Out of the Mire: 052623 Piece Craft Love Iron Crafter Challenge Hop

Join a fun group of crafty peeps each month as we take on the Iron Crafter Challenge! Each month Anna from @piececraftlove will select a challenge ingredient to use on a layout. On the FINAL FRIDAY of the month, we will have a hop on YouTube and Instagram to show how we used the challenge ingredient(s) for the month. If you want to learn about the mystery item and play along, come over to the Piece Craft Love Facebook group!

May's ingredient is WOOD VENEER. Here's my stash:

(an embarassment of riches!)

My first thought was a layout I had saved long ago that began with a background made entirely of wood veneer pieces covered with white paint! I can't even remember the rest of the layout's details - that background treatment was definitely worth a scraplift. I began to pull pieces from my stash...

In the meantime I had decided to scrap about a favorite part of my morning routine - Wordle! - using a screenshot of my best & worst games.

(you can guess which is which)

I began to build my layout & chose to fill the left & right sides of the page with wood veneer. As I arranged them I realized that it would be really fun to chose only those things that could be named/described with a 5-letter word, Wordle style. That tied all of my page elements together.

Then I built my title, wrote my journaling, and put my page together: