tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386232632024-03-19T03:28:30.908-04:00How Much is Too Much?We all have too much stuff. Admit it! We all do. Let's use them. Challenges are open to everyone! Have fun and conquer your stash!Elizabeth Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09253125241650837399noreply@blogger.comBlogger272125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-38617167900396326772011-12-19T08:14:00.001-05:002011-12-20T17:19:43.587-05:00Challenge #187 - Frosty the Snowman (Dec 19 - Jan 1)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Monday, HMITM players! It is with deep sadness that I am about to make this announcement. Due to the dwindling participation over the last year or so, we have decided to put HMITM to bed. (I'm not yet prepared to say that we are completely retiring this long-time, inspiring challenge because I am hoping that some day in the future, we might be able to revive it.) I played in this challenge for a long time before being invited to join the design team, and it's been a part of my scrappy routine for many years. I will miss the HMITM challenges and seeing all the wonderful and diverse interpretations from my teammates and our players.<br />
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And now, onto our last challenge...<br />
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Anna-Karin here with the last challenge. At first I wrote, 'the last challenge of the year', but then I realised I had to change it to 'the last challenge. SO sad!<br />
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Since it is December and winter in the Northern Hemisphere, I thought we would do a frosty and wintery challenge. Here it is:<br />
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- Do a winter or Christmas themed layout<br />
- Depict snow on your layout (here are a few examples: snowflakes, torn white paper hills, dry embossing, organza, paint, vellum etc.)<br />
- Use glitter<br />
- At least three shades of blue (but you can use other colors too)<br />
- Something shiny or transparent<br />
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I hope you like it and we hope you have a bit of time over in this busy time of the year to play along.<br />
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Our guest designer for this challenge is <a href="http://www.handmadebykaterina.blogspot.com/">Katerina Laiopoulou</a>.<br />
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Thank you for joining us Katerina! Here's some info about her,in her own words:<br />
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'My name is Katerina Laiopoulou, I am 35 years old and I live in Athens, Greece.<br />
Scrapbooking is a way to express myself! I started making layouts in 2008, but guest books monopolised my interest the last 3 years.<br />
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I don't limit myself to one style, but I love colours, flowers and butterflies! I love to experiment with new techniques and I am fond of fussy cutting, it relaxes me.<br />
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I love blogging too. You can see my work <a href="http://www.handmadebykaterina.blogspot.com/">here</a>. It would be all greek to you (LOL, sorry for that), but you can use the google translator. I have a passion for the greek language :-)<br />
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I ‘ve been a guest designer for Get Creative and Scrapbookers in Greece. I am so happy to be sharing these LO’s with you and be among all these talented ladies!<br />
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Thank you all!!!'<br />
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And <strong>Katerina</strong> wrote this about her layout: Snow is everywhere on this LO and that’s because I love snow! I tried to create a landscape, a small village lost in the mountains on a winter snowy day. I torn white and shades of blue paper to create the mountain hills, cut those little houses, add glitter on the roofs and snowflakes everywhere! I used a photo of me, which was taken on the way to Kalvryta ski center, where you can find lots of fresh snow, enjoy yourself and see the fabulous mountain view!<br />
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<a href="http://www.layersofink.blogspot.com/"><strong>Anna-Karin</strong>: </a>I am so sad that this is the last HMITM challenge (at least for now). I am going to miss it so much, both doing the challenges and seeing what everyone else comes up with. I knew I wanted to use these winter photos of the two cousins. Quite many shades of blue were used on the layout. I love clear elements and cut off a third of the patterned paper and replaced it with a transparency (I placed the layout on white cardstock when I photographed it, the right hand part is transparent IRL). The transparency was stamped and ghost letters were used for the title. Rub-ons were also used. Snowflakes were white embossed all over the patterned paper, then it was misted with Perfect Pearls and water and finally a flourish was stamped with Chipped Sapphire. Snowflakes were die cut from watercolour paper, canvas, vellum and aluminium tape. They were coloured with Distress Stains and misted with Perfect Pearls. Some were coated with Stickles for glitter. Extra snow was added in the form of dry embossed torn strips of vellum, Stickles was added to the top. The journaling is on a tag behind the top photo and is about how much fun they had together on this cold day.<br />
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<strong><u>Elizabeth: </u></strong> I am so sad that this is our last challenge. I have had so much fun designing with this fun team of ladies. Will definitely miss it. This was a fun challenge to end on, Anna-Karin. Love working with blues, and shimmer and glitter just add to the fun. I must admit, I am not a 'dirty' scrapbooker, so the thought of actually sprinkling glitter onto the layout in some form or fashion just about gives me hives, so I stuck with the great letter stickers and embellishments to make it shine. (I did do glitter on a layout once, and the whole scrapbook has been sprinkled with the pixie dust over the years. :P) <br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.debbitscraps.blogspot.com/">Debbi T</a>:</strong> This was such a fun and inspiring challenge, Anna-Karin! I love all the elements of the challenge--they all worked so beautifully together. I combined this challenge with the current challenge over at The Color Room (the blues in their palette worked perfectly with the HMITM challenge). I was being a bit lazy and used glittery letters and stickers and paper, but at the last minute, I felt like that was cheating, so I broke out the Stickles and added some glitter to my punched border. For my transparent element, I was delighted to use some old vellum that's been in my stash for about a decade!<br />
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<strong>Janet M</strong> - Loved this challenge and it was a perfect one to get another page done for a book I'm working on for pictures of our old house for my husband. These were a couple of our horses which always posed for pictures much better than the kids or the dog would.<br />
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For my snow I embossed a piece of velum that I tore and I punched out a piece of mulberry paper from a really old stash. For the something shiny or transparent - I used one over the picture and then stitched it with the sewing machine and the letters for the word day. Adding glitter, sparkles and etc is pretty easy when you have a snow picture.<br />
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I'm very sad that this is the last layout for HMITM- it's been the most inspiring place I've designed for, it's made me reach outside my normal ideas, giving me some fantastic challenges and inspired me when I have seen what everyone else creates with the same challenge. Moving on to other things will keep us all busy and I may just have to go back and re inspire and challenge myself with doing some of the old challenges again.<br />
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</script>Anna-Karinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09321879514804583492noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-75868694292798556452011-12-04T21:34:00.008-05:002011-12-09T12:58:35.895-05:00Challenge 186 - Celebrate Wacky December<div>I have a source for wacky holidays that I share with my students, and I consulted my wacky holiday calendar for December and found out:<br /><br />December is Bingo's Birthday Month.<br />It's also Rising Star Month.<br />And it's National Tie Month.<br />The first week of December is Cookie Cutter Week.<br />December 5 is Bathtub Party Day!<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">So...I challenge you to use:<br />* A bingo card (if you don't have these in your stash, just google "bingo card" under Google Images, and you'll find a gazillion).<br />* Use something that you can tie--ribbons, twine, raffia, etc.<br />* Use at least 5 stars.<br />* Use punches or cutters or a shape templates.<br />* Use your imagination and whatever product you want to create "bubbles" on your page. </span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color:black;">Aren't you glad I didn't choose National Gazpacho Day? :)</span><br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.debbitscraps.blogspot.com/">Debbi Tehrani</a>:</strong><br /><br />I haven't been around for a while because we sold our house and moved to a new one. It's good to be back and scrapping again! I just recently started playing over at The Color Room, and I thought it would be fun to use this week's palette and sketch for my HMITM page. My husband loves the cheesy touristy photo ops, and I'm doing a whole album about that called Poser. This page is going into that book.<br /><br />(Unfortunately I'd had my camera battery charger packed and my battery died just in time to take a picture of my layout. I therefore had to use my iPad to take a photo--not the best picture, but you'll get the idea of my layout):<br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"><a style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQrt4UA3hieOFw_lZtrK1AIXFkwEnvRKIn6fTOBtuPTa00x50oS7vpQNb2ehSecPuDFzUneSWp1MhHupsO44zsxYx23fZvtX1fhBMayc2Yw29le33-DSXXGv5UCyyb-vvzoHXcpg/s1600/044.JPG" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQrt4UA3hieOFw_lZtrK1AIXFkwEnvRKIn6fTOBtuPTa00x50oS7vpQNb2ehSecPuDFzUneSWp1MhHupsO44zsxYx23fZvtX1fhBMayc2Yw29le33-DSXXGv5UCyyb-vvzoHXcpg/s400/044.JPG" width="395" height="400" mda="true" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"></div><br /><div><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"></div><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.layersofink.blogspot.com/">Anna-Karin</a></strong>: Such a fun combination of items to use for this challenge!! Instead of using a bingo card, I stamped a bingo card repeatedly on the background. I tied twine to the tags and used a whole bunch of stars die cut from the same paper as the tags. For the tags I pulled out my very old Accu-Cut EZ2Cut templates and I used a punch for the reinforcer circles. Finally, I used bubble wrap and red paint to stamp bubbles on the page. Thank you so much for this fun challenge Debbi!<br /><br /><br /></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 401px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 399px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5682546144245577762" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY_nqCUIu4XmLhhQ71Cqae8ceTIZJbOGuLfSfoPcFXAfTzCouiLboUvzuSOj7fcrn1CqpcALJQJQsdILsVL5S8TF5N0HqSzLxBacTUk4iOxLxlB-9JWt50ZfxN58neujc9SqrN/s400/handavtryck+hmitm.jpg" /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 383px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 377px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5684187650761328066" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ymnNuXLibCwNjB3IzGM7XyGHmpTrjVSziFZU1QiQvyqLUIqsNUpbJo-MWrC1W9kAjWs25a8uEsh0kFgYqFu8zeP7XxzyDsLb3zlDGXPz2CLFpkjdwao6O-ZP-1FluSQUf19t/s320/IMG_4214-2.JPG" /><br /><strong>Janet M-</strong> What a fun and creative challenge this one is- I finally got my sewing machine unpacked and got to use it on my layout.