Sunday, November 15, 2009

Blog Hop Day 3

Final day of the Blog Hop!! You have until Monday Nov 16th at midnight to get your projects posted at Scrapdango though. We have a wonderful new Design Team at Scrapdango, and we want to help you get to know them and to get some great challenges along the way and have a chance to win a wonderful prize of one of Scrapdango's awesome kits.

Now how this is going to work is that you need to follow the order of the blogs of each DT member given below. At each blog you will find one part of a recipe that you will need to use on a project. There will actually be 3 progressive recipe challenges. On Friday, we will be doing a DANGOS card recipe challenge, Saturday will feature a layout recipe challenge with our DT member's favorite items, and Sunday will feature an altered item recipe challenge. You will need to visit each of the DT blogs all 3 days to get the new list of items for the recipe for that day.

So for today, we have an Altered project. Each DT member has picked one item or color, and you will need to include all 6 of those items on your project (there can be additional items as well). You need to visit each DT member's blog to find out what those items are. Once you have completed the challenge, you can provide a link to your project by posting a comment here and/or posting it in the Scrapdango forum .

The Altered ITEM
When trying to decide what item to Alter I was looking for some of my flowers which I had recently moved when reorganizing my space. Well after spending at least 10 minutes going crazy because I could not remember where they were I decided what my altered project would be, a container to hold my flowers!

So for the Altered item I chose the color Blue. Here is my Before pic of my altered project. I started with an empty cotton candy container.


My original idea was to cover the whole thing with pattern paper, well with the slight cone shape and it was more than 12" around my plan QUICKLY changed. So I painted the plastic with a dark dark brown paint and then added the cardstock and pattern paper on top of the paint. That worked sooooooo much easier. Then I embellished the paper with a title and extras, I also added ribbon along the edge to give the lid a decorative finish. I then traced the lid onto the pattern paper, cut it, distressed it and attached it to the lid. Now I won't be able to lose my flowers again. I had to take several pics to see everything.








For each of the 3 challenges that you complete this weekend, you will earn 1 draw toward the prize of a Scrapdango kit. You can also earn extra draws by doing the following:

1. Posting comments on all 6 DT blogs.
2. Inviting a friend that actively participates in the hop (they should leave a comment saying who invited them)
3. Posting on the Scrapdango forum something you learned about each DT member from their blog."



Scrapdango Blog
Heather
Lynn
Nikki
Carly
Lisa - You are Here
Kerryn <<<-------------You Go Here Next

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Blog Hop Day 2

Day 2 of the Blog Hop!! It's time for the Scrapdango Progressive Blog Hop to begin. We have a wonderful new Design Team at Scrapdango, and we want to help you get to know them and to get some great challenges along the way and have a chance to win a wonderful prize of one of Scrapdango's awesome kits.

Now how this is going to work is that you need to follow the order of the blogs of each DT member given below. At each blog you will find one part of a recipe that you will need to use on a project. There will actually be 3 progressive recipe challenges. On Friday, we will be doing a DANGOS card recipe challenge, Saturday will feature a layout recipe challenge with our DT member's favorite items, and Sunday will feature an altered item recipe challenge. You will need to visit each of the DT blogs all 3 days to get the new list of items for the recipe for that day.

So for today, we have a layout recipe challenge. Each DT member has picked one of their favorite items, and you will need to include all 6 of those items on your layout (there can be additional items as well). You need to visit each DT member's blog to find out what those items are. Once you have completed the challenge, you can provide a link to your project by posting a comment here and/or posting it in the Scrapdango forum . Then come back tomorrow and visit all the blogs to get the recipe items for the next project.

So for the layout challenge I chose shaped paper. I love all the fun shapes that they have now, whether it be scallops, artisan, circle w/scallops, brackets, even the KI Memories Lace Paper etc.

Here is my inspiration layout.


Here is a closeup of the pleated ribbon.




For each of the 3 challenges that you complete this weekend, you will earn 1 draw toward the prize of a Scrapdango kit. You can also earn extra draws by doing the following:

1. Posting comments on all 6 DT blogs.
2. Inviting a friend that actively participates in the hop (they should leave a comment saying who invited them)
3. Posting on the Scrapdango forum something you learned about each DT member from their blog."



Scrapdango Blog
Heather
Lynn
Nikki
Carly
Lisa - You are Here
Kerryn <<<-------------You Go Here Next

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Scrapdango Progressive Blog Hop

So let's get this party started. It's time for the Scrapdango Progressive Blog Hop to begin. We have a wonderful new Design Team at Scrapdango, and we want to help you get to know them and to get some great challenges along the way and have a chance to win a wonderful prize of one of Scrapdango's awesome kits.

Now how this is going to work is that you need to follow the order of the blogs of each DT member given below. At each blog you will find one part of a recipe that you will need to use on a project. There will actually be 3 progressive recipe challenges. On Friday, we will be doing a DANGOS card recipe challenge, Saturday will feature a layout recipe challenge with our DT member's favorite items, and Sunday will feature an altered item recipe challenge. You will need to visit each of the DT blogs all 3 days to get the new list of items for the recipe for that day.

So for today, we have the DANGOS card recipe challenge. Each DT member has posted one item that starts with the letters in DANGOS, and you will need to include all 6 of those items on your card (there can be additional items as well). You need to visit each DT member's blog to find out what those items are. Once you have completed the challenge, you can provide a link to your project by posting a comment here and/or posting it in the Scrapdango forum . Then come back tomorrow and visit all the blogs to get the recipe items that must be included on a layout.

So for the card challenge my letter was O - so your card must include the
color Orange.
Here is my inspiration card. My image is a little hard to read but it says
Thankful 4 You!!



For each of the 3 challenges that you complete this weekend, you will earn 1 draw toward the prize of a Scrapdango kit. You can also earn extra draws by doing the following:

1. Posting comments on all 6 DT blogs.
2. Inviting a friend that actively participates in the hop (they should leave a comment saying who invited them)
3. Posting on the Scrapdango forum something you learned about each DT member from their blog."



Scrapdango Blog
Heather
Lynn
Nikki
Carly
Lisa - You are Here
Kerryn <<<-------------You Go Here Next

Oct sketch and GDT projects and DT TOOT!!!!!!

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile, oops!!!! Well I have so much to share now.


I made the Scrapdango DT!!! WOOHOO I'm so excited!!! I can't believe I almost missed it too because I kept putting off actually sending in my application and almost missed the deadline. I'm so happy that I actually sent it in!!! Come on over to Scrapdango and come play with us.

The Oct sketch over at My sketch World I just love how my layout turned out. It took me awhile to find something that worked but when I found the lace cardstock I knew that was the winner.


GDT at Scrapdango
I also got to be the GDT over at Scrapdango in Oct. I got to play with this fantastic BO Bunny Flutter Butter papers. I had soooooo much fun playing with this kit!!! I don't think I have ever cute up so much paper into circles and fussy cutting. I completed 3 LOs and 3 cards and I still want to play with it (and I have plenty of papers left to complete some more).

Here is my 2pager!! Bubble Makers


Mom Agrees
I had gotten this photo blown up because I loved how you could still read DS shirt.


Cute Little Ducky


Now for the cards
Time for fall card


Tree Card Scarlett from My Sketch World posted a tutorial about making this tree and it worked perfectly with these fun papers.


Hi Card This was based on one of Lucy's Oct card Sketches!!