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April 2019 Monthly Papercraft Challenge

Welcome to the reveal of our April 2019 Papercrafting Challenge! This month I am gives you a super easy challenge since it’s such a busy month with the holiday and sports starting.  I really just want to help you find the time to create something this month. To enter come over to my Facebook page.  There will be a pinned post at the top of the page. To enter just comment with your creation on the pinned post.  If there are at least five entries by the end of the month a random participant will win a coupon code to the shop for their next purchase. I hope you find these challenges inspiring and I can’t wait to see what you create for the April 2019 papercrafting challenge!

March 2019 Papercrafting Challenge

Welcome to the reveal of our March 2019 Papercrafting Challenge! This month I am challenging you to use the below sketch from Ana Castro. 

There is so much possibility in this sketch.  It has some mixed media, layers, two spots for photos or clusters.  You could even adapt this to a card front.  I can’t wait to see how it inspires you!

March 2019 Monthly Challenge

To enter come over to my Facebook page.  There will be a pinned post at the top of the page. To enter just comment with your creation on the pinned post.  If there are at least five entries by the end of the month a random participant will win a coupon code to the shop for their next purchase.

I hope you find these challenges inspiring and I can’t wait to see what you create for the March 2019 papercrafting challenge!

February Papercraft Challenge

If you haven’t been following along on my Facebook page I invite you to do that now!  Each month I issue a challenge of some kind.  Sometimes the challenge is a mood board, a sketch or something totally different.  The February papercraft challenge is based on an amazing mood board.

February Papercraft Challenge

The amazing February papercraft challenge mood board comes from Georgie The Content Creator.  I loved that it was soft and dreamy like we think of love, but it didn’t scream Valentine’s Day.  Don’t stick to just the colors though, feel free to think outside the box.  Do the trees somehow inspire you?  Do the flower petal in the left make you think of dragon scales….go for it!  The whole point is to get you creating and using your stash.

When you are done creating head on over to my Facebook page.  Pinned to the top of the page is the challenge announcement.  Add a picture of your creation to that post.  If there are five, or more, entries for the month random winner will be chosen for a gift certificate for the shop!

I can’t wait to see what you create, and I hope this inspires you to get in your area and have some fun.  Until next time…stay crafty!

Long Title Scrapbook Layout

Hey crafty friends!  Glad to be back again so quickly.  This time I have a long title scrapbook layout to share with you as part of the Scrap Our Stash Golden Group challenge for October.

For this challenge we were asked to use the movie Sing as inspiration, and to add bling/whinestones to our layout.  This was the first time I had actually seen the movie we were asked to use so that finally clicked, but I don’t have a big stash fo rhinestones so that was my challenge for this project.

As my nod to sing I used a long title which is a lyric from a Kane Brown song.  It’s appropriate for a picture of my hubby and I because I am a worry wart.  I always have a what if for every situation. He is the opposite and always says what if…that doesn’t happen or what if it’s actually good.  I’m so blessed to have that balancing force in my life.

This long title scrapbook layout was created for my husband's 38th birthday using 8.5 x 11 size rather than you standard 12x12.

This kit is from Felicity Jane, and I will tell you it was gorgeous.  If I remember correctly it was the Felicity or Alexis kit.  The puffy stickers were my favorite piece.  I paired the kit with some simple mixed media using the packaging technique.  I did not use gesso prior to the mixed media and since I went light on the water there isn’t much warping thank goodness. I don’t remember where I got the wood flower, but they made a perfect home for a few rhinestones.

I really love how this came out.  The colors are some of my favorite to work with.  How will you interpret the Sing challenge?  Do you use long title?  Make sure to tell me in the comment below.  Until next time..stay crafty!

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LONG TITLE SCRAPBOOK LAYOUT SUPPLY LIST

Autumn | Challenge Yourself | Hip Kit Club

     Afternoon crafty friends!  I’m sharing a layout today that was inspired by two different challenges.  I wanted to use the mood board at Challenge Yourself and the weekly sketch on the Hip Kit Club Facebook forum.
     Both of these challenges were perfect to get some of the photos from our recent apple picking trip done.  I took these selfies with each of my kiddos because getting them both to sit still for one together is almost impossible

     The products on this page came from an old My Creative Scrapbook kit…Fall 2015 to be exact 🙁  The papers included in the clip were from Echo Park’s The Story Of Fall and the chipboard was from Carta Bella’s A Perfect Autumn.  
     I really like the dimensional interest using some flat stickers and some chipboard gives the page. I used a white pen for my journalling since my favorite black sharpie didn’t really show up.  Do you have a favorite white pen as I’m not sold on the one I have?
    Okay – enough chatting for today…back to creating.  Stay crafty!!