons of these sorts of things, flower pots, old boxes, birdhouses, notebooks, ring binders, postal boxes, wooden plaques...you name it, i most likely have it.

You know the drill ladies...show us your crap and what you do with it.

Our Players

Challenge # 40: Recycle It

2009-03-01T09:51:00.011-06:00

It's that time again...this month we want to recycle. I have to admit. I am not the "go green" type of gal but it is fun to take trash and turn it into something really cute. Cereal boxes, plastic pieces, tags off of clothing. whatever you want to recycle that is your task this month. can't wait to see what you come up with.

Greta's

This was made using a cereal box

this was made using a piece of cardboard and some leftover pieces of cereal boxes.

Liz's:
I have been collecting tags forever, and added to the stash after our Christmas toy explosion, i thought i'd finally do something with all of them. this is all about Michael (my oldest). all the things he likes. i really could have added a lot more, but you get the point. my 'canvas' was the front side of an indiana jones lego box. how's that for recycling? oh, and i FINALLY used some of those scenic route chipboard pieces!
for this project i used more leftover cardboard to create a gentle reminder for my 7 year old son. view more pics here. TIP: when stripping the top layer of paper off corrugated cardboard, tear against the grain of the ripply stuff...if it starts to tear, use a paper piercer to cut down the creases and pick off the excess paper. i'm not sure that made any sense...or maybe you have a better solution you'd like to share (cuz mine is really a pain in the butt when it tears.)

Kim
I love, yeah LOVE using cardboard as a background medium. It is cheap to come by (just rip up those pizza boxes!) and versatile to use. Peel off some of the top layer to reveal the corrugated bits, as in this example. You can create minibooks, wall-hangings, cards and layouts with the wonder that is generally dismissed as packaging...
I have also used some clear packaging to cut the background of the flowers with my Cuttlebug.

Our Players:

Challenge #39: Love is in the air

2009-02-01T09:54:00.016-06:00

It's that time of the year again ladies...Valentines Day!

I want to know is this a "holiday" that you celebrate?
For me it is not. i don't do this day and never have. I think it is silly.
Not everyone is like me and without further ado i want to see some traditional v-day colors..red and pink....no rules other than those...break out those colors and scrap whatever may be tickling your fancy or better yet make something for someone else..maybe your significant other, a child's teacher, or just some home decor..whatever it is be sure to link so we can ohhh and ahhhh

Greta's

These are 2 birthday/anniversary books i made for Mason's teachers. i figured this was perfect and he is so excited to give it to them.
This was using 2 different kits from Noel Mignon.
One is sugar cookie and the other is Love Song (sold Out)

Dana's
Here's my additions to creating a love vibe..I took one of those dinner boxes and decorated it to hold all your special valentine notes:

Here's also a little card to inspire you to create one for your valentine sweetie:

Kim's
I don't really to V-Day either...not sure why, but hey that's how I roll :)
That doesn't stop me from loving to create with red and pink though - FAR from it. The below layout shows a picture of my MIL and myself. You always hear of woman not getting on with the MIL's but mine is ace. We are like best buddies and even go on holiday together!
The background is a package sheet from Prima by the way. In it came one of their transparencies and I thought it was too nice to throw. It has the same consistency and colour of Kraft cardstock.

Liz's:

i've had these letters laying around since the end of 2007. finally i've put them to use! it's a 12x16 canvas and the corrugated cardboard is left from a freight box from walmart. paper is making memories (fairly new). the mme and the sassafras are from last year and possibly the year before. ;) you can see close-ups of the project on my blog if you care to make one for yourself! (getting everything to stay on the canvas was the hardest part--LOTS of glue!)

Lisa's

Hey Crap Scrappers

2009-01-23T18:23:00.003-06:00

We will be back in full force with our monthly challenges starting FEB 1st.
and we also have a new member with us for some more incredible inspiration.

You can visit Kim Sonksen and get to know more about her here.

Can i Get a WOOT WOOT!!!???

SYC update

2008-12-27T09:46:00.001-06:00

In honor of the new year and because we are all so busy we are only going to bring you challenges once a month...YAY!! Each challenge will roll out on the first of the month.

We wish all of you a

Ho Ho Ho

2008-12-24T00:00:00.003-06:00

From our family to yours!

Challenge # 37:Cards Galore

2008-12-01T00:18:00.019-06:00

oops..i thought i scheduled this to automatically post but i guess not...YIKES...oh well 4 days late but it doesn't matter....Have fun girls! and please link us up so i can make a slide show and we can leave you love

This challenge is all about getting those xmas cards done.
So hopefully you have some left over xmas paper from last year that you can dig into
How about some fruitcake or figgy pudding by Basic Grey? or maybe some Scenic route?
Whatever you have lets use it up so we can dig into to this years paper for all our new christmas pics.

Britta

Greta's

i didn't have any xmas paper left from last year so i did one using this year's from OA.

Liz's:
ok, so the first two cards are from my stash...lots of green buttons and some felt. i honestly don't have as many green buttons as i thought i did. The button tree is an idea from Nicole Samuels. She has pics on her blog. Her's is waaay cuter! and i totally forgot a star! might have to do a re-take.

now...the last three cards are from new stuff. the K&Co Christmas line was just too pretty to resist (especially with a Michael's coupon).

