Scrapping Our Stash December Blog Hop

Welcome to another Scrapping Our Stash Blog hop. For December we chose an Anything Goes theme. You might be arriving here from LYNE'S BLOG. You can find a full list of hoppers at the bottom of this post!

 A Christmas Story has long been a family favorite of ours, and Ben's love of chunky black glasses helps him bear a pretty good resemblance to Ralphie Parker. I don't know why, but this year he agreed to be Ralphie for Halloween. We thought we'd have to really work on him, but he loved the idea and agreed to give up his typical Star Wars costume for the low, low price of a small custom box of See's Candy. He loves wearing that costume much more than Ralphie did, and so we brought it with us to our holiday family photo shoot.  Apple Blossom Photography took the most amazing pictures of my sweet Ben in this crazy bunny suit, and these pics needed a special page all their own. I used the December 1st sketch from Stuck? Sketches for this single page layout.

I combined a Memo Fundamentals notebook paper with some (retired) Charlotte pink papers, Cranberry and Whisper Cardstock, and a bit of City Sidewalks holiday paper. I splattered some black watercolor over the notebook paper, and hand-wrote Ralphie's Christmas Theme onto the background. I diecut some snowflakes from silver glitter paper to go with the whisper snowflakes I stamped and then I embellished the snowflakes with lots of bitty rhinestones. I cut my title using the Flower Market Cricut cartridge font combined with some stamped words stolen from the February SOTM (sneak peek!). I finished with a lot of rhinestone embellished silver hand stitching and some American Crafts washi tape. I'm also linking this page up to the current issue over at Paper Issues.

Next up on the hop is SANDY'S BLOG. Happy Hopping!

DECEMBER SCRAPPING OUR STASH HOP:

Wendy Coffman

Sandy Ross

Majken Pullin

Lyne Schnable-Blodgett

Day 215: Scrapping Our Stash Blog Hop

Welcome to the September Scrapping Our Stash Blog Hop! Each month we make something fun using only items from our stash. You might be arriving here from SUZANNE'S BLOG - let's hop!

This month I'm sharing a new hoop for my ongoing  Hoop Art wall project. I built this hoop with watercolor paper, washed with different colors of watercolor. I blended out a lot with extra water. Once that dried I stamped on the various pieces of the sentiment (plus a bit of Kraft Keyboard alphabet and some leftover cork letters colored with alcohol marker). I stamped and cut out a few flowers to add to the edges. 

I couldn't grab a good pic, but I filled in the letters of the sentiment and the flower centers with a wash of clear Wink of Stella. I topped the tiny flowers with some white acrylic bubbles.

Next up on the hop is LEE-ANN'S BLOG . I've added the full hop list below - enjoy!

Lee-Anne

Alison

Majken

Katrina

Cheryl

Suzanna

Wendy C - You are here! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Day 152: Scrapping Our Stash Hop

Welcome to the Scrapping Our Stash Blog hop, a monthly hop where we hit up our stash for unused scrapbooking treasure. You might be arriving here from AUDREY'S BLOG. Let's hop! 

I looked to the Scrap Much? Sketchy Friday for some scrapping inspiration. I just got back from CTMH convention and I know now that this nice dark navy color is retiring, so I wanted to do something with Outdoor Denim, of which I have a substantial stash. I pulled some retired Ariana papers to go with my Outdoor Denim cardstock. I love that rich navy color, but I almost always need to sand it - I love how you can see the scratch marks so well against the blue color.

I found a package of  canvas stickers from an old scroll scrapbook kit I never made (the way it was designed anyhow). I pulled the orange Sorbet color from those and colored my canvas letter stickers with a marker to match. I filled in the title with some Keyboard Kraft alpha letters....I still have stash of those, since I bought like 10 packs when they went into the While Supplies Last area of my website long ago. A deal is a deal, right? See those smiling faces - the boys agree!

Next up on the hop is more scrapping goodness from CHARITY'S BLOG. A list of all the participating bloggers sharing their craftiness is below. Have fun hopping!

Christine Meyer 

Katrina Hunt 

Majken Pullin 

Wendi Robinson 

Sandy Ross 

Suzanna Lee 

Laura Cox 

Lyne Schnable-Blodgett 

Audrey Yeager 

Wendy Bergeron Coffman 

Lee-Anne Thornton 

Alison  

Day 96: Scrappin' Our Stash Blog Hop

Welcome to this month's Scrappin' Our Stash blog hop, where the challenge is to make something using only items from your craft stash. You might be lucky enough to be arriving here from CHERYL'S BLOG. If not, keep on hopping and you'll come back around to check out her awesome project!

