Sew Many Layouts Challenge #1 - Grasshopper

Challenge #1: Show us what ya got!


Welcome back to Sew Many Layouts Challenges!

After a short break, the team is back and ready to show off their talent!

To kick things off we would like for you to show us what ya got!
Your challenge is to create any sized LO showing off your favy scrapbooking supplies and techniques!

Here is a LO I created using an image from the Sew Many Cards Shop:




* sanded edges of photos and mounted on green and then orange paper
* printed image from Kristen and coloured
* used a digital image from Sew Many Cards, coloured with Derwents
* glued image inside flower
* added brads for sentiment and eyes for butterfly

Submit your creations to Sew Many Layouts by 05/06/10 11:59pm EST to be entered for a chance to win $10.00 to the Kristen Powers Ink Etsy Shop!

Be sure to stop on by and check out the rest of the DT creations too!

Challenges:

1. Crafty Creations - create own backgroud
2. Cute card Thursday - make own embellishment
3. Friday sketchers - sketch

Ruby

 

Challenges:

1. My time to craft - ruby
2. Creative Inspirations - sketch
3. Treehouse - photo inspiration

Glitter butterfly

* cut out the stamp and coloured with Derwents
* glued to pattern paper and with mirror tape under the wings
* covered card with handmade paper
* mounted the lot and finished with brads and sentiment

Challenges:

1. Flutterby - sketch
2. Simply scrapping - photo inspiration
3. Allsorts - butterflies

Challenge for me

 

What a challenge for me!!! I HAD to emboss(deboss) to be able to join one of the challenges. And boy, is this a challenge to me!! For some or other reason I'm not very fond of embossing ... not the heatgun or the embossing powder or the process. But Cariena kind of "forced" me - even offered me her heating tool so I won't have any excuse.
So ... I did :-) I still don't like it, but I did it.

Challenges:

1. Sketch & Stash - sketch (and some UTEE that I've been hiding in a drawer since forever)
2. Papertake weekly - do something different (and how different is was!!!!!)
3. Scrap & stamp - debossing

Summer flowers

 

1. Crafty Angels - summer
2. CCEE Stampers - sketch 1016
3. S2G Crafting - flowers

Once upon a dream ...

This background paper is O...L...D !!! I decided to do a brave thing and try a layout. Luckily the photos were not very busy. I just mounted them and then added the wording, stamps and buttons.

1. Scrap it with a song - Once upon a dream ... this dance would last forever
2. Inspirational card sketches - it was their sketch I originally started out with ... and this is my "different" end product.

Sew special

 

* covered card with heart-paper
* cut circle and chalked
* stamped with "fired brick" distress ink
* cut circle in half and glued to the outside of card
* mounted teddy on white and black
* added buttons and sentiment

Challenges:

1. Stamp with fun - animals
2. Teddy stampers - red & white
3. Just cute bears - sketch
4. Stamptacular Sunday - sew special

Crafty angels

 

Challenge: Crafty angels - wedding project

Red & white

 

Challenge: Cupcake craft - red and white

Wonderful life

* cut a circle and a flower/starry circle from different patterned papers
* cut photos to size and sanded the edges
* some faux stitching round the edges of background
* used die-cut butterflies to form border
* glued seedbeads to butterflies for the body
* added sentiment with extra glossy accents for title

Challenges:

1. Scrapbook challenges #195 - sketch
2. Scrap it with a song - Elton John
3. All that scraps - sewing

Spring flowers for a special lady

1. Digital Tuesday - April flowers
2. Nutshells - spring
3. Pixie cottage - special lady
4. Simon says - things with wings
5. Papercutz - mothersday
6. Our Creative corner - blooming blossoms
7. Scrap, Stamp & Doodle - girlie
8. Pile it on - spring

Vintage bear

1. Meljen's Designs - for the little ones
2. Moving along with the times - sketch + animals
3. Paperplay - no pattern paper
4. Just add ink - add vintage
5. Just cute bears - one for the boys

Vintage Dad

* used image from Graphic45 paper, distressed and chalked edges
* cut strips from teal stripes for top and bottom of card
* stamped swirl and sentiment
* added a few black blings

Fits challenges:

1. Ooh-la-la creations - vintage man
2. Sketch maniac - sketch
3. Crafty creations - distressing
4. If the shoe fits - chocolate & teal
5. Secret crafter - distressing
6. Quirky crafts - planes, trains, automobiles

Dad's coffee

Some paper, brads, stitching, stickers and Pink Elephant's sketch ... and I've got a small card.

Pears

1. Mojo Monday - sketch
2. Stampavie - lace & button
3. Colour create - burnt orange, black, cream

Saturday QKR card

 

My turn for a Saturday card at QKR. Visit their shop to see a lot more of these beautiful ragdoll stamps.

1. Die-cut dreams - tear it up
2. Fab 'n Funky - get it all out (can't remember when last i used my magic ribbon)
3. Sew many cards - anything goes
4. Unscripted sketches - sketch

Z is for ... zebra

 

Alphabet challenge ...

Challenge: S2G Crafting

Now that it's getting colder, I miss my own flowers. This is another page from my flower booklet (which I hope to finish one day).
It also fits the flower challenge at S2G Crafing.

Challenge: Pals paper art

 

A card I made quite some time ago ... fit the new challenge at Pals Paper Art - keep it simple

Girl, giggles and good times

Loved doing this challenge!

