Clear It Out Challenge

Blog Hop Winners!

2012-02-28T05:28:00.001-08:00

We had so much fun the past few days celebrating our 1yr anniversary blog hop. Thank you to those who participated by leaving such lovely comments! The posts are still up so if you missed the hop, you can still check out the awsome projects that were made.

Here are our current winners:

Barbara

Kimberly

Anne

Jan Garber

busybusyhoneybee

and the winner from http://lorriescreationsscrapbooking.blogspot.com/ is Karen C

You will be contacted by our DT on how to claim your prize. All prizes not claimed before our next challenge starts (MARCH 6th) will be redrawn.

And lastly, our winner from the Valentine's/Love challenge is #26 Judy R. Judy please email me at the5ofusare (@hotmail.com)

Don't forget, you still have time to enter our current challenge "birthday with bling" Up for grabs is some fabulous prizes from Bugaboo and My Grafico! Look at the post below for more details.

Have a fantastic day!

1st Anniversary Blog Hop

2012-02-21T00:01:00.013-08:00

Welcome to our Birthday Bash Celebration!

This week we celebrate the Clear it Out Challenge Blog's 1st Anniversary!

I am so excited to share the DT's amazing talent with a blog hop this weekend. Not only are they talented, but many of them are offering special prizes along the way.

So be sure to Hop along to EACH ONE, you won't want to miss a thing!

Our Fabulous Blog Hop Sponsors

That's just to name a few. You will find lots of giveaways on the DT blogs, so make sure to visit each one for your chance to win!

Our challenge this week

Theme: Birthday Card

Stash: use up your bling!

Thanks to our awesome sponsors we have some cool prizes to giveaway! Enter your card using our theme (with bling) for a chance to win!

OUR CHALLENGE SPONSORS:

$10 (two $5.00 products from the store)

Here is a project made by Martha on the MyGrafico DT:

7 free images ($21 value)

Here are some fabulous samples from Bugaboo Stamps DT:

Jackie

Melissa

Are you ready to be inspired by our DT on the hop?

You'll have until Sunday night at midnight to visit everyone and comment for chances to win.

NOW, some fabulous examples using our sponsor images from our very own Design Team ~

(hopping order in case the link is broken)

Don't forget to come back and enter the BLINGED BIRTHDAY challenge for a chance to win even more!

Challenge Time and a Sneak Preview of our Birthday Bash!

2012-02-07T00:01:00.000-08:00

Thank you to everyone that played along this week. The groundhog saw his shadow Feb 2nd, so we won't have to stay cold for too much longer!

Our winner for the Staying Warm theme is

#10. Mandy.

Congrats! Mandy followed the theme to a 'T', and used up her holiday scraps! Well done Mandy. Please email me at the5ofusare@ (hotmail.com)

Our next challenge

The theme: Valentine's/love The Twist: use your pink/red scraps

Our fabulous sponsor is

The winner will receive 3 digital images of their choice.

I really encourage you to pop over and see the wonderful digis there, you won't be disappointed. Take a look at what the design team did!

Tina

Great job DT!

Now it's time to see what you created :) But wait...want one more chance to win the digis? Add this banner to your blog, link back to us, leave us a comment that you did, and we'll give you a second entry!

Here are some of the prizes up for grabs....spellbinders shapeabilities die, flowers, lace, twine, 4 digital packages from top digital stamping companies and more!

Baby it's cold outside! Plus our challenge winner

2012-01-17T00:01:00.000-08:00

Wowwie! We had an awesome amount of people enter our last challenge "Thank you". It was great to see so many different takes on this challenge.

Without further ado, the winner of 30 yards of Baker Twine from Rabogner Designs is

#11 Emily Keaton

Please email me at the5ofusare (at) hotmail.com before our next challenge ends to get your prize!

Our next challenge

The theme: 'Staying Warm' The twist: use up your leftover holiday scraps!

We are thrilled to announce our sponsor for this week is

The DT was given this adorable digi Winter Penguin-Graphics by Sanqunetti Design to use this week. It can be yours too if you are the winner this week :)

LynnB

Katrina

Karen

Barbara

Laura

You'll have 2 weeks to play along, thanks for crafting with us at the Clear it Out Challenge Blog!

(please ignore below the part about using your red/pink scraps-that came attached to the linkz and I can't get it off-aghhhh)

It's Challenge Time!

2012-01-02T19:57:00.000-08:00

Welcome back everyone to the Clear it Out Challenge blog! I hope everyone's holiday was great. I've been a busy beaver over the past few weeks setting up sponsors for the 2012 year. Wanna sneak peak of just a few.....

Plus many more! Now on to our challenge!

