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Wow ladies, 18 entries this month! Looks like the creative juices are flowing!


These were all beautiful pages and I love to see everyone using their scissors and making the most of their papers!



By random drawing, the winner is....joannie!



Check out her fun layout! I'll be sending you a $5 ACOT gift card shortly!



I know this is a bit early but I wanted to make sure to get it up there for May 1st! Plus with the NSD crop, you can get started on this early!


We all know patterned paper has been around for a while now but one of my favorite trends I have been noticing is cutting out elements of the paper or using the frame on the exterior to add dimension.



My challenge to you is to cut out an element from a patterned paper. Think beyond using the premade cut out shapes and journal cards and try something new like cutting out the shapes like I did on this layout...



or specific elements like the butterflies on this one...



As usual, you have until the end of May to upload your project and post it to this thread! I will choose a random winner to receive a $5 ACOT gift card. So get those scissors and Xactos out and let's see what you come up with!

Yay.... Love fuzzy cutting

Nice challenge! For the digi gals, can extracting from a photo count?

I love this challenge! Will try it, I think.

Love this one!!!!! Hopefully this month I will actually get some done!!! Thanks for posting!

LOVE this technique!

awesome challenge Andrea and something I need to practice!!! beautiful LO's!

Awesome!!!!

Edited: I'm done, If the gallery will cooperate then I'll post it, lol!!!!

I'll see what I can come up with

Here is one from me

Great challenge!

As always Gine, EXQUISITE!!!

Here's mine!!! Gotta love a cat who loves the black box in front of your face!!! She loves to pose!

I fussy cut the flower out then took an exacto knife to get rid of the orange in the flower. The frame and center flower is bare chipboard. Once again I used he knife once the paper was glued on. Finally I grabed a bloomer to act as my center.

Loved loved this challenge because I've really gotten into this technique!

Beautiful layout Kim!

Gorgeous Kim

Gorgeous layouts and love the challenge!

Here is mine. I cut the words and shapes out of the pattern paper from the Pet Stack - DCWV

blbabe1234 wrote:Here is mine. I cut the words and shapes out of the pattern paper from the Pet Stack - DCWV

Brandy this is so cute!!!! Love all your cut outs and those adorable photos!!

blbabe1234 wrote:Here is mine. I cut the words and shapes out of the pattern paper from the Pet Stack - DCWV

Jeffery is just so cute!!!! Love your layout and the glitter!!!!

gine wrote:Here is one from me

Breathtaking!!