<br />My five stars are on the bingo card and the ornaments, the bubbles are the clear buttons and they are tied into the layout. I also added a few snowflake stars with my stamp and embossing powder. I used a border punch for that part of the challenge.<br />Cute combination of stash to use this time and it really did have me searching for the elements - I loved it.<br /><br />To play, and have a shot at being chosen for our How Awesome Is Too Awesome Hall of Fame and creating as a HMITM Guest Designer, just share your layout through Mr. Linky below! We can't wait to see what you create!<br /><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/autolink.php?owner=hmitm&postid=05Dec2011"></script>Debbi Tehranihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05220937886932534260noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-21027369738908831732011-11-22T13:45:00.005-05:002011-11-22T13:52:38.339-05:00Challenge #184 winnerA big thank you to those who played in our Mix It Up challenge! We hope you had fun using all those different patterned papers. <br /><br />The winner is Kelly with her layout <a href="http://kellycscraps.blogspot.com/2011/11/hmitm-184-happy-holidays-with-storeys.html">Happy Holidays with the Storeys</a>. Kelly used the different papers in such a great way and the black and white plus red colour combo brought all the papers together so nicely. Fabulous Christmas tree. Here's her layout:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLf27M8998RTfpZsBvA5puERzbIIrQ3mTfHFAmIWOsNTF1oa0ILJwhSJjsDuLHLfR72zRmGTr8stVBv_t7iYvUBRyGOZ3h4xc9VVr1TfpZLhf3Fgm6qn_nvDWBY9Y3mbfquupa/s1600/hmitm+%2523184+winner.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLf27M8998RTfpZsBvA5puERzbIIrQ3mTfHFAmIWOsNTF1oa0ILJwhSJjsDuLHLfR72zRmGTr8stVBv_t7iYvUBRyGOZ3h4xc9VVr1TfpZLhf3Fgm6qn_nvDWBY9Y3mbfquupa/s400/hmitm+%2523184+winner.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677894262189427858" /></a><br /><br />Congrats Kelly!!<br /><br />Our current challenge is just below this post. It is a great challenge, hope you can play along.Anna-Karinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09321879514804583492noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-13472030369828015832011-11-21T08:44:00.004-05:002011-11-22T13:42:36.778-05:00#185 Thankful (November 21 - December 4)Canadian Thanksgiving has come and gone, but American Thanksgiving is celebrated this week.<br /><br />I would like you to do a layout about thankfulness. (any aspect)<br /><br />plus...<br />3 foam embellishments<br />4 colors of <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-error">cardstock</span><br />5 buttons<br />6 stickers (non-alphabet)<br /><br />I hope you will take some time over the next two weeks and reflect on the things you are thankful for and make a layout about it :) We would love to see what you create. There is a link at the end of the post. Thanks for stopping by the blog!<br /><br /><br />First, here's the layout from our guest designer this month, <a href="http://shaunerysblog.blogspot.com/">Shaunery Wharton</a>:<br /><br /><b>Shaunery</b>: This was a fun challenge!! As with all of my HMITM attempts/entries, I always challenge my self to dive into my scrap box first. So here's the breakdown for everyone!<br /><br />3 foam embellishments ~ oh did I even OWN foam?? After much digging and rooting around my stash, my cupboards and garage, I found a stack of foam "mats" meant for some kids craft project. I took two and ran them thru my die machine and created the flourishes. Those I embellished with Liquid Pearls. The third piece I painted over in white gesso (nothing STICKS to foam!) Then I stamped a favorite image once the paint was dry with my Chalk Ink in Lime Pastel. I then fussy cut and adhered.<br /><br />4 colours of cardstock ~ into the scrapbox and found these four scraps of Bazzil. I took three strips in each colour and ran thru three different border punches. Then I layered and built up a faux "embossed" background paper with them.<br /><br />5 buttons ~ actually forgot them in my original layout and caught just before uploading. Went thru the stash and found 'em! Re-photographed and uploaded properly!<br /><br />6 stickers ~ (non alpha's) so my non-alpha submissive stickers are two border stickers, layered on each other. Two mini hot-air balloons, and two altered vellum sticker hearts. My "Thankful For" are made from labeling tape. I wasn't sure so...<br /><br />I tucked a little tag in and listed a few things I'm thankful for.. my husband, my children, my fabulous circle of crafty scrappy friends (who won't say a single word about me spelling "Thankful" completely WRONG, TWICE) and for the "release" scrapping and crafting provides me. It was very nice working on this layout after a total crap evening after some volunteer time. Focusing on WHAT I am thankful for, setting the ickiness aside and forgetting about those who made me feel rotten that evening. I'm very thankful for the opportunity to do this challenge and for a place to set "life" aside and focus on what's important.<br /><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"><a style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEXSHybz4ypN8Q_Wz5plClOgnDLQQwyulfx3IMdavqFVTHeCzFfB6qIxagRV_TT-x_9plJpL1rzLVpe7ZzqZyi8eCzYthBfY-FCqkavvHj82m79Hhi4ItS47iGSePhmvnh5w0q/s1600/HMITM+185+Shaunery.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEXSHybz4ypN8Q_Wz5plClOgnDLQQwyulfx3IMdavqFVTHeCzFfB6qIxagRV_TT-x_9plJpL1rzLVpe7ZzqZyi8eCzYthBfY-FCqkavvHj82m79Hhi4ItS47iGSePhmvnh5w0q/s400/HMITM+185+Shaunery.jpg" width="400" height="397" hda="true" /></a></div><br /><b>Janet M</b> - What a great challenge and what a hard one to tell about being thankful for, I have too many choices , which is a good thing. I choose a picture of my four youngest grandchildren to scrap which I realized I had scrapped before but since I do books for the families, I often use the same picture.<br /><br />My foam pieces are the & signs, brackets and the ice cream cone. The stickers are the banners, critters and the cupcake.<br /><br /><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">Thanks</span> for the great challenge - I always like to write down the things that I am thankful for.<br /><br /><br /><b><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 249px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659340945848762738" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZdDM4U3suXSf35KX9pc59ODfLdP4Lz05h6T-daNZMQVz1l2dZRfvqAWwh-RJzzGN3pwCuq5PAF6iE6ZBWWPzE50xlnJsx-dnjRy5o0m5uBfCkluPQkRf8s00dPMHmFORfkeUs/s320/IMG_4029-2.JPG" /><br />Anna-Karin:</b> I always enjoy doing layouts about things to be thankful about. I used photos of the little one and me and a bunch of stickers about gratitude. At first I didn’t know what stickers to use, since I hardly have any stickers. I love the 7Gypsies word and quote stickers, so I decided to use those. The big title sticker was adhered to cardstock, die cut with an On the Edge die and inked a bit with Distress Inks. The remaining 5 stickers came from the same and another set of stickers. For the cardstock, I used four colours Kraft core. The four pieces were die cut into 8 hearts and I used different embossing folders for each one. The only foam embellishments I have did not at all fit with the colours of the layout, so instead I die cut three birds from brown craft foam. Buttons are always an easy thing to add (and I have a whole drawer full). Thank you for this wonderful challenge Elizabeth!<b><br /></b><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"><a style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTvwih-2oFj5CRdC2IaOTOqH9XBvK8DKG9j_yDIuriVjNdnk5vdXDF95hv7P4o6SbVSo2q8LKv7_IlWp2Zqg3U4Vp591by3vpXQffzNfX34rN4bgWTXS33qRSOKnP8mVVD2cFw/s1600/HMITM+%2523185+-+Anna-Karin.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTvwih-2oFj5CRdC2IaOTOqH9XBvK8DKG9j_yDIuriVjNdnk5vdXDF95hv7P4o6SbVSo2q8LKv7_IlWp2Zqg3U4Vp591by3vpXQffzNfX34rN4bgWTXS33qRSOKnP8mVVD2cFw/s400/HMITM+%2523185+-+Anna-Karin.jpg" width="400" height="396" hda="true" /></a></div><br /><b>Elizabeth</b>: So I did kindof cheat on my own challenge. :P When I was making the challenge I think I was thinking of felt instead of foam, so my butterflies are sortof felt-like but they are stuffed a little so I think there must be some foam inside. :) I had fun using cardstock instead of my usual patterned papers. I never tire of using browns and blues together, and yellow rounded it out nicely. I used a bunch of random stickers from my stash, which is always a good thing.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSXFV6GLz3cA07d7j3PYZnBRZYR0jiRd3KRa-MfHPkConHqklonrk0wFb2SfRlP2sJDV41yVShG8dNElfWilHbd9HGmag1CHF-qO86Z7KLLEM7VOkmUwL-ocEwR1NT1KfnBN0G/s1600/joyfull.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 313px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677261415476303170" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSXFV6GLz3cA07d7j3PYZnBRZYR0jiRd3KRa-MfHPkConHqklonrk0wFb2SfRlP2sJDV41yVShG8dNElfWilHbd9HGmag1CHF-qO86Z7KLLEM7VOkmUwL-ocEwR1NT1KfnBN0G/s400/joyfull.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><b><span style="color:#ea9999;"><span style="color:#e06666;">Fi</span> </span></b>- Again a little late with this one, things have been hectic this year as school wraps up not too mention as weekend away for me. I miss read foam embellishments for felt and for some reason I left my buttons at home so I had to make do with what I did have on hand.<br /><br />3 foam embellishments - I didn't have any of these with me so I used foam dots and covered them with glitter<br />4 colors of cardstock - pink, orange, raspberry and white<br />5 buttons - I only had one of these in my stash so I used stickers and stitched them so that they resembled buttons.<br />6 stickers (non-alphabet)- at least I did have these with me.<br /><br /><a href="http://allthingscreativescrapbooking.blogspot.com/2011/11/hmitm-challenge-185.html"></a><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"><a href="http://allthingscreativescrapbooking.blogspot.com/2011/11/hmitm-challenge-185.html"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicuIJtNoeNgsRCXJ5_wztnItOLOKqBryOCmeWslv8h5nztVYcaEBemmihLxhrpOyQxNB3OnKkWhfN56951xxlcUrTC8WRaQ21lFtR0txRfM2v0GAvi3i2C7NgmMaMqPqrxaCju/s320/YOU.jpg" width="320" height="317" /></a></div><br /><br />To play, and have a shot at being chosen for our How Awesome Is Too Awesome Hall of Fame and creating as a HMITM Guest Designer, just share your layout through Mr. Linky below! We can't wait to see what you create!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/autolink.php?owner=hmitm&postid=21Nov2011"></script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-64307592232860721472011-11-08T11:05:00.006-05:002011-11-08T11:20:51.518-05:00Challenge #183 winner<div>A big thank you for playing along with us in our guest Amy's 'Gifts' challenge!</div><br /><br /><div>The winner is Tory with her layout <a href="http://tfraildesigns.blogspot.com/2011/11/hmitm-challenge-183-gifts.html">Kitten Love</a>. We love the kitten paw prints, the glitter doodling and the sweet bouquet of flowers tied with baker's twine. Here's her layout:</div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSk2Qkw_-iQEPT3GATUsItzxpfpQrpNm6VkNirixwEdIeX3djVXyI3BvYUYCV2d1fRoYStgKP1kCGf8vF1zxwZagvPRFAgNNs83mNPRAIfp6JHfEiRqTVIm8YfrV38y7YA3Oen/s1600/HMITM+%2523183+winner.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 398px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672658366462026482" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSk2Qkw_-iQEPT3GATUsItzxpfpQrpNm6VkNirixwEdIeX3djVXyI3BvYUYCV2d1fRoYStgKP1kCGf8vF1zxwZagvPRFAgNNs83mNPRAIfp6JHfEiRqTVIm8YfrV38y7YA3Oen/s400/HMITM+%2523183+winner.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><div>Congrats Tory! </div><br /><br />(Kelly, I tried to comment on your layout, but Blogger wouldn't allow me. Your layout is stunning! I looked for your email, because I always feel bad about not being able to comment, but couldn't find it.) <br /><br />Our current challenge is below this post. We hope you will join us!Anna-Karinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09321879514804583492noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-70658563890579038942011-11-07T06:03:00.000-05:002011-11-07T18:56:06.205-05:00Challenge #184 - Mix it Up (Nov 7 - Nov 20)Janet here with challenge #184. Remember the rule in fashion - don't wear stripes and plaids together. Well we're breaking that rule in this challenge. Stripes , plaids, dots and flowers. Squares, circles, stars and prints. Mix it up anyway you want to but you need to use at least eight different patterns in this layout and because we want to keep it even more fun, a holiday photo from any holiday. Because this is going to be a happy mixture, the word 'happy' should feature someplace in the layout or title.<br />
