Challenge Submission

Last weekend was the big Birthday Bash celebration at Artful Delight.  Artful Delight celebrated Leeanne's birthday, hosted a great blog hop, introduced the new design team and also offered three great challenges that give you the chance to win AWESOME prizes! The Grand Prize is a 6 month subscription to Artful Delight monthly kits!!

The first challenge was this sketch:

My layout for the sketch:

A Closer look at my Coffee Filter Flower:

The Second Challenge Was This Tic Tac Toe Board:

I used light pink, made a layout, and used a border punch for this page:

(this page needs something, I am just not sure what... I am open to any suggestions!)

and the third challenge:
Use kraft, light pink, and white on a project.

And here is my card:

Fun challenge!

Awesome Dusty Attic Giveaway

Do you like chipboard? (I love what it adds to my pages!) Have you seen this awesome chipboard by Dusty Attic? It's so scrolly and intricate, just gorgeous! Simply Paper is giving some away at her blog, and she sells it in her shop too, check out this awesome chipboard now!

Master Forger's Blog Hop

This month is all about stamping over at the CKCB Challenge Blog, since we are being sponsored by the fantastic Ippity Chick (and a fellow DT member) Sherri . So Beth and Meridy gave us this challenge for the blog hop:

Blog Hop Challenge: Use a stamping technique to create a project. Make sure you make a link to that technique so we can give it a try, too! (Or, if you feel adventurous...make your own tutorial for your favorite stamping technique!)

This is a good challenge for me, since I have tons of stamps that sit around collecting dust most of the time. The technique that I decided to try was Heat Embossed Resist with mists.
Here are some tutorials on how to do it:
http://ideasforscrapbookers.blogspot.com/2011/05/heat-embossing-with-mists.html

http://plkomara.blogspot.com/2010/09/annoucement-and-some-tattered-tags.html

I used this week's fantastic sketch from Sketchy Thursdays:

Here is my layout:

And a closer look at the embossed resist embellie:

I did have stray little bits of embossing powder which I could have brushed off with a paintbrush, but I kind of liked the droplet effect that it gave it, so I left them and heated it with my heat gun as it was.

Supplies used:
Red cardstock with a distressed pattern from GCD Studios, cherry patterned paper from Jenni Bowlin Studios, scraps of leftover papers that I punched into border strips-Basic Grey, Teresa Collins, navy Bazzill, a paper doily that I misted for my September kit,  a file folder cut from kraft cardstock with my Cricut and one of the fabulous Penny Duncan's svg files, Making Memories hinges, Tim Holtz tissue tape, a scrap of red Bazzill Swiss Dots cardstock that I cut into a scalloped shape with an svg file from Susan Blue Robot, and DCWV rub-on Stitching. I used 2 different stamps for my circle embellishment, a grungy dotted circle from a christmas stamp set by Danielle Johnson for Art Warehouse, and the "baby shower" with the umbrella are from a Doodlebug stamp set. I decided to put the other photos in the file folder, because I have put off scrapping them forever-they are all pastelly (what was I thinking, wearing red to a girly baby shower?), so they clashed with my photo- so I hid them ;-p .

Thank you for hopping by my blog! Here is the line-up, be sure to check out the other designers for tons of crafty, stamping inspiration!

                                Guest Designer: Lisa H.

Melissa

Sherri

Kim

Jemma

Margie (you are here)

Susanne (go here next)

Lisa

Gabrielle