Hello everyone, Tara here to announce the WINNER of this months Crate Color Challenge! Thank you to all who sent me your lovely cards, projects and layouts. It's an exciting "job" to open my inbox each morning and discover how the color palette was interpreted! I'm always impressed with the details and the techniques that I see each month. I often find myself going back again and again to look over the Color Challenge entries before I send in my long list of favorites to the girls behind the scenes of Crate Paper. This month was no exception!
The winner for the August Color Challenge is: Maísa Mendonca!
Maísa's layout won us over with her bold use of color, artistic techniques and the many chipboard accents incorrporated throughout. The deep blues immediatley caught my eye and then I took note of the incredible detail and textures of her layout. Simply said, Maísa layout is stunning. Congrats to Maísa!!
I'll share a few more layouts that caught our eye this month! First we have a lovely layout from Genevive. I loved the little cluster of embellishments, the handmade flower and her use of actual denim!
Anabelle O'Malley's "but MOM!" layout was a wonderful balance of product as well as the use of this month's color palette. I loved that the majority of her layout was kept neutral except for pops of the dark blue shade and that cute photo!
This next project made me smile and reminded me of how fun altered projects can be! Karin Hageman got creative with the denim aspect of this months Color Palette and created this denim "Pockets of love" project ~ complete with photo tags in the pockets and an embellished belt!
We also loved Tina Fussell's simplistic "be still" layout. The small scraps of paper combined with the playful flag-banner made her artsy layout a stand out!
With this month's color palette leaning more towards the masculine side I received lots of tough, as well as sweet, boy layouts! Stacey Michaud contributed her "2nd generation friends" layout to the challenge.
I have a soft spot for cards! Who wouldn't love to receive a handmade card in the mail? This card, made by Nancy Doren, is layered to perfection. I loved the machine stitching, ink splatters, sequins and layered papers!
Thank you so much, again, to all of the Crate Paper fans who played along with the challenge this month! I hope you enjoy these Color Challenges as much as I do! Please join me here next month for my first Autumn inspired color palette and until then friends ~
HAPPY CREATING! ~ Tara
congrats, ladies!
Posted by: Becky Williams | August 17, 2011 at 07:04 AM
cool, congrats ladies!
Posted by: Katarina | August 17, 2011 at 07:09 AM
Gorgeous projects. Special shout out to The Nook girls!
Posted by: Sherri | August 17, 2011 at 08:37 AM
congrats everyone! Thanks for featuring my layout!
Posted by: staceymichaud | August 17, 2011 at 08:52 AM
fabulous !
Posted by: cat lacigale | August 17, 2011 at 08:53 AM
Awesome projects everyone!
Posted by: Andrea Amu | August 17, 2011 at 08:53 AM
WOW!!! Thank you so much!!!! I'm very happy!!! :)
Posted by: Maisa | August 17, 2011 at 08:54 AM
Congrats ladies and what a beautiful beautiful denim project from Karin Hageman.
Posted by: Claudia | August 17, 2011 at 10:06 AM
YAY! This made my day... thanks for showing my card, Tara! It was a fun challenge!
Posted by: NancyD | August 17, 2011 at 11:21 AM
Congrats, Maisa! Thanks for featuring my page. Love all of the projects shown today. :)
Posted by: Anabelle O'Malley | August 17, 2011 at 12:57 PM
CONGRATS Maisa!! Loving all the faves too! :):):):):):):):):):):):)
Posted by: Julie Tucker-Wolek | August 17, 2011 at 05:59 PM
CONGRATS!! I LOVE all of the projects!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)
Posted by: Larissa Heskett | August 18, 2011 at 07:39 AM
Congratulations Maísa, Genevive, Annabelle, Karin, Tina, Stacey & Nancy! Lovely designs! :-)
Posted by: Kate Vickers | August 18, 2011 at 10:02 AM
A huge congrats to Maisa! What an incredible and inspiring page! And congrats to the other ladies! What an inspiring group! Thank you so much for including my page. I am so, so honored! Best to all from Copenhagen!
Posted by: Traveling Mama | August 18, 2011 at 01:26 PM
Parabems Maisa, e mesmo fantastico ! E recebi o EA magazine, portanto outros parabems para ti !!!
Posted by: isabel | August 20, 2011 at 09:41 AM