Shoppe Pixiepetals offers blooms, bits, and bobs that are vintage and whimsical. Amongst the virtual shelves you can find vintage craft goodness, scrunched seam binding, crochet flowers, handcrafted embellishments, glittered chipboard, and homemade fabric brads.

This challenge requires you to create a vintage project using the color challenge.  Vintage is a new trend in interior design and of course paper crafting.  A vintage style can be showcased in a variety of ways, including inking edges, using old buttons, crocheted embellishments, and adding other antique elements.  Projects can include color by using cardstock and/or patterned paper, instead of by coloring stamped images.  Don’t forget that a vintage style can be incorporated into other paper craft ideas, including scrapbook layouts, mini albums, and other altered art.

The main colors are highlighted in Polaroid inspired color swatches. Keep the colors of your project as close to the colors in the challenge image.  Remember, colors can be incorporated into your project in more ways than cardstock.

*White/Cream may be used as an additional neutral color.

Don’t forget:

1. Use the colors in the Polaroid-inspired color swatches (featured in the image above) and

2. Create a vintage style project.

You have until Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 11:59 pm EST to submit your entries below.

The photos used in the graphic are by Flying House Studios (Traveling Tribe).

Upload a photo of your project to your blog or online gallery, such as Splitcoaststampers, Flickr, or Papertrey Ink, then copy the direct link to your project to the embedded link widget below. If you do not have a direct link to your blog/gallery posting that features the challenge, your link may be deleted. If it is deleted, no biggie, just come back and re-link the correct link! Only links left in the link widget will be considered for challenge submissions.

If you miss the deadline, please do not link your posting in the comments area.

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We also have a Flickr Group available to share your projects. Please add your projects to Embellish Magazine Flickr group.

If you want to use the graphic above, feel free to, but make sure you right-click and choose the “Save Image As” choice to save it to your computer, then upload to your blog!

After the challenge ends, the design team will select six designers who created hot projects to highlight. The designers will be highlighted in a blog posting.  You can find all blog postings related to challenge winners in the drop down category menu on the right sidebar at the top, called “Embellish What’s Hot.” Additionally, there will be a designer who will be featured and will win a $15 Shoppe Voucher from Pixie Petals.  The winner must contact Embellish Magazine within 48 hours of the announcement. We reserve the right to select a new winner if the designer makes no contact.

Creating a vintage style can be difficult for those who usually steers clear of that design concept; however, the design team has really showcased it very well.  Despite a few grumbles, these ladies exemplify vintage at its best.  Take a peek at what they created using this very unique color combination and head on over to their blogs to get more information.  We all used some great items in Pixie Petal’s shoppe, including this flower and ribbon.

Ashley

Charlene

Maile

Mariana

Sarah

Tina

Challenge ends Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST

Meg C.

1. Cristina
2. Chupa
3. Geri
4. Jacqueline
5. Jean Martin
6. Suzanne C.

Background stamping is a popular trend in paper crafting and everyone who submitted had some really fabulous designs.  It was very difficult narrowing down the “hot designers” for this challenge.  Please take a moment to review the entries in the challenge here.  Congratulations to Meg C.!! Your card design was a hit for the design team.  Please Contact Us and send a mailing address to claim your Skipping Stones Design stamp sets!  Don’t forget to check out the other six “hot designers.”  They have created some amazing concepts and styles using this trendy color combination along with background stamping.

Currently, My Favorite Things is sponsoring our Felt Color Challenge.  It is a unique color combination, but so many entries already have such a great warm, fuzzy feeling.  We hope you get a chance to join in on the fun!

Did you know My Favorite Things sells felt?  It’s great and they have an array of colors, perfect for your felt stash!

Think fresh, fun and completely distinctive, and you have My Favorite Things (MFT).  From our passionately popular “Who’s That Girl” line, to the sweet “Pure Innocence” and “Jolinne” characters, MFT has a little something for everyone, and a lot of something different!

