For even more 10th Anniversary fun, we've rounded up ten of our favorite past blog challenges. We've asked our current Creative Team to share their take on these fun challenges, and we hope you'll play along too!
In this weekly challenge from 2013, we asked you to put your punches to good use and use them on a project. April Foster and Lisa Truesdell shared some inspiring ways to use their punches!
April used square punches with strips of patterned paper, and then she went back and filled them with words, photos, and contrasting paper.
Lisa stuck with her three favorite shapes—circles, arrows, and stars—and repeated them throughout her spread.
And here's Creative Team member Jamie's take on this past challenge:
My favorite punch of all time is this Fiskars circle punch. It's about 2" wide, so it's small but not too small. It actually has lasted me over 10 years and just died when I punched my last circle for this layout!
Punching circles is one of my sure ways of making my products stretch. A little goes a long way! I love how I can combine so many different patterns and textures, add some stamps and stickers, and feel like my project is complete. The circle punch is definitely one of my MUST have tools in scrapbooking!
Let's see how you use punches for a chance to win a $10 GC to the Studio Calico shop! When you complete this challenge, upload it to the member gallery and leave a link to your project in the comments below. See all of our 10th Anniversary challenges here.
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Used my circle punch and a star punch that I didn't even know I had: https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/204655-best-week-ever
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I broke out my star, 1" circle and my banner punches for this awesome July LOAW flag challenge that @CeliseMcL came up with. It was so fun trying to decide just how to interpret it. I decided to document the Welcome Home reception photo of my Father-In-Law from last October. It was perfect for documenting this wonderful tribute they give the veterans returning from their Old Glory Honor Flight.
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/204704-proud-to-be-an-american
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I used circle punches for this card:
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/204688-courage-card
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Used a scallop border punch and a circle punch
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/204732-currently
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I used a star punch I bought last week for this layout.
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/204779-parade
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here is my take: https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/204800-a-favorite-moment-of-mine
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I don't have many punches but this one is definitely my favorite. https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/204814-then-and-now
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I used a star punch for this LO:
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/204837-4th-of-july
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Here is a layout where I used similar Fiskars circle punches.
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/204971-i-luv-us
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This page started because I wanted to use my 1 inch circle punch to cut out these circles from the free printable from the Studio Calico NSD crop 2017. I love how the rainbow circles look across the page. I also used a tag from the printable as a journaling spot.
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/204977-10th-crop-third-year
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https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/204991-crop-10-use-a-punch
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For this Dk spread I used butterfly punches and circle punches.
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/205014-week-28
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I used one of my Martha butterfly punches.
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/205015-let-your-dreams-fly-butterfly-card
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I used my newest butterfly punch on white card stock and gold specialty paper for this birthday card.
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/205058-seven
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I pulled out my square punch. I haven't used it in ages.
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/205096-this
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Used square punch for shapes and mask
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/205204-summer-of-62
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I don't own that many punches, but on the title card of this spread I have used my label punch.
Thank you for the challenge!
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/205363-vecka-14
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Once I had my few punches out I couldn't stop myself, so here is another documenter spead were I have used a border punch to create the title card.
Thanks for the challenge!
https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/205366-v-22
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I used several different sized circle puches to use up some old Messy Box journaling cards. https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/205393-a-few-of-my-favorite-dates
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I used 2" circle punches for patterned backing paper. https://www.studiocalico.com/galleries/205394-the-drive-in
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