Stash to Treasure Giveaway

Have you tried one of the classes over at Stash to Treasure?

For only $5.00 you get an entire months worth of instruction including videos.  Learn the latest techniques with our fabulous teachers.

This month, the fabulous Kinsey Wilson is working on a December Daily that will knock your socks off!

The best thing is, if you're a subscriber, she has some free downloadable templates for you to follow along. She's is the Queen of Stitching.
She even sells her own templates on Etsy.




I've got some templates to give away this month.  Refer a friend to Stash to Treasure and you could BOTH win a template.  If you are already a subscriber, just email us with your friends name and we'll put you in the drawing.  If you aren't already a subscriber, what are you waiting for?  Subscribe and refer a friend.

Monday Markdown on a Wednesday

Yeah, I'm a little late.  Just trying to take care of the amazing amount of orders that came in and the NEW product that came in this week.

Check out the NEW section of the store to see what came in.  We are also expecting some Pre-Order items to come in this week.  Like.....

October Afternoon Campfire

Basic Grey

We R Memory Keepers Sew Easy tools

And because of the HUGE sale that started on Black Friday, we marked down another chunk of the store.

You can now find the following lines on sale for 25% off.

Fancy Pants Its Your Day

Fancy Pants Tradition

Fancy Pants Happy Together

Pink Paislee Hocus Pocus

Don't forget to use your December Coupon to save an *additional* 20% off your order.  Enter DECEMBER2010 during checkout.

Only a few more days until the deadline to apply for the Stash Girls team.  We have 6 spots to fill.  You can't design for us if you don't try out!

See how to apply here.

Tuesday Tip

Having Fun with Mists!

I know you have read a couple of times already how much we adore the different products of Shimmerz Paints. This is because it is worth telling about! Shimmerz Paints add sparkle and shimmer to any project you want to create. It gives that special touch to everything you use it on.

Today, I have a simple project that incorporates different layering of Shimmerz mists. You just need punched out circles and several colors of Shimmerz mists.

  "Joy" by LG Belarmino - BasicGrey Jovial patterned papers and embellishments, Maya Road Ribbon, October Afternoon stickers, and mists all available at YSS Online Store.

To create this background, just use the circles as masking templates. Rearrange the circles as you add a different color. Always start with the lightest color.

Stash Sketch!

It's that time again! Here is the sketch that I made for you all this week.

And here is my layout!

 I used Lily Bee's Catching Fall papers, Thickers, Maya Road tickets, MLS alpha stickers, Basic Grey "Oliver" Stickers and Elements, and Shimmerz Vibez! All available in the store now!

Here are a couple of close-ups...

I hope you have enjoyed the start to your December! Enjoy the holidays!!

xx Heidi

Stash Faves!

I am seriously crazy about these new Glitz products! On pre-order right now, you had better reserve them right away because I honestly think these are going to sell like hotcakes!!

Vintage papers with cute little designs on them? What is not to like, lol?!

 

 

And these transparencies?! LOVE. I can think of a bazillion ways that I want to use them... I had better buy several packs myself. 

Tomorrow I have your Friday sketch for you! I hope you come back to see, and then upload your project in the gallery! We truly adore seeing what you all take away from these sketches for inspiration.

xx Heidi

Remember this contest?

Echo Park Contest

Want to know who won?

I know you do!

The winner of the Echo Park Little BOY line is.....

Ilene Tell!  Congrats Ilene!

It was a hard decision with layouts like this one from Brenda :

And this cute banner from Brittney A.:

And a double pager from Andrea:

And this card trio from Wendi:

This penguin is probably my favorite sticker from this line.  Some cards from Pearl:

I told you it was a hard decision!  I loved seeing all of the Echo Park!

Ever thought about designing for us?  Then you'll want to read about our Design Team search.  You have 15 days left to get your resume in to us.

We are looking for 6 girls (3 international and 3 US) to fill the spots we have.

Ready to submit your work?  Read the blog post about what you need to do to try out!

2011 Design Team Search 

Psst! Giveaways are posted.....

on the Stash to Treasure Facebook page.

One posted today and one will be announced tomorrow and is for subscribers only.  Hurry!  Subscribe to day to be entered!

Technique Tuesday!

For the Alphabet box that I created this month, I used a ton of Shimmerz and Maya Mist to create the fun artsy array of colors over the whole box.

 

I achieved this look by using several techniques...

1. Spritz with one of the mists and let dry completely, then drip the other color on top and let dry. Like you see on letter box "F".

2. Spritz mist, then use a brayer to spread and blend, let dry, then spritz with another color and use the brayer once more. This I did on letter "E".

3. I also spritz a single color, let set for a few minutes, and lifted excess color off with a baby wipe like on letters "Q" and "O".

