Craft Hoarders Anonymous Monthly Blog Hop

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Monthly Blog Hop

Hi Everyone,

ANNOUNCING...

Welcome! I have some exciting news for all you paper craft hoarders out there! On the 5th of every month, starting September 5th, a fantastic group of hoarding crafters will be participating in an inspirational Monthly Blog Hop! We will share projects with you, show you how we are using up our hoarded supplies, and encourage you to dig into your own stash! Our goal is to inspire you to USE IT UP!

Each month, you will start at Gloria Stengel's Blog and hop through 20 amazing blogs. The participating crafters will share projects in all styles and media types, using both old and new product! Some designers will share tutorials; some will share storage solutions; some will share how to use your scraps and leftovers; some will share videos. There is a wealth of experience and creativity among these crafters! Many of the designers are on popular manufacturing teams and a few are part of exceptional challenge blogs. I hope you will take the monthly journey with us, and DE-HOARD your supplies!

Here is the list of the participating Bloggers. Make sure to hop along and say hello! We will share our first projects on September 5th!

Gloria Stengel

Vicki Robertson

Debbie Seyer

Ginny Nemchak

Pam Bray

Jacquie Southas

Glenda Brooks

Amber Milone

Tracey Sabella

Donna Idlet

Bonnie Garby

Nancy Dynes

Wendi Robinson

Teresa Horner

Kathy Clement

Jan Ennenga

Barbara Rankin

Karen Zueger-Brownell

Marisa Job

Christy Houser

We hope you will join us on the 5th of every month starting September 5th as we share our projects with you!

Thanks for visiting! Hugs!

Go Green Challenge with Craft Hoarders...

Today we have an awesome challenge up just in time to create for St. Patricks day
 just around the corner.  I have 2 parts of me from that beautiful Celtic island
so i dug deep into my stash and found some of my favorite papers
that i put away from Best Creation.  

To make my book i started with a chipboard staggered book that i had and covered

the front and back with the bordered paper so that it would all match.  I had

the perfect sentiment to stick on it so that part was really easy.  Then i tied some

glittery green tulle on the side and layered a flower that i had and a flower that i 

made in plaid to match and glued that on the bottom left.

Here is a shot from the top so that you can see all the layers in the book.
It's a great way to show off all those pretty papers in a book that you have
hoarded away through the years.  I just chalked my edges to give it more color.

Here is the inside and i used die cuts from the paper collection that i cut
out and added flowers with just a bit of bling to go with the glittery embossing
on the papers.  This set really had great papers to work with and it was
really fast and easy to make it.  The other Celtic die cut that i used is
from Spellbinders and I have used it alot of different ways.

Here is another view just simple and i have some fun pictures to put in
it of my grandmother who was from Ireland and my husbands Grandfathers
side who were from Cork.  Someday i hope to get there and will have more
photos to add to it I hope.  Ireland is such a beautiful place and i can't wait to go.

And lastly here is another page that i did.  I really took advantage of the borders
and pretty details on my paper and used the letters and tags just as accents.

And that's all from this little irish/german girl today and don't forget to make
something amazing and share it with us on the Craft Hoarders Blog too. And
be sure and check out all the other projects from all the girls on the team!!


Irish Blessings to you all and Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Teresa

Craft Hoarders Challenge for Feb

Yep it's my favorite time of the month again with our shares from the 

Craft Hoarders Design Team!  Our challenge this month was to create a

Valentine, anniversary, wedding or other love themed project so i thought about it
and realized I had the perfect heart box and papers that i have been hoarding
so this put me in high gear to finally do something with it.  

It's nice that I had lots of things to use from the Craft Hoarders chart as you can see.

I used a chipboard heart box that i had gotten along time ago and first step was 

to cover the top with papers from MME Lost and Found Record it collection.

I also had the chipboard pieces and the ephemera pieces so i layered those with 3D
foam dots on the top and mixed in some Want2Scrap chipboard hearts that i had too.
 I am lovin the natural chipboard color so i kept some of it natural and then

chalked it with my favorite Tsukineko chalk ink in Gingerbread.  

And here is a closeup of some of the goodies that i layered on the top.  I also

used the bling letters and added a bit more red stickles on the other things to

glitter them up a little to match.  And i put in a little bit of twine just because i love it.

To finish off the edge better i sound some pretty lacy pearls so i glued that on

with adhesive.  For my die cuts i used the Bitty Blossom leaf die and tucked

a bunch of them under all the Bo Bunny flowers that i used.  It was really

a fun project to make and doing Valentines it gave me the opportunity to

over do it and use lots of the goodies that i had.  I even made a little card

to go with it.  I am going to put little love notes in it and cookies for my DH

for Valentines so i think it will be fun.  

