Thursday, May 1, 2025

May Scrapbooking Challenges Case Files - First Reveal | Deadline: June 4, 2025

Greetings, CSI Investigators! We're excited to bring you a new month of inspiration and fun, and we have a special collaboration this month that you can read about in the announcements.

For this first reveal, we'll be sharing inspiration for our first Case File. On the 15th, we'll be sharing inspiration for our second Case File. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

This month, we're teaming up with Rediscover Your Stash challenge, a Facebook group run by Sara Scraps. This challenge, very much like CSI is all about using your stash, preserving your memories, and telling your stories! A perfect partnership!

Every month, Sara posts a product focus to get us to dig into our stash, and this month's focus is florals--floral papers, flowers, flower diecuts, flower-shaped brads--anything you can think of that has flowers.


We hope you'll play along with us this month and share your creations in our CSI Facebook group (please add your layouts to our albums) and the Rediscover Your Stash Facebook group.


GUEST DETECTIVE SPOTS

We'll be inviting some players whose work catches our eye to serve as Guest Detectives along the way. We'll investigate the albums on the 4th of the month, so if you're interested in serving as a Guest Detective, make sure you have your layout in the album by the 4th. (But feel free to use past Case Files as inspiration any time.)

And you never know, if your work really wows us, you might even be asked to join our talented design team.



CASE FILES 

We like to have fun with our Case File themes, and May is known as Gifts from the Garden Month. As always, you don't have to scrap the topics illustrated in the Case Files. Draw your own inspiration from The Scene, or you can use the traditional clues, which can be found at the bottom of this blog post.

Image credit: Sherazat

Image credit: Elena Amo

The traditional CSI clues can be found on our Facebook page in the first entry under the album. Just click on the Case File images above. They are also posted at the bottom of this reveal.

To submit your layouts, click on the Case Files in our sidebar, which will bring you to the individual albums in our Facebook group.


INSPIRATION 

And now, are you ready for some serious inspiration? 

A reminder of our first Case File...


INSPIRATION FROM SARA SCRAPS



CSI  DETECTIVES

Here's what our design team created with this month's first Case File. We will share creations for our other Case File on the 15th of the month. Check out our posts on Instagram for closeups and details.












CASE FILE CLUES 

Choose as many or as few as you are inspired to use! You don't have to use all of the categories of clues. Use what inspires you, or challenge yourself to use as many clues as you can. Or just use the image to inspire you as you wish!

Testimony Links: May Prompts

Testimony Links: Paper Wishes Prompts



We trust we've provided enough clues for you to solve the Cases! You have until June 4 (and beyond--read about this in the Guest Detective section), to solve both cases. We can't wait to see what you'll create! Upload your creations in our Facebook Group (album links in sidebar).