Challenge#1: Make a thank you card

Bonus: use up your twine/ribbon

Here are some ideas to inspire you

Butterflies and Flowers by Barbara

Bold colours and swirls by Lorrie

For a kind snow shoveling neighbour by Katrina

Thanks so much for playing along by Laura (me)

Party Favours by Rachel

Did you get a good look at that twine from Rachel? Have a closer look

Rachel has offered to be our very first sponsor of 2012!

Here is a little bit more from Rachel:

I am a stay at home momma with 2 little boys (4 and 1 yrs old). I have been crafting forever! I started as a kid making my own envelopes with scene photos from National Geographic magazines that I would send to my Pen Pal in Italy.

Graduated to Scrapbooking when my oldest was born in an attempt to keep track of his life and went on to card making a short time later when a friend invited me to a SU party.

My favorite thing about crafting is getting together with a friend and chatting it up while actually accomplishing a few pages or mini album.

You can check out her store by clicking on the picture below

This weeks prize is:

30 yards of bakers twine (10 red/white, 10 brown/white, 10 green/white)

Lets see what you can do, you'll have until Jan 16th to play

New Year Wishes and exciting things coming up!

2011-12-29T21:30:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to pop in and wish all the followers, players, sponsors and DT's a Happy New Year! I hope 2012 brings out 'the crafty' in each of you!

Exciting new challenges and sponsors are just around the corner as we

stay tuned for details and our next challenge Jan 3rd.

ps- love the 2012 digital image? Want your own? Click on the picture to take you to an awesome illustrator, browse the MelonHeadz store and pick up some free digis while your there!

Holiday Break

2011-11-30T10:13:00.001-08:00

Hello, Everyone I want to thank every viewer, and participant on our blog for being with us this 2011, it has been so much fun and exciting to see all the wonderful talent out there, love it!

I especially want to say a big big thank you to the Design team, we couldn't of done it without you. I wish everyone the best of Christmas and a great inspiring new Year.

See you all in January.

But before I go, let me announce the winner of last orange and brown challenge and the winner is.....

#9 Jayne
you win a $10 gift certificate from my Artfire Account ;)
please email me at icreate4fun @ yahoo.com to claim your prize

orange and brown

2011-11-16T09:31:00.001-08:00

Well first before I start with the new challenge, I sure need to apologize to the design team and everyone for being so behind with this weeks challenge, I cant believe how fast the days are going, and this morning I remembered I hadn't posted the new challenge.
sorry everyone.

Last week challenge was to post to us your favorite holiday, and all the entries were just beautiful, love them all. so many to look at from birthdays, thanksgiving, Christmas, so so much talent ;)
But, there could only be one winner. the Winner of the digi set is......

#33Carol

please email me at icreate4fun @ yahoo.com, to claim your prize ;)

now unto our new challenge??? :)

Show us your projects using Orange and Brown. Easy challenge for those that are working on Thanksgiving projects ;)

And a great way to use up that stash of yours ;)

The Winner will win a $10 gift certificate from my Artfire Account
Samples from Our Design Team:

Lorrie

Lynn

your holiday

2011-11-01T00:00:00.000-07:00

Good Morning everyone!

Thank you all so much for the entries on our trims challenge, everything sooo soo beautiful I love trims and loved looking at them all ;)

The winner of this Trims challenge is.......,

Anne

this lucky person gets at $10 certificate to my Etsy shop, how fun!!

Please email me at icreate4fun @yahoo.com to claim your prize ;)

This next challenge, is a fun one, just post a project of your favorite holiday, using any item from your stash, it can be anything you creative mind came up with :)

Challenge was sponsored by our nice and wonderful company MyGrafico, they sponsored this set that the design team was able to work with.

Add caption

Such a cute set, and just check out what the team made, so creative, and beautiful, you will be inspired!!

Lorrie

Laura

Barbara

Lynn

Now show us your work ;)

Trims

2011-10-18T00:00:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone, welcome back to Clear It Out! Our Halloween challenge was a blast, all those fun projects, loved them all! You are all soooo talented!

Today we have some amazing things to share with you.
First I want to announce our new winner. the winner is....
#76-Sammibug
please email me at icreate4fun@yahoo.com to claim your prize.

