Thursday, November 15, 2018

Case File No. 266 - Deadline: November 30, 2018

We're back with our mid-month challenge, and we're excited because it's definitely got possibilities for "out of the box" thinking! We can't wait to see what you'll do with this one!

Our challenges stay open all month long. And did you know that you are welcome to submit as many layouts as you'd like for the challenges? We also don't mind if you combine our challenge with other challenges or with your design team work. We are here to inspire you to scrap and tell your stories!

So, are you ready for the new challenge? Grab you forensics kits, CSI players, and get ready for some serious sleuthing as we open Case File No. 266.

CASE FILE

The colder weather seems to drive us indoors, so this month, so we're celebrating Home Sweet Home with our Case Files this month. Don't feel like scrapping about home? No worries! Just use any part of the Case File to inspire you. 

Feel free to interpret the Case File in any way that inspires you, or for our traditional clues, scroll down to the bottom of this post.

The cool image from this month's first Case File was found on decorating website DoceObra.


For our Russian players, Detective Anastasia has translated our Case File into Russian:


SPONSORS

We're so excited to have twelve generous sponsors this month! Our sponsors are among the best in the crafting industry, offering unique and trendy products. CLICK HERE to read more about these generous sponsors and the prizes they're donating.



GUEST DESIGNERS

We're excited to have Phoebe Tonosaki, from Lindy's Gang, and GypsyStockley, from Mystical Scrapbooks, serving as Guest Detectives this month!

INSPIRATION

So...are you ready for some serious inspiration?

Here is how our talented Guest Detectives cracked the Case:

Phoebe, from Lindy's Gang:



Gypsy, from Mystical Scrapbooks:



How Gypsy solved the Case: I've solved the case with the Yellow, white and Turquoise in the colour scheme. As well as being inspired by the stacked boxes with their assortment of bits and bobs in them.


Here is how the CSI Detectives have expertly cracked the case. You can read more about how the Case File inspired them on their blogs (links on sidebar).

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How Michelle solved the Case: Love how bright this inspiration board is!I used the colour palette, then used the stripey diamonds from one of the cushions, plus I added hearts, a cute pom pom frame, epoxy stickers, and flowers. I added a cap as a nod to my daughters boyfriend, who I have yet to see without a cap on!

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How Lisa solved the Case: I was inspired by the colors in this photo and the rectangles. I used a clock, flowers and dangled frames from brads for my evidence. I documented something I do every day, well in 1 form or another.

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How Lisa-Marie solved the Case: What an amazingly colourful challenge! As is pretty obvious by looking at my layout, I tried to emulate the shelving in the picture by placing my frames on my layout first. Additional inspiration I took from the image (aside from the glorious colours!) was the use of stars, hearts and birds; as well as some flowers and a phrase sticker to create my title. My journalling is along the lines of being grateful for something; as November is Adoption Awareness month, I decided to do a layout and write about how very thankful I am for adoption and our Birth Mom for selecting us to be Isabella's parents.

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How Vivian solved the Case: The evidence clue "Mimic the boxed shelving as a design element" inspired this page about my son and nephew this time. I had so much fun creating this fun, funky and very 3D page!

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How Sue solved the Case: I was mostly inspired by the colours and geometric patterns and have also added stars, hearts, puffy stickers and the surprise, a little pink bunny.

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How Debbi solved the Case: I loved how the colorful boxes looked against that brick wall, so I wanted to imitate that look on my page. For my testimony, I journaled inside a frame. I used the colors in the Scheme, and I used all of the Evidence clues. It was fun searching through my stash for fun, unexpected things to include on my page.

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How Laura solved the Case: I was inspired by the stack of boxes and used this to arrange my photos. There are several evidence prompts here, but I journaled my grandson's first birthday party.

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How Natsuko solved the Case: I was inspired by the colors and boxes. I also used textured paper, stars, puffy stickers, phrase stickers from the evidence.

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How Magali solved the Case: I was inspired by the colored boxes of the case file's picture.


How Raechelle solved the Case: The evidence I was inspired by is the following: the color scheme (although I went with a more pinkish red than orangish red), Geometric patterns, textured paper, stars, hearts, butterflies, frames, puffy stickers, flowers, phrase sticker, mimic the boxed shelving as a design element(I added dimension to the frames to make it appear like boxes), fabric (bow),and dangle something (frame cut file mimics hanging)



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How Taru solved the Case: I made my page with a traditional way! Document something you do every day with embossed paper, stars and fabric.


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How Marinella solved the Case: I was inspired by the color combo and by the scene. I'Ve used Geometric patterns, embossed and textured papers, stars, hearts, birds, frames, puffy stickers, phrase sticker. The title is Grateful to honor the thanksging month, and all the phrases and sentiments were used to say thank you to my family in the extraordinary and in the ordinary daylife.

CASE FILE CLUES 
Choose as few or as many as you are inspired to use!



