September Stash Challenge 2025 - Belly Bands

Stash Challenge will be posted on the fourth Tuesday of every month starting October 22, 2024.
Anyone can participate.
This challenge will consist of ways to use up your scrap supplies, as well as your tools.
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Jan Mosier
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September Stash Challenge 2025 - Belly Bands

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If you have been playing along, you should have a few scraps left from the junk journal you made. This month, we are going to use some of those scraps to make belly bands for our journals.

Cut your scraps into strips; some wide some thin. You will need a base to apply the strips to. Cut a strip of cardstock depending on the size of the pages in your journal. For my pages, I was able to cut a 2 inch strip of cardstock for my base. Once your base is cut, you can start adhering your strips.

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After the strips are adhered, it's time to decorate. You can stamp, add splatters, ephemera and you can even run the entire belly band through your embossing machine.

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And here is what it looks like in your journal.

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You can slide photos, tags, large ephemera, letters, envelope or journaling cards under the belly band. Just make sure you only glue the top and bottom of the belly band to your page.
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2024 Layouts - 8
2024 Cards - 3
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Love it, Jan! You have the most interesting scraps.
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Love your belly bands!
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Jan wow, very cool.
love this challenge
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Love these Jan!
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Re: September Stash Challenge 2025 - Belly Bands

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Lolis wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 11:05 am Love it, Jan! You have the most interesting scraps.
It’s just scrapbook paper that I stamped over, music paper and a book page. The rest is ephemera I made with my Tim Holtz stamps and postage stamps that I ordered from ebay in bulk for $2 or $3.
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2024 Layouts - 8
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