Corrosive Challenge # 178 - Shape Up!

Happy Sunday blogland!  I don't know about anyone else, but here in MA it has been H-O-T!  I'm talking sweating the second you get out of the shower, melty, sticky HOT.  But I guess we can't complain too much, because not too far away we'll be commiserating about the cold.  Sigh.  Thankfully we actually have a relatively small house that 3 window air conditioners can make feel like a cool respite, and make it better for crafting.  

We have a new challenge this week at The Corrosive Challenge, and The Corrosive team is always pleased to welcome back a fabulous sponsor, Simply B Stamps!
 
Owner, Betty has generously offered our winner a $15 gift voucher to her online shop!  You can find all her fun and funky images HERE!  Whether you love digis, rubber, or clear stamps, Betty has an eclectic mix that's sure to please the "quirk in you"!

 

The challenge for this fortnight is to "Shape Up".  No, we don't want you to go on a diet or start working out!  It just means no square or rectangular cards.  FAR easier than getting in actual shape, right?!  

 I really outdid myself and did a shaped Easel card!  Whoah!  LOL.  (this is actually the first shaped card I have done)  Image is Water Fun Rio I just love all the Teen Scene Summertime digis, they are so much fun!

I really like how relatively simple these are, you don't have to get too crazy with multiple papers or embellies, but because it is shaped it keeps it from being boring.

Looking forward to some down time today with no where to go for a change.  And part of my day I hope to spend looking at some fantastic "outside the box" entries in the new challenge!

Thanks for stopping by.

Jasmine

Out With The Old

Happy New Year!!  I feel like it's been forever since I posted.  The holidays are always pretty hectic with my family, we have lots of visiting, presents to open, and making merry.  I do love Christmas, but I am always a little relieved when it's all over.  The tree is down, everything is back to normal, time for a new and hopefully good year ahead.

We have some exciting changes over at The Corrosive Challenge for the new year.  You may have noticed we gave the blog a little facelift, and we are going to be announcing some new team members for our January 20th challenge, so be sure to check back.  We also will be featuring a new sponsor for EACH challenge this year, which also means more prizes for those who enter!  Wahoo!  We are retiring our guest designer position, but will be selecting a Top 3. These crafters will get to have their creations featured on the blog in our separate Monday winners' post!

We are extremely pleased that our first sponsor for the New Year is Simply Betty Stamps !  Betty's images are fun, funky, and unique, and are always a blast to work with.  I chose Diver Judy, part of the Sweet Gothic Kids Olympians collection.  The challenge is "Out with the Old", use up something from your stash and tell us what it is.

 

Everything I used I already had in my stash.  The stickers I had received for my birthday in June, by K and Company - "At the Pool", papers were Bazzill Basics, and DCWV Tahiti Beach stack.  Brads and stick gems I have had in my stash forever.  It's actually rare that I go and buy something specific for a project, I tend to just buy things at random when I catch a sale, so I have a pretty good stash to choose from for the most part.

 

 

Judy is colored with Copics, with a little bit of glossy accents added to her goggles.  I almost had a disaster when I ended up with black fingerprints on my image as I was sponging the edges, but I was able to cover over them for the most part, phew!

 

The winner of this challenge will receive a $15 gift voucher to the Simply Betty Stamps online shop!  Dig through that stash of yours, and join us!  



Hope everyone's 2013 is off to a great start!

Jasmine