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- Eight different patterns, none to match the holiday<br />
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- Any holiday picture and embellishments. ( Embellishments can match the holiday)<br />
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We are so happy to have <a href="http://shaunerysblog.blogspot.com/">Shaunery Wharton</a> join us as guest designer this month! She does such fabulous work, always with lots of wonderful details. The layout she created for this challenge is absolutely gorgeous. Have a look at her blog to see more of her work. Thank you so much Shaunery!<br />
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Bio: I am a stay at home mom to three crazy children. When my oldest was born, I discovered scrap booking only a month later. It was like, this craft was created just for me! I save and keep everything. I've evolved quite a bit since 1994 (yep, nearly 18 years of scrapping) and love the constant change and growth of the industry. I especially enjoy incorporating challenges in my layouts. Sketch's, color, recipes...you name it. These sites continually help me stretch and grow. They have also provided a source of friendships, I've met so many wonderful people via the net over the last two years. <br />
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<b><a href="http://shaunerysblog.blogspot.com/">Shaunery</a></b>: I was so honored to be asked to play at HMITM as a guest designer. I rearranged my whole schedule to get the layout challenge finished but I still was a tad late. But I HAD to play! I do not normally scrap a lot of holiday pages, with the exception of Halloween. So this was intriguing and inspirational. I chose my eight patterns from my scrap box. Orange and brown seemed to be the predominate colors..taking my cue I starting building and layering. The "garland" at the top of my page is inspired by the bead garland my MIL hangs on her mantel each year, I knew I wanted to recreate it. The "matting" of pattern on white, was inspired by my df Jenny who likes to mat w/ black. To bring attention to the Christmas Holiday theme, I used metal Christmas embellishments and my favorite Tim Holtz Santa stamp. If you'd like to see close ups and see my product list, please visit my blog, <a href="http://www.shaunerysblog.blogspot.com/">http://www.shaunerysblog.blogspot.com/</a>.<br />
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Many thanks to the crew at HMITM, I'm so tickled that you invited me to play along! Thanks so much!<br />
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<b>Janet</b> - I'll probably look at this layout years from now and wonder why I have sailboats and Halloween eyes on a Christmas layout and I can't imagine what someone else may wonder. I had fun creating my own challenge and even though this isn't the best picture it sure captures the search of looking for Santa after he leaves our house Christmas morning.<br />
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I based my layout of a Page Maps sketch, I didn't want the different patterned papers to take over the layout so I did keep the areas on them smaller. Talk about using up some old stash I think the Jolee's stickers on this were about the first time they made the embellished ones - and true to the challenges here to use things up the whole package went on the layout.<br />
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I had a little fun with this challenge and got two more done, one is of my granddaughter and her first snowman, I used all summer and spring papers on it. The second one is my other daughter's dog Stella dressed up for Halloween using different patterned papers with flowers, plaids and birds.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.layersofink.blogspot.com/">Anna-Karin</a></b>: I enjoyed mixing different patterns and used lots of different ones on my layout. I used grey, black, blue and red papers and cut them into tags of two sizes. The tags were distressed a bit and then stitched to the page to form borders at the top and the bottom. They were also embellished with a bit of subtle stamping (so subtle, it is hard to see on the photo). I used a fun photo of me and my sister and the tip of the tail of the dog fleeing the scene of a Christmas photo shoot which didn't go as planned. The title translates ‘Happy?’ Thank you for this awesome challenge Janet!<br />
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<a href="http://allthingscreativescrapbooking.blogspot.com/2011/11/hmitm-challenge-184.html#comments"> Fi </a>- I decided to Challenge myself by doing a card. I used eight prints from Basic Grey and Webster Scraps and included a the following prints: music notes, woodgrain, spots, stripes, flowers, swirls, geometric and a general print. I used the title happy for my card and although the papers are quite Chrismasy I have used it as Birthday card. Anyway I hope you like my card, its not easy using 8 prints on one card. Check out my blog for more details. Great challenge Janet!!!<br />
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The little house is so cute and your French doors being covered in the kids' art.<br /><br /><br />The winner for challenge #181 is <a href="http://shaunerysblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/this-layout-has-been-finished-for.html">Shaunery </a>with this fabulous layout:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGuJ54NXX0S707Irg2ZdmlVDp7QbI-_xCE26LfM0pFRaZ2r_eiGD_FKga3GcYKm6WjzTS3UV3KmGG7zQkOKM_BP2QjvTwRi5E4mRFJncvXT9QGk7nD_Yd-Et1_thY0fTpGXU9L/s1600/winner+HMITM+181.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 381px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667862882623233570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGuJ54NXX0S707Irg2ZdmlVDp7QbI-_xCE26LfM0pFRaZ2r_eiGD_FKga3GcYKm6WjzTS3UV3KmGG7zQkOKM_BP2QjvTwRi5E4mRFJncvXT9QGk7nD_Yd-Et1_thY0fTpGXU9L/s400/winner+HMITM+181.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Congrats Shaunery! So many fun details and the chalkboard background is so cool.<br /><br />The winner for challenge #182 (Beautiful Autumn) is<a href="http://handmadebykaterina.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-post_21.html"> Katerina </a>with her wonderful autumn layout:<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMzPNg-WPV2GMP2SR2JVJFLgob_H8tuU1H235a6HfkC11NXHSx_nSRySTpBmutFLPw034vASdW2rgDo5PosFpNMRV9cqQxP6YiuGTayurVSBU6OqODSb-TQUYXnEJZwjzgKQn-/s1600/winner+HMITM+182.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 355px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667863658693933570" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMzPNg-WPV2GMP2SR2JVJFLgob_H8tuU1H235a6HfkC11NXHSx_nSRySTpBmutFLPw034vASdW2rgDo5PosFpNMRV9cqQxP6YiuGTayurVSBU6OqODSb-TQUYXnEJZwjzgKQn-/s400/winner+HMITM+182.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Congrats Katerina! The dry embossed cardstock looks wonderful and so do all those leaves.<br /><br />Thanks for playing everyone! The currect challenge is just below this post, we hope you will join us.<br /><br />(A little note on comments, at the moment Blogger is not allowing me (not sure about everyone else) to comment on blogs where the comment section is not a pop-up. As a result, I haven't been able to comment on several layouts. I am sorry about that. Hopefully it will be sorted out soon.)Anna-Karinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09321879514804583492noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-6397268063811498602011-10-24T08:41:00.002-04:002011-10-24T08:50:52.908-04:00Challenge #183 Gifts (October 24 - November 6)For this week's challenge we invited AmyC, our awesome guest Designer, to challenge us with a challenge. This is what she came up with...<br /><br />Today is the day before my daughter's birthday and we just celebrated her sister's birthday nine days ago. Having their birthdays so close together always gets me thinking about... gifts! I would like you to scrap about your best/greatest gift(s). These gifts can be actual gifts you were given for an occasion or they can be the blessings in your life. You can scrap about one gift or multiple gifts. You can make a top 5 or top ten list if you want! The requirements are based on my kids ages and the date.<br /><br />Frame your page with an edge of background paper, a doodled/stitched border or a frame!<br />Use at least one stamp/digital brush/rub-on<br />3 ribbons/strings<br />6 circles<br />8 brads or buttons<br />10 flowers<br />2 elements that bleed off the page<br />4 crocheted or felt accents<br /><br />Thank you AmyC for the awesome challenge!<br /><br /><br /><strong>AmyC</strong>: After I started formulating the challenge, I realized I wanted to scrap about being involved in Operation Christmas Child last year. My children learned the very valuable lesson that the greatest gift is actually the blessing of giving to others.Now, let's get to the nuts and bolts. I framed my paper with a thin peek of background paper. I used 3 different digital brushes/stamps behind my clusters. I have 2 strings and one ribbon. My six circles are 3 paper circles and 3 rub-on circles. All my brads/buttons are in the center of my flowers. I chose to bleed two of my paper circles off the page and my crocheted/felt elements are some of my flowers! I think that got it all!<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEishJlruwcQFPdCK-qsJ1oXgRmHgjzRr1fjQ_VAHgeFISNhHQnY38IOP2LZTmlLpaPN1503b4ke1IlXEXWBHM6U6MOVclUlgnTShLrMvogHgVM_m_2aYGXHdlOE2er1quSOK1Q7/s1600/hmitm+amy+2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 401px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 440px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666303034415974338" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEishJlruwcQFPdCK-qsJ1oXgRmHgjzRr1fjQ_VAHgeFISNhHQnY38IOP2LZTmlLpaPN1503b4ke1IlXEXWBHM6U6MOVclUlgnTShLrMvogHgVM_m_2aYGXHdlOE2er1quSOK1Q7/s400/hmitm+amy+2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><strong>Elizabeth</strong>: I love a fresh challenge and this one fit the bill! I liked the different techniques, like having elements bleed off the page and framing the whole layout.<br /><br /><br /><p>I consider my marriage of 15 years to my amazing husband to be a 'gift', so I decided to do a layout with a picture of us together at a wedding this summer (not sure why we look so jaundiced in this picture :P poor lighting conditions i suppose, we didn't use any fake tanning lotion or anything.)<br /><br /><br /><p>I pulled out an <em>ancient</em> ghost frame to put around the picture and then cascaded lots of different flowers in a diagonal line across the page (with several flowers cut off at the frames edge). I usually have a tough time with ribbon, but this awesome ribbon from My Mind's Eye with the birds on it was a pleasure to work with! For the circles, I emphasized the circles in the background patterned paper by punching six different holes in the middle of the designs.<br /><br /><p>Thanks for the awesome challenge Amy!</p><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7xzMGLs_Zl-pYehGfdTxmM4nGGWFhtNLErpCQgvRPyBzit8KtHpH3zJVIBdNPxNSGhMT7E3rRKdO130nOQeHkhQb0Hs9RdAdDIF_t7e5gsm7Gs5CMXvF1EpcAiFK3-vHQSWBB/s1600/blessings+-+kev.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 399px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 453px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666303389505536018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7xzMGLs_Zl-pYehGfdTxmM4nGGWFhtNLErpCQgvRPyBzit8KtHpH3zJVIBdNPxNSGhMT7E3rRKdO130nOQeHkhQb0Hs9RdAdDIF_t7e5gsm7Gs5CMXvF1EpcAiFK3-vHQSWBB/s400/blessings+-+kev.