If you're a fan of this hop, you've seen me working on this series of Hoop Art for almost a year now, adding a hoop almost every month. This month I made this mini hoop, a 3" baby hoop, filled with a scrap of Grey and silver polka dot fabric from some unfinished project that I can't even remember now. I added some washi tape covered banner diecuts along with a few flowers left over from my Heirloom Pro stamp show demo. 

I have trouble stopping when I craft. I feel like there's always another detail I could fix or add, something I could redo or make better. So I've wanted to hoop this sentiment for a while. I stamped the letters in Memento Tuxedo black, then went over them with Liquid Glass to make them more 3-D. 

In the spirit of the sentiment, I hand lettered the rest of the words. It's not a perfect hoop, but it makes me smile. I need this reminder daily, because if I've learned anything from doing this 365 days of blogging challenge, it's that it is the process of creating that fills that spot in my soul and makes me happy.  

Now hoop on over to KRISTY'S BLOG to see more stash bustin' goodness. 

Day 61: Scrapping Our Stash Blog Hop

Welcome back to another round of the Practical Scrappers Scrapping Our Stash Blog Hop. On this hop you'll find projects made from our stashes - nothing newly purchased, just add creativity! You might be arriving here from WENDI'S BLOG - let's hop!

Back at the beginning of April I shared these altered letters that I hung over my computer desk area. They were fine as is, but I kept looking at them and wanting to do something more. So I turned on my Cricut and started cutting butterflies. Loads of butterflies. So. Many. Butterflies.

Some I left plain...for now. Some I double layered and glittered. Some I added a layer with Wink of Stella. All were attached to the wall with Command Mounting Strips which I trimmed into tiny bits so that when I want to alter this again, I can easily do so without having to do any touch up painting. Yay!

If you have the CTMH cricut cartridges and want to make some butterflies too, here's my Cricut Design Space file!

Next up on the hop is LEE-ANNE'S BLOG. Have fun!

Day 6: Scrapping Our Stash Hop

Welcome to the February Scrapping Our Stash blog hop, where each month we create projects using only stuff from our stash! You might be arriving here still smiling from CATHY'S BLOG. 

This month I made a piece of "She" Art. CTMH did these on canvases at an event I didn't get to attend. Of course, I made mine in an embroidery hoop to add to my Hoop Art wall. I didn't have instructions, or a template for the doll figuring, but I figured I've got enough stuff, so I jumped right in. I found my Quote on Pinterest, and lettered it by hand.

I know there's cool stamps out there now to make these dolls, but I'm using my stash, so I just got some Colonial White CS and started cutting. When I found a face shape I liked, I outlined it with a black fine-tipped journaling pen. That went ok, so I tackled the hair, using scrap brown cardstock from my bin. I even added a glittery streak where I have a natural blonde streak in my own hair.Then I drew the neck and body in pencil. I cut that apart to use as a template to trim the Colonial White CS and patterned papers. I outlined everything after I pieced it together and I'm really happy with how it came out. The pants are a really old retried CTMH pattern, and the top (and the fussy cut butterfly on the top) came from a Simple Stories 6x6 pad. I colored the skin using my Spectrum Noir markers. I sprayed the background behind the doll with Krylon glitter spray using a sunburst template my sweet downline Karin gave me many moons ago.

For the background I mounted some pink CTMH retired patterned paper onto the inside hoop. Once that dried I cut notches all along the outer edge and glued the paper down before tightening the outer hoop. I sponged the paper with cream acrylic paint. Is tamped it with my 2015 CHOOSE HAPPY sentiment in Gypsy ink. I added sponging in Crystal Blue, and stamped on some blue hearts and recipe lines in a crosshatch pattern, too. I found some older rub-ons in my stash in cream and black and started applying them. Then I built the flower rainbow using up a cup of extra flower diecuts I've had forever. I colored the flowers and the sparkly embellies with Spectrum Noir markers. The frame was painted cream. Then I applied White daisy Reinker all around the edge and a line of Pink stickles and used a pin to mix it up.

Basically, I just grabbed anything within arms reach and kept on gluing and inking until I was happy. It was a super fun project - you should totally try it! 

