Challenge $55: Winners!!!!

We really hope you loved working with those special hoarded items this week with our "You Can't Touch This" challenge.

Inlinkz wishes it could make everyone happy this week, but alas, it's instructions are only to pick one winner. So, Michelle Price is the lucky winner that will return to Use It Tuesday as a Guest Design Team member for a future challenges. Congrats, Michelle! 

 

 

Here is the winner's badge for you to grab for your blog.

And here are our the Top 2 Design Team picks for Challenge #55:

Kelly O made this great layout. We really liked how she dug into her photo box to find some 30 year old pictures to scrap. Wow! She also used her Basic Grey Hopscotch papers that are several years old.

And, Nehal made these gorgeous quilled earrings. She's hoarded the metal earring loops for awhile and found courage to try them out with our challenge. We're glad you played with us, Nehal!

Congrats, ladies! Here is the Top 2 Pick badge for your blog.
Thanks for playing!!

See you Tuesday for another opportunity to Use It!!

Challenge #55: You Can't Touch This!!

Welcome to our 1st May challenge, Users!
In addition to this week's challenge, we also have some information listed at the bottom of the post about our DESIGN TEAM CALL!  Be sure to check it out...we LOVE when our players apply!

The great thing about challenges is that sometimes they ask you to create outside your comfort zone...we sure hope you don't shed any tears over this one! 

Our challenge this week is called "You Can't Touch This" and we want you to break into that craft supply that you LOVE SO MUCH that you've been avoiding using.

Come on, you can do it!! You bought that paper, or flowers, or bling because it SPOKE to you....so pull it off the shelf and make some magic 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!***

We're looking to see your fabulous entries on our Use It Tuesday site using Inlinkz by noon EST on Friday May 24, 2013. No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE055 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's what our DT cried over this week:

Stacey made a care package for her daughter, whose working on her school finals. She has a stash of these adorable nugget tins and hesitates to use them (because then they'd be gone!!). She also had this adorable paper, several years old, and a stamp sentiment that has never been inked.

Sherri used her beloved Jillibean Soup corrugated alphabet sheet that she's had for 3 years (maybe more?). Sherri also dug into her stash of My Mind's Eye Kraft boarders that have been hanging around and just won't go away! Three made it onto this page...only a few more left! 

Tracy loves these patterned papers, 12x12 die cut sheets by Teresa Collins...she even keeps them in a special "Favorite Papers" place in her scrap room. She also adorned this beautiful layout with a piece of lace that she's had for over 4 years and has never touched.

Stephanie made this adorable mini album from a template she bought 2 years ago. Like most favorites, she was waiting for the PERFECT occasion/theme to use it up...it's a good thing our challenge came along!

Danielle went vintage this week with this beautiful showpiece for a very special picture. This mixed media canvas using supplies, papers and embellishments from her stash shows off this circa 1930's family photo.

  
Tammy only had 3 pages of this Kaisercraft Madame Boutique paper, so she hoarded it very closely. All the other elements also come from her stash and the picture is from another layout (where it didn't look quite right).
  

Nicole dug into a BoBunny collection that she didn't want to touch. In the spirit of the challenge, she was a brave crafter and forced herself to use the ENTIRE collection over the last week (Eeek!!). Additional hoarded items are the 6x6 papers taken from a variety of paper packs and a pack of unopened wood veneers.

 

 
And our Guest Designer this week is Jessica, who won our "Flowers for Mom" challenge a few weeks ago. Jessica made this sweet card box with papers that she bought when she first started scrapbooking 4 years ago. The five cards in the box were also made with papers from her stash and she also used some pink embossing powder she bought over a year ago and hasn't used yet! 

Your turn and we can't wait to see it....Go Use It!!

Design Team Call!

This will be Use It Tuesday's 5th Design Team call and we encourage people from all experience levels to apply.

