Have you ever seen the commercial where a couple goes to a builder; they put a Kohler faucet on the desk and say "Design a house around this." Well, that got me thinking about all the "stuff" I have that I bought simply because I liked it (and usually without any reason or need) and it inspired this challenge.

For this challenge, you'll be building your house (your LO,card, etc.) around your faucet (an embellishment, flowers, some ribbon, some paper -- whatever you want).


You can submit as many LOs as you want. Please post the item you'll be building the LO around, and then post the LO you create around it.

There will not be any RAK for this challenge as the idea here is to use what you already have and not end up with more stuff you'll have to use!! This challenge is for inspirational purposes only!!

So, how about it -- let's make a dent in our "stuff" one item at a time.

This challenge will go from April 1 to April 30 -- let's see how much of our stuff we can use in one month!

No signups needed -- just create and post!! I'll put all your accomplishments on this first post so we can all get motivation and inspiration for each other!

Here we go:

Carol:

Baby Blue Eyes By NMscrapper

Grow Like the Flowers, Baby Boy By NMscrapper

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Amy

Travel cover page By AllAmy

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Tracy

Easter container By Tracy F

Little Mermaid By Tracy F
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Pat

Bobby Dog By GentlewoodFarms

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cox3349

all boy By Cox3349

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Cin

Bomb Threat By Cin17

Lunch Nap By Cin17

Sleepy Time By Cin17

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Dstanek35

**Everyday may not be good Best Friend, but** By Dstanek35

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Mary

Easter Egg Hunt By GMFTS

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Sandy

Take flight By Speppers1

Sounds cool.... So do I post the one item that I will build around and then a picture of the completed page

Hi Stacey! Nice to have you join us. You certainly can post the item you'll be using, but there are no strict rules here -- just motivation to get you to use up your stuff. If you don't post a pic of the item, please do tell us what it is and how long you've had it when you post your layout.

Perfect just how I like it no strict rules just getting pages done

I'm in! I have so many of such things.

great idea. How many things I've bought just because they were pretty and haven't yet used!!!

I'm in again!

LOL Amy, I have the pretty problem too!

Ok. I'm going to try again. I didn't get to this one last month - so I'm going to try HARDER.

I'm in again!!!!!!! I did pretty good the last 2 months! Thanks for the inspiration. Hope I keep up my mojo.

Going to give this a try

Baby Blue Eyes By NMscrapper

Here's one that is totally from my stash. The pps are from a K&Company paper pack that I've had forever. The alphas are leftover KaiserCraft. All of the punched flowers are from scraps, and the felt ones are the rest of a FloraDoodles florettes package. The blue/green flowers were transformed from uglies in a Prima wildflower tower that's been around as long as the paper pack. And last, yes the jeans are super old, lol!

I like swaps and really try hard to actually use the things from swaps, but you know how it is. Well I've been scrapping a LONG time and these 2 travel tags were made by someone else and swapped in a swap about 10 years ago (seriously). Finally used them here. That felt good!

Travel cover page By AllAmy

JCI... Great start to the month everyone.

Good morning ladies! Nice start!

acu

This isn't a lo but I did use some things that I've had forever so I thought I'd share anyway.
I've had the pink and blue lacey ribbon for many years and the big brads on top I won from sb.com a couple of years ago and could never decide how to use them...they're so big!

Easter container By Tracy F

TFL

ACU.

Got one done! This was a great idea - checking my stash. I'd forgotten all about those butterflies!




Bobby Dog

Good morning ladies! I hope you all have a wonderful day today!

Happy Easter!