The next blog bringing you stash goodness is SUZANNA'S BLOG. Enjoy!  

Here's the complete list of blogs in the hop, just in case!

Wendy C (That's me!)

Suzanna 

Lee-Anne 

Jennifer 

Charity

Sandy 

Bobbi 

Wendi 

Monica 

Kristy 

Majken  

Cheryl 

Kristina 

Brenda 

Ruth 

Alison 

Cathy 

Practical Scrappers Scrapping Our Stash Halloween Hop

Welcome to the Practical Scrappers monthly hop. This month our theme is Fall/Halloween, using up materials found in our stash. If you've arrived here from MONICA'S BLOG, you're on the right path!

My stash is about 99% CTMH. I have a few inks, and a snip of paper here and there that's not, but in general, most of my projects are made with CTMH products. Last month I was super excited to win an Instagram giveaway from Simple Stories and Big Picture Classes, and they sent me a huge kaboodle of Frankie and Friends goodies. Since I was elbows deep into Scardey Cat, Frankie and his friends sat neglected and lonely, just waiting for a chance to come out and play. I also had this pumpkin frame that I had painted in like August. I painted it, applied copious amounts of glitter....and then it sat. And sat. And collected dust. And sat some more. One day I moved my pile of Frankie stuff and laid it on top of my Pumpkin frame and suddenly I figured out what needed to happen. 

The frame was originally painted with orange acrylic paint and coated with orange glitter. The stem is multiple coats of brown sparkly nail polish. I pulled some old Chipboard letters from the closet, and coated them with some glow-in-the-dark fabric paint left over from making bat gadgets for my 4 year old's Halloween costume. They glow green in the dark! 

These chipboard pieces in this line are too adorable! I added some sparkly glitter and glow in the dark accents, plus wiggly eyes of course. 

At the bottom my collage was looking a little thin, so I cut some very skinny (slightly larger than 1/8") strips of Scaredy Cat Paper and curled it using my paper quilling tool to create some color burst filler for the cluster. You can see the glow in the dark paint on the windows, plus a generous sprinkling of black acrylic star embellies. I don't think I caught a close up, but I had a few gold sequins sitting in my scrap bin, so I added those and topped them with more wiggly eyes.

Attaching the chipboard to this chicken wire frame took a bit of finagling. I finally settled on putting tiny dots of liquid glass on the twisted parts of the frame and propping the chipboard in place until it dried. Once everything was tacked on and dried in place, I flipped the whole frame over and went to town drizzling on Liquid Glass with abandon and now it's a pretty sturdy little piece! And yes...since I decided I needed a pic of the back I added a bead of gold glitter paint along the rope binding where I didn't bother to paint the orange color. 

Next up on the hop is WENDI'S BLOG.  A list of all the scrappers participating this month can be found over at Practical Scrappers. Happy Halloween, Stampin' Friends!

Practical Scrappers Scrapping Our Stash Blog Hop

Sometimes I don't know where the time flies. It's time again for our monthly Practical Scrappers Scrapping Our Stash Hop! You can find the complete list of scrappers HERE. You should be arriving here smiling from all the crafty goodness of CHRISTINE'S BLOG. 

Believe it or not, I actually put my hoop project on the back burner and did a layout this month. I have a set of six IKEA RIBBA Frames that I bought just before we moved from Portland. I made my hubby hang them in the entry way...where they have hung, empty and neglected all summer long. Now that I'm hitting the boxes with family photos, I decided it's time to fill those 10 x 10 frames. I used some of my hoarded and retired Timberline Woodgrain paper and a bunch of washi tapes to scrap my first frame. I want to put a heartfelt saying about family and home in each frame along with a picture of my sweet family.

So...the stamp image I used is actually a sneak peek at a stamp set that's not coming available until September - but I've had it since July! I inked the tree up with Memento Rich Cocoa Ink, swiping the pad down to take off most of the ink I had applied. Then I went all around the edges and all over the hearts with my favorite shimmery Stardust Gelly Roll Pen to make that tree something special behind my quote.

I used a bunch of different washi tapes from my stash.The red chevron, silver geometric, and slate polka dot are CTMH.  The others I've had in my stash a while, and I think I got them at Michaels. I should write the manufacturer inside the washi rolls so I can remember who makes them. I ran a double line of stitching all around the layout and across my washi tape Banner. I had to bust into a new package of my favorite Keyboard Alpha stickers, and I'm gonna cry a little when my stash finally runs out! I think I've got plenty to finish all six frames, though. I'm planning to bring the colors, woodgrain, and kraft letters through all six frames to make a nice display in my entry. 

