Use Your Stash Challenge Time to use up some of that stash, stick to a budget, and create some valuable scrapping space, and best of all get some layouts completed!! The Use Your Stash Challenge HERE IS HOW IT WORKS: For complete details and a list of who is participating this month, please visit the challenges forum September Use Your Stash thread! Have you been challenged lately? Congratulation to Karen/KASW58 for winning the August Stash Challenge. She accumulated 570 points for scrapping layouts and using items from her stash instead of buying new things. There is still time to join the Sept. Stash Challenge if you would like a chance at winning this month. Please visit our Challenge forum for full details. ----------------- Shake It Up Challenges Each week, Shaker Designer Mickey, will challenge you to create layouts using a certain technique, theme or design. If you love challenges like I do, these challenges will inspire you to get scrapping. Check our Challenge forum for details on each weekly challenge. It is never too late to jump in and create a layout, even for an older challenge. This week's challenge is to "use stickers as your only embellishment". Let's see what you can come up with! We are looking forward to seeing your layouts in our gallery. ----------------- Card Challenges If you enjoy creating cards with your scrapbooking supplies, then you will love the challenges that Shaker Designer Jen is posting to our Challenge forum. You can join the monthly card challenge by setting a card goal and posting to the thread when you complete one! Lets see how many cards you can make in one month. Jen also announces a new specific card challenge each week. This week's challenge is to do a card that uses stickers, and Jen says this one should be easy. So, come on over to The Shaker and have some fun creating cards! ----------------- Page Goal Challenge Each month, Shaker Designer Kristi likes to challenge the Shaker Box members to set a page goal and then go for it. Throughout the month we all post how we are doing on our goals to keep one another accountable. Everyone that meets or exceeds their goal has their name added to a drawing. The August Page Goal winner is Sandy/gmathis. Congratulations Sandy! Sandy set her goal for 15 pages and she created 17 pages. For all the details, please visit our Challenge forum. You can check this month's progress, and watch for the announcement for the October Page Goal Challenge. At the end of the month every player that meets or exceeds their page goal will be entered into a drawing for a small package of scrapbooking supplies. The September Page Goal challenge is in full swing and you can follow the progress in our Shaker Challenge forum. If you missed signing up for the September Challenge, look for the October Page Challenge to be posted near the end of September.
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Get them Organized! So, you made a ton of cards and you don't need them right now. Most of us leave them in piles on our desks, in a baggie or just in a box at the end of the desk. Well if you are ready to start organizing them we will let you know some of the best ways! There are quite a few storage options on the market and right in your house! Photo Storage Boxes are a great way to store your cards. You can add dividers to separate your cards by theme. You can also use shoeboxes as a way to save money. You can decoupage them with patterned papers to make them look like their more expensive counterparts. Accordion Files are another great way to store your cards. You can make each pocket a different theme and then just get the perfect card as needed! You can also save money by using inexpensive manila file folders to create the same type of storage system. Buy as many folders as you need for your themes. Glue one small end of each folder closed. Punch holes in each folder at the folded end and tie with ribbon or fibers. Over the door shoe holders are perfect for card storage because the cards can be easily accessible. Just label each pocket with a theme and put all of your cards in the corresponding pockets. You can achieve this same concept for less by purchasing plastic and sewing your own shoe organizer. Now that you have a few new ideas on how to store your cards, I challenge you to go do it! Once they are organized you will find yourself reaching for your hand made greetings much more often! I am sure you will also be making many more cards to fill up your storage space! Come to The Shaker Box and post any unique storage options you may have! Let us know how you are doing with your organization!
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D e s i g n T e a m C o n t e s t W i n n e r ! We are excited and pleased to welcome Shelly Umbanhowar as our newest Shaker Box Design Team member!! With the amount of talent shown in the wonderful layouts during the contest, the decision was a very difficult one. However, Shelly set herself apart from the rest not only because of her wonderful design style but also because she became a part of the Shaker community. We are very proud to welcome Shelly on our team and we hope that you will stop by the site and welcome her as well! Congratulations Shelly! I'm sure you will all get to know Shelly well in the coming months, but for now here is a little more about her:
She walked into her first scrapbook store about 7 years ago and has been hooked ever since. Shelly states, "I just remember being in that store and seeing all of those great stickers, glues, die cuts and colored cardstock and thought, I can do this, this is so cool.” Since then, she has never looked back and has even enjoyed doing wood crafts and sewing on occastion. Depending on the type of photos or subject of the layout, Shelly varies her style from shabby chic to classic clean lines. She primarily scrapbooks in 8 ½ X 11 or smaller sizes, but occasionally will throw in a 12X12 layout. She enjoys embellishments of all sorts, including Making Memories metal products, Autumn Leaves Office Line, 7gypsies and Rusty Pickle. However, her new found love is ribbons and ric rak! Shelly is not new to the publishing world recently appearing in August's Scrapbook Trends Texture. Her layouts will also be showcased in Scrapbook Trends-October Issue -Texture, Scrapbook Trends-November Issue-Stamps, Angie Pedersen's/The Book of Us and the Scrapbook Trends/All About Kids Idea Book. We look forward to seeing where she will be published next!! Shelly is very proud and honored to be a part of The Shaker Box Design Team as we are to have her. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have, she is always willing to help. |
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