Second, so happy to announce that we have 3 new members to our Team:
Barbara, Rebekah , and Opal.
Please give them a warm welcome :)
We are sooo excited to have them in our team, and They cant wait to share their work with you ;)

Now unto our challenge:

We want you to use up those trims you have in your stash. I love using trims for all my projects, I think I use them for each unless its a clean and simple style but even then I sometimes add haha :)

My Etsy shoppe is actually sponsoring this next challenge, I'm so excited, and some of the design team ladies made projects using items from the shop, so thrilled to show you what they have come up with. And one lucky winner will be winning a $10 gift certificate from my shop, but wait thats not all ( haha I sound like a commercial) I'm offering a sale to all Clear It Out Viewers 50% off all items, simply use code: MOVE50

hope you enjoying shopping and playing along with our challenge :)

Our design team:

Rachel

Karen

Katrina

Laura

Lynn

Karen

Lorrie

Barbara

Jennifer

Beautiful work ladies, thank you so much, and cant wait to see everyone's projects now ;)

halloween

2011-10-04T00:00:00.000-07:00

Good Morning everyone! our next challenge is such an easy and fun fun one. But first let me announce last challenge winner, this lucky person is winning a lucky package from Karen's Etsy Shoppe ;)

the winner is..................

Carol

please email Karen at karensneedle@ sbcglobal.net

to claim your prize :)

Now unto our challenge, its an easy one!
Halloween is coming up an I know most of you are working on your Halloween projects, so the challenge show us what you got!! We cant wait to see them :)

Our sponsor
MyGrafico Sponsored us with this cute set
http://www.mygrafico.com/digital-stamps/halloween-cuties-stamps/prod_5570.html
and one lucky participant can win it, how fun right!

Need some inspiration, check out what our design team made:

Martha

Lynn

Lorrie

Jennifer

Karen

post your links here and we cant wait to see them ;)

alter something

2011-09-20T00:00:00.000-07:00

MR. LINKY IS MISSING IN ACTION, PLEASE JUST ADD YOUR PROJECT TO COMMENTS AREA ;) THANK YOU ;)

hey everyone, hope you enjoyed our last challenge which was back to school, I think now we all have our kids back to school our days flying by with all the activities, we all loved your projects and thank you once again for playing along :)
For this next challenge we are definitely about using our items, that we have saved for that special project but havent seem to have used them yet.
SO for the challenge: ALTER SOMETHING

Lynn (altered clip)
Lorrie(altered book)

altered frame
Katrina (clip)
Karen (altered book)

and one lucky winner will win a goodie bag for our dear friends Karen's Etsy Shoppe!
she has the cutest items in her shop!! you have to check it out.

oh oh and before I forget, let me announce last challenge winner!
and the winner is.......
#33 Karen
please email me at icreate4fun @ yahoo.com to claim your prize :)

Back to school

2011-09-06T00:00:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone, I think all our kids are back to school already if not this week, wow!! they are growing sooo fast!

For this next challenge we were sponsored by MyGrafico, where they donated this cute cute Superhero set, love it! Well we wanted to incorporate that set somehow as back to school, let our kiddos know they are superheroes they can do it !! Be the best they can at school :)

The challenge just show us any back to school projects you worked on ;)
One lucky person will win this set: but before you start on the challenge, let me announce the winner of the link your fav tutorial challenge the winner is.....

#1 Lydia

congrats, you win one item from my Etsy SHOP!
please email me at icreate4fun @ yahoo.com to claim your prize ;)

now for our DT inspiration: hope you can play along with our new challenge

Katrina

Lorrie
Lynn
now show us what you got :)

LInk it up

2011-08-30T00:00:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone, thank you again for participating with our Challenges :)
Our last challenge was to post your Glitter project and let me tell you, everything was beautiful, the lucky winner to get a $10 gift certificate from my ETSY shop is.....

#70- Janet
please email me at icreate4fun @ yahoo.com to claim your prize :)

Here at Clear It Out, we only have challenges every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the Month, but when there is a 5th Tuesday in the month, we like to do a little game, its simple, all you have to do is link your favorite tutorial ;)
Easy right!
We want to see where you get your inspiration from, it can be a flower tutorial, coloring tutorial, or your own tutorial, show us what you got ;)

And one Lucky person will win one item from my ETSY SHOP

Here we have a few that Our Design Team love:

Rachel
Negative Effect

Lorrie
Art Journaling

Karen
Create Blog

Martha
Roller Ribbon flowers

Have fun, hope these links help you out ;)
Cant wait to see your favorite tutorials.

glitter it!!

2011-08-16T00:00:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone, welcome back to another Clear IT Out Challenge! Where we inspire you to take out those items from your Stash and actually use!! :)

Last week, we had a summer challenge, to show us your favorite summer project and the winner of that challenge is.......

#39-Cheryl-she stamps
congrats!! if you can email me at icreate4fun @ yahoo.com, to claim your prize, and will email file right away ;)

And now for our new challenge!
GLITTER
if you are like me, you have tons of little bottles of glitter that never used.
I just liked the colors and started collecting, and I think I've had them for a year without using :/
Now lets see what you got, what can you do with glitter!!!

