Friday, February 27, 2015

Sketch-y Friday with Team A

Hi there!

We are starting a brand new month of Sketch-y Friday Challenges today!  (Yes our February challenges are officially open for one more day, and we will draw those winners later this week and announce them next Friday.  This is what a short month does to us! hehe)

Here is your very first sketch for March.


And here is your Team A inspiration!





Tiiu 

Here is a run down of our Sketch-y Friday rules.  Just link up your creations in our sidebar to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize.    You have until March 29th, at midnight to participate in any of March's sketch challenges, each linkup tool will remain open until that date!

If you are playing along with more than one challenge you will need to link each of them up via a separate blog post for the link up tool to work. (International participants may be required to pay some shipping fees.)  Good luck, we cannot wait to see what you create!

*note - If you are playing along using Flickr the team will no longer be leaving comments, due to changes in Flickr policies and passwords.  However, we will be checking out your entries for sure and you are definitely eligible for the prize draw. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thanks for visiting!
Your friends at ScrapMuch?!

PS Please check your blogs, blogger has made some changes and if your blog is set up to have a separate window open up for comments, blogger has added a comment verification that can make it tedious and/or challenging  for us to leave comments on your blogs depending on the devices that the team members use to visit you.  You may not get comments if you have comment verification activated on your blog.  Thank you!

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Inspiration on Thursday - An Entire Album!!

Hi there!

We have a super special treat for you today, we are sharing an entire album to inspire you!

Elaine created this album, as a special keepsake. It was to be used as both a scrapbook album and a place for guests to sign and leave messages of love for the recipient.  It is just beautiful and an amazing idea!

To keep it cohesive she used the same paper collection throughout, which ties all the different styles of pages together.












Aren't you inspired?  What an amazing gift this would make!

Thank you for visiting!

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

One Stamp 3 Ways - Tutorial

Hi there!

Laura here sharing a tutorial with you today. When deciding what kind of a tutorial to share with you this week, I came up with a sort of three for one tutorial using stamps.  I don't often remember or embrace stamping, I definitely need more practice at it.  So I challenged myself to share a few techniques with you, utilizing a single stamp.

I decided to use this stamp set, and specifically the grid type stamp since it was a gift from ScrapMuch? at one of the Fall Retreats.

 The first idea is really really simple, just stamp on to scrap paper....

 .. trim out and use as a journalling area on a layout.

 For my second tip, I stamped the image 4 times onto a card base.

 Then I painted in the squares and rectangles using water colour paints.

I love the vibrant look.  It does curl slightly but will flatten when adhered onto a card.

This is what my finished card looks like with my bold geometric background.

For my last idea, I wanted to share with you a tip about stamping onto layouts.

I started by layering my photo onto a few pieces of pattern papers in a colour combo that I like.

Then I used some distress inks to create two focal areas on my background page.

Then with my stamp, and NO block, I random stamped partial images onto the background.

 This is what the finished background looks like.

 Here is a little close up for you.

And this is my finished page.

This is also a great stash busting layout, as I just went through all my goodies and pulled out items in the colours I wanted to play with.

Thanks for visiting!

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Kit Club Tuesday

Hi friends!

We are sharing our final reveal today, using the current kit club contents.  And once again Elaine has created a truly inspiring page!


Love that banner and title!

Thanks for popping in!

Monday, February 23, 2015

Simple Stories - I Am

Hi there!

The brand new "I Am" collection from Simple Stories is in the store - it is awesome!  There is a great video about the product line here.





And along with it some new products for Simple Stories!! Like these great self adhesive bradz......





and these Washi tape strips.....





You can view a fun video about the bradz here and the tape here.

So glad you visited today!

Friday, February 20, 2015

Sketch-y Friday with Team B

Hi there and happy Friday!


We are back with the last sketch for February and Team B has some gorgeous inspiration for you today!   Also our February guest designer is back with us sharing her take on the sketch as well!

Here is your sketch....


Here is Sharlene Nye-Petrone's fabulous page.....

 Such  a fantastic sports page!

And here is your Team B inspiration!





Here is a run down of our Sketch-y Friday rules.  Just link up your creations in our sidebar to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize.    You have until February 28th, at midnight to participate in any of February's sketch challenges, each linkup tool will remain open until that date!

If you are playing along with more than one challenge you will need to link each of them up via a separate blog post for the link up tool to work. (International participants may be required to pay some shipping fees.)  Good luck, we cannot wait to see what you create!

 *note - If you are playing along using Flickr the team will no longer be leaving comments, due to changes in Flickr policies and passwords.  However, we will be checking out your entries for sure and you are definitely eligible for the prize draw. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thanks for visiting!
Your friends at ScrapMuch?!

 PS Please check your blogs, blogger has made some changes and if your blog is set up to have a separate window open up for comments, blogger has added a comment verification that can make it tedious and/or challenging  for us to leave comments on your blogs depending on the devices that the team members use to visit you.  You may not get comments if you have comment verification activated on your blog.  Thank you!

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Inspiration on Thursday

Hi there!

We are sharing more amazing inspiration with you today, and today`s inspiration comes from our Sketch-y Friday entries!  We just love this page from Kathy M!

Birthday Girl

Thanks for playing along Kathy!  Please grab a featured button from our side bar.

And thank you all for visiting today!

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Altered Stamps - Tutorial

Hi there!


Laura here today with a new tutorial to share with you today. Actually it is more of a tip. But I will warn you it is not for the faint of heart ;)

I have amassed quite a collection of stamps, as I am sure a lot of you have.   I really try to make an effort to use them, though I am not the best stamper.

In order to use them a little more often, I have altered a few to make them work better for me or be more suitable to me.

Here are a couple of examples.


This is a fun background stamp that I picked p a long, long time ago.  I have used it a fair bit, but the last time I used it I no longer loved it.  I decided that I didn't like the solid lines and it should be more distressed.


So I took a strong pair of scissors and started snipping away at the lines in a random sort of fashion so that the solid lines and especially the border/edge was more broken up.


Now my stamp stamps like this and I love it!  It is just perfect for when I want to create a lovely messy background!

If you are still with me and I haven't shocked you too much, check out what I often do to my sentiment stamps.


From this.....


To this...

I find I get much more use out of them this way, I can mix up the sentiments and create new ones and I do not have to purchase as many!  Just be careful not to cut the actual words.

Does this give you any ideas?  Will you be altering any of your stamps?

Thanks for visiting!

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Kit Club Tuesday

Hi there!

We have more inspiration for you today using our February kit club contents.



As you can see this kit is perfect to document any type of relationship, let's not forget about fathers and sons!


And for documenting things that you or your loved ones love!  Way to got Elaine!

Thanks for visiting!