You’ve found a stamping home with your MFT family, there’s fun & friendship to be had in addition to the best stamps an stamping products around.  With Brand Spankin’ New releases every month, there is always something worth coming back for!

Wanna see the complete line? Visit www.mftstamps.com!

This challenge requires you to create a project using the color challenge and felt.  Felt is a new medium used by paper crafters to add texture to projects.  From basic backgrounds to ‘felt piecing’ to handmade flowers, there are so many felt design options.  Projects can include color by using cardstock and/or patterned paper, instead of by coloring stamped images.  Don’t forget that felt can be incorporated into other paper craft ideas, including scrapbook layouts, mini albums, and other altered art.

The main colors are highlighted in Polaroid inspired color swatches. Keep the colors of your project as close to the colors in the challenge image.  Remember, colors can be incorporated into your project in more ways than cardstock.

*White/Cream may be used as an additional neutral color.

Don’t forget:

1. Use the colors in the Polaroid-inspired color swatches (featured in the image above) and

2. Use felt.

You have until Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 11:59 pm EST to submit your entries below.

The photos used in the graphic are by McArthur Newell.

Upload a photo of your project to your blog or online gallery, such as Splitcoaststampers, Flickr, or Papertrey Ink, then copy the direct link to your project to the embedded link widget below. If you do not have a direct link to your blog/gallery posting that features the challenge, your link may be deleted. If it is deleted, no biggie, just come back and re-link the correct link! Only links left in the link widget will be considered for challenge submissions.

If you miss the deadline, please do not link your posting in the comments area.

NOTE: **If you are having difficulties with our link widget, please click the question mark link to get help from their blog. They offer useful step-by-step instructions.

IE v6 Brower Users: The link widget is not compatible with IE version 6. Please feel free to download Firefox for free here. You can also update your IE browser here. Sorry for any inconvenience in the cross-browser issues, but we hope you give Firefox a try!

We also have a Flickr Group available to share your projects. Please add your projects to Embellish Magazine Flickr group.

If you want to use the graphic above, feel free to, but make sure you right-click and choose the “Save Image As” choice to save it to your computer, then upload to your blog!

After the challenge ends, the design team will select six designers who created hot projects to highlight. The designers will be highlighted in a blog posting.  You can find all blog postings related to challenge winners in the drop down category menu on the right sidebar at the top, called “Embellish What’s Hot.” Additionally, there will be a designer who will be featured and will win a $25 Gift Certificate from My Favorite Things.  The winner must contact Embellish Magazine within 48 hours of the announcement. We reserve the right to select a new winner if the designer makes no contact.

The design team is at it again!  This time, they are using felt by My Favorite Things.  Take a look at how you can use felt on your projects.  Don’t forget to click on each photo to visit the designers’ blogs because some may have an additional project to share featuring more My Favorite Things products!

Ashley

My Favorite Felt – Banana Split

Rainy Day Friends

Charlene

Maile

Sheltering Tree Die

Banana Split Felt

Sheltering Tree stamp set

Mariana

My Favorite Felt – Banana Split

Pure Innocence- Snow Day

Sarah

My Favorite Felt – Banana Split

Tina

Pure Innocence – Tweeny Tween Rock On

My Favorite Felt – Banana Split

Challenge ends Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 11:59 PM EST

Julie

1. Amy
2. Jaydee
3. Jinny
4. Lorena
5. Lynn
6. Mackenzie

Congratulations to Julie and the other top 6 “hot” designers for the Paper Piecing Color Challenge.  This challenge was a tough one for most, but not this group of ladies!  There was a lot of great designs to select from.  So many, it took us nearly two weeks to decide!  There is still time to check out our Background Stamping Color Challenge and then we have a new one that will surely give you goose bumps this Friday.  Julie, please “contact” us and I’ll make sure you get your My Favorite Things gift certificate!