I’m Back!!! Did you know I was gone? Well I wasn’t really gone I just haven’t had a challenge spotlight since MAY yikes. However new year and as always fun new stuff going on at Gingerscraps Including new challenges! with all the new challenges and all the amazing new Layouts that result from them, how could I NOT come back and spotlight?

Okay so I know January is almost over so you may not have time to get in and try for yourself, but I’d still like to show you PixelsByJen’s fantastic color challnge for January.

Here’s her challenge:

GingerScraps Designers have an awesome Buffet out this month that has inspired this challenge. For this month I would like for us to scrap a page using ONLY black and white and grey….your photo needs to be black and white too. No additional colors, sorry.

In case you didn’t know the fantastic Buffet she is talking about is  Colors of my Life An amazing collection of kits that use black grayte with a splash of color, however for Jen’s challenge she wants just the black and white and what’s in between. Some have used paper and elements from this fabulous buffet, but others have used other kits or got clever and simply desaturated colored elements to make them grey. Brilliant! Here’s a few of my favs.

When everything is black and white it can be difficult to get your focus on the black and white picture. See how Marieh double frames and then clustered around her photo to draw attention to it? Brilliant!

 Check out those paper strips with the ribbon and ellies, even with very limited colors (or lack there of) jrmminga used contrast and texture to give plenty of dimention to this LO. Oh so elegant!

This is lovely in it’s simplicity. And I’m not just saying that because anita used my kit. . . although it helps. 😉 Because of the high texture of the background there is no need to over do it. The plain black shapes works with the border and the few elements add an excellent elegant touch.

 Do you see how that wave just pulls you in!  It’s placement is ideal, the tiny elements perfect, the word art. . well I can’t read it, but from her title I’m guessing it says being fabulous is hard work, but somebody’s got to do. Which is clearly fabulous in itself!

I could go on forever! for for the sake of time why don’t you go check out the color challenge gallery yourself and find your own favorites, I guarantee, like me you will have a touch time picking!!

So if you’ve been afraid of black and white in the past I hope this helps you get over it. There’s so much you can say even without color! I love it! Thanks Jen for the wonderful challenge!

Spring has finally  poked its head out from behind the rain/snow clouds here in Idaho! Yay! I hope you all enjoyed your Easter, Passover, spring holidays! We sure did!

So umm no one entered last weeks challenge spotlight. 🙁 so I guess that means no prize for me to give out. So I’ll just move on and hope we get better results this week, after all it is the last week of April!!

This weeks Challenge spotlight is the Sugar Swap hosted by prettyingreen! This is a scrap lift challenge! My favorite! Rachel (PinG) has supplied you with two beautiful LOs you can lift:

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Wow Right? What lovely LOs!

Still unsure of what a scrap lift is? essentially  you copy the basic LO or idea, and then make it your own!

Here’s some fabulous examples:

by chigirl

by Serial Crafter

Love how on this second one she combined a bit of each LO to make it truly her own. Never let a scraplift challenge limit you, only inspire you to greatness. 🙂

Ready for your own greatness? Go visit Rachel’s Scrap Lift Challenge

Then come back here and post the link to your LO in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar).

CT & those who have already done a LO with this kit are elligable. Let me see those comments!

Wait what happened to last week? Umm well I sorta…well…forgot. You see I’m a pretty structured person and when my schedule gets interrupted say for something like my baby girls 18 mo. checkup that is at my usual blogging time, then well I just forget what it was I was doing. Super sorry, especially to those awaiting to see if they won something! So lets not keep you waiting any longer! StarsWarsFans is the random winner! Here’s what you won:

Had to get those bunnies out for Easter you know. 😉

Okay now to this weeks spotlight challenge! Do you ever struggle with journaling. Sometimes, a picture is worth a thousand words, but other times it could certainly help to know HOW the 18 month old got marshmallows all over in his hair, especially if it was all Daddy’s fault. 😉 Well if you are an avid journalist or need some help getting the words out  Char has the challenge for you! Bakery Window Challenge for the second half of April is all about journaling!

Here’s some super LOs to see how journaling can fit right in and sometimes tell a story you didn’t even know you had to tell.

by Char

by Lisa

by chigirl

by jenevang

Want to give journaling a try? Come to the Bakery Window and write all about it!

Then come back here and post the link to your LO in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar).

CT & those who have already done a LO with this kit are elligable. Let me see those comments!

