Vintage Inspo Challenge!

Our challenge this week is to get inspired by this vintage Lotto box. How does this old game inspire you? Are you excited about the primary color scheme? Will you use it as the foundation for a sketch with that great grid and diagonal title? How about using the font graphics as a springboard for some handcut titlework? Does your family host a weekly game night you could scrap about? Please share your inspiration with us in the customer gallery! Put "Sunday Star: Vintage Inspo Challenge" in the comments section! We'll pick a winner on Sunday, April 10th and that winner will receive a $10 gift card to spend at JBS Mercantile. Happy Scrapping!

And don't forget about our Thank You Cards for the Troops Challenge that ends April 3rd!

Sunday Star Challenge!

This week's challenge is a sketch based on Lisa's layout, "Dress Up." Share your project inspired by this sketch in the JBS Mercantile Customer Gallery and mention "Sunday Star: Sketch" in the comments section. We'll pick a winner on Sunday, March 27th and that winner will receive a $10 gift card to spend at JBS Mercantile. Happy Scrapping!

Be Our Guest Crop Challenges!

We had so much fun last weekend at our first ever online crop! So much fun, in fact, that we plan to do it again rea soon! If you were unable to be there, we wanted to let you know that we still have lots of challenges that are still open this week. You have until next Sunday, 3/13, to enter. On randomly drawn entry on each challenge thread will win a $10 gift card to JBS Mercantile! Here are your challenge choices:

Keisha Campbell's Garland Challenge

Shimelle Laine's Looking Glass Challenge

Ranjini Malhotra's Bingo Card Challenge

Michelle McCord's Vintage Ad Challenge

Lisa Dickinson's Color Challenge

Kerry Lynn Yeary's Oversized Photo Challenge

Jill Sprott's Vintage Memories Challenge

Dina Wakley's Scrap Yourself Challenge

Celeste Smith's Sketch Challenge

Celeste Smith's Ad Challenge

Becky Novacek's Multi-Photo Challenge

Doris Sander's Patterned Paper Challenge

Becky's Oval Challenge

Sunday Star Challenge!

Our challenge this week is to get inspired by this vintage ad that Michelle McCord has graciously provided for us from her stash. How does this ad inspire you? Will you do a monochromatic green color scheme to celebrate St. Patrick's Day? Will you use it as the foundation for a sketch? Do the fonts draw you in? Will you scrap your favorite restaurant? Please share your inspiration with us in the customer gallery! Put "Sunday Star: Vintage Ad Challenge" in the comments section! We'll pick a winner on Sunday, March 20th and that winner will receive a $10 gift card to spend at JBS Mercantile. Happy Scrapping!

Punch Challenge!

Hello! This week's challenge is to get punchy! Post your projects featuring punches in the JBS Mercantile Customer Gallery and mention "Sunday Star: Punches" in the comments section. We'll pick a winner on Sunday, March 6th and that winner will receive a $10 gift card to spend at JBS Mercantile. Here are a few samples from the February Gallery to get your started. Happy Scrapping!

Punched clouds sewn in a row by Doris . . .

Variations on the circle scattered across the background by Doris . . .

Delicate hearts clustered around the focal photo by Michelle . . .

Hearts, circles, and hydrangeas on a garland by Keisha . . .

Stars punched on the negative space by Danielle . . .

Hydrangeas drifting down the age by Betsy. :)

Dabber Challenge!

This week's challenge is to get painty! We just love our new Jenni Bowlin for Ranger Paint Dabbers . . . here are a few projects to get you inspired to break out your paints and play!

Kerry Lynn Yeary used our Mini Chipboard Butterflies and her favorite colors to paint a rainbow (from top to bottom: Chewing Gum, Cough Syrup, Lemon Drops, Stick Candy, Spice Tin, and Brown Sugar).

Get artsy like Dina Wakley did with December's Kit . . . experiment! It's fun!

Use the Dabber's foam tip to make a great grid design like Lisa Dickinson did with Malted Milk.

Paint a frame behind your photos like Wilna Did with October's Kit.

Another Lisa Dickinson design . . . this time plaid using Stick Candy and Lemon Drops.

Dina loves to add extra color to her kits. Here she's heated up the January Kit with a little splash of orange.

Danielle Flanders used the lace die-cut from Dina's layout above as a stencil and dabbed a little Malted Milk onto her thank you card.

Doris Sander used masking tape to make fun stripes.

Michelle loves to add a subtle touch of color to her projects with our Dabbers. Here she's added Chicken Feed to the doily overlay.

One of Jenni's favorite techniques is to use our Rub-ons to create a resist to the paint like she did with November's Kit.

Share your painty project in the JBS Mercantile Customer Gallery and mention "Sunday Star: Get Painty" in the comments section. We'll pick a winner on Sunday, February 20th and that winner will receive a $10 gift card to spend at JBS Mercantile.

We have two more challenges currently runningn too! Click on the images under the Challenge header to the right for more information! Happy Scrapping!

Challenge!

Hello! This week's challenge is an inspiration piece. I found this hand-pieced vintage tablerunner in amongst Jenni's stash at the warehouse and just loved it. I'm so lucky to get to see all her finds and thought maybe I should share a few here with you. How are you inspired by it? Do you see some fun stripes? Are you feeling all the great textures? Are you drawn to the tone-on-tone effect on the ribbon? Or maybe the simple gold and cream color scheme gets you? Share your project inspired by this piece in the JBS Mercantile Customer Gallery and mention "Sunday Star: Vintage Inpiration" in the comments section. We'll pick a winner on Sunday, February 13th and that winner will receive a $10 gift card to spend at JBS Mercantile. Happy Scrapping!

Challenge!

Hello! Yes, I know Sunday has come and gone and I totally forgot to post this week's challenge. I just got so excited about our big Southern snow! Now that the holidays are past and 2011 is in full swing I wanted to be sure and jump right back in with our weekly challenges even though I'm a day late. This week's challenge is super easy. Use a grid! Yep, that's it! Here are several examples to get you started. Just post your project in the JBS Mercantile Customer Gallery and mention "Sunday Star: Grids" in the comments section. We'll pick a winner on Sunday, February 6th and that winner will receive a $10 gift card to spend at JBS Mercantile. Happy Scrapping!

Lisa Dickinson

Ranjini Malhotra

Michelle McCord

Keisha Campbell

Jill Sprott

Becky Novacek