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><strong>Janet M</strong> - What a challenge this was and it stretched me in some good way to use some things I don't usually. I had fun creating it. When I think of blessing it always comes to my family being first on my list. This photo was one from a couple of Christmases ago. We're not even complete a few people had already left that day. My crochet/felt items are the flowers and the little camera in the corner. The elements that bleed off are some rub-ons and the banner string. The circles , flowers, brads and the frame are all pretty easy to see. </p><br /><br /><p>It's a great challenge - I hope to see some more creations from some of the players this week.<br /><br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 283px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 278px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666689974151946482" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiucuneCgzmQtNbXdUHunP9zR1LQX3WJY5oZEVa3pXk3BE7qu3NwtC5MnXiS8yFICCNEjFu9V9UUR2EmQ3vu1_-2iTjSQhV9h9EWMyN24iySpXBG43cbvvi_dEyhNmaHyTPET6B/s320/IMG_4072-1.JPG" /><br /><br /><strong><a href="http://www.layersofink.blogspot.com/">Anna-Karin</a></strong>: When I looked through a pile of photos, I came across these two photos of two handmade gifts from my sisters. These are some of my most special gifts and I am happy to have done a layout about them. The layout was framed with machine stitching and I used a whole bunch of stamps. Six different circle stamps were used to stamp a tone-on-tone background. I ended up using more than six circles, because it looked a bit empty with just six. Two of the circles bleed off the page. Eight green buttons were stitched randomly on the background. The three strings were braided and stapled to the page. I didn’t want to include big flowers, so instead I took a small flower stamp and stamped it ten times on the patterned paper. I used two felt arrows and die cut a heart and a swirl from felt. The title translates 'Best Gifts'. Thank you so much for this fun challenge Amy!! I enjoyed picking out the different items to use.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWXAqY4kH4H7O4rjlfQk99Goa-nIxJufAqEO_iEFrRPruRuEWe4PKE84BGKAR1rrK5LR9sCwC9F_A2zuOQcQNGBjnHdAWc2rTBxu-dX8fPQjELoGPpPzInjPDXJZ-XSgOQmCrW/s1600/HMITM+%2523183+-+Anna-Karin.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 399px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666695390717101698" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWXAqY4kH4H7O4rjlfQk99Goa-nIxJufAqEO_iEFrRPruRuEWe4PKE84BGKAR1rrK5LR9sCwC9F_A2zuOQcQNGBjnHdAWc2rTBxu-dX8fPQjELoGPpPzInjPDXJZ-XSgOQmCrW/s400/HMITM+%2523183+-+Anna-Karin.jpg" /></a><br />To play, and have a shot at being chosen for our How Awesome Is Too Awesome Hall of Fame and creating as a HMITM Guest Designer, just share your layout through Mr. Linky below! We can't wait to see what you create!<br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/autolink.php?owner=hmitm&postid=24Oct2011"></script><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-40110927516840525942011-10-10T05:11:00.003-04:002011-10-10T18:30:54.980-04:00Challenge #182 - Beautiful Autumn (Oct 10 - Oct 23)<div>
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Anna-Karin here with challenge #182. October is such a beautiful autumn month. One of the things I love about autumn is all the textures you find in nature during this time of the year: all the leaves and the different colours, everything being made more apparent by the clear air. Few things are more beautiful than the reflection of autumn trees in a calm lake.<br />
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- Leaves in some form (embellishments, patterned paper etc.)<br />
- Paint, ink or mist to add a bit of texture to your page<br />
- Distressed edges<br />
- Something orange<br />
- 10 jewels, pearls or beads (for the date)<br />
- 10 ribbons (also for the date)<br />
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We are thrilled to have AmyC join us this month as our guest designer! She has been a faithful contributor to the past HMITM challenges and we love seeing her awesome digi designs that incorporate our wacky list of criteria :)<br />
Here she is:<br />
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Bio: My name is Amy and I live in a very small town in western North Carolina. I have been married to a great guy for 14 years and we have three wonderful children (Will-8, Anna-turning 6 and Katie-turning 3). I am a Physical Therapist and, although I love my work, I have a longing to be a SAHM. My children are, of course, the main focus of my scrapbooking. I think it is so important to perserve our memories! I began scrapbooking 7 years ago just before my son turned one. Three years ago I discovered digital scrapping and I am almost exclusively digital now. I do try to occassionally go back and scrap my old pictures, and I love it when I remember a traditional element that I can use on a digital page!<br />
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I am excited to be the guest designer at HMITM because I love the challenges here! I know "stash" is a little different in the digi world, but, believe me, I still have an enormous stash and it makes me feel good to use something I haven't used in a while or at all!<br />
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Amy: I knew as soon as I read the challenge that I wanted to use it to scrap about our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. I used several "somethings orange," because it is one of my favorite colors. I have 10 ribbon pieces peeping out from opposite sides of the large green mat. I have 2 jewels in the orange flowers and 8 scattered jewels on the lower left portion of the layout. The distressed edges show up several times and I used a "scatter" with glitter paint and mist along the middle of the layout under the pictures. </div>
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<b><a href="http://www.layersofink.blogspot.com/">Anna-Karin</a></b>: I had fun creating texture and playing around with leaves on this page. The title translates ‘Autumn Leaves’. The background is watercolour paper, which was first sponged with paint through a tree stencil. I used a really old leaf stencil and applied gesso with an old plastic card, resulting in dimensional leaves. Then the background was coloured with Distress Stains, water and a bit of Perfect Pearls. I also used leaves stamped on alcohol inked glossy cardstock. At first I had no idea of what to do with 10 ribbons, but then I got the idea of cutting 10 green scraps of ribbon into small scraps and using them as grass. The 10 jewels were used in the title and on the trees.<br />
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<b>Elizabeth</b>: This was a great challenge. I loved all the distressing elements that were added to the challenge. I used ink on the title block and distressed the edges of the journaling block. I have a tough time with ribbon usually, but i managed to stick some behind my journaling block and under my title paper. Thanks for the challenge Anna-Karin!<br />
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<b>Janet M-</b> This challenge was a great one for me , I love taking pictures of the trees in the fall. I've been doing a book of our house before we leave it so this was a good one to add to it. I loved that one of the colors in it was orange which had me go outside the normal color I would use, but as always when I do that I'm the happiest with the results.<br />
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I got all the elements in except the paint or mist I'm creating in Florida and I just don't have those supplies with me so I substituted ink for that part. I sure do have a ribbon supply though so it's always good to use some of those up.<br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new;">Journaling is: Every year I feel so blessed to live where I do and get to experience the wonder of autumn, this year taking the pictures has so much more meaning.It's the walks in the yard, the colors in the trees. I'm going to miss living here next year . I know I can come back anytime I want to with the college horticulture program here but I sure can't come out at 6 AM in my pj's and enjoy the quiet.. </span><br />
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Thanks for the great challenge Anna-Karin, it's a really creative and fun one.<br />
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Fi - I joined this Challenge with the Pencilines Sketch. The pictures I have used are a series I am doing of my trip to Sydney a few years ago, I just loved watching how fast everything and everyone seems to move along in this fast paced city. I was able to get all the elements requested in, I have inked my envelope, distressed the paper edges, ribbon in 10 pieces and the bling is 8 gems on my balloon and two pieces of border bling to make the total. Oh and leaves are in the paper and the transparency. Thanks Anna-Karin for this fun challenge. Hope to see more play along this week.<br />
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Anna-Karinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09321879514804583492noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-55355253699390097872011-09-26T07:55:00.003-04:002011-09-26T19:12:41.640-04:00Sept 26 Johnny Appleseed ChallengeIt's Johnny Appleseed day and while nobody else may be excited about it I am. My children are descendants of Johnny Appleseed so we have books, counted cross stitch pictures, etc. about him.<br /><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">Our challenge this time is going to do a layout using apples in it. So it can be a recipe page, layout about fall or anything that uses apples. Since apples come in three colors I want the colors of the layout to have red, yellow and green in them.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">3 apples</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">3 red, </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">3 yellow, and </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#990000;">3 green embellishments - ( buttons, brads, twine)</span></strong><br /><br />Have fun creating.<br /><br /><br />Here's what Susan, our guest designer, did for her second project this month.<br /><br />I made a shadow box by three gypsies. Used Bo Bunny and My Minds Eye and Basic Grey. Apple brads and various embellishments that I had in my stash. I also inked all the paper edges with chestnut roan chalk ink.<br /><br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5650857679132392018" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_zsQ9oBRVfou_vNVVBq1FRcVmLOgX9d1YsSF0h8rK5zSdA7pjXF57QByNLmIx8Zb1xZgePts9ZoooWkfRMdocTIQ0CwpdtwG6ApvDgjluiXMn5abgqLqOEOWCijLAyfa3zkGc/s320/CHRISTMAS2010_071.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br />Janet M - I enjoyed this challenge and choose a picture to do a page that I'll put in my recipe book of pages of family recipes, fun times together and pictures of things we have made.<br /><br />I used three apples cut from my Cricut cartridge , three different ribbons, three colors of Thickers and pp. I used brads and bling in multiples of the three colors also. I enjoyed the fun I had with the colors in this.<br /><br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 248px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653346338352521298" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBqhjOEfrk2KdykMXOPY7XEoXOkD9HxHoKmkdCVbhn5fo0GSRqbJ2yBZi1xIuFed4koU4eKS01xtHuOOBCS2xTMqan3ptmFoiqxNgpiXP6LcjmOb4XjFTpWqxm0zAHR1PjGakK/s320/Top-1.jpg" border="0" /><br /><br /><div style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none"><strong><a href="http://www.layersofink.blogspot.com/">Anna-Karin</a></strong>: Since I had never heard about Johnny Appleseed, I had to look him up. Interesting character and how fun that he is family of yours Janet. Loved the challenge! I did my layout about Anton’s love of fruit (the title translates ‘Fruit-o-maniac’), apples being the number one favourite (although he is eating papaya on the photos). I found some journaling cards that worked well for the challenge and the layout came together quickly. I used three stamped apples, one in each colour, and the same with the three buttons, brads and twine. Thanks for the fun challenge and history lesson Janet!