And for one lucky participant they will be getting a $10 gift certificate from my
ETSY SHOP
isn't that awesome!! lots of new buttons and trims to look at.

here are some samples from our wonderful design team:
Martha (me)

Karen

Jennifer

Lorrie
great work ladies :)
now we cant wait to see your projects, just link them up and we will leave some love ;)

Summer is here

2011-08-02T00:00:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone hope you are all enjoying your Summer, more time with the kiddos, family bbq's, camping, theme parks, and all that good stuff :)

For today we have a simple summer challenge, show us your summer projects ;)
Maybe you have been working on party invites, layouts, cards, mini albums, we want to see ;)

One lucky participant will win a MyGrafico Summer Fun Set yay!!

such a cute set right ;), it even has card shapes on this set, a must have summer set!

Before you start posting your Summer projects let me announce this week's winner, the winner winning Digis from Gliterbabe is......

#135 Carrie on Crafting
please email me at icreate4fun @ yahoo.com for more information :)

And here are the samples from Our Design Team:

Lorrie
Laura
Martha (me)
cant wait to see your creations, simply link them up :)

"ANYTHING GOES"

2011-07-19T00:00:00.000-07:00

Good Morning everyone and welcome to another Clear It Out Challenge, the supplies we start collecting is just incredible ha?, and we are so glad to be able to offer a challenge where you use up those supplies.

First let me announce our last "Wings" Challenge winner. This lucky person is winning a $10 Gift Certificate to my ARTFIRE ACCOUNT, wow! right!
Lost of fun trims, and buttons for your projects ;)

and the winner is......
#50-Cheryl-shestamps

please email me at icreate4fun@yahoo.com for more information. Congrats!

And now for our next challenge: "Anything Goes"
This next challenge we have a wonderful sponsor:
GLITTERBABE, DIGIS!

she was so generous to offer the Design team some digis from her shop
and the team was so excited to work with them, you just have to see what some designed :)

Now one lucky person will win a $10 Gift Certificate to her shop:
(remember challenge runs for 2 weeks)

DT samples:

Katrina
Lynn

Lorrie

Jennifer

Martha (myself)

now cant wait to see your projects:

Wings Challenge

2011-07-13T10:33:00.001-07:00

How is everyone enjoying the Wing Challenge so far!! Love all the entries and amazed of how so much talent we have, here are more for more inspiration ;)

Myself

AJ
AJ's card is so beautiful :)
You still have this week to play along and post those Wing Projects on the post below, have a great week everyone ;)

Wing it Out

2011-07-05T00:00:00.000-07:00

Good Morning, hope your Holiday weekend was a blast! Today we have some exciting information to share with you all.

First to tell you our little Clear It Out Family has had a some changes, and we are soooo happy to announce that SCF design team has merged with Clear It Out.

woohoooooo party time!!

But before I announce some members of our new team, let me announce last challenge winner. The CAS challenge winner is......

#77 Marsha D

please email Rachel (rabogner@cableone.net) to claim your prize :)

Now I'm happy to announce we have a big big Design Team now ;)

First myself

Martha

Rachel (on break)

Naush (Guest DT)

plus more will be announced soon :)

And our new challenge: post any project that contains

"wings"

example: butterflies, birds, angels, etc.

and the Design Team made some beautiful samples for you to look at:

Martha(myself)

Lynn

Larissa

Karen

Beautiful work from our design team and now I cant wait to see yours ;)

oh I almost forgot the prize :)haha

for one lucky participant, someone will be winning a $10 gift certificate to my ETSY SHOP

but if you cant wait simply enjoy some fun time shopping and a coupon for just you :)

use coupon: challenge25 and get 25% on your order. fun right :)

All About keeping it Simple

2011-06-21T01:00:00.000-07:00

Before I get into this weeks challenge, how about the winner from our paper piecing challenge?

All of the submissions were so fabulous!

And the Winner is

14. Suzie McFloozy

please email Rachel (rabogner@cableone.net) so I can get your info to Black Leaf to claim your prize!

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And now for this weeks challenge:

Clean and Simple (CAS)

And here are our DT examples for you

Martha:

Rachel:

Make sure to leave the DT some love, as we all love a great comments!

Link your projects below by 11:59 p.m. on July 4th for a chance to win this:

Some 6x6 holiday papers (Easter, Spring, Halloween, ect...) and 2 clear stamp sets.