Dana's
Who doesn't have a gazillion Deluxe Design Lazer cuts? Me.. that's who! Decided to use some of those babies up that I had been hoarding for that "special" project I never got around too.. Also managed to use up one some of that Christmas paper from Joann's that I thought was so fabulous like 5 years ago!!!! What can you guys dig up to play with?

For more xmas card inspiration please check out this challenge

REMEMBER TO LINK YOUR WORK SO WE CAN SEEOR ADD IT DIRECTLY TO THE SLIDE AT THE END!!!

Queen of the Crap: BRITTA

2008-11-30T08:52:00.004-06:00

Our December Queen is none other than Britta.
Please give her a warm welcome. She has done some awesome things this month and hope you will be inspired as well.

Lets get to know a little bit about her..here is what she had to say

My name is Britta.

My blog is Pink Giraffe
Besides scrapping I love to paint and draw.

My favorite color is PINK (but I always have another "favorite season color" which this autumn is a greyish blue).

I have all my srapping supplies in our office and so kind of made our office to MY room of (s)crap.

I have lots of paper.

I hoard lots of paper.

I grab every Making Memories supply that I can find here in Germany.
Besides Making Memories I don´t go for brands but buy what I like (mostly pink paper).

I keep my scraps in a little box and give this box to my mom from time to time (and so does she). Using up her scraps is so much more fun!

I am (most of the time) a very organized person - until I start scrapping - then my place gets a total mess!

"Have fun and create beauty!"

I usually scrap alone (with my blogland friend Dana as a "virtual mojo" in my mind).

I think I need a challenge for pink paper!!! :)

Thanks again for such a great opportunity!

Britta

Thank you Britta!

Challenge #36: Give Thanks

2008-11-15T15:00:00.006-06:00

In honor of the upcoming thanksgiving holidays...pull out last years fall papers, embellishments and ribbons and scrap it. It can be about what you are thankful for or just a silly ole topic using up the papers.

Queen Aimee's:

greta's

last years 7 gypsies

Liz's:
Thought I'd share some wreaths that i've made over the last few years. All the paper elements on them are scraps. The first one uses little bit and pieces that i've tried to use on other layouts, but ended up ditching them and collecting them in a baby food jar, like buttons, flowers, etc. The first wreath is also made from scratch with a $3 clearance grape vine wreath from Michael's and some clearance items from Walmart's seasonal aisle last year (they've been sitting in a rubbermaid bin awaiting my holiday spirit).

The second is made from the garland strands you can also find at Michael's. I tied the two ends together, made each little card, tied them off with eyelets and ribbon, added the letters to spell 'Thankful', the tied off with a bow to hand.

Challenge #35: In STITCHES

2008-11-01T14:57:00.019-05:00

sorry girls i am running behind as usual. This week we want you to

sew up something, use a template, sewing machine or just needle and thread the old fashioned way...whatever way you choose we want to see the sewing skillz

Queen Aimee's:

Lisa's

Sometimes just a little hand stitching can make a big difference in a simple layout.
Dana's:
I am all thumbs when it comes to sewing.. but I actually hand sewed the stitches and cut the little chick from a template and some felt.

Liz's:

I've seen this done several places, using the sewing lines as a grid of sorts. So, I thought I'd give it a try. It didn't come out exactly as I had envisioned and covered up most of the grid. I intended to put little patterned paper scrap squares here and there inside the grid boxes. My layout is 8.5x11, so maybe it would have worked better with a 12x12. I also had to use the large pp strips to cover up my super 'bad' sewing skillz!

Participants:

Queen of the Crap: Aimee!

2008-10-31T09:45:00.010-05:00

Your new Queen of Crap for the month of November is Aimee Terry. Welcome Aimee!

Visit Aimee here: Aimee Terry

Crafts you dabble in: just good old scrapping

Favorite color(s): love green. oh and pinks and oranges
Do you have a room of crap, a closet of crap or a shelf of crap? over the summer my hubby made room for me in the nook of our bedroom. so i have a little corner

What supply to you have the most of? did a spring cleaning of my scrap stuff so really i don't have to much of anything anymore. it use to be paper.

What supply do you hoard the most? rub ons! have way to many

What brand do you use the most? really don't have a fav. with three girls, i usally tend to buy anything girly.

What brand do you own the most of but use the least? there is not just one, i have a little of everything

Keep your scraps or throw them away? use to throw them ALL away but have learned to use them for cards. and what is left of that goes to the girls to scrap with.

Organized or perfectly chaotic? i think my chaos is organized

Crafting motto? don't really have one. just do it to relax

Create with friends or alone? lately alone but love to have girly scrap weekends when i can

What supply do you need a challenge for so that you will use it up? rub ons!

Thanks Aimee for reigning Queen and we can't wait to see what you do!

2008-10-30T00:00:00.002-05:00

Happy halloween from us to you!
Be Safe!

Challenge #34: Spooktacular Time

2008-10-15T00:00:00.017-05:00

I would like to take this opportunity and tell everyone that has never played with us before thanks a million. I love seeing the inspiration from week to week. I
hope you continue playing and get rid of some of that crap. :)

This weeks winner of the $15 GC to Noel Mignon is LYDIA come on down and claim your prize by emailing me at scrapyourcrap@gmail(dot)com. wooo hoooo!!!