</div><br /><div style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjppnSs4heT999KEo-HmoLamvxxktz4KJigW9zxcK6Saf7bO3smzB5v_9nZPdEY3Fu8axOXIu2prtZygq01nbI6XNbzBJfHIzEqOFqgkbIMwQgyw1W0SIMBtmPhF_zZAcOFTj_Z/s1600/HMITM+181+-+Anna-Karin.jpg"><img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; TEXT-ALIGN: center; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 398px; BORDER-TOP: medium none; CURSOR: hand; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5655929112381305506" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjppnSs4heT999KEo-HmoLamvxxktz4KJigW9zxcK6Saf7bO3smzB5v_9nZPdEY3Fu8axOXIu2prtZygq01nbI6XNbzBJfHIzEqOFqgkbIMwQgyw1W0SIMBtmPhF_zZAcOFTj_Z/s400/HMITM+181+-+Anna-Karin.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.debbitscraps.blogspot.com/">Debbi T</a>: I'm a teacher, so I get a school portrait taken every year, and I never know what to do with them. I decided this challenge was the perfect opportunity to document my apple-a-day ritual, which I plan to add to my weight-loss album. It just so happened that the October Work in Progress kit that I needed to work with had a paper with an apple pattern from the Crate Paper Farmhouse collection, so I used the WIP to make my page. This was such a fun and clever challenge, Janet!<br /><br />My hidden journaling reads: <span style="font-family:Calibri;"><em>During the school year, I eat an apple a day. Every day, I bring an apple in my lunch. My favorite is apple is the honeycrisp. My apple-a-day habit started when I began Weight Watchers. I bring a knife and cut my apple into small slices so I can take a long time eating it. I usually bring a frozen Weight Watchers Smart One or a Lean Cuisine, which gets eaten pretty fast, and then I cut my apple and enjoy it for the rest of my lunch time. (School portrait - Fall 2011)</em></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"><a style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBWpCx4-8oz3sfs2rt7WP767p7p3sS4imj3oJf8GxeFxQqGpixpovJir_1VdFFMAgJIbuaSqPU6jLodwQp0lEOhfZSWwZ6O7pNzpF105dm3XRXPNXbPzLK1uP1QmBgtej73dlzew/s1600/apple-a-day.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBWpCx4-8oz3sfs2rt7WP767p7p3sS4imj3oJf8GxeFxQqGpixpovJir_1VdFFMAgJIbuaSqPU6jLodwQp0lEOhfZSWwZ6O7pNzpF105dm3XRXPNXbPzLK1uP1QmBgtej73dlzew/s400/apple-a-day.jpg" kca="true" height="397" border="0" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><p><strong>Elizabeth</strong>: Fun challenge Janet! I decided to do it about Brock's first time eating, and our oldest child helping to feed him. Had to dig around for some apple embellishments, but I eventually found some in the lace cardstock and I cut some out of some patterned paper. Do circles count as embellishments? Well, I think I have lots of yellow, green and red on here anyhow ;). Thanks for the challenge!</p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2QsviXSXV_tlN_jZfbesMgrNeKkwHMCFinhMtZWKVtVPeP2QLrWikRyHqxdnTSdWqXSSIXPrOPzSpXLd0WABCvnnfuZKh7FBYKGbWPkf7hWr6ldp6iVB97E1nkUB23JQVb3L4/s1600/first+taste.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 310px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656643756028100386" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2QsviXSXV_tlN_jZfbesMgrNeKkwHMCFinhMtZWKVtVPeP2QLrWikRyHqxdnTSdWqXSSIXPrOPzSpXLd0WABCvnnfuZKh7FBYKGbWPkf7hWr6ldp6iVB97E1nkUB23JQVb3L4/s400/first+taste.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Fi:</span> Okay a bit of a tricky one, how to use apples...hmmmmm Anyway I went with another school class shot as I really couldn't associate apples with anything else and didn't have time to whip up an Apple Pie...lol I used some Simple Stories paper and thought this challenge can me the perfect opportunity to use my Quickutz Die's for some reason I needed these dies but had never had the opportunity to use them. lol<br /><br />So I used the red, green and yellow papers, I die cut 3 apples and also 3 apples cores since we were working in lots of 3s, my embellishments are 3 paper clips 3 brads in each of the 3 colours, 3 butterflies and 3 acetate school themed pieces. I have hidden journalling paper clipped up the top which just reads who some of the kids are that I was friends with.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://allthingscreativescrapbooking.blogspot.com/2011/09/hmitm-challenge-181-september-26.html"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 317px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpxqpFD39DnuEGPU-Y3WjX3Dw3oPPfK64TA8fpuaLrowHN2UaN-N6KV5MLkJUdGCiPnfeDYr_IzuHINZbcJNjndkR82d68FJMti-3ZVDc_kwyEIO1B4411t4okVssT9zA-SUzT/s320/HMTM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656807702083679826" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>To play, and have a shot at being chosen for our How Awesome Is Too Awesome Hall of Fame and creating as a HMITM Guest Designer, just share your layout through Mr. Linky below! We can't wait to see what you create!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/autolink.php?owner=hmitm&postid=26Sep2011"></script><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-51986923282121996302011-09-12T16:14:00.004-04:002011-09-12T16:18:21.200-04:00School's In Winner ... Shaunery!Congrats Shaunery, for being chosen as this week's winner with your school choir layout.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCDRNZhXPhdOTdhCsjcnw66_Z_LrGHFh09ISpR_B7l_93aEziT1JhHKwTE_ltq7nEN0JiHbfbCeOBEWdoMlFr9ZoeNmheapPjKR-kJmMuxgjNHnXmKrTRVk1yrIf8pVol13SnT/s1600/hmitm+shaunery"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 396px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5651569520443651762" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCDRNZhXPhdOTdhCsjcnw66_Z_LrGHFh09ISpR_B7l_93aEziT1JhHKwTE_ltq7nEN0JiHbfbCeOBEWdoMlFr9ZoeNmheapPjKR-kJmMuxgjNHnXmKrTRVk1yrIf8pVol13SnT/s400/hmitm+shaunery" /></a> Loved the ruffled ribbon and the great shades of primary colours. They go beautifully together. The paperclip stickers are great here, super job!</p><br /><p>Thanks for playing along everyone, your layouts were awesome!</p><br /><p>(For some reason, Blogger does not always let me comment on people's blogs, but I do try to leave comments on everyone's layout.)<br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-35682373542553423012011-09-12T06:22:00.002-04:002011-09-12T06:22:48.183-04:00Challenge 180 - Home Sweet Home {September 12 - September 25}<div>
Happy Monday! Debbi here. We're in the process of buying a new house (our street address will be 4936), so for this challenge, let's make a layout using...<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Our guest designer this month is Susan, and we are so happy to have her wonderful layouts to share with you!</span></div>
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Here is a little about Susan, in her own words... My name is Susan Thormahlen and I am from Northwest Indiana. I am married to a wonderful man and have 2 children and 1 grandchild. I am also a CDA dental assistant and am the office manager of a dental office here in my hometown. I have been scrapbooking for 3 years and have truly fell in love with all aspects of it. I like traditional, digital and hybrid but traditional is my favorite. Because I am fairly new to the craft of scrapbooking, I have not been on any design teams or have been published yet. I will have my first scrapbook page published this November in GingerScrapStreetMagazines in the article It's Not Easy Being Green. This is also my first invitation to be a guest designer.<br />
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I based the colors of this challenge on our bedroom which is a buttery cream/yellow with dark blue accents. The nine buttons that I used, I broke up and used them like a mosaic. I used Sure Cuts Alot svg graphics for the house and the window frame. I also used the Socket font for my lettering. For my 6 patterned papers I used Chatterbox. I made my three tags and used them as smoke clouds coming from the chimney. The rub-on "home is where the heart is" is from K&Company.<br />
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As I said above, we're in the process of having a new house built. By now it's already built and they're working on the inside, but we've been driving up every week and photographing the progress. This was the first set of pictures I took--when it was just a hole in the ground. It was so surprising because for the longest time we'd drive up there and nothing was going on, and on this particular Sunday, when we saw it, the first thing that came out of my mouth was "We have a hole!" I used birdhouse images, which are houses, right? I'm on a mission to use some old stash. Those daisies were cut out of a REALLY old K&Co paper. They're pretty and glittery. And those birdhouses are from some ancient paper from back when I started scrapbooking over a decade ago--hoarding comes in handy sometimes!</div>
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This challenge was so much fun and since we are in the process of building our new house I had a hard time deciding which photo to use then one of the landscapers dropped off a new set of aerial pictures and it was an easy decision. The colors are based on some of my room colors which I have used greens and blues quite a bit. The birds also tie in with the theme of my art glass in the doors and one of the bathrooms. I used the Cricut cartridge Songbird for the word and the tag and I actually used a pagemaps sketch for the design. </div>
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I've been traveling a lot so my layouts are suffering on getting done but the card collection I have is growing - I used this challenge to make a card for my daughter that is doing some work on the inside and outside of her house.<br />
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Every single thing in the challenge got into the card- there's a rub-on sun under the button, some of the brads are on the car wheels, the trees are cut from different lines and the tags are under the flower. Fun way to challenge myself.<br />
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<strong>Anna-Karin</strong>: I loved this challenge Debbi! Instead of scrapping about our present home, I made the layout about my first home and wrote 5 pages of journaling (tucked behind the layout). I am so happy to have documented my memories. I also used the colour scheme of the house for the layout – seventyish green, orange, brown and yellow. The patterns and embellishments were also chosen to fit with the theme (felt, raffia, woodgrain, owls, flower brads, chipboard accents etc.). The dry embossed cardstock looks very similar to the wallpaper in one of the bedrooms. The house was cut from a piece of patterned paper and embellished further with ribbon, mica windows, and rub-ons. I was happy to use some rub-ons and an old pack of flower brads. The gate, key and key hole were painted with silver paint.<br />
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Debbi Tehranihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05220937886932534260noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-11355048774460032932011-08-29T16:17:00.003-04:002011-08-29T16:22:46.745-04:00#178 winner is Belinda Achatz
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<br /><div>Congrats Belinda! I loved your layout that you submitted for the 'Just Relax' challenge last week. Here is her layout...</div>
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<br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Tracee</span>: I haven't had the chance to scrap any of my Grandaughter Star's school pictures yet so this was the perfect opportunity.
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<br /><strong><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Anna-Karin</span></strong>: I loved your great layout-recipe Elizabeth! Lined paper is one of my favourites and I had fun embellishing it with stamps. I used round paper clips which I got very long ago, and glued them to the page randomly. Yellow staples were attached as borders. The title translates ‘Fun on wheels’, but sounds better in Swedish since it rhymes. The photo was taken by Cheryl van Lingen. Thank you for the challenge!
