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Hi...Joni here...getting messy and dirty making a canvas... one of my fave things to "play" with!!
So here is the canvas that I'm going to show you the steps of how I made it:

So first off, I wanted to give you a little hint... When I shop at some discount places (like BIG LOTS) and I see they have canvases...and some of them are damaged... well, call over a manager and ask for a discount on the damaged ones...typically they give them to me for 50% off!!!! BINGO!!!

Here's the one I started with and you can see that I'm gonna cover that spot right up anyway!!

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Fabulous Friday Challenge - Paint!

Friday, January 13, 2012

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Welcome to another Fabulous Friday Challenge!

This weeks challenge is PAINT!!

That's right ladies get those brushes out and start painting.

Have a look at what the DT has done.

Joni Parker

And Joni will be back on Sunday with a tutorial for this project.

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Fabulous Friday Top 3 & Prize winner

Thursday, January 12, 2012

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Well didn't you ladies have fun with this weeks challenge of no Patterned Paper!!

There were just so many lovely designs. Thank you to everyone who played along and congratulations to our Top 3! Here they are...

Miesje

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Sketch Along Tuesdays Sketch #32

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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Hello, my name is Andrea and I am so thrilled to be the new Sketch Along Tuesdays Layout Coordinator. The Sketch DT is a fantastic group of designers and it will be a privilege to work with them. -Andrea

Now on to the new sketch reveal!

It's a fabulous sketch from Roberta from the Fabulous Friday Team

Sketch #32

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Sketch Along Tuesdays Sketch #31 Top 3 & Winner

Monday, January 9, 2012

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Thank you to everyone that joined us for Sketch #31. We hope you enjoyed Ashley's fabulous sketch.

Challenge #31Top 3:

Stacia

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Show Me Sunday - A Tutorial by Fern!

Sunday, January 8, 2012

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Fern
Hi everyone, Fern here and I'm going to show you how to make a cute "Desk Top Mini Album". Wouldn't this be a perfect gift for a teacher for Valentine's Day?!!

Here it is closed...

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Fabulous Friday Challenge - Cardstock only (no patterned paper)

Friday, January 6, 2012

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Hi everyone!!

I hope that everyone had a lovely start to the New Year?? Let me introduce myself, I am Amanda and I will be doing the Fabulous Friday Coordinators position, which Barb has handed over to me. Barb has done an amazing job, I only hope that I can bring the high standard to Frosted Designs that Barb has.

Before we get to this week's challenge, we would love to wish a Happy Birthday to a couple of our Designers!

Happy Birthday to Ashley who is celebrating her birthday today!!

And Happy Birthday to Jenny who is celebrating her birthday on the 8th!!

This weeks challenge Cardstock only (no patterned paper). This one will really challenge you. I don't think that I have ever just used cardstock on a layout, card or off the page. Be sure to have fun with this!

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Fabulous Friday Top 3 & Prize winner

Thursday, January 5, 2012

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We had lots of beautiful entries this week! Thank you to everyone who played along

Here are the top 3...

Norma Pimentel

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Card Sketch #9

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

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Happy New Year everyone, and welcome to Card Sketch #9! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday and are ready to create! Here is our new sketch, compliments of Diana:

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Card Sketch #8 Top 3 & Prize Winner

Monday, January 2, 2012

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We had some very talented card-makers this time! Congratulations to all of you - you found time during the busy holiday season to enter our challenge! Unfortunately, we can only choose the Top 3 and a Prize Winner, so here they are:

Top 3:

Angellowe

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Show Me Sunday - A Tutorial by Erin Reed!

Sunday, January 1, 2012

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Coloring Your Bling by Erin Reed

Have you ever needed a specific color of a pearl or crystal, and the ones you have just don't fit? Here is a quick and easy way to color your pearls and bling with markers!!

1) Supplies - pearls, crystals, bling, gems, etc (white or clear)- Copic markers and/or Bic Mark Its in the colors of your choice

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Home Decor Project by Lydia!

Saturday, December 31, 2011

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Hello Everyone! Lydia here with a fun home project for you. I have had a blank wall in my kitchen for almost a year and finally found came up with an idea for that blank space. I found this frame at our school's fair. Now....I didn't care for the leopard picture but knew the frame would be perfect for what I was thinking.

The first thing I did was to take the print out of the frame. I attached chicken wire to the frame with a staple gun. After the wire was attached, I spray painted the whole thing.

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Fabulous Friday Challenge - Something New!