This week we need to focus on using that halloween themed stuff that we had to have from last year or the year before....make a layout, project or card using up OLD halloween themed papers and embellishments. If you don't have old stuff no worries use current stuff. The purpose is to use it up not hoard it (like me).

Queen Pinkey's

Greta's:

the oldest i could find was the SR Salem Line and the (i think this is) the RP Addams Family Line. can't Remember, in my stash. I am sure i have more but i didn't feel like digging to deep

Dana's:
This is using some real old school Jenni Bowlin embellies and some Rusty Pickle from a few seasons ago.

Lisa's
the "buttons" that I sewed to the "fence" are years and years old!

Liz's:
Sorry I'm late! I drew the spiderweb in pencil (after a brief instruction from my hubby), then used the sewing machine to sew over the lines. The spidey is made out of a scallop punch and then those googly eyes...well, they've been in my stash forever as well as the chipboard pieces and some Salem line scrap strips from Scenic Route!

Challenge #33: Punch your EYELETS out!

2008-10-01T00:00:00.015-05:00

ETA: GLENDA T COME ON DOWN AND CLAIM YOUR $15 GC TO NOEL MIGNON SCRAP STORE. RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR PICKED YOU. EMAIL ME AT SCRAPYOURCRAP@GMAIL.COM TO CLAIM YOUR GC. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO PLAYED AND WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE UP FOR GRABS THIS WEEK. CHECK OUT THE POST BELOW

This week is the last and final $15 gift certificates to Noel Mignon Scrap Shop. Noel was gracious enough to donate the GC's and we cannot thank her enough. She puts together the most fabulous kits around that are jammed packed full of scrappy goodies plus she has a store for you to shop in if kits aren't your thing. We figured since February you have been working hard on depleating your stash of stuff so why not reward yourself with some new goodies... the winner for this challenge will be announced on October 15th SO MAKE SURE YOU GET THEM IN BEFORE october 15th by 8 CST

Here is how you can win.
post the SYC blinkie on your blog (by grabing it from the sidebar on the right...you might have to scroll down a bit
and participate in this challenge

good luck girls and on with this weeks challenge:

This week we are breaking out those dreaded eyelets. yes those things are a Pain in the rear and we know it...but i bet you have a bazillion of them {shamefully i admit i do} so lets get creative and see how many different way we can use them. Shapes, numbers, and letters are just a few ideas off the top of my head. Here is your twist... let's see if you can use at least 15 of them on one page. The one who uses the most will get a gold star.

Queen Pinky's:

Lisa's
I used WAY over 15 (I think it's over 70) mini eyelets on this layout!

Dana's:
I managed to dig up three different kind of eyelets that were hiding quietly in my scraproom :)

Liz's:

I didn't count before i did the layout, but luckily there's 22 (and a few hidden ones). my little owen and his aunt laura during our trip to visit last summer. and i totally cheated and used a '3' for an 'e'! i love the glitter thickers, but i run out way too quickly!

Our eyelet queens:

Queen of Crap Pinky aka Cristal

2008-09-30T00:00:00.004-05:00

Your new Queen of Crap for the month of October is Pinky aka Cristal. Welcome Pinky!
Name: Cristal aka PINKY Hobbs
Blog Address: http://www.blueyecicle.blogspot.com/
Any other websites: www.pinkyscraps.proboards88.com
Crafts you dabble in: I don't "Dabble" in any crafts I dive in head first and Hope I can swim!! I am a sewing whore and a scrapping hooker! I also freehand paint huge 6FT rubber ducky murals on my bathroom walls, and decorate my house like there is NO tomorrow!
Favorite color(s): I am not color biased! I love em all! OK well purple is not my best friend!
Do you have a room of crap, a closet of crap or a shelf of crap? I have 3 plastic dressers and half a room of crap!
What supply do you have the most of? Paper! I could paper my entire house and still have enough to scrap 1000 pages!
What supply do you hoard the most? My glue runner refills I am afraid I will run out so I send my hubby out at 3am to buy 10 more....you know...JUST IN CASE!
What brand do you use the most? Hmmm.....It used to be Crate Paper but now its more Cosmo Cricket
What brand do you own the most of but use the least? I think Basic Grey
Keep your scraps or throw them away? I have been keeping them BUT when it filled an entire box I decided maybe its not worth it. So now I give them to my boys and let them go to town with expensive and beautiful paper while I try not to cringe like they are writing on ME!
Organized or perfectly chaotic? So chaotic its pathetic man!
Crafting motto? NO RULES
Create with friends or alone? I am a LONE scrapper, but I do love cropping!
What supply do you need a challenge for so that you will use it up? OMG Probably my early on BRAD issues!