New Design Team Members

2011-06-20T16:35:00.000-07:00

Good Morning, today I have a special announcement, we will be adding a couple of new members to our Design Team Family this month and I am so happy to announce we have

Lynn Black

joining our Team :)

Yay Lynn, thanks so much and welcome TO Clear It Out

I know Lynn for a good time now, maybe since I started crafting and was invited to Join MyGrafico's Team, I'm so happy to see she still a member of MyGrafico and now part of our challenge blog.

So everyone give her a warm welcome and visit her blog :)

Let the PAPER PIECING Begin!

2011-06-07T01:05:00.000-07:00

Thank you all for tuning in for a new challenge here on Clear It Out.

Before we get into it, here is your winner from the tutorial link up.

1. Emily Keaton

Please send Martha ( icreate4fun@yahoo.com ) an e-mail so you can claim your prize from her shop!

This weeks challenge is being sponsored by

I am sure you can tell by the title of this post, the challenge for the next two weeks is all about Paper Piecing!

I love this technique. It is great for those items you just don't want to color! I can't wait to see all the creative projects you guys are going to make with this technique!

Here are some samples for you:

Rachel (ME!)

Naush

Make sure to go leave the DT some love. We all love comments!

Please, link up your new projects below. This challenge is open until 11:59 p.m. on June 20, 2011.

You can enter as many times as you would like.
We will randomly draw a winner on June 21st when we give you the next challenge to Clear Out your Stash.

Tuesday Tutoriall week

2011-05-31T00:00:00.000-07:00

Good Morning, as you know we only have challenges the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month, but when there is an extra Tuesday we like to do a fun week of tutorials.

So for fun, post your favorite tutorial and one lucky person will win one item from my (Martha's) Etsy SHOP :)

It's a fun, no hassle week, and next Tuesday we will have another challenge for everyone, have fun ;)

And guess what... Rachel made a tutorial a couple years ago, but this tutorial makes such a fun effect.

BOGNER TUTORIAL

Rachel's sample:

For my tutorial I love making flowers, and love this tutorial -- so easy to follow and make.

handmade paperflowers

and here is sample of a card I did last year with this tutorial :)

Before I forget, let me announce winner of last weeks coloring challenge, the winner is......

This lucky participant is winning an awesome prize :)

#5 Kathie

please email Marti at craftdoor@yahoo.com to claim your prize ;)

Colors

2011-05-17T00:00:00.000-07:00

Good Morning Clear Out Fans ;), hope you're excited to start a new challenge.
Our last challenge, had so many entries, it was amazing! The challenge was to post a Ribbon/Trim project and the winner of that challenge is.....

#132 Artish

please email JenMarie at taylormadebyjenmarie @ gmail.com to claim your prize ;)

For today's challenge, we thought it would be good to take out all those markers, colored pencils, etc..., that we have collected and haven't used and make a project using those mediums,
fun right.
and wait that's not all we have another wonderful sponsor today.
The sponsor comes from THROUGH THE CRAFT DOOR
This is a bi-monthly publication by two friends, Marti & Suzanne, who adore everything paper craft! We are determined to bring you exciting projects to inspire you in card making as well as tags, bags, layouts and even full gift sets! In addition we will touch on other areas of the crafting world by inviting talented artists to provide articles and tutorials. You will find the latest industry information and products in our pages as well as loads of tips and plenty of opportunities for reader participation, prizes and even the chance to get YOUR projects published as well!

one lucky person will win subscription to the PDF magazine for a YEAR! WOW. how fun!

Some examples for some inspiration:

Martha (me)

Rachel's

Our new Guest Dt Naush
and Eryn's
Feeling Inspired??? Hope so :)
cant wait to see what you come up with

It's all about NAUSH Monday!

2011-05-16T01:47:00.000-07:00

There is still time to enter in our Ribbon/Trim challenge HERE.

For June and July, we have a new Guest Team Member!

Today is all about NAUSH

She will be starting her adventure with us with TOMORROWS challenge.

She took some time to answer a few questions to help us get to know her a little better:

1. How long have you been crafting?

My love affair with art started at a very tender age, when I was constantly reprimanded for “wasting” my time doodling and cutting/pasting and “dressing” lifeless objects. I loved painting. However amazingly not until I got married, did, I get the encouragement to pursue my hobby seriously !(thanks to DH’S encouragement !) I’ve been crafting for 8 years but card making for only 5 years.

2. What is your favorite item to collect?

DP, spellbinder dies, border punches and clear stamps being my favorites.

3. What do you think is your crafting style? vintage, CAS, etc

My style really changes pretty often ! But despite my best efforts, I cant keep it clean and simple. However distressing, layering, stamps and 3D embellishments are something prominent in almost all my creations.

