DVCB Challenge #17: Monochrome

Good morning! I hope everyone enjoyed some crafty time yesterday for World Card Making Day! Stay tuned for a huge post full of cards I entered over at Pink Paislee's forum for their contest. I made a total of 6! Crazy!

It's time for another Dream Valley Challenge, and this time we want to see your monochrome projects. Card, layout, altered item, whatever...it's all good as long as it's monochromatic.

Play along for your chance to win a GC to One Stop Card Crafts!

I chose to go with a brown palette for my card, and pulled out one of the new Crafter's Companion Popcorn the Bear stamps. He wanted to be plain as I wanted to keep with the brown color scheme, and I thought these papers were perfect. The card base is GCD and the paper matting the image is My Mind's Eye. A bit of Bo Bunny Double Dot ribbon was the perfect touch, as was raising them up off of the base with some foam squares :)

That little tab sticker at the top of the image is from Fancy Pants Off to School collection.
Isn't Popcorn just the cutest little guy? :)

There you have it, head over to the DVCB to enter your creation! Can't wait to see what you all create :)

CCCB Oct Challenge: Celebrate Friendship

Good evening (actually night...it's late....) I am happy to bring you the next challenge over at the Crafter's Companion Challenge Blog. This month, we are celebrating friendship. Show us a card for a friend that uses a Crafter's Companion stamp for a chance to win an awesome prize (to be revealed soon, we like to keep you guessing :) )

I got to work to make this beauty, featuring one of the brand new S.W.A.L.K. stamp sets, Best Pals. Isn't it adorable?

See those awesome Black Soot Distress Stickles? Love it! Raised up the sentiment and love the dimension!
Of course, if I make the sentiment dimensional, I have to do the same with the image :)

There you have it! Off to bed for me....did you all get to enjoy World Card Making Day? I made a bunch of stuff, so I'm exhausted from expending all of that creative energy! Enter up a card for your chance to win our big *mystery prize*, you have until the end of the month :)

Don't forget about our giant S.W.A.L.K. giveaway...check the details *here*. Have a great night!

XOXO Challenge Time!

Ok, enough procrastination. Time to post! (I really need to get a little better with this auto-post thing.)

It's the big day over at True XOXO Girls, and I'll tell you, I had a lot of fun creating this month's layout. The challenge: Instagram or Hipstamatic inspiration. I don't have a smartphone and my iPod is a teeny weenie little Nano, so I don't have either of these popular photo apps but I do enjoy seeing what others are doing with them. After pouring over all of the online Hipstamatic images (I kind of went this route as more of my friends use this app, and I love all of the different lenses and filters) it hit me...I am sitting on hundreds of old school sepia toned photos dating as far back as the late 1800's!! Since a lot of the images taken using the app appear faded and aged, these pics were perfect. I came across this pic of my great grandmother sitting on her lawn, and fell in love. It's crazy to see this woman who I knew when she was in her 80's until she passed at almost 102 as a young woman. What was her life like then? Who was she posing for? My great grandfather? What did she imagine her future would be like when this photo was taken? I'll never know. Isn't this why we all scrapbook? I know I would love for my kids to see little stories of my life and what it was like and share it with their kids and so on and so forth...because we're all curious about our family history.

I cut up an Earth Love Cosmo Cricket die cut scalloped circle paper and affixed it to the background (more Earth Love) paper...and then proceeded to mist the hell out of it with a bottle of Shimmerz in Treasured Hymn.

The photo was jealous and wanted to be lifted off the page too, so more foam squares were in order. Add on some Pink Paislee Bayberry Cottage pleated ribbon and a cute little Earth Love chipboard piece (which reads "Helen Mills, year unknown" in white gel pen.) Hard to see, but underneath all of that is yellow glitter adhesive lace from We R Memory Keepers. Love it, but need to get better about using it...it was kind of a pain! A jute bow completes it.
Earth Love chippie letters :) Check out that mist...so shimmery in person!
Jillibean canvas flowers covered in mist (they look awesome in person, just couldn't capture this awesomeness on camera!), jute flourishes, a fussy cut cameo, and a random tag sticker from my stash.
In the center of these flowers are some random brads contained in the kit I got some of the elements you see here from We Scrap on Etsy :)
There you have it! Head over and see what the rest of the DT did for this challenge (and the amazingness of each entry will make your jaw drop) and enter your own Instagram/Hipstamatic inspired layout for a chance to become our GDT for next month. Hang out with the Lipstick Chicks on Facebook all month (we are a pretty awesome group, I'll admit!) It's pretty fun :)

AND....*blog hop alert*...be ready for the True XOXO blog hop coming on October!!

Hope you have a great weekend...off to do some crafty things for World Cardmaking Day :)

xoxo