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Hard Core Crop Winner

Thank you to everybody who participated in the crop this past week and a HUGE thanks to my participants; Louise, Joy and Ellen!! I know it was a tough challenge and I cannot tell you what amazing jobs you did with it! I am blown away by the creativity out there!

The winner of the 12 Days of Christmas challenge, as selected by random.org is LOUISE!! Congratulations Louise!

Please email [email protected] with your full name, address AND phone number with the challenge you won in the title (Suzanna's Challenge). You have have ONE week from the day we post on the Core Blog to claim your prize. Please allow for 4-6 weeks for shipping and processing.

Again thank you to all who passed by and all who participated!

Christmas Layout Challenge / Hard Core Crop 2013

 Welcome to Core'dinations Hard Core Crop!

Make sure you grab your blinkie and wear it proudly ALL WEEK LONG! Core'dinations is offering a prize to the person using it as their Facebook profile photo so grab it here and head over to the Facebook event page and let them know. https://www.facebook.com/events/475922629187858/

If you have joined us before the rules work pretty much the same. Whether this is your first time or you are a returning Hard Core Corpper PLEASE make sure you head over to the Core blog for a full list of rules HERE. They are pretty straight forward..you must use Core visibly on your projects, upload using the linky at the bottom of this post by midnight November 10th EST, and follow my challenge rules but please make sure you follow the rules and check them out on the Core blog. BUT the most important rule...is to CREATE AND HAVE FUN!

If you would like to see a full list of the challenges head over the Core blog HERE for a list that will be updated continually throughout the weekend.

Ready to break out the Core and create?! Okay, let's go!

12 Days of Core'dinations: Be a Core'dinations designer for a day and create a layout using 12 different pieces of Core'dinations cardstock! My challenge is a play on the 12 days of Christmas so I have used not only 12+ different pieces of Core'dinations but I have created a sample layout using the Christmas theme!

Sounds like a lot, doesn't? I promise you, it's not that difficult! It's what those of us on the design team do monthly for our projects - lots and lots of Core! Tear it, rip it, emboss it, pre-embossed, die cut, punched, you name it, it's game. Just use 12 different pieces!

Jazz up the Core a little; that Christmas tree is made up from three shades of green. There are three pieces of Core there; check, check and check! Throw in the Black Magic, four. The Vintage yellow makes five. The thin Royal blue strip is six. Oh, and the background Gemstone pearl makes seven! Include the Jillian Spotted and you have eight pieces of Core cardstock in that one picture alone! You CAN do this!

Vanilla Cream and Scarlet make nine and ten! Oh and a quick tip here for those of you using your Core'dinations cardstock in your Silhouette's; put the textured side down and flip your cut file. Cutting this way ensures that you get the cleanest cut possible!

Two shades of brown for the pinecones make eleven and twelve! That brighter green behind the pictures makes my 13th piece of Core'dinations!

The above layout was created using the following;

1. KraftCore Nostalgic
2. Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress
3. Vanilla Cream
4. (Maroon)
5. Gemstones Pearl
6. Black Magic Magic
7. Crabgrass
8. Adirondack Meadow
9. Parsley
10. Vintage Lemonade
11. Core Essentials Dark; green
12. Royal
13. Jillian Spotted Cardinal

Please make sure that you list all (yes, each and every one) of the Core'dinations that you used so that it's a quick and easy verification. Given that the theme of my challenge is based on the 12 days, I would love to see you use the Christmas holiday as your theme but I know that not everybody celebrates the same holiday's so feel free to change the theme, just remember to stick to the challenge rules and Core'dinations Hard Core Crop rules!

AND one lucky winner will get this awesome pack of Core'dinations Cardstock!

So now you've got all of the details, it's time to get to work! Follow the rules and most importantly, have fun! When you're finished, link in your project here!

EggSpert

How was your National Scrapbook Day yesterday? Did you get much accomplished? Assuming that was the objective. It needn't have been. But that was mine; to get a lot done. Foolish thought really... Michael was out of town with Nikolas at a swim meet (another story). So I had The Midget. And she had a soccer game. We had to have Mexican for Cinco de Mayo. There were many more reasons to be out of the house than there were to be in it, at my scrappy desk.

I did get two challenges done however! This one for Jillibean with one of the three sketches and one for Basic Grey using one of the two sketches. You know I'm a sketchy kind of gal!! I'll share the Basic Grey one another day this week.

I fussy cut a few of the butterflies from some Jillibean Soup paper, others are cardstock superimposed upon the "hole" cut with some Tim Holtz dies and the white butterflies are from SEI. I made little antennae using memory wire!! Love the flutter on the page!

I spent an inordinate amount of time figuring out how to tie a note this weekend... Ugghhh... Ridiculous really. I mean, how hard is it to tie a knot? Shouldn't be that complicated now should it? Well it is if you want it to sit properly on the page and don't do such things on a regular basis. Good thing this was after a visit from 'Rita! Margarita!! LOL!! It wraps things up nicely on the layout me thinks.

I'd love to see what you did for NSD!! Link me up if you've blogged it!

 

 

Friend of a Friend Contest

Like what you see? Want a chance to win free TaDa product? It’s easy as pie to enter in TaDa’s Friend of a Friend Contest. Go to this blog post HERE to find out details for your chance to win.

Rule #2 states that

Online names/nicknames are acceptable, but must be associated to a e-mail or Facebook account. If you use an online name for privacy sake, you must have your friends post their “… sent me” message with that SAME NAME. Only ONE name allowed, per entrant. Duplicate entrants under different names, will be disqualified.

For that reason, should you use me as your referral, please just use Suzanna. There aren't that many Suzanna's spelled with a "z" in the scrappy world...

Good luck friends!