Challenge 64 - Cardboard - WINNER!

Sorry for the delay! Turns out when you buy your first house, the rest of your life comes to a halt for a few weeks!

Without further ado, Sharmaine Kruijver, you are the winner of the cardboard challenge! I loved your original take on cardboard flowers. E-mail Me with your mailing address and I will send you your prize.

Thanks everyone who participated!

Office Supplies

Our next challenge is to use office supplies creatively on your LO: paperclips, staples, notebook paper, grid paper, calendar grids, binder clips, post it notes, envelopes, etc....Have fun with it!

Kimmy:

I tried to limit my supplies to JUST office products. I used very few scrapbook products on this page. The background is office inspired paper by October Afternoon which I used a padded envelope to stamp on with black paint. Other office supplies used include: yellow legal pad, 2 envelopes, 2 stamps, giant paper clips, white out, a CD, a binder clip., a file folder tab, a page from a planner, a label sticker and a date stamp.

Michelle:

Office supplies are the perfect accents to a page about the first day of school. On this LO, I used graph paper in place of patterned paper, a manilla folder tab to hold the title, staples to attach the ribbon, a paper clip and binder clip as embellies, an index card for a journaling block, a manilla shipping tag stamped with a library card as an accent, a metal rimmed tag to top off a ribbon flower, and a sticky label to write some deets.

Paloma:

I love office supplies! For this layout I used a red index card with letter P, white out here and there, round protectors, labels,tags, staples, clips, a calendar page to date the photo and blue fluorescent pencil around two adhesive corners!

Helga:

I made this quick and simple layout using masking tape, staple wires and a punch card.

Deborah:
I used a variety of supplies on mine: masking tape, mailing labels, binder clip, paper clip, tag, & staples. Under my button I placed a metal key ring and a round Avery label.

Miwako:
 I like grid line note. Also I found beautiful color index and date label at office supplies shop. So fun!

The prize!! This Alphabet Soup KIT from Rusty Pickle, along with some assorted office products.

Link us up to your office supply page by Sunday, May 2nd for a chance to win it!

Flower challenge entries

Here are the entries for the Flower Challenge. I'm so sorry for the delay. Thank you so much to those who submitted their entries. They were all great! It was really difficult to choose the winner.

And the winner is...

BEC

Congratulations! You will be receiving an Email from me regarding your Rak.

Welcome Spring!

It's already spring and when it is spring we always think of FLOWERS! So for my challenge I would like you to create your own flower embellishments and use it in your layout or projects. The more unique the flower is the better. Can't wait to see what you can come up with!

Helga



Here I used patterned papers and created it into rose-like flowers.

Paloma

This flower has been made from an egg box! It’s so easy, try it! Here you are the link: http://www.edenscrap.com/article-tutoriel-oeufs-avec-boite-a-oeufs-tutorial-flowers-with-eggs-box-43558014.html

Michelle:

I gathered a bit of crochet lace into a ruffle circle and added a paper rose to the center. More deets on the how-to are at my blog.

Deborah:
I made flowers by layering die cuts, buttons, brads, and fabric. For the fabric flowers I used pieces of lace, stitching a running stitch through the end and gathering together loosely. Once gathered, I wound the lace around about three times to make a layered flower. It helped to stitch the lace together in the back 2-3 stitches per layer.



Kimmy:
I made my flower with pieces of white silk. It was cut into 6 uneven circles 2 of each size, so that each set were each a little smaller than the last. Then using a candle lighter the edges were melted so they curled up. Be careful!! I kept burning myself, so my pyro friend had to finish that step for me! Then I misted each set of circles a different color, layered them, and used a decorative brad to connect them together. I topped that with an asterisk from one of the alpha sets I used in my title.




Layouts for the challenge are due Sunday, April 11th, by midnight Eastern. Next Challenge will be posted on the following Monday.

