Sandy's Challenge #4 - Winners

Judge's Prize Winner


Hi everyone this is Lolly ! Firstly I want to give Sandy a big ole HUG for having me as a guest judge for her Travel Challenge! I can honestly say that picking a winner was super difficult (I loved something about each and every entry)! There was such a variety to the projects and each was cool and unique in their own way! I went to each entry to read more on the project and check out additional photos (when available) and that actually made it even harder!

So without further delay... the winner I chose is #31 - Meghann! I absolutely love her travel journal (she documented a trip her and her husband made to France for a friend's wedding). She took her supplies with her and did some prep before she left (which I'm sure was a big help). I loved the kraft color of her journal cover (plus I'm a sucker for circles). The little extra bits and pieces she kept from the special places they went was such a nice touch (those bits and pieces are what it's all about for me). She had a lovely colorful theme and had fun photos with lots of awesome journaling throughout the whole thing! I'm sure that every time they flip through that journal, each page will bring back special memories for years to come! Amazing job Meghann (and congrats on your fabulous prize pack)! You can go check out the awesome post she did and get a closer look at her journal HERE!

Congrats Meghann ! I love how you incorporate actual ephemera in your SOTR album. It creates such a wonderfully personal feel to your project.
Sandy's Pick Winner
I'm a big fan of theme-parties and this one by Mini Mocha from Western Australia really caught my attention. It's an avaiation inspired birthday party for a four-year old and I'm blown away by all the lovely details from the placements and menus to the goodie bags and cake. Hop over to this post to check out the rest of this Vintage Plane Party. So I grabbed some more Wander papers and embellishments as an extra prize for the creator of this wonderful event.

Ladies please email me at angsandy@yahoo.com.sg so I can send your prizes out to you.

Sandy's Challenge #5

The new challenge will start in August and here's a little sneak.

Popular (OPP #1)

Time to share this month's One Paper Projects (OPP). This idea is to chose one really 'hardworking' paper from my stash and completely use it up on various projects. If you're interested, go to this post for the start of the series. For June, I wanted to explore the possibilities of asymmetrical patterns for making pockets.



I picked this paper from Making Memories' Passport collection with vertical patterns running down the two edges and a quiet ledger space in the middle. For my first OPP pocket, I used the bottom right corner, focusing on the red label.



To make sure the chosen pattern shows up where I want it to, my basic pocket template consists of three parts. The only thing I had to watch out for, was to match the pattern of the bottom flap.



I positioned the body so that slightly more than half of was the damask pattern. And allowed the quiet ledger space to take up the other remainder. For contrast, I used a thin black ribbon to delineate the top edge of the pocket and a piece of deeper teal coloured paper for the flap where I put my POPULAR sentiment.

Then came my favourite part : embellishing. I created an L-shaped dimensional cluster to anchor the bottom of my pocket. The flower clip is made up of an Ephiphany Craft's plastic setting and a gcd studios paperclip. I cut the prongs off and placed the circle in the setting and the glued the prongs so they went off towards the right.


This goes out to Meghann

Scroll down to the next post for OPP #2. Linking to these parties.

Supplies : Making Memories Passort (Ledger Teal, Stripe), October Afternoon Mini Market stickers ledger, Heidi Swapp Jet chipboard alphabet, Epiphany Crafts Vintage Setting tea room, gcd studios Artsy Urban glass paperclips,Basic Grey Sultry rub-on, Cosmo Cricket Circa 1934 sticker, push pins, ribbon

Congrats (OPP #2)

OPP #2 pocket is titled Congrats. If you like to start from the beginning, go to this post where the template is also available.

Using the same Making Memories paper, I tackled the top left corner this time. To create more quiet ledger space on this pocket, I positioned the body so that the Post Card flourish and the red floral border takes up less than half of the space.



For the embellishment, I created a triangle cluster to fill the bottom. It consists of two square labels, three circles (brad and buttons) and a chipboard number. The baker's twine was added to echo the red floral border.

This pocket went out to Shawna

Scroll down to the next post for OPP #3 Pocket. Linking up to these parties.

Supplies : Making Memories Passort (Ledger Teal, Stripe), Making memories journalling stickerwhimsy, Crate Paper Emmas' Shoppe Phrases sticker, October Afternoon Mini Market stickers ledger, MLYB Layering Rub-Ons, Heidi Swapp chipboard alphabet, gcd studios Homespun brads, ribbon, baker's twine, buttons

You (OPP #3)

Here's the last of this month's One Paper Projects (OPP) : You pocket. It uses the bottom left corner which is the only piece left of my Making Memories paper. I changed the design around a little so this OPP pocket looks a slightly different from the other two.

I turned the floral border 90 degreees so the blue ledger continues from the body up to the top flap. That allowed me to have a L-shape of red florals. And the embellishments were clustered in that L corner to create my sentiment of 'beautiful You'.



The teal paper has been moved to the bottom flap and I anchored it with a smaller embellishment cluster. Repeating what was used from the top cluster - what's left of the red label and another red brad - draws the eye along the invisible diagonal.

I initially planned to cover most of the handwritten script but I'm glad the final design allowed it to take center stage on the pocket. In case you're wondering, the pockets are numbered #4 to #6 because I intend to send them out to the winners of my next three Sandy's Challenge.


This went out to Luzma

Supplies : Making Memories Passort (Ledger Teal, Stripe papers), Crate Paper Emmas' Shoppe Phrases sticker, October Afternoon Mini Market stickers ledger, October Afternoon Thrift Shop shape stickers, MLYB Layering Rub-Ons, Heidi Swapp chipboard alphabet, Basic Grey glazed brads, ribbon, staplers, flower pistils

Linking up to these parties.

Rock Star Projects

Thank You Best Creation !

