September Case Files - Mid-month Inspiration | Deadline: October 4, 2022

Well, we're already halfway through September and back with some inspiration for our second Case File.

If you haven't yet had time to solve our first Case File, no worries--both challenges stay open through October 4.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

We're excited to introduce another new Detective.  Please give Heather Guy a warm CSI welcome!

Here's a bit about Heather in her own words: Hello everybody!!! I’m so honored to be joining this awesome team of Detectives at CSI! I live in Indiana with my husband of 21 years and 4 sons. Our oldest is grown and out of the house and our triplets are 16 and keep me on my toes constantly! I also share my home with our very spoiled fur babies - 3 dogs and 3 cats! 

I started scrapbooking in 2004 at the suggestion of my mother-in-law and have never looked back! I mainly create 12x12 layouts but have started playing more with TN’s, 4x4 albums and memory keeping! I love getting messy with mixed media and adding stitching and sewing to my pages! 

When not in my scrapbook room, I work full time as an HR Manager, can be found camping, or playing cornhole with my boys! 

You can find me on Instagram at @tripsoccermom

Heather jumped right in and even solved our first Case File of the month even though she's making her debut on the team today. Here's what she created for Case File No. 394:

We've teamed up with Soul Scrappers this month. Make sure to also post your layouts in their Facebook group for a chance to win one of their prizes too. 

Hi C.S.I members! We are very fortunate to be collaborating with CSI for our first Facebook anniversary. Please come and check out our challenge site. We run six challenges each month with prizes! We will be having some games as well with added prizes so don’t miss out on the fun!! Please add your page creation for Case File No. 394 and 395 to our C.S.I challenge albums for your chance to win prizes on our site too. Looking forward to having a fun month of challenges! Special thanks to Debbi Tehrani for supporting our challenge site! 

Shazza and the Soul Scrappers Design Team

PRIZES

CSI will be giving away a $20 (U.S. dollars) gift certificate to your favorite online craft store (must take Paypal) to one lucky player each month.

We'll also be inviting some players whose work catches our eye to serve as Guest Detectives.

CASE FILES 

With kids going back to school, we thought we'd celebrate that with our first Case File. And did you know that National Ampersand Day is in September? We've got a Case File for that too! As always, you don't have to scrap these topics. Draw your own inspiration from The Scene on the Case File, or you can use the traditional clues, which can be found at the bottom of this blog post.

Image credit: Art.com

Image credit: At Home

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? Here's what our design team and Guest Detectives created with our second September Case File. 

The CSI design team masterfully cracked the Case. We'll share how we solved the Case on Facebook and Instagram.

Polly Libby

Sharon Bishop

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: September Prompts

Testimony Link: List Love

We trust we've provided enough clues for you to solve the Cases! You have until October 4, 2022, 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).

 

August Prize Winners and Gallery Faves

We'd like to thank everyone who participated in our challenges! We loved looking through the albums at all your creative work.

PRIZE WINNERS:

Randomly selected from our June players:

Winner of the gift certificate donated by CSI - Heather Guy

To claim your prize, please send a private message with your email and address via the CSI Facebook Page (please do not contact Debbi on her personal Facebook Messenger) by October 4. Please also indicate which month and which prize you won. 

If you won the gift certificate from CSI, please let me know which store you would like the gift certificate to come from (it must accept Paypal).

GUEST DETECTIVE INVITATIONS: 

The following layouts caught our eye, and we'd like to invite the creators to join us as Guest Detectives:

Anna Cutvak

Cynthia Baldwin

Kylie Gw

Heather Guy

(We've actually invited Heather to join the CSI design team.)

Please send a private message to Debbi on the CSI Facebook Page to let her know you'd like to guest design, and she'll send you the case Files.

September Case Files - First Reveal | Deadline: October 4, 2022

Happy September, CSI Investigators! How fast did summer fly by? Kids are going back to school already, and fall is just waiting around the corner. We're excited to bring you a new month of fun and inspiring challenges and lots of beautiful inspiration. 