Next up if the fabulous craftiness of Bobbi at Vintage Muse Designs. Have fun! 

Scrapping Our Stash Christmas in July Hop

Brrrr! I think the weather here in Spokane knew that we were doing Christmas in July this month, because today was overcast and chilly. Made me think of Oregon winter! This month the Practical Scrappers team searched our stashes for Holiday goodies. You should be arriving here awed by Jennifer's crafty goodness. 

So I just got a bunch of new Christmas stamps at Convention in June...and it's almost the end of July and they were still uninked, so I figured it wasn't toooooo much of a stretch to include them in my stash. I snatched up Merry, Merry Holiday from the pile...then realized that it was a perfect fit for the RetroSketches challenge this week. Sweet! I was going to holiday-scrap-paper it up, but then I saw the gorgeous White Christmas Photo Challenge over at Festive Friday, so I grabbed my White Scrap Bin and the Woodgrain embossing folder I won at Convention instead. I embossed the wreath in White Detail powder onto some Vellum from my scrap bins. Then I embossed the wreath details over top of the white embossing using some super old Mirror Platinum powder (I'm talking like I bought it in 2004, so that ought to make up for fudging and using one of my new-but-one-month-old goodies, right?). I used my Slate mini pigment pad to stamp and emboss the sentiment. All the paper for my card came from my scrap bins. I always feel virtuous when I actually use the scrap bins, like every time a card is made from scrap paper, an angel gets her wings (or something...). Most of the time I'm good about putting the scraps in the bin when I'm done crafting but too lazy to get up and grab a piece of scrap from across the room when the wall of cardstock is just right there behind where I sit. 

I added some metal flower brads that I got from the $1 bin at the scrapbook expo back in April, and gobs of mini white Bitty Pearls left over from a CTMH promotion from a few years back. That is a bit of the new grey skinny stripe ribbon in that double bow with some skinny organdy from who-knows-where, but I've had it a month! Unopened! The glitter snowflake is a sticker leftover from a pack I got a Target last Christmas. I had three left over from the project, so they've been just hanging out waiting to find a loving home here on this card. So I made 3 of them (of course). And now I have no more of those cute grey flower brads. Curses! Them's the breaks of actually using up the pretties...guess I'll just need to get a few more embellies in August, right? Back me up here, Stampin' Friends!

To continue the holiday fun, head over to Marcia's Blog or hit up Practical Scrappers for the full list of hoppers.

Practical Scrappers Scrapping Our Stash Blog Hop

Hi, Stampin' Friends! As many of you know I'm down in sunny California at the beautiful DisneyLand Resort attending the annual CTMH Convention. It's been such fun hanging with my team, and I have more stuff to share about that soon, but today I'm here to join in the fun for the Practical Scrappers stash blog hop. You should be arriving here dazzled from AUDREY'S BLOG.  

I have three mini hoop projects to share today. I probably should be breaking this into three posts, but I don't have time (since I'm at DisneyLand) and I promised a ton of ladies to post them today at the Consultant Art Showcase tonight, so you get lots of goodies today! The first is this adorable UP inspired hoop, since I knew I'd be at DisneyLand and UP is one of my all time favorite movies. The cricut clouds and little house came from CTMH's Art Philosophy cartridge, and I'm still in shock that the Kraft Keyboard alpha is retiring. If you want some you'd better stock up before I buy the rest of the stock, lol. I tied strings onto the buttons and used Liquid Glass to pile them into place. Then I stitched long stitches from the base of the "balloons" back to where I wanted the house to go. Finally I adhered the house over the strings. The denim this is mounted on came from the leftover scraps from hemming my last pair of jeans!

I have an extensive stash of buttons that I'm still sorting out from my move, but this is how I store them. I got the shelves and the bottles from IKEA!

My second mini hoop used up some paper flowers I had made ages ago using glitter paper and some scraps of B&T. I found some cork letters I didn't realize I had, but I didn't have a "P" so I trimmed apart some other leftover letters to make a P, and coated them with Pink Stickles, so you can't even tell! I didn't have quite enough scrap of the embroidery fabric to fill the hoop, so I grabbed some of the leftover white fabric from making the collar of my snow white shirt for convention and made good use of the pinked edge of the aida. These flowers also came from the Art Philosophy cartridge.

