Random and Pleasant

It's been quite a while where I actually blogged about anything, but.... here I am again.  It's a peaceful day here in  my Ozzy Wonderland.  The kids a not fighting and I am enjoying my morning coffee at 11am. Hehehe.  I cropped with my wonderful scrappy friends last night from 7pm to 3am!  That's a first for me, 3 am?   WHAT?   I learned and shared some amazing techniques!  I will show you in a later blog or video of my work once it's absolutely finished.  I thought I'd share this with you.  

I saw this photo at  this amazing artist blog, The Kathryn Wheel.  It may be hard to make out what it says on the bottom right corner, but it says from the thief, " Got me home ok  thanks."  Hilarious.  I love to laugh and this is just way too funny.  Enjoy your last weekend of August, because before you know it.... it's Christmas!

August Challenge - Make a Trim-endous Layout

We are going old school and taking you back to paper your crafting roots with a good old fashioned scrap booking layout challenge for the month of August.

Here's what we'd like you to do: Create a scrapbook layout of any size, 12x12, 6x6, 8.5x11, you choose.  On your layout, you must use lots of  lace, trim, fabric or ribbon to make your layout standout. The challenge details are listed below, please read them in detail.

If you are in need of supplies to make your layout standout, visit The Piece By Piece Etsy Shop, it's full of amazing laces, trims, ribbons and fabrics that will allow you to make any project shine. 

The details are as follows:

1. Who can play?: The challenge is open to you, your friends and your mother! Seriously, this challenge is open to everyone!
2. How often can I play?: You can enter the challenge as many times as you like. Submit one Mr. Linky for each entry.
3. When is the play time?: You get the entire month of August to play and submit your Layout Challenge entry. September 2nd, 11:59 PDT is the official deadline. Winners will be selected and announced during the first full week of September.  
4. Where do I play?: Submit your challenge entry by using the Mr. Linky in this post.

Playground rules

1. Your submission will be judged on its level of uniqueness and creativity, so break out your supplies and go at it!
2. You must use trim, lace, ribbon or fabric (at least one) in your project, after that you decide the additional ingredients to make your project pop.
3. The Piece by Piece Design Team will select two winner and the winners will be announced during the first week of September, The winners will receive an awesome prize below from Bev at The Piece by Piece.      

2 Layouts will be chosen to win by The Design Team and this is what the winners will get:

Melody Ross' Designer Collections Mini Album Kit shown below:

This Kit includes: 

Chipboard Designer Pages.

Rhinestone Stickers

Acetate Stickers

Textile Tags

Chipboard Stickers

O Rings

and Trims

Have fun and thank you for participating in the challenge!  

July Challenge Winners are....

From the artsy to the scrappy and adorable to beautiful, we were impressed with the way each artist transformed their dress form for the Piece by Piece July Challenge.  With all the creativity you shared, it was difficult for the design team to choose only two winners, but they did.  

We are so pleased to announce Lina (#2) and Kelly Viriyavong (#24) as the challenge winners!  Congratulations to both of you.  Please email your mailing address to me at bevjane_cruz@yahoo.com and I will get your prizes in the mail.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the challenge, your designs were inspiring.  We will announce the August Challenge very soon and hope that you join the fun and play again.

Here are pictures of the winning entries:

Kelly #24

Lina' #2

Thank you all for participating!