Handmade Flowers- take 3!

I think the hardest part about our current challenge is narrowing down which sort of flowers you want to make... at least that was the hardest part for me :) Here's a couple more flowery projects to hopefully inspire you to create some flowers (when you're not outside gardening and admiring the real flowers out there this May long weekend!)

by Tara

by Sarah

Hope you'll join us in our May challenge!  Click the link on the left to find the post with the inlinkz gadget :)

More hand made flowers!

I'm back with some more samples of hand made flowers from our Design Team!   You've got until 11:59pm on Thursday, May 31 to play along- we hope you'll join us!  We'd love to see your hand made flowers!

by Julie

by Leslea

I also wanted to share with you some more links I came across with flower tutorials... there's so many great ideas out there! 

• Twine Flowers
• Spider Rose (made with an old t-shirt!) on Scrapbook & Cards Today Blog
• Washi Tape Rose on American Crafts Studio Blog

Hope you have fun with it!

Oh yes- you're probably wondering what we're playing for this month, right?  Once again, we're giving away a $10 coupon to be used on our soon-to-be-open online store (or local customers can use it in the store)!

You can scroll down to enter, or click the link on the left sidebar of the blog :)

May Challenge: hand made flowers

It's time for another monthly challenge at SCCB!  Spring is in the air and we're excited to share with you a challenge to create hand made flowers, there are so many possibilities and types of flowers you can create!  We hope you'll play along and we look forward to seeing what you create! 

Here's some samples from our Seriously Creative Design Team:

Janet

Roxy

Need some more inspiration and ideas?  Check out these links:
- Scrapbook Etc. has a few how-to's (it's also where I found the inspiration image for this month!)
- Tim Holtz has a great video with some tips for using his rosette dies
- DT member, Roxy, has a Pinterest board full of hand made embellishments... including a lot of flowers!

April Challenge Winners!

It was so much fun seeing the diverse styles of projects that were submitted to our April Challenge to use Sprays & Stains- I loved visiting each of your blogs and seeing what you've been creating!

I (Tara) am totally, full on in INKY mode- last weekend I had the thrill of attending Ranger University in New Jersey, getting immersed in all things inky spending 3 FULL days with Tim Holtz, Claudine Hellmuth & Dyan Reavely.  It was so much fun and so inspiring, and even though I was already very familiar with Ranger products, I learned a lot from the masters :)

I don't have a new challenge to present to you today... but I'll be back on Monday with the details and some inspiration from our Seriously Creative Design Team!  Things are a bit busy right now since today is National Scrapbooking Day and we are in the middle of our fabulous Scrapbook & Cards FIESTA weekend!

I brought back some Dylusions sprays (so fun!) and Mom & I had to open them up and create some inky goody bags for the weekend:

Aren't they fun and colorful?  We pulled out some random chipboard letters and put them on brown paper bags for a quick mask, then got wild with Dylusions sprays!  Here's hoping the inky-ness will never end :)

Before I announce the winners, here's a quick look at my 'graduating class' of Certified Ranger Educators:

And now... we've used Random.org to select the winners of our April challenge... Yes TWO winners, as we had 10 entries! Each of these ladies will get a code for $10 to spend in our online store, which is opening later this month!  As our store isn't open yet, I'll also include an inky goodie from Ranger in your package when we ship it off to you!

And the winners are...

• #2 Tanya S.
• #5 Donna Arkle

Please send us an email and we'll send the coupon code to you when the store opens up!

Thanks for playing along!   Check back on Monday to see what we have for you in May!

April Challenge Reminder

We're already more than half way through April... and there's a little over 1 week left for you to participate in our challenge to create something using Sprays & Stains!

Here's a couple more projects to inspire you:

Guest DT Dorothy made this pretty little card!  You should see how her flower shimmers :)

Tara made this one using "resist" products & Distress Stains!

Visit our DT member's blogs to see more details on these projects!  We hope you'll join us this month and create something fabulous using Sprains and/or Stains!

p.s. here's some links I found when I visited our other DT member's blogs :)

• Roxy sprayed some corrugated cardboard on this layout.
• Sarah made a fab background with Distress Stains over Kraft Resist on this card.

April Challenge: Sprays & Stains

I'm so excited to introduce a new challenge to you today!  This month's challenge was inspired by Easter... Take some inspiration from the memories of inky fingers and colourful eggs and dip into your stash of sprays and stains this month!

We challenge you to create any paper based project (card, layout or 3D project) and use some sprays and/or stains on it!  ANY spray or stain will do the trick, but the more you use the merrier :)  We can't wait to see what you create!

Here's some samples from our Seriously Creative Design Team to inspire you:

by Janet

by Sarah

by Julie

by Roxy

 We've all been having so much fun playing with sprays & stains and we can't wait to see your projects!

This month our PRIZE will be a $10 gift certificate to Creative Accents, which can be used either in the store for our local customers or in our new ONLINE STORE which is opening soon!  We look forward to sharing the details with you soon!  Please encourage your friends to play along!  If we reach 10 participants, I'll add another $10 prize... and so on for each 10 participants :)

March Challenge Winner!

It was fun seeing your projects inspired by our GREEN photo for March- thanks so much to those of you who played along!  

We've used random.org and selected a winner...

Congrats to Marianne!  

Marianne brought a fabulous green tag for an in store entry, and already took home her green inspired prize :) 

Check back with us this weekend as we introduce our April challenge on Saturday.  It's a fun one that we know a lot of you will want to play along with!