Rock Star is the kind of dark, grungy collection that I would never have voluntarily chosen to work with. But when I received my package, I got three cards done the very next day (unbelieveable for a slow crafter like me). I just created without even having received my assignments from the DT coordinator.

Card #1 has a colour palatte that really draws attention : gold, black and white. I stacked two pieces of paper together and cut those lightening bolts freehand. Then shifted the top one slightly before I glued them down. Do you are like that yellow splash-paint texture ? It comes with the paper, I didn't even have to mess with mediums or anything.

This card went out to Amy
Card #2 plays off the swirl at the bottom of the label. I layered the guitars so that their long necks radiate outwards like spokes of a wheel. Together with the undulating alphas in the title, the card has a tension that normally isn't present in my works.

This card was for Silvana

More black for my next project - an organizer. The box is easily made by folding up the edges of a 6x6 paper and tying the corners with ribbons. It's fancied up with a quilt-like base made from scraps of black and white pattern paper.


Here it is filled. I always pop all the chipboard free of the package. It helps my creative process as I like to layer shape-on-shape. I'll be making several of these to store the loose pieces. Retaining the collection name in the quilted piece also helps me when making up supplies list for publication.

This went out to Jessi Finally, card #3 where glitter takes center stage. I don't use much glitter because I can never get it to photograph properly. So I have to be quite lame and say it looks better in real life than my best shot shown here. I was building a microphone with the layered elements. Do you see it ? Or does it resemble something else to you ?

This card is for Diana
I love the energy and movement Rock Star gave to my creations. And also the bold combinations of black with yellow and black with teal which I've never used before. It feels so good to break out of my comfort zone with this collection.

Linking up to these parties.
Supplies List
Card #1 : 6x6 Paper Pad , Combo Stickers , Glitter die-cut Paper #RS010, Expressions Chipboard
Card #2 : 6x6 Paper pad, Glitter paper #RS008
Card #3 : 6x6 Paper pad, Glitter paper #RS005, #RS008, #RS009, Combo Stickers, Element Stickers, Glitter Cardstock #GCS014
Organizer : 6x6 Paper pad , Glitter paper #BGP224, ribbon

Carte Postal

I enjoyed playing with Echo Park so much that I created two more cards for KCK. This is created by mixing Echo Park's Be Mine with For the Record collections. But unlike my Articles of Tapestry card which featured pink with yellow, Cartle Postal has a yellow and green palette.



I was inspired to create a vignette of an auction catalogue. The first thing I did was to cut off the left side of a journal card and staple it together. Adding a tab to the side created my catalogue. Then I anchored it with an ornate frame of the black script.



To add a touch of whimsy, I put a pointing finger below the Carte Postal stamp. Then sewed randomly across the top edge of the card. The floral pattern of the fan-like border took some careful cutting as the paper also had large red flowers which I had to exclude.

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Echo Park Supplies : For the Record (Vintage Linen, Table Cloth, Apron Strings, Element Stickers) Be Mine (French Chronicle, Journal Cards) , staples



This went out to Sara

Airmail

Still inspired by Pink Heather's artwork, my lift is a Parisian style card. To my mind, it speaks of promenading around in a little black dress with a dainty pink doodle underfoot.



The central focus are three postage stamp stickers. I kept the little scallop borders between the stamps but trimmed off those around the outside edges. The scallops were repurposed as a partial border on the long, grey patterned strip.



The dimensional embellishments were limited to little push pins and pink sticker hearts. I fiddled with the grey embroidery floss for quite a while before figuring out that a slanted lined looped around the half pearl worked best.



I'm addicted to making collage style cards right now. It allows me to play with shapes while learning how to be more adventurous in combining patterns and balancing the scale of patterns. An added bonus is the ability to show multiple papers when making design team projects.


This is went out to June.

Echo Park Supplies : Be Mine (Element Sticker, Journal Cards, French Chronicle) For the Record ( Newsprint, Picket Fence), embroidery floss, Basic Grey Half Pearl, push pins

Linking up to these parties

His Master's Voice

The story :

Nipper was a fox terrier belonging to English artist Francis Barraud's brother. After his brother death, Barraud inherited the dog and a cylinder photograph together with a number of recording of his brother's voice. Nipper would show interest whenever the recorded voice of his late master emanated from the trumpet. This inspired Barraud' well known picture - His Master's Voice.

The story in turn inspired this card. The starting point was to find a way to show sound coming from the trumpet of the Echo Park gramaphone. I used a bloom and red tab around the hello label (which also serves as the sentiment of my card). Then I opened up the prongs of a brad and glued it on to simulate the gramaphone's needle.

Articles of Tapestry

The first half of the year has flown by and it's now July. With this card for KCK finished, I'm pleasantly pleased to find myself with all my design team projects done and a month of leisure ahead.

This card went out to Nancy

This Echo Park card is a lift of Pink Heather's amazing fine art collages. I love studying her compositions built up through blocks of squares and circles. While her work has lovely painted textures, mine is mainly pattern paper based. As a tribute, I did break out some acrylic to create the bisected background on the hot-air balloon tag.




The red frame was a rub-on. Originally the flourishes went across the top only. That didn't suit my design so I cut up the excess that went off the page and applied them down the left side of the frame. For a non-stamper like me, rub-ons are a wonderful substitute and in this case even more versatile.



Since the label said Articles de Tapisserie, I add some grey embrodiery floss. Also used red floss to delineate the bissection of the balloon. The snap button at the center of the butterfly is messily sewn on with white thread.




Linking up to these parties.

Echo Park Supplies : Be Mine (Journal Cards, French Chronicle, Element stickers), For the Record (Newsprint, Lace Stripes) Others : KCK Butterfly punch, Basic Grey Sultry rub-on, mini clothes-peg, snap button, vellum