Creative Inspiration Challenges

Hi everyone!  It's getting busier as the year quickly draws to a close!  This month I have FOUR challenges to share with you!!!  For the first three you have until October 31st at Midnight Eastern Time to share your versions on the Creative Inspiration Forum.

First is the October 4 Stash Challenge.
I'm challenging you to dig DEEEEEEP into your stash and find something REALLY old to use on your project... I chose to use some REALLY old papers. I've had the 3 different orange papers and the vellum for YEARS! I knew eventually I'd find something really cool to use this shaped paper for and when I pulled it out and this cool pic of my DD hit the paper I knew what I was going to do! (Sorry for the bad scan and stitch... The border is the same all the way around...)

I cut the title on my Silhouette with brown cardstock and then used a gold felt pen to color the letters. The sketch is by Debbie Sanders.

Next up is my Tuesday October 10 Tutorials, Tips and Techniques Challenge.
I challenge you to make an embellishment to go on your project.  I chose to use a Silhouette cut file by Sophie Gallo to frame my photo of my husband, my daughter and I just a few months after we got married in 1990.  

I think I may frame this page!  Even Steve said he wanted to!  But there's a funny story behind it too...  We'd only been married a few months and we wanted to send a picture back to my parents and give one to his parents as well.  We made all the arrangements to sneak out of the house (we were living with his parents at the time) and get to the mall to get our pictures taken.  Got there, got the photo taken and they said if we waited an hour they'd have the prints ready.  So we started walking around the tiny mall in Ketchikan.  We were in the Christian book store when suddenly Steve's Mom appeared in the doorway!  We quickly and quietly hid while whispering to each other trying to figure out how we'd get away without her seeing us.  (The store opened out such that you could see almost the entire place!)  Somehow we managed to sneak away and it was about time to get the prints so we went down to the photo store. 

The lady behind the counter couldn't find them and turned around and said to the other lady "Do you have Gass?"  Our name is pronounced like gas and the poor girl thought she'd let one so bad we could smell it over the film fumes in the front of the store!!!  OMG!  The look on her face was PRICELESS and she quickly realized what the girl was asking her but the deed was done and Michele, Steve and I will NEVER forget it!  We joke about "do you have gas" all the time!  LOL!  And when we finally gave it to his parents we told his Mom the story and we all got a good giggle out of the whole thing... 

ANYWAY, I just HAD to share that with you ladies!  Someday I'll take another print of this picture and tell the story with it.  But in the meantime, we'll just hang it in a frame and tell the story to our grandkids.  :)

And finally here's my October 18 Wednesday Stash Challenge - 

I'm challenging you to use ONLY CARDSTOCK on your project!!!  NO patterned papers!!!

Here's my inspiration page -

This is a picture of a sunset on our way into Craig last year.  I wanted the picture to be the focal point so I just used a stencil with some chalks (talk about throwback!) and created the big sun.  The title was printed with my Silhouette using the Algerian font.

The fourth challenge I have for you will be for the Creative Inspirations October Mini Crop starting on Friday October 20th.  I'll share the project and the links when they're made public on the forum.

And finally I have been playing along with the Scrapbook Generation Scrap Squad's October Pumpkin Spice Crop.  Here's one of the pages I did for their challenges using a Debbie Sanders Sketch...

Yep that’s ME!  It was the summer of 1991 and my husband and I were alone most of that summer so instead of sitting home alone I went with him on his commercial fishing trips.  We had a LOT of crazy adventures that summer!

Materials - Sketch – Debbie Sanders; Cardstock – Bazzill, Fancy Pants; Patterned Paper – Fancy Pants; Stamps – Basic Grey, Unknown, CTMH; Ink – CTMH; Pens – Sharpie, Infinity

I can't wait to see your creations!  Happy Scrapping!