LESSology Challenge #63: Creative inspiration of Lisa Bzibziak

Birds and musical notes go so well together. Just check out design team member Lisa Bzibziak's creative take on LESSology Challenge #63: Musical chairs. 

Welcome to the October Lessology Challenge, Musical Chairs!  I was excited about this one because I love the wispiness of music notes... the feelings they stir up.  I decided to create a card that I've now decided may end up in a frame just 'cause I like looking at it.

I got this music note paper from a friend that was cleaning out her room... and as a rescuer of unwanted craft supplies, I happily brought it home.  I also knew that this bird, sentiment and music notes from my Skipping Stones Best of Birds set would be perfect!  I embossed them with gold in the corner and then I proceeded to treat the edges of my card with some Inka Gold... love that stuff!

So... have I told you how awesome the little inserts from the Tim Holtz stencil packages are to use for die cuts?  They are such pretty brown colors and I will never throw another one in the garbage!  I used some for my embossed sentiment and I used it for my heart doily.  And I had a few of these white Petaloo flowers waiting for their turn to be glued down on something so I smeared some Inka Gold all over them too and added them.

And do you see this purple flower?  So, I had this card all done... it was all white and gold and brown with a tiny touch of SeaGlass... and I loved it.  And then I found this poor little bunch of purple hydrangea flowers that I had previously picked up from my front porch.  They had apparently fallen off of my wreath on my front door, made their way into my kitchen and sat there waiting to move up to my craft room and onto some project.  And then Sunday morning there they were still sitting and I picked them up, lifted up the garbage can lid and just before I tossed them in I thought of this card.  Ran upstairs and decided that purple was just what this card needed! 

So I added the petals from my wreath and then dug out these purple resin flowers I've had forever in my stash because I don't use purple a lot  (yet somehow twice this past weekend) and added them.  And I loved it even more!  So this just proves that my habit of saving everything because I might just use it on a project is sound and practical.  Now if only I could convince my husband of this.  

Isn't this bird with its music notes perfect?

Thanks so much for looking today!  I can't wait to see what you create using beautiful music notes!

LESSology Challenge #63: Creative inspiration of Yvonne Yam

Hello again! Do you have a musical notes stamp or some patterned paper with music notes on it? You can use them to play along with LESSology Challenge #63: Musical chairs! Shall we take a look at design team member Yvonne Yam's interpretation of this challenge?

I love these slide out boxes that come with my Kikki K planners...they make great gift boxes.

I covered the top of the box with a piece of patterned paper and then had fun embellishing.:)

A little embellishment cluster at the bottom....and a little subtle musical notes stamping the edges with a brown ink to blend in with the paper design.

At the top, I did a little more music notes stamping. My embellishment cluster also includes a music note charm. I also added the Happy Birthday plastic embellishment that comes with buying a cake at the bakery.

A really quick and easy way to dress up a box. Come play along with us!

LESSology Challenge #63: Musical chairs

Well hello there friends! Does music get you going? Because this month we want to see you incorporate some musical notes on your project for LESSology Challenge #63: Musical chairs! :)

As always, you can create any type of project you like as long as it includes at least ONE upcycled item. Please let us know what it is in your post as we may not know what it is.

Here is this month's prize package.

 

 And here's a little sneak peek from the design team.

Ready to play along? Please link your newly created project featuring musical notes via Inlinkz [located at the end of the post] by Friday 5th November, 11.55pm EST.

LESSology Challenge #61: Bag collector winners!

A big thank you to the few who took time to play with us last month for LESSology Challenge #61: Bag Collector.  :)

The winner is....

Judy W

Congratulations Judy W! You are the winner of LESSology Challenge #61: Bag Collector! Please email us so that we can send you your RAK!

And now for our Top 3...

Lula

Anuprem

Congratulations Lula and Anuprem!  Please grab your Top 3 badge from the sidebar. :)

If you have time, play along with LESSology Challenge #62: Handmade Invitation.  We would love for you to come join us! :)

LESSology Challenge #62: Creative inspiration of Lizzy Hill

Hope you've been enjoying the design team's projects for LESSology Challenge #62: Handmade invitation so far. How about one last one from design team member Lizzy Hill to end your week on a high note? :)

Hi there! The challenge this month is to CREATE AN INVITATION for a special

occasion. And to try to think beyond a simple card. This is what I came up with:

I made the envelope with some patterned paper. Found a button to add to the back.