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-36541294971027215892011-08-15T10:23:00.003-04:002011-08-15T10:30:49.380-04:00Challenge 177- Clowning around Winner!is...... Amy C!<div>it was a tough choice because I really loved all your layouts this week, what a great take on the challenge everyone!</div><div>
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We are delighted to have another beautiful layout from our August guest designer, Tracee Provis. <br />
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<strong>Tracee</strong>: About something that you find relaxing - Writing notes & planning layouts in my notepad <br />
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Close your eyes and dig into your stash of scrap patterned papers and randomly pick out at 6 or more pieces of paper and use those on your layout. No peeking! - This proved a tad more difficult to not cheat! so I waited until Fi & Debbi were online and I labelled random scraps with numbers 1 - 25 and got the girls to pick a number for me, to show there was no cheating I took a pic to prove I didnt just swap numbers lol All this was done under their watchful eyes on webcam! Let me tell you they didn't pick the pieces I wanted lol but on 3 of the scraps I used the backside and all in all my random was pretty co-coordinating! <br />
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Do the same thing and pick 10 or more random buttons, ribbons or pearls - I dont have anything organised(bad I know) so I just picked 10 random things that were in my "bits" box on the window sill it contains anything from die cuts to buttons to fabric scraps. I dipped my hand into my ribbon bag and pulled out a couple of things too! <br />
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Use 3 bits and pieces lying around on your desk (not patterned papers). If you have a clean desk, use 3 left-overs from your last project. - Lucky I do have a very messy desk so I tucked my hand under the top layer and picked lol <br />
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<strong>Anna-Karin</strong>: I often find that using my scraps speeds up my scrapbooking quite a bit since I spend less time choosing products to use. This layout is about taking walks in nature as one of my favourite forms of relaxation. My scrap papers are sorted according to colour in a file folder, so I closed my eyes and randomly pulled out 7 papers from different folders. I used 10 random buttons from one of my ziplock bags of buttons. I have a box of little leftover bits and pieces at my desk and try to use things from it as often as possible. For this layout, I pulled out the stamped bird, the metallic heart and the arrow (which was painted and stamped). The recycled item comes from a clothing tag (both the vellum strip and the printed ribbon). The title is a negative chipboard piece which has been in my leftover box for a long time, it was painted to fit better with this layout. <br />
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<strong>Elizabeth</strong>: Well, I do have to admit that blindly pulling out paper from my scrap pile is hardly a relaxing way to start my layout process, but my saving grace was the fact that so many papers are double sided, so I was able to make the combination of papers fit :P The embellishments I used from my last project were the felt flowers, and the recycled item is the circle outline stickers near the bottom of the layout. I used the outside of a sticker that I cut from the backing. And of course, going to the beach with five kids is always relaxing, right?!?!? It was a fantastic time together. </div>
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<strong>Janet M-</strong> This was a great challenge and quite interesting , since my scrapbook room is in a state of everything and anything is not were it should be with it getting moved. I reached into a pile of assorted papers and found some that were right on the top. I did the same thing with the embellishments from a basket of assorted items. The recycled item on here is a bookmark I pulled out of the desk. This is a picture of my two favorite men my brother and husband after a nice day when he had been visiting and we were just having a good time. <br />
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<strong>Fi</strong> - Relaxation for me is to have some time with my husband and one of our favourite days is the Melbourne Cup Race day. Its the race that stops the nation, its so great to see all the awesome fashions and lets not forget the hats.... Its really not about the horses at all. <br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.debbitscraps.blogspot.com/">Debbi T</a></strong>: This would've been a very stressful challenge for me because I have this need to be in control, LOL, but I kept telling myself, "It's okay...it's for Relaxation Day." Plus, I was selecting my elements and scrapping with Tracee and Fi via Skype, and that made it more fun. I randomly chose an odd selection of stuff and I kept having printer issues with my photo, so I wasn't entirely happy with the way my page turned out, but I just said "Go with the flow, Debbi; it's Relaxation Day." I had a lot of fun trying to make the best of what I randomly chose. I also used a Creative Scrappers sketch. Thanks for the fun challenge, Anna-Karin! <br />
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Anna-Karinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09321879514804583492noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-28255263614335865592011-08-03T03:15:00.003-04:002011-08-03T03:27:18.603-04:00Winner - Christmas In July ChallengeOkay, its never easy having to pick a winner in these situations, and for me it will always about who met the criteria of the challenge and of course everyone did that. All layouts were beautifully done and after having another good look at all the submissions I have decided to go with <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jenny Evan. </span> I love how Jenny used the papers and the sketch and how each square was embellished. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Congratulations Jenny</span> you are my winner, however everyone is a winner simply because you all have another page to add to your albums which is ultimately why we scrap.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-43920344355365761352011-08-01T16:15:00.004-04:002011-08-16T07:34:18.744-04:00Challenge # 177 Clowning Around!Did you know that today is the first day of International Clown Week?<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #990000;">* 11 different patterned papers</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #990000;">* one red circle (for the clown's nose)</span></strong><br />
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We are thrilled to have Tracee Provis as our August guest designer!<br />
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Here's a little about Tracee, in her own words: <em>My Name is Tracee and I live in Bristol UK with my DH my 2 youngest children & our very spoiled Doodle doggies. I am also a Grandmum to a beautiful 7 year old (perfect for scrapping) little girl called Star.</em></div>
<em><br />I have always crafted in one form or another since I was a small child from stuffed toys to knitted scarves. I was introduced to scrapping in 2004 & I have never looked back with each layout bringing more love for this hobby along with a whole group of friends who share the same love.</em><br />
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<em>My family & dogs are the main focus of my work, I just love how you can turn a memory, that might otherwise be forgotten in time, into something very special indeed.</em><br />
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<em>With an ever changing world scrapping remains my Safe Haven & most days you will find me at some point in my craft room.</em></div>
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<strong>Tracee</strong>: I always scrap when we go away in the Uk and I created the background in stripes,to represent the clowns top, using all strips from the papers I had used on my layouts on one of our holidays, plus a picture of us in our favourite spot on that holiday.I just dotted the buttons around in a random fashion like juggling balls in the air. The big bold black title reminded me of the great big shoes the clown in the picture is wearing.I added the flower and the red circle down at the bottom in a cluster with some of the buttons. I whitewashed over the strips and although you cant see it clearly in this picture i did splash some white paint onto the white background and also added some liquid pearls dotted about. Although this layout hasnt got a clowning around theme I always remember the fun we had in our time spent at Challabourough Bay in the UK. While at first this seemed like a daunting challenge once I started it all started to come together quite nicely.<br />
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<strong>Debbie F - </strong>Well, this proved to be a fun challenge for me! The clown inspired my color choices, the youthful theme, as well as a variety of patterns and shapes like dots, stripes, and circles. I chose to make a 2 page layout to incorporate all the challenge requirements. The hardest one for me to meet was the flower. I used a Details dimensional American Crafts sticker. (It had a pink flower layer on it too, which I pulled off.) The layout is of my son a few years ago at a Cub Scout Rocket Launch event. I punched circles of several patterned papers to make my "planets" and fussy cut the stars from another piece. My paint was a Jenni Bowlin dauber on some old Fancy Pants plain chipboard letters. I used a mix of sheer and sparkly buttons. It's a busy layout, but I think it's so fun!<br />
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The jounaling is: So it's really true the bucket does fit. We have a saying in the family about never letting your head get to big. If you think it is put a bucket over it and make sure your heads not to big for it. I thought it was the perfect gift to give Bob after the college honored him all week with getting his Doctor of Laws degree, honoris causa. He loved the gift and even took it with him when they had the reception for him and used it in his speech. <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635954025277511922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxPLK22LkbKMvl4hhO69WmLXi7M2TAMn6T8HLy3pZnFQatBs9o1JglLyvByN-oJ8tFwFxL01u7gP5cb7-a-ZTyF7fVsEo-DM24R0ap4K41azotrThRuMpnK6GHbK-vQuV3a7xM/s320/IMG_3749-1.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 374px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 255px;" /><br />
<strong>Fi</strong> - This was a little daunting when I first read the requirements, especially when I saw the picture of the clown. It got me thinking about fun and I remembered that I had a picture of my Nephew and Brother. They had spent a fun day at the fair which I am sure their would have been a clown lurking around some where. Now I say lurking because there is quite a few people that are quite frightened of them, however I'm not.<br />
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I represented the red circle by stitching one around the doily and I have machine stitched lines down my page and stitched the buttons in between, representing the clown heads at the fair that you drop the balls down. I also stitched some scrappy muslin to the side to represent the clowns fluffy hair poking out from his hat. I cut 8 patterned papers into strips then punched decorative edges on each before I layered them together. My background, doily and die cut piece make up the remaining 11. I have 1 flower and I used gesso over muslin, flower and buttons.<br />
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Hope this has inspired you this week and if you would like to read please pop over to my blog and check out more details:<br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.debbitscraps.blogspot.com/">Debbi Tehrani</a></strong> - When I saw this challenge, I knew I wanted to make a page for my Book of Silly (an aptly named album that contains silly family photos). As I was going through pictures to scrap, I came across this photo of my nephew with his hair dyed red for school spirit week.<br />
