Cocoa Creations Challenge #1-Let’s Celebrate

While the retail side of Crop Chocolate has closed it’s doors, the social side is still up and running and a great place to go to share and learn about crafting and well….life.  The current design team is hosting weekly challenges on the Crop Chocolate contest page, Cocoa Creations.  Starting this week our first challenge comes to you from Christina:

In honor of my hubbies birthday this week, my challenge to you is this:  Create a card, layout, tag etc, to celebrate someone’s birthday!  Easy! You can use anything from your stash! I will be providing one lucky participant with a prize! Either a $25 gift card to a retailer of your choice or I will send you a scrappy surprise.  I would love to send you a cake but I doubt it would make it there in one piece or fresh!  Good luck ladies!!!

I did a card.  I am not sure who it is for yet but I have a bunch of birthdays coming up so I know I will be using it SOON!

I used Carta Bella kraft, October Afternoon and MME Indie Chic paper, Fancy Pants Corrugated, MME twine and brads, UmWow Studio layered clouds, White Zing embossing powder, gems, Distress ink, Paper Smooches sentiment.
Love all the dimension on this card!!
Love the white embossing powder on the chipboard clouds!!!   Don’t they look fluffy?!!
This challenge will be open through Friday May 24th, 10:00 am MST.  I will be watching for your entry!!

I have some winners!!

First… I haven’t said much about it because I was really hoping it wasn’t going to happen but one of my FAVORITE places, Crop Chocolate has closed it’s retail doors.  I am pretty sad about it and the only thing that is getting my through it is that Crop Chocolate is keeping the social aspect of the site up and running.  I have made some amazing friends on these boards and learned A LOT of things!!  I would not be the crafter I am today if I never came across Crop Chocolate.  I will be forever grateful for those friendships and that knowledge.  So to Jon, McCall, Amber and everyone at Crop Chocolate…THANK YOU!  There really aren’t any other words to express my gratitude…
OK, now I have 3 winners to announce!  To celebrate NSD Crop Chocolate and the design team hosted 8 challenges.  On my original blog post about this week of celebration I announced 2 chances to win.  The first way was to just comment on the post and the second was to enter all the challenges.  I also offered a prize to a random winner on the final Crop Chocolate design team project post.

1.  For commenting on the NSD celebration post:
Katherine ClaytonMay 2, 2013 at 9:07 PM I love these! But then I don't think you have ever done anything that I haven't loved. :) Keep up the GREAT work! And thanks so much for sharing your A-M-A-Z-I-N-G talent with us . . . you are such an inspiration to us all!!! And like a couple others have said, one day I will be able to say "I know her and I knew her when . . ." :)
2.  For entering all of the challenges:
Jeannie WalshMay 2, 2013 at 1:14 PM These are so cute Belle. I don't recall if I've told you before or not, but your one of the folks I believe we'll be saying, "I knew her when" about. :) – Blue
3.  For commenting on my last CCDT (SAD FACE here):
Erin (CelticCrafter)May 9, 2013 at 7:37 PM
Love these, Michele!! Left you some love on the Crop!
Thank you so much for playing along, for all of your sweet comments and for all of your support!!!  Please PM me at CC or on Facebook and I will get your prizes out very soon!!

May Switcheroo!

May already?!?  Can you even believe it??  This month, as you probably know, is SWITCHEROO.  So I will be showing you a set of cards that showcase a rosette with a washi tape accent.

Win a couple of washi rosettes by checking out my tutorial over on The Crop, leave a comment there and come back over here and leave a comment too.

I love this clean and simple card.  Just think of all the possibilities with all of the different washi tapes that are so big right now, I know you all have at least 5 or 10 (probably 40 or so) rolls of washi!!
Until next time…get inky often!

1942

Brand new Kaisercraft Porcelain Rose is in at Scrappy Chic and is available at Mega Meet this weekend.  We are in booth 411, stop by and see us if you are roaming around the Suburban Showplace this weekend!!  You can also see this layout in the booth!!

This is my ABSOLUTE favorite picture of my grandmother!  Wasn’t she a gorgeous bride?!

I also used the new Kaisercraft wood chip pieces…the frame and the music notes.
Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to stop by the booth, 411 right up front, and say HI!

Birthday Wishes

Part of my kit this month for Scrappy Chic was Echo Park’s Birthday Wishes collection.  I decide to make a mini with it, here it is…

I just love the idea of these button cupcakes!! 

And here are some of the pages.

You can see this mini in the store the next time you are shopping…and if you have been inspired to make your own mini I hope you will share it on the Scrappy Chic Facebook page!  I would love to see what you create!!

NSD 2013 Challenge #1: Homage to Summer

And last but not least (I went backwards remember??), challenge 1:  Incorporate a sunburst into your project...whether it's stitching, misting, masking, paper piecing, etc. The possibilities are endless!



Crop Chocolate products: Carta Bella, Theresa Collins, Bo Bunny, MME twine, Distress Ink, Lifestyle Crafts Circle die, gem Other items: UmWow layered clouds, button, May Arts ribbon, Perfect Pearls.
 






I LOVE the perfect pearls making the layered chip clouds golden!!

NSD 2013 Challenge #2: Tic Tac Toe

Challenge 2:  Using the tic tac toe board (click here!), pick one line in any direction and include those three items on your project (card or layout). Please make sure you let us know which 3 you used!
I made this one C&S…I went horizontal down the middle; flower, patterned paper, embossing.



Crop Chocolate product: MME Miss Caroline Dilly Dally, MME Indie Chic Citron brad, MME Miss Caroline twine, Distress Ink, flowers
Other items: Paper Smooches sentiment, Embossing folder, embossing powder



This is a fun challenge…you should try it!!