SOS #344: National Dress Day

Welcome to another week of stash-busting with us at Shopping Our Stash where the emphasis is always on using items you already have, and possibly have had for many years, lovingly hoarded-- er-- I mean tucked away!

This week we are celebrating National Dress Day* by challenging you to create a project either featuring a dress or inspired by one.

Here are the fabulous Design Team's inspiration pieces:

Chris

Barbara

Cyndi

Mimi

Maria

Lauren

Deena

This is going to be like dress shopping... but dress shopping in your craft stash which is, like, a thousand times better!!!

*You can click on the link at the top of the post to learn more about National Dress Day, but the basic idea is to celebrate your favorite dresses!

Link up below by midnight EST on March 12.  Please remember: link directly to your new project, and combine with no more than 13 challenges including this one.

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Saturday Shoutout

Happy Saturday!

Thank you for playing in last week's challenge, Home Sweet Home!

All entries were wonderful, but here are the three that stood out to our Design Team, in order of challenge entry:

Jane

Lori

Rae Ann

Please proudly grab a badge from the sidebar, and hope you will join us for our current challenge, Stashed Stencils.

Cheers!

SOS #343: Stashed Stencils!

Greetings, crafters!  Thank you for joining us for last week's challenge, Home Sweet Home, and we hope you'll join us this week as well!

This week at Shopping Our Stash we are encouraging you to get out your stashed STENCILS!

Here is some super-stencil inspiration from the SOS Design Team... visit them for full details of how they used stencils in their creation!

Donna

Chris

Barbara

Mimi

Lauren

Deena

Maria

Cyndi

Inspired?  Good!  Dust off your old stencils and stashed products and link up below by Monday, March 4 at midnight, EST.

Remember to link directly to your new project, and please combine no more than 13 challenges, including this one!

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Saturday Shoutout

Good morning, and Happy Saturday!

Thank you to the few brave souls who joined us for the previous challenge, "You stamped with what???"

These are our favorites, in order of entry:

Terri

Magic Flying Boots

Robyn

Awesome job!  Water bottle caps... screws... feathers... great job giving your stamps a break!  Please proudly grab a newly-designed (YAY!  Shoutout to Lauren for designing our new stuff!)

The current challenge is still open for a few days-- join us for a Home Sweet Home challenge!

Shopping Our Stash #342 - Home Sweet Home

Greetings crafty friends!!

Thanks for stopping by to check out our latest challenge.

This week's theme is Home Sweet Home  - that means we want to see a home / house image of some sort on your project.

Here's what the crew came up with this week:

CYNDI

MIMI

BARB

MARIA

LAUREN

CHRIS

DEENA

DONNA

As always, we would love you to join our crew and play along.

Here are some details to keep in mind:

You have until 11:55 PM (EST), on Monday February 26 to upload your project using

the Inlinkz below.

Make sure your link is a direct link to your new project, not just a link back to your blog.

Please, no more than 13 combined challenges, including ours.

An InLinkz Link-up

Saturday Shoutout

Happy Saturday, crafters!  Thanks for joining in the fun of last week's challenge in which we were celebrating the Winter Olympics by portraying a sport... any sport, with your stash items, of course!

Here are our top three choices in order of entry:

Billie

Tinstar Designs

Kika

Thank you for these lovely sporty cards!

Please proudly grab a badge from the side-bar and consider out a blue medal!

Our current challenge is going strong, so come join us at SOS for the ever-fun "You stamped with what???" challenge!

Cheers!

Shopping Our Stash #341 - You Stamped With What??

Happy Tuesday and welcome back. It's time for a fun new challenge here at SHOPPING OUR STASH! This week, we challenge you to use an item that's NOT a stamp, and USE IT TO STAMP! You're welcome to use actual stamps along with your non-stamp.
Some examples are bubble wrap, bottle caps, doilies, leaves, pencil erasers, etc. The possibilities are endless! (Don't forget to tell us what you used. It may not be obvious to us!)

Let's see what the design team have come up with to inspire you: 

Cyndi
I used the back of a Cricut spatula to stamp the rain drops! 

MariaI used the cap of a re-inker, the cap of a SU marker and the bottom of a ball point pen.

Mimi

Deena I stamped with a scrap of chipboard that I embossed

BarbaraI stamped with elastics

ChrisMy background was stamped using the cap of my deodorant!

LaurenI stamped with an acrylic sink mat, the cap from a bottle of pellegrino,
and the tube from a roll of paper towels.

DonnaI may have gotten slightly carried away with a random bunch of stuff in the craft room
to make the background LOL

We'd love for you to play along with us!

Here are a few things to keep in mind:

You have until 11:55 PM (EST), on Monday, February 19th to upload your project using

the Inlinkz below.

Make sure your link is a direct link to your new project, not just a link back to your blog.

Please, no more than 13 combined challenges, including ours.

We look forward to seeing your creations in our gallery! Have fun!

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Saturday Shoutout

Good afternoon...

Us gals at Shopping Our Stash are SOOO into the Olympics that the Saturday Shoutout turned into a Sunday event!

Here are the Design Team's choices for last week's challenge, He loves me, he loves me not, in order of entry:

Heather

Jane

Cat

Thank you for the lovely creations, ladies, and thank you to everyone else!  There were many, many beautiful entries.

Speaking of entries, there is still time to join us for our current challenge, Olympics: pick a sport, any sport!

Cheers!

Shopping Our Stash #340: Olympics! Portray a sport, any sport!

Welcome to another fun week of stash-shopping, and this week I am pretty sure you will all be successful... because we are celebrating the Olympics!  We want you to portray a sport, any sport, on your creation!

Here is some inspiration from the design team:

Cyndi

Chris

Donna

Maria

Mimi (front)

Mimi (inside)

Lauren

Barbara

Deena

I know you are all ready to tear through your stashes for those old basketball stickers and ski stamps!  For further inspiration, watch the 23rd Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea!

This challenge is open until Monday, February 12, at 11:55pm, EST.  Link up below!

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Saturday Shoutout

Greetings, and happy Saturday, folks!  Can you believe it's the first weekend in February? Ol' Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on February 2nd, so here's to six more weeks of winter!  What's it like where you live?

Oh my... we had an excellent turn-out for the "You say it's your BIRTHDAY" challenge!  Thank you, everyone! 

Here are the top three cards:

Katrina

Darlene

Pooja

Thanks again for joining us... please proudly grab a badge from the sidebar!

...and if you are feelin' lovey-dovey and enjoy using your stashed/hoarded/neglected supplies, come join us for this week's challenge: "He loves me, he loves me not..." still open until Tuesday evening, USA time.

XO!