CHALLENGE Monday - September 28th

by Lois:
Todays challenge involves recycling! Use a piece of packaging of some sort either on a card or as an altered project...

here's mine:

and voila... a picture frame!

Carla used the plastic backing from a package of Basic Grey Glazed Brads. Punched out a butterfly and added some ink to define the edges a bit.

Deanne used cardboard from a Basic Grey brad package for the front of her card.

There are three ways to enter a LO for one of our challenges!

1. Post a direct link to your layout in the comment section.

2. Send in your layout to Sisterhood of Scrap before the end of the month. Please make sure you put "SEPT 28" in the subject line. This makes it so much easier for us to filter our emails and ensures that we don't miss your submission.

3. OR post it in our Sisterhood of Scrap gallery (you will need to be registered) and then tell us that you posted in the Challenge Monday Sept28th. This month we have no sponsored prize so you'll be playing just for fun!

CHALLENGE Monday - Sept 21/09

Happy First day of Fall!!

Not sure where the summer went though! lol

We have another challenge for you this week.

Today's challenge is to:

Create a LO using a Masking technique for the title letters.


Here are the sisters' LOs today!

Susan - I masked some of the letters using Shimmerz Paint !!

Carla

DEANNE

There are three ways to enter a LO for one of our challenges!

1. Post a direct link to your layout in the comment section.

2. Send in your layout to Sisterhood of Scrap before the end of the month. Please make sure you put "SEPT 21" in the subject line. This makes it so much easier for us to filter our emails and ensures that we don't miss your submission.

3. OR post it in our Sisterhood of Scrap gallery (you will need to be registered) and then tell us that you posted in the Challenge Monday Sept 14th thread on the forum.

This month we have no sponsored prize so you'll be playing just for fun!

BUT...if you're looking for prizes, hop over to the Sisterhood of Scrap Forum and check out our crop challenges. There's a prize to be won for each challenge!

Crop challenges

Don't forget that the links to our online crop challenges are posted! We'd love to see your projects for these! PRIZE for every challenge :-)

SISTER Sunday - Sept 20th

Here's some of Lois' FAVES!

Favorite Snack: jelly bellys and hersey’s milk chocolate

Favorite Drink: Coffee... strong and black....mmmm... Starbucks!

Favorite Paper: I love Basic Grey paper…it’s one of my favourites, it is so easy to work with and has a nice ‘feel’ and I am loving a lot of the new papers out there now - I have too many more favourites to even write in here – I basically just love paper!

Favorite Technique: I love the look of sanding on the edges of my photos and have been using it a lot lately.

Favorite Embellishment: My favourite embellishment changes all the time…first it was chipboard, then flowers, then buttons and now I love sanding the edges of my photos and adding doodle lines around the edges of things (and I still love chipboard!). It never ends! I try to bounce around between embellishments so my layouts don’t get boring.

Favorite Scrap Tool: Other than my tweezers, I love my Revolution die cutter.

Favorite Adhesive: I have a couple... first, for mini books there is nothing better than rubber cement... it works great and rolls off anything you don’t want it on. Then there is the double sided tape I’ve been using... it’s from my friends store... she gets it from a lady who bought the company when they were going to leave... it’s called Sookwang (on the roll) and is on fairly big rolls and sticks like magic and is half as expensive as the red one you see everywhere.

BACK TO SCHOOL ONLINE CROP

6R's Reading 'Riting, 'Rithmetic, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

September means back to school so we're having a crop to celebrate, starting this evening! Challenges will be posted a various times throughout the weekend and will be due on September 26th.


Can't have a crop without a few guidelines :-) Only a few, I promise!

~ New layouts only, please :-)
~ Please upload your layout in our gallery OR an online photo page (such as Photobucket) and post your image in the forum post (on the blog, you can add the link in a reply)
~ All layouts are due on September 26th in order to be counted for prizes -- there will be a prize for each challenge and game.
~ Each layout/project can be counted for only one challenge


Visit our forum for some fun challenges, games and lots of laughs!!!

*READING-HELEN

*'RITING-INGRID

*'RITHMETIC-CARLA

*REDUCE-SUSAN

*REUSE 1-LOIS

*REUSE 2-LOIS

*REUSE 3-LOIS

*REUSE 4-LOIS

*RECYCLE-DEANNE

.... and a "Designing With Buttons" tutorial, by Ali.

CHALLENGE Monday - Sept 14th

Started out as a rainy day here in Newfoundland, but the sun is shining now! I love nice, fall days :-)

Here's our challenge for you today -- USE distressing techniques on a layout or card.

See what the sisters have created:

LOIS:

CARLA:

SUSAN:

DEANNE:

There are three ways you can submit your project.

1. Post a direct link to your layout in the comment section.

2. Send in your layout to Sisterhood of Scrap before the end of the month. Please make sure you put "SEPT 14" in the subject line. This makes it so much easier for us to filter our emails and ensures that we don't miss your submission.

