One of my favorite events from 2011 had to be “Star Wars Night” at the Atlanta Braves game. I love Star Wars and baseball so this was crazy-fun for me! Before the game, all of my favorite characters were out on the Fan Plaza so I had to get my picture with all of them. (Oh yeah, and this layout also shows the reminders of my knee surgery… I was still on crutches!)

For this challenge, I used 2 of the challenge criteria. I included more than 2 photos and I used blue and silver glimmer spray on the chipboard gear.

Materials used:

Paper/cardstock — WorldWin, Creative Imaginations

Embellishments — “Star Wars” dimensional sticker by Creative Imaginations, chipboard gear by Basically Bare, rhinestone stars by The Paper Studio, Dymo lettering

Ink — Technique Tuesday, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in “Sea Glass” and “Pearl”

Welcome back, everyone!  Hope the new year has started off well for you all.  I’m so happy to be back at the challenges, and I hope you are, too!

When I look back at 2011, one thing stood out as a favorite – our trip to NYC to see a concert and put faces to screen names of people I’d been speaking to for a year and was excited to finally meet.  The concert was excellent, the company was fantastic, and the UK peeps brought me Jammy Dodgers.  What more could a girl ask for? 

To meet the challenge criteria I glimmer misted the whole background page.

The flower is my hand-made embellishment.

I also used multiple photos.  That’s all three criteria met!

I also included a nifty little calendar printable from this blog.

I  hope you all join in on the challenges!  Don’t forget to add your project to our facebook page!

x Beth

Materials

Paper:
7 Gypsies, Tim Holtz (Crowded Attic), My Mind’s Eye (Lost and Found)

Inks/Mediums:
Ranger Archival Ink (Jet Black), Ranger Distress Ink (Black Soot), Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Moonlight, Atlantic)

Stamps:
Inkadinkado (Vintage Phonograph), Stampendous (Music Score)

Miscellaneous embellishments:
Handmade flower, Calendar printable, Schedule page from a Gauche Alchemy kit

My favorite memories of Halloween are of all of the fun things that I used to do in Girl Scouts. I was a Girl Scout for many years and every year our troop leaders planned fun things for us to do. We did cool crafts, like making jack o’ lanterns (that’s me with the braids, sticking out my tongue while I cut out my pumpkin!) and decorating Halloween cupcakes, and we had parties where everyone (even the adults — like my mom here in the witch’s costume) dressed up! While I liked trick-or-treating and getting candy, those things paled in comparison to the fun times with the Scouts!

For this layout, I used 2 challenge items:

- I included 3 different versions of a ghost.

- I double matted a photo.

Materials used:

Paper/cardstock — Bazzill, Reminisce, Imaginisce, Sassafras, Foo-fa-La

Embellishments — My Little Shoebox and Making Memories letter stickers, Mrs. Grossman’s ghost stickers, Little Yellow Bicycle ghost die cut

Ink — ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink in “Charcoal”

This challenge was about a favorite Halloween memory.  I always enjoy watching the munchkins on Halloween and seeing how much fun they have.  From getting all dressed up in costume, peeping around corners to make sure no one is going to jump out at them, trick-or-treating, and then gorging on candy afterwards.

This layout has my oldest niece as she was just finishing her makeup.  The picture was a bit blurry, but oddly enough, the blur really fits with the Halloween theme.

On a side note, I found a really fun way to distress this layout: bleach!  Who would have thought.  I just took a paint brush, dipped it into the bleach, and then splattered the bleach onto the layout.  Then I took my heat gun and ran it over the spots of bleach to speed up the bleaching process.  A very simple technique that adds a lot of visual interest to a layout.

I used two of the criteria items for this challenge: include at least three different versions of a Halloween theme (three headstones) and include glitter (each of the headstones is covered with black Stickles).

Cardstock: Bazzill

Embellishments:  The Paper Studio: chipboard letters

Inks: Ranger: Distress Ink in Black Soot and Alcohol Ink in Terra Cotta

Die Cutting Tool: Provo Craft: Cuttlebug and die

Other: The Crafter’s Workshop: stencil; ribbon

Just one week till Halloween!  And it’s my 2nd wedding anniversary!  Loads to be excited about today

One of my favorite bits of the Halloween season is the Halloween Party at Disney World.  The “Boo To You” parade during the party is started off by the Headless Horseman riding along the parade route.  Even though we usually go in September, as soon as we see him go flying past, it is officially Halloween time.

To meet the challenge criteria, I used a big picture (5×7), double-matted the picture, and used at least three of the same Halloween “icon.” My icon is a spider.  They’re printed on the background paper, they’re on the purple paper from which I made the accordion-folded scallops, they’re on the orange border along the bottom of the picture and journalling, and there’s one on the journalling card.

I hope you all enjoy Halloween week!  Watch lots of spooky movies and make a layout to show us your favorite Halloween tradition or memory!

Thanks for looking!

Materials

Papers:
DCWV Midnight Spell
Recollections Ravenhead Manor
Martha Stewart (Unknown collection)

Inks/Mediums:
Ranger Distress Ink (Black Soot)

Other Embellishments:
Recollections Border Stickers

I work overnight, so I could not live without my 5-hour Energy drinks.  Well, I could probably live without them, but I wouldn’t be able to stay employed without them.

For this challenge I used a small picture, I used glimmer mist on the paper flowers, used only paper embellishments, and I journaled around the edges of the page.

Thanks for looking!  So, show us what you can’t live without!

Materials:

Basically Bare Bare Basics Heart

Papers:

DCWV Tattered Time

7 Gypsies (unknown collection)

Inks/Mediums

Tsukineko Shimmer Spritz (frost)

Ranger Distress Ink (Vintage Photo)

Diecutting Items

Tim Holtz Paper Rosette Die

Cuttlebug