Tuesday, May 31, 2016

May Challenge Winners!!

Hello friends!

We are announcing the winners of our May challenges today!  With the help of random.org our May Colour Challenge winner is....

 ... which means, 8. Hannah Zheng Creation(TAIWAN) is our winner! 

And our May sketch challenge winner is....


Which means 16. Honey Bunny - Ronna L. is our winner!

Congratulations to both of you, please email us at ScrapMuch@rogers.com to claim your prize and be sure to grab your winner badge from our left hand side bar and wear it proudly on your blog!

Thanks for visiting everyone!

Kit Club Tuesday

Hello friends!  Elaine is sharing a super creative page with us today, created with her May premium kit club contents!


What a great way to document a child's age!

Thanks for visiting!

Monday, May 30, 2016

New Project Kits for Sale!

Hi there!

New Kits! 

We are continuing to add new kits for sale to our website and blog  -- don't forget to check them out!


Get yours before they are gone!

Thanks for visiting!

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Inspiration on Thursday

Hello!  We have some eye candy today in the form of a gorgeous invitation!



Have you ever thought about making your own invites?  You should give it a try! 

Thanks for visiting!

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Stash Busting Tip

Hello!  It's Laura back with you today and oh my goodness what a month this is, so many lasts!  Today I am sharing my last tutorial for ScrapMuch?, can you believe that I have shared over 280 tutorials on a weekly basis here on my blog! Wow, my family was right I do have a lot to say! Ha!

Boy did I struggle bringing you a final tutorial, I thought it should be something so amazing, something to WOW to heck out of you! It took me weeks to come up with something and in the end once I took the pressure off of myself and decided that I really wanted to create a layout, and that I wanted to colour coordinate papers and embellishments, the idea for my tutorial just came to me.

I bet you are just like me with tons of left over little bits and bobs from past purchases.  I bet you would like a fun way to use some of them up.  I bet you might want to buy more goodies, guilt free! LOL.  Let me show you how I busted my stash (At least a little bit!).


Little circles of yumminess!


I had some scraps of this collection by Crate Paper that I also wanted to use up.  I also had this wedding photo printed up and the pastels in this collection were just perfect for this pic. Pastels were big in the 80's, does Miami Vice ring a bell??


I didn't have a full sheet of paper from this collection but I found this one by Amy Tangerine in a light grey that worked well with the other papers, and since I have no other papers from this Amy Tangerine line I was nice to use it up as well!

I cut circles out of a white piece of cardstock with my Silhouette, but you could easily recreate this look without a Silhouette by using a variety of sized punched circles, so don't let the lack of a Silhouette scare you off.

I adhered the cardstock and patterned background together by lining up one of the bottom corners, just to change things up a bit as I do the "framed" look often.


Then I started adhering my scraps of patterned paper between the background layers.


This process is super quick, but you get a lot of impact for your few minutes and scrap papers!


I duplicated each colour so that my layout wouldn't be too busy.


I also tucked in a couple of strips of a striped pattered paper that helps to tie all my colours together.



Then the fun and stash busting part!  I pulled out lots of flowers (which I hardly use so it was nice to do so), stickers (I have a large pile of stickers sheets with just a few on each), buttons (do have a million too), brads (wow something else I don't use often but still have a ton of), and left over chipboard bits.


I layered these elements in and around each circle sticking to the same colour but using a variety of tones of the colour, so my layout wouldn't look so flat.


I must say the peach was the hardest for me as I did not have much, but since our first apartment was decorated in peach and grey I felt nostalgic about using it! Luckily I found a few elements that worked.


Yellow is my happy colour, can you believe we just celebrated our 29th! I can't say it feels like yesterday but it sure as heck doesn't feel like 29 years! Where does the time go.


Oh mint green I am loving you all over again, in fact I was working on adding this colour as an accent to my craft room - but now I am giving up having a dedicated space so the mint is going, too.


I have said this before, but as a mom of all boys, I am all too happy to play with pink whenever it works!


This title was a left over piece that seemed just perfect for my page, too!


I also went in and added some grey elements to tie in my background paper a little more, bust some more stash and because I could! heehee!

As a last step I stitched around my page with a dark grey thread, it just needed a bit of something you know what I mean?


This tutorial may not be earth shattering, but I really had fun with it and I think you will too!  And I love that I have a page that is a little different for me, but also a page that I love!

I also wanted to say, please do not think I am leaving the crafting world and forget to come visit me over at my blog, in the future.  I will still be creating and sharing - just maybe a little differently.

So glad you visited today!

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Kit Club Tuesday

Hello friends!  Today Eileen is sharing some fun cards using some of the May premium kit contents.


Wouldn't you love to be a lucky recipient of one of these festive creations!

Thanks for visiting!

Friday, May 20, 2016

Sketch-y Friday with Team B

Hi there and happy Friday!

It is Laura here with you today sharing a sketch and the fabulous reveal from Team B!  Actually, today I have the privilege of sharing my 250th sketch designed especially for ScrapMuch? and I have hosted almost as many challenges for them here on their blog! But before I get on to the sharing part I wanted to hijack this post for a bit of a personal update.

This sketch also marks the final challenge that I will be hosting for ScrapMuch? as I am pairing down my online responsibilities to make more time to play, both creatively and otherwise.  My youngest will be finished school for the summer break in just a few weeks, and my husband will be started his 6 weeks of vacation shortly after that.  We have a lot of fun and home renos planned for this summer!  And then, the big excitement is my husband's retirement late this year.   This is what I am really prepping for, but the timing just seems right to step down from my ScrapMuch? duties now.
 