Challenge #32: Leave your mark

2008-09-15T00:00:00.020-05:00

I mentioned in the last post that we are doing something here that we have never done before. Sure we have done a rak or 2 with different things but nothing that you could hoard in your stash such as scrap supplies...so with that being said....for all you faithful particpants that have taken this crazy ride with us we are offering you not only one but 2 $15 gift certificates to Noel Mignon Scrap Shop. Noel was gracious enough to donate the GC"s and we cannot thank her enough. She puts together the most fabulous kits around that are jammed packed full of scrappy goodies plus she has a store for you to shop in if kits aren't your thing. We figured since February you have been working hard on depleating your stash of stuff so why not reward yourself with some new goodies...One of the GC's will be given away for this challenge and one for the October 1st challenge. the winner for this challenge will be announced on September 30th SO MAKE SURE YOU GET THEM IN BEFORE SEPT 30th by 8 CST

Here is how you can win.
post the SYC blinkie on your blog (by grabing it from the sidebar on the right...you might have to scroll down a bit
and participate in this challenge

good luck girls and on with this weeks challenge:

This week we want to leave our mark....yes my dear challenge lovers we need to break out those markers, pens, pencils, crayons whatever you have
use them to color in something on your page or make your own embellishments using these supplies. If you are not a big fan of your handwriting and you use the computer or stamps or your dymo label for your journaling here is your chance. Handwriting by you will be treasured by someone in the future. That is your challenge....

Queen Rose's:

Liz's:
i love the way this journaling technique looks. i've seen it a million times, so i don't know where credit is due. i finally got the nerve to try it about a month ago in a mini i did.

i drew the wavy lines and then wrote the message in regular pencil. colored in the letters with colored pencils, then traced with an AC Slick Writer. the Slick Writer also worked great on the Jenni Bowlin journal sticker. a nice portion of neglected buttons finally found a home as well!

also, here's one full page of this technique that i did in that mini i referenced:

Lisa's:
I used the best white pen around (I've tried them all) the Uniball Signo to journal in swirls.

Greta's:

i actually did a mini using SU markers, AC slick writers and metallic pens
here is some of the pages. You can see the full book if you choose here or here.

Dana's:

Hi There! Better late then never- Here is my contribution.. I took it literally and played around with actually using the ink markers as part of my layout! :)

make sure you leave us a comment int he comment section on the blog and a link with your layout to either your blog or an online gallery so we can find it and make sure you get your entry for the RAK this month. Good Luck girls!

This weeks picaso's:

Challenge #31: My product is older than yours

2008-09-01T14:45:00.016-05:00

Crap...that's what this site is about. We've been using the more 'up to date items' in the past challenges, but now it's time to pull out the stuff in the bins that didn't sell at the lss garage sale back in 2002. You know: the tags, the MAMBI stick figure stickers, the Mrs. Grossman's chili pepper stickers, the CM borders, etc. Bust 'em out and use them today's style.

Let's see what you can create! Whoever has the oldest item will not win a darn thing except the feeling of fulfillment for using something you never thought you would.

Don't forget to leave a link to your blog or your gallery so that we can leave some love! if you just post your picture, we can't come visit you! and that would make me sad if nobody came to visit to comment on my crap :(

if you're in the hurricane, please stay safe and use some of that nervous energy to get creative!

Queen Rose's:

Dana's:
Using up your old stuff can be fun when you are making cards...most people you are giving them to don't know the "age" of your embellies. These were made from Current stickers that I swear I have had since the 90s and an old as time sheet of Lil Davis Tag Stickers.

Liz's
well, my product is not that old...i have the KI Memories ribbon clip and the Making Memories metal flower tucked behind the picture. that's all i could dig up!
Lisa's
These folded silk flowers are many years old!

Remember this week's challenge will run until September 15th, then we'll post the second challenge for September. That should give you plenty of time to dig out the photo anchors and the MME Frame-Ups.

liz :)

Queen of the Crap: Rose Andrews

2008-08-31T00:00:00.004-05:00

thank you Colleen for reigning queen and conquering those challenges.

This weeks queen is the ever so fabulous Rose Andrews aka Lollybert on SIS!
Welcome Rose and we can't wait to see what you created!

here is what she had to say to our questions!

Crafts you dabble in: A bit of doll-housing a bit of painting a bit of wreath making

Favorite color(s): GREENS..I heart some yummy green

Do you have a room of crap, a closet of crap or a shelf of crap? Literally a room of crap..., there are two litter boxes in my scrap room :o)

What supply to you have the most of? Flower stamps..dear Lord I never need to buy another flower stamp again...yet they magically end up in my cart.

What supply do you hoard the most? Bazzill Raven Black cardstock...I buy it by the gross it seems.

What brand do you use the most? VERSA DEW DROP INKS - Is there any other supply in the world???

What brand do you own the most of but use the least? Probably K & Company...I love it but never use it.

Keep your scraps or throw them away? Toss! I don't like used stuff...I'm a spoiled princess

Organized or perfectly chaotic? Chaotically Organized

Crafting motto? There's always room for one more embie

Create with friends or alone? Usually alone

What supply do you need a challenge for so that you will use it up? Rub Ons!

Challenge #30: Clip-a-licious

2008-08-25T00:00:00.002-05:00

You ready for this week? Good!
Before I get on with the challenge for this week I want to let you know some changes that will be happening to SYC. We will no longer do the challenges every week...I don't know if you noticed or not but i haven't done the last few and that really makes me sad :( Sometimes life gets in the way and I cannot keep up. Really , I have done well considering I have been doing this since February. So with that being said, we will post challenges on the 1st and the 15th of every month. Once a week is just getting to be too much. For those of you that have been with us from the beginning thank you very very much for the support.
Okay enough of all that bull malarkie now let's move forth..

