More Praise for my 'Soulful Lady' layout...

I can't believe I won the drawing again over at Purple Pumpkin! So glad I entered their monthly sketch challenge at the last minute. I haven't played over there in a while and this will be the 3rd time I have won something! It's great to get free Purple Pumpkin goodies isn't it? Here's the complete post from their blog, check it out( the other layouts are stunning as well!)

Hello ladies!

Thank you ALL so much for playing along with us and inspire us with your beautiful work!!!

We had a lot of awesome entries!!!

So.......

The design team has voted and our winner is.......................

 10. Stephanie

We loved your take on the sketch, the scattered leaves and arrows!
So simple and beautiful!! Great work!!

Huge congrats! You have won $25 to spend in the Purple Pumpkin shop. 
Just place your order as normal and put "August Winner" in the comments. (The amount won't come off your order automatically, but just take the $25 off your total :)) 

Please send an email to "vartig12(at)yahoo.com" if you wish to be our guest designer for next month's sketch!!! In the subject line write "PP Sketch winner"! Thank you!!xx

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 14. Katie Holli

Now, our Random Winner is this gorgeous layout by Katie. Congrats!!! You have won $15 to spend in the Purple Pumpkin shop. Just place your order as normal and put "August Random Winner" in the comments. (The amount won't come off your order automatically, but just take the $15 off your total :))

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Featured layouts!!

And as always, we are featuring a few layouts that have caught our eye!!!!

 8. lydia

 19. ioanna 


 18. Christina Lampropoulou

Thanks again to everyone who entered the August Sketch Challenge. For more chances to win, make sure you enter the September challenge too!...and remember......may the best entry win!!!

Have a nice creative day!!xx

CSI Case File #85 + PP August Sketch Challenge

Hi lovelies! I am popping by today to show you a non-DT related layout that I finished last night. I have really been trying to get alot of creative things done so I was able to do 2 pages on 2 different nights, which isn't that bad considering I had a lot else to do. I cleaned the whole house back to front, and had a few errands to run. The only thing that's left for hubby to finish today is laundry (which is my least favorite house chore). I am hoping I can keep the creative juices following this weekend as I have all late work shifts so I can stay up later and sleep in later the next day. Then I have Monday/Tuesday off with hubby and we have a fun pizza pub/ bingo date planned for Monday night. I'm excited!! Ok, enough blabber, on with the pictures!

I used the color palette and inspiration from CSI Case File #85. For my evidence I used labels/tags/something clear/decorative buttons/string/frame and for Testimony I used journal on a tag/ handwrite a story.

I also used this month's sketch from Purple Pumpkin. I rotated the sketch and used twine and some buttons from PP.

Here is what I came up with: 

I apologize for the not so great photos. I took these this morning on our coffee table cause the light was pretty bright in there but they turned out kinda weird once I tried to edit them. Only light on half of the photo! So sorry about that!

 Here are some close ups of my clusters. 

 This one is my favorite!

I have to get going, back to work for a few days...I will be back later to add my supply list and stuff. Hope you enjoyed my share today! Have a good one! ~VV

Purple Pumpkin March Random Winner!!!

Hi all! I am stopping by for a quick post to announce that I won the random march giveaway over at the purple pumpkin blog! I was the very last entry and go figure my number got drawn! I can't wait to use my shop credit and pick out some fun new stuff to play with. if you have never ordered from them before or visited their blog, check them out! they make one of a kind embellishments and are very reasonably priced for the quality of stuff they have. check them out here at www.purplepumpkincrafts.blogspot.com

Here's the post from yesterday about the March winners YAY!!!

THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013

March challenge Winners!!!

Hello ladies!

Thank you so much for playing along with us and inspire us with your beautiful work!!!

The design team has voted and our winner is.......................

Kelly Kapetanou from Greece with this amazing boy page!!!

Congrats Kelly! You have won $25 to spend in the Purple Pumpkin shop. 
Just place your order as normal and put "MARCH Winner" in the comments. (The amount won't come off your order automatically, but just take the $25 off your total :)) 

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Now, the Random Winner for March was this beautiful layout by Katie Hollister. Congrats Katie! You have won $15 to spend in the Purple Pumpkin shop. Just place your order as normal and put "MARCH Random Winner" in the comments. (The amount won't come off your order automatically, but just take the $15 off your total :))

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Featured layouts!!

And as always, we are featuring a few layouts that have caught our eye!!!!

This colorful layout with the impressive background and these cute little bee buttons!!

Mazz

And that amazing and cute layout full of sweet butterflies!!!

Amanda

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Thanks again to everyone who entered the March Sketch Challenge. For more chances to win, make sure you enter the April Challenge too!

