February Challenge and DT reveal

February's  Challenge

Welcome to our challenge at Off the Rails.

It's February and we are well into 2017 already. It's also the month for Valentines.

Our fabulous sponsors for the month are: 

Just Add Flair

and Two Sisters Scrapbooking and Papercraft

Our Challenge for the month is using this mood board:

February is the month of valentines, hearts along with celebrations with family and friends.

We are here to challenge you and see just what you can do with any of these colours and themes. You need some inspiration ???? have a look at what the DT have come up with.  And just wait till you see what we have in store for you over the month.

Carol

Made a Valentine's Day card for my hubby.

Jaehee

Bev

We have a pleasant surprise for you. This month we have some of the DT playing along from Just Add Flair who is sponsoring us this month. Look at the amazing and fabulous creations they have made to inspire us.

Candy Chelepy

Fiona Hughes

Be sure to play along with us, link and share with us so we can view and comment on your project.

Thanks for visiting today.. and see you again soon.

February 1st Challenge

 

Welcome to our challenge at Off the Rails.

It's February so let's take a deep breathe and enjoy our surroundings, our families and loved ones.

Our sponsors for the month are: Candy Chelepy (one of our designers) and Memory Maze Lazercuts.

 

This month we have 2 traditional mood board colours for you. We are here to challenge you and see just what you can do with either one of them. You need some inspiration ???? have a look at what the DT have come up with.  And just wait till you see what we have in store for you over the month.

  "Romance"                                        "Summers day"                                

Elisa

Carol

Anguree

Tamy

Bev

Be sure to play along with us, link and share with us so we can view and comment on your project.

Thanks for visiting today.. and see you again soon.

Introducing Nicole Doiron

Hello everyone!

My  name is Nicole Doiron from New Brunswick Canada

and I am excited to be here today

at Off the Rails Scrabooking as the February Guest Designer.

Thank you Amanda for this opportunity!

I have been an avid scrapbooker since one of my good friends introduced me to it in 2004. 

It didn't take long before I was passionate about this wonderful hobby!  

My scrapbooking style varies a lot, adapting itself constantly to my moods and inspirations.  

I tend more towards the shabby chic style.  I like to use a lot of embellishments (chipboard shapes, 

flowers, bling, tags, eyelets and brads) and I love to add handmade stitching on a lot of my projects.

My forte is definitely layouts (from single to double-page), but I do also create 

a lot of cards and tags and have been challenging myself 

to create more and more beyond the page projects.  

I am currently on several design teams which keep me extremely busy and inspired:

Scrap Around the World, 2Crafty Chipboard, My Creative Scrapbook, White with One and Scrap our Stash.

You can visit my blog at http://scrap-utopia.blogspot.ca to see more of my creations. 

Here is my take on the hip and trendy February mood board:

  

As you can see, I stayed real close to the colour palette and was inspired by the Eiffel tower image.

This picture was taken by my friend Christine on her trip to Europe a few years back.

I simply modified it in Picassa using the 'tint' option, turning it into the shades I wanted to match the board.

If you look at this page and see more of my creations, 

you will notice that I often had a whitewash (or we could say white snowy) effect to my projects.

It is, some could say, one of my signature style.

I love how it softens up my layouts and gives them more of a shabby chic feel.

It's very easy to accomplish just using a good ol' makeup sponge covered in white acrylic paint that I lightly dab over the edge of papers and over most of my embellishments.

It doesn't always look perfect, but that's the fun of creativity! :)

Hope you have enjoyed my post!

Thank you Nicole for being our GDT, and we loved her work so very much that I've ask her to join us on the DT, and doing a happy dance,  Nicole excepted!!  So you'll be seeing more of her amazing work in the future. 

Thanks again Nicole

February Challenge

Is it February already?? Are you sure?? But wasn't it just Christmas?? LOL Who feels like this?? I know I do. So yes unfortunately it is February already but the good news is that we have a new challenge for you, which means a new mood board and a new sponsor.

Well not a new sponsor as such because Pam Kuhn from Kaszazz has sponsored us in the past and we are happy to say she is our sponsor again for February.

She will be giving the February winner a $25.00 voucher with free postage to anywhere in Australia You can spend up with Kaszazz. Check out their catalogue HERE. They have some amazing stuff including a fabulous selection of rubber cling stamps, their own paper designs and the whole Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Inks Range and more! International winners, stamps only.

And here is our beautiful February mood palette. Our Design Team member Fiona has created this soft yet modern palette for you to be inspired by.

And for even more inspiration our Design Team have been busy creating their own interpretations.

Sherry

Heather

Fiona

Bev

Priscilla

You have to agree, that's a pretty amazing collection the design team has put together.

Entries open from today and end on the last day of February. Remember to include your name when you link up. Good luck xx