April Challenges at Scraptastic Club

Well, guess what? I was the lucky random winner of the March challenge at Scraptastic Club! I'm spending my $20 gift certificate on one of the past kits that I've had my eye on. After a whole year of missing Coordinates Collection when it closed, I  picked up a couple of sale past kits when one of my online friends pointed me to Scraptastic. The kits are a good value and nicely put together, and I joined! It's SO much fun to have a box of treasures delivered to my door every month again! Now I'm having fun participating in the challenges, admiring the daily DT projects, and joining in the conversations on FB.

I used my fun new Great Adventures kit to tackle Challenge #2 -- two borders, two patterned papers, two different alphas and two embellies. This checkered pp and the bright colors reminded me of a 50's diner, and seemed perfect for these photos of my granddaughter eating her creation at Cheeseburger Bobby's.

04/23/12

Challenge #1 this month asks for flowers made of 3 or more paper layers. Mine are die cut, inked, crumpled, curled and layered for this "bloom" card.

Challenge #3 -- use an old kit and stitching. Well, fortunately when a friend first told me about Scraptastic, they were having an awesome clearance sale, and I bought 3 kits that were old to the store, but new to me! I still have most of them all, as well as the current kits I've been purchasing. I have a favorite kitchen bowl that serves better than any scrapbooking tool to make big circles, so I traced it in pencil and punched holes for the stitching. The Farm Fresh sticker was perfect, since Dean was born on a farm and has fond memories of his early days there! I cut a slight curve on the memories and date stickers so they'd fit the circle better. Alphas from my stash. So here's my LO using the November Home Sweet Home kit:

Last challenge was posted Thursday, and I just finished it. Heather provided a sketch, and our interpretation just needed to include at least one circle, and some visible journaling. November kit to the rescue again. The flower stuck to the "notes" journaling block in the package; and I had to figure out how to use it that way! Autumn words and letters from my stash.

Hope more folks will be posting their challenge entries in the next few days -- I always love to see what everyone does within the same parameters!