Decorative Trim Color Trends Challenge

 

Decorative trims can be found in just about any manufacturer’s collections. They are the perfect way to dress up and embellish paper crafting projects. Whether your style is vintage, shabby chic, elegant, or just plain and simple, adding decorative trim to projects is easy, yet so effective. Join us and add some decorative trim to your project for this challenge.

Please make sure you review the rules below.

The photograph(s) in the challenge inspiration board are by Flying House Studios and from our very own designer, Tina Fussell!

May Arts is a leading distributor of high quality ribbon products, serving a wide variety of merchants from large retail outlets to home-based business in the craft and scrapbooking, gift, stationery, quilting, fancy food, floral, interior design and jewelry industries.  Since its founding, May Arts has built its business on a foundation of quality products, affordability, and outstanding customer service.

May Arts was founded in the early 1980’s in Greenwich, Connecticut. The original products were high-end silk flowers imported from Taiwan, which were decorated using quality ribbons. The decorative ribbons proved so popular among customers that the business gradually evolved into a dedicated ribbon wholesaler.

As a family-owned and operated business, May Arts began a long-standing tradition of quality, affordability, and exceptional customer service. We are dedicated to carrying on this same tradition by offering high quality products at competitive prices. Our friendly, knowledgeable staff is always happy to answer your questions or to assist you in placing your order.

 

This challenge requires you to create a paper craft project using the color challenge and decorative trim. Creating paper craft projects with decorative trim can be so easy! Just add an entire strip or a small sample to your card, layout, or altered art. Embellish the trim, make it an accent, or let it steal the show. We can’t wait to see what you create.

The main colors are featured in the challenge inspiration board above. 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. If you would like to use a neutral of white/cream and black/brown, please feel free to add it!

Upload a photo of your project to your blog or online gallery, such as Splitcoaststampers or Flickr, then copy the direct link to your project to the embedded link widget below or on one of the design team’s blogs. 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.

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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 top 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 category menu in the footer below, called “Embellish What’s Hot.”

Additionally, there will be a designer who will be featured and win an entire roll of crochet trim (more than 10 yards) and also the decorative trim from May Arts. The winner must contact Embellish within 48 hours of the announcement. We reserve the right to select a new winner if the designer makes no contact.

Need some inspiration? Well, you’re at the right place! The design team has embellished their projects with velvet and crocheted decorative trim.

 

Ashley created postal card. She added the velvet and crocheted decorative trim under the layered embellishments and accented it with rhinestones.

Charlene created this feminine card using the velvet and crocheted decorative trim. She ever so cleverly used the reversed side of the trim on a part of her design.

Cristina designed this cute Easter gift bag. She wrapped the velvet and crocheted decorative trim around the bag to give it perfect texture and color.

Mariana made this elegant card. She used the velvet and crocheted decorative trim as a creative border on her design.

Sarah used the velvet and crocheted decorative trim as an accent to her layered embellishments. She tucked a couple of strips of the trim under the embellishments for dimension, color and texture.

Tina designed this clean and simple layout. She used the velvet and crocheted decorative trim as a border between the photo and more crocheted trim.

Click the image above for additional rules. There are new rules, so please visit the link. Your entry may be deleted if your submission is also a part of a lot of other challenges.

Challenge ends Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST