LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy winners!

Wow! We've had some fabulous entries for LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy! The winner is

 Amy

Congratulations Amy! You're the winner of LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy! Please email us with your mailing details so that we can get your RAK to you! :) [Please grab the winner badge from the sidebar.]

And here are our Top 3!

Keefy

Irit

Tracey

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P/s: Don't forget to play along with our current challenge - LESSology Challenge #12: Photo Block Challenge! It ends on Sunday April 1, 11.59pm EST. Please read the challenge rules to ensure your eligibility for our prizes.  

 

LESSology Challenge #11: Guest Designer Shahrul Niza

Hello there friends! Our guest for LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy is the talented Shahrul Niza.

Hello. I am Shahrul Niza from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I am lucky to have found this unique challenge blog recently. A blog dedicated for all things altered. I have always loved to alter things, turning 'junk' or something old into beautiful somethings again. Often times, I used altered things in my mini album or scrapbook projects. It's twice the FUN!. I'm happiest when I could recycle things, create altered art and share them online to inspire others. Yes, I do think hard before throwing anything away. LOL. Little steps to minimize impact to the environment.

You could visit my blog for inspirations too @ Such pretty Canvas.

I'm grateful and so excited to be guest designing here today, for the LESSology Challenge #11; Flights of Fantasy. Thank you Angi and Yvonne for such opportunity!. For this project, I like to recycle an old cigar box into a trendy little craft bag. A storage for my scrapbook embellishments, yet trendy enough to bring it along to any crop sessions!. I'm inspired by Kelly Rae Robert's infamous book TAKE FLIGHT, so I'm going to use that big words to adorn my bag. Love it.    

... here is the finished project.

... the posterior look. I don't want to cover the 
beautiful wood with paint, so I just stamped some 
butterflies and ethnic patterns over the cigar label. 
Making it look 'rugged' and well-worn.

...I love this quote that says 
' Give your imagination wings'.

... basically, I used a cigar box, 
a drawer pull and some pattern papers.

... then I applied a few coats of acrylic paint on 

the inside and stamped musical notes on the hinge. 
And painted the outside cover with cream paint.

... I used a brass drawer pull (found at a flea 
market) as a handle, secured by a pair of metal 
brads. It looks old and special. A ribbon, a 
leather strap or an old belt does the job as well.

... I added two metal corners for t
front cover to make it look a bit grungy.

Wow! This is a gorgeous project Shahrul! Don't you agree? Please leave a little love for our guest Shahrul. :)

P/s: Don't forget to play along with our current challenge - LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy! It ends on Sunday March 4, 11.59pm EST. Please read the challenge rules to ensure your eligibility for our prizes.  

LESSology Challenge #11: Creative inspiration from Amy Tsuruta and Lisa Saunders!

Hope you are hard at work with your projects for LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy! Or maybe you just need a few more ideas to get their creativity engine started?

Hello!!!

Amy T here, sooo excited to share my Flights of Fantasy project with you today!

Can you read the sentiment?

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.~Erma Bombeck

I made a wall cardboard 'canvas'....the base is packaging material that I've been hoarding {10.25 x 3.5}.  All the papers are from my latest Pink Paislee purchase, the Nantucket collection.  

The left panel is all Pink Paislee:

The middle panel uses October Afternoon silhouette stickers:

 See the butterfly?  I used the Stampin' Up die on yup, a Starbucks Coffee Cup Sleeve...love those things:)  The center is a Pink Paislee Chip Tile...

I had such a fun time putting together this project and it has a home in the 'ole scrap room:)

I can't wait to see how you're inspired by the challenge!

My sister and her family have just booked their first trip to Orlando.
So I decided to make my nieces and nephew little notebooks for their flight.


I covered these hardbacked spiral bound notebooks. Each one has clouds and planes, but each one is slightly different. I have added their names and covered the front of each one with modge podge to secure it all down nicely.
I have laminated a cloud and plane for each book and tied with ribbon to the top wire spiral.

I'll give them the books before they go with a pack of pencils for each of them.

Lisa x

Some really fun ideas for LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy! Please feel free to interpret the challenge in your own unique way as long as you include at least one upcycled item in your creation. We would love to see your entries! :)

LESSology Challenge #11: Creative inspiration from Angi Barrs, Mandy Dodd and Julie Tucker-Wolek!

Ready for a second round of inspiration for LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy from the design team? 

Happy Wednesday ya'll!  Angi here with a fun project that incorporates wood and canvas. I made a birdie and mini card set for the Flights of Fantasy Challenge.

I got the little wooden birdie from Michael's. I thought about painting it white, but changed my mind because I like the natural wood color. I used a glue dot to add a piece of recycled canvas and a mulberry paper flower to dress it up a bit.