We want you to use any kinds of clips you have: paper clips, binder clips, swirl clips you get the hint..mix and match them..we don't care we want to see them...no minimum requirement for this challenge but try and use as many as you can.

Queen Colleen:

Lisa's
I used 4 clips on this layout.

Dana's:
The peace and ok hand signals are actually paper clips...

Liz's:

I used a bunch of clips throughout this mini album. On the cover, i threaded a plastic charm and tied some ribbon. The album contains all my 'leftover' pics that i didn't want to scrapbook, but didn't want to throw away either. You can see all of it here.

Please don't forget to comment in the comments section of the blog and link us up to your project so we can see what you crap scrappers are doing :)

Clip-o-licious schtuff:

Challenge #29: Punch you out!

2008-08-18T14:43:00.014-05:00

Cirlce, square, rectangle, tab, flower, foot, leaf, tree, soccer ball, they made some seriously good punches back in the day...and you had every single one of them. But my guess is you used them once if at all, right? Now here's your chance!

Dig 'em on out and use at least three punches on one layout; get crafty, get creative, get punchy! OK, that was pretty sad. But not as sad as those poor punches laying around collecting dust! Show us what you got!

And PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE remember to let us know where you're posting your layout. Feel free to add it to the slideshow, but also remember to at least leave us a few bread crumbs to find your blog or something so we can come visit you and your punch-tastic layout! OK, where is Greta? She's going to be mad at me for being soooo dumb on this post.

(have a good one! --karen a.k.a. liz:) )

Queen Colleen

Dana's:
I actually managed to use 4 circle ones!! YEAH!!!

Lisa's
I used 4 punches on this layout:

Punch Participants:

Liz's
I used 4 punches here: the two sizes of circles, one flower and a border punch.

Challenge #28: Very Vellum

2008-08-11T00:00:00.005-05:00

Ackkk remember vellum? Do you have every color of the rainbow like me? if not I can share ;) This week make a project, layout, card or whatever else that floats your boat using the beloved (had to have ) vellum.

Queen Elizabeth's:

Elizabeth made herself a flower embellishment.. (love that idea)

Dana's:
I like how the vellum creates a frosty effect on transparencies....

Lisa's:
I made waves with the vellum and I used it over the photo and then tore away the part of the picture that I wanted more visible.
Liz's:

Ok, I had zeee-ro vellum! I had to use a piece of scrap...and I really had to dig for that! The piece I used is actually from a sheet I had printed some items on a long, long time ago for my first son's baby book...dates of his 'firsts'. It had some typos and wrong dates, so I cut a strip off the bottom. It's the yellow piece. It was white; I painted it, let it dry then crinkled it all up! I never knew what to do with vellum then, and I still don't! But, alas, I have used all my 'crap' vellum!!!

Vellum Girls:
slide has been moved to the project slide which can be found on the ride hand side of the blog on the side bar :)

Challenge #27: Bead Bonanza

2008-08-03T23:59:00.006-05:00

OY! Did someone say beads? yep we did....break em out girls...i know you have them...word beads...letter beads....shiny beads...micro beads....u are bound to have some kind in your stash. Lets use them up....the one that uses the most beads will get a gold star :)

Queen Elizabeth's:

Dana's:

I looked in my scrap crap and I was actually suprise! I don't have a ton of them... hmmm shocking a scrap item that I don't have too much of!!.. I decided a touch of beads was enough... I can't go out and buy some cause I have to use up my stash right?? RIGHT!

Greta's:

that is micro beads on a wire that is suppose to be for a wine glass charm... :)

Lisa's

My beaded wire was truly crap that had been in a drawer for a few years!

Liz's

i totally wish i had wedding photos to use this technique! i was totally goofing around when i started this and had a totally different idea in my head until i decided to decorate my hand drawn doodles with the beads. it's a bit much, but it sure was fun! the spine of the book was a find at our Goodwill...50 cents!

Beading Inspiration:
slide has been moved to the project blog which can be found on the right hand side of the side bar :)

Queen of the Crap: Elizabeth Manna

2008-08-03T06:00:00.004-05:00

Thank you so much mica for reigning queen for the last two challneges. You knocked them out of the park and we couldn't be more proud.
This week we have an amazing talented new queen. You can read more about her below and through her blog.

Name: elizabeth

Blog Address(if you have one): My Own Lil Space

Any other websites: Good Morning Sunshine

Crafts you dabble in: i love to scrap (of course!), knit, paint, crochet, cross stitch, make jewelry, pretty much if its crafty, i like to do it.

Favorite color(s): lately i've been going thru a yellow spell

Do you have a room of crap, a closet of crap or a shelf of crap? i have a room of lovelies

What supply to you have the most of? i really can't narrow this down to just one. i would say that i have a ton of paper, fabric, embellies, stickers, blah blah.

What supply do you hoard the most? hmmm...prolly american crafts

What brand do you use the most? again, i can't narrow this down to just one.

What brand do you own the most of but use the least? i would say that actually, i use mine all pretty equally. depends on the lo/project and what i want to use.

Keep your scraps or throw them away? def keep.

Organized or perfectly chaotic? both.....i can't stand the chaos, but while i work i'm messy. i try and clean up between each project

Be sure and check back tomorrow for a new challenge that will sure get you inspired!

