Transparencies

This week at Frosted Designs we have a great challenge for you.  This week we want you to use a transparency somewhere on your project.  I used a transparency frame over my photo in this layout.  Unfortunately I couldn't get a good photo without REALLY being able to see the transparency.  Oh well...It really does look great in real life...trust me....I swear.

 

On a totally unrelated note I just wanted to share this other layout that I finished over the week.  It is based on a Pencil Lines Sketch and I had a lot of fun working on it.

3 or More Photos

This week at Frosted Designs we have another great challenge for you.  We want you to use 3 or more photos on your project this week.  I had such a good time with this project this week because it got me to actually make a layout.  I have been seriously slacking when it comes to creating actual layouts instead of cards and other projects.  It felt great to pull out my photos and create a project around a great memory.  This is a page about my trip with my husband and in-laws to the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens on my birthday this past year.  It was so beautiful and also so hot and humid!  This Colorado girl prefers the dry Colorado weather over the humidity any day!

Favorites of 2010

I wanted to post my favorite project from each month of 2010 as a fun way to remember the year.  It was a great year and I had so much fun crafting.  So here it goes....My favorites of 2010.

January

 

February

 

March

April

 

May

 

June

July

August (was a tie)

September

October

November

December

Quotable

This week at Frosted Designs we have a great challenge going on, but we also have an excellent sponsor for this challenge.  This week if you enter the challenge at Frosted Designs you are eligible to win some Digital stamps from Lia Stampz.  These are totally adorable and fun stamps too!  I had a great time using one for this week's challenge. 

So what is the challenge, then?  Well this week we want you to use a quote on your project.  I found the quote "Whoever says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." -Author unknown.  I thought this quote was absolutely perfect with this digital stamp.

Songs of the Season

This is the time of Christmas music and even though I am Jewish I must admit that I still enjoy some Christmas music.  This week at Frosted Designs our challenge is to be inspired by those songs of the season.  It doesn't necessarily have to be a Christmas song, but use a holiday song somewhere on your project this week.  For my song I used winter wonderland as inspiration for a Holiday card.  I went with lots of blues and whites to look cold and added lots of Stickles to look like frost and icicles.  Working on this was a lot of fun, but I have to admit that now I have the song "Winter Wonderland" stuck tight in my head.

Family

This week at Frosted Designs we have a great word challenge going on.  We challenge you to use the word "family" somewhere on your project.  For my project I created a layout using an old photo of my grandmother, great grandmother and great aunt.  The photo was taken sometime in the mid 1940's.  I am currently working on a few heritage layouts so future generations don't have these photos sitting in a pile without a name to go with all the faces.  I used mostly Graphic 45 papers on this layout and created the bling flourish with my irock.  

Winner and Ribbons

I want to thank everyone for participating in our blog hop and for sharing your favorite holiday traditions with me.  First off let's announce our winner of the RAK on my blog.  I am sorry it is a little late in the day, but I was home sick today so I kinda spaced it out.  Better late than never right?  OK so the winner is.....

Kim!  Kim said - Hi Cassie, Let me see I love traditions and I think one of my favorites is Christmas Eve going to church and then back to the in-laws and when we get home we read "The Night Before Christmas" even when my kids got to be teenagers they still wanted to do that and they got there very own special ornament for the tree. That way when they move out they all ready have there own collection 

Kim please contact me at cschissell@yahoo.com and I will mail you your prize.

Now on to this week's challenge.  This week at Frosted Designs your challenge is to use ribbon on your project.  This week I created an altered canvas as a Hanukkah gift for a friend of mine.  I used two types of ribbon, both sprayed with glimmer mist, to give this project some depth and some extra color.