Use Your Stuff Monday

I know Halloween just ended but I've already been thinking of Christmas.

I'm a little behind with the designing of my cards this year, so far just one design.

This weeks challenge on the Use Your Stuff blog is to share a 

Christmas or Holiday themed project.

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While searching my computer for the above image I came across some holiday projects

from years past and I thought I would recap some here.

This is just so cute I had to share it again.

Awwwww

UYS Monday

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
 
I am so happy that Halloween is almost here, I look forward to it every year!

So when Lynne challenged us to a Halloween colour challenge I knew what I wanted to do.

I used my Silhouette to cut out these sweet treat boxes. 

Aren't they awesome?

I cut them at the right size to work with a PTI stamp set I bought last year and 

never used until now. This set got quite a workout, I made several cards and boxes this season.

Head over to the Use Your Stuff blog and join us this week with your sweet creations.

UYS Monday

This weeks challenge from Bronwyn is Home Sweet Home.

Check out the UYS blog here for more details.

I created a 6x12 canvas with some scraps, tissue paper and some help from my Silhouette.

It seems one of my favourite things to do is to get messy these days.

I love getting my hands in there when making canvases.

Have an awesome week!

Use Your Stuff Monday

Time for another challenge on the Use Your Stuff blog

It was my turn to set the challenge and this week I asked everyone to 

use three or more brads on their projects.

This layout was created a while ago for a 1 hour challenge and

I did not like the finished layout. So I added more embellishment and tweaked the title a bit.

I really like the way it looks now.

Head over the the UYS blog and link up your project for this weeks challenge. 

UYS Monday

I'm back at it this week. I want to thank Lynne for taking over some of the UYS blog

duties for September. Thanks Lynne! I really appreciate your help :)

This week Lynne challenged us to use banners. 

This is what I made.

If you like banners then you might like to check out these banner happy projects.

a canvas, a mini book, a layout and a few cards

Head over to the UYS blog to see what the other gals came up with and 

to link up your own banner happy projects.

Use Your Stuff Monday

woohoo! it's my turn to set the challenge this week.

i am lovin' these summer days and wishing i could be outside more often.

with that in mind as my inspiration, i made this fun outdoor scene on a 10x10 canvas.

i was not only inspired by the outdoors, i was also very inspired by christy tomlinson. 

lots of paint, stamping and rub ons creating the background.

the flowers are cut from stampin' up sizzlitts and mini punches.

the clothes pegs are from american crafts.

visit the UYS blog for more details and to check out the other projects for this week.

Joy

Use Your Stuff Monday

back again with another challenge. 

this week Barb asked us to make something masculine.

i can always use more dude cards for my stash, i always run out.

i used more echo park paper this week, washi tape, veneer star from studio calico,

stamps from pti, unity stamps & a ctmh alpha set.

visit the UYS blog and see what the other ladies came up with.

Joy

Use Your Stuff Monday

time for another challenge with my friends on the use your stuff blog.

lynne challenged us to use hot pink, yellow & orange.

here's what i came up with

i used: distress inks, water colour paper, echo park & bo-bunny papers, 

hero arts & pti sentiments. also a new stampin' up embossing folder.

i hope you can join the challenge this week.

Joy

Put it in your Pocket

It's challenge time again on the Use Your Stuff blog. 

This week we had to get creative with pockets.

I used: washi tape for the background

a pocket from ki memories

a studio calico wood veneer bird

papertrey ink label stamp

and a sentiment by stampin' up

thanks for lookin'!

to see what the other ladies made for this weeks challenge

click here

Joy

use your stuff

this week Ms. Bronwyn challenged us to....... 

Make a one page layout with four or more photos.

I used digital products from sahlin studio called key to my heart and washi tape strips no. 2

I used them as the jumping off point for this layout. I always pleasantly surprised when I start with product first, no worrying about matching colours in the photos. I love how this turned out.

Now I'm no expert on digi scrapping as you can tell from my drop shadows, but, since 

my craftroom is in boxes I am going to try and learn some more tricks.

I hope you can join us for this weeks challenge. Visit the UYS blog and link up your creation.

Use Your Stuff

It's been that long!

Very bad blogger. Well you know life can sometimes just get busy and bloggin' goes to the bottom of your to do list.....that's what happen to me. Lots of things happening around the home front, we are in the process of selling our home. We decided to update a few things before listing so were also in the middle of renovations, needless to say my crafting time is in short supply.

My challenge for this week over on the UYS blog is to add texture to your project.

I decided to make another canvas....