Challenge #26: Be Inspired

2008-07-28T13:00:00.023-05:00

First i would like to announce the winner of the banner from K-Liz.
anyone wanna guess? nah just kidding...the winner of a brand spankin new banner for you blog is: APRIL D!! congrats girl...please email us at scrapyourcrap@gmail.com to claim your banner. Whoo HOOOOO!!!

Dig 'em out girls. Dust them off if there old or Break 'em open if they are new. I don't know about you but I have inspiration books for DAAAAAYS. I buy them because I think they are great, get them home and chunk them in a pile to keep my other 203326585 company. So this week we are pulling them out and giving them some love.
Please make sure if you participate you tell us what book you got your inspiration from. Ya never know we just might and probably have that book. {deep sigh}

Queen Mica's:

The book I got inspiration from is called Simple Ideas published by SRM Press, Inc.

Liz's:

i have a huge bin filled with old mags. couldn't find an idea book, but there were plenty of ideas in that bin. i chose a layout created by Sarah Klemish on pg. 18 of Scrapbook Trends September 2006 issue.

Greta's:

Well since my inspiration books are hidden under my 2.7 million subscriptions I get (which i will not be renewing) I just picked the first magazine off the pile that i have yet to look through. This came from Simple Scrapbooks. July/August 08 issue pg. 30. layout by Celeste Smith. My journaling tag came from Karen's ca-yute etsy shoppe.

Lisa's
I have a ton a scrapbook magazines, but I found inspiration in a Saturn ad! Look at the paper flowers in the ad, I think they stole their ad from a scrapbook layout!

Dana's:

I have never tried paper-piecing patterns before. I got the inspo for this from the current Aug/Sept 2008 issue of Scrapbooks Etc.. I am not sure this is what they had in mind. My hubby says it looks like a 2nd grader's drawing! Oh, well I had a lot of fun and definitely tried something new and that's the point right?

Show us what you got girls...and remember to please leave a comment in the comments section with a link so we are able to find you easily!

Inspired by:
slide show has been moved to the projects blog which can be found on the right hand side of the side bar

Challenge #25: Fabric

2008-07-21T12:59:00.005-05:00

How many of you have fabric in your stash that you were going to make something with and never got around to it? I know i do. So this week we want to see some fabric on your layouts. Fabric adds great texture and depth to any layout. You can use one piece, Multiple pieces, sew a whole piece on your carstock and build your layout from there...the possiblilities are endless and we want to see them.

Mika's:

Greta's:

Dana's:

Liz's:

Lisa's

Please don't forget to link in the comments section so we can follow you layouts and leave the love it deserves...thanks girls...have fun!!

Weekly particpants:
has been moved to the project blog
you can find the link on the right hand sidebar
:)

Queen of the Crap: Mikako Akers

2008-07-19T09:39:00.006-05:00

Thank you to Michele for reigning queen for the last 2 weeks. Those challenges were fun fun fun and you knocked it out the park. This week we would like to welcome our new queen who has played along with us now for almost everyone of the challenges.

Name: Mika Akers

Blog Address(if you have one): Scrapbooked Moments

Crafts you dabble in: Right now I am totally obsessed with scrapbooking. I have tried a lot of different things over the years though; knitting, crocheting, sewing, making things with shrinky dinks, yarns, clay, beads, etc...

Favorite color(s): Red, pink, black

Do you have a room of crap, a closet of crap or a shelf of crap? D. All of the above

What supply to you have the most of? patterned papers

What supply do you hoard the most? patterned papers

What brand do you use the most? I don't have any particular brand that I like over the others. When I see something I like, I get them and use them. My favorite now is My Mind's Eye.

What brand do you own the most of but use the least? My supply source is very limited and my inventory doesn't have that much variety in brands.

Keep your scraps or throw them away? Keep them. Who doesn't ?

Organized or perfectly chaotic? Organized (or at least I try to be)

Crafting motto? As long as I like it... <----excellent motto Create with friends or alone? Physically...alone, mentally...with friends

What supply do you need a challenge for so that you will use it up? eyelets, vellum

Check back tomorrow for her challenge to roll out. it's a goooood one.

ok ladies...

2008-07-18T21:44:00.006-05:00

you've all been working hard at purging and 'scrappin' yo' crap' so...treat yourself to something new (after all, while it sure does feel good to use that 8 tons of chipboard you just simply had to have, you must certainly be tired of it right?)

The lovely and talented Noel at noelmignon.com is having a sale THIS WEEKEND ONLY. so get your happy selves on over there and purhcase $20 or more and get a FREE, yes FREE stamp this weekend only. did i mention it's free and this weekend only? see....
(image is directly from Noel's super awesome site...she's got all kinds of goodies over there...if you haven't checked out her amazing kits yet, be sure to do that right now!)

Thanks girls, now if you haven't done challenge #24 (see below), please give it a shot! i am lovin' all the layouts i am seeing! who needs Bazzill Just the Edge, eh? (well, i do. unless i want my straight lines all 'wampy-jawed' as my mil would say. not sure what that means, but i think it applies here.)

anyway, i'm blabbing. this is the first and LAST time Greta asks me to post something on here all by myself :)

and don't forget...give Noel a visit here for your free stampie!!!

