super challenge sunday!

Hi all! I am really extremely excited to get to share 2 LO's with you this evening. Both of them I am submitting for challenges and since I'm still kinda new to this stuff I hope I win! I just want to get my name out there and get some more followers on my blog!


Challenge #1: Fabulous Friday Challenge, Recipe Challenge
So here it goes, the first LO I did a while back, but it fit perfectly with the 'recipe challenge' over at Frosted Designs These were the rules for the recipe challenge!  A recipe challenge simply means that we give you a list of things and you need to include them in your card, layout or project! Here are the items we are challenging you to use....

I highlighted the ones I used:

1. The color yellow
2. Ribbon or lace
3. Chipboard
4. Flowers
5. Misting or inks
6. Buttons
7. Stickers
8. Rub ons
YOU NEED TO USE 4 ITEMS FROM THE LIST!  

Here is what I came up with: The title is 'Whoo Whoo Whoo's Cute?' They are pictures of my step mom, step bro, niece and nephew from Thanksgiving 2010. All I had to do to this layout was finish some journaling on it and add some more stickles for sparkle! I really like the colors I used and I also really like the colored staples I used on the ends of the ribbon. Also, OWLS are like my FAVORITE thing for fall so there are lots of those. Some of them are stickers that I put on paper and used pop dots on, and the one at the bottom is a recollections embellishment i think. Also the pics in this were taken from some ones I stole from facebook, so the coloring is kinda different in the pics too. 

 Here is a close up of one of the little Owls. LOVE him and his cute tree :)

 And another Owl peeking out from behind his tree that I put some bling on. 

 This is the owl embellishment sticker I added to a handmade journaling block.

And another shot of the whole LO...so you can see the cute title that I did in mostly stickles, with a few fall leaf rub ons in the middles of the O's. So I will be submitting this tonite , and I hope I win, because I am pretty sure it's a FABULOUS prize...something tells me it might be the October Layout kit from Artful Delight I've been drooling over, but that may be the other challenge...

so many over there getting confused! 

Challenge #2 : Sketch Along Tuesdays Challenge,Sketch #25 

Here is the Sketch, by the fabulous Ms.Debbie Burns, Monthly DT Guest for Frosted Designs

 This is what I came up with for this sketch, first I just want to say that I LOVE LOVE this picture of my little niece, Zoe Blythe, and it really inspired me tonite to use colors from the picture for part of the layout. This is her FIRST appearance on my blog! I just though the sketch was just so fabulous that I had to do something really girly to go along with it..which I don't always get to do since I don't have kids yet! LOL so here it is:

 Here is a close up of part of the title: I also stitched some fibers in and around the stitches that were printed on the patterned paper. Super super cute!!

 Close up of the flowers I used, Prima flowers, also a felt one with bling, and layered flower with a fabric button center from K&Company. The stems of the flowers are some fiber that I had in my stash in light green. Also I thought the pearls went really well with the theme of the layout, so I used light pink ones large and small to the flower center and the tag with her name on it. 

I am super happy with the way this LO turned out, considering it only took me about 1 hour or so to do it. I will be submitting this over at Frosted Designs tonight. I'm really excited because I plan to enter a few more things this week...and I feel like my creative juices are already flowing!!! I have my 'weekend' in my retail life Tues/Wed this week so expect some more lovely posts and pix :) Until next time my friends~VV

purple pumpkin crafts: my first design team application

Hi everyone! First I just want to think those of you who have already visited my blog! It feels pretty awesome to have already 30 or so viewers in just one day of being published! I hope to only grow from here and inspire you more and more each day! So thanks, again :)

Having some extra free time today, since my trip to Birmingham was cancelled, I spent a little bit of time earlier checking up on all my new favorite scrapping blogs. One of them, purplepumkincrafts.blogspot.com posted that they would be accepting applications for their new design team! So I figured why not? I have never been on a design team before but I figured I might as well go for it now! You were asked to include 3 of your best and favorite projects that include homemade embellishments. I haven't been able to order any of their cute buttons yet because every time I check it they have been sold out! But I think for my first application for something like this, I have some good stuff to pick from. I really wish I could have chosen 3 more projects! I have so many favorites! 

Anyway, I wanted to share with you guys the projects I picked so everyone can see some more of my work. At least until I finish my next project in a few days...so here they are take a look and tell me what you think!

until next time my wonderful crafty ladies....your gal-VV