Shabby Chic Challenge #1

Shabby Chic Challenge #1I am so excited to find this new challenge blog. Their first challenge is an "inspiration" challenge. The inspiration was a picture from Moulin Rouge. I was drawn to the colors and the fans in the picture...
Close up of my fans...

Love the Tim Holtz stamp...

One more close up...

Thank you for stopping by...

Bobunny blog

Bobunny sketch challengeI love the sketch that they provided on their blog... check it out here.
This is a great summer line.

Inside of card.

Love all the dimension.

One last view.

Materials:

Bobunny paper

Prima flower

Bobunny brad

Stampin up scallop punch and "wish big" stamp

Spiced Marmalade - Ranger ink

Bobunny acryllic stamp

Scrapping the Music Challenge #94

Scrapping the Music Challenge #94

What I Like About You...

This is the perfect song for my daughter, Clara... like me, she loves to dance. It is one of our favorite things to do together. When asked to pose for a picture on the 4th of July... Clara started dancing in her new dress. My husband and I both are dancers and we are amazed at how fluid she is with her body when she is moving to the music.
Title: You really know how to dance!

Journaling reads: When you dance, your body is so fluid. We love dancing together. Dancing with you is just one of the things I love about you!

Techniques used:

handstitching

handmade buttons- handstitched and Acryllic Accents added to make it look like a glossy button

Embossed my handwriting on my title

Hand cut the star

Painted with bubble wrap

Thank you for looking at my creation for my daughter!

Check out the Scrapping the Music blog here.

Hero Arts

Now for our challenge for YOU - and we have DOUBLE THE PRIZES this week! This week’s challenge is to create something that is inspired by anything on heroarts.com (our main website, not this blog). It could be a card, scrapbook page, technique article, or more from heroarts.com. Just post your creation - along with the link to the inspiration - in our Flickr group with the tag “website”. Be sure to use at least one Hero Arts stamp. The deadline for the challenge is Sunday, July 19 at 11:59 pm PST. From the entries we will pick twice as many winners as normal… and the prizes are twice as big:

TWO Fresh Face Winners (someone who has not yet won a contest): $100 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each
TWO Scrapbook Page Winners: $100 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each
TWO 1st Place: $100 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each
TWO 2nd Place: $50 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each
TWO 3rd Place: $30 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each

And we can’t start this big week without a giveaway. Wait - how about TWO!? Yep. Let’s do two giveaways…

Leave a comment here telling us something you like about our main website, heroarts.com. Do so by Friday at 11:59 pm PST and we will pick a lucky winner.

Post about our big week on your blog. Then leave a comment here linking us to your blog. Do so by tonight at 11:59 pm PST and we will pick another lucky winner!
Both winners will get these great goodies…

Go check it out...

I love Hero Arts stamps... and their website and blog are wonderful...

Home

I returned to the property to see what else they got done today...They will get the rest of the rafters up on Thursday night for the front of the room.

View from the loft

Brian adding the hurricane ties.

Close up of the hurricane tie.
One more view...

Bryce building in Clara's room.

Clara playing with "money" otherwise known as washers.

Roof rafters

Today...This was the view when I arrived today.
The roof rafters going up through the windows...

Check out that large beam which supports the roof.

Here goes the first 2 rafters.

The first one being nailed in...

The kids and I watching.

View from behind the house.

Second rafter going up.

3rd and 4th

Look at that peak... I just love it.

The best view is from the inside... the ceiling height is so high.

Driveway view

One last shot when leaving today.

2nd floor tonight

View tonight...This is the view tonight of the scaffolding ready to start the roof tomorrow.
Here are the two beams that hold up the floor above. They are cut from 2 of our logs... we had them milled for the house.

View from our bedroom... looking out onto the loft.

View from the loft looking into the dining room.

View from the loft looking into the living room.

View of both rooms

It is a long way down...

Brian standing in one of the walk in closets.

View of our bedroom... we are going for the outdoors- in look right now.

The bathroom window that is above the whirlpool tub.

View from our bathroom... not that you will have a view once the walls are up!

One more... to give you an idea of where the peak of the roof is... 3 feet above where the scaffolding ends...

Thanks for visiting the Campbell's Cozy Cabin...

it is getting cozier every day!