4. What is your go-to product?

I think my go to product would have to be my "wooden" guilotine board (yes, the wooden one) to which, I turn to most often and my double sided "fantastic" glue, which fastens almost all my papers.

5. Is there anything you would like to share about yourself?

I am a 40 year old cancerian, SAHM to 3 incredibly cooperative young lads(ages 8,9, 11) DH is with GM and has been most supportive of my obsession with crafting. Dubai has been home for the last 19 years, where we met, married and have been raising our boys. My sons and my husband are the motivation, in, my, being able to pursue my goals in art. They are the ones who compromise and encourage me all the way.

I was raised in Kuwait, where we lived for over a decade. I love traveling and have traveled a good part of the world in my previous profession as airline crew. I love meeting people, exchanging cultures and making friends. I had been teaching art in schools and institutes. I am a regular participant in several seasonal and monthly art exhibitions taking place in Dubai.

I am frugal in my ways and love to recycle/reuse and repurpose objects. Although I stick to mainstream card making, often I wander into uncharted artsy territories of altered arts and book binding. I love the flexibility of digital stamps but I still love to get my hands dirty with traditional supplies like distress inks and acrylic paints. Being creative does not necessarily mean being limited to just one specific craft, hence I tend to try out all mediums of creating anything functional ~ just so long as I am enjoying it.

How, I create anything in the chaos and mess in my craft studio is a true mystery!

Ribbon/Trim

2011-05-03T07:34:00.000-07:00

Good Morning everyone, welcome to another Clear it out Challenge :)

First let me announce, our winner for our quilted theme, we had so many beautiful entries, love them all !
the winner is...................................

#6- Joann Hart

please, email Rachel (rabogner@cableone.net) to claim your prize :)

and now unto our next challenge, its a simple one, just show us your projects using any
ribbon/trim
easy right ;)
And guess what we have an amazing prize up for grabs!!!

JenMarie an Ippity Chick has donated this awesome prize.

Ippity is an amazing line of stamps, and if you are want to see more styles check out her blog ;)
So play along with us to get a change to win this set, its so cute!!

Here is some inspiration from the Design team and Guest DTs :)

Martha's Project:

Rachel's Project:

GDT Erin's Project:

Can't wait to see what you come up with.
simply link your project and we will show some love ;)

Quilted

2011-04-19T01:00:00.000-07:00

And the winner of the Flower Embellishment Challenge is

#50 Marsha D

Please e-mail Burka with your choice from MyGrafico (customerservice@mygrafico.com) to claim your prize pack.

BEFORE WE JUMP INTO THE NEXT CHALLENGE:
For those who are interested in being a JUST FOR FUN Guest Design Team member for two months (that's four challenges), put a link in our sidebar.

It's Rachel here, bringing you our next challenge...

I love to use up my little scraps. I have a hard time throwing away any pattern paper. A while back I came across a card with a quilted background. Ever since then I have kept my 1" strips so I can use them for quilted projects. I love the look! So cute!

So that is my challenge to you for the next two weeks....

get to quilting with your scraps!

And this is what you could win:

48 - 6x6 DCWV glitter paper

3 - glitter pens

And my (Rachel's) example:

Martha's Card:
Guest LYNN's Journal and Magnet:
(Here is where Lynn learned how to make her magnet)

Guest ERIN's LO:

Here is a little tutorial on SCS that looks like quilting to me:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/bargello

Now get to quilting and link up your projects in our comments section.

You can enter as many times as you would like.

We will randomly draw a winner on May 3rd when we give you the next challenge to Clear Out your Stash.

All About Lynn

2011-04-18T01:02:00.000-07:00

Today I wanted to properly introduce you to our other Guest DT for April.

Today is all about LYNN.

Her BLOG.

Lynn is a very talented lady, make sure to check out her projects on her blog.

I sent Lynn some questions so we could get to know her better. Here are her responses:

1. How long have you been crafting?
When I was in grade school, (way back in the 1960’s), I started scrapbooking everything. since then, I’ve tried just about every craft there is.

2. What is your favorite item to collect?
Right now, I love dies, esp the ones with matching stamps—its an addiction:)

3. What do you think is your crafting style? vintage, CAS, etc
....maybe cas...I’m not sure.
4. What is your go-to product?
That has to be ribbon—cards just look unfinished to me, without a ribbon.
5. Is there anything you would like to share about yourself?
I live near Indianapolis with my husband, and we have 2 grown sons. I have found blogging to be such a wonderful positive place, full of awesome crafters who are willing to share and educate—Rachel and Martha are great examples:)

THERE IS STILL TIME to join the floral challenge. Link up your floral project in the post below.

Stay tuned for our new challenge tomorrow with Lynn's inspiration joining us, along with the winner of the Floral Challenge.