In the meantime, I will still be blogging for ScrapMuch? until the end of this month at which time I will be handing the reins back over to Elaine and Eileen.  It has been an honour to be a part of the ScrapMuch? team these last 6 years, the memories and friendships I have made are truly treasured.  I do believe the term bittersweet was created for just such times!  I have learned so much both artistically and with social media outlets, I know I never would have grown so much if I was not a part of this incredible team.

I do hope to be able to help out on occasion at various events - a gal has to get her girl time in!


Here is your final sketch from me....



And here is your Team B inspiration!


Sara

I also wanted to take a minute to thank both of our design teams for always making my sketches look so good by bringing them to life week after week.  I love seeing how you all interpret them!

Here is a run down of our Sketch-y Friday rules.  Just link up your creations in our sidebar to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize.    You have until May 29th, at midnight to participate in any of this month's sketch challenges, each linkup tool will remain open until that date!  You may take some artistic license with your adaptation of the sketches, however if you choose to use a double page sketch for a single page layout you may only enter once per sketch, not once per side.

If you are playing along with more than one challenge you will need to link each of them up via a separate blog post for the link up tool to work. (International participants may be required to pay some shipping fees.)  Good luck, we cannot wait to see what you create!

 *note - If you are playing along using Flickr the team will no longer be leaving comments, due to changes in Flickr policies and passwords.  However, we will be checking out your entries for sure and you are definitely eligible for the prize draw. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thanks for visiting!

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Inspiration on Thursday

Hi there!

Are you creating this weekend?  We hope to inspire you with this stunning layout created by Elaine!


Thanks for visiting!

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Stained Glass Card | Tutorial | Free Cut File

Hello!  Laura here with a fun technique to share with you today! How about we create this fun stained glass card! Of course you could use this technique on layouts, as well!


So let's gather your supplies, you will need: a card base, vellum, 4 colours of Copic or other alcohol based markers, scissors, adhesive, embellishments for your finished project and a die cut of some sort.  You can grab the heart die cut that I created for this card below, if you like.


First, you will need to trim a piece of vellum to the size of your die cut.


Now flip the die cut upside down and layer the vellum over that.


Go ahead and start colouring on the vellum to fill in all of the areas where there are hearts.


Fill in all of the hearts.


Mix up the colours as desired.


Now trim the vellum so that it sits inside of the outer edges of the die cut. And then adhere it to the back of the die cut.


Now adhere both pieces to your card base.


Embellish your card as desired.


I kept my card pretty simple so that my stained glass would be the focal point. Just some ribbon and a simple tag.; created with a circle punch and a hole punch.


I just love the way it turned out, I can see me making these often with different designs. Think Christmas!


As I mentioned earlier, here is the die cut that I created for my card.  Click on the image to grab it in Silhouette, PNG, SVG and PDF versions.

https://app.box.com/s/qs8u8ybxfuhp8k0x5fkvj4mbrfqzqcjf

Supply list: American Crafts and Recollections cardstock; American Crafts vellum; Hemptique twine; Pebbles rubon; misc. button and ribbon; Copic markers (BG13, B04, R43, BV04).

Have a great day and thanks for visiting!
Laura
xo

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

NSD Winner!

Hi everyone!! 
 
We hope you had a fabulous weekend of crafting and creating in honour of NSD. It is now time to announce the winner of our giveaway. This lucky winner will receive a $30 gift certificate towards ScrapMuch? kits online!! Yeah!! And the winner is...... 
 
......Brenda Peck Haskin!!!! 
 
Please contact us at scrapmuch@rogers.com to claim your prize!!

Thank you all for playing along!!

Kit Club Tuesday

Hi friends!  Elaine is sharing a beautiful layout using her May premium kit club contents!  Have a look:


What are you creating with your kit?  Don't forget to share!

Thanks for visiting!

Monday, May 16, 2016

Spring Swag | Free Digital Cut File

Hi friends Laura here sharing a new digital cut file today!  It is available in Silhouette Studios, PNG, SVG and PDF formats.

https://app.box.com/s/5o7c6q8z6wg4z9zzz7gxfo4fgjyzf43w

As always, click on the image to be taken to my download page.

Thanks for visiting!

Friday, May 13, 2016

Sketch-y Friday with Team A | May 13 2016

Hello and welcome!

We are sharing a brand new sketch challenge today and hope to see you play along!


And here is your Team A DT inspiration!





Here is a run down of our Sketch-y Friday rules.  Just link up your creations in our sidebar to be entered into a random draw for our monthly prize.    You have until May29th , at midnight to participate in any of this month's sketch challenges, each linkup tool will remain open until that date!  You may take some artistic license with your adaptation of the sketches, however if you choose to use a double page sketch for a single page layout you may only enter once per sketch, not once per side.

If you are playing along with more than one challenge you will need to link each of them up via a separate blog post for the link up tool to work. (International participants may be required to pay some shipping fees.)  Good luck, we cannot wait to see what you create!

*note - If you are playing along using Flickr the team will no longer be leaving comments, due to changes in Flickr policies and passwords.  However, we will be checking out your entries for sure and you are definitely eligible for the prize draw. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Thanks for visiting!