Challenge #17: Metal!

Hello Users!

This challenge is inspired by my own personal crafty stash of all things metal...
Eyelets? Got 'em! Brads? Got 'em! Little word frames? Got 'em! Buckles? Got 'em!

Please make a project that has something metal on it! Use your imagination! Have fun with it!

***REMEMBER: All of our challenges call for you to use your hoarded supplies! A challenge requirement is to tell us in your post what you used!***

Please link your creation using Inlinkz by Friday Oct 21st . No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE017 when uploading to an online gallery and leave us a direct link so we can find your creation. (Linking tips are at the bottom of the post!)

Please make sure to mention you are playing along with a Use It Tuesday challenge (a link is great too!) so we know you are participating.

As always, one lucky participant will be randomly chosen to be a featured guest designer in an upcoming challenge!

Here is a little inspiration from our fabulous design team to get you started:

Sonya made this festive card which was inspired by her overlooked pumpkin brads! (Oh my gosh, click on the picture to see them bigger...they are darling!) Love the rich colors!



Dinah used a metal frame and if you are looking closely, you will notice the title of "bubble" is made out of alpha brads! Genius!



France named this tag 'find the time' because she needs to find some! Her tag is embossed with metal embossing powder and even the butterfly is a metal cut-out!



Haven took the challenge into the kitchen! She pulled out tin foil, my friend, to make that amazing background! Per usual, she raided her craft stash for the remainder of this layout!


Heather used the faux metal technique to make this stunning card! Love the dimension it gives! She also finished it off with glimmer mist.



Nancy raided my stash for this one (well, not really but it is ironic that I have the EXACT items she used to make this beauty)! Love the big brads and that silver paper...yes, I hoard it too!

And the winner of our uninked stamp challenge, Jen, made these fabulous creations with her leaf brads!! Best use I have even seen for these brads...and the stitching is such a perfect addition!

We can't wait to see what you create! Now go Use It!!

Tips for linking:

• On your blog, once you publish your post, click on "View Blog". Then copy the URL and paste that into the Inlinkz address field.
• No blog? Easy enough! Save your creation in your online gallery. Once it has been published, click on the exact project you want linked. Once it is up in your browser, copy the URL and paste that into the Inlinkz address field below. If you don't use any online galleries, you can use Sami's SP Gallery, registration is free and easy!

Challenge #16: Winner!

Well hello there users!

So, apparently not everyone is as much of a chocoholic as I am! The wonderful creations that were entered were as fabulous as a warm brownie sundae, though. :)

Our winner made a darling card with a chocolate candy stamp!

Ana, YOU WIN!

As always our winner will be asked to join us as a Guest Designer in an upcoming challenge! She also gets to put this awesome button on her blog!

Our next challenge goes live on the 11th! Are you ready to use it?

Challenge #16: Chocolate

Hello Users!

Oh yes, we did, we mentioned chocolate! If you are anything like me, you love it as much as your hoarded supplies!

So, in honor of chocolate, please make a project that is inspired by it!
Maybe the color of the paper? A chocolate holder? An image of your favorite chocolaty treat? Whatever goes!

***REMEMBER: All of our challenges call for you to use your hoarded supplies! A challenge requirement is to tell us in your post what you used!***

Please link your creation using Inlinkz by Friday 7 October. No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE016 when uploading to an online gallery and leave us a direct link so we can find your creation. (Linking tips are at the bottom of the post!)

Please make sure to mention you are playing along with a Use It Tuesday challenge (a link is great too!) so we know you are participating.

As always, one lucky participant will be randomly chosen to be a featured guest designer in an upcoming challenge!

Here is a little inspiration to get you started:

Siobhan dusted off her Cricut Imagine and actually used it. What a concept! She even printed the patterned paper from it because she did not have enough already in her stash that would have matched. **snort** ;) We all know that is NOT true!!


Sonya used an uninked stamp for this darling card! Don't you just love her to-do list?! If only mine looked like that!

France wanted to make a tag that looked so much like chocolate you would want to bite it!! Oh my gosh, she is genius! It does look like a chocolate bar!


Haven took the challenge literally and used Chocolate Chip printed paper!! Did you notice the dogs are Chocolate Labs?! She of course used all paper from her stash! What a yummy layout!


Heather made an awesome cover for her treats! The Halloween paper is saved from some projects she did last year and the ribbon is a brand new roll she had yet to open. Don't worry, the chocolate is new! (Although I wonder if it has a bite out of it??)


Jane used the challenge as an excuse to buy some Ghirardelli Chocolate squares so she could make a project with them. Sure Jane, sure! ;) She dug out 2 old SU sets, scraps of paper and that glorious gingham ribbon to make this fun chocolate holder!


Nancy decided to make a chocolate colored card! Everything on the card is from deep in her stash. The stickers have sat in her drawer for years! Don't they look just perfect on this card?!

We can't wait to see what you create! Now go Use It!!

Challenge #15 Winner!

Well hello there users!

Our uninked stamp challenge must have really hit home for you!

One participant played...count it...FOUR times! The inlinkz froggy was automatically drawn to her...so this is for you Jen,

YOU WIN!

As always our winner will be asked to join us as a Guest Designer in an upcoming challenge! She also gets to put this awesome button on her blog!

Our next challenge goes live on the 27th! Are you ready to use it?

Challenge #15: Uninked Stamp

Hello Users!
Yay! It is time for another challenge! This one should be EASY for you...we are asking that you use an uninked stamp on your creation! You know you have them...I promise, they will only love you more when they hit that ink pad for the first time!