Challenge #24: Scissor Sisters

2008-07-16T00:00:00.004-05:00

Alright crap scrappers...are we ready? Sorry this one is late but I had to make the important announcement about the new chicas and the RAK of course...so let's get started shall we?

Remember those scissors we all had to have back in the day that we forgot about once the fabulous shaped paper hit the market? yep those are the one's i am talking about. Now i know the deco scissors are probably making some cringe like me but let's dust them off and work em girls. I am lazy, i like to just buy the shaped paper and be done with it. Not this week ..no laziness allowed...

Queen Michele's:

Greta's:

i used the big zig zag deco scissors.... and have actually used them since this layout as well...i might be on to something ;)

Lisa's

Liz's:

Don't forget to comment on the post under this one for a fabulous RAK
and link your creations to the comments section or add directly to the slide show by clicking the add now button after the show has completed

This week's Deco girls:

layouts have been moved to the project blog
you can get the link from the sidebar :)

Introducing the new crap scrappers

2008-07-14T10:40:00.013-05:00

I am thrilled to say I have enlisted 3 more crap scrappers to help me out with this crazy fun adventure Simone and I have been on since February. We will continue to be featuring queens 2 times a month like we have been doing. The only difference is you will now have more inspiration to look at when the challenges roll out... YAY!!!

Without further ado..here are your 3 new members of the SYC blog.

My name is Karen but I prefer to be called Liz. I live in TX with my hubby, two sons and our weird doggie. The men in my life have learned to deal with the fact that I have a serious paper addiction which started way back in 1998.

I love all things paper and love to apply paper to most things, like lampshades, wood items, clocks, etc. Anything I can find that looks ugly, I try to 're-do' it with paper. My current faves are October Afternoon and Thickers. Recently I've been trying to limit my stash by just purhcasing one monthly kit; it is actually working quite well and, honestly, I can't even use all that up!
You can also visit me here on my blog.

Hello! Hello! This is Dana D. from sunny So. Cal!
My maiden name Shutt- combined with my love of photography- has set me up with the nickname of Shutterz since I was a kid.
I am a small business owner who happily lives with my hubby Larry and our fur-child Harrison. (I also apologize in advance for any typos-as Harrison is currently sitting on my keyboard as I write this!)
I have been scrapping before it had an official name. When I was a kid, I could often be found in my room listening to Rick Springfield on my stereo while cutting pictures out of Teen Beat and TV guide to glue onto construction paper. Things haven't changed all too much!

Here’s what you need to know about me:
I love really bad reality TV.
I hate scary movies because I am a total scaredy cat.
I love nothing better then starting my day just as the sun rises, drinking a cup of Vanilla coffee out of my favorite mug, while snuggled up with my favorite scrap magazine.
I hate going to bed angry.
I love that I started a blog , but I hate when someone leaves me spam!
I love fall even though we don’t really have seasons in San Diego. I hate being hot, which again isn’t always an option in the summer.
If I were British I would be called a magpie because I love glittery bits of this and that and I am thrilled to be in such amazing company... thanks for thinking I was even worthy!

I'm Lisa and a scrapaholic with way too much stuff, so working with Scrap Your Crap helps me feel a little less guilty about all the crap that I have! I quit the corporate world of banking about 4 years ago and my brain needed something to do, I discovered scrapbooking and it became an obsession. I have to scrap just like I had to go to work. I married my soulmate 5 years ago and finally realized being married wasn't a bad thing after all! I have two daughters 19 and 20. I am an animal lover and I have rescued 1 dog and 3 cats. That's enough about me, my blog will tell you more, I am so excited to be working with the girls here and can't wait to get started...so I'm off to scrap my crap!

and in honor of our new crap scrappers we are going to give away a RAK...yep sure are...BUT we are not giving you more stuff to hoard...that would defeat the purpose of this whole challenge blog right? ...so instead the fabulous Liz is going to give away a new blog banner to one of you lucky girls that participate. Drawing will be random using the random number generator. Got to love that thing!! Good luck and let's keep scrapping the crap and using the dusty tools.

Challenge #23: PAINTball Fight!

2008-07-07T11:16:00.009-05:00

Good morning girls. This week we want you to get in touch with your inner Picasso.
We want you to pull out those paints and sling them around like crazy women. Or you can do like me and just brush them on and act like you are sane ;) You must use at least 3 different colors on your layout, project or card.

Please make sure that you post a comment with the link to your project in the comments section of the blog or add it directly to the slide.
I can't wait to see all the paint being slung around!

Queen Michele's

I used Suede spray paint with the Heidi Swapp mask. I also used texture medium and acrylic paint for the flowers. I used the treehouse kit from Noel Mingon and the book paper is from the Getaway kit from her as well.

Greta's:

Thanks for playing along with us each week. I feel a give-a-way coming soon... ;)
and if you haven't checked out the jammed packed kits from Noel, you really should. You definitly get bang for your buck and they are always packed to the gills.

You can see her kits here.

This weeks picasso's:
Slide show has been moved to the project blog. You can click the link to the right of this blog. Thanks for playing and letting us inspire you

Queen of the Crap: Michele Kovack

2008-07-06T12:00:00.002-05:00

We want to extend a huge thank you to Sasha for the last two weeks of awesome challenges! This week we bring you a new queen for the next 2 challenges please welcome:

Name: Michele Kovack

Blog Address(if you have one):
Thoughts of Cardmaking Scrapbooker!