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I was having a very time-crunched week, so I combined my HMITM page with my page for CCG, and as it turned out, the colors were perfect to go with this picture. If look close, you can see all the buttons and the 11 papers. The flower was a stretch because I didn't want my page looking girly at all, so I dug through my stash and came up with a flower-shaped brad. This was such a fun challenge, Debbie!<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">Elizabeth:</span> This was such a fun challenge Debbie! I was certainly inspired by the red colour and also the stripes and polka dots. I finally tried masking with the letters in my title and I LOVE how it turned out! Don't know why it took me so long to try a new technique, maybe because I am scared of using things that make my work space 'messy', like paint and mist. I added stars to my mix of embellishments to emphasis the subject matter of my layout. I like how it looks a little 'chaotic', like a wipe out. Hope you will play along with this challenge!<br />
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I have kept it small so postage won't cost a fortune giving everyone the opportunity to win, it's Christmas....OK it's not but who doesn't love to receive a present?</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAFHi9hm5dVeTOTAvp85E8FPnDlAf1RKpqraWIDVHGvMmZXW1xdYjKbs6CTTBfTsrSEzPyT_uBE_qQVKixBGw0WL5uEql8GnpmjBCgJbvS0XmtPXxRlAlaVIr1nFoniePczG-A/s1600/HMITM+Prize.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630553089223943042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAFHi9hm5dVeTOTAvp85E8FPnDlAf1RKpqraWIDVHGvMmZXW1xdYjKbs6CTTBfTsrSEzPyT_uBE_qQVKixBGw0WL5uEql8GnpmjBCgJbvS0XmtPXxRlAlaVIr1nFoniePczG-A/s320/HMITM+Prize.jpg" style="cursor: hand; height: 240px; width: 320px;" /></a><br /><br />Christmas in July refers to Christmas-themed celebrations held in July. It's a fun time and because the weather is so much cooler, we can celebrate with those traditional foods that we cannot have here in summer. Well, we can have them here in Australia but it's generally way too hot that most of us celebrate with BBQ's, prawns and salad. So let's pull out our Christmas paper and embellishment stashes and put them to use.<br /><br /><span style="color: #006600; font-weight: bold;">Requirements:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">2 + photos</span> [at least 2]<br /><span style="color: #006600;">1 x Christmas tree image</span>, any size<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">5 x patterned papers</span>, i.e., Christmas patterns,<br /><span style="color: #006600;">5 x metal embellishments</span>, and any other embellishment in increments of 5<br /><br /><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">And here is mine take on the Challenge:</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2fOatgMsATrZ4kmHA3yW61Chw6BzuA-Hu3_bA2nvMtPmZcDloDE1W0pEiSDJpZd59UfNvoR8s57GNaXDkFh3rkDIDdEZIp9t1Snqsc4BE0XPDDnVME9rxK8pqtfsagv5anZZs/s1600/Santa%2527s+Coming.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630553416244072482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2fOatgMsATrZ4kmHA3yW61Chw6BzuA-Hu3_bA2nvMtPmZcDloDE1W0pEiSDJpZd59UfNvoR8s57GNaXDkFh3rkDIDdEZIp9t1Snqsc4BE0XPDDnVME9rxK8pqtfsagv5anZZs/s320/Santa%2527s+Coming.jpg" style="cursor: hand; height: 320px; width: 314px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">Have fun! Now for the inspiration from the Design Team....</span><br /><br />Here's the layout created by our July <strong>guest designer Belinda Achatz,</strong> and some words from her about her layout:<br /><br />For "Christmas in July" I decided to scrap 2 photos of my (now) husband & I back in 1995. Whilst we are having wintry weather right now, our Christmases are usually hot!! Well to quote my 8 year old daughter when she saw this layout, I "looked young then"....lol!! & Daddy had 'funny hair'.....yes, he did!!<br /><br />I met the challenge criteria as follows: I used mainly Crate Paper Christmas Paper for my layout - the 5 different ones include the base cardstock, trees, stockings, christmas lights, the photo matts & green background paper. I did have more than 1 Christmas tree - the main one being the one on the background paper, but they are also featured in the photos...lol. The 5 metal embellishments include old stash of metal letter charms ('st' & 'xo' ) & the charm on which I mounted the number 1. I also used 5 felt stars & 5 brads in the middle of the stars. I had a lot of fun with this & it brought back some funny memories - which is such a great part of this fabulous hobby! I hope you have fun having a go at this challenge - before we know it, Christmas will be upon us!!!! (eeek)<br /><br />I loved being guest designer for July - thank you so much to the team at HMITM for having me & thankyou to all who joined me in this month's challenges! </div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhIhkoieH-_WqpTEIMZivJqp7bFyfkHXzxRvV_xi-YGQ6iLuHI2YxYEGHP7LDw5mcG4LjJxE7BXuNhcHnhY8NPsx8qeVH9B2TSf-GqNGr2dkC8AlysE-71xFU3thh0WUyfWlM5/s1600/HMITM+%2523176+Belinda.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630421354922599426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhIhkoieH-_WqpTEIMZivJqp7bFyfkHXzxRvV_xi-YGQ6iLuHI2YxYEGHP7LDw5mcG4LjJxE7BXuNhcHnhY8NPsx8qeVH9B2TSf-GqNGr2dkC8AlysE-71xFU3thh0WUyfWlM5/s400/HMITM+%2523176+Belinda.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 397px;" /></a><br /><br /><strong>Anna-Karin</strong>: I had so much fun when I did my layout. I don’t think I have ever done a Christmas layout outside the holiday season since I normally do all my Christmas scrapping around Christmas. I used three photos, stamped a pine tree on one of the photos, 5 patterned papers, 5 metal embellishments (two bookplates, two embossed and painted tags, 1 swirl clip), 5 tags, 5 pieces of twine, 5 buttons, and 5 snowflakes. The layout is about some of my favourite Santa decorations. I let them pose in snow some years ago. I wanted the tags to remain neutral, so I inked and stamped them only very lightly. The metallic tags were dry embossed, painted black and then sanded to reveal the original metal on the embossed parts. Thank you for this awesome challenge Fi!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuDaYHhwmUCi8OJ16DNSjIIdWLVYf7u647ZeErfDIQpZbMN-EHXTBUxM00QD5RGifVhaVMu7uhtAnwyAJJcS4amjx_su8FLRCvuGUbY8cujSBqDY-bynw7MSM4zxCcY2wADs5r/s1600/HMITM+%2523176+Anna-Karin.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5630422603606253506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuDaYHhwmUCi8OJ16DNSjIIdWLVYf7u647ZeErfDIQpZbMN-EHXTBUxM00QD5RGifVhaVMu7uhtAnwyAJJcS4amjx_su8FLRCvuGUbY8cujSBqDY-bynw7MSM4zxCcY2wADs5r/s400/HMITM+%2523176+Anna-Karin.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 399px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><a href="http://debbitscraps.blogspot.com/">Debbi Tehrani</a>: It was great fun scrapping Christmas pictures in July! I'd had these pictures of my mom and Gram with their loot piles from two Christmases ago and never got around to scrapping them, so I was happy for this challenge! I used a sketch from Once Upon a Sketch as inspiration for my page. The challenge was trickier thatn I originally thought. Keeping the papers to five was hard, but I used the back and fronts of one of the papers, so that allowed me to sneak an extra pattern in! And the five embellishments part was also tricky, but I managed. I used five brads, five big pearls, five small pearls, five rub-ons, five words on stickers, and five banner die cuts. My Christmas tree element is in the Santa image on the bottom right. Thanks for the fun challenge, Fi!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8qeNRY_BOS29YTNnGHLQ9GZXT19b3wsP87I7SEiAjPTxgcUgukEpys4VDawT_r-tKzwrGZCi05Y6A4pRoibX8HDGTe2LYlOw8J_ecag-WkYy0_aicVNHZmFmf8Ah8eSpTNC9pGA/s1600/xmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8qeNRY_BOS29YTNnGHLQ9GZXT19b3wsP87I7SEiAjPTxgcUgukEpys4VDawT_r-tKzwrGZCi05Y6A4pRoibX8HDGTe2LYlOw8J_ecag-WkYy0_aicVNHZmFmf8Ah8eSpTNC9pGA/s400/xmas.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Elizabeth: Definitely fun idea to do Christmas in July. I still have so many pictures from Christmas that I could put into albums, so thanks for the challenge Fi! I kept it simple and used 5 papers, 5 metal (haven't used ribbon slides in years!!!), 5 stars and a few extra trees. 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We can't wait to see what you create!<br /><br /><br /><script src="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/autolink.php?owner=hmitm&postid=01Aug2011" type="text/javascript"></script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-19457677761503730542011-07-23T17:43:00.000-04:002011-07-23T17:43:35.517-04:00How Awesome Is Too Awesome? No. 175 - Tracee ProvisWe chose Tracee's layout for our HAITA Gallery for Challenge 175. We think Tracee's design is brilliant with the great big star as a backdrop to her photo. The topic of her layout was perfect for the challenge. The repetition of stars, the pennants beneath the title, the use of labels scattered about but not <em>looking</em> scattered<em>, </em>the terrific use of color all make for a truly fantastic layout and worthy of our How Awesome Is Too Awesome Gallery!<br />
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Debbi Tehranihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05220937886932534260noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-50231182996718932622011-07-12T20:21:00.006-04:002011-07-12T20:26:30.265-04:00How Awesome Is Too Awesome? No. 174 - Amy CIt's always so hard to choose a winner for the challenge! All of the submissions were wonderful, but we chose Amy C's adorable page. We loved her overall design, the darling photos, and the "sunny" feel of her page that was perfect for the Sunny Flowers challenge.<br />
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Happy 4<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">th</span> of July! Debbi here with this week's challenge.<br />
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First, I'd like to introduce our guest designer for this month, Belinda Achatz.<br />
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Here's a bit about Belinda, in her own words:<br />
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'Hello everyone - I absolutely love challenges that use up my stash & I am honored to be a guest designer at HMITM for July! My name is Belinda (aka busybel around the forums) and I am married & have 3 children – 7,6 & 10 months. I live in Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. I have been scrapbooking since 2006 & have an eclectic style - influenced by new product, photos, time available, the story I want to tell. I enjoy scrapping all sizes of layouts. I love distressing things, inking, paint, collage chipboard,& have a new-found love of Tim Holtz techniques/products, a long-time love of vintage, having something 'real' to say rather than just 'sentiment' and mixing new (products) with old. I also love art journalling, mixed media, ATC's and card-making.<br />
I currently design for: Scrapmatts: an Australian chipboard manufacturer, Paper Inklings, an Australian paper/chipboard/rubon wholesaler and Mystical Scrapbooks, an Australian online store.'<br />
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You can see more of Belinda's work on her blog: <a href="http://www.blaacraft.blogspot.com/">Blaacraft</a><br />
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<strong><span style="color: blue;">Here in the U.S.A., we're celebrating our Independence Day. In honor of that, I'd like you to use</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: red;"><strong>** elements that include STARS (embellishments, patterned paper, etc.) and STRIPES (ribbon, patterned paper, etc.)</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><strong>** a flag or banner accent</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><strong>** and to play off the date we're celebrating, July 4, 1776, use:</strong></span><br />
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<li><strong><span style="color: red;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">7 - brads</span></strong></span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="color: red;">4 - four-word title</span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="color: blue;">1 - photo</span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="color: red;">7 - labels</span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="color: blue;">7 - seven-sentence <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">journaling</span></span></strong></li>
<li><strong><span style="color: red;">6 - patterned papers</span></strong></li>
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Note: Your page can be of any topic or theme--it doesn't have to be about 4th of July. Have fun! Now for insiration from the team and guest designer...<br />
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<strong>Guest designer Belinda Achatz</strong>: Living in Australia we do not celebrate Independence Day - but I focused my layout on my eldest daughter overcoming her challenges & being a star and the layout came together easily. I incorporated the challenge criteria as follows: "You Are My Star"<br />
