Last days of summer 2019 (mine are in first post now)

[pamcook]

This challenge lasts from now until the end of September.

Choose several project life type cards from your stash that are just sitting there. Take a photo of them. Then use them to create DIY embellishments (take a photo of them) that you’ll use on a scrapbook page (or 3 or 4 - bonus points will be awarded). Post the photos!

There are many videos on YouTube for DIY embellishments. Use punches & die cuts. Add washi, flowers, stickers, ephemera, stamps, stencils...

Not a scrapbooker? Create a set of cards with your creations.

Earn even more bonus points if your layout has 3 or more photos, 2 different fonts, and journaling that tells the story about your feelings related to the photos.

Mine - finally in progress

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[nchoney]

Great idea... and I've never thought about using them to make diecuts... but I'll be using that idea, now, for sure!!

[pamcook]

[mpizzazz]

Those are beautiful, Pam!

[Debbie J]

This is a fun challenge, I’ll try to do it when I get home from me and Cait’s Road trip. We are in Duluth, MN tonight and will be LaCrosseWI tomorrow. Having a great time and after this trip I will only have 3 states to complete the 50. Yay

[pugmom]

Pam, your embellishments are fabulous. I have A LOT of PL cards, so hope to give this a go.

[paddlegal]

Outstanding embellishments Pam. I have TONS of those darn cards that I was so sure would push me to scrap. NOT! So I’ll dig them out and try to make some card embellishments.

[pugmom]

The cards I used:

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The embellishment:

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And the scrapbook page:

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[pamcook]

Sue! Outstanding!
You did a great job with those cards and your page is beautiful!

[jmp1022]

very nice

[gwendols]

Great idea!! I will definitely try this out.

[pamcook]

I used the same set of cards to make these embellishments.

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Then made this page. My great grandmother is the woman in the dark dress. Will add other names as I confirm them. I think my great grandfather is standing behind her and I think the woman holding the baby is his mistress with one of their children. Yep.
Okay - Mom says the woman holding the baby is my great grandmother’s sister (the one in the picture). The man behind her is her husband (woman with the baby). He is a cousin of my great grandfather but probably not the father of any of her children. DNA is confirming a lot of family rumors! She was mistress to several men!

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[nchoney]

I'm feeling the need to play with paper and such.... so I think I'll pull out one of my containers of these crazy cards and see what I can cut up and create. I think I can lay my hands on some of the cards... and maybe some of the punches I kept. or I may just fussy cut things.... I'll just be happy to play with paper!!

This is a project I can fiddle with without paying much attention to it and not worrying if I mess something up.

[pamcook]

I don’t know why I had never stamped on printed paper before. The tiny designs on the cards work well with outline stamps.
I also tend to just use white cardstock with my dies. Sue’s use of her dies and cards blew my mind. I love finding new ways use stuff I already have.

[Keitha]

Good challenge Pam, and your embellishments and pages are wonderful. Unearthing the family skeletons, are you?
Sue, fabulous use of those cards for your page embellishments.