January Challenge Winner

It's the second of a new month and that means it's time to reveal the January Monthly Challenge Winner. I'm Design Team Member Katelyn and I'm back to announce January's "Winter" Challenge Winner. Thank you to everyone who participated this month. The participation was awesome for our January "Winter" Challenge, we hope that our monthly challenge in February will inspire you to submit. You will find all of the details on how to enter and what the rules are on our blog. January's Winter Challenge Winner is Betenshi. Who created this beautiful mixed media scrapbook layout:

Karen please contact me at Katelyngrosart@gmail.com. Thank you to everyone who participated and we can't wait to see what you create in February for our challenge.

Until Next Time!

- Katelyn

A Valentine Wish for you...

Thank you to everyone who participated in last month's monthly challenge. The response was great and we loved seeing all of your creations. This month's challenge will be an easy one as everyone as it is all things Love. Thank you to everyone who entered our challenge last month and stay tuned for the winner in Katelyn's post tomorrow.

This month's will be an easy one because we are focusing on Anything Love! Bonus entries will be given for using non conventional colours.

Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the

 SRTC online store $20 (before tax) retail value

of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

And ... it's a completely RANDOM DRAW!

RULES:

- Must follow the theme
 - Your item can be a card, mixed media piece or project, whatever you can call "ART".  

- You can use any image, embellishments and any chipboard pieces you like.
- As of now, there is no limit for entries
- Must be a new project
- Can be combined with 10 other challenges
- Please link back to our blog http://southernchipboard.blogspot.ca/
- Ends February.29th, 2016 at 6pm PST

**If you use product from SRTC, that will count as TWO entries but please make sure we know via your blog post attached via Mr. Linky below or a message below this post!! 

Melissa is sharing a fabulous Love card for you, to get this challenge started.

  
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We're back this month with a new theme, 

Love and Valentine's Day!! 

And Karen has some amazing new pieces in the store for you to check out. :)

 My first DT submission this month is a Valentine's card. I used her 

FLUTTERING HEART 

piece to accent the lovely cherub on the patterned paper.

I used the LuminArte medium to colour the chipboard, then doused it with a layer of Marshmallow Glimmer Mist. I added two more wooden pieces, the LOVE heart and the Just 4 U tag. I spritzed those with Tattered Angels and then once they were dry, I used my Wink of Stella Clear pen to add a bit of extra sparkle to the wood pieces! So cute!

I hope you find some inspiration this month from the blog to help you make your creations to share the love this month! <3

Cheers! Melissa :) 

Giftbox by Dunja | You are so special || and a Goodbye

Hi Everyone, today it's my last post on the Southern Ridge Blog.

Since June 2014, when I published my first post, I showed you some inspirations. I hope you liked them. ....it's a long time and I'll thank Karen for the time!
At the end of the blog posting I will show you one more time my favorites from my time at Design Team Southern Ridge.

But now onto my last inspiration for you :)

I'll show you a giftbox i made for a special friend to give her some little presents and pack them into this box. I've decorated the box with lots of things in mixed media style.

First i brushed the box with lots of gesso to give it a shabbylook. I've used several stamps from Vildastamps and a stencil from Dutch Doobadoo.

In the centre of the box i layered some papers and a doily.

For the decoration i've used some Chipboards (Leafy Branches and Roses) and Flowers and glued them. I added some sentiments that i created with my dymo labeler and stamps from Vildastamps.

As i said, i'll show you my favourite's of my DT Term... Three Layouts and Three Cards that i made with the beautiful Chipboards from Karen.

Thank you very much for stopping by today. Hope we'll meet us again in the www ;)

All the best,

Hugs, Dunja

Winter Canvas

I'am back on the blog today to feature another "Winter" inspired project . There is still six days left to enter your "winter" piece into our Monthly Challenge. For all of the details, head here. For my post today,  I created a winter canvas.

Supplies Used: Ranger/Tim Holtz - Ground Expresso Distress Ink, Distress Crackle Paint - Clear Rock Candy. Ranger/Dylusions - Dylusions Paint: White Linen. Sizzix/Tim Holtz - Holiday Words: Block. Tim Holtz Ideaology - 6x8 Burlap Panel. Emerald Creek - Iridescent Shimmer  & Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder. Viva Decor - Inka Gold: Old Gold & Brown Gold. Tsukineko/Imagine Crafts - VersaMark. Bo Bunny Sleigh Ride - Blizzard, Logs & Tradition. Bazzill Cardstock - Java. May Arts Twine - White.

To begin, I prepped the background of my burlap panel, using a blending tool and inking 1/2" in around all the edges of the panel. Once the edges were inked, I sprinkled Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder around all four edges and embossed them. 

