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Announcing the Newest Challenge…!


2010
11.01

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It’s time for the November Challenging Challenge!

 

Shaunta Murphy you are the November Challenging Challenge Winner!

 

This month’s challenge is to create a Thanksgiving Place Card and Napkin Ring for your holiday dinner table!

Here’s THE DIRTY DETAILS:

1.  It must include a turkey, pilgrim, cornucopia or any other shape/symbol that represents Thanksgiving.

2.  It needs to include at least three  popcorn kernels, a nut, a cinnamon stick OR a twig.

3.  It needs to include at least one thing that is gold OR silver.

4.  It must have a person’s name on the place card.

5.  It must include some type of fiber – twine, yarn, ribbon, etc

Your Thanksgiving place card and napkin ring may include any additional items you need to complete your project.  To enter the challenge you’ll need to take a clear photo and provide your name and email address to olive juice studio @ yahoo . com (copy and paste then remove the spaces between each word)  If you have a blog URL send it with your photos so I can add it to your entry – it’s a great way to get traffic to your site!

The prize cartridge will be announced as soon as I hear from Memory Miser!

All  entries must be submitted by 11:59PM November 30th, 2010.

A clever place card designed by Jenna from  http://www.jennasfavoritethings.blogspot.com/.  Make sure to hop on over to her blog too – she has some super cute creations over there!

Here’s a lovely place card and napkin ring created by Shaunta Murphy…

Good Luck and Have Fun!!

xKim

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The October Challenging Challenge Winner is…


2010
11.01

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NADIA HERBST-MCCONNELL!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!  Your scrappycrow was selected as this month’s challenge winner!

This awesome looking fella is named “Supa Scare” – the bird-flinging blingy scarecrow designed by Nadia Herbst-McConnell.  Nadia says, “He is made completely from found items at our house (it kinda shows).  His glittery head and bird are from leftover items from the church bazaar stuff I donated.  His base is a CD holder, wrapped in metal tape (leftover from attaching the dryer hose) and duct tape (that my husband borrowed from a neighbor last night for me).  The black and glitter papers on him are from my drawer of little scrap papers, the giant pipe cleaners are ones I raided from my DD’s craft stuff (she is 6 so it required trading and begging).  The rubber bands are from the asparagus that I cooked last night.  (How can a house not have any rubber bands except what shows up from the produce department??!!)  The raffia has to be from 1992, leftover a project I did then for school.  That is the only time I remember using it and I had quite a time remembering where I put it.  The felt is left over stock from when I thought that I needed every color made to create my little 2″ acorn fairies.  (Note:  2″ fairies do not require a case of felt to get completed).  The dowel rod inside him is leftover from DD’s birthday party in 2007 when the girls made magic wands.”

BUT WAIT….there’s more!  Kassi Hulet is also receiving  a prize for taking the time to enter such an adorable scrappycrow!  She will be receiving this month’s Mystery Prize Candy! 

I still have my own scarecrow to finish and post – I’m trying, really! :-)   Be on the lookout for November’s Challenging Challenge Dirty Details I will be posting today!
Happy Crafting!

xKim

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Spooky September Challenge Winner!


2010
10.03

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All votes are in and tallied! It was a super close race betweeen all four entries so kudos to each of you!!! With just a few minutes to spare, one of the entries picked up enough votes to put it in the lead…

  

Lissa Munson YOU’RE THE WINNER of the Spooky September Challenging Challenge! 

Congrats to you!!!

 

 Here’s the winning project!

“Once upon a time…in the eerie evening light…there was a girl who put up a fight.  I had to lock her up, without even a dare.  “NO MORE” I said, “Mommy Dearest Does Not Scare!” Designed by Lissa.

    

 Thank you to each of you who took the time to enter the September challenge and to those of you who left encouraging comments and voted!  It’s a team effort to make this work and I greatly appreciate your enthusiasm!  The October Challenge has been posted  it’s another super fun and challenging one!  As soon as I hear from Memory Miser on which cartridge we’re giving away this month for this challenge I will post it.

Olive announcing great news, don’t you?

 xKim

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VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE SPOOKY SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE ENTRY!


