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!

Lucky #13: Winner!

Wow, stunning projects this week, ladies! Thanks so much for playing along! I must admit, I am in love with the color orange, so this challenge was right up my alley!

Thankfully we don't have to pick the winner...that inlinkz froggy does it for us! All the submissions were so pretty it would have been difficult to chose!

We would like to congratulate CAROLE who made this beautiful wedding card, rather than cleaning her house! See, it was karma! :)


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 23rd! Are you ready to use it?

Lucky #13: Indian Summer

Hello Users!

I must admit, this week is my absolute favorite thus far! The Design Team projects as of those of our guest designers are AMAZING...must be the lucky #13!

This week we are asking you to make a project that comes to mind when we say
"Indian Summer".
Wherever it takes you is great! Do you think of a summer heat spell? Does it remind you of a trip to India? Or maybe it brings the colors of summer to mind.

***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 August 19th. No blog? No problem! Just use keyword USE013 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 said that when she thinks of Indian Summer, she thinks of warm rich colors and flowers that bloom around this time. Her stunning creation...made entirely from hoarded items! Even down to the layout!


Nancy was inspired by rich, warm colors on a fall day. Ah, we can feel it, can't you? She dug the paper from her stash and used a long forgotten stamp set to make this gorgeous card.


Sonya also made a 100% hoarded item card! From her DCWV paper, to her CM Cricut cartridge, to using the last of her ribbon off a spool, she certainly used it! Sonya picked the flip flops for the Indian Summer theme because those scream HOT DAYS to her along with the color scheme. They scream to us as well!


Dinah was totally inspired by the colors she associates with Indian Summer. She made such a gorgeous layout using her hoarded papers! The black and white photo just pops right off the page! And we love that #3 switched to an "e" in the title! Awesome effect and great use of your letters!


France was inspired to get out of her comfort zone! She combined red and orange together to make this beautiful rendition of an Indian Summer day!


Haven dug through her stash of Creative Memories papers to make this darling page of her kids enjoying summer in the pool! Funny thing...some of her hoarded items were as old as her kids! Woo Hoo! Way to use it!


Heather chose to be inspired by the colors she thinks of as well...and guess what her hoarded item was? I'll give you a "B"...then a "R"...yes! It is a brayer! Raise your hand if yours is hoarded as well! I know mine has not rolled around in a while.


And our fabulous winner from Challenge #11, Amy, created this beauty with all hoarded items! From a new Cricut cartridge, to DCWV paper, and stamps, and ribbon, oh my! What a darling card that illustrates how many of us want to spend our lazy summer days!


Hazel was a quick worker! She created this Stunner after winning Challenge #12 on Saturday! Her inspiration came from thinking of a bit of summer in autumn. She used uninked stamps and paired these gorgeous yellows and oranges...**love**!

Thank you Amy and Hazel for doing an AMAZING job on this challenge as Guest Designers!!

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!