StampersBest: Borders and Frames Challenge

Come join the 1st YouTube/StampersBest Challenge! Create a project using any of the Borders or Frames rubber stamps from StampersBest.

How to enter:  Post a video response showing your project to the challenge announcement on StampersBest YT channel by Aug. 31st (no mail in).

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Getting back to scrapping

Hello blogland!  When I started this crazy paper crafting hobby of mine 10 or so years ago, I was a scrapper.  I made scrapbooks for gifts, for friends, for my parents, for my kids, but I never made one for me.  Then my hobby took a turn to the Cricut for a while, but I still scrapped.  Then somehow I started making cards, and put my scrapping on hold.  How'd that happen?  I've got enough 12x12 paper stacks to climb up to the moon and back, so it's not that I don't have any paper.  Was I missing my scrapping mojo?  Maybe.....well my bleeps, I think I've found my mojo push.  I stumbled on a wonderful blog that has some of the best page layouts I've ever seen and it's given me the push to pull out the photos and catch up on my scrapping.

If you need a mojo push for your scrapping, stop by Scrap a Little Sketches and check out all the great layout sketches from Helen Croft.  Some of my fellow crafters from Crafting by Designs will be joining me every week when we challenge ourselves to do at least one layout per week to help us get caught up.  Want to join us?  We've got room for more members at Crafting by Designs; just send me an email and I'll send you an invite!

A fun copic challenge

Hello blogland!  I forgot to post this card yesterday - it's this week's second challenge at Crafting by Designs.  Our challenge was to use summer colors on our project: yellows, blues, reds, and I had the perfect summer image to go with these summer colors.

It's one of my new stamps from StampersBest.  I fussy cut the image after it was colored with Copics, and just popped it up on a piece of cardstock from the DCWV Mariposa stack, added a sentiment from The Cutting Cafe and a piece of dyed seam binding - easy peasy summer colors birthday card :)

Use Your Scraps

Hello blogland!  It's roasting in NJ - 104.6 in my backyard...in the shade!  Even the birds aren't splashing in the water fountain today, and the pool water is like bath water.  So this heat calls for quick crafts, and I have a new one to share with you.  One of the new challenges at Crafting by Designs is Use Your Scraps, and our challenge is to create a card or layout using the first 3 pieces of patterned paper scraps and one piece of solid scrap you see in your scrap pile, and make stripes out of them on a white or black base. 

Easy peasy!  I used a Martha Stewart corner punch on the end of each piece for a little added interest, added a digi stamp from The Cutting Cafe which had been tinted with Lindy's Stamp Gang startburst stain, and a piece of seam binding that has been dyed with Lindy's Stamp Gang Tibetan Poppy.  This card took less than 5 minutes - it took longer to tie the bow :)  So come on, get those scraps out and use them!