Our Take Tuesday: Volume One - Jan 2nd, 2024

[Robin Carlton]

Happy Tuesday Sweet Shoppers...

I hope you've taken some time to soak in our new challenge format over the past 24 hours, and that you're excited for the upcoming year of inspiration! We truly hope this new system gives YOU the flexibility to choose what you find inspiring and motivating to get those pages scrapped (and we hope the discounts and prizes are a fun bonus too)!

Like I mentioned yesterday, we'll be sharing some of our fabulous Babes' takes on this month's challenges in a weekly showcase the first 3 Tuesdays of each month. After all, something you see here may give you an idea for a page of your own, so we want to give you plenty of time to scrap it!

Today I thought I would start with a couple of our trickier challenges in the "Flashback" category. We've come up with some incredible challenges in the past, so we thought, why not put some of them back in the spotlight again?

The first challenge I want to take a closer look at is from our October 2021 Passport where we challenged you to scrap a list in a unique and creative way. Some amazing pages came out of that challenge back then, and our Babes brand new pages are equally as gorgeous and so creative, don't you think?

Up next, I wanted to show off a challenge from waaaay back in 2014 that comes from one of my favorite challenge systems EVER... our Think Outside the Box challenges! This one is from March 2nd of that year, and it is awesome and sparked some truly amazing pages from our Babes this month. I thought I'd go ahead and post the challenge image from way back then so you can see the comparison of layouts then and now. So fun! Check it out...

Finally, in case you haven't heard... our annual Going, Going... GONE! sale is going on NOW, and one of this month's challenges in the "Use Your Stash" category is to scrap with a retired product! Feel free to interpret that as "retiring" if you're scrapping this week since come Friday evening everything in the sale will officially be "retired".

Our Babes are blown away by some of the products that are retiring this time around because they're still so good as you'll see in these layouts they've created over the past two weeks...

Using Cold Hands, Warm Heart from Simple Pleasure Designs & The Nifty Pixel



Using Canada D'eh Bundle from Ponytails Designs



Using Campscape from Studio Basic & Little Butterfly Wings



Using Scrap Your Stories: Winter from Studio Flergs & Kristin Cronin-Barrow



Using Happy As Can Bee from River Rose Designs



Using Set 290: Make A List from Cindy Schneider

Whew! Ok... I think that's it for this week's edition, but SugarBabe Angie will be here next Tuesday with tons of inspiration featuring this month's This or That? options!

We can't wait to see what YOU create, so if you're playing along and make a page for one of the options above... show us your take below!

We'll choose one lucky winner at the end of the month to win a kit of their choice from Traci's store. She's currently our Featured Designer and we LOVE her new freebie, Hygge Winter, so be sure you have it in your stash while she's in the spotlight through January 12th! Like always, it's FREE when you spend $10 in the shoppe!

Happy New Year!

Robin

[Robin Carlton]

Gonna go ahead and move this over a little early since we're getting a lot of questions on two of these challenges which we had planned to cover tomorrow in this week's deep dive.

Feel free to post your general questions in this thread and I'll update this post with a Q&A as your questions come in <3

[nietis]

Gorgeous eye candies from the babes! I love the wonderful talents here!

[aussiegirl]

I am confused! The Challenge on Choose your own Adventure card says TOTB Jan 26, 2014 (which someone linked in the thread as a Mustache challenge). But your example in your 1st post here, is TOTB from March 2, 2014. Are we supposed to chose any post from TOTB 2014 or use the one you posted here or the one from the other thread?

[Romajo]

Originally Posted by aussiegirl

I am confused! The Challenge on Choose your own Adventure card says TOTB Jan 26, 2014 (which someone linked in the thread as a Mustache challenge). But your example in your 1st post here, is TOTB from March 2, 2014. Are we supposed to chose any post from TOTB 2014 or use the one you posted here or the one from the other thread?

That's why I thought too. I even went back to check if I had a different date in mind...

[nietis]

Oh my, it seems that this is a mistake on our side, with the TOTB dates. Let's wait for Robin to smooth things up.

[Scrap-therapy]

I was confused too as I answered Carla with the link of the January 26,2014 and I see Jaye too! Lol! I did as Marieke and check it back so I'm not crazy that's ok!

[PictureMom]

Could we have a sep thread for questions.

[Robin Carlton]

Originally Posted by PictureMom

Could we have a sep thread for questions.

Here you go...

https://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com...ad.php?t=98133

[Leablahblah]

I love these throwback challenges!

[CarlaW]

Originally Posted by Scrap-therapy

I was confused too as I answered Carla with the link of the January 26,2014 and I see Jaye too! Lol! I did as Marieke and check it back so I'm not crazy that's ok!

Yes, and thank you for your quick answer! I was totally prepared to do something with a mustache!!!

[Scrap-therapy]

Originally Posted by CarlaW

Yes, and thank you for your quick answer! I was totally prepared to do something with a mustache!!!

You're very welcome and I was like you! We had to re think our plans!

[tam65]

Some very inspirational pages.

[amyjcaz]

Wow, these Sugarbabe layouts are just stunning!!!!!!

[tjscraps]

Don't forget to share your layouts for the challenges in this post too so we can see what everyone is doing!

[bienejen]

My attempt at the TOTB

[Leablahblah]

I gave March 2nd a try with TOTB

Can you tell I used the folder image for the paper strips instead of adding a whole bunch to my page?? haha

[tjscraps]

Originally Posted by Leablahblah

I gave March 2nd a try with TOTB

Can you tell I used the folder image for the paper strips instead of adding a whole bunch to my page?? haha

That is quite brilliant! I love it!

[tjscraps]

Here's my take on the TOTB March 2014 one:

[marnel]

Flashback TOTB

[Robin Carlton]

These are fantastic guys!! So cool see what you're getting up to with these <3

[Scrap-therapy]

Retiring products:

[amyjcaz]

March 2nd TOTB- fill in words around a photo

[amyjcaz]

Oct 2021 TOTB- layout showing a list in a creative way

[Leablahblah]

creative list

[Scrap-therapy]

Hashtags

[Scrap-therapy]

TOTB: March 2nd, 2014

[angels]

Retired product