EVIDENCE
  • Geometric patterns
  • Bricks
  • Embossed or textured paper
  • Stars
  • Hearts
  • Birds (or other animals)
  • Frames
  • Clock
  • Puffy stickers
  • Telephone or other gadget
  • Flowers
  • Phrase sticker
  • Bottle or jar
  • Mimic the boxed shelving as a design element
  • Fabric
  • Dangle something
  • Add something (or many things) completely unexpected to your page.
TESTIMONY (JOURNALING IDEAS)
  • Topic: Document something you do every day.
  • Prompt Idea: It’s Thanksgiving month. Thank something unexpected. Check this out for ideas of what I mean. 
  • Presentation: Display your journaling in a frame or on a shelf-of-sorts with some other decorative elements.
  • Writing Format: Write a list of random things about your subject.
  • Inspiration Words: vibrant, quirky, unexpected
THE SCHEME
  • 252.225.30 – bright yellow
  • 21.173.178 – right between aqua and turquoise
  • 205.73.24 – in between orange and red
  • 248.250.249 – white
  • 30.23.17 – black

We trust we've left enough clues for you to solve the case!

The deadline for completing this Case File is Friday, November 30, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Be sure to link your layout using the link tool in the sidebar, and mention the Evidence and Testimony clues you used. Also, please title your link with your name and country.

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Under Surveillance - Our Favorites from October

A big thank you to everyone who participated in our challenges last month. We have chosen our favorite layouts inspired by the October Case Files.

Congratulations to all of our players who are highlighted! You can grab your badges here.

Here are our favorites from Case File No. 263. Here's a reminder of the Case File they used:




For each Case File, three of our favorite layouts are chosen to feature as our "Most Wanted." (We had a tie for this Case File, so we are featuring four here.)

Caroline 

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Giorgia Rossini
Heather McMahon

Rona

Tell your story. It's our tagline, and here at CSI, it's one of our missions to get our members to delve deeper into journaling--to document the meaningful bits and pieces that make up our lives. We would like to shine a special spotlight each week on a member who did an exceptional job telling their story. And we'd like to thank Scrapbook Fantasies for donating a wonderful prize to our Star Witness for each Case File.

Lizzy Hill
We just love the way Lizzy wrote her story right on that big, beautiful photo, and we also liked how she included that clear sticker near her journaling. The combination of all the different text styles gives Lizzy's page a very interesting look!



Here are a few more that caught our eye...


And here are our favorites from Case File No. 264. Here's a reminder of the Case File they used:




Giorgia Rossini for Scrappando
Giorgia Rossini

Emma Fryxelius

Cynthia B
Rona


Barb Holmes

We loved reading Barb's detailed recollections of  her favorite store from her childhood. The specificity with which she wrote her memories brought the past to life!



Thursday, November 1, 2018

Case File No. 265 - Deadline: November 30, 2018

Happy November! Autumn weather has finally fallen upon us, and we're excited to start a new month at CSI because a new month means new challenges and new sponsors.

Our challenges stay open all month long. And did you know that you are welcome to submit as many layouts as you'd like for the challenges? We also don't mind if you combine our challenge with other challenges or with your design team work. We are here to inspire you to scrap and tell your stories!

So, are you ready for the new challenge? Grab you forensics kits, CSI players, and get ready for some serious sleuthing as we open Case File No. 265.

CASE FILE

The colder weather seems to drive us indoors, so this month, we're celebrating Home Sweet Home with our Case Files. Don't feel like scrapping about home? No worries! Just use any part of the Case File to inspire you. 

Feel free to interpret the Case File in any way that inspires you, or for our traditional clues, scroll down to the bottom of this post.

The gorgeous image from this month's first Case File was found on the Home Goods blog.


For our Russian players, Detective Anastasia has translated our Case File into Russian:


SPONSORS

We're so excited to have twelve generous sponsors this month! Our sponsors are among the best in the crafting industry, offering unique and trendy products. CLICK HERE to read more about these generous sponsors and the prizes they're donating.



GUEST DESIGNERS

We're excited to have members of the design teams from Mystical Scrapbooks and SistersArt Creation serving as Guest Detectives this month!

INSPIRATION

So...are you ready for some serious inspiration?

Here is how our talented Guest Detectives cracked the Case:

Gypsy, from Mystical Scrapbooks:

Gypsy's blog
How Gypsy solved the Case: I've solved the case with the colour scheme, a frame, triangles and clear bling.
Merry, from SistersArt Creation:

Merry's blog

Here is how the CSI Detectives have expertly cracked the case. You can read more about how the Case File inspired them on their blogs (links on sidebar).