***REMEMBER: All of our challenges call for you to use your hoarded supplies! A challenge requirement is to tell us in your post what you used!***

Please link your creation using Inlinkz by Friday Sept 23rd. No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE015 when uploading to an online gallery and leave us a direct link so we can find your creation. (Linking tips are at the bottom of the post!)

Please make sure to mention you are playing along with a Use It Tuesday challenge (a link is great too!) so we know you are participating.

As always, one lucky participant will be randomly chosen to be a featured guest designer in an upcoming challenge!

Here is a little inspiration to get you started:

Nancy chose to use 2 uninked gems for this creation! She bought the set solely for that butterfly...and then it sat unloved for 2 years! Paired with this stunning hoarded patterned paper we are the ones who are thankful!


Siobhan (that is me...so difficult to write about myself in 3rd person!) has a little stash of fairies from Paper Makeup. Shhh...don't tell anyone! We would not want to let the butterfly out of the bag! :)


Sonya's stamp is a victim of the clearance section! You know you pick up goodies from there, too! So glad that sweet monkey got some ink...and how PERFECTLY it went with an old SU set she had! That sentiment had not been used either!


Dinah chose this PERFECT stamp from Fiskars out of her stash. I can't believe how perfectly it nestles by that picture! Another darling layout!!


France made another awesome tag! She used 2 hoarded stamps...the background and border and they have since been moved to the "I love this stamp" pile! Yay for new favorites!


Haven once again used 100% hoarded items for this awesome card! She has had those CTMH stamps for 5 years! We love how she made her own background using them, too!


Heather has a fondness for a little moose named Riley. Who can resist him? Since I am from Alaska, I can see the attraction! She had plenty to choose from for this challenge. I wonder if her husband is jealous of all the hoarded moose in her life? :)


Jane made this darling onesie using her hoarded SU papers and an uninked PTI stamp. Do you see that button? She has a ton more at home because they never end up on a card! LOL


Nicki, our Guest Designer who won the last challenge made this winter beauty with a hoarded Elzybells stamp! She has had it socked away for the past couple of years, too! So glad she could come out and play with ink! Just beautiful!

We can't wait to see what you create! Now go Use It!!

Tips for linking:

• On your blog, once you publish your post, click on "View Blog". Then copy the URL and paste that into the Inlinkz address field.
• No blog? Easy enough! Save your creation in your online gallery. Once it has been published, click on the exact project you want linked. Once it is up in your browser, copy the URL and paste that into the Inlinkz address field below. If you don't use any online galleries, you can use Sami's SP Gallery, registration is free and easy!

Challenge #14: Winner!

What fun projects we had for this Back to School challenge! They all deserve an A+!

Thankfully we don't have to pick the winner...that inlinkz froggy does it for us!

We would like to congratulate NICKI who made this darling bookmark! She also shared her favorite children's book! What fun going down memory lane!



As always our winner will be asked to join us as a Guest Designer in an upcoming challenge! She also gets to put this awesome button on her blog!


Our next challenge goes live on the 13th! Are you ready to use it?

Challenge #14: Back to School!!

Hello Users!

Did I just hear a bunch of people squeal when they read our topic this week? ;) My kids are so happy to be back in school, homework and all. (OK, that was a white lie, they are happy only for the social aspect. And the 1st grader got in trouble for talking on the first day back. ROTFL!!)

So, this week please make a project that has something to do with SCHOOL!

***REMEMBER: All of our challenges call for you to use your hoarded supplies! A challenge requirement is to tell us in your post what you used!***

Please link your creation using Inlinkz by Friday 2 Sept. No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE014 when uploading to an online gallery and leave us a direct link so we can find your creation. (Linking tips are at the bottom of the post!)

Please make sure to mention you are playing along with a Use It Tuesday challenge (a link is great too!) so we know you are participating.

As always, one lucky participant will be randomly chosen to be a featured guest designer in an upcoming challenge!

Here is a little inspiration to get you started:

Jane had help from a little boy on this darling card! Can you believe her son stamped those images?! She used a ton of hoarded supplies to whip this up, including the stamp set she last used for birthday invitations years ago! We give it an A+!



Nancy is still in denial of the pending 'alarm clock' which will arrive in 3 short weeks! She did a great job on this darling card...look how she used that embossed background that was sitting in a drawer...and that hoarded paper! Great work!! We give it a 10!


Sonya literally dusted off the Locker Talk cartridge for this one! Nice! I think mine are dusty too! Anyway, she also used a rub on from 2007 and cut into paper that was in jeopardy of being hoarded because it is SO CUTE. We love it!


Dinah gets 100% for using 3 different brands of hoarded paper together! I think I need to pay for her to come to my house! I have this very problem!! What a cute little student, too. :)


France made a darling tag that looks like a blackboard! And check out that little ink bottle...she had that set aside for ages and it was perfect for this challenge! How cute would this be for a bookmark? 5 gold stars for France!


Haven used a ton of CM papers and embellishments! She paired things from a few years ago with a few new creations...that were hand cut! She used a die cut from CM, traced it and then used it again and again. Genius!


Yup, and I actually have a contribution this week. :) My sweet little girl (who was uninked), DCWV papers that are hoarded...and really old SU ribbon I got from eBay in say 2004??

We can't wait to see what you create! Now go Use It!!

Tips for linking:

• On your blog, once you publish your post, click on "View Blog". Then copy the URL and paste that into the Inlinkz address field.
• No blog? Easy enough! Save your creation in your online gallery. Once it has been published, click on the exact project you want linked. Once it is up in your browser, copy the URL and paste that into the Inlinkz address field below. If you don't use any online galleries, you can use Sami's SP Gallery, registration is free and easy!