Challenge 74

Wow, what a wild and wooly week! (Nice alliteration, huh?!) My rant from the other day was barely the tip of the iceberg. I have been so busy and going non-stop and it's Friday already. How does that happen so friggin' fast? This week's post marks the official end of Session One with the Design Team but there isn't anything to post for Sallie this week and poor Danielle...her husband left for logging camp and took her USB cord so unless she can swipe one from one of her kids' electronics her page will remain a secret for now! It will get posted once she's 'connected' again.
This week's challenge is loads of fun. I love a good advertisement for design inspo! And I love circles...this fantastic Volkswagon ad is just OOZING design goodness. If you want to create something from this week's challenge, make sure you upload to our Flickr Group so that you can have a shot at winning May's Blast Off Couture Collection. All you have to do is indicate which weekly challenges your uploaded pages are for so we (the design team) know who to vote for. Once you've uploaded your page to Flickr, don't forget to add your page to the Lotus Paperie Photo Pool. You don't have to create your page using the Couture Collections but you can if you've got them.This is the final challenge for May and we won't be voting until after the first challenge of June is posted to give you enough time to get all five weeks' worth of May's challenges uploaded to the photo pool. Some absolutely amazing artwork has been submitted thus far and I can't see what is added after today.

Jessi

Vanessa

Ronda

Tania

Chrissy

Chrissy was pretty stoked to get started with her new DT position so here's an early contribution from her for this month's final challenge (LOVE that pencil crayon business on that page!)

And this tidbit is an extra from Jessi...what a kick-ass way to use of the matrix from chipboard letters! Note to self: save chipboard alpha matrix! Love it, Jess :)

Challenge 50_

Wow, here it its, the last official challenge for 2007! The girls have pulled all the stops for this fun challenge and get a load of the artwork below. This sketch from Becky Fleck is really great if you are a one-photo scrapper like me. If you remember from last week, Christine's layout was part one of two...well, part two is here today so check it out, leave some praise and don't forget to visit us over the holidays. The blog is celebrating its first anniversary on the 22nd and there will be a RAK or two so you probably want to get in on that!

Sallie

Christine

Jessi
Margaret
Also, this week's post from Margaret is her final submission as she has decided to commit her time to other pursuits. We've enjoyed having her and stealing ideas from her pages. Thanks for all your contributions, Margaret. It has been a joy to have you on our team. We wish you all the best in your future projects!
Watch in January to see who we have joining the team...it's all very exciting!




Tania


And as always, Tania has made a schwack of extras featuring elements from her kit. It's almost a game of Where's Waldo to find some of the pieces but they're all there...I can't believe how far she can make these kits go!
And in case you were wondering how she makes this stuff go so far, I think Tania is a bit of a mini-book junkie. It's really rare for her pages to be 12x12, that's how she gets all that mileage.

Challenge 49

Hooray! It's December finally and that means that there's a new kit which was posted at the beginning of the month. You can see it here to get a better idea of what the gals used this week for their pages. Check 'em out! This sketch originated from the extensive sketch gallery at Little Book of Sketches and let me warn you, there are so many great ones, you'll have a hard time deciding!! Remember to scrap your own page using this sketch and you will be in the running to win your own FREE December Page collection. All you have to do is upload a photo of your gorgeous page to our Flickr group and we (the design team & I) will vote on our favorite. Betcha want free scrap stuff, right!?!


Jessi

Vanessa
Danielle


Tania
here's a little journaling for ya...cuz I know everyone always wants to read the journaling!!!

Sallie

Margaret

Christine
Christine's page is one of a two-page layout. See the second page next friday!

Challenge 48

This week's challenge was such fun. I have to point out that Jessi has single-handedly started a photo-strip craze and just about everyone on the DT has been using them. I must admit, I have my own waiting to be scrapped but I didn't want to appear to be as much of a scraplifter as I am! LOL. For me, this was the perfect excuse to use an 8x12 print of Seth from earlier this year. Gotta love it!

Don't forget to scrap your own page from this sketch and upload it to our FLICKR GROUP for your chance to be chosen as the favorite for the month, which means you could win this month's kit! Wow, that sounds like it could be fun...well, whaddaya waitin' for?!?! Get scrapping!

Jessi

Vanessa

Tania

Danielle

Christine

Sallie
So now that you've checked out everyone's pages for this month with our STELLAR kit, get a load of this...Tania (our resident scrappin-with-scraps scrapper) rocked out this mini book of her girls. Love that Tania, she's never one to let perfectly good scraps go to waste!