on the 3rd Day of Challenges...

Over at Scrapbook Challenges we are hosting 12 Days of Challenges. We started on December 1st and will post a challenge a day until the 12th...you can join in and do each challenge individually OR you can do what's referred to as a 'progressive' challenge, where you add each element to your layout each day...

On the 3rd day of challenges Emilia challenged you, alter the color...

I'm working on a 'progressive' layout and here's where I'm at today...the challenge was to alter the colour so I've added some paint to the edges of my cardstock piece...

I wanted to add some pink to match my background base piece and after painting the edges decided to add a bit of Cranberry ink to deepen the colour a bit around the edges...

It's difficult to get a photo of this and actually show you the true colours, as taking pictures inside without a flash isn't the greatest, but you should be able to get the idea of where I'm going with this :)

Now lastly, I've attached my piece to my background base and I'm ready to start putting this together...see you on the 4th Day of Challenges to see what we need to add next!

I hope you are going to join me with these fun daily challenges, if you're joining late, don't worry, just follow the steps before and catch up! Or do a layout based on the individual challenges...either is great and you'll have a few more layouts completed in the process :) Thanks for stopping in today!

Colour Challenge

Good Morning!

I was having a great time today playing along with a couple challenges over at the Scrapbook Challenges site. 

The one I'm going to show you today is the June 'Colour Challenge' and was hosted by Emilia from their Design Team.

 She wanted us to work with this colour palette as our inspiration:

and this is what I came up with:

I came upon these papers at Bryan's store, Paper Nation...I loved the look of them, the colours and I'm loving all this wood grain paper, so of course I needed it! 

Made some fun and easy embellishments with my circle punches and cut my felt with my circle die from Sizzix...crinkled and layered and voila...add some brads and they were ready to add to this layout...I find it a little more challenging to embellish more masculine layouts but I think this one worked out fine :)

I love my twine...raised the card stock matted photo on some 3D foam tape to add some dimension and to make the twine look better :)

Thanks so much for checking in today, tomorrow I'll be sharing my  June 'By The Numbers' Challenge layout that Cathy has hosted this month!

It's all about the colour 'green' !!!

Good Morning...with St. Patrick's day just a day away...I thought I'd join in a couple of 'Green' challenges.


...here's what I found over at Close To My Heart's Challenge Blog, Heart 2 Heart

Pull out your GREEN...it's all about St. Patrick's day inspiration in this Colour Challenge!

This is what happened when I did :)

I used this week's sketch from Mojo Monday:

and then I made this:

This cute little flower was stamped with the *new* Just for You set

using this Mojo Monday sketch:

 and because I was on a roll I created this St. Patrick's card

using this Mojo Monday sketch:

Cool *new* Challenge Blog!!!

So in my constant mission to find cool things on the web...I've stumbled across a great new blog called 'Use It or Lose It'.

 Nikka Geers, a fellow Close To My Heart Consultant, has created this blog with the hopes to get some of us CTMH fans to join along in the challenges...

you guessed it, to use it or lose it!

Now if any of you are like me, I love a challenge and often it is just what I need to get the ball rolling and to jump start my creative Mojo!

As you can see by this gorgeous photo, we are to take what we see in this picture and try to create our own artwork using this as inspiration...with the current snowy/wet conditions here on the West Coast in British Columbia, these colours are making me feel happy and creative!

This is what I've created from this piece of inspiration...forgive the colour...photos were taken this evening and they are truer to the inspirational photo than they look :)

White Daisy, Black, Lagoon and Pear Cardstock from Close To My Heart
Patterned piece is from the Magnifique paper collection
(Mojo Monday sketch)

One of my all time favorite stamp sets is the Enjoy Life set which is where the clock comes from and the sentiment is from the Card Chatter-Sympathy set...however, I think that this sentiment could work for any occasion as the sentiment does say 'happy thoughts' on the front and on the inside it says 'coming your way' so I'll probably use this for any number of events :)

Now how about you? Have an urge to play along? 

Check out this great new Challenge Blog 'Use It or Lose It'

Memory Makers Sketch and Colour challenge

Becky Higgins from PageMaps is supplying another fabulous sketch for this month's challenge at Memory Makers magazine site...scroll down to see my take and why not give it a try yourself!

Here's the site link to  COLOURlovers (highly addictive if you love color) 

Memory Makers Sketch and Colour Challenge

Good Morning! I finished this layout off last night but wanted to wait for some bright light to take a picture of it. I loved the sketch from PageMaps and the colours look great together. I had to improvise with the photo size because I already had the photos waiting to be scrapped in 4x6...so instead I cropped them to 3¼ x 4½ which left less white space, but I still like how it all turned out!

Here's the sketch again:

and here's the colour challenge: 

and here's my take on both:

Memory Makers Sketch and Colour Challenge

Happy Monday! I wanted to post a couple different challenges for this week...the first one is from Memory Makers and I like it because I have been a Page Maps fan for years and I LOVE colour! So why not play along with me this week and pull out some of those papers and photos that I know you've got tucked away...

Here's the awesome PageMaps sketch by Becky Fleck:

and here's the colour challenge offered by Memory Makers:

Put them together and this is what I got...oops...nothing yet! still working on it...stay tuned...

Now how about you?