Thinking OF the box: CARDBOARD

Challenge 64 is to use cardboard on your layout... stamp with the corrugated edges, die cut it, pull it apart and use it for texture, whatever you can think of!

A couple of notes. There are two general types of cardboard floating around out there: the type used to make boxes and the type not used to make boxes. Because boxes need strength, the cardboard used to make boxes has a smaller (tighter) corrugation and heavier-duty glue. This type of cardboard is much harder to pull apart. I like to use the white cardboard presentation boards sold at craft and office supplies stores. For one, they're cheap. For two, when you pull it apart, you get a corrugated surface, a kraft paper surface, and a white paper surface. For three, this type of cardboard is really easy to pull apart for its separate layers. I like to use a rotary cutter to cut my cardboard to size.

Cardboard is not archival safe, so, never use one-of-a-kind original photos with it. But that is no reason not to use it at all! If you are really concerned, don't place your photos such that they are touching the cardboard on your layout (if you look at my layout below, you'll notice my photo is matted, and therefore not touching the cardboard).

One person will be chosen to win Marthe Le Van's "Stencil Me In" (a $25 value!) for entering this challenge:

Winner of the RAK will be posted on Monday, April 5.

Layouts for the challenge are due Sunday, April 4th, by midnight Eastern. Next Challenge will be posted on the following Monday.

Have fun! - Amanda

Now....to the inspiration:

Amanda: I used white corrugated cardboard (see intro paragraph) to create a tear-away storybook look on my layout. The white lined paper (where I drew the Mad Hatter scene) is one layer of cardboard and the brown corrugated paper is another.

Paloma: I used cardboard in three different ways: as an embellishment (the flower vase!), as a stamp (on the cardstock) and as a paint brush (notice the drops of paint?).

Miwako: I want to up 2 layouts. At first, I made boder accent and a kind of flame for photo mat.

Next, I used cardboard as 12 inch paper. I peeled it (leaved around center) at first and painted white. I always can't clean up any box because my cats love staying into box especially cardboard box, also at now....my twins join to scrambled for it, OMG!

Helga: I cut the cardboard into a heart shape then created a hanging layout of my niece and her child.

Kimmy - I used corrugated cardboard as borders on my page.

Michelle:

I ran some cardboard through a die cutting machine, spray painted the flower shapes, peeled away some of the paper to reveal the corrugation, and embellished with buttons and a few swipes of a dry brush.

Deborah:
I also used cardboard as my paper. I peeled away some of the paper, then used a combination of dry brushing paint, spraying Glimmer Mist, and swiping on a bit of rock candy distress paint.

White Out!

Kimmy:

Hybrid page. I printed out some digital papers & labels (Audrey Neal-Sistv & MissMint) for this one. I used the white out as paint. I used lace tape as a mask (it was bright pink before) on black cardstock & used both the positive & negative images on the LO. I also painted the letters and buttons with white out. Sketch from Sketchy Thursdays. Amanda -

For this challenge I created an art journal page. I used white out tape to create journaling spots on my page. I like the slightly distressed look the white out tape gave me. It worked well because it seemed willing to stick to all the different layers of may page (the bird is a photo transfer).

Miwako: I used white out tape for points of layout design. It was scratched to make naturaly using edge of scissors. Also, I used white out pen for words on photos, too.

Deborah:


I ran a scrap of cardstock through my Cuttlebug, then used a Tim Holtz foam applicator to swipe the white out over the embossed image. I also ran several lines on my page for journaling. I tried to stamp with the white out, but the stuff dries too darned fast!



Michelle:

I used white out tape to write the letters in my title, and ran a few lines to hold my journaling.

Heat Embossing Winner!

We had some lovely work for this last challenge and as usual I had a hard time just picking one winner. But I'm going to give the RAK to Jasmine, whose mom taught her to emboss for the first time - and she made a lovely flower card.

Jasmine - send us your addy and I've got a trio of the brand spankin' new Tim Holtz Distress Inks for you (and for mom)!