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The First Ever Wacky Wednesday Challenge at the Latte Lounge!!

It's Finally Here!!

The FIRST EVER 

Wacky Wednesday Challenge!!!


Every other Wednesday, yours truly (Stacie) will be hosting a challenge at The Latte Lounge that will run for 2 weeks!


The Challenge Theme for Wednesdays is going to be "Wacky Wednesday", so be prepared for the unexpected!! We're going to try to present challenges that are both different and intriguing!


This week, I have decided to start out with something to honor the State Fair, which is in full swing in our area!

You can get everything at the Fair, from fried Oreos (YUK!) to corn dogs and cotton candy! But the one thing all these delicacies have in common is that they're all served on a STICK! 

So, for the Wacky Wednesday challenge, I decided to keep it pretty simple:  

USE REAL WOOD!

Your project can be ANYTHING as long as you include at least ONE piece of REAL wood!! It can be a popsicle stick, a kabob skewer, a toothpick, or a twig from a tree... ANY REAL WOOD!

As you can see from my inspiration photo, I opted for some YUMMY candied apples on popsicle sticks!

I made the apples with Cinnamon Candies so they're super-YUMMY!!

For the "Crafty" portion of my project, I used 3 different cut files from SVGCuts.com. The tag is in the Double Layered Tags collection and the Masked Boo Caption and the Cuddly Halloween Ghost were both FREEBIES!!! Look at all the CUTE stuff you can do with FREE files!!











So! Come on over to the Latte Lounge and bring your "Wacky Wooden" Creations with you.

The challenge will run for 2 weeks and the winner will receive 2 FREE images from The Stamping Boutique!








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Saturday Sharing

Blog candy post can be found here -

DIGI DAY TODAY AT
Stamping Boutique SNR Group from 7-9 pm CST.
Here are the deets --
Tracey is giving away the complete line of Candyland to one lucky winner on Digi Day.
Here is what you need to do.
1.- Go to the store and purchase a winter/christmas image.
2.- bring it with you to digi day and show us.
3. get entered into a drawing for the entire line of wonderful Candyland images.

Hope to see you and your project there! We will be celebrating winter/Christmas.

The other info I wanted to pass on is about a wonderful opportunity to help others.

Jodie at Bugaboo is doing a fund raiser for 2 fabulous organizations.

Jodie's son is raising money for UNICEF and she is offering 7 free digis to anyone who makes a $10 donation.

Jodie's son and Cammy's daughter both have Type 1 Diabetes and they are currently working to raise money to find a cure for Juvenile Diabetes. Again Jodie is offering 7 images for a $10 donation.

You will find all the details HERE.

I hope that you will consider making a donation to these organizations.

Next week will be an exciting week around here -- we have 2 new DT members to introduce (maybe 3) and some awesome new challenges that will be starting. Be sure to stop by and say hi.

Have a wonderful Saturday!

Huge blog candy with Copics, MS punch and new My Yellow Bicycle Christmas papers!!!

It's blog candy time again. This time we're giving away a set of "12"Copic Cioa's. Same rules apply. Just leave a comment and post this to your blog with the good ole' link back to enter.
Double your chances by becoming a follower (leave a second comment) triple your chances by having a friend become a new follower (leave a third comment)
If you sign up to be a new member at The Latte Lounge you get an extra entry for that. Just please leave another comment to let us know.
There are lots of chances to win. The winner will be chosen at random on December 1, 2010.

Blog candy includes:
12 yummy, yummy Copic Cioa's,
My Little Yellow Bicycle Christmas line: 6 PP's, 6 cardstock, Banner stickers, canvas stickers, glitter rubons,
Envelope album making kit.
Making Memories advent calendar kit.
Copic color chart.
Shortcake "Merci" stamp.
Martha Stewart Maple Leaf punch.

This is a good one ladies.
This is so exciting! Good luck everyone!!

The Colors of Fall

I'm sorry I'm so late in posting this.

 

Good morning! It's time for me to host another challenge at The Latte Lounge. I was so excited to have 19 play along in my last challenge, I'm hoping to get even more this time.

