Shopping Our Stash Challenge 47: Masculine theme or "boy" colors

Hello everyone!  Do you have a hard time making cards for men or boys?  If so, this is a perfect chance to practice doing just that by joining in our Challenge: anything boy/masculine related or colors (reds, blue, navy, brown, etc)!  So put your thinking cap on and dig thru your stash and see what you can come up with and play along!

Joining us this week again we are lucky to have Hazel as our guest designer:

Fabulous card indeed!

And from the regular SOS Crew:

 Alica

 Deena

 Leslie 

 Paige

Carla

Shopping Our Stash Top Three

Sorry for the delay in posting the Top Three from the circle/dotty challenge!  I was off work yesterday and my whole sense of time/days is out of whack!  

Now without further delay, the Top 3:

Basslady at Basslady Creations

Holly at Ribbons and Glue

Pinky at Pinky's World

Fantastic creations- we love seeing how you all use your stash!  There is still time to play along with the current challenge to use at least two Punched Elements!

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 46: Punch it Out!

Hello!  This week here at Shopping Our Stash we are asking you to dig out those punches you have lurking in your stash- whether they are border punches, shape punches, hole punches, any size and type is fine as long as you have at least TWO PUNCHED elements or spaces from punches!

The lucky winner for the Bugaboo images is Krafty Karen!  Karen, drop me an email at scrappypug at gmail dot com and I will get your gift certificate to you!

This week we are happy to have Hazel join us for the next two challenges at Guest Designer!

Her beautiful card:

Also we bid a fond farewell to Natalie who was with us for March as Guest Designer!  We look forward to having her join our challenges again!  Her cards are just always gorgeous!

Natalie:

Now for our faithful SOS Crew creations:

 Alica

 Crystal

 Deena

 Lauren

 Paige

Carla

Saturday Shout Out

Hello! I hope this finds you enjoying your weekend or the start of it anyway!  You all sure had fun with the buttons and bows challenge- such gorgeous entries!

The top three fantastic projects for Challenge 44 are:

Carol

Pauline 

and Teresa:

Thanks to all who played along with us last week we really appreciate your participation and support.  You can still join in our current challenge right here!

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 45: Circles or Dots

Hello there! This week at Shopping Our Stash we are asking you to shop your stash for circles and/or dots- anything from circle nesties, punches, polka dots, patterned paper with a circular motif, round buttons, doilies,  hand-cut or drawn circles- it all works!

We are thrilled be sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps this week, so that means one randomly drawn winner will receive 7 digi stamps!  Check back next week to see if you are the lucky winner!

First off, from the super talented Bugaboo Design Team we have:


Linda J

and Yvonne aka Scrappy

Such cute cards!

And from the SOS Crew:

Lauren

 Carla

 Leslie

Alica

Crystal

Deena

Natalie

Paige


Hope to see your dotty/circular creations this week!

Saturday Shout Out

Good morning!
Are you curious about Top 3 for our Food/Drink related challenge?
Big Thank You to everyone for playing along with us. All the creations were wonderful, so it was really hard to pick only 3 - but here they are:

Anne from StargrovesJo Ham from It's My Creative World
Candy Blake from Stampin With Candy

Fantastic projects ladies! Be sure to grab the Top 3 Badge from our sidebar.

There is still plenty of time to play along in the current challenge- Buttons and/or Bows.

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 44: Buttons and/or Bows

Hello everyone!  This week here at Shopping Our Stash we are asking you to pull out your buttons and/or bows! This is a super easy challenge that will get you to use some stash pretty quickly!

Let's see what the SOS Crew has come up with!

And we haven't forgotten about the guest designer spots...I am still under the weather but will be in touch soon if you have emailed me or put GDT after your name on entries, and it's not too late!  Just drop me an email if you would like to be a Guest Designer for an upcoming challenge or just put GDT after your name on your entry!

Also we are sad to say goodbye to Lisa this week who has decided to step down from the team for now...we all have LOVED her fabulous creations and support! We hope she will pop in again in the future!  Stop by her blog and see the details on this gorgeous creation!

Lisa

 Crystal

Alica

 Deena

Leslie

 Natalie

Paige

Saturday Shout Out

Good Morning!
Is it Spring yet? It sure looks like it here - we are enjoying a spell of un-seasonally warm weather and I'm really thankful for it.
Before we announce Top 3 for our Embossing/Meljen's challenge I just want to thank everybody for playing along with us at Shopping Our Stash . We really love to see your wonderful creations every week and don't forget - the faster you use up your old stash, the sooner you can buy some new goodies - guilt free ;)

Margie Calenda from Bella Bug Creations

Shelby from Color of Happy
Dee from Dee's Designs BlogFantastic projects ladies! Be sure to grab the Top 3 Badge from our sidebar.

There is still plenty of time to play along in our Food/Drink related challenge.

Shopping Our Stash Challenge 43: Food/Beverage

Hello everyone!  I am so glad you stopped in at Shopping Our Stash!  This week our challenge is to raid your stash and uncover those items that are food or beverage related- think coffee, tea, cakes, kitchen fare, anything related to food or drink will work!

We also have two announcements:

The winner of 4 digi images from Meljen's Designs for Challenge 42 is:
Joann/Raggedy Jo!  Joann, please email Nicole at  nicole.anderson@insightbb.com with your choice of 4 Meljen's images!

and a special welcome to our Guest Designer: Natalie!  Be sure to stop bny her gallery at SCS!  We just love her style and are delighted to have her!

If you would like to join us as a Guest Designer for an upcoming Challenge   just send an email to me at scrappypug@gmail dot com or put GDT after your entry and each week we will feature one or two Guest Designers!  Be sure you have a link to your email or send it to me so I can contact you.  


And now for some yummy appetizers from the SOS Crew:

 Alica

Carla

 Crystal

 Deena

 Leslie

 Natalie

Paige

Saturday Shout Out

A great thank you to each of you for playing along with us at Shopping Our Stash! We truly enjoy seeing what you have created each week and appreciate the kind comments and support! You all certainly did a fantastic job on the Sentiment Challenge.

And here are our Top3 picks:
Allisa from Rocky Mountain Paper Crafts
Donna from Popsicle Toes
Glenda Atkins from Gilby's Corner
Fantastic projects ladies! Be sure to grab the Top 3 Badge from our sidebar.

There is still plenty of time to play along in the current challenge- Embossing or Meljens.