Chit Chat Challenge

Challenge #5

It has been four full weeks since our first challenge, and we are so inspired by the participation that we would like to offer a sincere thanks! This week we are continuing to have fun by challenging you to push the envelope even further.

Words of Inspiration:
"I love my hair...." Sylvia Chidi

Product:
Use mesh and lace

Technique:
Do not use any glue/adhesive {remember this is a "challenge" blog}.

The winner of this week's challenge will receive a beauteous selection of tags from The Cutting Edge. You are in for a fabulous treat. The Cutting Edge offers exciting and fun tags and labels great for all of your scrapbooking and craft projects. The owner of the etsy store, Hilary, has put together a special assortment of tags and labels just for the Chit Chat Challenge.  The kit includes Hillary's elegant labels, drive-in sign journaling labels, and holiday labels and tags.

Our chatty design team has created an awesome spread of inspirational layouts to get you started.

Wati's Submission

Francine's Submission

Mye's Submission

Mari's Submission

Wendi's Submission

Congratulations Goes to...

Mama Muniz!

She totally rocked last week's challenge! She will be receiving a bee-u-tee-ful gift from Sweet Pea Scraps just chock full of goodies! The decisions were hard {once again}. All of you Chatters have been nailing these challenges weekly. As always, we are grateful for the participation.

Challenge #4

Here at Chit Chat Challenge, we are hoping that your Thanksgiving celebrations were as wonderful as ours. This is the time of year when we remember to be thankful for many things in our lives. One of those things we were thankful for is our family. In honor of that this weekend's challenge requires the following:

Words of Inspiration:
"Each family has moments..."
-Rebecca Seetahal

Product:
Use 7 different pattern papers.

Technique:
Find a creative way to incorporate fabric on your page.

We hope you are having as much fun with the challenges as we, on the design team, are having. See our submissions below.

Wendi's Submission

Francine's Submission

Wati's Submission

Mye's Submission

Mari's Submission

Our Sponsor for the Week of November 23rd-29th

This week we are thrilled to bring you wonderful felt beads from Cheryl Avenue. Her etsy shop has "fabulous fun felted fiber for the whole family!" Her felt is fun, vibrant, and a wonderful embellishment for scrapbook pages. Check out her store for more cool stuff!

Congratulations Goes to...

Sunnymommie!

Her take on the challenge was creative and original! She will be receiving a beautiful prize from Damsel Designs. Again, we would like to thank all participants. The choice was hard because of all the awesome talent you have shared with us!

Challenge #3

This week's challenge is about taking a moment to step back from the distraction that we call "life", and take a moment to be still. For the third week's challenge use the following quote, product, and technique.

Words of Inspiration:
"If you peel back the layers of your life - the frenzy, the noise - stillness is waiting. That stillness is you."
-Oprah Winfrey

Product:
Use a calendar on your layout

Technique:
Use a paint, or ink masking technique.

Our talented Chatters have created their own renditions to get you started!

Wendi's Submission

Wati's Submission:

Mye's Submission

Mari's Submission

Francine's Submission

Our Sponsor for the Week of November 16th-22nd

Our sponsor this week is Sweet Pea Scraps. Sweet Pea Scraps is a monthly kit club that offers a large kit packed with lots of paper and embellishments.  SPS had Memory Makers Master Hillary Heidelberg design their June 2007 Kit and this kit will be our prize for week number three!

Kristin and Julie stuff the SPS Kits with 12 pieces of patterned paper, and 10 sheets of cardstock each month, in addition to an alphabet and a variety of other embellishments.

This week's prize includes the following:

Five DOUBLE SIDED 12x12 patterned papers from We R Memory Keepers, Four DOUBLE SIDED 12x12 patterned papers from My Minds Eye, and three 12x12 patterned papers from Sassafraslass.