3. OR post it in our Sisterhood of Scrap gallery (you will need to be registered) and then tell us that you posted in the Challenge Monday Sept 14th thread on the forum.

SISTER Sunday - Sept 13th

More about Lois :-)

Tell us about your favorite layout you have ever completed?
I don’t really have a favorite, but some I like more than others and it depends on what mood I’m in! I did one of my Mother when she was being ‘courted’ by my Dad and have it framed in my scrap room… I love that one because it looks aged and the photo is a ‘sweetheart’ photo done for my Dad…

What do you love the most about scrapping?
The peace of mind and pleasure it gives me.

What do you dislike the most about scrapbooking?
I don’t like that since scrapbooking became so big, that the ‘big box’ stores are really cashing in and taking business away from the smaller specialized scrapbooking stores. However, that brings me to another thing I don’t like – there is far too much money being charged for supplies… what ever happened to it being less expensive to make things yourself!?

What topic do you find the most difficult to scrap?
I don’t really have a problem scrapping any topic so far… I have scrapped things about myself, the death of my parents… etc. which are pretty personal.

Have you ever taught a scrapbooking class?
No, but I have been asked a number of times and it might happen yet!

Have you ever been published?
No, I have submitted in the past but soon found that I am just not that interested in playing the game.

What type of camera do you use?
I have just replaced my little Canon 1000 that died suddenly with the next one up which is the SD1100 so I can use the same batteries… For what I do, I have found that the photos are good and it’s small and easy to use.

What would be your perfect day?
Well, I’d get up and discover I’m thin with a vanilla latte in my hand and I’m living on a cruise ship in a penthouse suite and it’s got the most organized and complete scrapping room ever!

I can't imagine my life without ...
my husband…he is so supportive of everything I do and encouraged me to retire in 2003 while he worked. He has no problem with anything I want for my ‘addiction’ to this craft – how great is that!?!

SOUP of the DAY Saturday Sept 12

Sorry ladies I've been out of town all day.Just getting around to posting.

Here's your soup recipe today and it comes from Ali!!!

1 recycled item (LOL: That's the broth left over from cooking a roast)
A dash of ribbon. lace or twill (= The herbs and seasonings)
At least 3 colours of CS (= leftover veggies I threw in the pot: lots of colour!)
A splash of patterned paper (=The Worcestershire sauce I added, LOL)
And... some buttons (= The baking powder biscuits to go along w/ my soup!)

Sounds delicious!!!!! Get cooking everyone!!!

Please create a "soup" using these ingredients. Remember your SOUP can be a card, layout or altered project! And, you can add more "to the pot" but your soup MUST have these ingredients to qualify at the end of the month for a RAK from me.

Your projects MUST be added to the thread at the FORUM, they do not have to be posted IN the gallery, but you must reply to the appropriate thread at the forum and post a link or a photo (can be uploaded to your blog, photobucket, for example) to qualify for the RAK at the end of the month.

AUGUST winner!!

Our sponsor this month is the Cutting Cafe . They will be sending out 3 sets of stamps to a random winner!

Here's are our August submissions:

The winner is..................................

CHAR!

Congrats, Char! We'll be in touch with you with how to claim your prize!

CHALLENGE Monday Sept 7

Hope everyone's enjoying their holiday today!!!

Today's challenge is...

CREATE A LAYOUT OR CARD WITH THE WORD PEACE, CALM OR SERENITY ON IT.

Here's Lois' layout:



Deanne's card:
Carla's card:

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There are three ways you can enter your project to be considered for our monthly draw prize from our sponsor.

1. Post a direct link to your layout in the comment section.

2. Send in your layout to Sisterhood of Scrap before the end of the month. Please make sure you put "SEPT 7" in the subject line. This makes it so much easier for us to filter our emails and ensures that we don't miss your submission.

3. OR post it in our Sisterhood of Scrap gallery (you will need to be registered) and then tell us that you posted in the Challenge Monday Sept 7 thread on the forum.


Happy Scrapping!

SOUP of the DAY Saturday Sept 5

Here's your first Soup recipe!

Sept 5 Soup of the Day

Ingredients:
3 BRADS or EYELETS
Dash of STRIPED patterned paper
A sprinkle of GLITTER


Please create a "soup" using these ingredients. Remember your SOUP can be a card, layout or altered project! And, you can add more "to the pot" but your soup MUST have these ingredients to qualify at the end of the month for a RAK from me.

Your projects MUST be added to the thread at the FORUM, they do not have to be posted IN the gallery, but you must reply to the appropriate thread at the forum and post a link or a photo (can be uploaded to photobucket, for example) to qualify for the RAK at the end of the month.

Hope you like the new idea for Saturdays!!!