Core'dinations Online Holiday Crop-Lydia's Sketch Challenge

Good Evening Everyone in Blog land!

Whew! I finally found the perfect pictures to finish Lydia's sketch Challenge for the Online Core'dinations Holiday Crop. As I was going through my pictures I realized that I don't have many pictures of winter events. (Memo to self-take more pictures in winter. :) )

If you haven't heard of the Core'dinations Online Crop here is the link.
This challenge can be found here.

On to the final project....

Here is the sketch that Lydia gave as the challenge.

Unfortunately my camera doesn't work at the moment so here is the layout in scanned pieces.

I used paper from the White Wash collection. the border around the page is punched using a Fishers punch. I then sanded the edges to add a little more blue color to the edges. The pattern paper is from the 2012 DCWV Stack. I trimmed the pattern paper to 11x11".

I created the center divider using two punches from Fiskers and flipping one strip color side up.

 

The Snowflake in the corner is crocheted by me. The ribbon is from Michael's.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you feel inspired by this layout.
Toni

Core'dination Online Crop

Today is the first day after the end of the Core'dination Online Crop. I'm really sad that it's over already. I have really enjoyed talking and sharing projects with people from around the world. I think that was the most creative five days I've ever had.

As a side note I couldn't help, but complete another page using the sketch from Challenge #14. Here it is:

Entry for the Online Core'dination for Day One, Challenge One

It's day two of the Core'dination Online Crop. Personally I think I'm a little behind in my projects for the challenges, but I love how they are turning out as I write this.

This morning I worked on Lydia's Challenge from yesterday. The Ad Challenge. I decided to use the shape and paper from the Black Magic collection. I decided to create a layout that showcased the peacocks I was watching over the weekend. They are beautiful birds, but a pain in the butt to put to bed at night.

The peacocks live with ducks, chickens, geese, guinea hens, and pheasants. My responsibility was to let them out in the morning, feed, water, clean the beds and put them away at night. The chickens, ducks and geese go inside the coop when it starts to get dark. However, the peacocks sit on top of the coop and watch and wait and watch and look over the edge to come down before going to the middle of the roof.

Anyway, the shapes are cut using the George and Basic Shape cartridge for the Cricut in six different sizes. Then sanded them completely or just around the edges.

The shapes were cut from Freeze, Voila, and Protect. I sanded the edge about half an inch in around a 12x12 piece of Hypnotic.

I used a white opaque pen to trace the edges, shapes, and pictures.




Each corner has three gem brads in green, blue and purple to match the peacocks feathers.

And this is the final layout:

 Thanks for stopping by my blog and happy cropping to everyone.

2012 Spring Layout #1

Good Evening Everyone!

I'm so excited! Spring is here! I have been working on a number of things around the house so I haven't been paper crafting much  :( However, I was able to put together this simple layout using stamps from Stampin' Up and paper from Die Cuts with a View. I hope you enjoy.

Winter Wonderland Layout

Here is another simple 12x12 layout using papers from DCWV 2011 Christmas and Winter paper stack. I love the papers this company put out this year! Some of the pages, like the ones I used for this layout just need a few photo mates and they are ready for the scrapbook.

I hope you enjoy this video and check back often, lots more to come!