LESSology Challenge #13: Chest of drawers winners! :)

A very big thank you to all who participated in LESSology Challenge #13: Chest of drawers! We love seeing how you thought "out-of-the-box" and shared with us your innovative ideas! :)

Without further ado, the winner is .....

 Lalo

She picked up two abandoned drawers at the side of the road and turned them into an awesome chalkboard display! :)



Congratulations Lalo! You are the winner of LESSology Challenge #13: Chest of drawers! :) Please email us so that we can get your RAK out to you! [Please grab your winner badge from the sidebar!]

 

And here are our Top 3...

Katy 

 Amy

 Jan Gerber

Congratulations Amy, Katy and Jan! [Please grab the Top 3 badge from the sidebar!]

Don't forget to play along with our current challenge - LESSology Challenge #14 Birds of a feather. It ends on Sunday June 3, 11.59pm EST. Please read our challenge rules to ensure eligibility for our prizes. :)

LESSology Challenge #13 Guest Designer: Irit Shalom

Our guest designer for LESSology Challenge #13: Chest of Drawers is the awesome Irit Shalom. 

My name is Irit and I am an Israeli scrapper and crafter.   I love Lessology  and enter my altered projects to this challenge site a lot and I am very glad to be a guest designer for April. In my real life I am a working dentist, a wife, mom of 4 and a very new grandma of one baby boy. I scrapped here and there for a few years, but I have done it seriously for the last 3 years. During this time I’ve made huge progress. I have been a Design Team member on more than a dozen challenge blogs, and a guest designer on a dozen more and designed for 5-6 USA companies.. Currently I design for Tando Creative UK, Robin's Nest, The Rubber Cafe, Inspired By Stamping and 3 more USA and Australian companies. I mostly scrap, but I also love altered art and card making. My style is shabby/vintage, but sometimes I try to change it a bit to a clean and simple one. You are most welcome to visit my blog and my Facebook page, and add me as your friend. See you there! http://iritshalom.blogspot.com

This chest of drawers was made with Melissa Frances products, some Prima flowers, lots of buttons and with my favorite inking rechnique(it's just ink around as much as you like-lol). Very easy  project, but you need a lot of time to cut all small pieces of paper for those small drawers. 

Thanks for a chance to design for Lessology and you will be seeing more of my challenge entries here.

What a beautiful project Irit! Thank you so much for sharing! :)

Hope our guest designer Irit has inspired your project for LESSology Challenge #13: Chest of Drawers! The deadline for entries is May 6, 11.59pm EST. Please read our challenge rules to ensure eligibility for our prizes. :)

LESSology Challenge #13: Creative projects of Mandy Dodd, Julie Tucker-Wolek and Lynnda Hosni

Ready for another round of creative inspiration from our fabulous design team? Check out how Mandy Dodd, Julie Tucker-Wolek and Lynnda Hosni interpreted LESSology Challenge #13: Chest of drawers.

Hi it's Mandy here with my interpretation of the 'Chest of Drawers' challenge...

I had a couple of these cardboard boxes that I'd bought some cute little icecream spoons in.  I wanted to throw these boxes away, but something made me hold onto them 'just in case' (I'm sure you understand that feeling!)  Just as well!  They are perfect for this challenge!

This is one of the boxes, it looks like a little single drawer.



Just undo the outer casing and remove the transparent window

Cover with paper and replace the window

Lucky the drawers were the right colour blue or else I'd be painting them!

Place a contrasting paper insert in the bottom of the tray



Looks pretty to see the two patterned papers working well together

 Next, cover the casing of the second box

 And I've covered the rippled insert for this drawer (remember it had spoons- this is handy!) Now it has dividers! 

Finished by adding some lace and stacking on on the other!

Thanks for taking the time to look and I cant wait to see what fabulous creative drawers you come up with!

xx

Hi everyone! As soon as I read this month's challenge, I knew what I wanted to do!! When I was a child, my maternal Grandmother gave me a little chest of drawers that belonged to her - and I have treasured it all these years.  Well, it has seen it's better days (My Mom has told me that my Grandma was born in 1905, and she was given this chest of drawers when she was a child - so it's almost 100 years old!!), so I decided it was time for a make over to have my give to my daughter Brookie!

Here is what the chest of drawers looked like -

 

  

And then I painted it - and since I wanted to keep it with an antique 'look' - I misted it while it was still wet - and then took a paper towel and dabbed it to have some of the original black show through (kind of like a crackle paint look)

 

And here is my finished project!!

And some close ups -

I wanted the top to look like the top of a dresser - 

 

 The back side -

I even lined the inside with papers - I am planning on putting my daughter's Barbie clothes in it -

 Can't wait to see what you create for this challenge!


~~Julie

Hello Ladies!!!

I am pretty excited today…as it is my 1^st reveal project as part of the DT Design Team !!!  Woohoo….!!!

Okay… since this is my 1^st…I decided NOT to do the cliché …. Hah!!! Nothing really fancy… - I decided to do a little mini chest of drawers!!! Super Cute, even my son Matin loves it!!!!... [Actually it's his NOW!!]

Here we go….

1.       I found the match box template from Kell Belle studio blogspot

2.       Walla!! These are the ready match boxes… PP used crate & Echo Park.

3.       As part of LESSology criteria – Each project should incorporate at least [1] recycling or upcycling  And I decided to use the Glue Dots Packaging for the cabinet

4.       After I dolled-up the packaging…

You can fill up the drawers with yummy goodies...just like what I did here....

I really had so much fun creating this chest of drawers!!!

This could be a gift box… and the beauty of this box is you can fill them with tons of LOVE...like petite flowers, buttons, brads, stickers and many more….

So don’t wait… come along and join me and the rest of the team over @ LESSology… I so look forward to seeing what you create for this month challenge – “Chest of Drawers”

Super fun ideas from the design team! Have some ideas spinning in your head right now? We would love to see your take on LESSology Challenge #13: Chest of drawers. Please read our challenge rules to ensure eligibility for our prizes. :)

LESSology Challenge #13: Creative projects of Kirsty Vittetoe and Yvonne Yam

Hello altered enthusiasts! Are you ready for some inspiration from the design team? Let's see how design team members Kirsty Vittetoe and Yvonne Yam interpreted LESSology Challenge #13: Chest of drawers. 

Hello readers, this is Kirsty here and my project for LESSology Challenge #13 Chests of Drawers.

Since Easter is coming, I thought a little Easter Treat Drawer would be nice

I started by making a match box, only in bigger size because what I want in the drawer is yummy little M&M easter chocolate eggs

now you can decorate the top of the drawer

never throw away any bits and pieces of ribbons or trims even they are only 1" in length, they will be great for small project like this

I added cardboard to give "body" to this robin egg

You got a little drawer filled with Easter treats, now I am thinking maybe one isn't enough, I better go get some more done....

Hello there! It's Yvonne here to share how I interpreted LESSology Challenge #13: Chest of drawers challenge.

Can you guess where I got my "drawers" from?

Little packaging boxes for little trinkets....in my "keep-for-a-rainy-day" stash..*LOL*

Just added an ice-cream stick and a mirrored embellishment on each box. And tied up my "chest of drawers" [filled with little trinkets]with twine....hmmm I think someone may be getting some happy mail soon! *winks*

Ahhh...some fun ideas for LESSology Challenge #13: Chest of drawers. We would love to see your entries for this challenge! Please read our challenge rules to ensure eligibility for our prizes. :)