Brick Layers

I knew right away what to do for the Child's Play Lego challenge.  A few years ago my son went Namibia to help out a school for orphans.  Being one of two males on the trip, he moved a lot of rock and did a lot of rubble clean up.  He was there for a month and was one of the best things he has done.  Really good to get a dose of reality on how many others in the world live.

Noel

Shhhh....I'm really not a fan of traditional Christmas colors, but this week's CSI are right up the traditional alley!  I set to work using my new doily stencil, with some gel medium, and red ink.  Really loved the way this background turned out!  I dug in my stash for some vintage Christmas paper and a layout that I really like was born.  That is one of the benefits of a color challenge.  You use colors that you don't necessarily like or wouldn't think of using and are often thrilled with the results!

Evidence used: birds, paint, horizontal lines, wood, and twigs

Testimony is on my love of all things pretty, at Christmas, on the back of the title tag.

Case file

Black Friday

Welcome back for the 2nd of our December inspiration challenges at ScrapStuffz  Think of it as our gift to you, our wonderful players!  For our second inspiration photo, Stacia chose an great grid design!  So many options with this photo.  I love the overlapping photos, the news print, the simplicity.

I really liked that print background and I was hunting for some paper that simply had writing on it.  I just was striking out when all of a sudden I found this columned piece!  Talk about a score!  I went with the matted photos that overlap each other.  I decided to use red instead of green because I brought home the Starbucks bag from our annual breakfast stop.  This year my hubby decided to join us.  We really did have a ball.  Even me, who didn't want to go in the first place and hates shopping!

Ready, set, CREATE!

Feather Boa

It's sketch week at CSI! I recently got a stencil from The Crafter's Workshop that was PERFECT for this sketch!  There were lots of fun evidence prompts so I decided to scrap this photo of my son's cat.  My DIL wrapped this feathery toy around his neck and I snapped photos.  He was not impressed, but I caught this awesome look on his face!  Totally looks like he is talking.  Since feathers were included in the evidence list, I went for it.

Evidence used: branches, birds, dots, feathers, circles

Testimony is on the little tag and tells this story.  My title is also part of the story too.

The case file

Pinned It, Made It

Child's Play Challenges decided to use that good old classic Rudolph movie for their challenge this week!  That is such a great movie and will never get old.  Love the animation.  It's just funky and fun.

I knew right away what I would scrap about.  I recently saw these super cute cards on Pinterest and I decided to make some.  Now funny thing is, I also just recently saw a blog post on Pinterest fails.  Hilarious!  I know that sometimes Pinterest can make us feel like a complete looser and wonder why we can't be as awesome as all the other people there.  Of course they are probably paid to create such wonders, but that is neither here, nor there.  I'm happy to say that I thought these turned out pretty cute.  Here is a link to the blog it was pinned off of.  

Time 2 Ski

Seriously loved the color palette at CSI this week!  They worked perfectly for these photos of Kayla and her friend snowboarding last year.

Evidence used: something dangling, frames, circles, something shiny, and something transparent.

Testimony is tucked into the slide frames.

The case file

Photography

Very interesting colors this case at CSI.  So very elegant.  Just a splash of color.  I thought they would be hard to use, but it came together very quickly.

Evidence used: frames, stripes, lamp

Testimony is a fabulous quote that so sums up why I love photography!

The case file