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 thirty-fourth installment now – woo hoo!! Thank you to everyone who has given it love and support and helped it to grow – especially the weeks where you’ve been patient with me while I’ve extended the challenges!
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!
One final thing before we get underway! I’ve finally created a badge for the challenge for anyone who wishes to add it to their blog, you’d make me so happy! I’ve included it on my blog sidebar along with the code you need to use it, so it couldn’t be simpler! And just in case you’d like to see it here, here’s what it looks like!
Fun right?! I’d love to see some of you grab it and use it!!
So are you excited to get this week’s challenge under way?! Let’s see what’s up for this week’s inspiration:
Source: Pinterest
I just love this happy, cheery room!! So many awesome colours and prints and geometrics! If I slept in here my creativity would be sparking every time I looked around!
Here’s what I came up with:
What do you think? I love how this turned out! Can you tell how I was inspired? 🙂
I started with a Pure White card base and adhered a piece of patterned paper from the My Mind’s Eye Find Your Wings And Fly: Sky’s The Limit collection to the base using Pinflair Glue Gel. I took my cues from the chevron duvet and all the other colours in the room – I couldn’t refuse that patterned paper! I also splattered my card with Heidi Swapp Colour Shine Mist in Black Velvet.
Next I stamped the scene from Neat & Tangled’s Winter Wishes set onto some patterned vellum using GinaK White Pigment ink, then overstamped with Studio Calico Colour Theory ink in Sunny Day, and SU! ink in Blushing Bride. I stamped the sentiment using Hero Arts ink in Blackboard and overstamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink. I adhered this to my panel using Pinflair and I was all done!
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 16th November at 11pm GMT/6pm EST
PS: if you would like to check out all of the previous challenge images you can see them here on my Pinterest board!
This challenge graphic is SO cute, and I LOVE your card! That stamp set is so darling…and I love the paper in the background! I especially love how you stamped onto vellum!!!
Thank you for the shout out! It made my Monday very happy! Congrats to the other winners! I love your card for this week…your vellum over the chevron paper!…that stamp set is on my wish list!…and the inspiration photo has my mind spinning with ideas!
So cool! I am loving that vellum piece!
Gorgeous colours! Hopefully I will have time to play and submit this time around. I added the card that you were asking about to my Instagram feed and have requested you so you can check it out over there. Hope you are having a good Monday! !
Congrats to all winners. The new inspiration piece has a lot going for it , my mind (what there is left of it) is awhirl. Your card, Miss T, is adorable and I can see how you interpreted this darling photo.
Congrats to the winners and LURVE your card, T!!!!
I love your interpretation on this. Awesome use of vellum and pattern paper! Beautiful!
Such a sweet card…so pretty! Congrats, to the winners!
Congrats ladies…awesome inspiration!
Taheerah, I love your card, I can definitely see how you were inspired! Can't wait to play!