CP Project Life w/Naomi Atkins + Ornament Challenge Winners!!

Hello! Naomi here with an installment of Project Life! One of the many things I love about project life is that you can make it however you want to make it. You can make it very simple with journaling and pictures, or you can jazz it up a bit!

I'm always a fan of making things pretty, IF and only IF I have the time. This week, I chose to add a lot of Crate's Sleigh Ride elements to my project life. It was very Christmas themed this week because most of what we did related to Christmas! I used a mixture of some of my standard project life journaling cards, and Sleigh Ride's patterned paper and embellishments. Also, I added some washi tape, which is very project life friendly for those quick, extra touches! I love the Chevron background tone on tone paper, so I started with that. I used some tags on the bottom left, put a fabric brad on each, and that served as the spot to put my reindeer tags I made with the kids and their fingerprints this week. I used some Ali Edwards brushes on my pictures, which I really enjoy now that I print my own pictures for project life (I just bought an Epson printer, and I LOVE it!). It's much easier for me to stay caught up!

On the top right, I used some of the gold dotted vellum from the Sleigh Ride collection (LOVE!!). I sewed it around my paper, and added some gold glitter underneath and a Crate chipboard snowflake to the top. An easy dress-up to the layout! I added some chipboard letters at various spots and then I was done!

Hope to have inspired you to go and get caught up on your latest project life production!! Happy Holidays Crate Followers!

The moment that many of you have been waiting for, the WINNERS of Crate Paper's first ever, Creative Weekly Ornament Challenge!! Let it be said, there isn't just "one" winner, but FOUR! The first is of course the Mega Prize Winner and will take home the entire Sleigh Ride collection; papers, embellishments and all! The Three runner-ups will receive a Sleigh Ride Collection Kit. This is by far the most we've ever given away during a challenge, so this particular group of projects is "extra special". A HUGE congrats to....

Gina Moretti :: Crate Christmas Dove

Grand Prize Winner

Nattarida Smith :: Lace Ornaments

Runner-Up #1

Amber Engelhardt :: Custom Ornament Garland

Runner-Up #2

Vanessa Gutierrez :: Hope, Love & Peace Angel

Runner-Up #3

Gorgeous work ladies!! We're so very happy to see Crate adorn your Christmas tree this year (and homes!!) Please forward your shipping info to cpblog@cratepaper.com. You're boxes will reach you just in time to scrapbook the holiday season!

We'd really like to thank all of the talented artists that sent us their ornament creation'(s) as part of last week's ornament challenge. We can't express enough how grateful we are for your entries and will be forwarding a special "thank-you" message to each of you in the coming days - it's been an honor, truly.