Sistas Scrap Too!

Hello Ladies.  Welcome Back and Happy New Year!  We hope this year will be one filled with excitement and fun.  We were on  break since the end of November.  Now it is time for us to get down to business and get back to showcasing our beautiful work.  We have four challenges for the month of January. 

The rules are still the same; we encourage you to do as many  challenges as time allows.  Showcase your completed project(s) on the Sistas Scrap Too thread and on the layout section of the Cricut messageboard, and send your project to sistasscraptoo@gmail.com as well.  All challenges should be mailed to the gmail account to post on the blog no later than January 31st.

Challenge #1:  Create a layout dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King

Challenge #2:  Paint Can Swap:  Sign up only.  Each swap partner will decorate a gallon sized paint can and fill it with goodies.  The minimum purchase amount is $25.00.  All cans are to be mailed by February 5th along with a delivery confirmation number.  Email, Join the paint can swap to the gmail account.

Challenge #3:  Choose a project ( found at the beginning of the manuals) from any of the carts you have, using the same concept, put your own spin on it.

Challenge #4:  Scrap your "Bucket List" Project.  This challenge is taken from the movie, "The Bucket List".  Design a layout with the things you want to do before you kick the bucket. 

Let's get to scrappin!

Hello everyone! This month is all about Christmas:

1. Secret Santa. See post# 15819on the Cricut Message Board for details.

2. Christmas Gift Tags. Make a few gift tags for Christmas. Here is one from Susan of Custom Crops:



Here is another one courtesy of Cindy Grigiski.

Here is a similiar challenge, hosted by Chistmas Stampin All Year Long.

3. Christmas cards. Use your Cricut to create five Christmas Cards. Each card must contain one of the following:
- Mistletoe
- Mittens or some type of winter clothing
- A wreath
- A reindeer (preferably Rudolph)
- An elf

4. Holiday Blog Hop. Post your project by the end of this month to your website. Show us your cards, gifts, wraps or whatever else your creative hearts can imagine. Mention that your a member of Sistascraptoo club. Hop around to other Sistascraptoo member's site and leave a comment.....Recommend antoher site to visit.



These challenges will be posted until December 31st. We'll post your creations in January. Thanks for looking!!!

Hello Everyone!!! Here are the challenges for October

Challenge #1: Faux Quilt Card

http://dawnsstampingthoughts.typepad.com/dawns_stampin_studio/2009/04/faux-quilt-card-.html

Dawn has a very neat faux quilt card. Here's one I made last month.





Challenge #2: "Sista, challenge a sista" Challenge

This challenge will be unique as well as....challenging! LOL. Each person will challenge the next person to have a certain technique in her card/LO. For instance, I will challenge someone to use inks in her card. That person will challenge the next person to use the Cuttlebug, who will in turn challenge the next person to use a certain cart, etc....

If interested, please submit your name to our gmail acct NLT 9 Oct. I will contact you soon after.


Challenge #3: Book Of Me

This challenge comes courtesy of Valerie Hoyle, a member on the cricut website. the instructions are posted here. Though she will be posting a new challenge every Sunday, you can pick any one (or two, or three) to work on for this blog.


Challenge #4: Halloween/Fall Layout

Whether spooky or silly, capture the memory of your child's costume with a cute and clever scrapbook page idea. Or scrap your favorite things about autumn. Use this sketch for your layout (courtesy of Crafts by Rowena)

http://craftsbyrowena.blogspot.com/2009/09/free-sketch-wednesday-7.html

Here are our creations from September. Great job everyone! The cards are beautiful...

Hello all and thanks for all your submissions to our first challenge. The creations were great and unique. Here are the challenges for September. Since we did layouts our first month, we decided to dedicate this month to our card lovers.

This first challenge is a tri-fold card suggested by our friend, Nubian Crafter:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/flap_card/

A few samples:
http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=13277

The second challenge comes from PageMaps, a site that posts monthly card and layouts sketches. Thanks PKSunshine for the idea!




Here is an example:




Create two cards per challenge. These challenges will be posted until September 30th. We'll post your creations next month. Good luck and thanks for stopping!

Hello and welcome to our very first challenge! We decided to start simple - a quick one and two page layout using the provided sketches. We pulled these sketches from Scrapbooks etc. Use your imagination and the only criteria is that you must use the Cricut somewhere on your layouts - easy peasy! This challenge will be posted until August 30th. We'll post your creations the following week.

Both sketches have examples to help you get started









Thanks for stopping by and please leave a comment.......Tell us what you think!