Saturday Shout-out

Good Morning and a fabulous sunny Labour Day weekend to everyone!
Big Thank You to all who played with us last week  - we didn't have too many entries, but they were all fabulous entries and here are the Top 3 favorites for our Chipboard Challenge:

Toni

Annie A

Eden

Now it's your turn! Our current challenge is called ABCs, and we'd like you to use something starting with letter A, B and C - then come back and link us up below so we can see what you've made!

Mr Linky will be open until 11:55 pm on Monday, Sept 1. Please limit your total number of challenges to 13, including ours.

SOS #166: ABCs

Happy Tuesday! It's time for a new challenge. This week's theme is ABCs, and we'd like you to use things on your project that start with the letters A, B, and C; and make sure to tell us what they are!

Here are some suggestions to get you thinking:

A: ant, anchor, arrow, apple, arithmetic, animal
B: bee, button, bow, bonnet, ball, brad
C: candy, carrot, car, corn, curtain, cow, comet, chipboard, chalkboard

Here's what the ladies have made to inspire you, and to give you more ideas for ABCs:

Donna
A - arrow B - bat brads C - chipboard coaster, chalkboard paint

Chris

A-apparition

B-bat

C-cemetery

Jessi
A-apples, alphabet B-buttons, black C-chalkboard

Chana
A = Apple B = Basket, Bookmarks C = Composition Books, Clips, Chalkboard

Lauren 
A=anniversary B=birds C=clouds

Leslie
A - Arrow B - Banner, Brads C - Chevrons

Deena
A = animals, B = blue sky and C = clouds

Alica

A = Animals, B = Box, Bow, Birthday, C = Chocolates

Now it's YOUR turn. Go into your stash and dig out some A stuff, B stuff, and C stuff; then make something with it and come back here to link up so we can see what you've made!

Mr Linky will be open until 11:55 pm on September (OMG, September!) 1st. Please limit your total number of challenges to 13, including ours.

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Saturday Shout-Out

Good Morning and a fabulous sunny weekend to everyone!
Big Thank You to all who played with us last week and here are our Top 3 favorites for our Back In The Day Challenge:

Julie M

Diane

Sybrina

Now it's your turn! Our current challenge is called Chipping Away, and we'd like you to use chipboard on your creation - then come back and link us up below so we can see what you've made!

Mr Linky will be open until 11:55 pm on Monday, August 25. To be eligible for out Saturday Shout-Out, please link to no more than 13 challenges, including ours.

SOS #165: Chipping Away

It's Tuesday, and time for a new challenge. This week our theme is Chipping Away, and we'd like you to use chipboard on your project. Oh, come on, you know you have a stash of chipboard shapes. Got some old Basic Grey collections? How about some goodies from a scrap kit? Did you stock up on all those cute bird or butterfly sets? Got a stash of Inchies or Twinchies? No? Well, then, another option is to make your own chipboard elements by die-cutting a cereal box or some crafty packaging. You know, that cardboard that comes in everything we collect? Yeah, that stuff.

So, here's what our gals have made to hopefully inspire you:

Chris
I used a chipboard spider sticker on my card.

Donna
The circle, star and pieces under the "wishful winter" are chipboard pieces
covered in design paper

Alica
I die cut the feathers from cereal box and
then glued matching stamped images on top of them.

Jessi
I trimmed down a banner piece of chipboard to make a party hat for the grumpy cat :)

Chana
The Tag Base, Sentiment die cut and id tag on the back are all chipboard
that was colored with TH Distress Inks.

Lauren
The frame started out as naked chipboard which i painted white
and adorned with bits of a vintage gold foil doily to make a sort of filigree effect.

Leslie
I die-cut the circle trio from some packaging cardboard backing, then painted it.

Now it's YOUR turn. Go into your stash and dig out some old (or new) chipboard stuff and use it on a project. Or make your own chipboard elements by using old cardboard packaging. Then come back and link us up below so we can come see what you've made!

Mr Linky will be open until Monday, August 25th, at 11:55 pm EDT. To be eligible for our Saturday Shout-out, please limit your total number of challenges to 13, including ours.

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Saturday Shout-out

Good Morning and a fabulous sunny weekend to everyone!
Big Thank You to all who played with us last week  - we had lots of fabulous entries and it was impossible to pick only 3, so here are our Top 4 favorites for our Splish-Splash Challenge:

Victoria Lavender

Valerie Ward

Carolynn

Toni at FHC

Now it's your turn! Our current challenge is called Back In The Day, and we'd like you to use an old school tool or technique or use and old looking image - then come back and link us up below so we can see what you've made!