2010
10.01

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The “Spooky September Challenging Challenge” has come to an end and now it’s time for all of you to help choose a winner by voting for your favorite!  If you ask me, all of the entries are winners because every one of the projects follows the “dirty details” and is completely original.  Great work everyone! I’m just loving the humorous twist a few of you gave to the challenge too! :-)   BUT, since this is a challenge and we only have one cartridge to give away, we need to vote. 

 The entry with the most votes wins.  Voting is open starting now until  11:59 pm on Oct 2, 2010.  PLEASE, to be fair to everyone only ONE VOTE PER PERSON PER COMPUTER.  The poll program I use does show the cookies and IP addresses so I do look to make sure that each vote is unique ( I don’t want to sound like a meanie I  just want to be fair. :) ) 

This is the voting poll.  To vote, simply click on the number/name of the project that is your favorite. :-)   If you scroll down a bit I added the photos of each entry for you to check out before voting.

I will announce the winner once the winner has been determined.  The winner receives a Happy Hauntings Cricut cartridge courtesy of Memory Miser! 

Challenge Entries

1. “Eerie” was designed by Nadia Herbst-McConnell – how clever!!!  Nadia doesn’t have a blog so I’m going to post a few close-up photos so you can see the detail.

     

2. “I’m not clammy….I’m a  mummy out of mothballs!”  This one was designed by Patricia Kiser from pattyk-craftyfrog.blogspot.com

       

“Once upon a time…in the eerie evening light…there was a girl who put up a fight.  I had to lock her up, without even a dare.  “NO MORE” I said, “Mommy Dearest Does Not Scare!” Designed by Lissa.

    

“Boo”  A banner designed by Brynn Thornburgh from http://www.flairandfrillscreativity.blogspot.com/.  To see more closeup photos hop on over to Brynn’s blog

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A Spooky September Olive Crafts Challenging Challenge…


2010
09.12

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ENTER TO WIN A HAPPY HAUNTING CRICUT CARTRIDGE…

COURTESY OF MEMORY MISER!

Tis the season to be GhOuliSh!  Check out the super fun challenge I have planned for all of you this month!

Here’s MY project:

(Check out the details in the seperate post titled “Shriek!  Got Bats?” )

LOOK!  We have a project entered in the challenge for this month!  Whew!  I thought I was going to have to see another great cartridge go untouched! 

“Eerie” was designed by Nadia Herbst-McConnell – how clever!!!  Nadia doesn’t have a blog so I’m going to post a few close-up photos so you can see the detail.

     

“I’m not clammy….I’m a  mummy out of mothballs!”  This one was designed by Patricia Kiser from pattyk-craftyfrog.blogspot.com

       

“Once upon a time…in the eerie evening light…there was a girl who put up a fight.  I had to lock her up, without even a dare.  “NO MORE” I said, “Mommy Dearest Does Not Scare!” Designed by Lissa.

    

“Boo”  A banner designed by Brynn Thornburgh from http://www.flairandfrillscreativity.blogspot.com/.  To see more closeup photos hop on over to Brynn’s blog

Who’s next?  Mwa-ha-haaaaa!!!

The Dirty Details:

1.  Your project entry must have a Halloween theme or feel to it AND you must be able to hang it from a wall, door or whatever!

2.  It must include a black and white photo of anything -a person, place or thing. The photo can be recent or vintage.  (If this is a problem, it can also be a stamped image in B&W, a clip art image OR a picture taken from a magazine/newspaper in B&W.)

3.  It must include a key (real or die cut) AND/OR a bottle cap

4.  It must include either a bandaid, bandage (I just added the bandage part maybe this will give you a bit more flexibility!) OR a piece of gauze

 5.  It must include at least one of the following words somewhere in your project.  If you’re feeling REALLY clever feel free to use more than one or all of them!  You may add additional words if you are writing a thought, poem or sentiment…Here are the words: “Eeeeek”….”mothballs”….”shriek”…..”clammy”….”gelatin”…..or “Eerie”… -you may change the spelling and the use of upper and lower case when adding the word(s) to your project.

