October Crate Color Challenge + Paper Heart

Hello Crate Paper fans and a happy Monday to you all! I'm excited to be posting our Crate Color Challenge once again!

October...... a month full of pumpkins, pretty leaves and hopefully sweater weather! What first comes to mind when you think of October? I always look so forward to getting down and rummaging through my boxes of Autumn decorations each year. The richer-deeper tones that lend themselves to this season are some of my favorite colors to work with! For this month, I wanted to do something a little unexpected with the color combination. No orange! (I'll be saving orange for next month's challenge.)

The color palette for this month is: Mustard Yellow - Peacock Green - Khaki

and this month's inspiration wire:

Just a few guide-lines for the challenge before we start:

- You may submit a card, layout or project to be eligible. Projects need to be submitted by midnight (EST) October 25th. Please email your work to: [email protected]

- You may use the colors in any proportion you wish, as long as you use all 3 colors in the palette. And you may add black, white or kraft paper to the colors.

- Projects must use at least 75% Crate Paper - you may mix any paper lines you like, old and new.

- The winner will be announced on October 27th and I'll share some of my favorite projects here on the blog.

- The winner will be selected based on creativity and quality of work.

From our design team the talented Michiko Kato created this layout for the challenge. I love the way she wound the string around a tiny wooden spool! Did you notice how the string also acts as an embellishment to highlight a small part of the photo? So clever!

Since it really is the start of Fall here in the desert (more towards the end of this month) I decided to dedicate an entire mini to the Fall season and titled the little book: Autumn Plans. Measuring only 4x4 inches the pages were just large enough to include fun things throughout such as to-do lists, quotes, a few ATC's left over from last year and even my Grandma's carmel-corn recipe! {I used coasters as the covers for this book and hand cut all of the inside pages.} I plan on adding in more photos of our many adventures as we move further along into the season!

Creating a mini album is a great practical way to document alot of smaller events but that all have the same underlying theme. In this case, Autumn.

I hope you'll be as inspired to create something lovely using this month's color palette! I'll be back on the 27th to showcase some of your artwork and to share the winner of the October Color Challenge!

Happy Creating! ~ Tara

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Just a quick reminder, the new Crate Paper "Paper Heart" Collection is to make it's grand debut tomorrow. We'd love to set a spark to your preparedness and plans for the upcoming Valentine's holiday! Come "heart" the new designs beginning early morning...

Comments

loveeeeeeee the color combo and what everyone created!! gorgeous!! :):):):):):):):):):):)

Posted by: Julie Tucker-Wolek | October 17, 2011 at 05:33 PM

Wow, such a great inspiration!

Posted by: Danielle | October 18, 2011 at 07:53 AM

I love this inspiration ! Your layouts are wonderful !!! thanks for inspiration ! I hope to have the time to scrap it !

Posted by: Marie-Nicolas | October 18, 2011 at 11:25 PM

Such a fun color combo. Michiko's layout is amazing - so many beautiful details! And Tara's mini is fabulous. LOVE the bits and pieces.

Posted by: Anabelle O'Malley | October 19, 2011 at 03:55 AM

I love Tara's 4x4 mini album for fall! Filled with such creative ideas! Thanks for sharing!

Posted by: Becky Elliott | October 20, 2011 at 04:27 AM

Love your inspiration wire - and the projects shown are adorable! That little album is wonderful - I've never made an album that small but can see that it's definetely worth a shot :)

Posted by: Ann Cicilie | October 21, 2011 at 03:00 AM