Bash your Stash | Blog Hop!

25 Monday Feb 2013

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Bash your Stash, Basic Grey, Blog Hop, Scenic Route, Scrapbook Layout, Strawberry Shortcake

Since Cathie, Krista, and I had so much fun a couple of weeks ago with the impromptu Bash Your Stash blog hop, other people wanted in on the fun too so today you’re getting a bunch of us!

For this week, I pulled out some super old, 2008 or earlier old, Basic Grey (Bittersweet) and Scenic Route (Loveland) paper. Both are Valentine’s themed but I used them to scrap one of Miss M’s 4th birthday pics.

Once again I did a bunch of layers – really starting to get the hang of it now and loving it!

I stuck on some gold chevron washi tape:

and some Uniball Signo Gold gel pen:

Added some pink twine because Krista has me hooked on that technique:

finished it off with some hidden journaling (because, as usual, I forgot the journaling until the LO was done!):

and called it done!

I love how it turned out with the browns and pinks, perfect for my brown-eyed girl and her Strawberry Shortcake birthday cake!

The Paperie is next on the hop so head over there and see what they have!

If you want to start at the beginning and see all the “old made new again”, here’s the full list of participants:

Cathie Reed

Deanne Clarke-Saunders

Sara Case Strickland <– that’s me!

The Paperie

Enjoy the hop and if you “bash your stash” leave me a link or comment so I can check it out!

Bash Your Stash aka Use-it-or-Lose-it Blog Hop

11 Monday Feb 2013

Posted by Sara in ScrapBook

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Bash your Stash, October Afternoon, Scenic Route, Scrapbook Layout

A couple of days ago, Krista decided to join Cathie on her regular Monday post about using up her stash. Since I was working on a LO using super old product I asked if I could crash the party too and Cathie’s first Bash Your Stash blog hop was born!

I had this hilarious picture of Mr.G from Halloween, with an equally hilarious story to go along with it and had to scrap it, even though holidays are my most hated scrapbooking events. Unfortunately, this hatred does not extend to paper and so I have quite the collection of Halloween paper that is wasting away in the Scrap Cave. Time to put it to use!

As you can see, I’ve also been playing with layers. I love the look of them but it’s never been the way I scrapbook and so I struggle with it. But I think I’m starting to get the hang of it!

I really bashed the stash on this one – the papers are from Scenic Route, Carolee’s Creations for AdornIt, Scrapworks, and Making Memories. I also threw on some Scenic Route chipboard, word stickers, and rub-on arrows. I really want to use this stuff up!

There are some new things – a bit of washi tape, a flair badge, and those “so awesome I have them in every colour” October Afternoon letter stickers:

But overall, it’s old, old stuff. I mean, I know Scenic Route is long gone but I couldn’t even find paper for AdornIt or Scrapworks when I searched. Are they still around? Anyone?

If you want to check out some more amazing LO’s, make sure you go see what Cathie and Krista did with this challenge today. All of our styles are so different that it’s fun to see our work together!

Cathie – with Coffee in Hand

Krista – Confessions of a Twenty Something Artist

Are you a scrapbook hoarder (aren’t we all!)? I challenge you to Bash Your Stash and link up your projects in the comments – we’d all love to see how you make your old product new again!