Challenge Masters.... Photography

The challenge in the photography group was to use a black and white photo and add some pop of color.  The design team offered numerous methods of doing this.  Since I am not computer literate so I chose to print out a black and white photo and then add the color with some markers.

I used some basic grey papers, prima swirls and flowers.  The center of the flower is Stickles.

This photo is of my oldest DGD when she was a wee lil thing.  She was fascinated with her shoes.

Have you ever used this technique?  It was fun and something that I would like to try again.

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Want to be on a DT?

Ch{all}enge Masters is looking for 2 new group leaders!
1. Go Green Group Leader
2. Altered Group Leader

Group Leader Requirements:
*Post 1 new challenge on assigned date each month along with a project sample to your challenge group.
*Make sure you leave a comment in the gallery on each of your category's submissions.
*Be as active as possible on the forums daily.
*Check the Design Team group daily for posts containing important information or requiring your response.
*If you have stuff going on in your life, you're going on vacation or whatever & you can't be around, contact a member from the site's ADMIN to let us know.
*Since there is no compensation for your design duties, you are eligible to participate in all of our to win the prize each month!!! Please play along as much as you'd like!
To apply, please send a link to your blog and/or main gallery to: challengemasters@gmail.com . Please send a .jpg of 1 {only 1 please!} layout/project that best represents your style along with your full name & email address. Submissions will be accepted until Nov. 27th. Don't forget to let us know which position you would like to fill.


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Year of Firsts

 This is the year of firsts for Nate.  His first birthday, his first words, his first teeth....and now he was able to celebrate his first July 4th.  Mom even helped him to hold a sparkler.

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Challenge Masters....Cards

I am totally not a card maker.  I find them difficult and extremely challenging.  I joined the Challenges Masters card group in hopes to learn to create cards that I would actually send!  LOL

The challenge was to create a card that was round.  I used my cricut to cut out this scallop shape.

I have to admit that I'm not real happy with this card.  It's kind of bland.

Where do you find inspiration for your cards?  Do you use card sketches?

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Lederhosen

 Does your family keep everything from your past or just remnants that may reflect your heritage?  My MIL managed to keep these awesome lederhosen that my DH wore when he was a child.  My DH's grandfather brought these back from Germany with him when he went to visit his family.  The ones in these photos are at least 40 years old.
Lederhosen are work shorts that are worn by males.  They are made of leather and usually have an emblem on the front that is made from a carved deer antler.

Nate wasn't too sure that he wanted to put these on.  He definitely didn't want to put a shirt on under the overall.  Regardless, the photos are awesome and I absolutely adore his expressions.

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Challenge Masters...Recipe

 Challenge Masters offers tons of challenges each month.  I've joined several of the challenge categories.  This category is Recipe.  We were to create a layout using these items:
1) 2 Fonts in the Title
2) 3 Borders
3) Button(s)
4) Stitching
5) Leaves

 The photo is of my youngest DGD.  She happened to be tickling my feet when I went to visit her.  I love the smile on her face.
I used a mixture of papers from Colorbox and bazzil.  Some misc. stickers that I had laying around.  I used the leaves from a stampin' up set then cut them out.  As for the stitching, I hand stitched under the title and added some beading to every other stitch.
I really adore how this came out. 
Do you like recipe challenges?  Be sure to check out Challenge Masters.  Just click on the button on the left.
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Posed photos

 We all have them...  The posed photos that are taken during milestones in our children or grandchildrens lives.  Have you ever wondered how to scrap them?
I took these cute little wallets and tried to make their smaller size pop off of this 12 x 12 layout.  I think I did ok...

 

This layout just screams scrap me!  LOL..  I love love love this photo of my grandson.  As soon as I saw it, I thought of the song, "YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR HAT ON".  

Do you ever use songs as inspiration for your layouts?  Where do you find your lyrics?  Do you usually just grab a phrase to use or do you sometimes include all of the lyrics as journaling?

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Challenge Masters Christmas Blog Hop

Challenge masters will be having an awesome blog hop Dec. 5-6.  The DT has assembled some awesome projects and Rumor has it that several will be offering a RAK if you 1)  Comment and 2) become a follower.  If you visit all blogs and comment and then go back to the Challenge Masters blog to leave a comment you will be entered to win the grand prize!  How cool is that???



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