Ch{all}enge Masters Jingle Bell Hop!

I can't believe it is that time of year again...I am feverishly working on christmas cards and projects that I are holiday themed, yet I am trying to stay all caught up with my layouts, too.

This year I have decided to undertake Ali Edwards December Daily album.  Although I have created mine with a twist.  For me, the season starts on Thanksgiving day and ends New Year's Eve.  So my album will encompass that time frame. I am so happy to say that I completed it tonight!!  BUT...I am going to wait to reveal my album until a very special time: The Ch{all}enge Masters BLOG HOP!  There are going to be great prizes and LOTs of creations from all the DT members (at this time, there are 23 people on the hop, and yes, they are ALL DT members!).  If you haven't checked out Ch{all}enge Masters it is an awesome challenge site that has every type of challenge you can imagine.  Just create a project for a challenge and enter it into the gallery to be eligible for the monthly drawing.

PLEASE visit my blog and the Ch{all}enge Masters Blog for the BLOG HOP on Dec. 5 & 6th! (Oh yeah, and I made the sign and the blinkie!  :)  )

LOTS of news!

Well I haven't posted in a while, and I have gotten LOTs of good news since!

First: I am the Sketch Design Master Team Leader at Ch{all}enge Masters!!!  I am super excited about this site.  There are categories for EVERY type of challenge you can imagine!  And DT members are eligible for the prizes, too, so I am excited!  :)


Next, I WON the Urban Anthology Contest!! You can read about it HERE on the UA Blog.  Along with that, I am not on the UA Design and Challenge Team!!!!!  We are going to be posting challenges on the blog every week and doing lots of great stuff with the products from the store!


And finally, I won a guest design team spot at My Sketch World for participating in their World Card Making Day Monthly Challenges!!!!  I will be featured there in December!!  I am also going to be meeting up with some of the ladies there at MSW at Archiver's this weekend!!  It is going to be so fun meeting people that you scrap online with in person!

Challenge 5 at Urban Antology

For Challenge 5 at UA, we had to create a kit with our own supplies and then create a least 2 projects with our kit.  Well of course I went a little overboard!  But I really learned something from this challenge.  I have SO many supplies that I don't even remember that I have!  And even old lines of paper can look "new" again if you put them together with other papers of the same theme or feel.  I really think I am going to start going through my stuff and making mini kits for myself.  The way I approached this process was to think of a particular scene in my head and then think of the colors and patterns and textures of that scene.  Then I went through my stuff and picked out items that had that feel to it.  I didn't try to matchy-match everything...I just looked at each paper individually.  By the end of the process, though, everything went together so great! 

I was thinking about apple picking and autumn harvests and all the food at Thanksgiving.  Then I thought of a cornucopia.  So I choose papers that reminded me of a harvest or autumn foods and foliage.  And this is what I came up with:


We had to do at least 2 projects with our kit, but I got a LOT more done!  Here are 2 LO's, one a two pager.  This two pager of Charlotte is one of my most favorite LO's ever!




And I even did a mini album!  This album is called "Blessings" and has some of the things that I am blessed with in it.  I have to add the journaling in yet....





Finally, I got three cards done, too! 



This contest was SOOO awesome and I really plan on going into my stash and making kits for myself more often!

Ch[{all}enge Masters Call

There is a new Ch{all}enge blog called Ch{all}enge Masters which has some GREAT challenges every month.  There are having a call for team leaders for different categories.  You can visit the details of the call HERE.  Go check it out!!!  Here are some of the Challenge categories:
Book of Me


Book of We

Book of Him

Kitchen Keepsakes

Scraplift

Journaling Prompt

Blog Challenges

Going Green

Recipe

Color

Cards

Sketches

Technique

Ad/Art

Photography

Cards and Stuff

Well I am SOOO bummed to hear that Urban Anthology is NOT doing kits anymore!  :(  Oh well, I had fun doing the "Got Talent" Competition, and I hope I win!  :)
Here is my LO #4 that I did.  We had to use a specific color combo.  The one I chose was grey, dark yellow, plum, and cream.


For challenge #5 we have to create a kit and then do two projects with it.  I love creating kits with my stuff, so I can't wait!

I am also doing some stuff for Color Me Daisy for their design team call.  I am working on a LO about fall that I have to post, soon.  They also have a crop going on with daily challenges which is so fun.  There are prizes daily, too!  I made this cute little pumpkin from a tutorial there:

Also, all month long at My Sketch World there is a card crop for World Card Making Day.  I have done a few of the sketches and a few of the tutorials.  Here are some of those.










I am going to start getting back into 52 weeks....52 sketches.  I really love Julie's sketches and they have great weekly prizes.  Here is this weeks (#41):


Tuesday was mine and Keith's 2nd Anniversary.  I made him a little album that highlighted some of the big events that we have experienced together since we met.









Finally, I made this little Halloween Album about the costumes my dad used to make for me when I was a kid.  He was (is  :)  ) just amazing at what he does.  He is so creative, and I definetly get my creativity from him.  I want to continue that tradition and make Charlottes costumes every year, too.  I am almost done with her costume for this year! 






Finally, these are two LO's that I did about 3 months ago that I never posted b/c I didn't quite finish them.  but now I did the journaling and finishing touches and they are done!


OK, off to work on some more stuff now that the baby is in bed!!

Blog issues!!!

UGH! I have been having Blog issues! I realized I just had too much stuff on here and I had to play with some settings!

ANYWHO.....

I have been feverishly working on the "Got Talent" competition at Urban Anthology. Challenge # 3 was to create a sketch, make a LO with it, and use one of four words in the title (strength, nurture, direction, time). I chose "Time" and did this LO of Charlotte on her play mat:

I have also been playing (still!) with my Sept. kit from Cocoa Daisy. Over the summer, I got these sweaters back from my cousin Melissa who wore them when she was little. My Grandma had made them for me when I was a little girl and I wore them all the time. I really need to find a photo of me in one of them from way back when...

I also did this Halloween LO with some papers by MME that I got from the lovely owners at Scrapbook Express. Those ladies are so generous there!!!! I made a mini album, too, but I will have to post those later.

And here are a few other random LO's, too! This one was for Scrapbook Express, also, but it uses sketch #39 at 52 weeks...52sketches.

For the Sept sketch at YMBD (which is closing.  :(  )

and some more...

OK I think that is all for now!!!!!  Off to bed!