* cut oval from accounting paper and broad strip houndstooth, chalked both
* rounded the corners of the photos and sanded them
* layered flowers and thread ribbon through flowers
* "built" a swirl using more than one swirl stamp, added bling

Challenges:

1. Stamp something - layered
2. If the shoe fits - inspirational photo
3. Scrap, stamp & doodle - bow, buttons, bling
4. The sweet stop - sketch + buttons & bow
5. Rosie D - red & white

Hang out the washing

* Stamped the image on cardstock and only parts of it on patterned paper
* cut out the washing and lady's clothes
* coloured rest of picture
* glued washing and 3D'd dress with mirror tape
* stamped "frame" and chalked edges of card
* mounted image and glued pink strips
* finished off with bling and stickles

Challenges to fit:

1. Fab 'n Funky - neglected stamp (don't know why i do, but i really neglect this cute stamp)
2. Digital Tuesday - paper piecing
3. Meljen's Designs - 3D elements
4. Treehouse - decopage 3D
5. Crazy 4 challenges - sketch

Challenge: Paper Sundaes

 

Paper Sundaes challenged us to make a card with no people in it.

Challenge: Magical Crafts

 

My entry for Magical Crafts

Such a small card ... such a lot of challenges

When I finished this card, I couldn't believe how many challenges it fit!

* Covered the card with dictionary paper and chalked
* cut a circle from pink and two brown strips, also chalked
* cut a square, distressed and chalked
* used a teddy bear sticker
* stamped sentiment and fixed with brads
* added butterflies and glitter

1. ABC Challenge - S is for ... sparkle
2. All that scraps - distressing
3. Flutterby - open
4. Stampavie - butterflies
5. Paperplay - stickers
6. Practical scrappers - glitter and bling
7. One stop craft challenge - things with wings
8. Our creative corner - butterflies
9. Just cute bears - flowers
10.Sunday sketch & stamp - sketch
11.Creatalicious - flowers and wings

QKR Saturday

My turn for a card at QKR...

* Stamped the lovely image from QKR Stampede, coloured with Derwents and cut out
* Covered card with lilac paper and cut rectangle and circle from patterned paper
* Added a little faux stitching
* Cut out scallob strip and chalked all cut pieces
* Glued image to striped paper
* Added brads, flowers and sentiment and rounded off with a little stickles

It also fits a few challenges:

1. Your next stamp - stitching
2. Just us girls - pink/green/lavender/yellow
3. Totally papercraft - spring
4. Allsorts - stitching
5. Secret crafter - a day out
6. Quirky crafts - sketch

Wedding card for Anton

We're attending a wedding tomorrow and this is the card I made for Anton and Lize.

1. My time to craft - pretty pearls
2. Tuesday Taggers - cake
3. Annabelle stamps - pink and brown
4. Allsorts - petals & pearls
5. Bee Crafty - wedding
6. The Sweet stop - sketch

Challenge: Scrap & Stamp

The sketch over at Scrap & Stamp Saturday, was this great one.

* Cut frame from dotted paper and sanded.
* Sanded photos before stucking to dots.
* Typed and glued journaling
* Cut letters from blue paper and put Glossy Accents on it
* Added flowers and some stamping for corners

Challenge: S2G crafting, ABC Challenge, Paper Cutz, Stampin' B's

1. S2G Crafting - photo inspiration (yellow bicycle)
2. Alphabet challenge - Y is for ... yellow
3. Paper Cutz - tags
4. Stampin' Bi's - sun and sentiment

Photo frame

My friend Karen phoned me yesterday with "a little something" I've got to help her with :-) She wants to give a friend of her a frame with photos of her grandchildren in it, but she wants it to look nice. She visited a scrapbookshop and decided that the stuff was too expensive for a non-scrapper. So I had to make a plan :-)
I was soooooo glad to find that the photos was still loose in the frame, so I could re-position them. Also, it is a normal photo frame, so nothing could "stand up" a little bit ... flat works was all i had.

4 corners, 2 rub-ons and a few stamps ... and voila!!

And now there's also a challenge where i can fit it ... jippee!

Papertake weekly - cutie-pie!

Challenges: Your next stamp, Colour create

1. Your next stamp - purple
2. Colour create - lilac, grey, white

Challenge: Crafty angels

The challenge over at Crafty Angels, is "my favourite things" ... this is one of mine - i looooove coffee!!

Challenges: Flutterby, Truly Scrumptious, Totally Papercraft

1. Flutterby - use sparkle
2. Truly Scrumptious - sketch + "fly away"
3. Totally Papercraft - distressing

Friday sketchers

Use serviette image to make this card for Friday Sketcher's challenge.

Challenges: Fab 'n Funky, Sweet Sketch Wednesday, Our Creative Corner, Scrap Stamp 'n Doodle

1. Scrap, stamp, doodle - birthday
2. Our Creative Corner - bows
3. Sweet sketch Wednesday - sketch
4. Fab 'n Funky - neopolitan ice-cream (pink, chocolate, vanilla)

* Covered card with old pattern paper
* Chalked the edges
* Used digital image, sanded edges
* Used pink handmade paper, mounted on brown
* Added ribbon, lace, bow and sentiment

Hello!

1. Critter sketch - pink/green/purple
2. Die-cut dreams - vintage with no colouring
3. Wildflower patch - sketch

Best wishes

A little stamping ... a little colouring ... a little word ... a button and bling ...

1. Cupcake crafts - childhood memories ... everyone owned a teddybear :-)
2. Creative Inspirations - green, brown, blue
3. Delightful sketches - buttons and bling
4. Sew many cards - stitching
5. Stamp something - stitch something
6. Something different - B is for ... BOY!

Paper flower ATC

I made this ATC for a swap that Debbie Harris hosted. The theme was "paper flower".
I cut the flowers from old dictionary paper and chalked the edges. Added some stamping, a brad and some wording and i was ready to go.

It also fits a few challenges:

1. Pals Paper Arts - flowers
2. Cupcake crafts - make own flower
3. Pink Elephant - nature