Use Your Stuff and Double Trouble Challenge Collaberation- Pawsatively Pets

  Welcome to this new challenge for the second half of the month, where we are collaborating with Double Trouble Challenges. Our theme for you is animals. Show us your projects with animals on them.

Now, if your project has cats and dogs...head on over to the Double Trouble Challenge Blog and enter their Pawsatively Pets challenge as well, and hey even better if you have a pun on it too!

 

I was inspired by the sketch over at Rochelle Spears

The circles look like Christmas ornaments, so that's what I made.

I did forgo the mats/ layers and used a 12 x 12 laser-cut snowflake background. 

Added in some pine boughs too.

For the Pawsatively Pets Challenge, I included a cat pun for my title.  "Meowry Christmas"

Make sure to join us at Use Your Stuff for the Pet Challenge

 and add a little extra to join in the Double Trouble Challenge"

I'm also playing along Scrap with Stacy

I used the top row across.  

You can't see the chipboard that I mounted on the underside of the photos to pop it up.

My bakers' twine is metallic twine that I used to add stitched detail, along with a bow on the small ornament and as a hanger on the larger one. Plus the metallic paper.

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to join us at Use Your Stuff

 

Strips with UYS

 Welcome to the first march challenge at Use Your Stuff which is to use paper strips on your project.
I almost finished off another TSR kit by cutting the red wood grain strips at the top and bottom of this layout. 
 I also used some cast-offs to create the other elements. 
The green strip across the top is actually two pieces of scrap pieced together behind the embellishment cluster 
and the bottom banners are also scrap strips that I notched.  

I was inspired by the February sketch at Creative scrapbooker magazine

I added an extra row of photos in place of the patterned paper strip as I had a bunch of barn re-siding and wanted to feature my helpers.

Thanks for stopping by and make sure to drop in at Use Your Stuff to share your project using strips