Lots of good texture on there. I used moulding paste, rub-ons, paint, stamps and a bit of doodling.

I also used some Studio Calico Abroad papers to make her dress.  I hope you get a chance to pop over to the Use Your Stuff blog to check out what the other chickas have made and maybe even like up your own project.

use your stuff monday

ms. lynne challenged us with a colour combination this week. Brown, Green and Peach. 

this is how lynne inspired us.....

and here's what i made.....

hop over to the uys blog and join the challenge this week.

 Joy

use your stuff - ad challenge

 hey there my crafty friends,

another monday means another challenge on the UYS blog. this week Barb challenged us
to use this ad as inspiration for our projects this week....

here's what i came up with....

check out what the other ladies came up with here and link your project too. 

you've got a whole week to be inspired.

thanks for visiting!

  Joy

use your stuff

it's my turn to set the challenge this week on the use your stuff blog.
anything goes this week! use what you've got and make whatever you want.
no rules, no restrictions.

i'm starting to get into mixed media canvases, just starting, i used what i had here. some old making memories paint, paper, unity stamp from up the street scrapbooking ,
a 3x3 canvas, some antique script paper by bazzill basics and matte multi-medium.

Head over to the uys blog, check out what the other ladies made and 

link up your project too.

Thanks for visiting!

  Joy

use your stuff

this week on use your stuff, bronwyn challenged us to use hexagons. they are very popular right now and a ton of inspiration can be found on pinterest.

here's what i made for our challenge

i cut two sizes of hexagons with my silhouette to create these card fronts. you can't see it here but a couple of the shapes are raised with pop dots. 

check out the UYS blog to see what the other ladies came up with, i hope you can join us this week.

happy hump day!

Joy

late to the party

i'm late to the use your stuff party this week. not because i couldn't find a dress but 

because i was a little drained from the online crop i helped host over the weekend. 

so much fun! but i felt like i had a creative hangover. 

this past monday Barb made us a sketch and challenged us to use it.

see sketch here

i used some american crafts amy tan paper and embellishment. i love the barcode

strip on this line. we usually throw away this strip but not these ones. 

one side has a pattern on it. this layout was made pretty much with one 

12x12 paper and one border strip.

check out the UYS blog and see what the other projects look like.

we all used the same sketch but our layouts are so different.

 Joy

hello again

well i can't say that we gave up all our techie toys but 
we did get a good break from them.

no t.v.

very limited internet use (10 minute blocks on certain days) 

no blogging :(

no texting (i broke down on the 22nd)

next time we will try for the whole shebang. give up all "connected" gadgets.

now for the crafty stuff....here are a few peeks for you of some up coming projects

some use your stuff

lynne challenged us to use  teal, purple and yellow gold

i rarely use purple in my projects but this challenge started me on a purple kick! maybe purple isn't so bad.

the flower was cut on my silhouette. i saw a similar card with this flower somewhere on the web but now i can't find it to share it with you. *love* this flower

see what the other gals made

lynne

barb

bronwyn

have a fabulous friday!

 Joy

u y s monday

ms. bronwyn gave us an inspiration photo for this weeks challenge....

i made these 6x6 layouts about our doggies

no ruffles but i did hand stitch

i dug so deep into my stash for these old bo bunny papers i was shocked 

i still had them.

i would love to see how you are inspired by this weeks photo,

link up your project on the Use Your Stuff blog.

happy crafting!

Joy

u y s monday

i was up this week to set the challenge and i have been using lots of dies and tags from my stash from my project life. so inspired by that.......the challenge is to use your tags and die cuts.


here's my layout 

i was thinking i could have used lots of the die cut sticker sheets that i have too. 

a little bit of washi tape for the border, some punched circles i had sitting around and a movie camera image from the silhouette store was all i need. i used kraft paper again....i'm only slightly addicted.....and a little chipboard heart which i think was a left-over from a basic grey calendar a couple of years ago.

the title letters are from heidi swapp called invisible stickers, i inked them with tumbled glass distress ink.

to check out with the other UYS team made with their die cuts 

go to the uys blog

happy monday!

Joy

you know what time it is

it's monday.....time for a use your stuff challenge

i had to limber up for this challenge. ms. barb challenged us to keep things in line and stretch them out. 

i made an 8.5x11 layout this week and i think i did a pretty good job 

stretching across the page and keep it all in line

grey, yellow and a bit of teal all on a cream background. love this colour combo!

visit the use your stuff blog to see what the other chicks made and link up your own project.

thanks for stopping by

Joy