Snowy Moose Creations: Use Your Stuff Monday

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Use Your Stuff Monday #2

I'm joining my friends Holly and Rita once again to use something in my stash that hasn't been used yet and this time we are using dies. I pulled out the Home Sweet Home die by SugarPea Designs. I've had it about a month or so, it's a brand new die that they recently released.

Since we are challenging ourselves to use stuff in our stash I used paper from S.E.I. that has been sitting on my shelf for a while. I liked the orange polka dot paper, it just seemed to pop out at me.

I cut out "home" 4 times and then glued them all together to get some dimension. I used one of the sentiments from the SugarPea set Happy Mail, it goes perfectly with this die!

To finish off the card I took put a strip of the orange paper along the bottom and then rounded the bottom corners of the card.

Do you have dies in your stash that you haven't used? Join us and get that stuff out of your stash!

I'm also entering this into the SugarPea Designs Anything Goes Challenge!

*I'm playing along with the Get This Party Started linky party at Paper Issues.(celebrating new home)*

Stamps: Happy Mail (SugarPea Designs)

Paper: Neenah Solar White, decorative paper from S.E.I.

Ink: Lost Lagoon(SU)

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Home Sweet Home die(SugarPea Designs), Round Corner Punch (SU)

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Use Your Stuff Monday

We all have crafty friends that enable us, and who we enable in return, right? My enablers are Holly of Hollybeary Creations and Rita of Rita's Creations. Recently Rita and Holly were talking about the crafty items we were all accumulating but not using and what better way to get our stuff out and used but to encourage each other and work together! That is how Use Your Stuff Monday came to life and here we go!

Today we are using Lawn Fawn products and playing along with the Lawnscaping Challenge, which is to use some type of dimension. I decided to pull out the set Critters in the Arctic. I spent Saturday afternoon photographing a beautiful young bull moose so I have moose on the brain, but what else is new :)

I used papers from Lawn Fawn's Snow Day collection to create the photo frame and the background. I love how versatile these papers are! I used the Lawn Fawn Forest Border to create the little scene behind the moose and then used a white gel pen to create a stitched border.

For dimension my moose is popped up as is the sentiment banner.

It sure felt good to get these items out and used! If you'd like to play along with me, Holly and Rita feel free to grab your forgotten Lawn Fawn products and link up below! Make sure you head over to their blogs to see what they created!

The young bull moose I photographed Saturday at Potters Marsh, in the Anchorage Coastal Wildlife Refuge. You can tell it's a bull moose by the nubs above his eyes, where the antlers are just starting to come in. Only the males get antlers, female moose do not.