Going Floral

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AND THE WINNER OF OUT FLOWER TUTORIAL LINK UP IS:

TRACEY

please e-mail Martha (icreate4fun@yahoo.com) and she will get your prize out asap!

Last Tuesday we challenged you to go out and find your favorite flower tutorial and link it back.

You can check out all the tutorials in the previous post.

This week we are challenging you to actually

make a flower

embellishment with your stash and use it on a project!

Here is what is up for grabs:

A $5.00 gift certificate to MyGrafico.

We have something Exciting to share with you today. We have TWO Guest DT Members for the month of April! We want to give a HUGE welcome to Erin and Lynn!

Make sure to check out their blogs, they are some amazing ladies!

And here is my (Rachel's) example card:

Martha's card:

Erin's LO: (she also has a tutorial on the flowers from her LO on her blog today)

Lynn's Card:

You can enter as many times as you would like in this challenge by putting a link to your new creation in the comments area. We will randomly pick a winner on April 19th when we give you the next challenge!

The Flower Tutorials

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Thanks so much for all of you that submitted your FAVORITE flower tutorials. I wanted to give you a quick list of those submitted for this weeks challenge:

1. Floral Frenzy (submitted by Martha!)

http://www.flourishes.org/2010/04/flourishes-focus-floral-frenzy/

2. Paper Roses (submitted by Rachel!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1M49FXhmPI

3. Shabby-Chic Paper Flowers
http://www.creationsceecee.com/2010/04/a-simple-saturday-card.html

4. Make Your Own Paper Flowers
http://big-scrappy-world.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-to-make-your-own-paper-flowers.html

5. Flower Soft Bouquet
http://big-scrappy-world.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-to-make-your-own-paper-flowers.html

6. Tuesday Tutorial - Paper Flowers
http://octoberafternoon.typepad.com/october_afternoon/2011/03/tuesday-tutorial-paper-flowers.html

7. Fuzzy Lollipop
http://simplypaperandcreativity.blogspot.com/2011/03/fuzzy-lollipop-flower-tutorial.html

8. Paper Rose
http://thetinrabbit.blogspot.com/2010/03/paper-rose-tutorial.html

9. Punched Vellum
http://selmasstampingcorner.blogspot.com/2010/04/tutorial-on-making-punched-flowers.html

10. Several Flowers (Youtube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYV7ncPfsQw

11. Easy Paper Flowers
http://inspirationaltechniquesandtutorials.blogspot.com/2011/03/easy-paper-flower-tutorial.html

12. Photocopy Transfer
http://thefrugalcrafter.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/photocopy-transfer-tutorial-and-a-freebie/

13. Scor-Tape Flower
http://www.amazingpapergrace.com/good-company-and-a-video-tutorial/

14. Rosies Tutorial
http://mycreativescrapbook.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=2975

15. Peonies
http://www.youtube.com/user/stampingscrapping1#p/u/1/qP_uMDxHrHw

16. Loopy Flower
http://stamptalkwithtosh.blogspot.com/2011/03/loopy-flower-tutorial.html

Today is all about Erin

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For the month of April, Martha and I have asked a couple very talented ladies to help us out giving you all some inspiration!

I would like to take today to introduce one of the two ladies.

Today is all about ERIN!

Her BLOG.

I sent Erin some questions so we can all get to know more about this talented lady:

1. How long have you been crafting?

I have been scrapping since 2006, my sisters and mother in law got me started with a baby book for my oldest child, then it took off from there.

2. What is your favorite item to collect?
I love flowers and bling, I can never seem to get enough, but I never want to use it either, I always am waiting for just the right page to use it on.

3. What do you think is your crafting style? vintage, CAS, etc....
My crating style is shabby chic, vintage, romantic/distressed, but I also dabble in other areas too. I am really starting to love grunge and the darkside of scrapping, but clean and simple layouts are great too!!

4. What is your go-to product?
My go-to product is cardstock. You can do so many things with it. Use as background, mats, stamp, mist, mask, paint for a cool background effect, make embellishments like flowers and leaves and patterns. It has so many uses!!

5. Is there anything you would like to share about yourself?
I live in Texas with my family. I am a stay at home mom and an army wife, but crafting is starting to become my second career, I love it.

Erin will be joining us for her first challenge tomorrow, and she even has a little tutorial up her sleeves!

Come back tomorrow to see our new challenge, our tutorial link up winner, and the inspiration from our two Guest DT's!

A little Surprise!

