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weekly challenge

Who’s ready for a challenge?!?  Sasha & Julie are teaming up to bring you a Recipe Challenge.  Here’s how it works:

Make a layout or card following this recipe: 

• 4 squares
• 3 small round embellishments (brads, enamel dots, rhinestones, etc.)
• alphabet stamps
• paper strips (cardstock, patterned paper, journaling strips, etc.)
• mist

Here’s Sasha’s take on the challenge:

(supplies - patterned paper : Studio Calico Darling Dear 6x6 Paper Pad; Darling Dear Printables ; Gems: Darling Dear Grays, Brights ; Stamps : Darling Dear Sentiments, Noah Outline Alphas ; Number Paper Clip; Yearbook ; Misyer Huey: Gold, Shine; Others : Block Party PL kit, embroidery thread)

And here is Julie’s project:

(supplies - patterned paper: Studio Calico Darling Dear 6x6 pad; Embellishments: Darling Dear Printed Chipboard Hearts; Darling Dear Vellum Shapes; Stamps: Studio Calico Sam Stamp; Inks: Mister Huey’s Opaque White, Onyx Black Versafine Ink Pad; other: brad, Enamel Dots, sewing machine

Feel free to add anything in addition to the recipe above!  We can’t wait to see what you come up with.

Create a project for this challenge, then share it in the Studio Calico gallery. Leave us a link to your project by January 28th the comments here to be entered to win a $5 GC to the Studio Calico Shop.

weekly challenge

Hey everyone! Our challenge for you this week is to pose a question, perhaps to yourself or a family member, and document it. We are always asking ourselves inner questions, maybe scrapping them will yield some answers.

Celeste says :

Sit back and think about the things running through your head lately. We are always asking ourselves inner questions, maybe scrapping them will yield some answers?

And then again some questions are not internal they can relate to family, anything at all really.  Just lately, we have been mulling over which high school our eldest daughter should attend. A tough questions - and one we have been asking ourselves alot over the past few months. I snapped this iphone photo of my daughter after school on impulse and when I printed it I suddenly felt the need to document this curly school question.

(supplies - Block Party Kit, Pioneer Drive, Pollard Ave, January Printables, Mr Huey's in Bonny Blue)

Nicole says :

The last page in a Project Life album can be tough one to fill. In the layout above, I decided to close out her 2012 album by asking myself, my husband, and each of my children what their favorite memory of the past year was. After including a picture of each person, the result turned out to be a fun and simple way to reflect on the year while getting the rest of the family involved, even the youngest members.

 

 (supplies : patterned paper - Block Party Card Kit ; stamps - Day by Day class stamp set ; letter stickers - Block Party Project Life Kit ; star stickers - Block Party Project Life Kit ; printables - Block Party printable #2 ; speech bubble diecut - Day by Day class ; arrow diecut - Block Party Digital Stamps ; chevron diecut - Block Party Crooked Chevron Cut Design ; staples - Tiny Attacher ; twine - Block Party Card Kit ; pens - American Craft Precision Pens)

Nicole and Celeste can't wait to see what you do withthis challenge!! Create a project for this challenge, then share it in the Studio Calico gallery. Leave us a link to your project by January 21st in the comments here to be entered to win a $5 GC to the Studio Calico Shop.

weekly challenge

Good morning, and a happy belated new year! We'll be bringing you double the inspiration for each weekly challenge this year. Today, Lucy Abrams and I are challenging you to put your washi tape to work with your punches!

The easiest way to punch washi tape is to put it on cardstock or patterned paper first, and then punching it. Lucy used this technique for the sweet woodgrain hearts on her card.

(supplies - Block Party Card kit, Versafine black ink)

And I paired the silver star tape with a cloud punch :

(supplies : patterned paper - Studio Calico Darling Dear Wayne, Taylor, Temple, Here+There Boston; Thickers - Block Party Scrapbook kit; gem - Darling Dear opaque gems gray; stamps - Darling Dear sentiment stamps, Block Party scrapbook kit stamps, Classic Calico Vol 3 roller date stamp, Noah Outline alphabet stamp; ink - Hero Arts dye ink black; mist - Mister Huey's Audrey; arrow - Darling Dear printables; washi tape - Pollard Avenue; punch - Fiskars; Tiny Attacher)

Lucy and I can't wait to see what you do with washi tape and punches!! Create a project for this challenge, then share it in the Studio Calico gallery. Leave us a link to your project by January 14th in the comments here to be entered to win a $5 GC to the Studio Calico Shop.

weekly challenge

My favorite part about scrapbooking and Project Life is recording the every day. Each day is different and new even if the schedule doesn't change. Sometimes I don't have quite enough to fill in a week of Project Life so having prompts on hand make filling in slots of the week that much easier. Prompts also help to remember other details of your day! Here are a couple prompts I like to use when putting personal information and thoughts into my projects. These can also be used for other members of your family. You could even make up prompt cards ahead of time and leave them out encouraging others to fill them out from time to time!

