Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Check out the challenges over at Crop Addict!

As the February Featured Design Team Member for Crop Addict, I have the chance to pose a monthly challenge as well as several weekly challenges for the month.

This month, the challenges are going to focus on repurposing items found in our supply stash and around the house. By using items like this, you are saving money by reusing these items and not having to buy more scrapping supplies. You are also being environmentally friendly by recycling these items that would have otherwise been thrown away.

For the Crop Addict monthly challenge, let’s see you create some beautiful handmade flowers from supplies in your stash. The only requirement for this challenge is that your layout must include a minimum of one handmade flower of some sort.

Here are a few examples of handmade flowers. Also, check out the Crop Addict totally techniques index for step-by-steps on how to make a variety of handmade flowers.

Create lollipop flowers from scraps of patterned paper and some circle punches…

Take transparency circles, dye them with alcohol inks, warp them with a heat gun & stack them to create these glass-blown, “Bellagio-style” flowers…

Use a die-cutting machine to cut several flower shapes from patterned paper and layer them to create a dimensional flower…

Use a length of ribbon to create the petals of a flower…

Upload your layout by midnight PST on 2/28/10 to the February monthly challenge gallery and link it back to this thread to have a chance to win a prize!

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