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Saturday Inspiration - Numbers!

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Brenshevia

Narelle

Lydia

Friday Inspiration - Numbers!

Friday, August 30, 2013

Barb

Lori

Traci

Anita

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Fabulous Friday Challenge - Numbers & An Announcement!!

All of you have been so patient while you waited for our big announcement... and here it is!!

Frosted Designs is opening our very own store and kit club!!

Now you will be able to get your scrapbooking, card making, and mixed media supplies from us!! :) We have stores in both The United States and Australia so we will be able to ship worldwide! The store will be open one week from today! We will be sharing information with you next week about some of the things you can look forward to seeing in the store, and starting in October, our kit clubs will be available! In the mean time, be sure to sign up for our newsletter (using the form on the right sidebar) so that you can receive coupons and be the first to know about the products that are available!

Will there be changes to the challenges?
And to put your mind at ease... our challenges here at Frosted Designs will remain the same! We will offer a challenge every other Friday and you do not need to use supplies purchased from us to participate.... we just want to keep on challenging you!! (However, the blog will be getting a make-over during the next few days!)

This week's Challenge:
Are your kids back in school yet? Well, with all the back to school sales, signs, and promos it had us thinking about numbers! So, we decided to give you a Number Challenge this week! How easy is that?! We want to see you use a number (or many numbers) in your card, layout, or off the page project! It does not need to be a school themed project... just a project that includes a number! And, if you play along, you could win this prize....

Please welcome back

Molossi is 100% Australian owned and operated, with over eight years industry experience and access to the much loved paper craft brands and experts.

Molossi is situated in the Hawkesbury region of New South Wales, and our warehouse is located in Wilberforce and open by appointment only.

With the vision, Molossi is committed to sourcing and supplying all your papercraft needs, whilst delivering our own unique products. Our priority is to deliver a prompt and efficient service to our cliental base, to maintain this promise we are listening to what you as the retailers are asking and we are always open to suggestion and comments to ensure we uphold this value.

And now for the prize that Molossi have kindly donated

$30.00 Chipboard and Bling pack

Thank you Molossi for that wonderful prize!

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Fabulous Friday Top 3 & Winner!

Thursday, August 29, 2013

The Design Team really loved all the variety for our Chipboard Challenge.

Thanks to all of you who played along!

Here are the Top 3 as picked by our design team:

#18, Brenda Ragsdale

#25 Libeeti

#29 Karen L.

Congrats ladies!

If you would like a Top 3 blinkie for your blog please

email Debbie at frosteddesigns@ymail.com.
Please put FD Top 3 in your subject line.

We would like to thank

Moments of Tranquility

for sponsoring our challenge with this beautiful prize package

The winner is:
#10, Sue Smith

Congrats Sue!

Please email Debbie at frosteddesigns@ymail.com.
Be sure to include your mailing address.
Please put FD Winner in your subject line.
You have 7 days to claim your prize.

Don't forget to check back tomorrow
for a new Fabulous Friday Challenge and some
amazing inspiration from our design team!

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We might just tell....

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Wow! After reading all the comments you left on our "Secret" Posts I think that you would like to know this big secret we are hiding! Well, I have never been very good at keeping secrets so I might just spill the beans! But, in the mean time, you might want to make sure you are joining us in our Facebook Group (if you are on Facebook)

Click HERE!

AND, you should probably sign up for our newsletter...

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Tutorial Tuesday with Joni!

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

I thought I'd share a little something different with you this week... Instead of a regular tutorial on how to make something or a cool new technique... I'm sharing some things I do with one of my most USEFUL items on my scrappy table..... SCOTCH TAPE!! What..?? Yes, Scotch Tape... After I realized how much scotch tape I went through, it made me realize I need to share some of the things I use it for... read on to see what I mean.

When I work on a 2 page layout I ALWAYS tape the 2 pages together on the back... so I can extend my patterned paper all the way across the "seam" without having to worry about getting it lined up or having to match the pattern from the left to right page... also useful when stitching across the seam of a 2 pager. Then when done, just use an exacto knife and cut the tape (and pp if you went across the seam) and waa-laa, you've got 2 pages again.

Now also on this 2 pager, you can see that I have more tape... because I stitched on it and I didn't want to "BACK stitch" so I just taped the back side so the stitches don't fall out. Also on a spot where my sewing machine got a little weird on me. And where I cut the stitching across the 2 pages. So that's tip 2 -- Use tape to secure the back side of stitches (so no backstitching or unravelling).

Heres' the front of that layout so you can see the stitching on the front side. (That's silly string on the dog..)

On to tip #3 - which is vaguely familar to tip #2 --- I also use tape to secure the back side of HAND stitching... so I don't have that "knot" on the back side of my layout:

Ok, here's another one... I have some embellishements that just don't like adhesive... I tried my tape runner, glue dots....and instead of going for the stapler (which I use a lot too)... well, on this one, I used scotch tape..hidden under my photo. (I used 1/2 a doily embellishment..being frugal and used the other 1/2 on another layout). Sorry for the glare on that second pic, it's the only way the tape would show up!

Here's that layout completed:

Ok one more...

You know your glue bottles and stickles bottles get clogged up right?

Well, I've seen gals put a pin IN the little hole to keep it from getting clogged, but then the pin got glued in there!! I have a variation of that. I still use the pin, but I just keep it closeby to "poke" the hole when I need to unclog it. And when the tape breaks from pulling the pin in and out, I just put another piece of tape over it..one bottle I just threw away had probably 20-30 layers of tape..it was pretty funny...but it works!!