Let's Use Our Scraps Challenge

Welcome to  Whimsical Wednesday Challenge #15.  This week is our card/project challenge and we are Using Our Scraps!  We want you to create cards and projects using all scraps!  Remember you must take a picture of your scraps before you begin and it must be included in your post!  Here is my sneak peak.

Can you quess what it is???

It's a koala girl!!  Isn't she cute? 

Here is what I started with.  I knew the second I heard the challenge, that I wanted to use up my leftover Koala from another project and I had this strip of Crinkle Ribbon already sewn/gathered just waiting to be used.

I added the scrap of black to the back of the koala since her base never was cut (which is why she wasn't used up in the project she was originally intended for). I gave her some cute cheekers, a sweet bow, outlined her and popped her up!  I added Crystal Effects to the nose/eyes, let it dry, then added a second coat.  Besides the 2 finger prints in it, it turned out exactly as I had envisioned!  The ribbon is Snow White Crinkle Ribbon from My Craft Spot and the polka-dot scrap is leftover from an Artful Delights kit. 

The rest of the cardstock are all leftover pieces of Stampin' Up!    Both stamps are My Craft Spot Sweet Sentiments Set #2.  I hope this little cutie brings a smile to someones face!

Please join us and Let's Use Our Scraps this week at the Whimsical Wednesday Challenge!  I can't wait to see what you can do with your Scrap Stash! Stop by Whimsical Wednesday to see what you could win this week!  You still have a week to play along with our Interactive Fun Scrapbook Challenge (see HERE) and you have two weeks to play along with this one!  Also, please be sure you stop by to see the amazing projects the Design Team made with their scraps!  Thanks for stopping by today!

Knoebels Scrapbook

I love when I can get myself motivated to get a group of pages done.  This was one kit, in one week, one trip scrapbooked with the inspiration from one sketch!  The kit and sketch are both from Artful Delights!  So exciting to have it done!  Now I can move onto our trip there in 2008!  Maybe by the end of the year, I'll be able to scrapbook our trip from this year..hehe!  We'll see!  I don't want to get too carried away!  This is Oldest E's first trip to Knoebels Amusement Park.

They are in the order they'll be in the book.  I have an entire scrapbook with plans for pages from every year we go to this park!  So far there is a 2006 trip, part of a 2009 trip and now this one!  Besides a few of the page bases, most of what you see is from the July Artful Delights kit.  I have a few scraps left to make a some cards and there are 3 sheets of whole paper which will be hoarded...hehe!  OK, maybe I'll use them!  I'm trying not to hoard my paper so much anymore!  I am linking up the first page to Artful Delights July sketch challenge.  Thanks for the inspiration!  They went together so easily.  If I had known kits made it this easy, I would have been buying them a long time ago!  The last page for this trip (and my favorite) can be seen HERE!  Thanks for stopping by today!

My First Trip LO

***Click HERE for Whimsical Wednesday Interactive Fun or Scroll Down (this LO is going in the same scrapbook)***

I was a busy scrapbooker this weekend.  I have been having so much fun with my Artful Delights July Kit.  Here is another layout that I wanted to share today for the same trip as posted earlier today using the same kit and the same sketch! 

I really like the way this one and the Interactive Fun LO look together in my Oldest E's scrapbook!  I flipped the sketch with this one.  I hope that is permitted. 

 

Here is what the sketch looks like

All of the embellies come from the kit (even the journal tag not shown here...it is the cardboard from the box the kit came in sprayed with the Maya Mist)!  The only item not from the kit is my Crumb Cake background paper which is SU!

I have continued scrapping this trip with these papers/sketch.  They have gone together so quickly, that I'm sure I'll have most of the pics from the trip scrapbooked by the end of the week (How exciting is that...a 2007 trip finally done...hehe)!  Let me know if you want to see more of these pages, otherwise, I'll spare you from having to see them all!  I haven't decided yet, but this one may be the one that I link up for the Artful Delights July Sketch Challenge.   Thanks for the fun inspiration and thanks for stopping by!



Some Interactive Fun

Welcome to Whimsical Wednesday Challenge #14.  This week is our Scrapbooking challenge and we are having Some Interactive Fun!  We have created scrapbook pages in any theme that include something on it that moves or is interactive!  Here is what I created for your Interactive Fun inspiration?

I used a kit and sketch from Artful Delights. 

  

Can you see my Interactive Fun?  

It is the hot air balloon!  Notice it is in a different position!

It moves up and down the bakers twine line!

Up, up and away!! 

I'm sure there were many different ways to get it to move but this is the mechanism my crazy brain came up with in the wee hours of the night!

 This is what I had after stringing up my twine to the buttons!  I used Glue Dots to get a strong hold between the buttons and the page.  I don't want my hot air balloon to float off...hehe!

I added some stickles to my chipboard embellies to make them sparkle and used a Sweet Sentiments Set #2 stamp from My Craft Spot to add some fun!  I  stitched a border around the outside with my machine and faux stitched the circle. 

Some last minute additions, ribbon accents to the tag and some buttons in the corner.  I didn't journal on this page because it is going into a book filled with pics of this day.  No need to journal every one of them!

 Products Used:

• Stampin' Up!
• Crumb Cake Textured Cardstock
• StazOn Ink
• Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker
• Dimensionals
• Pumpkin Pie Ribbon
• Artful Delights
• July Kit
• July Sketch
• My Craft Spot
• Sweet Sentiments Set #2
• Orange Mandarin Bakers Twine
• Caribbean Crinkle Ribbon
• Helmar Adhesive Zapdots
• Glue Dots Craft Dots

I want to send out a big Thank You to everyone who hopped with us last Friday for our very special blog hop!  I loved reading your comments and I really loved reading about your favorite seasons!  My favorite season by far is Fall!  I absolutely love the beautiful weather, the gorgeous colors and everything about it!  I have my winner from the Whimsical Wednesday Blog Hop.  Kimberly kindly sponsored this prize for me!  Thank you so much Kimberly!   The winner of Sweet Sentiments Set #1 from My Craft Spot is #110....

Aman from Scrap Fix

Aman said...

I love your wall hanging! very versatile!

My favorite season is summer!

Congrats Aman!  I know you will enjoy these!  Please click HERE to contact me with your info!  Thank you again to everyone involved and everyone who hopped! 

I hope you will join us for Some Interactive Fun this week at the Whimsical Wednesday Challenge!  I had so much fun with this and I know you will too!  Also, please be sure you stop by to see the wonderful scrapbook pages the Design Team came up with!  They are amazing!  This week Kimberly from My Craft Spot is our sponsor. She has donated a $15.00 gift certificate to her store. Thank you Kimberly!