For this first reveal, we'll be sharing inspiration from the design team and guest designers for our first Case File. On the 15th, we'll be sharing inspiration for our second Case File. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

We're excited to introduce Heather Bellanger as our newest Detective. Please give her a warm welcome!

We are teaming up with Soul Scrappers this month. Make sure to also post your layouts in their Facebook group for a chance to win one of their prizes too. 

Hi C.S.I members! We are very fortunate to be collaborating with CSI for our first Facebook anniversary. Please come and check out our challenge site. We run six challenges each month with prizes! We will be having some games as well with added prizes so don’t miss out on the fun!! Please add your page creation for Case File No. 394 and 395 to our C.S.I challenge albums for your chance to win prizes on our site too. Looking forward to having a fun month of challenges! Special thanks to Debbi Tehrani for supporting our challenge site! 

Shazza and the Soul Scrappers Design Team

PRIZES

CSI will be giving away a $20 (U.S. dollars) gift certificate to your favorite online craft store (must take Paypal) to one lucky player each month.

We'll also be inviting some players whose work catches our eye to serve as Guest Detectives.

CASE FILES 

With kids going back to school, we thought we'd celebrate that with our first Case File. And did you know that National Ampersand Day is in September? We've got a Case File for that too! As always, you don't have to scrap these topics. Draw your own inspiration from The Scene on the Case File, or you can use the traditional clues, which can be found at the bottom of this blog post.

Image credit: Art.com

Image credit: At Home

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.

GALLERY FAVE GUEST DETECTIVES

These talented ladies' work caught our eye in previous months' challenges, so we invited them to be guest designers for the month.

Jessica Navarro

Hello to all my scrappy friends, my name is Jessica Navarro and I’m super excited to be a Guest Detective for CSI this month! I’m an Sr. Vice President/Electrical Engineer at an amazing firm designing hospitals by day and a wife/mama by night. I’ve been married to a wonderful man for over 13 years that completely supports my craft obsession. He even encourages me to purchase crafty supplies – stay back, he’s mine! I’m a mommy to a super intelligent and independent 11-year-old, who is officially the most photographed child in the world; seriously, it’s a documented fact. I’ve been scrapbooking for almost 30 years and I love using challenges, like CSI, to push my creative limits and to use more of my overflowing stash. Come check out more of my crafty layouts on my blog at: scraplifterdesigns.blogspot.com or on IG @jessicanavarro75.

How I solved the Case: I was inspired by the scheme to pull out my "school" products, but I didn't want to complete a "school" layout. I got creative and decided to create a layout about my daughter's summer camp experience at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. I solved Case File No. 394 using the color scheme: Orange, Aqua, Chartreuse, and Chocolate Brown. For my evidence I used woodgrain alphas, hexagons, school-themed items (microscope, beakers, and overall science motif), globes, labels, a spiral punch along the right of the photos, and puffy alpha stickers. For my testimony I underlined my journaling on Elle's Studio labels.

This was a fun and versatile case file and I thoroughly enjoyed playing along. Join CSI this month and solve the case yourself!

Supplies used on my layout: DCWV paper; Belle Blvd Pop Quiz Ephemera; Elle's Studio journaling notes, stamps, and alphas; Simple Stories woodgrain alphas; CTMH plastic accessories and alpha stamps; Tim Holtz, Alte&New, and TCW stencils; distress oxide walnut stain; and Nuvo Stone Drops boulder gray.

INSPIRATION 

And now, are you ready for some serious inspiration? Here's what our design team and Guest Detectives created with this month's first Case File. We will share creations for our other Case File on the 15th of the month.

The CSI design team masterfully cracked the Case. We'll share how we solved the Case on Facebook and Instagram.

SOUL SCRAPPERS DESIGN TEAM INSPIRATION

Jane Howden

Mitzi Luttrell

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: September Prompts

Testimony Link: List Love

We trust we've provided enough clues for you to solve the Cases! You have until October 4, 2022, 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).