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TTIC #56: Scrap Your New Moon Experience PART 1!

Posted on 24-11-2009 | By: Tonya

Category : TTIC Special Challenge, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration

Tags: Artful INKables, bobunny, stamp happens, StampInsanity Stamps, The Greeting Farm

Hello Twilighters!!! Did you see the movie yet? OME, I’m going for my second showing today…

This week’s Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge is actually a two week challenge due on Dec. 1st.

I’m posting today to help inspire you to scrap your New Moon experience! Let’s take a look at the challenge wording from Alison:

Hey Twilighters! The time has come! The wait is over! New Moon was released last Friday!!

I’m betting that a lot of you made big plans; I know I did! But here’s the thing, we at TTIC don’t want to just hear about your experience with the movie, we want to see it!!!

Did you pack up your camera and TAKE PHOTOS of your New Moon experience? Pics while you’re were waiting in line, of you and your Twi-friends, and even the afterglow of seeing all your fave Twi-boys??

Now, pull out your die cut machines, your snazzy embellishments and make a layout! Journal about your night out! Show us those awesome photos! Scrap your movie tickets! Let’s all get scrappin’!!!

This challenge will be due on December 1st, so for those of you who didn’t see the flick opening night, you’ve still got some time to play along with us!

So what if you don’t normally scrap?? Well, I’ve got some inspiration for you today! Recently, I posted instructions for an Easy Mini Scrapbook that would be perfect for your New Moon experience!

I even made my own New Moon sample. Ready to see?

I made this mini scrapbook using BoBunny Almond Double Dot card stock, St. Nick designer paper and Bazzill Raven cardstock.

The sentiment is from Otherworldly Loves by StampInsanity Stamps. I used Jet Black Stazon ink. I know, you’re drooling over the rose, right? Let’s look closer…

I am a BoBunny lover my dear stampers! And this gorgeous creation is inspired by Tonya Dirk (BoBunny design team). You can watch the video here! Tonya kindly shows some individual pictures HERE.

Now, most of you know that I spent the weekend in Austin, Texas with Beth and Julie where we saw New Moon and Blue October. So I decided to make this quick and easy scrapbook to commemorate our time together!

The date is separated by rhinestones. I haven’t put the pictures in yet since I’m still going through them. Good times!

For some reason I’ve yet to figure out, Beth is decidedly “Team Jacob”. So I made this page just for her. If you enlarge the picture, you will note that I embossed the blacked out “new moon” with a gorgeous black embossing powder. I’ll update you with the brand later today. It’s stunning! The ‘Team Jacob’ and ‘Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?’ sentiments and wolf image are from Artful Inkables. I used Soft Suede (SU!) ink to sponge the sides and stamp the words. I used white craft ink (SU!) and embossing powder (clear) as well.

Of course Team Edward gets represented too!! The “Edward” image is from The Greeting Farm and the heart image is from Artful Inkables. I used Copics and Spicas to color the images.

I did a little something different with Edward’s hair. I layered it in spots. I hope this picture does it justice! Some pieces layer up once and the middle layers up twice.

A little ‘Be Safe’ in remembrance of Edward asking Bella not to do anything dangerous when he leaves. And even though the quote is from Twilight, who’s being picky? I can’t help but think of this quote as something Edward might be thinking during the time he’s away from Bella.

And finally, I left this page blank. I intend to use my white gel pen to write in some special words about our trip!

I can’t wait to see what you create!! Remember, you have until next Tuesday, Dec. 1st to scrap your New Moon experience!

Part 2: Club Scrap Special Challenge!

Posted on 12-08-2009 | By: Tonya

Category : TTIC Special Challenge

We’re back with another special Wednesday challenge! This is our second challenge sponsored by Club Scrap. For today’s challenge, Club Scrap has generously provided members of our Design Team with their Elegant 5×7 Expandable File kits, as well as their Geared Up Photo Flag book kits. You can see the kits, and shop online, at Club Scrap’s site.

And today, we’re changing it up a bit – we’re doing an Anything But A Card challenge! It is pretty self explanatory, and will definitely make you think outside of the box! Try and go in a direction you wouldn’t normally. Additonally, we are using the Men & Women of Twilight as the theme or or non-cards. We know the men love their vehicles, and the Cullen women love their couture, and finer things. Take that and run! We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Visit the Design Team and Guest Designers to see what we have created with these great kits:

Beth ~ Dani ~ Eve ~ Rebecca ~ Alison ~ Erica

Stay tuned to this afternoon when I’ll share one of the projects I’ve been working on!

Special Challenge Time!

Posted on 05-08-2009 | By: Tonya

Category : Cards, Club Scrap, Minimalist Cards, TTIC Special Challenge

Tags: Cards, Challenges, handmade

We’re back with another special Wednesday challenge! Today we’ll be doing our first of two challenges sponsored by Club Scrap. (See below for information on next week’s second Club Scrap challenge.) For today’s challenge, Club Scrap has generously provided members of our Design Team with their Greetings to Go-From the Heart kits. You can see the kit, and shop online, at Club Scrap’s site. And today, we’re changing it up a bit – we’re doing our first Limited Supplies Challenge! And we are really giving you a challenge today – no embellishments are permitted on this one. We’ll have to stretch ourselves a little bit!