(supply list - Studio Calico Block Party Project Life Kit (journaling card, star sticker); Basic Grey Micro Monogram Stickers red and black)

I challenge you to use one (or all) of these prompts to create your own Project Life card or layout. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Create a projectfor this challenge, then share it in the Studio Calico gallery. Leave us a link to your project by January 7th in the comments here to be entered to win a $5 GC to the Studio Calico Shop.

weekly challenge

We fell in love with this page from Becky Novacek - she did a great job making the sophisticated color scheme of Darling Dear fit with her adorable photo of her grandson. Our favorite part of the page was the line of chipboard speech bubbles - how fun is that detail?

(supplies - Darling Dear chipboard speech bubbles, badges, Monroe patterned paper and wood veneer letters)

For this week's challenge, we want you to create a line of embellishments on your next project. It could be chipboard shapes, stickers, sequins or buttons - just make sure to line them up!

Create a project, then share it in the Studio Calico gallery. Leave us a link to your project by December 31st in the comments here to be entered to win a $5 GC to the Studio Calico Shop.

 

weekly challenge

Hey guys! My challenge to you this week is to scrap a photo from last December. Maybe a photo that didn't make it in last years December Daily (tm) or a photo you loved so much, you want to scrap it again. Journal what you can remember about last year or maybe how things have changed. 

I created a 6x8 layout (I'm loving this smaller size) to fit into my Handbook binder. I started with a photo I came across in a box from last year and I knew I had to scrap it again. I used bits and pieces from the Darling Dear line and hand stitched a grid for fun. :) I think it also helps define each square of paper and the special photo. 

supplies: Darling Dear 6x6 pad, Darling Dear Arrow sticker sheet, Studio Calico Veneer Arrows, Wonderland woodgrain snowflakes, Wonderland tree farm patterned paper, Mr Huey opaque white, heart in home paperclip from Kris Kringle add on, white thread, needle

Create a project using a photo from last December, then share it in the Studio Calico gallery. Leave us a link to your project by December 24th in the comments here to be entered to win a $5 GC to the Studio Calico Shop.

weekly challenge

This week's challenge comes from our December guest designer, Allison Waken. We loved how she used our 34th Street kit and couldn't wait to see what she'd do with Wonderland!

(supplies -Studio Calico Wonderland patterned paper, ephemera pack, and 12x12 sticker sheet)

This week, we want you to take a cue from Allison and scrap your favorite tunes. Whether it's an album you love, a playlist that keeps you moving during a workout, or even a song you just can't stop singing, we want to see it on a layout!

Create a project , then share it in the Studio Calico gallery. Leave us a link to your project by December 17th in the comments here to be entered to win a $5 GC to the Studio Calico Shop.

weekly challenge

Hey everyone - Susan here today with the challenge this week!

I've decided to use one of my December kit projects as inspiration for the challenge this week.  The journaling on my "She Said" layout was prompted by the 'she said' journaling card that was included in Addon #1 - Herald Square.  I used it as a "jumping off" point, thinking of the "she said" as the first part of my journaling block.

(supplies - 34th Street, Penn Station, Herald Square, Murray Hill)

So my challenge to you is to use a journaling card, sticker, rub on, die cut, or anything with a pre-printed or cut phrase on it as the starting point for your journaling on a page.  I can't wait to see what you make!

Create a project , then share it in the Studio Calico gallery. Leave us a link to your project by December 10th in the comments here to be entered to win a $5 GC to the Studio Calico Shop.

weekly challenge

At the end of last week, we shared three inspiring tutorials from Maile Belles, Nicole Samuels and Kelly Noel. This week, we want you to give one of those techniques a try.

It's your choice - you can stamp on patterned paper like Maile, recolor your stamp brushes like Nicole, or create a diecut background like Kelly. We can't wait to see what you make!

Create a project using one of these techniques, then share it in the Studio Calico gallery. Leave us a link to your project by December 3rd in the comments here to be entered to win a $5 GC to the Studio Calico Shop.

weekly challenge

Hi everyone! Here Stephanie and I'm so happy to present you the weekly challenge. I have a passion to mix different papers. So the challenge today is to create a background page or card using at least six different patterned papers.

(supplies : SOCK HOP card kit , Bobby socks kit and Penny Loafers)

You will see that there is nothing complicated to mix this many papers. You can assemble strips of paper like on the first card, or create a mosaic like the second card,where I punched several squares in different patterned papers. You can stay in the same color tone or mix different colors. You can also choose different geometric shapes such as circles, everything is permitted when you mix several papers. So let's go and have fun!

Create a card or page using six patterned papers or more, then share it in the Studio Calico gallery. Leave us a link to your project by November 26th in the comments here to be entered to win a $5 GC to the Studio Calico Shop.