Taheerah Atchia

Hey everyone!

Happy Monday! I know, I know, Mondays are tough. We all need a little tonic to help us get through the day. Luckily there’s a new challenge in town to help us do just that – the Cure For The Monday Blues Challenge!!

This is a challenge which I’ve created myself, yay me! Every Monday I will bring you a photo inspiration challenge, with images that focus on lifting us out of those Monday doldrums and all inspired to create!! I’ll be asking you to play along as well and linking up your creations! At the end of each week I’ll pick a Top 3 who’ll be my Cures For The Monday Blues and receive a special badge to add to your blog!!

This challenge is in its eighteenth week now – wow!! Thank you to everyone who has given it love and support and helped it to grow!

In case you missed this previous post, please read on for some of the recent changes made to the Challenge – including info on how to be in with a chance of becoming a Guest Designer!

Right then. Back to business, lol!

Before we get to this week’s challenge I want to once again thank all of you that submitted entries for the last challenge. I am always especially happy to see some new faces to the Challenge, as well as ‘regulars’! They were all truly beautiful entries and you did not make my life easy when choosing the winners!! I really wanted to pick you all!! Here are my Top 3 Cures For The Monday Blues:

Winners please contact me to be sent your challenge winner’s badges!

Yet again I had some absolute stunners for entries. It is seriously getting harder and harder each week to pick out only a Top 3! All of you have really been putting in some amazing designs and it makes me so happy when you play, so please keep playing along!

***Also*** last week I was giving away a spot for the Online Card Classes Watercolor For Cardmakers class! I’m delighted to announce that the winner is:

Congratulations Ton – looks like you got your wishi!! Please contact me to claim your prize!!

So are you excited to get this week’s challenge under way?! Let’s see what’s up for this week’s inspiration:

I just love this modern peg-board wall with all those unexpected points of interest!! So much to take in and use for inspiration here, and I am totally in love with the crisp, modern colour palette!!

Here’s my take on the inspiration:

I really love how this turned out!!

I started with a Pure White card base and stamped it with the Hero Arts Tiny Ink Spots Background stamp using  Versafine Onyx Black ink.

I then die cut all my letters from Orange You Fabulous cardstock using the Mama Elephant Inline Letters dies. I adhered them to a piece of vellum using Glossy Accents. I used Julie Ebersole‘s trick of lining up the die-cut letters then adhering a piece of washi tape to them to lift them all up in place, applied my adhesive then simply pressed my strip back down! Perfect alignment every time! That Julie. She’s amazing. 🙂

I adhered a fancy peg (from a previous Studio Calico kit I believe, but I don’t know which I’m afraid) using Pinflair Glue Gel then simply clipped my vellum in! I love how you could swap out the vellum for another piece with a different sentiment that goes with the ‘thanks’ of the peg – re-usable and versatile!!

So now it’s your turn to cure the Monday Blues! Here’s how to participate in the challenge!

The Rules

• Create a brand new project using the photo inspiration
• Post on your blog or to an online photo album. Ensure you link up to this challenge post in your blog post and include the inspiration photo
• If it is not obvious how the image inspired you then please explain your process in your post
• Link up your creations to this post using the Inlinkz below. Please use the link to your actual post rather than the link to your blog
• You can enter as many times as you like!
• The deadline for linking submissions is Sunday 25th May at 11pm BST/6pm EST

Supplies:

Pure White Cardstock	Vellum Cardstock	Orange You Fabulous Cardstock	Tiny Ink Spots Background Stamp (Hero Arts)	Versafine Onyx Black Ink	Inline Letters Die Collection	Pinflair Glue Gel
Glossy Accents

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