HMITM Challenge# 176 Christmas in July

I know it's not really Christmas, but don't blink--it will be here before we know it. I thought it would be great to get into the spirit of Christmas without all the added stress that comes with it. I am sure you all know what I mean...lol

And now on to this week's challenge... as this my first challenge post I thought I would give a prize. So if you would like a chance to win this then why not pop over to HMITM and give it ago.




Christmas in July refers to Christmas-themed celebrations held in July. It's a fun time and because the weather is so much cooler, we can celebrate with those traditional foods that we cannot have here in summer. Well, we can have them here in Australia but it's generally way too hot that most of us celebrate with BBQ's, prawns and salad. So let's pull out our Christmas paper and embellishment stashes and put them to use.

Requirements and What I used:

2 + photos, at least 2 {I used 5 that I cut into circles.}
1 x Christmas tree image, any size {sizzix die cut tree}
5 x patterned papers, i.e., Christmas patterns,{2 Websters, 1 Pink Paislee and 2 Basic Greys}
5 x metal embellishments, and any other embellishment in increments of 5{5 yellow star brads, 5 gems and 5 other embellishments made up of 3 swirls of prima pearls and two pieces of Websters bloomers}

And here is mine take on the Challenge:




The photos were taken when my Mother,DD and I went into Brisbane City on a girls night out to do our Christmas Shopping. This was the Myer window display that they did that year.



I have done a lot of cutting of papers and raised with foam dots. I've added glimmer mist to give it that extra sparkle since its a Christmas layout. And I have stippled gesso around the edges of the photo to soften the blue a bit.



Hope you have enjoyed looking at my page and hope you have time leave me a comment.

Bye for now Fi

Color Combos Galore 200th "Anniversary" Blog Hop

Welcome to the Color Combos Galore 200th "Anniversary" Blog Hop! We hope by visiting the CCG Design Team members' blogs, you will be able to pick up some fun tips and techniques. Many of the team members will be offering prizes, so you will want to visit all of the blogs to increase your chances of winning some fun scrappy stuff. We are also offering a chance at a Guest Designer spot for the month of August if you visit all of the blogs in our Blog Hop and participate in Challenge 200 by uploading your project to the CCG Gallery. It's so much fun to get the colors before everyone else! Plus, who doesn't love to see their name in lights! The deadline for the chance to win these prizes is one week from today, Sunday, July 24, EST.

If this is your first stop at our Blog Hop, you'll want to start at Bente's blog, and follow the hop in order so you don't miss anyone. If you've been hopping in order, your next stop is Helen Tilbury - http://helentilbury.blogspot.com

I thought I would add this little tutorial on how to make Altered Skeleton Leaves, this is the first time I've done one of these so hopefully it is understandable. If not please feel free to drop me an email. So as not to make this to long winded I have had to make the images smaller, however if you click on them you will get one that you can read better. I post again at a later date.



Once you have visited all the blogs and uploaded a project to the CCG Gallery using Challenge 200, please make sure you check in at the Blog Hop discussion in the Special Announcements Forum at CCG. We will choose our August Guest Designer from that thread. Individual DT members will be choosing winners for the prizes they are offering. Good luck, and we hope you'll enjoy our blog ho

For the chance to win the prize below please leave a comment about my altered Skeleton leaves. I've kept the prize relatively small that it maybe sent to any country. Thanks so much playing along.

Color Combos Galore - Palette 200

WOW, can you believe that Color Combos Galore has reached their 200th Palette, what an achievement!!! In honor of this we will be celebrating with a Blog Hop so keep an eye out over the next couple of days for your chance to win some prizes.

Now onto this weeks Palette, another bright one here and I loved the inspiration picture and prompt.



The technique challenge was to take inspiration from the melted dripping ice cream. I used paint and did a few splotches in white and I made the creamsicle colour by combining some paints, Vibrant Orange and some yellow paint to tone it down, this was painted onto my swirly mask and I spritzed with Maya Roads Cream Metallic. This is reverse masking. I then gave another little squirt with the Maya Roads, which is the slight silvery shimmer you can see on the cardstock.

I used my white gel pen to highlight the swirl a little more. The photo is of my DD and her Aunt, these shots were taken as they stood in the bucket from one of the big mining trucks at the open pit in Kalgoorlie, I have been wanting to scrap it for ages and this weeks colours were perfect. I have overlayed with a Kaiser filmstrip transparency.



I also stitched around the photo and the through the punched border strip.



Other products used are K & Company papers several different older lines, prima flowers and pearls, stickers from Websters, Kaiser bling strip and pearl brad. Other flowers are hand made.

Thanks for looking and I hope you have time to leave a comment or feel free to ask a question if their is something you would like to know and don't forget to keep an eye out for the blog hop.

