February Case Files (Mid-Month Reveal) - Deadline: February 28, 2018

We're excited to bring you a second reveal for this month. If you haven't seen our first reveal, be sure to check it out here.

SPONSORS 

This month, we have six generous sponsors. Click here to read more about our sponsors and the prizes they are donating. Winners will be selected randomly from all of our players, with a few exceptions where sponsors have asked us to choose from certain geographic regions.

CASE FILES 

We present our February Case Files. Traditional clues can be found at the bottom of this blog post.

Case File No. 272 celebrates winter with this delightful scene by Marie Desbons.

We celebrate Valentine's Day with Case File No. 273. This lovely image was found at Decor Chick.

And we present our new bonus Cold Case File, which is designed to get you using your old stash. The beautiful Scene is by Claudia Tremblay.

The traditional CSI clues can be found on our Facebook page in the first entry under the album. Just click on the Case File images above. They are also posted at the bottom of this reveal.

To submit your layouts, click on the Case Files above, which will bring you to the individual albums in our Facebook group.

GUEST DESIGNERS

We are so honored to have the 2Crafty design team serving as Guest Detectives this month! You are sure to be inspired by their work!

We are also thrilled to announce the return of Special Investigators! This month, Giorgia Rossini was chosen to guest design.

My name is Giorgia Rossini, I am 36 and I am Italian. I've been married for 4 years, and I am a new mom of a sweet baby girl, Isabella.

I started scrapbooking about 9 years ago to preserve my memories, and since then I couldn't stop! 

I love the preserving memories part of it but also the creative part of it: playing with papers and all the cute embellishments makes me happy! I especially love making layouts but I also enjoy making mini album, cards and home decor.

My style is certainly colorful: I love to mix patterned papers! I love playing with patterned papers and embellishments. 

Social media

blog: www.giorgiarossini.com

online gallery: http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/619299.html

youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSTqNn6hIWN_4rmNDVKU44w

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giorgiarossini82/ 

I'm on FB: www.facebook.com/giorgia.rossini.82

I have also a fanpage on FB: www.facebook.com/jo.in.wonderland.creations

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/joy/

INSPIRATION 

And now, are you ready for some serious inspiration? Here's what our design team and guest designers created with Case File No. 273.

Our inspiring Special Investigator rocked the Case File:

Giorgia's blog

How Giorgia solved the Case: Of course I followed the Valentine theme, I scrapped one of my pregnancy pictures! Now I am the mom of sweet Isabella, my love!! Inspired by colors.
From evidence: Wood/ woodgrain, Flowers, Ribbon, hearts.

The talented 2Crafty designers cracked the Case like this:

Lisa's blog

I have used the following 2Crafty Chipboard pieces:

Clock Face Discs

Fancy Clock Hand Set 2

Flourish Adornment Set 4

Fine Word Set 2

Elena's blog

How Elena solved the Case: I solved the case by using the colour scheme from the scene. My evidence includes handmade journaling, distressed solid paper, paint, flowers, frames.

Karan's blog

Hina's blog

How Hina solved the Case: The beautiful image inspired me a lot with it’s soft and delicate theme.
I went with the colour scheme, playing basically with pink, green and white on my LO.
Evidence: I chose to design a valentine theme and picked a woodgrain paper. For my design I used an ornate Frame combined with a flourish, and I distressed all the chipboard elements.
With flowers and foliage, I also added some round wooden disks.

I used the following chipboard elements from 2Crafty:

Round Ornate Frame
Formal Flourish 1
Foliage set 5
A moment with you

Marie's blog

How Marie solved the Case:

I used the chipboards:

- Loveheart word

- Laceheart frames

- Heart-clumps

To answer the riddle I used all the colors of the moodboard.

I used flowers, wooden chipboards, ribbons, elements on the theme of Valentine's Day.

Distress and frame

For the presentation behind the little envelope I inserted a little word

My inspiration of the title "Valentine's days" and the choice of my photo my son and his lover

Sabrina's blog

How Sabrina solved the Case: Testimony: "Crazy about you" is how I feel for my husband even after 19 years together. I selected the following evidence: flowers, hearts, frame, metal and woodgrain elements.

I used the following 2Crafty products in the layout:

Pretty Dandelions [m00761]

Frame Flourish 2 [fr0014]

Tiny Feather Set [m00477]

Crazy About You [w0091]

And the CSI design team masterfully cracked the Case. We'll share how they solved the Case on Facebook.

