My Additional Guest DT Projects for Moments 2 Remember

I'm nearing the end of my month as the October Guest Design Team Member for one of my most favorite sites, Moments-2-Remember, which I dub the "Charmed Place." I wanted to share my additional projects I created with their October "Its a Beautiful Life" monthly kit which is SOLD OUT now by the way!! M2R totally rawks!!



This was just a beautiful kit to work with and just up my alley, so to speak! I created these projects while I was at my weekend scrap retreat earlier this month on my birthday weekend. (In retrospect, with what's been going on at work, I'm soooooooo glad I didn't cancel out and sacrifice that ME time for work!)

My friend Kari lent me her pictures from her road trip through Michigan for this layout. Thanks Kari!!


And here are some closeups:





And I've been seeing these "balls" everywhere so I decided to create a Fall Ball as a decorative table centerpeice. :) They're easy to make and you can fill them with candies and treats!



Here are directions:

1. Cut 9 strips of 2 inches x 12 inches out of double sided pattterned paper of your choice. Its best if you use 2-3 various coordinating patterned papers so that your pumpkin has a more "interesting" body.

2. Stack all your strips together on top of each other. Try to alternate different patterned papers designs/colors so that your ball will be colorful and varied.

3. Pierce a hole through all the strips through each of the ends. Use a brad on each end to secure all the strips together.

4. Now fan out each of the strips, and you'll see that you're creating a "ball."

5. Create leaves, stems, vines, etc. to adorn the top of your "ball" that's appropriate for the theme you have chosen.

Please do drop by Moments-2-Remember as we really do have a warm, fun and friendly community there. If you do, tell them Ching sent ya!! (You'll help me earn my October virtual charm bracelet!)

My Guest DT Gallery Reveal @ Moments-2-Remember

I'm still pretty giddy about being chosen as the October Guest Design Team Member for one of my most favorite sites, Moments-2-Remember, which I dub the "Charmed Place."



Well, today, Oct 1st, is my DT Gallery reveal over at Moments-2-Remember!! Come on over and check out ALL the talented DT Work from Valerie, Holly, Zoa, Shannon and Sarah by clicking HERE. (Note: You may be required to register and sign in into the message board to view the thread.)

We got to work with the gorgeous "It's a Beautiful Life" papers from Bo Bunny this month. For those of you that know me and my style, you're probably thinking "Ching......Bo Bunny? huh??" Seriously, take a look at these papers and you'll know why I absolutely fell in love with this October BEAUTIFUL LIFE kit. The paper peicing is an exclusive designed by DT Member Shannon. And get this.....this kit is ONLY $15!!! What a deal, huh??

Celebrate Fall with this BEAUTIFUL collection of papers and embellishments! Our October kit includes: Bo Bunny Beautiful Life Leaf double sided paper (2), Bo Bunny Beautiful Life Stripe double sided paper (2), Bo Bunny Beautiful Life Dots double sided paper (2), 3 matching solids (various fall colors), Basic Grey Sublime Letter Stickers Sheet, Maya Road Chipboard pieces (5), Fall Silk Leaves (4), Hand Crochet Fall Flowers (3), Hat Pin with Bead, Jute, Journal Square and 2 pieces of fall colored mulberry paper, Apple paper piecing, Exclusive "Owl" paper piecing by Shannon Morgan, Cello Treat Bag. Perfect for ALL your fall photos and projects! Be sure to see what our amazing Design Team has done with this kit!

And here is what I created with the kit. Can you tell that I absolutely had a ball with all these yummy goodies??



I blame my good friend Karen for this. LOL! I was at a crop with her recently when she suddenly turned to me and said, "Do you have any corrugated board, or know where I can get some?" To which I replied, "Don't you just use boxes?"

Soooo, when I saw this Bo Bunny "Its a Beautiful Life" line of papers, I knew instantly that I'd HAVE to get my hands on some corrugated boards. I recycled an older box that was used to house items I had ordered to be delivered to home, cut off a large panel and started to peel the top layer to expose the corrugated areas. I wanted an uneven random look so I didn't spend too much time trying to neatly remove everything.

I decided to use my corrugated board as the base of my layout. I used some Glimmer Mist (in Moonlight which I got from Barb at Embellish-Online) and some metallic gold acrylic paint to customize it a bit to better match the mood I was going for in my layout. The colors also perfectly compliment the Bo Bunny papers I think.

Here's some close ups of my "imperfect" corrugated areas which were beautifully filled up with goopy shimmery teals and golds!! The glimmer mist and the acrylic paint really added a beautiful subtle texture to the corrugated board.







And here are some close ups of the details of the layout:





And here's a card, based on this week's sketch at 2Sketches4You, that I made with the adorable exclusive paper peicing that was designed by DT Member Shannon:



I really love these papers and I will be posting a few more projects later on this weekend when I have more time to play with this very yummy kit. Please do drop by Moments-2-Remember as we really do have a warm, fun and friendly community there. If you do, tell them Ching sent ya!! (You'll help me earn my October virtual charm bracelet!)

A Few Belated Toots for Me!

I'd like to share some recent toots that happened this past week!!

First of all, my cards that I created for Embellish-Online using the Basic Grey Archaic line was recently accepted by Basic Grey for their gallery. Whoohoo!!! Here are my rephotographed pics since my original ones were taken really late at night so my lighting weren't to my satisfaction.





And here were the other ones I made using the Fancy Pants Papa line for Embellish-Online that I also rephotographed as well that I wanted to share again.





And.....I'm totally excited to share that I was just chosen as the October Guest Design Team Member for one of my most favorite sites, Moments-2-Remember, which I dub the "Charmed Place."



My Guest Design Team Gallery will debut on Oct 1st...which coincidently is my BDAY!!!