Scrap Our Stash July 15 Challenge

Time for my next guest design post for Scrap Our Stash! The challenge this time is a Sketch + Stash challenge, so follow along with the sketch, and add this stash item: BLING!

I have the hardest time scrapping Christmas photos. But, I think I've finally figured out the problem. I need to stick with papers that are a bit muted in color, and stay away from anything over-the-top Christmas-y.  I've used two different collections on my layout: Lawn Fawn Fa-La-La and My Mind's Eye Winter Wonderland. Some presents and snowflakes, and that's enough to get across that it's a Christmas layout.

And when it came to adding bling, I sprinkled some rhinestones around. I then added enamel dots (not qualifying bling, btw) for some color:

This is seriously the third time I tried to scrap these photos. I am so happy with how this layout turned out, it is going straight into my album. Thanks to SOS for such a fabulous sketch!

Happy Scrapping!

Scrap Our Stash July Guest Designer

Last month I found a fabulous scrapbook challenge blog, Scrap Our Stash. I've been working hard to use up my stash this year, especially patterned papers, so I find their challenges to be the perfect way to dig into my supplies. I'm happy to be their guest designer this month!

The July 1st challenge is to use red, white, and blue, along with at least 3 premade stars from your stash. I used ScrapbookSteals.com Peridot 7 sketch and pulled paper from a variety of companies, plus some Jillibean Soup red and white stars, to create this layout:

These are just some photos of my daughter looking cute, no particular story to tell, so I left the journaling out. But there is some space under the second photo to add something later if I change my mind.

 Patterned papers: Jillibean Soup, Fancy Pants, Cosmo Cricket

Stickers: Jillibean Soup, KI Memories

Canvas stars: Jillibean Soup

Arrow clips: Freckled Fawn

Washi tape: Bella Blvd.

Title letters: Pebbles

Star stamps: Sweet Stamp Shop

Date Stamp: American Crafts

Ink: Memento

I hope you'll play along at Scrap Our Stash this month! 
Thank you, Brenda and Rochelle for letting me guest design for you!

Antler Arches

 This was a fun layout to make. I love this sketch at Scrap Our Stash so gave it a try:


The other SOS challenge requirement is to use at least 3 pre-made flowers from my stash, so I pulled out my BasicGrey Bloomers - I have tons of these sweet fabric flowers but have used them on very few projects. Perfect for the challenge at hand. I let the flower colors dictate the layout colors, and it all came together nicely with pieces of my December Studio Calico kits.

Since I'm using up old flowers from my stash, I also wanted to participate in the brand new challenge at Sweet Stamp Shop to Use what you have!. So I pulled out my SSS stamps, using them to decorate the white journal card pocket (Today Was) and add some arrows (Chalkboard Sign).

I forgot to take a pic of the flowers before sticking them on the layout, but here's a pic of some of the rest of the Bloomer stash:

 

And here's my layout: