{"id":2780,"date":"2010-08-25T20:32:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T20:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/2010\/08\/25\/august-challenge\/"},"modified":"2010-08-29T17:33:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-29T17:33:48","slug":"august-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/2010\/08\/25\/august-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"August Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christy Nelson’s August Challenge<\/a> snuck up on me, as they usually do. I know I say this every month but when this month’s supplies came, I really thought Oh, boy! What am I going to make with this? I was baffled.
\n\"augustcomponents.jpg\"
\nWe got some black polyester fabric, some cute animal paper and blue glass beads (from Italy!), some hardware bits (from Ikea) and a sample pack of adhesive squares.<\/p>\n

I was really thinking and thinking about what to do when I was looking at an old wooden frame that was on my desk. I thought the fabric might look neat wrapped around the frame. I cut some of the polyester into strips and began wrapping them around the wood. I thought about painting the wood but thought the natural color would keep with the color theme of the paper.\u00c2\u00a0 I used the adhesive squares and it stuck it really well.<\/p>\n

\"strips.jpg\"\"frame.jpg\"<\/p>\n

I liked how it came out! I knew I wanted to add some embellishments and used my Sizzix and the flowers layer #3<\/a> die with the rest of the paper and polyester (did you know that if you placed paper on top of fabric when cutting, it will be a cleaner cut for the fabric?) and added a bit of color to the edge.<\/p>\n

\"sizzix.jpg\"
\n\"floweredge.jpg\"<\/p>\n

I knew I wanted to use one of the nails for the middle of the flower. I used this white plastic nail and put one of the adhesive squares on it (I was a little leery but it worked out!) for the beads and a little glitter for bling. (I couldn’t get a good photo of the adhesive on the nail so you’ll have to make do with the beads and glitter!)<\/p>\n

\"nailmiddle.jpg\"\"glitter.jpg\"<\/p>\n

Then I thought, now what am I going to do? I liked the animal theme of the paper and decided to go from there. I used Tim Holtz’s Fragments<\/a> to glue over 3 squares I cut out of the paper for more embellishments. Here I show 2 of them, a dog and a cat. The 3rd one is a heart.<\/p>\n

\"fragments.jpg\"<\/p>\n

It started coming together real fast so there are less assembling photos. Here it is all finished and on my desk!<\/p>\n

\"onmydesk.jpg\"<\/p>\n

I printed out 2 photos of my daughter Sienna, one of her with our cat Neo and the other with our dog Skippy (get the theme I was going for?) I glued bigger pieces of Fragments over them. I used the rest of the paper for the background, added another flower and found a spot for this on my desk! Here’s some close ups!<\/p>\n

\"augustchallenge.jpg\"\"closeupflower.jpg\"
\n(it’s too bad you can’t see the glitter in the photo. Believe me, it’s there!)
\n\"closeupflower2.jpg\"
\nI used cotton fabric for this flower to add a little bit of color
\n\"closeupinside.jpg\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christy Nelson’s August Challenge snuck up on me, as they usually do. I know I say this every month but when this month’s supplies came, I really thought Oh, boy! What am I going to make with this? I was baffled. We got some black polyester fabric, some cute animal paper and blue glass beads […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thebunnylog.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}