We R Memory Keepers Silver Lining
1-Radiant
1-Marquee
1-Shimmer
1-Patina
1-Vivid

My Mind's Eye Tres Jolie
1-Stipe/Bleu Papier
1-Circles/Rouge Papier
1-Stripe/Rouge Papier
1-Circles/Brun Papier

Sassafras Lass Serendipity "Scrumptious"
1-Decadent
1-Luscious
1-Creme Brulee

12x12 Cardstock
2-Bazzill Vanilla
2-Bazzill Strawberry
2-Bazzill Sunbeam
2-Bazzill Powder Blue
2-Bazzill Parakeet

Embellishments

1-American Crafts "Gift Box" Thickers CHIPBOARD Alphabet in black
1-Heidi Grace Metal Shapes stickers in green
4-American Crafts red photo corners
1-Luxe Rub-ons in Dots Borders IV
9-Maya Road Black Sheer Scrolls
8-Cardstock circle die cuts in Bazzill Yam
  An assortment of orange buttons

With an awesome design team creating amazing layouts for their gallery each month, this is a kit club that is sure to inspire! Be sure to stop by their blog for sneak peeks of upcoming kits, challenges, AND to congratulate them on their TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

And Our First Winner is...

Marix! And she did a fabulous job with her layout "Wild Women Do".

Marix will be receiving last week's prize from Cupcake Scrapshop shortly! Chatters, don't forget to join our Flickr group so that you have can have a chance at one of our fabulous weekly prizes also!
We would also like to thank all those that jumped right in and started participating in the challenge. We were in awe of the layout submissions received!

Challenge #2

We have been so overwhelmed by the participation just in the first week. A huge thanks goes out to all that have participated. If you still have not done so, do not worry because you have until midnight on Thursday November 8th to turn in your entries to our Flickr Pool! Our sponsor this week is Damsel Designs, and her vintage treats are divinely aligned with this week's theme.

This week, the theme is Shabby Chic. In the world of home decorating, shabby chic means taking something old and worn and making it look new and fresh (or, perhaps the reverse). Popular shabby chic designers take flea market finds, floral fabrics, vintage linens, and new but distressed furniture to create comfortable yet sophisticated spaces.

With this challenge we will take a page from the habby chic decorating style. Part one of the challenge is to incorporate three (3) techniques of shabby chic design on your page.

Choose from the following design techniques:
1. Torn, worn, and bent edges
2. Hand-stitching
3. Black and White photo
4. Paint and crackle
5. Sanding

Product:

3 Metal Embellishments

Words of Inspiration:

HOME
"When I think of home
I think of a resting place
A place where theres peace, quiet, and serenity
And thats where some of my friends have gone
Friends who have traveled with me through my
wonderful
experience in Oz
A journey Ill never forget

When I think of home, I think of a place
Wheres theres love overflowing
I wish I was home, I wish I was back there
With the things Ive been knowing

Wind that makes the tall grass bend into leaning
Suddenly the raindrops that fall they have a meaning
Sprinklin' the scene
Makes it all clean

(When I think of home)
Maybe theres a chance for me to go back
Now that I have some direction
(Maybe theres a chance Ill get home)
It sure would be nice to be back at home
Where theres love and affection

And just maybe I can convince time to slow up
Givin me enough time, ooh, in my life to grow up
Time be my friend
And let me start again"

Mari's Submission

Wendi's Submission

Francine's Submission

Wati's Submission

Mye's Submission

Our Sponsor for the Week of November 8th-15th

Our sponsor this week is Damsel Designs, which offers a multiplicity of treasures and unique finds. What makes Damsel Designs extra special is that no matter what you purchase - lovely embellishments, pretty flowers, or antique papers - you will receive
your items beautifully wrapped.

Abbie, the owner, has generously offered to present the most fabulous gift to one Chit Chat Challenge participant.  The gift includes antique sheet music, German die-cut bird collage sheet, antique ledger pages, vintage seam binding, vintage rick rack, glitter letters {wish}, skeleton keys, paper lace, victorian tissue favor basket, vintage wallpaper, and vintage photographs encased in a beautifully decorated vintage cigar box.

For more images of the cigar box, visit Abbie's blog and be sure to stop by her store to see more of her lovely collection.