Have a nice creative day!!xx

FDFF 'Scallops' Challenge + Purple Pumpkin March Sketch

Good day everyone! I'm here today to share the project I created for the Fabulous Friday Challenge over at Frosted Designs! Our challenge this time was to create any layout, mini album or project using scallops!! I happen to LOVE scallops, I even have some scallop scissors and a scallop circle punch, so this was pretty easy for me! I have also used the March Sketch over at Purple Pumpkin for my layout. All you have to do to participate is link up your project at the FD blog no later than  April 12th and you'll be entered to win a fabulous prize from SpeigelMom's Scrap Shop on Etsy.

Here is a look at the great sketch I used from PP:

And here is what I came up with!!!

I started the base of my layout by layering some papers that I inked, distressed, spritzed and sprayed. I also had a few scallop circles that I knew I wanted to use so I placed those around my page until I was happy with the placement. Then I started adding my textural elements. There are lots of PP goodies and other stuff from my stash on this page!

 And a couple of close ups:

I thought I was just about done then I realized that I hadn't put anything in place of the 'banner' at the bottom of the page on the sketch, so I used a scallop banner mini stamp from Studio G and made a inky banner across the bottom of the page.

 This one is my fav!!! Maybe my new cover photo on facebook... LOL

 I also thought that one of my PP buttons, the hot pink spotty dotty one was a little too 'clean and bright' for this grungy-girly layout. So I decided to mess it up with 2 colors of stickles and a bit of black ink, then put in on top of 2 prima flowers as the center.

You still have plenty of time to play along! Don't forget to ink up your project by April 11th to the Frosted Designs blog for your chance to win! Thanks so much again for stopping by today :) Until next time, Peace Y'all~VV

Supplies Used:

background paper K&Company

black dot paper- DCVW black and white stack

black houndstooth paper- We R Memory Keepers- 'antique chic'

pink number paper- Carte Bella 'beautiful moments'

black lace scallop- Crate Paper

raised apoxy heart stickers- Jolee's embellishments

black sweetheart inker

Colorbox Chalk ink 'grey whale'

Tim Holtz distress ink 'black soot'

Smooch Spritz 'silver foil' and 'cherry ice'

Tim Holtz distress marker 'broken china'

black and cream cardstock- Bazzil

Tim Holtz paper distresser

glitter stickers & words -Me&My Big Ideas

hello and scallop banner stamp- Studio G

black silk flowers- Prima Marketing

Tim's distress stickles 'milled lavender' and regular stickles 'fruit punch;

American Crafts Thickers 'DOLL' and Amy Tangerine 'SCENE'

small manila tag & ribbon from stash

Purple Pumpkin Crafts- layered denim& black polka dot circle

felt black/white square embellishment, medium hot pink spotty dotty button, medium music note button, music paper scallop circle, small white scallop circle, and black vinyl heart

In LoVe with some ShAbBy cHiC!!

Hello everyone! I hope you have been enjoying your summer. I know I sure have been trying to make the best of more down time at work, along with wedding planning and scrapping time I've been pretty busy! But honestly scrapbooking is such an outlet for me...I could spend hours at night in my craft room with Pandora playing...it really allows me to forget about everything else and just enjoy some creative therapy :)

So I am here today to share another layout I did for July using some BRAND NEW paper lines that we have at Scrapping Frenzy! Including Crate paper and the new Neopolitan line by American Crafts. I really loved all the papers I got in my DT kit, they all worked really well together and it was hard for me just to choose a few for this layout but I picked my favorite ones! I did this layout using some pictures from a friend's wedding. My sister was one of the bridesmaids and I loved the color of their dresses,"pool". So the pics I just thought went perfectly with this paper!! I also based my LO loosely on this month's sketch challenge over at Purple Pumpkin.  This was the sketch by Crece Thomas:

For the butterfly, it's actually something I made a while back using a stamp from a friend, some Tim Holtz grungeboard, and lots of mists. I used some Tattered Angel's Glimmermist in lilypad as well as Clearsnap Smooch Spritz in gold glow. The stamp was inked using Tim Holtz distress ink in tea dye. I did several of them on my grungeboard sheet, so I can cut them out, big or small, whenever I need one!!

In case you haven't noticed over my last few posts... I am totally IN LOVE with the shabby chic look. I love the soft colors, the mix of textures, and of course making some gorgeous clusters of stuff!! This is really simple to do, it's all about placing your elements on the page, big and small, and just moving them around until you're happy with the look. I love mixing and matching different elements like paper flowers, buttons of course (my fav!) and then a little bling or stickles to add some sparkle!! 

I also really like the quote I used underneath the cluster.

And, I will end this post with my favorite pic, I think it showcases all of the yummy soft colors that really bring this whole LO together!!

