ETSY Addition!

Added Boy Sentiment tiles to the shop today!

SketchMania #19

Woohoo! We're into winter and I'm expecting to see some fantastic fall and winter projects coming up!!

Please check for the SketchMania winner of last month - send me an email if that was you! deedee430@gmail.com - I'd love to get your prize out to you.

Here's this week's sketch and the examples!

DeeDee:


Purnima:


RachelMay:


Sarah Michelle:



Submit, as always, below in the Mr. Linky - you have until the 3oth of Nov for this one! Please link directly to your blog entry (CropChocolate, facebook, flikr, photobucket are ok too!) and make sure your name is the title of the piece, we'll need to be able to notify our winner!

CC Challenge 5 - Trying out 4 Cirque du soGABE

I'm feeling pretty good about most of these entries!!

# five was a scraplift challenge - to find a scrap layout by someone on CC and adopt it for your own use. The rules were to change 3 specific things, but that inspiration had to be pretty recognizable.

I chose a layout titled BFFs by the user luckysmom on CC.

I loved the large title, and the paper with the huge pattern, eliminating a lot of embellishments. I also liked the large square that created the focal point for her photos and journaling.

And I've had this cirque du soleil idea in my head for a while.. then A Few Of My Favorite Things had a "Sports" Challenge... SOOOO Here's my interpretation:

Used: FancyPants paper, Lime rickey by BG, random ribbons, pins by MM, random buttons and tickets, Zebra wire, Art Blanche chipboard, black uni ball pen, adhesive, distress ink, and dymo label maker.

CC Challenge 2 - Supper Menu

This challenge was a 2 day part... in part1 they listed a bunch of dinner choices for different courses.. then on day 2 what your choices meant were revealed. I ended up with Orange, Square, Something Punched, and Chipboard.

I needed to do a 12x12 layout for our halloween pumpkin carving, so this was PERFECT!

used the DCWV Stack "Midnight's Spell" - did some doodling, distressing with distress inks, the ribbon is from last year so not sure about the maker, punched out some fun glittery pumpkins from the stack and hung with raffia, the big bat is mounted on a piece of chipboard and the small ones are drawn!

CC Challenge 7 - Weaving + Follow your dreams

This challenge was about using paper weaving as an element in your card - I chose browns and blues and just ran with what I had!

Made the flower of course:

Fancy Pants papers for the weaving and flower, had some lace laying around.. and I believe the tag is MyMind'sEye with a CTMH stamp, Zing embossing powder, distress ink and a couple of random brads!

CC Challenge 3 - Hello Birdie

Challenge 3 is to make an easel card... pretty easy base, from there it's just trying to figure out what's a good combination!

Here's my easel card:

Using: Indian Summer By BG, distress inks... and that's it!

CC Challenge - R is for Read

The project was a layout based on this ad, and if you're not already participating I'd suggest so, so far the challenges have been super fun!

Besides the grid layout of the ad I loved the subtle areas that parts of the ad overlapped the grid, here's my interpretation:

I used mostly BasicGrey's Lime Rickey collection, with a black pen, some adhesive, distress ink, and photo corners.