For this challenge I would like you to use The Colors of Fall on your creations; browns, greens, oranges, yellows and reds. You can use any images, stickers, die cuts, etc... from any company. So have fun with it.

The challenge will run for 2 weeks, so you will have until November 4th to complete your project. Remember if you finish a 3D project for this challenge by Oct. 31 you can also enter it in the Month long challenge that Melissa is hosting. Yay, I like 2 for 1 entries.

Here's some inspiration...

 

This is Willow from Michelle Perkett.

 

This one is from Pattie's Creations.

And, this one is from The Stamping Boutique.

So, get crafting and lets see those fall creations. I hope you'll all play along.

Thanks for looking.  Have a great day.

~Rhonda

 

Featured Member - Tracey Malnofski!!

Can you believe I've never had Tracey as our Featured Member!! Not only is Tracey a fabulous artist, she is also a very good friend.

Here's a little bit about Tracey--

Hi everyone! I’m Tracey Malnofski. I’ll try to make this as interesting as possible out of my quite uninteresting life. LOL! Some of you may know that I’m the artist and owner of The Stamping Boutique. So drawing and running my business is how I spend most of my time.
I live in Yorktown In, but grew up in Las Vegas, NV. Big culture shock there. Nothing more embarrassing than trying to tip the kid at Marsh for helping carry out your groceries, or the UPS guy. LOL! I was trained since infancy to tip, tip, tip. That was one cultural difference of many I learned when moving to Indiana.
I also tried to order room service from the Holiday Inn. :D

How long have you been paper crafting?
I started in 2001. So that’s 10. Wow! You’d think I’d be better at it.

How did you get started in paper crafting?
I was visiting my sister in AZ and she had all this fun stuff out. You know the stuff. PP’s, glue, glitter. She taught me how to do some basic things and it was so much fun. I still have those pages and OMGosh! They look like a 5year-old did them! LOL!

What crafting item can you not live without?
My Glue Glider. It’s the best adhesive around. The best I’ve found anyway.

What is your favorite paper crafting company? My favorite crafting company is October Afternoon. I’m anxiously awaiting “Modern Homemaker” to be released at the moment.

What is your favorite coloring medium?
Copic, of course. Isn’t that everyone’s. I have to say I’m an original though. About 3 years ago I wanted to try brush markers for their convenience. I’d been watercoloring mostly up until then. I bought one of about 10 or 15 different types of markers and worked with them all. Copic was my favorite hands down. This was before I’d ever heard of Copic.
So I started collecting them and now I proudly own every single color of sketch marker available.

Do you have any other hobbies?
Sure. I love reading and horseback riding. I have a horse I adore. I like to crochet. I’m a USTA 4.0 ranked player, but I took 3 years off. I’m going to get back into it in the next couple of weeks. I’m super nervous about that.

Is there anything else you would like to share about yourself?
I’d like to thank everyone reading this for making TLL such an awesome place to be. It’s home sweet home.

Most importantly, I want to thank Tracey for giving us such a wonderful home on the web!!!!!!!

Challenge Update

Wanted to stop by and give you a little reminder or two--

Our Monthly Challenge is open until October 31st.
Challenge - Create a 3D Halloween or Autumn Project
Prize - 7 Bugaboo Digi Images of your choice.

I wanted to share a few cards I made using one of Bugaboo's fun Halloween images from the October kit - 20 images for $20.



We also have Rhonda's challenge still open
100710 - Theme - Fall/Halloween - You can use images from any company to enter so please join the fun.

Not to mention you can enter the same project in both challenges!!

Also don't forget our DT call!!!

Have a great day!!!

TLL DT CALL!!!

We would love to add to our team in our efforts to continually improve our site and to offer more challenges.

If you join the team you will be expected to
- host a challenge every other week here on the site as well as post about it on your blog.
- pick one day a week to post about TLL on your blog
- welcome new members and wish current members Happy Birthday
- comment on member photos once a week
- post one new photo/per week

In return you will receive,
- 4 free digi images from The Stamping Boutique each month
- 40% discount in The Stamping Boutique store.

The term will start in November and be for 3 months however it may be extened beyond that.

If you are interested in joining then please email me at mczapor@oh.rr.com.