March Contest Winner!

Congratulations Ruby!
Hope this brightens an otherwise wet and dreary Sunday :)

March/April Contest

Just a quick reminder that any projects to be entered in this month's contest must be uploaded by midnight tomorrow night.
Visit the website for a list of the challenges and more information.

New Challenge ... Misting

Super easy challenge this week ... use your mists. We loooove our mists here and the Resort Town kit has a bottle of Tattered Angels Chalkboard Glimmer Mist included this month. Such a pretty colour :) It almost makes you forget about the snow that so thoughtlessly ambushed us yesterday.
So pull out your Tattered Angels, Shimmerz or Studio Calico mists and get busy.
Use several colours to completely cover you background ...

Mask off a section to create a focal point for your photo ...
Give your white flower a quick spritz for a little added interest ...
Or completely saturate your white flower to create a unique embellishment that no longer resembles a flower ...
A new favorite around here ... the white Mister Huey from Studio Calico ...
Just splatter a few drops here and there ...
Spray a piece of sticky back canvas for the background of a card ...So many different ways to use this product.

Upload your finished project to the Up The Street Flicker Gallery by midnight April 30th EST for your chance at the monthly prize. Visit the website to see the other challenges for the month.

This week's challenge ...

... Self Portrait. After seeing Mandy's layout last week, I thought we'd do a Self Portrait challenge. I'm rarely in photos because I'm the one behind the lens, but I'm always a huge fan of self portraiture (is that a word?). There are so many wonderful, creative ways to capture your own image that there really is no excuse not to. In a mirror ... in a window's reflection ... using a timer. Inevitably, when I think of self portraits, I always go back to one that an online "friend" posted on her blog literally one week before she was tragically taken from her family in a car accident.It still brings tears to my eyes. So don't overthink it ... just grab your camera and snap away. Here's Mandy's ...

... and mine ...Post your layouts to the Up The Street Flickr Gallery by midnight April 30th EST. Visit the website for the other challenges we've posted this month.

New Challenge from Mandy

One of my favorite photo sizes to scrap is 8x12. I love that ginormous picture that takes up almost the whole page. This month, two of Mandy's layouts used these enlarged photos. This first one is just stunning.And this one is trimmed down to 6x12, which makes for a truly interesting compostion. I will definately be trying this size in the future.After seeing Mandy's layouts, I realized that it had been quite some time since I'd done an enlarged photo. I just had to do one with the new Studio Calico paper and rub-ons.Your newest challenge is create a layout using a photo larger than 5x7 ... go with an 8x10, 8x12 or come up with a custom size like Mandy did with her 6x12. Upload your project to the Up The Street Flickr Gallery and be sure to tag it with "MarchContest" before April 30th midnight EST for your chance at a $30.00 credit to the store (shipping not included). New projects only please :) Visit the website for the other challenges and enter as often as you like.

New Challenge ... Die Cuts Done Different

Happy Monday All! I do believe the air feels a little bit warmer today. Not warmish ... just warmer. But I'll take it. As our March kit is going to stretch through April (the next kit will be released on May 1st), I've decided to extend the monthly contest until the end of April. Also, I only managed to post one lonely challenge this whole month. Today's challenge is brought to you by Julia. She wants you to use your die cut paper in an interesting way ... no just plunking it in the centre of your page. Her example below shows how she split her die cut and repositioned it ... leaving an abundance of white space between the two pieces (a perfect spot for some journaling). Her photo and embellishments are clustered to the far right side and immediately draw the eye. I can't stop looking!Rather than using the buttons on their own, Julia has left them on their packaging card for dramatic effect. It's wonderful when the packaging is too pretty to throw away :) A light misting of ink to coordinate the flower ...

Also, note that Julia has sanded all of her edges. I always do the edges of my photos, but usually reach for my distressing tool to rough up my patterned papers and die cuts. I love how the sanded edges give a softer touch.

As always, upload your finished projects to the Up The Street Flickr Gallery and be sure to tag your images with "MarchContest" for your chance at wining a $30.00 credit to the store. Visit the website for more information.

March Contest

I was kinda waiting for the March kits before I posted the March Contest, but it appears as if that's going to be a few weeks away yet.
While we're waiting for new kits, why don't we work on new challenge?

This week's challenge is an Either, Or or Both situation.
Use either the prompt ... "waiting" (in your title, in your journaling, as your subject),
or the product ... "old" (choose some product you've had for awhile now and have just been waiting for the right opportunity to use it)
or both ... the prompt and the product.

You have until March 31st (midnight EST) to upload your project to the Up The Street Flickr Gallery. Remember to tag your photo with "MarchContest" so that it will be included in the random drawing done on April 1st for a $30.00 gift certificate to the store.

Look for another challenge next week :)