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Make More With Your Punches & Diecuts

Hello Faithful Crop Suey Readers!! It's Jenny here checking in with today's scrappy post. I want you to take a trip back, back to the days to the days when you first started scrapping. It could be back in high schol when you were cutting things out of magazines and using your glue stick to put together a fun little memory book. Or it could be back in the day when you had your first child and started creating one of those darn Baby Books every other perfect mom was doing in their spare time, wink. Think about some of those first tools you used. Do you remember deco edge scissors and the punches? Well, I do and I still use them. Especially my punches.

Punches seemed to fall out of favor a bit when the bigger, more lumpy embellishments hit the paper crafting market. They still hold a special part in my paper & glue heart. But, how to keep them current?!? I'm sure you are a bit like me and love a bit of lump on your pages. Pull out those punches and start layering them and popping them up.

For this first one I diecut kites, two for each one pictured here. Folded the top one down the midline and adhered it to another to give my kites & page some lift off...

For this sample, I first stamped and then punched my stars. I adhered their centers askew and curled up the edges. Like so...

Love me some butterflies. They were layered and stapled at the midline here. These ones look almost as if they will just flutter away...

More stars here. For these ones I actually used 3 stars, all different patterns and adhered the backs to each other...

Now, these are lumpy...

Circles are great for flower centers. But you just HAVE to pop them up (same method as the above stars)...

What are YOU going to do with your punches?

october challenge....

BEAUTIFUL, FABULOUS YOU!

~do it! scrap the most beautiful, fabulous person that you know ~~~ YOU!!! i know it can be hard but it's so important to remember ourselves with this amazing hobby we do to preserve ALL OF OUR memories!!!! xoxoxoxoxo

Here is what the beautiful, fabulous DT came up with for this challenge!!!!

Natalie

Jenny

Norine

Laurel

it's that time again...

remember to link up, link up, link up!!!

get your challenge linked up by midnight tomorrow!!!

SEPTEMBER Challenge!!! :) :)

NUMBERS, NUMBERS, NUMBERS!!!!!
~all you gotta do is use NUMBERS! Get as many of those bad boys as you can onto your project/LO/card/etc!!! Ya know, all those Thickers that are not feeling the love? Show them the love!! Heck, while you are at it, use up those random letters too :)

As usual, the DT rocks :) Check out their work!

Jenny

Laurel

Norine

Nat

Can't wait to see what you create!! :)

Time is almost up....

to get your entry linked up for us to see and so you are entered to win this month's prize!!!!!

AUGUST Challenge! xoxo

VINTAGE IS AWESOME!!!

~ get inspired by this AD...I am lovin' it, are you feeling the love too?!?!!!! :)



Here is what the ROCKIN' DT came up with this month!!!

Norine's layout used the same vintage elements and color scheme as the ad and stuck with the theme of tough gals!

Laurel

Jenny's Same basic color scheme with a pop of black. Also stayed vintage and the tough girl theme. Loved this challenge!!