"On The Edge" Whimsical Wednesday Challenge-#37

Hello Whimsical Crafter! I hope you all enjoyed your holidays. I am sad that they are over, and I am dreading January and February. It is my least favorite time of the year. For our first challenge of 2012 we are "On The Edge." What does that mean? We are challenging you to create something with a border around the edge, or use an edge punch on your card/project. I decided to make a two page scrapbook LO.

This was not such a pleasant visit with Santa.... I am sure you can tell that by the photos. I did not have the pleasure of being at this meeting with "Santa" but from what my parents tell me he had a little too much "Soda"  (cough cough) to drink. These pictures have been on my fridge since last Christmas and I thought it was time to pull them down and put them in the 2010 scrapbook. I am so excited because these two pages complete my first scrapbook. Yipee:)  To meet the challenge requirements this week, I used a Martha Stewart around the page punch. I am on the edge, I mean on the fence about these. This is the first time I ever used them and they would not match up for me. It is far from perfect and normally I would have threw the pages out, but I figured I would share my struggle with you all and see if you have had any better luck, or have any tips. For my reindeer I used the Create A Critter cart, the journaling tag is from Winter Woodland (that cart has great tags), and the presents are from Winter Frolic. I stamped "No Peeking" on the little tag and attached it to Santa's sack with some twine.

For my journaling tag I stamped the "Reindeer Crossing" sentiment. I thought that was very fitting. Both of those sentiment are from my "Snow Much Fun" stamp set. You can see all four sets in my first stamp release in my shop.

It is with much excitement to bring you the first projects of 2012 from the Whimsical Team:)

Margie 

  Karen

 Nanne

Sabrina 

GiGi

Shelly

Everyone did such a wonderful job with their projects! Great variety, and fun ideas for borders, and punches. Please be sure you hop on over to the designers blogs for all the details on the projects..and to leave some bloggy love! They really do deserve it!

Now let's announce winners:) The random winner of the "Christmas Tag" Challenge (Tim Holtz Pine Cone Die) is # 27 Madison. The random winner of the "Home For The Holidays" Challenge (Websters Pages) is #6 Rae Ann. Congrats ladies. Please send me your addresses, use my e-mail address under the contact tab, so that I can get your crafty goodies to you.

This week our sponsor is Crop Stop. They have generously donated an EK success Doily Petal Punch. What makes this edge punch  different from the regular edge punches is  you make flowers with them.

Pretty neat! You could also use this as a traditional edge punch to decorate cards, scrapbook LO, etc. For those of you who do not know what crop stop is they offer an extensive selection of dies, embossing folders, inks, stamps, and punches by all the popular manufacturers. From adhesives to storage they have all your crafting supplies covered. Too see all of the Crop Stop products hop on over to their store: Crop Stop.You will also find the link to their blog, gallery, and message board. 


I have made a few changes to the guidelines for our challenges. Please make sure you read over them before uploading your project. If you have any questions please feel free to e-mail me. 

Here are the guidelines for the challenge:
1.Create any card/project and include a border around it, or use an edge punch
2. When uploading your project please be sure that it is a direct link to your actual post, and not just you blog
3. Only one project per challenge  
4. Please put in your post that you entered your project into this challenge with a link to this blog. I do not ask that you make a project just for my challenge. I know that there are lots of fun challenge blogs out there and I encourage you to play along in as many as you want:) So go ahead and enter your project where ever you like.
5. In order to become eligible for the prizes you must enter the challenge, become a follower of this blog, and leave a comment under our post's
6. Link your project to InLinkz by January 18 at 12:01am EST
7. I reserve the right to delete any entries that do not follow the guidelines

We have a brand new challenge every week, but each challenge stays opened for two weeks.We are all looking forward to a new year of fun challenges, and seeing all of your entries. Have fun "On The Edge."