Scraptastic Club March Challenges

Know what's great about challenges? They're a fun little push to use supplies I've forgotten I had, and to try new ideas and techniques. I'm a new member at Scraptastic Club, and am taking part in a couple of their challenges for the first time.

Challenge #2 is to recycle something, and to use a mask. When I got a new phone at Christmas, the pack rat in me just had to save the silver cardboard it was packaged in -- it says "hello"! How could I discard that? It was too reflective to photograph well,, but this is what it looked like if you can imagine shiny silver.

I've also had a pretty mask with a butterfly on it for over a year -- and I've never used it! Not once! I sprayed silver mist on black cardstock, matted it on the silver background and cut out the "hello". Here's the resulting card:

I had so much fun with the mask that I used it for a second card (nothing recycled, though--doesn't qualify for the challenge):

Both times I outlined the design in gel pen. On the blue-on-white one, I colored in the butterfly with glaze pens. What I took away from this challenge is that at least with this particular mask, there is too much white background showing. I got away with it on the silver-on-black, but the other one would have looked better masked on lightly-patterned paper.

Challenge #3 is to use a banner and staples on a project. Now, I'm probably the only scrapper I know who isn't in love with banners. But I do have a stamp I've never used, and it seemed like a good time to try it out! I stamped the banner multiple times across the card front and embossed them in white. It needed a little color, and I remembered some thread that came with a couple of the sale kits I recently purchased. Instant color! I also have a stash of staples that I never think to use -- maybe now that I've dug them out, I'll use them now and then! I sure loved the sample provided by the DT for the challenge.

There are two more challenges that I hope to get to at my crop next Saturday, if not before: Challenge #1 is to use a song title and filmstrip photos. I'll have to think about that one as I can't put it together in my head yet. Challenge #4 is to use a yummy palette of aquas, soft yellows and cream. I have just the photos for that one, I think!

So much fun to have challenges to stretch with! Come have some fun with me!

Update 4/1/12. I did get one more done at my crop yesterday. This is for Challenge #4, using the aqua and yellow palette. The photos of my grandson on Destin beach were just made for this color combo:

Update 04/03/12  I actually got one more challenge done! Challenge #5 was to use 20 or more of the same type of embellishment; and I added some die cut fish. I like them around the journaling; but I'm not sure I like them in what would have been "white space", nor am I sure it was a good idea to dab them with a little platinum ink. A few lines from Taj Mahal's "Fishin' Blues" is printed on the border paper. I asked my DIL to get my granddaughter to suggest the journaling -- I love that she typed up what Madeline said about her first fishing trip! This was my first project with one of my Scraptastic kits; and I love the papers in it.