Once the background of the panel was finished, I set it aside and started working on the Cedar Trees. I covered all three cedar trees with Brown Gold Inka Gold. Once the Inka Gold was dry, I covered each cedar tree with a layer of Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle paint and set them aside to dry.

Once the cedar trees were drying, I moved on to the Plain Banners. I covered the three plain banners with Old Gold Inka Gold. Once all three banners were covered, I applied a layer Clear Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint over top and set them aside to dry.

I wanted to add something to the plain banners, so I pulled out my stash of Mini Wood Snowflakes. Before embossing the snowflakes, I painted them with a layer of Dylusions Paint in White Linen. Once the paint was dry, I covered them in a layer of VersaMark and then sprinkled Soft Fallen Snow Embossing Powder overtop of them and embossed them. 

For the finishing touches on my winter canvas, I added two layers of patterned paper from Bo Bunny's Sleigh Ridge Collection. I also wanted to add the word "winter" somewhere on my canvas, so I cut it out using the Tim Holtz/Sizzix - Holiday Words: Block die, attaching it to the top of my photo. For the last of the finishing touches, I added some Iridescent Shimmer Embossing Powder to parts of the edges of the patterned paper. 

Here is the finish Winter canvas with all of the elements put together.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my winter canvas. We can't wait to see your project or projects for the Monthly Challenge. Make sure to check back regularly to see what the rest of the design team members are creating.

Until Next Time!

-Katelyn

Winter Challenge!

Hello again, welcome back to SRTC monthly challenges!  It has been six whole months since I started on the DT and I have loved every minute of it but this will be my last post as my term is up.  Thank you so much for following along and I will see you around blogland.  

Now on to my post.  To me winer is Christmas, love and Valentines!!!!!  So I have combined the two for my card.  I have used joined hearts, the heart frame and snowflake chipboard from SRTC.  I used a memory box die for the heart flourish and hearts on the left.  I added some burlap ribbon, flowers and gems from my stash.  The image is from magnolia of course and I painted her with Tim Holtz Distress inks.  I used Inka Gold paint on the heart frame and there you have it.  

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you join in on the challenge to win a chance at some really amazing chipboard.

Charms with Corina Finley

Hello!

Thank you for joining me, Corina Finley, for today's post here on the Southern Ridge Blog. I am excited to share with you my hanging charms that I have created using mainly chipboard in some lovely designs. I will be providing a supply list under each charm close up.

Natures Beauty

Green Leaf, Inka Gold in Copper, Green and Graphite, Clear Crackle Texture paste, chain, Glossy Accents and assortment of beads.

Rustic Cowgirl Charm

Vintage Sign Shapes 2, Horseshoes, Cowboy Boot, Inka Gold in Copper, Brown, Gold and Graphite, Clear Crackle Texture paste, chain, Glossy Accents and metal embellishment.

Love Notes Charm

Music Note, Vintage Sign Shapes 1, miniture chipboard heart, Inka Gold in Copper, Silver and Graphite, Clear Crackle Texture paste, chain, Glossy Accents, Pico Embellisher and assortment of beads.

Butterfly Wings Charm

Vintage Sign Shapes 1, Butterfly, Inka Gold in Turquoise and Graphite, Clear Crackle Texture paste, chain, Glossy Accents, metal embellishment and assortment of beads.

Flourishing Heart Charm

Plain Tags, Flourish, miniture chipboard heart, Inka Gold in Green, Red and Graphite, Clear Crackle Texture paste, chain, Glossy Accents, Wink of Stella and assortment of beads.

I hope you will play along in the monthly challenge over on the Southern Ridge Trading Company. Each month enter for your chance to win 4 designs from the online store - chipboard.ca -$20 (before tax) retail value of YOUR OWN CHOOSING! 

Thanks for joining me today!

Take care,

Corina Finley

Live, Laugh & Create!

Winter Goddess

Wow, it's really cold here the last few day.

So, while we are celebrating winter over at SRTC

I've chosen to use a precolored image from The Paper Shelter

called Winter Goddess

I've printed the whole image with background, then printed only the image;

a bit smaller than the other to create a nice 3D.

 

 

 

 

For my gorgeous Winter chipboard pieces; I've chosen

 

Snowflakes 713

and

small snowflake wreath

 

one of the snowflakes is covered in blue embossing glitter. The other

is done is holographic powder.

The wreath is covered in pearl acrlyic paint with just a little subtle extra on a few areas.

I hope you're staying warm where you are.

 

You've still got a few weeks to pop your winter project into our challenge here