Alrighty, well that's all for me today until next time. I hope I inspired some of you to try making a cute cluster on your next LO, it's really simple to do and adds a lot of texture and interest to your pages! Until next time, Peace y'all~VV

Scrapping Frenzy Supplies: Crate Paper 'pretty party' collection "papercloth" and scrap of "cake stand", American Crafts Neopolitan line 'heart song' and 'pretty please', Clearsnap Smooch Spritz in 'gold glow' and Tattered Angels Glimmermist in 'lilypad', baker's twine- yellow/green/white by Queen & Co., Clearsnap Colorbox Cat's eye inks in creamy brown, chestnut, and mint. Ranger stickles in 'patina' and Tim Holtz distress stickles in 'dried marigold',Pebbles Crystal Candy Dots, pink and blue. Doily journal block- Crate paper embellishment sheet.

Other supplies: Tim Holtz grungeboard, vintage buttons and ribbons from my stash, flowers- Prima Marketing and Recollections, resin embellishments by Jolee's Boutique, decorative musical note tape- Recollections, DCWV Quotes Sticker Stack 'fun in the sun' and fabric covered buttons by Purple Pumpkin Crafts.

Back into the Swing! {Frosted Designs Sketch #45}

Happy hump day everyone! It doesn't feel like mid-week to me though because I start my 6-day stretch in my retail life today, so my next off day is next Tuesday. But the good thing is that I have mostly evening shifts which allows me to stay up late scrapping if I want and sleep in!! For the next 3 weeks, I will be working about 5-7 more hours per week because my boss will be on vacation, and the asst manager and I have to run the store without her! But I think it will be fine...not the first time we've done it! I have to admit I don't mind getting some overtime, any extra money I can get right now will just allow me to check some more wedding things off my list!! So I am here today to share a layout I did the other night, I started the process of organizing my photos and a bunch of layouts I've done recently and I realized that I need to print more pictures that I have taken this year. Everything else I have printed up is from 2011 and 2010. So I started that process and I found these pics of my visit to Santa Cruz, CA for our annual management meetings in March 2011. I used the sketch over at Frosted Designs, I am trying to get back in the swing of sketch challenges as well as DT stuff because I find that I get more scrapping done when I have deadlines! LOL! ?Here is the sketch: 

So here is my layout:

 Another full page shot:

 For my cluster, I dug through my stash and put together lots of different things, including a pink crochet doily and fabric buttons from Purple Pumpkin, some vinyl embellishments, chipboard flowers, and pink fibers. I layered the 'women' symbol from a Crate paper sheet on top of a chipboard sticker that didn't match my papers and then added stickles to out line the edges of it. 

 The large tag is from Me & My Big Ideas and I outlined it in stickles as well.

 For the dots, I used Pebbles Crystal Candy dots.

Well that is all for today, I hope I have inspired you to get back into some scrapping... I know when I get home from work tonight that is what I will be doing!! And I don't wanna go to work right now but I have no choice...so off I go! Have a great Wednesday, until next time, Peace Y'all~VV

Supplies Used:

Basic Grey papers, misc embellishments and vintage buttons from my stash, Me&My Big Ideas sentiment tag, Ranger Stickles in fruit punch and tropical tangerine, misc fibers from ebay, Crate paper 'women symbol' embellishment, photo corners and flower, American Crafts white vinyl-townhouse, Purple Pumpkin Crafts fabric buttons and pink crochet circle, Pebbles crystal candy dots-green and pink, K&Company alphas. 

PURPLE PUMPKIN GIVEAWAY!!!!

It's fast approaching our BIG 2nd BIRTHDAY SALE on the 27th of July, and it's all systems go here at Purple Pumpkin! Birthdays mean presents, and we've got lots of goodies for you! There will be FREE GIFTS FOR EVERYONE on Sale Night, and what goodies do you think we'll have available to purchase on Sale night.....yes, you guessed it - our Lucky Dip Bags are BACK!

The contents of these bags are TOP SECRET! They come in 4 varieties -VINTAGE, BOY, GIRL and MIXED. They are choc full of FABULOUS embellishments, including NEW RELEASE never before seen Fabric Buttons, beautiful flowers, hand dyed doilies, trims, twine, die cuts and SO MUCH MORE! No two bags are the exactly same, but they are all amazing value at just $25 each. You will be blown away with how many goodies you'll get, as they are worth so much more!

If you are new to Purple Pumpkin, here is a little peek at some of our products. 

You can find more info about our buttons HERE.


For everyone who places an order during our 2nd Birthday Sale, you'll also receive a FREE GOODIE BAG, as our thank you to you, our wonderful customers :) :)

NOW FOR OUR GIVEAWAY!

Would you like to win one of our LUCKY DIP BAGS? Four lucky winners will recieve a Lucky Dip Bag of their choice. Winners will be announced on Friday morning before the sale, and prizes will be posted that day, so you'll be the FIRST to find out what's inside!!

So how can you enter? It's easy!

1. Be a follower of this blog.

2. Post about this giveaway on your blog with a link back to here.

3. After you've done that, just leave a comment after this post. For an extra entry, post about this giveaway on facebook, or on any message boards, and then leave an extra comment :)

GOOD LUCK! 

PS - Check out our page on FACEBOOK too, for daily giveaways leading up to the SALE!