Embellish Vintage Color Challenge :: Sponsored by Pixie Petals

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