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Good Morning and HAPPY TGIF!!
Well we have a little surprise for you, we hit 100 followers this week, and in gratitude I have a little gift for you ;)
One lucky person, will win one item from my ETSY SHOP
the winner is....
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FIBREJUNKY

please, email me at icreate4fun @yahoo. com with your item of choice. thanks so much :)

Flowers, Flowers, and more Flowers...

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We want to see your favorite flower TUTORIALS! They don't have to be authored by you, just your favorite!

Link them up at the end of this post so we can all see your favorite TUTORIAL!

Since there are five Tuesdays in March, and we are only planning on having challenges on the first and third Tuesdays of the month, we thought we would give you a tutorial today.

The video for making these flowers can be seen on YouTube HERE.

Rachel used her Silhouette Machine to cut out the three 5 petal flowers needed.

(If you use a silhouette and would like the 5 petal flower design Rachel made so she didn't have to purchase one, e-mail her at rabogner@cableone.net with subject: 5 Petal Flower and she will send you the .studio file)

Next, cut the flowers as directed in the video.

And finally put the flower together

Since there are so many different flowers out there, we thought we would issue a small challenge.

Go out and find a tutorial on making a flower embellishment and link it back here.

And there is a prize!
one lucky person will win 3 yards of this beautiful brown trim

Now let us see your favorite flower tutorials and Clear Out that Stash!! :)

But wait there is more....

We are on the lookout for a Guest Designer

Our blog is for fun and to use up our stash, if you would love to take part on this fun challenge, let us see your work by participating in our next two challenges (in April) , and let us know you would like to try out for the Guest Design position :)

This will be a month commitment or more if the schedule works out for you, the best thing is that we only post twice a month, how fun is that.

And one more thing, please hang in there.
Let me announce to you, the winner of the button challenge
Random.org winner is....
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doodlebuddies
You can see her Recycled CD Decor HERE if you would like to show some love.
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Please email Rachel at rabogner@cableone.net to get your prize from Blackleaf Studios ;)

Since we had SOOOOO many entries for our last challenge, we decided to use a link system instead of having you link in the comment section.

Challenge #2-buttons

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I'm just so excited to host our 2nd challenge, the love we received from our 1st anything goes challenge was amazing, Thank you all sooo sooo much!

First, before we announce the 2nd challenge, I want to announce last week anything goes challenge winner.
The winner is....
Erin R
please email me at icreate4fun @ yahoo.com to claim your prize :) a big congrats to you :)

And now for Today's challenge, lets use up our buttons, we all have so many, why because there just too beautiful haha ;)
And we cannot have just one! we like to have all the pretty colors lol
Well lets make some projects today using buttons.
Here is my card:
and Rachel's

And one lucky person will win a set of their choice from Black Leaf Studios!
She has beautiful digi stamps, printables and SVG files. So lets see your button creations to win a prize :)
ohohoh and talking about prizes, Our first giveaway one lucky person won a goodie bag from Rachel, but she never did respond to the prize, so today want to announce a new winner the winner is.........
Lynn
if you can email Rachel at rabogner@cableone.net for your prize ;)

have fun, our next challenge will post until the 29th ;)

Our First Challenge

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Can you believe the time is here, for our first Clear It Out Challenge!!!
We are excited to start this new adventure with all of you ;)

Before we announce our first challenge, lets announce the winner of the followers challenge. Thanks for each and one of you that has began to follow our blog, we are so happy that you are liking our blog.
Random.org chose winner...............................
Crafty Cassie's Corner
if you can email Rachel at rabogner@cableone.net and she will send over your prize ;)

Now on to our 1st challenge!!!
AN ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE!!
Post anything,
Use up your stash!!!
Post a link in our comments section to your creation and one lucky winner will win this prize from my Etsy SHOP :)
40 Natural color buttons yay!!

so have fun for our first challenge, and clear out your stash.
I made these little cards for some inspiration.
2x2 little cards.

and before I forget, you have two weeks to post your projects and we will announce the winner on March 15. have fun

A Challenge is Coming...A Challenge is Coming!

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EDITED TO INCLUDE PRIZE PHOTOS!

This is Martha and Rachel's challenge blog.

We have tons and tons and tons of crafting supplies that aren't receiving love in our homes, so we thought, what would be a better way of sharing those neglected supplies than to share them with the blogging community? The only thing is, you have to jump through hoops to get them!

The hoops are some fun challenges every two weeks on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month.

Our FIRST challenge will go live on
Tuesday 1 March 2011!

And since that is such a VERY long ways away, we thought we would do another little HOOP for you!

If you become a follower of Clear It Out Tuesdays BEFORE our first challenge, we will put you in a random drawing to win a special prize!
Front:

Back:

You can locate the FOLLOW link on the right sidebar.
Winner will be announced along with the first challenge!