Challenge #1 - In The Kitchen

Welcome!  Welcome!  Welcome to our very first Everyday Garbage challenge!!  If you've been playing along with our hints over the last week or so you may have noticed a pattern forming - everything we've used as picture hints has come from our kitchens.  We've shown you ordinary everyday items that many of us have in our kitchens, their potential untapped - until now!

We've scoured our kitchens (literally!) and found some real trash that has become treasure!  Each of us has taken our own approach to this challenge and the results are surprising to say the least.  We've had lots of fun with this too, each of us taking our everyday garbage a little more literally now.

So to kick off Everyday Garbage's very first challenge - we want you to incorporate something from your kitchen (and definintely not a scrapbooking product) onto a layout, ATC, altered item or any other papercraft type item you'd like to create.  The theme is entirely up to you as long as you use something from the kitchen. 

Please remember however that many items we've used in our challenges will NOT be acid-free or archival safe so if you are very concerned about that issue please do a bit of research on your selected garbage first to find out if it is archival safe to use on a layout or how you can make it safe with items such as archival safe sprays.  This challenge is purely for artistic expression and fun but if you create something you want to last a lifetime please take care with your chosen "garbage".

Okay, to kick things off here are our takes on the "In The Kitchen" challenge - in no particular order:

Cass Glass

Garbage:

Alfoil

Onion bag

Plastic lid from a noodle cup

  Lusi Austin

Snakata box

Paddle pop sticks

Dymo label

Masking tape

Lu Griffin

Garbage:

Decor Tellfresh storage labels

Kitchen string

Strip of brown paper bag

Couscous box/teabag packet

Jill Geraghty-Groves

Garbage:

Chux kitchen wipe

 

Alana Steadman

Garbage used:

Vegemite jar label

Black dymo label tape

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So there you have it!!!  We've all found some cheap, cheerful and recycled goodness from our kitchens and now it's your turn.  We have a Marah Johnson Rock Star RAK to give away as a little thank you for participating in our "In The Kitchen" challenge. 

Please either email your layout to us, or link it in the comments section so people can come to your place and have a look around at your work and we'll put up a slide display of our entries as they come in.  To be in the running for the RAK you need to have your layout to us by midnight Sunday 30th September and the winner of this challenge will be announced on Tuesday 2 October when our next challenge will be up.

Any questions just drop us an email and we can't wait to see all the clever, cool ideas you all come up with from the everyday garbage in your kitchens!!!

Comments

[melissa corbett]

Awesome LOs girls...what fabulous inspiration! Good luck with the blog! Fantastic idea!
Go Girls!!!
Melissa X

[Liz Weber]

Oh noice one ladies. I cannot wait to do this one - I have heaps of ideas thanks to your very gorgeous layouts. What clever scrappers you all are.

Thanks for the inspiration and good luck with the challenges :-)

[Lucy]

OMG......... you scrappers ROCK.. awesome first challenges and your samples are amazing to say the least..... love your site....

[jodie]

how cool is that noodle container lid. GENIOUS!
awesome pages girls. lovin this blog allready.
might have to look thru my kitchen and see what i can do :D

xx

[Fauve]

So cooool!I already started making mine :)

[julie]

awesome challenge just love everyones takes on it

[louise]

Totaly Cool girls!!!!! WTG :) :)

I plan on doing this one at a retreat on the weekend!! :)

[Cindy C]

I had a blast doing this-- what an awesome challenge. Looking forward to the rest. Here is mine....

http://my-daily-whatever.blogspot.com/2007/09/everyday-garbage.html

[Deb Godley]

ooooo.coool!!..cant wait to play!!!! I LOVE being in the kitchen..this is great!

[Lis]

Awesome challenge girls, was so much fun to do!
Mine is on my blog..
http://lifeinsegments.blogspot.com/

Love what you all did with the challenge.

[Katie]

Wow thanks heaps for starting this challenge blog ladies! It's so inspiring and fun! I kinda got carried away and did two LOs! Have a peek at them here: http://creativkt.blogspot.com/2007/09/everyday-garbage.html

Thanks!

Katie :)

[Brigitte]

All of your LOs totally rrrrock girls !! Love them all !!
ok, so here is mine
http://brigittes.typepad.com
Thanks for looking !!!

[Liz Weber]

Thanks again for such a fun challenge ladies.
I have created a mini album using coffee filters.

http://lizeesblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/there-is-new-challenge-blog-everyday.html

[Cheryl (mum-on-the-run)]

Great idea, love all the DT work!!

[Sharmaine]

yippee I finally got mine done!
Thanks for the inspirtaion :)
http://skruijver.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-girls-are-home.html

[nina]

Hi, ladies. This week has been totally crazy for me. And your RAK was definitely one of the highs of this week so I really, really wanted to thank you for that.

This project not only shows my sincerest thanks but also helped me deal with what I've been going through. So, thank you and lot of kisses.

http://creatinginsolitude.blogspot.com/2007/09/everyday-garbage-challenge-1-in-kitchen.html

[Fauve]

This was too much fun!!

[url]http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/portfolio/view_layout.php?layout_id=36534&user_id=178[/url]

[Petrina McDonald]

That was fun - thanks for the inspiration girls! Mine is on my blog http://scrap-petrina-just-scrap.blogspot.com/2007/09/could-these-3-layouts-be-any-more.html - the 2nd LO down.
love, P

[Danielle Q]

Yep - SO fun to do this! Really cool challenge, guys. I used bits of a box that was destined for the recycling, and some cut up drinking straws. Here 'tis: http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/portfolio/view_layout.php?layout_id=36955

[mandy]

WHAT A GREAT CHALLENGE, and a novel idea!!!
I had so much fun scrapping in my kitchen.
I used coffee filters and cupcake liners.

http://twopeasinabucket.kaboose.com/pg.asp?cmd=display&gallery=1&layout_id=1237831

It is also on my blog.
thanks!

[ChiLLi]

http://chillibits.typepad.com/chilli_bits/2007/09/everyday-garbag.html

had great fun with this .. thanks for the challenge :)

[julie]

Had fun doing this one. I cut up a box of cornflakes and used as the card between the two dreamstreet papers on my cookies page. It is about halfway into my blog post here
http://jacsplace2.blogspot.com/

[Kitchen cabinets]

I like your idea and I have heaps of ideas thanks to your very gorgeous layouts. It's so inspiring and fun!