This is the fastening. When you open it, this happens:

Obviously NOT an invite for this 54 year old's party, tee hee..... 30 is still a pretty significant age, though. I made the flowers up using stuff I had in my craft room:

They're layers of tissue paper, netting and satin...plus the buttons, of course:)

I've also added a button to the paper clip [below]. I think it looks cute!

Added some more tissue paper, pleated, behind the 'I am 30' card :)

And lots of doilies, too:

Made up the little bow....The party information [not filled in for obv reasons!]

is at the top and bottom of the envelope invite:

 I used a couple of little stickers I had in my stash - thought they worked a treat!

Would love for you to get your thinking caps on & join us here at LESSology this month!

Blessings  ~ Lizzy ♥♥♥

LESSology Challenge #62: Creative inspiration of Mitra Pratt

Why not make someone's day a little sweeter with a handmade invitation for tea? Have a look at the pretty invitation design team member Mitra Pratt came up with for LESSology Challenge #62: Handmade invitation.

I must admit that this month's challenge had me a bit stumped: Make a handmade invitation. Create an invite to a special event. Think beyond a simple card.

In fact, this little tea cup came home with me from the Corning ReStore but wasn't for this specific project. I just liked the gold and the black. Suddenly I thought up making a tea party invite with this little vintage cup and some tea bags. 

Heck, you could even stick some pieces of special chocolate in the cup, or a biscotti. Yum! I happen to know for a fact that little vintage cups like this are quite common at second hand stores. Making the tea pot for the invite was super easy too. I used a cutting file from THE CUTTING CAFE called The Tea Pot Shaped Card Set.

I used a little printable for the actual invite. Added some clear vellum from a clothing tag to make steam coming out of the tea pot. Added some bling and a gold bow I had left over.

The colors were inspired by my tea pot & that gold tin that also came from Corning ReStore. I used gold embossing powder on the very top of the lid and the handle to match. So pretty!

Hope you get a chance to play along! A good start is something that catches your eye at a second hand store!

LESSology Challenge #62: Creative inspiration of Lisa Bzibziak

Hello friends! Ready for another round of creative inspiration for LESSology Challenge #62: Handmade invitation? Let's check out what design team member Lisa Bzibziak came up with! 

Well... this was not my plan for this challenge.  My plan was to cut out the floral part from this invite and use it on an invitation for coffee card... and when I went to actually cut it I decided the entire invite was so pretty and had an idea for a gift for the Bride & Groom. 

So I pulled out one of my handy dandy canvases and went to town.  I prepared my canvas by painting it with white gesso.  When that was dry, I modge podged the invite onto the canvas.  After that dried, I dry brushed some more white gesso over the edges of the invite. Next, I took some of my gold glitter paint and painted over the whole thing... I love that paint because it's clear and just leaves a trail of glitter.  I kind of let it be heavier in some areas than others.

My final treatment on the canvas was to use some clear texture past and my new favorite Tim Holtz Lace stencil over the parts of the canvas and since it was clear I was able to also have it go over the invite... I will do this again for sure... love the way it looks!

I then used many other parts of the invite, such as the card with location and hotel information and the strip that held it all together.  I used these for the leaves (with my new favorite leaf dies from MFT) and my plan was to have the back show because it was plain, but when I flipped them over and saw the printing on the other side I decided that was perfect because after all... it was part of the invite and that's the whole point, right?  And the "D" was over the part of the strip that held it together.

I cut out the flowers from the response card (which I obviously did not send back... slapping myself on the hand) and added some more lacy texture paste to that as well.  And my new best friend?  Inka Gold...smooshed it all over those pretty flowers and really enjoyed looking at my gold fingertips for a while...  yup... LOVE!

So... I can't wait to see what you make for this invite challenge!  Hope you play along with us this month!