Pink by Design Two Year Anniversary Extravaganza: Challenge 13

You thought I was done with the 12 challenges, right?  Nope, not at all!  There was one more live challenge that was explained during the Ustream.  A sketch was posted on the PBD blog, but it didn't have to be followed.  The main part of the challenge was to go into your junk drawer to find things to use in the project.  The other option was to go in your purse, which I had to do because we don't have junk drawers.  At this point, we don't really have much junk since we just moved in a little over 2 months ago!  Since we're in a teeny-tiny studio apartment, every drawer is being used (or will be used) for something important.  That meant it was time to dig into my purse!

Well, that proved to be a bit difficult too because I JUST cleaned out my bag when I switched from my crossbody bag to my huge Mickey "bowling-ish" bag.  BUT I did find plenty of gift cards and their paper/cardboard holders!  I picked 3 that might be easily figured out based on the parts I cut out - Macy's, B&N (nook!), and Bed Bath & Beyond (we have have been there so many times in the last year!).

I DID follow the sketch, so I cut the gift card holders down into squares and matted them.  The sentiment was taken from "Simply Everything."  I thought it was funny because all those gift cards were from students!  I know; it doesn't make THAT much sense, but it's late, and I have literally been crafting since 9 in the morning!  Just know that it all makes sense in my mind!

PHEW!  Now I am officially done!  I have never made that many different projects in one day before!  The time constraints were really challenging, but it really made me move faster and not dwell on one project.  I think I'll sleep well tonight ...

Pink by Design Two Year Anniversary Extravaganza: Challenge 12

Rushing to finish!  Please don't mind the poor coloring!  SCROLL DOWN for better examples of my work!  My inspiration is our Disney pitcher.  I liked the squares that held each character with only two tones of the same color.

All of my Disney character stamps are still at my parents' house, so I chose animals instead that can KIND OF be from Disney movies, haha.  Howard helped me bridge the gap.  The crocodile is from Peter Pan, the lion is from The Lion King, the dog is from Lady and the Tramp, and the monkey is from Tarzan!  Make sense?  Sure it does, right?  Haha.

The sentiment is taken from "Our Kids" once again because Disney stuff really reminds me of having an active imagination!  I had to heat emboss the white one last time!  Sorry it's so poorly colored!  I was trying to find the right colors, and my Copics and Bic Mark-Its are not all in the right place since I brought them from my parents' house!

Pink by Design Two Year Anniversary Extravaganza: Challenge 11

The eleventh challenge was a single layer card.  I used a stamp from We R Memory Keepers, and I used the technique of masking to get a ton of different crayons.  No layers at all!

The sentiment is from "Our Kids," so I did actually use a stamp set twice.  I just think it worked to have "You're Unique" on a card with different colored crayons on it.

See, no layers!  No pop dots or anything!  It's actually really "simple" not to have layers, and I actually like the look of them.  It takes a bit to get used to stamping and working directly on the card!

Pink by Design Two Year Anniversary Extravaganza: Challenge 10

Challenge 10 was to make a project with an animal or animal print.  The Recollections animal print paper pad was one that I didn't get at Michaels just because I'm not that big of a fan of animal print.  I do have a bunch already in other variety pads, but I wasn't brave enough to work with them just yet!  I kept it simple by sticking with the animals!

This card reminds me of the kid my mom paras.  He is a HUGE fan of horses, so ever since the last school year, we kind of look at everything horse and think about him!  It's also funny that Howard is also a fan of horses, haha.  He used to watch this show as a kid called Luno.  He still sometimes refers to it, and just now as I asked him what the name of the show was, he had to sing part of it.  Silly.

The horse is cut from Create a Critter.  I didn't have the right color for its ... snout (um, is that what it's called?) so I just cut it out in white and used Copics to find the right shade.  I thought it'd be funny to have the horse say "Hay there," which is a sentiment from Pink by Design's "Country Living."  I used an EK Success punch to get the speech bubble.  Silly me had to ask Howard, "Just checking; horses eat hay, right?"  Haha, I just got thrown off for a second because of an episode of Gilmore Girls with Kirk's skincare line called "Hay There."

Pink by Design Two Year Anniversary Extravaganza: Challenge 9

Almost at the end of the line!  The ninth challenge was to use buttons.  I had an idea to use buttons of all sorts of colors, but it didn't turn out the way I imagined it.  I switched over after spending some time on the other card and just made more of a clean and simple card with the yellow buttons as the centers of the flowers.

The flowers are from a set I bought a while ago from Autumn Leaves.  It's so old that I could barely pull the stamp off the plastic sheet!  I wasn't storing them with my other stamps, so I had forgotten that I had that set.  I liked the "sketch-like" look of the flowers.  I think it works to have some that stamp that way as opposed to always having the crisp, sharp edges.

The sentiment is from Pink by Design's set called "Our Kids."  Even though there are a lot of encouraging sentiments for kids and students, they really work for all sorts of occasions too.  If you take a look at the stamp sheet, you'll see that there are a TON of options!  Now that's what I like in a set!