This challenge can be anything and can be made from any mediums as long as it includes the items listed above.  It can be a card, scrapbook page, tag, altered item, home decor, repurposed/recycled item, etc BUT there must be a way to hang it from a wall, door etc… (HEY!  It’s a challenging challenge, what did you expect?! LOL!)

  The deadline is 11:59PM, September 30th, 2010.

This contest will be open for voting October 1st-October 2nd.  The entry with the most votes will win a Cricut cartridge courtesy of Memory Miser! Details of the voting system being used will be announced later this month. 

Questions?  Contact me!  If the link button is unavailable for you to upload your photos please send your photo to me at olivejuicestudio@yahoo.com and I will make sure to upload your photo!  Please make sure to include your name, email and blog URL!

Olive a SpoOky challenge, don’t you?

xKim

 

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And the Winner of the August “Olive Crafts Challenge” is…


2010
09.01

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There were a total of 13 entries in the August Challenge which is a MAJOR WoHoOo!!! Thanks everyone for taking pity on me and entering so I don’t have to suffer any longer knowing that another Cricut cartridge went “un-won”! (I just added this word to the dictionary! Don’t forget you saw it on OJS first! LOL!)

First, we assigned a number to each entry…..  

1.    Stacie from http://hestiashelper.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/reading-fairy-card

2 .   Maureen from http://mosaddiction.blogspot.com

3.    Jenna from http://www.jennasfavoritethings.blogspot.com

4.    Maria Snook from http://www.scrapbooknut2002.blogspot.com. 

5.   Debbie Burns from http://lovelifeslittlepleasures.blogspot.com/2010/08/be-happy.html

6.    Agnes from http://flowerdiscosscraphut.blogspot.com/.

7.   Kassi from http://kassicreations.blogspot.com/2010/08/generations.html!

8.    Jana Terpstra from http://www.imneverbored.blogspot.com

9.    Karla from http://www. kreativekarla.blogspot.com/ 

10.  Carrie Slaughter

11.  Theresa Kelly from http://www.binkyblossoms.blogspot.com.

12.  Shaunta Murphy!

13.  Lissa/Pheobe

This is a photo of my youngest son not only wearing a green glittered hat from St. Pattie’s Day but holding one with all 13 numbers.

This is a photo of my son mixing up the numbers and pulling a number from the magic hat…no peeking was allowed!

Can you see the winning number?

Ahhhh yes!  Just what I thought it was….the LUCKY NUMBER 4!!!

If you look above, you’ll see that number 4 was assigned to Maria Snook from http://www.scrapbooknut2002.blogspot.com!! 

 

CONGRATS MARIA!!!

And, thank you to each of you who participated in the August Challenge!  It was so much fun seeing each unique project and how you all made sure to follow “The Dirty Details” to make sure your project followed the challenge guidelines!  I’ve received so many awesome comments from so many of you telling me that you REALLY appreciate how I make the challenges an actual “challenge” and that makes me smile!!!  I will be posting the details for the September 2010 Challenge later this evening….I have a strange feeling you just might like it too! *wink*

Olive a challenging challenge, don’t you?

xKim

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August Olive Crafts Challenge…


2010
09.01

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ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A “WALL DECOR” CRICUT CARTRIDGE!

No one entered the July Challenge so no one won a cartridge from Memory Miser yesterday because there was nothing to vote on. ::::sniff::::  No one entered the contest last week so no one won the “mystery” prizes I picked up at CHA. :-(   ::::Sniff.-Sniff:::  Too bad so sad because they were some goooooooood prizes too! (Nothing like rubbing it in, eh?!  LOL!) *wink*  I was giving away the Happy Haunting Cricut cartridge and Peachy Keen Stamps, along with a bunch of little things I picked up but now they’re mine!  Bwa-Ha-Haaaa!  I told you it was going to be a great “mystery” prize because I don’t mess around! :-)  

I’m going to take this as a wake up call to revamp the challenges on OJS – no offense taken!  I’ve always looked at a challenge as being a “challenge.”  Either my challenges are too hard or everyone is on vacation and had CHA on their brains and weren’t able to participate. :-)  So with that in mind, I took an extra day to think about this and have come up with the following for the August challenge! I hope this feels more “doable” and you decide to enter! :-)  

The August Challenge….