Once Upon a Sketch - JULY 1st CHALLENGE

I decided I would play along at Once Upon A Sketch, if you haven't popped in over there you should. Seriously talented Nadia, has to be the most amazing sketch artist I have come across, and this weeks sketch was no exception. So lets start with the gorgeous sketch.




Journalling Criteria: Who is in the photo? Name the person in the photo and at least 1 fact about them. This can be personality, character, talent , achievement etc. but it must be at least 2 sentences long.




Products used: White Bazzill, Websters Garden Estate, Graphic 45 and Basic Grey papers.



DA laser cut bricks have been inked and painted. I also used Glimmer Glaze in Shy Violet for the splatters and painted it on the decorative scallop border that is around the photo.

Journalling was printed out on transparency and placed behind the cutout Gazebo.



Other products used: Dusty Attic chipboard, prima, Tattered Angels, Ranger Pearls, Kindy Glitz, Maya Rds leaf ribbon and Basic Grey alphas.

Thanks for looking and I hope you have enjoyed enough that you will take the time and leave a comment.

Thanks and bye for now Fi.....

Color Combos 199 Challenge

This weeks focus was not only on some bright fresh colours but tiny type lettering. Why not hop over to CCG and check out what all the Design Team members did.



I decided to not only do a layout but I would throw in a card as well. I don't usually make cards, seems such a waste if they are thrown in the bin. I staggered the letters and I decided to go with a film strip to mimick looking into the bowls, something like that anyway.



Products used - White bazzill cardstock, Matha Steward doiley punch, Kaiser Dress form & flower, Fancy Pants buttons, Basic Grey Alphas and Tim Holts die cut.

My Layout this week is of my Niece, I very rarley get to see her so it was nice to spend my Christmas with her since, ummmm never have I had that opportunity in the picture she is 17.



I decided to go with a black background to make the colours look that much brighter, I used papers from Cosmo Cricket Upcycle range, and the leaves are left over paper that I cut the red flowers from in my last CCG layout from Pink Paislee fascinating paper. I used PP house of 3 fibre and tiny stickers from Lime Twist MME. Other bits are are left overs found in my stash.

Thanks for looking and for any comments you may leave. Hope to see over at CCG.

OMG!!!! I was accepted over at Color Combos Galore for their Design Team Call.

This was one of the first sites I found last year when I decided to take a look online to see what was around and challenge myself a bit more. I think I typed something like colour into the search bar and this is the site that I came across. Since then I have mostly met the weekly challenge.

Janet Perafan-Babar who is the owner of CCG is lovely and always makes time to be available through the live chat when the reveal is done, one can only imagine how hectic trying to organise that every week must be. Debbi Tehrani and Susan Stringfellow just to name a couple of their amazing design team members are alwayss around and quite happy to have a quick chat as well. They are all so friendly and make you feel right at home, I am so excited to be working along side these talented ladies.

Well this was my submission for the Call.



I decided to go Retro and use photos of my DD. I took inspiration from the picture in a totally different way. I looked at the girl on the background wall and thought about how far we have come as women and my DD is totally proof of this. She has an Electrical Apprenticeship in a very male dominated world. She has just been signed up recently and purchased her first car, which is a far cry to the older style one in the picture and it worked so well with the colour palette...lol



I decided to go with black cardstock for the background to make the colours really pop out. The red flowers were cut from a Pink Paislee paper and the photo is matted on some core-dinations embossed cardstock that I sanded. I stamped the background using a Magnolia stamp loading it up with two colours.



I turned my photo black and white and then used a transparency tool to bring some colour back into the picture for the car and tools on her work belt, I then applied some softening effect to the edges of the photo and then overlayed with a 7Gypsy transparency.



Other embellishments use are from Prima, Dusty Attic, Websters, Melissa Frances and a couple of others that I cannot think of at the moment.

Well thank you for looking and hope you have enjoyed my layout enough to leave me a comment, its always so lovely to read them.

I also wanted to say a big congratulations to all the other newly appointed Design Team members, well done.

Bye for now
Fi

White With Red + Circles or Polka Dots.

This is my second go at this Challenge, its interesting to see everyone's take on one colour and element. I decided to cut my photos into circles and incorporate the circles again by hand stitching half circles above them, so it sort of looks like they are jumping through it.

The photos here were taken by my Sister Inlaw whilst we were visiting in Perth, the kids were having so much fun wrestling each other down the sand hills.




I have used Kaiser papers and Jenni Bowlin core-dinations embossed cardstock.



Butterfly rubons are from Prima's reflections range, and letter stickers are websters.



Other products used are Dusty Attic chipboard and dimensional pearls and micro beeds.

Thanks for looking and for any comments thay you may leave.