4. Finally, on some of the drawers I scraped with a credit card leaving lines and streaks within the mists before they dried and others I used a paintbrush to dry-brush across them like you see on box "S".

Mixing and matching your different kinds of paints and mists can give amazing texture and appeal when you just play around how you put them together! 

(Maya Mist and Shimmerz can both be found in the YSS store now, as well as the chipboard alphas, Basic Grey Oliver Stickers, and JilliBean Monster Stew papers, corrugated alphas, and stickers that I used on this box. Get over there and get you some, lol!)

xx Heidi

Brief shopping interuption...

I know you're all taking advantage of the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales we have this weekend but I wanted to remind everyone about the next Stash to Treasure class coming up.

Starting December 1st, Kinsey Wilson and Lesley Langdon will be posting videos and instructions on how to put together your December Daily.

This is a GREAT way to document your December, Hanukkah or other holiday celebration.  25 days too much for you?  Then make a 12 days of Christmas mini.

The papers and supplies in this kit and class will work for anyone!  We've filled it with lots of other colors besides the traditional red and green!  (Here's a BIG secret.  I'm partial to blue and silver so I made sure there was plenty of those colors in there!)

Want to see some delicious sneaks?

Class begins on December 1st.  Subscribe HERE.

Kits are available for purchase in the YourScrapbookStash.com store.

Don't forget about the Design Team search we have right now.  We're looking for 6 new Stash Girls for 2011!  You can read more about it HERE.

Happy Turkey Day!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating today.  We are thankful for so much including all of you!

In case you aren't signed up for the Newsletter, there is a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale going on right now.

Here is a link to the newsletter with the coupon code to save 25% off your order.  Coupon is valid 11/24-11/29.

Friday Sketch

Here's your sketch this week:

And here's the layout it was based on:

The layout was created using the fun Pasta Fagioli collection from Jillibean Soup. This collection is available from Your Scrapbook Stash now.

Happy scrapping!

Sue

Stash Faves - My Tattered Angels

One of my favourite manufacturers has got to be My Tattered Angels with their amazing collection of glimmer mists, glimmer glam, glimmer glazes, glimmer screens, classic chipboards and clear stamps. And I am so happy to see that Your Scrapbook Stash is bringing in lots of Tattered Angels products.

There's so much you can do with Tattered Angels. Aside from using the mists, glams and glazes on your 12x12 layouts and cards, did you know that these products work just as well on wood? Here's an altered frame I created for My Tattered Angels:

I stamped the wooden frame with Tattered Angels clear stamps, heat embossed the image, then misted over it with shades of green, olive, yellow and orange. The embossed image resists the mists beautifully. I also used glimmer mists on the die cuts of the bird and the bird cage. I love how the mists catch the sunlight and glimmer so prettily. The bird and bird cage are die cut from Tim Holtz grunge paper using Tim Holtz Sizzix dies. Both these products are also available from YSS.

So what are you waiting for? I know I'll be doing lots of shopping at YSS. Oh, and did I mention that for the month of November, you get 20% off your entire purchase when you use the coupon code NOVEMBER20?

Happy Shopping!

Sue

The Rest of the Progressive Layouts!

Ready for some more progressive layouts?  I have more to share today!

This one, I (Alyssa) started, and sent to Heidi Kelley to finish.  We both have young boys, and decided to create a layout about our feelings about parenting boys. The journaling is in progress still, but it will be attached to the back.

I created this:

 And Heidi finished it this way:

So very cool!  I just love seeing how she took my ideas and developed them further.

Next up. Erica started this layout, and sent it to Valerie, who finished it.  Unfortunately, we don't have a photo of the started project, but here it the project they completed together:

Isn't that just rocking, what they did with that banner?  And the colors are amazing!

Ok, one more to show you.

  This one was started by Valerie and sent to Erica.  Here is what Valerie created:

And here is how Erica completed the project!

What a fun layout!  I love all the waves and curves!  

Thanks for joining us through this progressive journey!  Make sure to load your progressive layouts into the gallery so we can see them!

~Alyssa~

Technique Tuesday

Have you seen the Tim Holtz embossing folders by Sizzix? The texture on these are fantastic.

I ran a white 4x6 cardstock through the Regal Flourish folder, using my Big Shot.

 

You can use the embossed paper as is. Or you can lightly swipe ink over the raised embossed surfaces to add colour and more emphasis. Here I used Rangers distress ink in Spun Sugar, a light pink.

And this is what the embossed paper looks like on my card:

I used Basic Grey's new Curio collection on this card.
A close-up:

YSS has several Sizzix embossing folders in stock now. Really fun Christmas ones too, which are perfect for the season. Basic Grey's Curio collection is also available, as are the Rangers distress inks I used on my card.

Have fun playing with your embossing folders. :)

Sue