Crafts you dabble in: I love photography, cardmaking, scrapbooking. If there were more hours in the day, I would love to make jewelry! But my son already says I neglect he and my daughter to scrapbook. Can you imagine if I made jewelry too?

Favorite color(s): yellow (My scrap room is yellow)

Do you have a room of crap, a closet of crap or a shelf of crap? An entire room of crap! Hubby was kind enough to set up our spare room for me.

What supply to you have the most of? PAPER!!!!

What supply do you hoard the most? Vintage lace. I buy it off e-bay, garage sales, flea markets, etc.

What brand do you use the most? Making Memories. They are versatile! They have papers in the fun, funky and vintage!!

What brand do you own the most of but use the least? Wild Asparagus. I went through the phase of buying all of their paper because it all coordinated and it had a sort of vintage look to it. Why I don't use it more? I have no idea, except that there is always new stuff coming out!

Keep your scraps or throw them away? Usually throw them away, because my room already looks like a tornado ripped through it!

Organized or perfectly chaotic? Definitely chaotic! Everything has a spot, but while I am creating I pull EVERYTHING out!

Crafting motto? Craft or go insane!

Create with friends or alone? Usually alone, but sometimes I do get together with friends.

What supply do you need a challenge for so that you will use it up? Foam stamps and masks.

Please check back for Michele's first challenge later this week.
Hope everyone had a Happy 4th of July!

Challenge #22: Show us your stars and stripes

2008-06-30T16:31:00.017-05:00

Since 4th of july is right around the corner let's do a patriotic layout, card or project. The only rules is it has to be red, white and blue OR patriotic themed using non traditional patriotic colors. ..the choice is yours...have fun with it.
Queen Sasha is a Master Sgt in the U.S. Air force and we would not only like to thank her for her 2 weeks of challenges but also thank the men and women of the military for all they do for our freedom and to keep us safe. Thank you Sasha and to the United States Military.

Those of you that are our cardmakers if you make a card for this challenge we would appreciate it if you would send it to a soldier in Iraq to say thanks for all they do and we are thinking of them. You can visit Any Soldier.com to read more about this fabulous program.
Thank you again.
Now on with our Crap:

Queen Sasha:

Just a nightly prayer circle before a convoy and before bed. It was something that we partook in .. it touches me and sometimes I just tear up when I see this photo...because I have seeon so much stuff .. (shaking my head)...

I just hope that some understand it is not just another pretty layout, but the meaning behind the layout ..
and

I went into the Air Force in 1995 and met some ladies that were magnificant, it just so happens I still talk to some of them today...I cannot believe I still have these photos...

Greta:

Since Simone is up to her eyeballs in the opening of the new scrap store Lisa ( the last Reigning Queen was so generous enough to offer her help to me. This is great because now you have more inspiration. Thank you kindly Lisa :) Here is her layout

Remember to post your link to your work in the comments section or post it directly to our slide show.

Slide show was moved to our projects blog. You can click the link to that blog from this one on the right

Challenge #21: Shape of Things To Come

2008-06-23T16:25:00.009-05:00

This week we are concentrating on those cute border papers that are EVERYWHERE!
You know the one's by bazzill, making memories, fancy pants, sassafrass...yeah those are the ones i am referring to. Break em out , use 'em, work 'em. We want to see at least 2 DIFFERENT borders on one layout, project or card. If you do not have any border papers (GASP! how could you not) then make your own using some templates that you have been hoarding since 1999. Yeah those...dust them off put them to work.

Remember to post your links to your Crap in the comments section or add it directly to the blog. We want to see these borders and edges

Queen Sasha's:

Greta's:

Bazzill Border and MM noteworthy

Queen of the Crap: Sasha Holloway

2008-06-21T09:00:00.001-05:00

Huge Thank you goes out to Lisa for her 2 week reign. You did a fabulous job and rocked those challenges like a rockstar.

Now please put your hands together for our newest reigning queen for the next 2 weeks

Name: Sasha Holloway

Blog : Sasha's Blog

Crafts you dabble in: I love to make handwoven baskets

Favorite color(s): Red, Black and White

Do you have a room of crap, a closet of crap or a shelf of crap? closet and shelf/half room of CRAP

What supply to you have the most of? chipboard letters and albums..

What supply do you hoard the most? THICKERS

What brand do you use the most? Fancy Pants AND THICKERS

What brand do you own the most of but use the least? Basic Grey
Keep your scraps or throw them away? I keep them in a drawer

Organized or perfectly chaotic? I am organized baby

Crafting motto? ..Ima make it do what it do

Create with friends or alone? I am a loner

What supply do you need a challenge for so that you will use it up? eyelet's

Monday Sasha will roll out her very first challenge so check back. And remember ladies we are looking for more queens.

Challenge #20: Tag you're it!

2008-06-15T19:00:00.002-05:00

This week we are pulling out and dusting off those tags that we all bought in every color and size they had. Lucky for me i used all mine up except for 2 a while back on a project so i had to make my own. This weeks challenge is 4 tags minimum on your layout, card or project.

Make sure you link your projects in the comments section or the slide so we can see all your fabulous creations.

Queen Lisa's

Greta's

Remember girls those who participate have a chance at reigning queen of the crap in the future.