Friday, December 30, 2011

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We are on the last challenge of the year and what a year it has been! We have enjoyed creating challenges for you and inspiring you to try new things as well as use up some of those supplies taking up valuable space in your creative areas! We are blessed to have an wonderfully talented design team from around the world and the most loyal, friendly followers out there! We are nearing 1000 followers and we are both excited and humbled that we have so many people that want to stop by Frosted Designs for inspiration and to play along! Thank you for making this challenge blog a great place to be! With the new year, there will be a few changes. Last Tuesday you learned about Andrea becoming the new Sketch Along Tuesdays layout challenge coordinator. Today, I would like to announce that Amanda will be taking over as the Fabulous Friday Coordinator! Amanda has been a very active member of our design team for a while now and is also our sponsorship coordinator. She is going to do an amazing job in this new leadership role!! Congratulations Amanda!

With the new year, we wanted a new challenge for you. We want to see you do something new or use something new on your card, layout or project! This can be a new technique that you have seen and are wanting to try out or it can be a product that has been sitting around your craft room left unopened and untouched! As long as you can tell us what is new about your project, it qualifies for this challenge! Our design team has created some spectacular projects to get those creative juices flowing!

Joni Parker

New product: Pink Paislee Mistables Paper
New Technique: Using "text speak" (UBU for You Be You) for the title

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Fabulous Friday Top 3 & Prize winner!

Thursday, December 29, 2011

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Thank you to everyone who took the time to play along with us not only this week, but all year long! We hope we have inpsired you as much as you have inspired us! We had some fabulous entries for this week's Fabric challenge! Here are your Top 3....

Anita

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Sketch Along Tuesdays Sketch #31

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

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December has just whizzed by . . . hope everyone enjoyed the holidays!
I got some news to share with all of you.
I've made the decision to step down as the Sketch Coordinator for our Sketch Along Tuesdays Challenge, as more and more of my time is now devoted to taking care of my mom. It's been a thrill to handle this challenge that I started over a year ago with the blessings of Barb and Diana. It's been a pleasure working with the talented members of my design team. Andrea from our Fabulous Friday DT will be the new Sketch Coordinator for this challenge beginning with our January 10th challenge. Not to worry though, as I will still be a part of this big family here at Frosted Designs, helping Barb and Diana run this great challenge blog.
---Debbie

Now on to the new sketch reveal!

It's a great sketch designed by Ashley, one of our DT members from our Fabulous Friday Challenge.

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Sketch Along Tuesdays Sketch #30 Top 3 and Winner

Monday, December 26, 2011

We hope everyone enjoyed spending the holidays with family and friends. We were glad to see that some of you had some time to spare to join our challenge. The Top 3 are:

Jackie Edwards

Anita

Laurie LaRivera

Congrats ladies!

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

please email Debbie at mdjsburns@aol.com.

We would like to thank Paper Secrets for sponsoring our challenge!

The winner of the $25 gift card is
Diana

Congrats Diana!
Please contact Debbie at mdjsburns@aol.com so that I can get you the information for the gift card. You have 7 days to claim your prize.

Don't forget to check back tomorrow. We have a little news to share and a new sketch reveal!

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SHOW ME SUNDAY -ELI

Sunday, December 25, 2011

We would like to wish all of you and your families, a Very Merry Christmas.
From your Friends at Frosted Designs.

Eli

Merry Christmas girls! I wish you an happy day with family, friends and good food, like me! Today I show you an easy idea for a mini album that combines fabrics and papers.

You need: cardstock, fabrics, strong patterned papers, bazzils, clips, sewing machine (no experience needed), glue or duoble sides adhesive, eyelets and ribbons.

Cut 2 rectangular cardstock (6x9) for the cover and one for the thick (6x2), place them on the cloth (8x22) a few mm away from each other.

Fold the fabric to the inside and secure it with clips to hold it in position. No glue binding this!Cut the rectangle of patterned paper (8x6) that you want to use for the front and also to set the fabric along with the clips.

Sew the front cover, removing the clips and gradually proceed with the work.

Sew the thickness and finally the back.

Glue a piece of wrapping paper to reinforce the central part.

From a cardstock bazzill type, cut out 2 rectangles and glue to cover the seams.

On the central part, glue a rectangle of cloth of different color.

We now think of pages: the principle is the same. Cut some cardboard cereal box type of recovery (the number is up to you depending on the number of photos you want to use) (8x6). Cut a rectangle of cloth, of 2-3 cm bigger than the cardboard, fold the edges of the fabric, secure with clips, and sewing .

Cut a rectangle from the patterned and do on this a fake stitching to give uniformity to the album.

Paste it on the rough part to cover the seams. In this way we have all pages with a paper side and a fabric side.Insert two eyelets on each page, and two pairs of eyelets on the thickness of the cover.