The Dirty Details:

1.  Your project must include a stamped image – it can be a rubber, clear or digital stamp image OR it may include a clip art image.

2.  It must include at least one Cricut cut.

3.  It must include fiber, a ribbon or fabric somewhere in the project.

4.  It must include at least one piece of bling – such as a bead, pearl, gemstone, glitter, etc.

5.  It needs to include at least one patterned paper.

This challenge can be anything – a card, scrapbook page, tag, altered item, home decor, repurposed/recycled item, etc.  The deadline is 11:59PM, August 31st, 2010.

This contest will be based on a drawing of all participants who enter.  The winner receives a Cricut cartridge courtesy of Memory Miser!

Questions?  Contact me!  If the link button is unavailable for you to upload your photos please send your photo to me at olivejuicestudio@yahoo.com and I will make sure to upload your photo!  Please make sure to include your name, email and blog URL!

Olive a great craft challenge, don’t you?

xKim

Here’s the August OJS Challenge Entries:

1.  This lovely card is from Stacie over at http://hestiashelper.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/reading-fairy-card/.  If you want to see additional photos of her card click on the link to her blog!

2.  An  adorable 12 x 12 scrapbook page layout designed by Maureen from http://mosaddiction.blogspot.com!

3.  Look at this gorgeous card that Jenna from http://www.jennasfavoritethings.blogspot.com submitted. 

4.  Check out this bone rattlin’ card made by Maria Snook from http://www.scrapbooknut2002.blogspot.com.  To see the inside of this card visit Maria’s blog!

5.  S-W-E-E-T!!  A fantastic layout designed by Debbie Burns from http://lovelifeslittlepleasures.blogspot.com/2010/08/be-happy.html

6. Another fantastic project – a tag designed by Agnes from http://flowerdiscosscraphut.blogspot.com/.  If you’d like to see how Agnes made this she has the instructions posted on her blog!

7.  A beautiful tag designed by Kassi from http://kassicreations.blogspot.com/2010/08/generations.html!

8.  A very elegant card designed by Jana Terpstra from http://www.imneverbored.blogspot.com.  Vist Jana’s blog for details!

9.  This beautiful card was created by Karla from http://www. kreativekarla.blogspot.com/ 

10.  A card with a triple scoop of fun designed by Carrie Slaughter!

11.  Another gorgeous card entered into the August Challenge designed by Theresa Kelly from http://www.binkyblossoms.blogspot.com.  To find out how she made it visit her blog!

12.  And just in the nick of time, I am adding an adorable card designed by Shaunta Murphy!

13. Here’s another last minute addition that came in last night that I didn’t have time  to post until now!  This was designed by Phoebe.

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Announcing the July “Olive Crafts Challenge”….


2010
07.01

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Yep, you got it right! Today IS July 1st which means I need to announce this month’s “Olive Crafts Challenge!”

Starting today, July 1st until 11:59PM July 31st this month’s challenge is….
“DESIGN SOMETHING FOR YOUR HOME USING SOMETHING RECYCLED/REPURPOSED”

This item/thing can be a decorative – totally useless item but original and crafty
It can serve a purpose
It can be an item that is cleverly repurposed to be used in a completely different way than originally intended

Here’s the DIRTY DETAILS….

1. Must use at least 1 item from your recycling bin OR is an item that is repurposed by giving it a different function
2. Must contain fabric somewhere in the project (any size, texture, pattern…)
3. Must include at least one piece no smaller than 3″ x 3″ of corrugated cardboard
4. Must include at least two Cricut cuts from ANY cartridge – this can be cut from fabric, paper, vinyl – whatever you desire!
5. Must include these colors somewhere in your finished project (You may also use addtional colors)

***There are no size restrictions on this project but all entries must include all five requirements listed in the “Dirty Details” above***

Please comment to this post if you will be participating in this challenge. If you have a blog list your URL too! :-)

All entries will be posted here for viewers to vote on – by July 31st. Voting is open for 48 hours. The entry with the most votes wins one of the new Cricut cartridges from Memory Miser!

What do you have to lose? Join in the fun and let’s get this challenge started!!!

Olive a great challenge, don’t you?

x Kim

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