December 2014 Challenge

Your challenge for December is to create something with a Christmas or holiday theme.

Our winner from November is Donna.

Upload your creation to your blog or the LID Facebook page then come back here and leave a comment with a link to your creation and your email by 31st December.

Entries are due by the 31st December. We'll be back on the 15th with some inspiration from the team.

November 2014 Team Inspiration

Here’s how the team interpreted this month’s challenge…

Marisol

Karen

Joan

Caroline

November 2014 Challenge

Can you believe we are in November already!! Where has this year gone?
Congratulations to Maja who won our October challenge with this page

Our challenge for November is a sketch challenge. Create a page/pocket page card using the sketch as your inspiration.

Smashbook/Pocket Page sketch

Scrapbook sketch

Upload your creation to your blog or the LID Facebook page then come back here and leave a comment with a link to your creation and your email by 30th November.

Entries are due by the 30th November. We'll be back on the 15th with some inspiration from the team.

October 2014 - Team inspiration (& September winners)

Sorry for the delay announcing the winners for the September winners. Yes I said winners. The team couldn't decide on one winner so I have asked all 3 entries to guest for us in December. We look forward to working with them and seeing their awesome creations.

Onto our inspiration for this month....

Karen - RSPCA Happy Tails Day 

Caroline - Frocktober*

Joan - Breast Cancer Awareness

Just a quick reminder - please leave a way for us to contact you should you win :)

* This month in Australia is Frocktober and  I (Caroline) am taking part in my third Froctober and would love it if you would consider sponsoring me. You can read all about my fundraising efforts over at my Frocktober page.

October 2014 Challenge

Our challenge this month is a pretty open one. October has a few charity events here in Australia and I want to challenge you to create a page that is themed to a charity event but not necessarily about the charity itself.

For example....

• the RSPCA holds Happy Tails day this month so you could create a page about animals.

• October is also Frocktober*, raising funds and awareness about Ovarian Cancer so you could create a page about dresses or use teal on your page (teal is the colour for Ovarian Cancer).
• Pink Ribbon Day is also held during October so you could create a page about the women in your life or create a page using pink ribbons.

You may know of another charity event during October so feel free to use it as your inspiration. Just make sure to mention what your inspiration is so we know :)
Upload your creation to your blog or the LID Facebook page then come back here and leave a comment with a link to your creation by 31st October.

*On a side note I (Caroline) am taking part in my third Froctober and would love it if you would consider sponsoring me. You can read all about my fundraising efforts over at my Frocktober page.

Entries are due by the 31st October. We'll be back on the 15th with some inspiration from the team.
The winner for September will be announced tomorrow.

September 2014 - Team inspiration

The challenge is open til 30th Sept. You can check the challenge details here.

The team created some stunning pages this month so without furthre ado....

Joan


Marisol

 Karen

 

Caroline

September 2014 Challenge

Welcome back to Life in Details challenges.

This month sees the starts of some changes here at LID.
Challenges will be posted on the first of the month and are now open to scrapbookers, smash bookers and pocket pagers.
The LID team examples will be posted mid month, hopefully giving you some inspiration if you haven't created something yet.

So onto the new challenge.
How to enter?
Create a page or pocket page card using the following colours as you inspiration.

Upload your creation to your blog or the LID Facebook page (under the Sept 2014 folder) then come back here and leave a comment with a link to your creation by 30th Sept.

The winner (as chosen by the LID design team) will be offered a guest team spot for the following month and a small embellishment pack.

Design Team Call

Do you love scrapbooking, creating pocket pages or Smashbooking? Do you like to inspire others? Do you love doing challenges? Then you'll want to keep reading!

Life in Details is looking for some new creatives to join our team. We don't care if you have heaps of experience or are fairly new - we're looking for people who love to create and share.

We have vacancies for the following positions

• Pocket pages
• Smashbooks
• Scrapbook (digital/paper/hybrid)

Team requirements:

• Create a page (scrapbook/smashbook page/pocket page)/pocket page card based on the monthly challenge
• Positions are for 3 months, starting 1 September2014. 
• Input ideas for future challenges
• Share your creations on your blog/Facebook page
• If you have a blog have our blog button somewhere

How to apply:

• Create a layout/smashbook page/pocket page card based on the following 'challenge'
• Email your creation and application to lifeindetailschallengeblog@gmail.com with the subject "Design Team Call" by 28th August 2014

Challenge:

Create a scrapbook page, Smashbook page or a pocket page card that is based on this sketch.

source: Basic Grey

Application questions:

• Your name & location
• Your blog/Facebook link
• Position you are applying for (Scrapbook/Pocket Pages/Smashbook)
• Some other examples of your work (can be a link to your blog/gallery or just attach a couple of samples)
• Tell us about yourself and why you would be a great choice for our team
• Any other relevant information you’d like to share.

Changes.

Hi fellow crafters,

Caroline here and I'm just posting to let you know that I'm taking over Life in Details challenge blog from Darcy.
I've been here since the blog started and love that the team gets to share and hopefully inspire you all each month.

So what will the change mean? At this stage we'll be taking the month of August off, namely cause I'm due to have baby #2 any day now and I'm working on a few things behind the scenes.
Apart from that, I don't want to give away too much ;)

A HUGE thank you to Darcy for all her work and to the amazing team who have worked on the challenges. Some of them are staying on and others, sadly, are leaving us. We will most likely have a team call again but more details at the end of August.

