Happy New Year!! January sketch challenge!

Happy New year to all Purple Pumpkin friends and followers!!

I hope you've enjoyed these precious holly moments with friends and family!!

May 2014 be exciting, creative and filled with love!!

We have a new sketch to inspire you this month made by our new talented DT member sweet Lizzy Hill!!

and here are our DT's takes on this lovely fun sketch.....

• Yvonne Yam
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I used washi tape, ticket and fabric button.

• Jess Mackenzie

I have used tickets, twine & a denim button xox

Kylie Symons

I have used fabric buttons, doiley,tickets,twine, wooden button and resin flowers.

Lizzy Hill

I've used twine, fabric buttons, the Motex writer, tickets & some yummy washi tape for the feathers.

• Arnlaug Koppang

I've used twine, tickets, a large fabric button and two flair buttons.

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You have until the end of the month to complete this Sketch Challenge and link it up in our sidebar by midnight 31st of January 2014. There will be two fabulous Purple Pumpkin prizes!

$25 & 15$ to spend in the Purple Pumpkin shop - one winner will be chosen by the design team, and the second will be a random prize draw. Winner gets to Guest Design in a future month - once they have received their Purple Pumpkin product of course!

Please check out our RULES:

*This is an international blog so anyone in the world can enter.

*You may combine challenges as long as you follow our sketch (only and not other similar to ours) with a link back to our blog and a picture of the sketch.

* No digital projects are accepted.

* The winner will be chosen by our design team after voting and can be the guest designer for next month. There will also be a second random winner!!!

NO NEED TO USE OUR PRODUCTS TO PARTICIPATE.

*Projects must be linked up to our linky tool in the sidebar, using the URL of the ACTUAL POST not your entire blog.

* We would love to comment on your entry! Please make it easier for as by turning OFF your word verification. If spam is a problem you can enable comment moderation.

We would love to see your pages on our FACEBOOK wall whenever you use our products too!!

"once upon a time" by Arnlaug Koppang

Hi everyone!

I had planned to show you a christmas project today, but my project had a little accident before I got a picture of it, so you'll get an early spring layout instead;-)

Our family always try to spend a lot of time outside, and this cold spring day was perfect for a walk in the woods:-)

On this page I used a neutral color palette with a touch of red.  I've used a few wooden buttons and some washi tape from the Purple Pumpkin store.

I really love this layout as I find it capturing the magical moment in the woods:-)

I want to wish you all a wonderful christmas celebrating tomorrow and the following days:-)

Good bye from Judith

Well, it's a very sad day for me today. My last blog post as a Design Team Member for Purple Pumpkin. First I would like to thank Samantha and Sandra for giving me the opportunity to work with their wonderful creations. I have been a big Purple Pumpkin fan from way back so to design with them has been marvellous.

I thought I'd finish up with a look back at 5 of my favourite Purple Pumpkin creations during my 15 months on the team.\ showing a variety of styles and using some of my favourite Purple Pumpkin products.

 First up a grungy boy layout featuring a spotty button, a vinyl heart and fabric star button and a doily.

I love my brights and here is a layout showing some of the bright embellishments PP has including vinyl round and cogs, another spotty button and a felt square embellishment.

Thirdly, another bright layout featuring a flair button and a doily.

Fourthly, a more shabby/ mixed media layout featuring fabric buttons, doilies and a felt lace flower.

Finally, as it's Christmas a Christmas layout featuring everybody's favourites - spotty fabric buttons.

Hope you've enjoyed looking back at some of my layouts. I'm looking forward to seeing what the new Design Team produce.

Finally, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Good bye

Judith xx

"4 years" - by Arnlaug Koppang

Hi everybody!

This weekend my youngest daughter turned 3 years old:-) I haven't scrapped her yet, but I'm in that birthday celebrating mood so I thought I could show you the layout from when my oldest one turned 4.

This layout is made by layering lots of scraps and covering it with different kinds of media. Then I sprayed it all with glimmermist.

In the Purple Pumpkin store there are so many happy and bright embellishments, perfect for a birthday layout!

I've used a big spotty button and a flair button with a cupcake on:-)

I also used a star and a butterfly button.

Hope you're all enjoying your christmas preperations:-)

Oh baby....layout by Yvonne Yam

Hello there! It's Yvonne here to share a layout about my niece and her doll! She was thrilled when I presented her a piece of green cloth to wrap her "bundle-of-joy" in...the long-forgotten doll is a treasured toy again! *LOL*

I used my faves here from the Purple Pumpkin store...a green ticket, star washi tape, crochet trim and a flair button! :)

Remember by Jess Mackenzie

Hey there lovely Purple Pumpkin fans!

Today I have another CSI case file to share with you. It seems that my Purple Pumpkin stash is the go to for embellishments when I'm doing a challenge at CSI!

Here is my layout:

Here I have used a gorgeous spotty fabric button & some twine: 

How lubbly jubbly are these wooden heart buttons:

Thankyou so much for checking out the PP blog!

Don't forget to give the December sketch a go :)

Love and Peace xox

Jess

Ahoy there by Judith Armstrong

Morning all. Today I have a 'just because' layout to share with you  featuring lots of Purple Pumpkin goodies.  I actually started it on retreat at the beginning of October but am only getting around to sharing it now. This a photo of my son at SeaWorld in Queensland.

Some close up shots of the Purple Pumpkin goodies used. First up a skull and crossbones resin cameo. I have wound some red twine around it to make it stand out more against the black cog.

Next I have used a skull and crossbones flair button situated atop a black vinyl cog. 

Thanks for looking and I'll be back next week with my final blog post :(

Judithxx