Thank you, Dolce! Here's our winner and a NEW color challenge!

Good Monday afternoon to you, friends and visitors of the Dollhouse! Happy Labor/Labour Day - are you enjoying a day off? Are you craftin'? Do you WANT TO?! :) Well I might just have some brand spankin' new inspiration to share with you, with a hot new color palette, some fabby Dollies projects, and a yummy prize pack you can win... But FIRST, we have some business to take care of!

Wanna know who won the delish 7 Gypsies Avignon kit, from our fabby sponsor, Dolce Scrapbook?

A big thank you to everyone who played along with my color challenges throughout the month of August. I know some of the combinations were a little out of the ordinary (but hey, that's my plan, Stan!), and you crafty folks did such a great job with them, leaving me with TONS of yummy inspiration and blogs to visit when I'm stuck! So yes, THANK YOU! Of course there can only be one winnah, and that would be......

SHERRI CARAMICO!
Check out the beautiful page Sherri made with our very FIRST color combo for August:

Sherri, congratulations! I'm sure you're going to LOVE the 7 Gypsies Avignon kit, and we hope that means you'll be using it to play along with us again soon! If you'll kindly email me, Leah, at spazzicassi@yahoo.ca, with your mailing address, I will have Juliana at Dolce Scrapbook send out your goodies!

So now I'm kicking off another month of color challenges, and I have the prize right here in my hot little hands, but need to photograph it, so I'll post that soon, I promise! (Hopefully later today!) I hope you're all up for something a little... um... SEASONAL! :D

Here's our first color challenge for September:

GREEN, GREY and WHITE

You can use ANY shades of grey and green for this one, but remember, your project MUST feature these colors predominantly - simply incorporating them into your project is not enough! Check out the eye candy from our Dollies...

Adina created this beautiful altered book - I want one!
(maybe it's my Christmas present...)


Metal_Minish shows us his mastery of the misting with this gorgeous page (YUM!):


Penny wowed us with this quirky, doodly page - I just love all the contrast!


and your gracious hostess, Leah the Orange (moi!), played with some of the
soon-to-be-released "Marjolaine" line from BasicGrey and promptly fell in love:

See? Lots of shades of green and grey there! I'm excited to see what you'll do with these colors, and you must link up your NEWLY-CREATED projects below by next Sunday, September 12th at midnight EST. Be sure to link back to the Dollhouse in your blog post to be eligible for this month's prize!

September Sketch!

Welcome to September Dollies! Kids are back to school if not already then SOON, summer is slowing down but we are NOT! We've picked up quite a few newbs this last month and if you are new WELCOME! We love more Dolls in the house (or hizouse?). Read up on all the how to in our how we roll section to the left :)

Now... I bring you this months first sketch!!!

Here are our dollies takes :)

Adina

Dana

Penny

Kristy

You can get in on this sketch until Sept 8th @ midnight EST OR you can add this Sketch to our Color and Elements Challenges for a TRIFECTA! Trifectas are due by Setpember 5th @ midnight EST.

I bet you're wondering who won our August Sketch...

JONI PARKER! Come on down! She submitted this awesome LO...

Email your addy to designdollies@gmail.com :) I will have the prize for September up soon! I have to take my sweet girl to kindergarten orientation and with all the rain yesterday couldn't get a piccy so stay tuned!

August's FINAL Elementary Tuesday!!!

Welcome to the final Tuesday of August, and, as such, your final chance to qualify to win THIS fabby prize: This wonderful Basic Grey kit is being sponsored by Scrap-A-Doodle Doo, a boutique scrapbooking, card making and paper crafting store located in Ramsey, New Jersey and owned and operated by husband and wife team, Stephanie and Mark Mandato. We are fortunate to have a talented staff, as well as teachers and loyal customers who share their knowledge of the crafting world and enhance everyone’s experience at Scrap-a-Doodle-Doo. They help us to provide an atmosphere that inspires creativity, provides access to the latest and greatest product offerings and builds lasting friendships. The sign in our Crop Room appropriately reads: “Enter as strangers, leave as friends."


