Shopping Our Stash Challenge 66: Use Your Favorite Things

Hello everyone!  Time for Challenge 66!  This week we want to see you use your favorite crafting items!  You can go with color, product, image, embellishments, themes, anything that you really love to use!  The only "catch" is please mention what it is in your post!  That way we know!

Also,   there is a new Challenge blog going live on Sunday, Sept. 2!  It is geared for anything BUT a card! So if you are looking for something like that, please stop by and  join us!   I don't want to confuse you on this Shopping Our Stash challenge, so just click HERE to find out about the other blog!

Now let's see what favorite items our Design Team has incorporated into this week's inspiration pieces- be sure to click on their links to read all about it!

Alica

Michelle

Deena

Carla

Jessi 

Lauren

Leslie

Linda

Lynn

Paige

Sandie

Saturday Shoutout

Good morning! I just looked at the date and can't believe it's the last Saturday in August - yes, next one is September 1st... looks like summer is almost over...
We had lot of wonderful entries in our technique challenge and I'm inspired to try new things too :)
It was really hard to pick only 3 favorites, but we put our heads together and decided...

 13. Maya

19 Rebecca

20. Deepthi 

Wonderful job ladies! Love your creations!  Feel free to snag the Top  3 Badge from our sidebar!

Thank you all so much for playing along with us and don't forget - there is still time to play in our Sketch challenge.

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 65 :Sketch it!

Hello everyone!  This week at Shopping Our Stash we are feeling sketchy!  Do you bookmark or print sketches with the hopes you will get to them?  Or do you regularly have sketch challenges you rely on for inspiration?  Or maybe you haven't dabbled much with sketches before and are ready to try one out!  Whatever your experience has been, this week we are asking you to use and link to a sketch- any sketch at all!  It doesn't matter if the sketch is current or not, but please don't back link to an old project.  We want new! And be sure to show the link to the sketch you are using!

Also, it's time for quick re-visit to our simple rules that apply each week:

*Limit your links to a total of 13 challenges including ours

*Make sure you explain how it qualifies when we ask you to do so in the challenge.  Sometimes it will be obvious depending on the challenge (like for using flowers or a specific color scheme), but usually we ask you to raid your stash or link to something or give us the reason/details.

*No back linking to already posted projects that aren't within the time frame of the challenge.

Now on to the fun stuff!   Today we have all of the new Shopping Our Stash Crew Members joining us!  We are thrilled to have you with us and a special thank you to the veteran DT members who have continued to provide us with fabulous projects and inspiration!

Here's what we have for you this week!

Michelle- New DT Member

Linda - New DT Member

Lauren

Leslie

Lynn

Jessi- New DT Member

Alica

Carla

Deena

Paige

Sandie- New DT Member

Saturday Shoutout

Good morning! Summer is winding down slowly - mornings are starting to get cooler here - so enjoy it while you still can.
We had lot of wonderful entries in our Monochromatic Challenge and it was really hard to pick only 3 - but here they are:

Leesa

Laura Love

Sue bearhouse

Wonderful job ladies! Love your creations!  Feel free to snag the Top  3 Badge from our sidebar!

Thank you all so much for playing along with us and don't forget - there is still time to play in our  challenge where we want you to Try a new Technique or revisit an old one.

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 64: Technique Time: Try something new or revisit an oldie!

Hello everyone!  This week we are giving you a bit of a harder assignment (at least for some of us!) but that's why it's called CHALLENGE, right?

Try out a new technique or revisit one you haven't used in a long time!  Think about distress inks, masking, resist, stamping with water or bleach, or color with a medium you don't normally use- the options are endless!

We also have two of our new Design Team Members sharing their project too!

Here's what the SOS Crew members havecreated for your viewing inspiration this week:

Alica

Carla

Deena

Lauren

Linda- New Design Team Member!

Lynn

Paige

Leslie

Michelle- New Design Team Member!

Saturday Shoutout

Good morning! I hope everybody has a lovely and crafty weekend. I can already hear my craft room calling me :) But before I start crafting, here are our favorites from "What was I thinking" challenge:

Tess D

Carol L

EllieWee

Wonderful job ladies! Love your creations!  Feel free to snag the Top  3 Badge from our sidebar!

Thank you all so much for playing along with us and don't forget - there is still time to play in our  Monochromatic challenge.

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 63: Monochromatic

Hello everyone!

First off, let me express our sincere thanks to each you who applied for our Design
Team Call.  SO many talented crafty people in blog land!  Seriously, I am just amazed at all the talent!  Unfortunately we had to limit the new members to four, and it was a really tough decision. In the end we tried to get a variety of styles and experience levels.  Not an easy task!

The new DT members who will be sharing their projects later this month are:

Jessi at  http://onecraftymama-onecraftymama.blogspot.ca/
Michelle at http://mypaperedcottage.blogspot.ca/
Sandie at http://sjlcardgarden.blogspot.ca/
Linda at http://papertracer.blogspot.ca/

Congrats ladies!  You will no doubt add spice to our team and challenges!

We also have a Twitter account now!  Check the sidebar for the link.  You can get reminders and info on current challenges and tweet when you post!  If you Tweet, please follow us!

Now for the Challenge:

This week we have a challenge designed to immerse you in a color! Okay, really it's more like you pick a color and go with it! Monochromatic!  You can use a favorite or detested color, or a color in-between!  Your choice. You can add small doses of neutrals and appropriate skin/hair/fur colors.

Here is what the Crew has created for you this week:

Paige

Deena

Lauren

Leslie

Lynn

Carla

Alica 

Saturday Shoutout

Good Morning and great long weekend for all Canadians!
We had over a 100 entries in Our "Something New" challenge and I have to tell you - I'm really glad you pulled out and used all those fabulous new goodies. Lots of great inspiration and now I'm tempted to buy some of them ;)
It was really hard to pick only 3 favorites this week, but here the are:

Tina Philips

Joan Ervin

Anita.k

Love your creations!  Feel free to snag the Top  3 Badge from our sidebar!

And to everyone- thanks so much for joining in our challenges each week!  Don't forget to join in the current challenge  called "What was I thinking?"!