Those displayed digiart were divine weren’t they? So time to pick a winner….. Chris with her stairway art! Oh my I love it some much I think I need to try that one myself! I have the perfect stairway for it! So here’s what she has won:

Do you like to learn new things? or perhaps a different look at something you already do? I was requested to make a tutorial on clustering  so that’s this weeks spotlight challenge! My cooking class – Cluster the heck out of it!

I give a step by step and some helpful hints on how to make clusters like these:

by Harmonystar

by Harmonystar

by StarWarsFans

I give several other examples at my Cluster the Heck out of it Challenge so go check them out, read through the tutorial and cluster the heck out of your own LO!

Then come back here and post the link to your LO in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar).

CT & those who have already done a LO with this kit are elligable. Let me see those comments!

March comes in like a lion and out like. . . 4 inches of snow?!? I hope the rest of you are having a springier spring than we are in Idaho. Sheesh. But the Los are blooming all over just like our winner from last weeks spotlight challenge.  queenwild with her LO Messy Boy Love that blue and purple and of course I love messy faces! great use of Char’s template! Here’s what queenwild won:

Now this weeks challenge spotlight is the fabulous hybrid challenge by Julie! Have you seen her stuff? adorable, how she has time to play with glue and scissors with her 4 kiddos I’ll never know, but I love them and I love her! You will too! just take a look at her changeable digiart. What a great idea!

Now the ladies in the forum have really embraced this hybrid project! Let me show you a few!

by tanni

by Sarah-ICS

by sparagus

Adorable? Oh yeah! Want to sport some digi art in your home? Go For It! Be sure to use the hybrid challenge for inspiration and to post your final product there!

Then come back here and post the link to your LO in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar).

CT & those who have already done a LO with this kit are elligable. Let me see those comments!

Welcome back! We’ve had a kinda awful week, my baby girl go RSV so we’ve all been housebound. On the upside I’ve been working really hard on my part of the buffet coming out next month! So there’s your silver lining to my families illness. 🙂 Oh and we’re all on the mend now, a few more days of meds and I think we’ll all be back in tip top shape. In the meantime lets find out who wins my little goody this time? Thanks for actually giving my random generator something to do. 🙂 and the winner is….. Jamie B aka jtbusman(Jamie) with he LO Happy Birthday Daddy. Here’s what she won!

Onto this weeks challenge spotlight. Do you like templates? I do! They allow plenty of creativity with a starting point so I don’t have to stare at a blank canvas wondering where to start. The Cookie Cutter Challenge is all about templates and right now Char of Wyld Web Designs is hosting the Cookie Cutter Challenge. Go there to pick up your free template.

There’s already a bunch of great LOs already done here’s a few of my favs from the GS team.

by Jenn

by AnikA

by sladd79054

See how you can get such a different look from the same template? I love it! There’s so many more so head over to the Cookie Cutter Challenge and check ’em all out. Crab the template while you’re there and give it try!

Then come back here and post the link to your LO in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar).

CT & those who have already done a LO with this kit are elligable. Let me see those comments!

Well we’ve hit just about halfway through March. It’s time for that weather to be lamb-like right? Well outside my window it is pouring & both my kiddos have developed a cough. I feel like it’s been one illness after another for 3 months. Sheesh. But on the upside it is Monday and that means time for the Challenge Spotlight! But first we need a winner from last week! Our winner is . . . . Tina! aka Ambelleina for her remake from this to THIS! I love the remake and such a clever idea to use the ticket as the background! Here’s what you’ve won Tina!

So this week’s Challenge Spotlight is the Food Coloring challenge! Hosted this month by Cari Creates!

Never played the Food Coloring Challenge? It’s easy! The host posts a color palette and you have to use every color in the palette somewhere in your LO. To make it even easier they let you know a coordinating  kit you can use but you don’t HAVE to use that kit. Just those colors! 🙂

Ready to see this months palette?

Look familiar? It should! It coordinates with Ellie’s Daily Download!

Cari is even giving out a FREE kit from Cari Creates!! How sweet is that? Here’s some great LO’s already on display.

by jaye

by jrmminga

Cute as can be! Now it’s YOU’RE turn! Break out that daily download or scour your supplies for those colors and head over the the March Food Coloring Challenge

Then post the link to your LO in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar).

CT & those who have already done a LO with this kit are elligable. Let me see those comments!