{"id":2151,"date":"2021-10-31T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T23:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smalltownscrap.com\/wp\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:15:42","slug":"papercrafting-projects-october-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smalltownscrap.com\/wp\/papercrafting-projects-october-2021\/2151\/","title":{"rendered":"Papercrafting Projects Roundup – October, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time just seems to go faster every year.\u00a0 I can’t believe it’s the end of October already!\u00a0 This was a busy month, so here is a roundup of my completed papercrafting projects.<\/p>\n

First of all, I was selected as the Guest Designer for this month’s Counterfeit Kit Challenge.\u00a0 You can see the inspiration kit & my take on it by going to this blog post<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

As well as making a kit, I also participated in the two challenges.\u00a0 The first challenge<\/a> was to pick a title from their list and use it as our inspiration.\u00a0 I picked “Ordinary Moments”, which was actually a stretch for me as most of my scrapbook pages are about events, holidays, birthdays, etc.\u00a0 It just so happens I had recently printed some random everyday photos from different times to use in a gift album and they were perfect for this title.<\/p>\n

\""Ordinary<\/p>\n

The second challenge<\/a> was to see how many tags and labels we could use on our project.\u00a0 I managed to get 4 on an 8×8 scrapbook page.<\/p>\n

\"8x8<\/p>\n

I always enjoy seeing the new inspiration kits & how everyone interprets them.\u00a0 There are so many options for a starting point; color, theme or one particular paper or embellishment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I also hosted a Creative Memories<\/a> Croptoberfest this month in my Facebook VIP Group<\/a>.\u00a0 I started with a Scrapbook Bingo Card and posted a new challenge every hour.\u00a0 Below are my papercrafting projects for each of the challenges.<\/p>\n

\"Scrapbook<\/p>\n

The first challenge was to make a kit for either a page layout or cardmaking.\u00a0 I decided to go with a card kit.\u00a0 Here is the kit along with the card I made with it.<\/p>\n

\"\"\"Thinking<\/p>\n

I always think of a kit as just a starting point.\u00a0 As I am in the process of creating, sometimes I think of other things in my stash that would go perfectly with the current project or I realize that something in the kit is just not working and I need to swap it out with something similar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That happened with this card, I just knew that the brown ink would look great with the brown accents of the patterned paper but it wasn’t stamping properly with my sentiment stamp, so I had to change it out for my black ink pad.\u00a0 Problem solved!<\/p>\n

I also had some sketch challenges – a one-page layout, two-page layout & card sketches.\u00a0 For these sketches I stayed pretty true to the originals but again, most of the time I use these as a starting point and the end result doesn’t look much like the original.<\/p>\n

\"One<\/p>\n

\"Double<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

There were also some organizing and sharing challenges but these were all the papercrafting projects for my event.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I have felt more productive creatively lately and hope to have more projects and inspiration to share soon.\u00a0 I have also been working on changing out my albums and gifting some of the pages I have made over the years to the family members they are about.<\/p>\n

Come back soon to see more of that process.\u00a0 Thanks for stopping by!<\/p>\n

Machelle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time just seems to go faster every year.\u00a0 I can’t believe it’s the end of October already!\u00a0 This was a busy month, so here is a roundup of my completed papercrafting projects. First of all, I was selected as the Guest Designer for this month’s Counterfeit Kit Challenge.\u00a0 You can see the inspiration kit &…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[10,68,17],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-scrapbooking","tag-cards","tag-papercrafting","tag-scrapbooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltownscrap.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltownscrap.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltownscrap.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltownscrap.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltownscrap.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smalltownscrap.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5599,"href":"https:\/\/smalltownscrap.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/5599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smalltownscrap.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltownscrap.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smalltownscrap.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}