How Debbi solved the Case: I just loved the colors and all the interesting elements in The Scene, so I used traditional Evidence clues as well as the palette from The Scheme. I always love digging through my stash to see if I can use all the Evidence clues.. I've got stripes, a checker pattern in the stamped background, a frame in the form of a filmstrip, flowers, cats, text print, a label, something transparent, metal, puffy stickers, triangles (on the washi tape), something shiny--I found shiny puffy stickers, both gold and silver, a glittery title, and rub-ons. So, I was able to use all of the Evidence clues except for black-and-white photos. I found a 6-word sticker phrase for my Testimony that serves as a 6-word memoir.

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How Lisa solved the Case: I was inspired by the colors and frames. For evidence, I used a checker pattern, frames, flowers, a label,something transparent, arrows, gold & silver accents and rub-ons. For my testimony, I used the word "epic."

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How Lisa-Marie solved the Case: Oh what a GORGEOUS challenge!! I loved the black highlights and lines in the image - so I wanted to create that in my layout as well. One of the framed pictures in the image has a mixed font and I mimicked this with the title of my layout. I also used some flowers on my piece, as well as some intricte frame ephemera - much like the intricate framework of the glass box in the image. I used two pieces of acetate in my layering as well to emulate the clearness of the vase and I added a few elements that had splashes of silver on them. I used paper that had stripes and I used paper that had some triangle print on too. My journalling is a 6-word memoir.

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How Laura solved the Case: I used stripes, cat, gold and silver, metal, arrows, and triangles. I journaled about my cat making my house a home.

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How Jess solved the Case: I absolutely loved the contrast between the pinks, white & black on this challenge! I have documented something about our home as well as using stripes, flowers, text print, label, something transparent, black & white photos, something shiny and rub-ons from the evidence list.

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How Nina solved the Case: I used the inspiration words to make this layout. It was both epic and fabulous to see the first concert ever in O2 in London with the Korean boyband BTS. For evidence I used flowers, black and white photos, triangles, silver accents and rub-ons.

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How Vivian solved the Case: As soon as I saw this colour combo, it made me think of my oldest daughters best friend who loves the colour pink. This year they are separated because of distance for school, so I made this page for my daughter to document some sweet words written to her by her friend. 

To create this page I used 11 evidence clues! I used a slightly different shade of the darkest pink, and added in some green, simply because it gave me a chance to use the ephemera from Vicki Boutin's new collection which I am totally in love with. Also, I really loved being able to use tons of gold on this layout, since it's still my favorite metallic colour!

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How Natsuko solved the Case: I used Stripes, Frames, Flowers and Something Shiny (little pearly stickers) from the evidence.

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How Edith solved the Case: I was inspired by stripes, black and white photo, frame, flowers, shiny, gold and glitter.

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How Anastasia solved the Case: Used most of the clues: Stripes, Frames, Flower, animal, text print, Something transparent, Arrows, Metal, Triangles, Something shiny, both gold and silver accents, Glitter, Rub-onsThe tag behind the photo is for journaling (i chose this prompt "Document something about home" - this LO is about a windowsill.

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How Annie solved the Case: I enjoyed following the clues again to solve this case, just slightly tweaking the colour scheme by adding in some aqua from the magnifying glass in the inspiration image.

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How Carina solved the Case: I don´t know about you but if my living room looked like the inspiration photo it would be a dream come true for me! I love the combination of pink, black and beige/white so I took these colors as my inspiration + the amazing photo wall to make one about hubby and me. Now - where to find that vase....

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How Libeeti solved the Case: This time I went 'free style'. I was inspired by the colors of the inspiration photo and the chic look of that room. I also used some of the clues: checker pattern, frames, text print (hardly can be seen, on the pale gray pp under the photo), arrows, metal, triangles, something shiny, both gold and silver accents. The photo is of a beautiful street lamp on one of the bridges over the Seine in Paris. I'm a great fan of street lamps, and that is what my journaling about.

CASE FILE CLUES 
Choose as few or as many as you are inspired to use!



EVIDENCE
  • Stripes 
  • Checker pattern 
  • Frames 
  • Flower 
  • Cat or other animal 
  • Book pages/text print 
  • Label 
  • Something transparent 
  • Arrows 
  • Metal 
  • Puffy stickers 
  • Black and white photos 
  • Triangles 
  • Something shiny 
  • Use both gold and silver accents 
  • Glitter 
  • Rub-ons
TESTIMONY (JOURNALING IDEAS)
  • Topic: Document something about home 
  • Prompt Idea: Choose one of these 100 random questions
  • Presentation: Frame your journaling 
  • Writing Format: Write a 6-word memoir
  • Inspiration Words: epic, fabulous, vogue
THE SCHEME

  • 228.160.175 -carnation pink 
  • 246.214.225 – pale pink 
  • 255.255.255 - bright white 
  • 209.205.199 – light gray 
  • 16.14.25 - black

We trust we've left enough clues for you to solve the case!

The deadline for completing this Case File is Friday, November 30, at 11:59 p.m. EST. Be sure to link your layout using the link tool in the sidebar, and mention the Evidence and Testimony clues you used. Also, please title your link with your name and country.