I covered chipboard stars in glittery patterned paper, and added strips of striped patterned paper at the bottom - a mix of Crate Paper, We R Memory Keepers, Scenic Route. My banner accent was hand stamped in a rainbow palette of distress inks using a great stamp I found in my stash (I can't remember where it came from:( ) - but it was a ticket/journalling tag with a star flourish - I have used it whole in black as part of my title. I cut triangles from it for the banner. The brads include glittery ones as part of the banner, and a cluster of Crate Paper ones near the journalling.<br />
I clustered a mix of 6 red-based labels mounted on a black chalkboard label from Pink Paislee to make a whole journal block. upon which I told my story in 7 sentences.. My patterned papers are as described above plus rainbows to back the title (from Sassafrass). Additional elements included the black glitter chipboard alphas from Pink Paislee - plus some of the swirly brackets from the same pack, and some black pearls.<br />
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<a href="http://www.debbitscraps.blogspot.com/"><strong>Debbi Tehrani</strong></a>: I had this cheesy picture of my husband from last year's Fourth of July celebration that I never scrapped, so I decided now was a good time to scrap it. I used a lot of old papers on this page--I'm talking really old--combined with some newer stuff. I brushed the starry patterned paper with gesso to lighten it up because I was using a <a href="http://colorcombosgalore.ning.com/">Color Combos Galore</a> palette to make my page. My brads and labels are scattered about my page. I almost forgot to use a 4-word title, until I double checked the list, but fortunately I was able to think of one. And yes, I realize I don't have complete sentences, but I do have 7 sentence fragments!<br />
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<strong>Janet M-</strong> I'm coming in with two layouts this challenge because I couldn't decide which one to post after I got them done. Loved using all the patriotic elements in this and boy did I get into my stash for some of these items.<br />
The first one is with my grandson Jonathon, somehow I forgot to do my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">journaling</span> in these but I got all my other <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">elements</span> in.<br />
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We always have the 4<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">th</span> of July picnic at our house and these are some pictures from a couple of years ago,Have fun with the challenge! Can't wait to see what you create!</div>
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<strong>Anna-Karin</strong>: Fabulous idea for a challenge Debbi! I stamped the background with stars, used a star patterned paper and a striped paper. The 6 patterned papers were arranged in a stripe fashion. The 7 labels are stamped (six for the journaling and one date label) and I used the brads to make a circle around the number 8 (for 8 months). For the flag, I used a quote sticker. The title translates ‘Up and (almost) away’, and the layout is about Anton’s efforts to learn how to crawl. The photo was taken the day before he managed to get the coordination right and off he went (to never ever sit stilll again). Thanks for this great challenge!!<br />
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<strong>Debbie F</strong>: Great challenge, Debbi! I decided to scrap this picture from our vacation this week. I always ask the kids to make a silly face when I'm trying to get them cooperate for a posed picture. This one cracked me up! I used Echo Park's Summer Days papers and embellishments. I decided to meet the six patterned paper requirement by making another banner. I continued the banner theme with twine and Jillibean journal sprouts. The labels challenged me, but I think I met it between the Jillibean stickers and sprouts. My journaling has seven fragments, if you include the title, and my stars are part of the sticker banner.<br />
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</script>Debbi Tehranihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05220937886932534260noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-31788785641832461812011-06-27T05:57:00.002-04:002011-06-27T06:02:38.455-04:00How awesome winner #173 - this is adorable.Our chosen winner for challenge #173 Going around in circles is Tracee with this cute and fresh looking layout, I really like the colors in this and the little details in each of the circles. Her 6 butterflies add a perfect touch to the layout. Great job on this Tracee. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioxF-YEu0ayNEkq6VcPfdycssCcd_6YDukjunQOHXWxInvVM5UXGIV71S8_ymkr095_Fc6mdH2armfntUUaSGqsrXMZMVRAPvkACGTigWYbGyaRipwUscKgagil0ZlUMVx-t0r/s1600/who+Us.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 318px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622836786209285218" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioxF-YEu0ayNEkq6VcPfdycssCcd_6YDukjunQOHXWxInvVM5UXGIV71S8_ymkr095_Fc6mdH2armfntUUaSGqsrXMZMVRAPvkACGTigWYbGyaRipwUscKgagil0ZlUMVx-t0r/s320/who+Us.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-2922531134622699492011-06-20T06:06:00.005-04:002011-06-21T02:28:09.070-04:00Challenge #174 - Sunny Flowers (June 20 - July 3)Happy Summer!!<br /><br />Midsummer is celebrated in a traditional way in Sweden in June, and includes dancing around a maypole and eating traditional food, and always strawberries. A lot of people wear flower wreaths/crowns on their heads. There is also a myth that if young people pick 7 different kinds of wildflowers, jump over 7 fences, and place the flowers under their pillow on this night, they will dream of the man/woman they will marry. This year Midsummer’s Eve falls on Friday 24 June.<br /><br />My challenge is to do a layout:<br /><br />- Using mainly light colours, and it must include at least a bit of yellow (for the summer solstice)<br />- 1 circle (for the sun)<br />- 7 different types of flowers (if you want to, try making one or more handmade flowers)<br />- 7 rub-ons or stamped images<br />- 24 other items<br /><br /><br /><strong>Anna-Karin</strong>: I made a difficult challenge for myself! I wanted to include a bit too many things on this layout: an enlarged photo, a woven piece of fabric depicting a Midsummer celebration, a rather big stamp and then of course the flowers. I struggled a bit to pull it all together. The seven flowers are all different: cut from paper, die cut daisy, layers of watercoloured canvas, die cut from patterned papers, made of twisted and inked sticky-backed canvas, stamped, embossed and coloured vellum, die cut and embossed Core’dinations cardstock. The stamps are: music, script, strawberry, silhouette children, date, month, and a flower stamp. The photo is from a midsummer celebration when we were children. Journaling is behind the layout.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU1hX_P2MBrOTPJgjnvXroQR0pw8w5Tb6YzbvSJFlHV_xUpLPL6iKUXH-RZpljdlqlCsKpLwkhykLhNxWwiEx1ET1lmK4PWSNvrtTnscAyufG7RbLodTSgtDxWaR6TfKyc2O9e/s1600/HMITM+%2523174+Anna-Karin.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 399px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620284412300876690" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU1hX_P2MBrOTPJgjnvXroQR0pw8w5Tb6YzbvSJFlHV_xUpLPL6iKUXH-RZpljdlqlCsKpLwkhykLhNxWwiEx1ET1lmK4PWSNvrtTnscAyufG7RbLodTSgtDxWaR6TfKyc2O9e/s400/HMITM+%2523174+Anna-Karin.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><strong>Janet M</strong> - I just loved this challenge , anytime I can pull out a picture of my granddaughter and get it scrapped it good. The yellow, the sun and all the fun embellishments were just the right mixture for this picture from 10 years ago of Cynthia. Bumblee bees, heart, flowers , bling and everything worked perfect for me in capturing the sunny mood of her.<br /><br /></div><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 243px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620062822743587106" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq3D7kmYT9BmM9pVFNtQtdO_WJ8rYjuupBMMlgkVYILbtQK6NmJVTytIfXhxvic8z9aH-YpyLXdbuzLswQ_cT7AknS0vH7pNZNntzp4Mchyphenhyphengyozd7HVzs34G5AayHBweCUbw6P/s320/IMG_0366-1.JPG" /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.debbitscraps.blogspot.com/">Debbi T</a>: This was the perfect challenge to get me to scrap this Easter photo of my nephews that I've had sitting on my desk forever. I was happy for the rub-on part of the challenge because I always forget to use them. It was tricky getting 7 on my page, but I snuck them in here and there. Thanks for the fun challenge, Anna-Karin!<br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both" class="separator"><a style="MARGIN-LEFT: 1em; MARGIN-RIGHT: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3fTn7xWaRFK-zJggJ8Dq5PNTwztsSRw3fDC2FRC_4Hw8TvfTwxYIB-WK7c89e7Rb6xiXHCda2bLhUDGTlR76m_9emOK8OQGm8Ulmojwel5ZxWQNXGvrxRxxd_c8-Z2rN6CjpomA/s1600/funny-bunnies.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3fTn7xWaRFK-zJggJ8Dq5PNTwztsSRw3fDC2FRC_4Hw8TvfTwxYIB-WK7c89e7Rb6xiXHCda2bLhUDGTlR76m_9emOK8OQGm8Ulmojwel5ZxWQNXGvrxRxxd_c8-Z2rN6CjpomA/s400/funny-bunnies.jpg" width="397" height="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /><strong>Elizabeth</strong>: Fun challenge this week. I used a bunch of different flowers, in the patterned paper, lace cardstock, Prima flowers and some sticker flowers. I used lots of little butterfly rubons and plenty of sparkle. The pictures scanned a little yellowish, but i guess that matches part of the challenge too :P</p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXhCBW_N7tVfog-ZLAy3fcnEgbmjEMImrr2B8noHkzGrqo8dZGLsoDWqZZyZN7FV3klXVu7KmASCZIwBjHz_S9896ratguoD7FWcgA-coSHG4bi2GRCV_FzsZDzBLYj65TLIrS/s1600/10+today.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 244px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620129844423076082" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXhCBW_N7tVfog-ZLAy3fcnEgbmjEMImrr2B8noHkzGrqo8dZGLsoDWqZZyZN7FV3klXVu7KmASCZIwBjHz_S9896ratguoD7FWcgA-coSHG4bi2GRCV_FzsZDzBLYj65TLIrS/s320/10+today.jpg" /></a><br /><p></p><br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Fi -</span> Loved the Challenge this week, its great how these challenges push you that little further, either by using products you haven't used or to reach in and use that stash that has just been sitting there. If you would like to read more about my page I would love you to pop on over to my blog. Can't wait to see what everyone does.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifY3ez6N4jQrNxHgnLXzX31bVEJWgZ7pF-fNS1JDVMn21VQFZ4QxqvrHQmMpkXIbUFqKjKNIE5tNZdJnZ559eeX07LRZDy0xtY4dwKXcI_vJ58cwnZ4ljZgztfLhDnnmiDuOPz/s1600/Our+K9+Princess.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 318px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifY3ez6N4jQrNxHgnLXzX31bVEJWgZ7pF-fNS1JDVMn21VQFZ4QxqvrHQmMpkXIbUFqKjKNIE5tNZdJnZ559eeX07LRZDy0xtY4dwKXcI_vJ58cwnZ4ljZgztfLhDnnmiDuOPz/s320/Our+K9+Princess.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620555813513253922" /></a><br /><br />To play, and have a shot at being chosen for our How Awesome Is Too Awesome Hall of Fame and creating as a HMITM Guest Designer, just share your layout through Mr. Linky below! Have fun! We can't wait to see what you create!<br /><br /><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.blenza.com/linkies/autolink.php?owner=hmitm&postid=20June2011"></script><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>Anna-Karinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09321879514804583492noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38623263.post-59553886352430843162011-06-19T17:11:00.003-04:002011-06-19T17:16:48.480-04:00#172 The Inner Geek WinnerWe had such a fun group of layouts to choose from on this challenge it was hard to pick one. I loved all the different "Geek" confessions from everyone . This was a fun challenge.<br /><br />The winner of this post is : Susan Stringfellow<br />Her fun layout is titled Sweeter on the Inside. It gives us a little bit of fun things to know about her.<br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 319px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620042262204205026" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI1zR-__J4f6rIc_EkTmShIbUQKJKIBHlfr4-L8KINS4EN_61RLB6ykqBvhUBjGpehyn_XjsQvD1wrb7337auOFMemWMkJRGi0TwPTV4jJIKDjNR8iqAThBkQV5C9QsQvv_1Y5/s320/Sweeter-on-the-inside.jpg" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3