CSI challenges - SO MUCH FUN!

Well this month I decided to try a different sort of a challenge.  A great friend Renee Aslette put me onto the challenges over at CSI which push you to include a number of different elements, while giving you a great deal of choice with how you go about it.

I am just loving how different challenges can push you in very different ways.

There is a challenge that goes up every week and you get a week and two weekends to complete them.  How great is that!!  Aside from the great challenge... the work uploaded on there is simply AMAZING I am so inspired by all the work from the different ladies that take part.  Again I think that it is because there is a number of different elements included in each challenge.

OK so enough chatting here is my take on the challenge:

Here are the details of the challenge:

THE SCHEME - USE ALL 5 COLORS

• The Ink Is Black - black, from the book on the left - 21.16.22
• The Page Is White - white, from the white parts - 253.253.253
• Gray Reverie - medium-light gray, from the tape recorder reels - 214.213.219
• Electric Blue - deep sky blue, taken from the table - 53.172.240
• Red, Red Wine (Goes to My Head...) - dark red, taken from her shirt  - 154.212.214

THE OUAS SKETCH - USE THE SKETCH AS INSPIRATION FOR YOUR DESIGN

• You may interpret the elements in the design as you wish, but use the basic composition of the sketch.
• You may flip or rotate the sketch to suit your design.
• Have fun!

EVIDENCE - USE AT LEAST 2 ELEMENTS

• Use stripes and dots
• Use wrappers/ packaging
• Use a book page
• Pen work/ doodling
• labels
• Use a craft knife
• Circles (inspired by the knobs and reels)
• buttons (inspired by the knobs)

TESTIMONY - USE AT LEAST ONE ELEMENT:

• Use a song title or lyrics as inspiration for your journaling (inspired by the tape recorder).
• Handwrite your journaling.
• Take a break - break your journaling across several journaling spots.
• Write your journaling on note paper.
• Do your journaling as a diary entry.
• Inspiration Words: -- daydream, break, think -- use these as inspiration for your journaling, not just as a title

My take:

Evidence: Dots and stripes & Buttons
Testimony: Handwritten journalling broken across various spots

Here are some detail pics of my layout:

I used a number of different bits and pieces to create this one.  Again I used the My Mind's Eye 'All is Bright' collection (I love this for a Christmas paper - non Christmas theme)  the colours are just divine.  I also used some paper alphas and stickers from Echo Park's 'Dots and Stripes' collection.  Love this as there is always something there to team up with whatever I am working on.  To top that off I also used some paper from Authentique's 'Celebrate' collection.  To create my background and embellish from the top layer down, I used a number of different Tim Holtz Distress inks to blend, mask and stamp in layers. I also used Faber-Castell Pitt pastel pencil & Distress markers for the Chevron masking.  The stamp sets I used on this layout are Prima's reversed wall stamp & script stamp, and My Mind's eye's The sweetest thing, 'Happiness' and 'Remember' stamp sets and the 'Fun Day' stamp set.  I also used my favourite TCW, Reversed Chickenwire stencil and Scrap FX's Chevron A4 stencil. To finish all of it off I added some old Kaisercraft rubon's I had lying around in my rubon stash.

To put this all together I could only use my favourite product... HELMAR of course!  I used  Helmar  Premium craft glue and liquid scrap dots on this one.

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Hope you have enjoyed my share today and head on over to the CSI ning site and take part in all the fun!