Here is a list of the products i used:

Papers and goodies from My Minds Eye- Lost and Found Valentines Collection

Bling: Red Stickles

Ink: Tsukineko Chalk Ink in Gingerbread

Spray Mist: Tsukineko Shimmer Spray in Gold

Lace and Tulle: in my stash

Twine: Natural twine from May Arts

Die Cuts: Spellbinders and Want2Scrap

Distressing on the edges

Chipboard Heart Box and Scalloped hearts

Flowers: Bo Bunny and Prima

Scotch Quick dry Adhesive to hold it all together

with 3D Foam dots by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L

Yep that sounds like i got everything and be sure and go check out all

the amazing things the rest of our team did on the blog here.

Don't forget to leave a comment so i know that you stopped by and i
can come and visit you too.  Have a wonderful day!!

My first Craft Hoarders Anonymous post

Well today is a really great day because it's my first post on the 

Craft Hoarders Anonymous Blog.  This is the perfect team for me since

i am just a bit of a hoarder and now i can use up some of the things in 

my stash to give as gifts.  It's going to be a really fun year!!

Since we just had Christmas i am sharing a book that i did for my sister

to put all the cute photos of her cats in.  She had an amazing big white persian

cat named Mabel and sadly she passed away recently and it was the perfect 

papers from Graphic 45 to use.  The line is called Raining Cats and Dogs and 

it's absolutely adorable.   The line comes with lots of flowers and

tags and other fun goodies so it was easy to check off lots of things from

my list of things i needed to use to make this project for her....

The flowers i made with the punch out's that come in the set.  I love the

bright prints and the check ribbon from RRR went great with it.  You can

also see here how i cut and staggered the bottom edges of the book.  The 

papers are so pretty i wanted to show them off on each page before i turned

them to see the next photo on it.  And it comes with these way too cute

chipboard pieces,  buttons, tags and all kinds of goodies to decorate with.

Here and below i am sharing each of the pages that i did.

Each of them has lots of cute things on it and lots of ribbon

and buttons and brads.  It was really fun to do and my sister

really liked it.  

The pictures of the cats on this are just way too cute!

Thank for stopping over to see my book and be sure and enter the

challenge yourself and see what you can dig out of your stash to make

something for someone really special!!  Have a wonderful day :)

Make sure you visit the Craft Hoarders Anonymous Design Team 

and check out what they have to share! 

Amber Milone

Christy Butters

Debbie Seyer

Donna Idlet

Ginny Nemchak

Glenda Brooks

Gloria Stengel 

Kathy Clement

Nancy Dynes

Pam Bray

Teresa Horner- this is me :)

Wendi Robinson

A peek into my scraproom

So today i am sharing a few photos of my Scrap space via my new design

team Craft Hoarders Anonymous... I am actually going to move most of

it out to the garage to have a big table for sewing and painting new week

but this is where i create everything that i do right now.  It's messy and i 

have collected way to much but that is half the fun right :)

So how on earth did i amass such a huge amount of things you ask?

Well i was lucky enough to work at a Scrapbook store for 12 years and

i taught ALOT and went to the CHA shows and well --you get the idea.  It's

pretty much my life and i love that i get to enjoy creating things each

and every day for my design teams and for classes. This is my desk where

i stamp and color.  I have a really great view from my window here :)

My favorite buy was the IKEA drawers that have all my favorite

things in them close at hand and organized.  I am still looking for

a neat way to do my Spellbinders dies so hopefully I will find something

when i move all this to the other room soon. Other things like my 

ribbons for Really Reasonable Ribbon i store in boxes under my desk,

along with paper and other goodies like bling and mini books to do.

My son always tells me that junk expands to fill the space so

you can see that it's time i move to a bigger space.  Inside

my cabinets are all my favorite things i have made and painted

through the years.  I use to be a decorative painter before i got

into scrapbooking so i have lots of things i saved one of to remember

all the fun my partner Shelley and i had all those years selling.

Oh and i sew too ( i had dreams to be a costume designer) so some 

are the dolls i made... it was great when my daughter was small and all 

the girls loved them.  So that is it for today but i will share my space

again when i move and with all the neat things i found on pinterest

it's going to be really nice i think.  Thanks for stopping over and visiting

and be sure and check out our challenge next month in Jan.

Have a great day everyone.....

Some Awesome News to share today

Today i have some awesome news to share about a new Design Team

i was asked to join called Craft Hoarders Anonymous.  The fabulous Gloria

Stengel is the Blog owner and she hosts lots of fun challenges to join each 

and every month that is sure to use of some of those crafty supplies that 

you have been hoarding for a rainy day and you get a chance to meet lots

 of crafty girls from around the world.

Sounds like the perfect team for this crafty hoarding kind of gal :)

Here all the other girls on the team so you can go and check them 

all out too and see what magic they create in their neck of the world!!

http://gloriadesignschallenge.blogspot.com/p/design-team.html