Spring Summer Challenge

I guess everyone is busy--No one tried my challenge. I will try somehting else later. Maybe at the end of the week I will do a blog candy.

So over at Paper Craft Planet I am doing a Challenge- What makes you think of Spring/Summer. You choose at least 3 items from the list and then create something with the items from the list. The winner will be randomly selected on Monday June 1st. Anyone is welcome to particpate.

The challenge is to use those products to create a work of art. It could be a card, scrapbook page, mini album, 3-D project, anything goes. There will be a random drawing to determine the winner and then they will get a goody of some sort. Hope you play.

Freebies for this challenge are

White Cardstock, Black ink or Black pen, One extra color choice, stamp set.

The random drawing will be on Monday June 1st to determine the winner of the goodies. Good luck Please leave a link in the comments to your entry.

Below is the completed list.

My Recipe for Spring / Summer

Flowers of course paper flowers

Dogwoods- hemp

Tulips-paper piercing

Daffodils- markers

Redbuds-eyelets

leaves budding out- paper folding

rain showers-licquid glass

umbrella- oval matt

wind-glitter

Sun-round or scalloped matt

Storms-chalks

Color-choice of color

outdoors-dry embossing

Fresh Start-Bling

shorts-stitching

the dreaded swimsuit season- watecolor or regular color pencils

mowing-stickers

Spring Break- Heat Embossing

School is Out-Ribbon

Spring Cleaning-Multi-layered journallin

Gardening-Pattern paper

weeds-pop-dotted image

fertilizer-chipboard

painting-paint

pool-licquid glass

swimming-watercolor or colored pencils

New-Bling

Weddings-Bling or pearls

BBQ- Food item ( could be stamp, sticker, photo.etc)

Deck and Patio- Rectangle Matt

So for my choice I decided to go with Gardening, Mowing, Spring Cleaning, School is Out, Color, and Fertilizer. Below is the scrapbook layout I made and detail photos of the journal box.

Alexis loves Hannah Montanna and she got lots of presents for her birthday.

On the right side middle is my journal box closed. I had lots of pictures and wanted to try and keep it to a 2 page spread.

Here is a close up fo the journal box closed

This is the first flap

Here the flap is completely open. The hardest part was getting the measurements right so it would open and close easily.

Can't waite to see what you create.

Always find your happy place

Roxie

CPS Sketch 116 /Be Yourself May SOTM

Saw this sketch on CPS this week and thought it would work great with Close To My Heart's Stamp of the Month: Be Yourself. This is a cute stamp that reminds me of Girl Power.

The girl is stamped twice. Once in black and then I stamped the image again in Ocean and cut the dress out and glued it down. I used licquid glass on the boots to make them shiney, but it doesn't show up well on the picture.

Paper is X7099B Whoops A Daisy

Stamps are: D1349 Be Yourself( only available this month)

C1364 TLC

Ribbon is Z1122 HollyHock Ribbon Rounds Collection.

This card is cool because it can be used to send out a business card or a gift card.

Recipe: Cardstock cut 5 1/2 by 11

Scored at 4 1/4, 5 1/2, and 6 3/4

Fold so that it looks like the picture above. Fold and then punch the slot. I used a SU punch Paper shaper to cut the slot. I overlapped the punch to make it the correct size. Then I used Red Line Tape to close it off. You can see the tape on the picture above. Below you will see the inside of the card after it has been put together with my business card in it.

Thanks for looking.

Always find your Happy Place

Roxie