I also made a coordinating mini card with more of the recycled canvas!

I can't wait to see what you all come up with for this challenge!

Hi its Mandy here with a fun flight of fantasy!!

This takes me back to my childhood making a kite with my Dad.

He was wonderful at making 'stuff' and showing us kids how things worked.

Constructing it pretty much came back from memory ...

One piece of fabric.  I had a piece of yellow fabric

laying around, so I misted it orange!

Two pieces of wood, one longer than the other (depending how big the kite is to be. Mine is 22x16ins) and tie the middle where it criss-crosses with string  The taped area on the wood is where I'll tie the string that we hold onto to fly the kite.

Forgot to take a photo of the fine sting that runs from each point of the wood (rolling eyes) but you can make out its shadow where I've folded over the edges and glue down.

 Stamped all over with some hearts with white paint



Embellished with some white and yellow vintage doilies and buttons with some lemon seambinding and added the tail.

AND IT WORKS!!!

Kite flying is so much fun with the family...

And I'm really looking forward to your ideas too!

Hi everyone!!! :)

For my flights of fantasy challenge, I decided to take a different approach with mine! This being the month of love ;) I went a little romantic on mine!!  I had some older banner pieces and I made a banner full of butterflies! :) 

Can't wait to see what you all create for this fun challenge! :)

Another round of jaw-dropping goodness...Are you blown away by the ideas by our awesome design team? We would love to see your entries for LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy!

LESSology Challenge #11: Creative Inspiration from Audrey Pettit, Kirsty Vittetoe, Laurel Seabrook, Linda Lapotka and Yvonne Yam

Curious to see how the team interpreted LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy?

Hi everyone, it's Audrey, here sharing my project for our new challenge, Flights of Fantasy.


I absolutely adore our challenge theme this time around! So many possibilities! I mean, is there any end of cute bird products on the market these days? For my project, I made a card with this adorable owl die that I fell in love with at first sight and couldn't wait to use. What a perfect opportunity to try something new.


I die cut the owl from several different patterned papers so I could mix and match the parts to create my own design. I used foam adhesive on some of my layers to give depth and dimension to the little guy, and centered him in an ornate frame that was die cut from kraft cardstock. A little bit of white paint around the edges gives an instant sense of age to the design.

Added a hand-stamped sentiment banner and a layered pom-pom, seam binding bow, and perched my owl on a twig, my up-cycled goody for today. I do love to incorporate a bit of nature into my projects. :)

Hi all, Kirsty here for LESSology Challenge #11 - Flights of Fantasy.

My daughter is a music major at Calarts, she is preparing her solo recital and I know she will love this.....

Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov, one of her all time favorite

I intend to put a little gift in there just for her...

this project started with a little favor box I got from a wedding dinner party

it is old and torn so it needs a little make-over

old book pages, stamps, glimmer mist, tissue paper tape, and the new look!!!!

now Pixie is ready to take her flight........

flight of the bumblebee, which is.......

Hi Laurel here.  When I saw this challenge I immediately thought of some of my old maps that I was given and decided to make a travel themed mini journal.  I altered a chipboard album and made a little travel journal for jotting down some quick, short notes on the day's adventures, making it easier to scrap the photos when we get back.  Some of the journal spots are adhered on three sides only, so as to make a pocket for receipts and tickets.  I stamped a tag on one of my maps to use as an embellishment on the album cover.

Now a couple of photos of some of the inside pages:

Now to go on a trip!

We have a fun challenge called Flights of Fantasy. I took the flight part seriously and made this whimsical bird.

I formed the bird with two cells from an egg carton.  Then I painted it white.

The legs are the metal things you tie your turkey together with to keep the stuffing from falling out. 

For the base I covered a box with DP from CTMH and poked the legs into that. Then I covered the bird with feathers. Next I added a flower to the front of the bird, and the base. The base flower is a daisy that I added a homemade embellishment to the center. 

The last thing I added was a Tim Holtz ticket tags that says SOAR. This was so much fun. Feathers were flying everywhere. LOL This whimsical bird will remind me to SOAR with my ideas.

You can see how I created this in a video at my blog.

I hope you will join the challenge. We look forward to seeing your Flights of Fantasy.

Hello friends! It's Yvonne here to share my inspiration for LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy.

My project is a combination of my fascination with hot air balloons and my recent love for making tissue paper pom poms.

This little basket used to house some delicious lychees. The lace and ribbon were from an ugly bridemaid's dress.

I love that I could put candy in the basket at a party and keep it neatly away for use on another occasion.

All I need to do is fluff up those pom poms! :)

Has the design team inspired you to give LESSology Challenge #11: Flights of Fantasy a try? You are free to interpret the challenge in any way you want as long as you include at least one upcycled item.We would love to see your entries! :)