CASE FILE CLUES 

Choose as many or as few as you are inspired to use! Testimony links can be found on our Facebook Page.

February Cold Case File No. 274

How would you like to use up some of your older scrapbook stash? CSI's Cold Case Files are designed to get you digging through your old stuff. Like our other two challenges, the Cold Case File is also open all month long. You can see the other Case Files here. There will be a full reveal of design team's and guest designers' creations for Case File No. 273 on February 15.

Check back on this blog post throughout the month, as we'll be adding more layouts as the team creates them.

SPONSORS 

This month, we have six generous sponsors. Click here to read more about our sponsors and the prizes they are donating. Winners will be selected randomly from all of our players, with a few exceptions where sponsors have asked us to choose from certain geographic regions.

COLD CASE FILE

We present our new bonus Cold Case File, which is designed to get you using your old stash. The beautiful Scene is by Claudia Tremblay.

The traditional CSI clues can be found on our Facebook page in the first entry under the album. Just click on the Case File images above. They are also posted at the bottom of this reveal.

To submit your layouts, click on the Case File above (or in the sidebar), which will bring you to the individual albums in our Facebook group.

GUEST DESIGNERS

We are so honored to have the 2Crafty design team serving as Guest Detectives this month! You are sure to be inspired by their work!

We are also thrilled to announce the return of Special Investigators! This month, Giorgia Rossini was chosen to guest design. Giorgina's layout will be presented in the mid-month reveal.

INSPIRATION 

And now, are you ready for some serious inspiration? Here's what our design team created with Cold Case File No. 274. 

How Lisa-Marie solved the Cold Case: When I saw this inspiration image I knew I wanted to use lots of flowers! I dug into my emphemera stash and hauled out all sorts of old stock! I found flowers and foliage and some interesting 'frames' too. In addition, I used some leaves and branches chippies and the papers that I chose had an earthy feel to them. I chose to work with browns, greens, reds and cream.

How Vivian solved the Cold Case: The flower wreath & ribbon in the girls hair inspired me this time. I've used green, red, white, yellow, black & peach as my colours.

I used the buttons, flowers & feathers product as a jumping off point, and the mixed media, stencil design clue and this video from Nathalie DeSousa helped bring this page together. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6HoX1LX-2o&t=31s

And, for your information in case you didn't know, pulchritudinous means beautiful. I found that comment on my daughters profile picture. It was written by her boyfriend. ;)

How Lisa Solved the Cold Case: I was inspired by the colors, owl, flowers, deer & the braided hair (this reminded me of my daughters winter cap). For clues I used: an old Glitz collection from my stash and an owl. Design clue: I used a stencil I haven't used in awhile along with BoBunny Glue Paste with some cream acrylic paint added to it. I also stamped on my background.

How Lynette solved the Cold Case: I love the "cold case" files. I am challenging myself to scrap my stash this year. I found an older collection that matched the palette. I used stacks of ribbons and an old Petaloo flower. I incorporated a wood owl and a metal owl charm. I applied some texture paste (coloured with paint) through a stencil.

How Debbi solved the Cold Case: I love challenges--they really help get me going. I'm on the design team at Paper Issues, so I like combining their challenges ours. In this case, I played in their Free File Free-for-All challenge, where they challenge you to use one of their free cut files. I knew I wanted to use one of the old BasicGrey Christmas collections for the winter themed clue, as  well as the basic color scheme of the Case File. I have all my winter and Christmas embellishments in a box, and I dug through their and found that 2Crafty chipboard present (they're a sponsor this month), some glittery poinsettias, and that big frame that reminded me of a wreath, like the wreath in the Case File. I think I got that frame in a kit a long time ago and didn't think I'd ever use it. I just love using old stash!

How Debbi solved the Cold Case: I had originally set out to use a Sassafras Lass paper with owls, but like I said above, I love to combine CSI challenge with Paper Issues challenges, and this was for a Scraplift Sunday challenge. You'll have to go take a look at Jennifer's amazing layout that was the inspiration for my design. So, even though I didn't use the Sassafras Lass owls, I did use the border strips from Sassafras Lass's Indie Girl collection, which is close to ten years old. I also used a bunch of buttons and some really old Prima mulberry flowers, which were clues. I dug into an old Thickers alpha pack that I had never opened, and used some old K&Co. phrase stickers.

CASE FILE CLUES 

Choose as many or as few as you are inspired to use! Testimony links can be found on our Facebook Page.