Mr Linky will be open until 11:55 pm on Monday, August 18. To be eligible for out Saturday Shout-Out, please link to no more than 13 challenges, including ours.

SOS #164: Back in the Day

Happy Tuesday! It's time for a new challenge. This week's theme is Back in the Day, and we'd like you to use an old-school tool. For example, use a hammer and eyelet setter instead of a Crop-A-Dile, or use a template & knife system (think: Coluzzle) instead of die-cutting, or use a Fiskars Impression Plate system instead of an embossing folder.

If you are a newbie and have no idea what I'm talking about, or if you've been good and have purged all these old tools, then an acceptable alternative would be to use an old-time image. Please note: using a vintage or shabby-chic style alone will not qualify here. We're looking for images of old things, not old-looking things.

Whichever you choose to do, please let us know in your post, as it's not always obvious to us when we drop by to look at your creations.

Here's what we've made to inspire you:

Jessi
I used an old-school hammer & tool to set eyelets.

Lauren
I found the 1930's roadster and the "bobby on the beat" in two different old-falling-apart books.

Leslie
Old-fashioned pay phone image, Coluzzle to cut the black ovals, eyelets were set with hammer and eyelet setter (holes were even punched with the old eyelet hole-maker thing)..

Barbara

I stamped and coloured the flowers with watercolour pencils then I took opal liquid pearls mixed with water to "glaze" the flowers and leaves (before glimmer mists). The ovals were cut with my coluzzle. Distressing was done with my scissors.

Donna
I used an "old school" chalkboard technique using black cardstock, white craft ink and SU coloured chalks.

Deena
I used an old piece of shiny teal plastic mesh ribbon that I used to make my first card before I had any supplies.

Alica

old fashioned steam engine image

Now it's YOUR turn! Go dig into the way-back part of your craft closet and pull out some old tools (or an image of something old), blow off the dust, and use them to make something. Then come back and link us up below so we can stop by and see what you've made.

Mr Linky will be open until Monday, August 18, at 11:55 pm. To be eligible for our Saturday Shout-out, please limit your total challenges to 13, including ours.

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Saturday Shout-out

Good Morning and a fabulous sunny weekend to everyone!
Big Thank You to all who played with us last week  - we had lots of fabulous entries and here are our Top 3 favorites for our Triple Threat Challenge:

Julie Short

Betty Wright

tofa / Rupa

Now it's your turn! Our current challenge is called Splish Splash, and we'd like you to wet medium on your creation - then come back and link us up below so we can see what you've made!

Mr Linky will be open until 11:55 pm on Monday, August 11. To be eligible for out Saturday Shout-Out, please link to no more than 13 challenges, including ours.

SOS #163: Splish Splash

It's Tuesday, and time for a new challenge. This week's theme is Splish Splash, and we'd like you to use some form of wet medium on your card. Think: spray inks, watercolors, acrylic paint, India ink, water soluble crayons, etc. Feel free to use them any way at all, either as a background or with stamps as a focal point or... whatever floats your boat!

Here's what the gals have made to inspire you:

Jessi
I used Glimmer Mists to create a watercoloured background

Leslie
I used Hero Arts pastel ink cubes to create paint to watercolor the background.

Lauren
used watercolors and spray inks for the background, plus water-soluble wax crayons on the heart!

Chris

I used Distress Inks mixed with water to paint my background, then added Glimmer Mist on top of that.

Donna
Used Distress Inks, stencil and water for the background, watercoloured the image with Distress Inks

Alica 
I water colored the beach babes (and the background too) and also played with water mister & ink on the embossed background panel

Barbara 
Shaving cream technique  (reinkers)

Deena
I have embossing ink galore...plus copper spray 

Now it's YOUR turn! Go into your stash and pull out some neglected wet stuff, use it, then come back and link us up below so we can see what you've made!

Mr Linky will be open until Monday, August 11th, at 11:55 pm EDT. To be eligible for the Saturday Shout-out, please limit your challenges to no more than 13, including ours.

An InLinkz Link-up

Saturday Shout-out

Good Morning and a fabulous sunny weekend to everyone!
Big Thank You to all who played with us last week  - we had lots of fabulous entries and here are our Top 3 favorites for our Eat Five a Day Challenge:

Jess Crafts

Shery

DebiB

Now it's your turn! Our current challenge is called Triple Threat, and we'd like you to use at least 3 items from our list (see the challenge post) or use 3 of the same embellishment - then come back and link us up below so we can see what you've made!

Mr Linky will be open until 11:55 pm on Monday, August 4. To be eligible for out Saturday Shout-Out, please link to no more than 13 challenges, including ours.