Term: July 1 to December 31st, 2013

Requirements:
- have an online gallery and/or a blog
- if you have a blog, you need to be a follower of Use It Tuesday to apply  

- have a Facebook account or a willingness to make one
- be able to work with deadlines
- make and post 2 inspiration projects per month
- comment on players’ projects
- be a team player
- have a positive attitude

Interested? Please email the following completed application to UseItTuesday@gmail.com by May 30th.

1. Name
2. Links to your online galleries and/or blog
3. Your previous DT experience, if any.
4. Please tell us a little about yourself.
5. How did you hear about our DT Call?
6. Have you played with us previously?
7. Please tell us why you would like to be on our team.
8. Please share one fun fact about yourself.

Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you!!

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 #54: WINNERS!!

There were some fantastic projects this week in our "Flowers for Mom" challenge.
Thank you for the great variety!

Inlinkz was on the hunt for something special this week and found this "You're Special To Me" Mother's Day card, which also featured flowers.  

Jessica was the artist for this beauty and used her hoarded Echo Park paper for the project. 

Jessica, we hope you'll come back soon and join us as a Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge. Here's your winner's badge for your blog. Congrats!

And here are our the Top 2 Design Team picks for Challenge #54:

Congratulations to Becky T with her nifty box card. Becky cleared her stash of some stickers and also found a "under used" border punch for her project. 

 

 

And a second congratulations to Chana with this elegant card. Chana really dug to the bottom of her stash for this one using bling that's been around for awhile, yellow flowers that "just happened" to be in the right spot at the right time and some beautiful Graphic 45 papers that were hard to cut into!

Congrats, ladies! Here is the Top 2 Pick badge for your blog.
Thanks for playing!!

We have another 5 week month, so that means Use It Tuesday takes a short break this week and returns on May 14th (the 2nd Tuesday of the month). We'll see you back here soon!

Challenge #54: Flowers for Mom

Happy Tuesday, Users!

As we come into the latter part of April we know that the warm weather, flowers and sunshine are just around the corner....
It's also a time to celebrate the special Mom's in our lives, whether they be ours or someone else's. : )

***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!***

We're looking to see your fabulous entries on our Use It Tuesday site using Inlinkz by noon EST on Friday May 3, 2013. No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE054 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's a look at the DT projects for the week:


Danielle documented that special pre-motherhood time with a photo from her cousin's pregnancy photo shoot. She used an Echo Park collection that she's had for about a year and was completely untouched. She also added some tags, pins, buttons and canvas butterflies that were in her stash too.

Stacey went with the "flowers" and "Mother's" themes with this gorgeous Mother's Day creation. The flowers on the card are at least 3 years old!

Tracy created this insightful layout about her Mother and all the wonderful lessons her Mom passed onto her. The patterned papers are only about a year old now, but did come from the scrap bin. The sticker letters and numbers, however are all over 6 years old. The blue ones are so old, they were no longer sticky and needed a little extra adhesive help!

Stephanie made this simple beauty with her Bo Bunny Jazmyne paper (about 2 years old). She also handmade the flower embellishments using paints from...not her stash, but her kids...that's over 10 years old!

 

  
Tammy wrote out her thoughts on Motherhood in this layout celebrating her son, born 4 years ago. Everything came from her stash, including "paper so old I don't even know who makes it!". What a fantastic memory piece!

 

  
Sherri used a Crate Paper collection that is at least 2 years old, but also added in some Petaloo flowers that have been in her stash almost as long! 

Heather used some "very old" flower stickers. It was a big package and it was time to use it up and make room for more hoarded things. She also used paper and ribbon from a card kit that's been in her craft room for almost two years now.

And this week we have TWO Guest Design Team members for you:

Rina was our winner from our diecuts and punches challenge several weeks ago. She put some amazing detail into her project that week and is back again with an equally detailed creation. Rina tells us she has an extensive craft room and "all" the supplies are many years hoarded!

And Janis won our All About Spring challenge. She's back this week with a cute and adorable purse fold card using some great spring papers and flowers that have been in her stash for over 2 years!! Simply adorable, Janis! Thanks for playing with us again.