So thank you all for playing along. I hope we'll see you again and maybe some new faces too, in September.

July Smash Challenge: Animal Prints!

I guess I was half asleep when I set up this challenge to post!  I reposted the June challenge of filmstrips, oops!  Sorry for anyone who saw that post and was all set to play along.  So if you did, still play!  Let's me this filmstrips or animal prints, just for the heck of it!

Here is what our fabulous design team duo has to wow you with this month!

"Road Trip"

Billie-Jean

I added so much from our trip away, using animal print paper throughout. I added pockets and flaps :)

"Cleveland Zoo"

Joan

An InLinkz Link-up

July Pocket Style Challenge: Use a 4x6 photo over multiple pockets

Our challenge for July is to use a 4x6 (or larger!) photo over multiple pockets.  Using photos in this manner creates such an interesting view for your spread!  If you haven't done this before, we invite you to give it a try. If you're a fan of using this technique, share with us!

Have a look at a few examples from our design team!

Rachel

Kirsten Michelsen

Darcy

Caroline

Marisol

An InLinkz Link-up

June Smash Challenge: Film Strip!

Our latest smash challenge is here and our ladies have created to fabulous pages to inspire you!  Our challenge has changed just a bit, you now will have a full month to create and link up with us!

Billie-Jean

"You Make Me Smile"

Joan

An InLinkz Link-up

May winner!

Congratulations

Catherine!

Catherine please email us at lifeindetailschallengeblog@gmail.com for information about being our guest designer in July and to receive your badge! 

Confetti Pocket Card Tutorial

Sometimes you want to add a confetti pocket to your spread but don't want to stitch up your plastics or seal it another way (washi tape/glue/etc.), I have the perfect solution for you. This is by no means my original idea and there are plenty of tutorials out on the net for how to create confetti pocket - this is just how I made mine.



You will need:

• pattern paper or cardstock
• vellum or some see through plastic (recycle your product packaging)
• glitter/sequins/confetti/punched shapes - something to fill your pocket with

Once you've decided on the size you want to make your pocket and got your bits and pieces together we can begin.
To make things a bit easier for you I've created a printable PDF template. The document contains a 4x4, 3x4 and 4x6 template in both vertical & horizontal in both 1/2 inch border and insta-style border. You can download the PDF here.
1. Print your template onto plain paper (means you can reuse it another time) and cut it out.



2. Trace round your template onto your chosen PP or cardstock and cut it out. I kinda cheated. I folded my cardstock in half so my windows matched.

 

3. Cut your vellum/plastic to slightly larger than the window size. I cut my vellum to about the same size as the frame and folded it in half.

 

4. Stick your vellum to what will be the inside of your pocket using double sided tape. Now stick 3 SIDES of your pocket together using double sided tape.
(You can stitch it if you like but I was going for quick in my example)

5. Add your glitter/sequins/filler of choice.
6. Tape up the top (or stitch) to seal it shut.

Step back and admire your handy work :)

With the insta-style frames I found sticking the bottom of the vellum together, or cutting your vellum the same size as your frame and fold it in half, otherwise you loose your glitter into the bottom part of the frame :/

Thank you Caroline! This is a great help to me (and others) for sure!

June PL challenge: Confetti pockets

We have the talented Michelle with us this month and she is sharing her absolutely fabulous example of a "confetti pocket" card.  Have no fear, if you are unsure of how to make a pocket card, Caroline has prepared a great tutorial that I will share in a few days!

Hi! My name is Michelle. I’m finally a SAHM after nine years in the nursing field, so I’m lucky enough to spend time every day in my scrap studio. I live in Tennessee with my wonderfully supportive husband and our teenage daughter. My family feature throughout my work, they are my world. I started dabbling in scrapbooking 13 years ago however, it didn’t become an obsession until about 2 years ago. There are so many styles and techniques to play around with now. I really enjoy the creative outlet of paper crafting, while documenting all parts of our life. I’m not sure if I have any set style, I’m kind of all over the place. I think it often depends on my mood, the subject, or challenge involved. I just started doing Project Life this year and I have to say I’m loving every minute of it. Thanks so much for the opportunity to guest design this month and share my PL page with you.   

Our Design Team's creations

Caroline

Kirsten Michelsen

Rachel 

Marisol

We are making a little change this month in that the challenge will now be a monthly challenge!  So you have from June 1-30th to link up and share with us!

An InLinkz Link-up

Smash Challenge: Use a stamp or stencil or both!

Joan's smash page is a smash!  A work of art.  I really am in awe of her design.  Thank you Joan, your project is gorgeous.

Joan Liddle

Arbor Day

If you'd like to play along, please link up before May 28th.

Some Facebook entries to share!

There are two fantastic pages that have been shared on our Facebook page!

Thanks to Catherine!

And thanks to Magi!

These are both gorgeous!  

There are still a few days to play so start stitching now!!

April Winner!

Congratulations

Michelle!

Michelle please email us at lifeindetailschallengeblog@gmail.com for information about being our guest designer in June and to receive your badge!

Unfortunately, there is no winner for our smash challenge as we did not have anyone play. Our next smash challenge starts May 15th, and we hope to see you play along!