In addition to our online presence and retail location, we feel fortunate to have been invited to serve as one of the Preferred Vendors for Scrapper’s Dream Vacations (SDV) and have doing so for the past few years up and down the Eastern Coast. Scrap-a-Doodle-Doo also hosts all-day events and weekend themed retreats.And the store is currently chock full of brand new stock recently released from CHA... If you haven't stopped by, definitely check out our blog for new product information, and stop by online or in person so you can explore the thousands of items from 175+ manufacturers, most of which you will not see at your "big box retailers." If there is an item you cannot find or a custom kit that you would like us to help you create, please feel free to contact us or call (201) 818-7060 with any questions. We look forward to meeting you!


This week's challenge is to pay homage to the Back to School season... BUT the twist is that it must focus on YOU as the student! (So no scrapping first days of school for the kiddies!!! Scrap YOURSELF!!!)


And as always, our Dollies have played along to show us how it's done! :)

Karen took a trip down memory lane in this doozy:

And Nicole had an AWESOME Homecoming story for this gorgeous page:

And check out Penny's ode to the 80s here:

And there you have it folks! Play along by midnight on September 6 via Mr. Linky for your chance to win our August sponsored prize pack!

DOLCE SCRAPBOOK is sponsoring this color challenge!

Yeah, I know it's later than usual, but I was having some issues with one of our Dollies' photos, and now that I have it in my hot little hands, I'm ready to share!

So we've arrived at the last Monday of the month, and I think you folks are going to LOVE this color combo! I was in awe of the gorgeous submissions for last week's combo (though I must admit that I didn't actually SEE the colors in a project or two, so I was kinda shakin' my head). You rocked it! And I know you're going to knock my socks off with today's combo:

BLACK, WHITE, PINK and GREEN
(any shades of pink and green are fine and dandy, but these four need to be your PREDOMINANT colors, with minimal or no accents outside of the challenge colors)


Think you can hack it? Wanna win THIS gorgeous prize pack, from our fantastic sponsor,
Dolce Scrapbook?


It's the "Avignon" kit from 7 Gypsies, and isn't it just SCRUMMY?! I'd love to win it for myself! This is your last chance to play along for this awesome prize (Juliana, thank you SO VERY MUCH!), so create anything you like using the aforementioned colors, and rock it like our Dollies have rocked it!

TINA (who created this fabby holiday page with some wonderful non-traditional Christmas stash - SO CUTE!)... This is Tina's last assignment for her Guest Dollie spot, and girlie, it's been an absolute pleasure to have you! Thank you for your wonderful contributions!

ADINA (who made this funky little set for her sis, and maybe used a BIT too much blue, but the project called for it - you won't be doing that, riiiiiight?):

NICOLE (who made this POPPIN' gorgeous page - I love those K & Co. owlies!):

CHIQUI (more eye-poppy fab on this page - aren't those handmade flower embellies STUNNERS?):

Whatcha think? Show me whatcha got (I'm sure I'm going to be WOWED for this one!), and link up your NEWLY CREATED projects below by Sunday, September 5th at midnight EST and you could win that hot 7 Gypsies kit shown above! Be sure to link back to the Dollhouse in your blog post, and happy craftin'!

Sketchy Goodness

Who's up for a lil sketchy goodness for today? WELL if you're here then you are in the right place my friend because I've got a good one for ya! Remember, sketches are inspiration and while we want to be able to see the sketch in your creation feel free to flip it, turn it or whatever you want! Just be inspired! Here we go...

Here's how our fabby Dollies were inspired!

Momma Adina featuring her super cutey son!

next Nicole with another cutey :)

next Chiqui also has her cuties birthday goin on

and lastly Kristy (me) went back to nature with her (my) take

See what I mean by let the sketch inspire you? Run with it! Show us your inspired creation by August 29th @ midnight EST to get cozy with the Trifecta OR by September 1 (yes SEPTEMBER already) @ midnight EST to be sole sketchy inspired. Enjoy your stay at the Dollhouse!