Your turn and we can't wait to see it....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 #53: WINNERS!!!

So much sticky goodness on our pages this week!!

Inlinkz channelled it's inner wisdom and Doreen with her pretty 

Easter layout was chosen as our winner for this week. 

I love that background paper!!! Congrats, Doreen! We hope to see you again soon at Use it Tuesday as a Guest Design Team Member for one of our upcoming challenges. 

And which two projects stuck to the Design Team's hearts?

That would be Brenda Ragsdale with her deep blue layout celebrating Mother's love. Brenda used sticky alphas, banners and labels on her project for us this week.
 

Our other pick this week was Papersniffer with her "toad"-illy cute and perfectly coordinated Giant Toadstools layout. She used letter stickers on this beauty!

Here is the Top 2 Pick badge for your blog.
Congratulations and thanks for playing!!

Tomorrow's that wonderful day - Tuesday! - come back and see what we're up to!

Challenge #53: Sticky Situation!

Happy Tuesday, Users!

This week, we`re getting sticky. Our challenge is called "Sticky Situation" and we want you to dig out those hoarded things that stick....stickers, embossing, rub-ons, glue-dots, glue sticks, etc. 

***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!***

We're looking to see your fabulous entries on our Use It Tuesday site using Inlinkz by noon EST on Friday April 19, 2013. No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE053 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!

There`s lots of variety in our DT projects this week. Let`s see what everyone stuck to their projects this week:

Heather bought these flower embellishments almost 4 years ago and just never found the right project for them. She pairs them with a rub-on sentiment that's also several years old.

Danielle shares a page from her art journal with us. She finds rub-ons perfect for journaling and included alphas, flowers, stitches and work memory rub-ons on this bright page. Most of those rub-ons have been in her stash for almost a decade!

Stacey stuck with the stickers. Everything white on this card is a sticker from Making Memories that has been in her stash for at least 5 years...and the package had been NEVER opened! 

Tracy  found this trio of koala's in her stash, just hanging around and waiting for this perfect picture. She also found these older patterned papers and coordinating embellishments in her stash. So adorable!

Nicole created this beauty using only scraps in her stash...the card base, doily die, ribbon...everything! She got sticky with this sentiment sticker, raised from the back of the card with foam risers. Want a neat Nicole tip...put powder on the back of your raised sticker to reduce the stickiness and keep the dimension of the raised sentiment during mailing.  

Stephanie taught some of us a new word with this challenge....GLUBBERS! These large glue-dot like objects are great to turn some old ribbon (3 years in this case) into a beautiful rosette to adorn the card. The alphas on her project are also stash finds from about 4 years ago.

Sherri used some Crate Paper stickers that are at least 2 years old for her gorgeous layout, as well as a clip from when she first began scrapping with more than just stickers (about 5 years ago).

Tammy found some rub-ons to stick onto her project, but also found some glubbers in her room and opened them for this project. And, the paper represents the last of her MME All Spice paper pack.

What will you stick to your project? 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 #52: WINNERS!!

Did last week's challenge put a spring in your step? It sure did for us!

Who did Inlinkz want to see as our next Guest Design Team member? 

None other than Janis, who created this dandy spring time card. 

 

Here you go, Janis! The Use it Tuesday winners badge is yours for the taking.
We'll see you again soon on an upcoming challenge.

And which two projects did the Design Team pick for our Top 2?

That would be Debbie Piercey with her brightly colored layout. For Debbie, spring means the school Field Day (oooh, I remember those), the chance to be outside away from the books.

 

Our other pick this week was from Michaela with her Easter card `Chicken Knittle` card. The detail and colors on this card was just amazing, Michaela!

Here is the Top 2 Pick badge for your blog.
Congratulations and thanks for playing!!

The glue has dried on the DT projects for this week and we`re ready to go. We hope you stick us on your calendar and play along!