Here are the details:

Which items are acceptable to use?

Paper-related items:

Cardstock & designer paper

Stamps

Ink and other coloring mediums (markers, pencils, gel pens)

Die cutting/embossing machine, along with dies and embossing folders

Paper punches

What is not permitted:

Embellishments of any type – including brads, eyelets, hardware, buttons, ribbon, Stickles, Shimmerz, Prima flowers, Dew Drops, etc.

So give it a shot and see what you can come up with using just the basics! We’d love you to play along with us! Leave us a comment and let us know if you play along. And this week, half of our Design Team has played along; see below for links to today’s projects:

Design Team Members: Julie – Jen – Tonya

Guest Design Team Members: Jacquie – Donna

And about next week’s Club Scrap challenge – that theme will be announced next Wednesday, August 12th, and the other half of our Design Team will be working on that one. Be sure to check back with us next week for that!

So. Wow. Limited supplies. This is definitely stretching me friends! I’m an embellishment freak! But I like a challenge. And the challenge can’t beat me…I must overcome!!

So here is what I made:

Club Scrap provided the card stock to make this card, as noted above in the challenge. The windows were precut in this set. I layered the windows and added the “cherish” sentiment and flowers. I decided to keep this elegant and simple. Less is more sometimes!

See the texture on this card stock? It’s a very interesting texture and makes the card more interesting. Big thanks to Club Scrap!

One more thing. Remember my new puppies? Well, here are my babies now at 2 months:

This is my very sweet baby Zoe who crawls into my lap and over my laptop so I’ll hold her. Then she flops over on her back so I’ll hold her like a baby. Isn’t she precious?

And this is my equally sweet baby Daisy with my darling son, Daniel. She’s the runt of the litter, but she will fight tooth and nail for any scrap of food she can get. These little puppies are an absolute joy!!

Special Bonus Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge: Collaboration with Dragonflycurls

Posted on 29-07-2009 | By: Tonya

Category : Challenges, TTIC Special Challenge

Tags: Cards, dragonflycurls, edward cullen, etsy, handmade, Twilight, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge

Are you confused with the days? It’s not Tuesday!!! Well, you’re right. Yesterday I was on a vacation from the TTIC and today is a special challenge day. I can’t miss a special challenge, now can I?

Eve was kind enough to set this special challenge up so let’s see what she says:

Today we are so excited to tell you we are doing an EXTRA challenge today! Graciously sponsored by Audra at Dragonflycurls. She makes some amazing handmade Twilight themed stamps. Make sure you go and check out her site!

Here is the link for her etsy store.

And here is the special bonus challenge for you: What team do you play for? Team Edward or Team Jacob? Are you still loyal to your original team? Or have you switched sides? Or do you play for both teams now? Let’s show some love for the boys ladies! Fangs or fur, vamp bites or dog breath? Have the trailers for New Moon maybe changed your opinion of who you used to like? Come on now…be honest!

Sincere thanks to goes out to Audra from all of us at Twilight Tuesday. We’re really happy to collaborate with dragonflycurls for this fun challenge! Our Design Team has played along with challenge today – visit their blogs to see their creations!

Alison ~ Beth ~Dani ~Donna ~ Eve ~ Jacquie~ Jen ~ Julie ~(Filling in for Margie is…..Erica)

So let’s see what I made! This is a hand carved stamp that Audra made. She was kind enough to share her stamps with our design team!

This is Audra’s lion and lamb stamp. I’m so glad I got this one since I am, always was, and forever will be…TEAM EDWARD!!! Even though Taylor Lautner makes Jake look undeniably hawt, I am and always will be devoted to Team Edward.

Stay tuned for tomorrow! I have more to share!

TTIC Special Challenge: The Greeting Farm’s Edward

Posted on 15-07-2009 | By: Tonya

Category : Big Shot, Cards, Challenges, Copics, Die Cutting & Embossing, Nestabilities, TTIC Special Challenge

Tags: anya, edward, greeting farm, ian, TTIC, Twilight Tuesday, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge

WOW! Ok, I know I said I’m on vacation this week, but we have a special color challenge on the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge website today!

Today, we’ve partnered with The Greeting Farm to celebrate the release of their Edward stamp! The color challenge includes using red/black/white or silver. Go get the details on TTIC!

And there is more – there will be a PRIZE! Marie from The Greeting Farm has generously offered a prize for this special challenge! The winner will receive a Greeting Farm Stamp Set of their choice directly from the Farm! To enter, just participate in the challenge and leave us your link here in the comments by July 28th. A winner will be selected by random drawing and will be announced on July 29th!

Sincere thanks to goes to Marie from all of us at Twilight Tuesday. We’re really happy to collaborate with The Greeting Farm on this fun challenge!

Several members of the Twilight Tuesday will be playing along with this challenge today – visit their blogs to see their creations!

Alison ~ Beth ~Dani ~Donna ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Julie ~ Margie ~ Tonya

BTW, a special thank you to Margie and Marie for setting this up!