Saturday Shoutout

Happy Saturday!

Just dropping in to give a shout out to the following ladies for really *shining* on the last challenge, You Light Up My Life:

BEVERLY

JANE

VALERIE

Well done!  Feel free to grab a badge from the sidebar!

There's still time to play with the current SOS challenge, Butterflies, Bees, and Bugs!  The challenge closes at 11:59 pm EST on Monday.

See you over there!

Shopping Our Stash # 313 - Butterflies, Bees & Bugs

Greetings crafty pals!!

Thanks so much for coming by today to check out our latest challenge!!

If your summer is anything like ours, your summer garden is full of butterflies, bees and bugs...so that's our theme this week...we want to see insects on your projects!

Let's see what the SOS crew came up with this time around!

CYNDI

LAUREN

DONNA

BARBARA

DEENA

MIMI

As always, we would LOVE for you to join our crew and play along with us!

You have until 11:55 pm (EDT) on Monday July 31 to upload your project using the inlinkz below.

Make sure your link is a direct link to your new project, link back to our blog and please no more than 13 challenges, including ours.

An InLinkz Link-up

Saturday Shoutout

Thanks to everyone who participated in our CAS for Simplicity Day challenge last week.  It was *not* so simple to choose our three favorites!  

Outstanding CAS creations, you talented ladies!

#22 Gerrina

#27 Pam

#41 Lindsey

Congrats! Feel free to grab our Top 3 badge from the side bar.

There's still time to link up with our current stash-shopping You Light Up My Life: use a lightbulb challenge. The link-up will be open until July 24th at 11:55 pm, EST.

Shopping Our Stash #312 - You Light Up My Life

Welcome back crafty pals!

Summer is definitely in full force here in the northern hemisphere.

We hope that you are enjoying the long days and the late nights.

For our new challenge - You Light Up My Life,

we want to see some type of light bulb image on your project.

Whether that be an actual light bulb, a flashlight, or even a lantern,

we want to see it!

Here's what the Design Team created:

Cyndi

Maria

Mimi

Chris

Lauren

Donna

Barbara

Deena

We would love to see your light bulb creations!

You have until 11:55 pm (EDT) on Monday July 24 to upload your project using the inlinkz below.

Please make sure that your link is a direct link to your new project, link back to our blog and no more than 13 combined challenges, including ours.

Have fun!!

An InLinkz Link-up

Saturday Shoutout

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Flag Day challenge last week... wonderful job, people!

Normally, we give a shout-out to the top three entries based on design team votes, but this week there were ties... so we have four to share today!  Great work!

#28 Alicia O'Bryant

#8Vickie O'Dell

#18 Pia

#27 Mac Mable

Congrats! Feel free to grab our Top 3 badge from the side bar... even though there were four of you! :)

There's still time to play our current CAS challenge. The link-up will be open until July 17th at 11:55 pm, EST.

SOS Challenge 311: CAS for Simplicity Day!

Good day, stash-shoppers!  Thank you for joining us for our Flag Day challenge last week and hope you'll join in for this week's challenge...

July 12 is National Simplicity Day, and in recognition of that, let's do some CAS (Clean And Simple) work... and if you care to click the link above about Simplicity Day, 

feel free to incorporate the tenets of Simplicity Day.  

Pretty cool!

Now, stash-shopping already follows the tenets of Simplicity Day by making-do, 

so you are already ahead just by being here!  

For your inspiration, our awesome Design Team has come up with some super-sweet projects!

Mimi

(Though this looks messy, it's pretty CAS: I used old paper from my spray-box and just added a pre-diecut flower and pre-typed sentiments... so it's CAS plus I kind of went with "waste not, want not...")

I used several pieces of "found" acetate, stamped the image on each, colored them with Copics and layered them on top of each other with foam tape separating the layers for a tunnel effect!

Cyndi

Maria

Chris
(recycling cardboard from a box....and a birthday age. LOL!)

Lauren

Barbara

Donna

Deena

Link up below by July 17 at 11:55pm, and tell us how you used the CAS for Simplicity Day challenge!

An InLinkz Link-up

Saturday Shoutout

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Lazy Summer Days challenge!  Ours was a difficult task, but after much weighing-in, we settled on three projects that stood out, though there were many close-calls.  What a talented bunch!

Here are the top three creations as chosen by the Design Team, in numerical order:

#3 Esther

#25 Aileen

#26 Vic

Congrats! Feel free to grab our Top 3 badge from the side bar.

There's still time to play our current Flag Day challenge. The link-up will be open until July 11th at 11:55 pm, EST.

Shopping Our Stash #310 - Flag Day

Greetings crafty pals!!

Thanks so much for stopping by to visit with us today!!

Happy 4th of July to those of you who are celebrating today - including more than a few members of our crew! 

Whether you are celebrating stars and stripes today, or celebrated #canada150 on July or something else or nothing at all...we want you to join us in our Flag Day challenge.

We want to see the colours (or colors) of your flag featured predominantly on your project.

Here's what the crew created this week:

CYNDI

MIMI

MARIA

CHRIS

LAUREN

BARBARA

DEENA

DONNA

As always, we would LOVE for you to join our crew and play along with us!

You have until 11:55 pm (EDT) on Monday July 10 to upload your project using the inlinkz below.

Make sure your link is a direct link to your new project, link back to our blog and please no more than 13 challenges, including ours.

An InLinkz Link-up

Saturday Shoutout

Hello Crafty Friends and Happy Canada Day to all Canadians!

 Big thank you to everyone who participated in our last challenge called Think Pink .

 We had some great entries and here are the Top 3:

Diane H

SewPaperPaint

Zora

Congratulations, ladies! Feel free to grab our Top 3 badge from the side bar.

There's still time to play our current Lazy Summer Days challenge. The link-up will be open until July 3rd, at 11:55 pm EST.