I mean I love a new Cricut cartridge and all, but Art Philosophy is my go to cartridge. The simple shapes are perfect for creating all kinds of fun embellies. I really love the current Piercing tool kit (which is being retired very soon) for shaping my cricut flowers. The back end of the piercing tool is gently rounded, which is perfect for buffing shape into the flower petals against the soft foam mat. I even use the tip of the piercer to drag veins down the center of my shaped leaves.

This kast hoop is probably my favorite hoops I've done so far. I layered on black sequins (which I've had so long I can't remember the last time CTMH carried loose sequins) on a bed of Liquid Glass. Then I added some flower sequins (also ancient CTMH) and some huge chunky silver hex glitter I got at Joann's. It sparkles SO much in real life! Finally after all the layers of Liquid Glass dried I dabbed on Silver Stickles and glued on a few of my favorite star shaped nail gems. The glitter letters were originally pink felt letters, and I was lucky enough to be able to spell GLITTER! Then I used lots of colors of Stickles to make my rainbow of glitter. It took two coats to cover the pink color of the felt.

Next up on the hop is the fabulous ERIN - Enjoy the hop, and I'll be back with more art tomorrow!

P.S. For the full list of hoppers, please visit Practical Scrappers.

Practical Scrappers Scrapping Our Stash Hop

Hello, Crafty Friends! I'm excited to be hopping today with the talented gals from Practical Scrappers in our monthly Scrapping Our Stash Hop. You should be arriving here from the blog of the fabulous SUSIE BENTZ! If you get lost you'll find the full list of hoppers on the Practical Scrappers blog. 

I created this Hoop Wall Hanging, which will be one of a series that will hang in my new stamp room here in Spokane. Since we are scrapping our stash almost everything I used is either retired CTMH, leftover from scrapbooking kits, or random craftiness I had just hanging around the stamp room. I bought ten hoops of various sizes to fill with fun quotes about stamping and glitter. Yay, project!

Lots of old favorites are in here, from Designer Rhinestone brads to that old Bohemian assortment which included crochet flowers and awesome old-but-new buttons. I used some pearl headed pins I keep around for unsticking my adhesive bottles.  I even had to create that cork "E" in LIFE from an extra B, lol. I have three of those awesome Bohemian Assortments to give away for you awesome hoppers, so be sure to enter to win below!

Next up on the hop is the talented ERIN MOREHOUSE. 

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Ten Things Eyelets

This week over at Practical Scrappers the team is working on Ten Things to do with that oldie but goodie, eyelets! Do you remember the first time you saw eyelets? I was at a scrapbooking expo and when you entered the vendor hall EVERYONE was hammering. It was SO loud, echoing through the hall, and I stood in line to try out this awesome new embellie...and left with my first hammer and tool kit. Weren't those hammers just the cutest thing? Everything I made for a while had eyelets on it. I had four different eyelet setting tool kits, each one better, easier, quieter than the last. Do you remember being the gal at a crop setting eyelets when everyone is quietly giggling and eating chocolate working? Then I moved on to brads and embellished brads and stick on sparkles...and my poor eyelets just languished away. Sad. Lonely. Forgotten. Ok, maybe a brief shining moment on top again when I got my Crop-A-Dile Eyelet , since it is the best eyelet setting tool I've ever tried (and I've tried A LOT, so quick, easy, and quiet), but overall just hanging out in the stamp room. Poor eyelets! I won't neglect you further!

So I was thrilled with the new Practical Scrappers topic. I decided to combine some of my newest embellies with my eyelets stash. I love how the standard sized eyelets are perfect for matting sparkles or enamel dots. If you have the larger eyelets then you can "double mat" them too! I did have the larger eyelets but the movers were headed up the stairs soon so I had to work fast. Lord knows what they thought when the home owner disappeared upstairs shortly after they started packing and started to machine sew something, lol. I had to dig through my stash container of odds and ends because I didn't want to mess up all the careful sorting we'd done for the movers. I used the sketch from Freshly Made for my quick eyelet creation. 

And in honor of Eyelets, I'm giving away some sampler packs form my own eyelet stash! I've got three packs (plus a cute handmade card) to give away. Sign up below and let's crush it!

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