Sweet Pagoda Challange and Giveaway

http://flowerdiscosscraphut.blogspot.com/2010/08/sweet-pagoda-challenge.html

Over at Flowerdisco's scrap hut Agnes is having a challange to use the pagoda cartridge.

Thursday, August 5, 2010
A SWEET PAGODA CHALLENGE 'N GIVEAWAY

ETA on Sunday, August 8
If you do not own Pagoda you can still participate with any image that will resemble any Asian theme. If you still can find any, please...do not let that stop you. As the last resort you can use any fish, dragon, temple building. Be creative and make it Pagoda. Remember to have fun!


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PAGODA

I love the Yin Yang and its meaning.

What is Yin Yang?
This symbol (Yin-Yang) represents the ancient Chinese understanding of how things work. The outer circle represents "everything", while the black and white shapes within the circle represent the interaction of two energies, called "yin" (black) and "yang" (white), which cause everything to happen. They are not completely black or white, just as things in life are not completely black or white, and they cannot exist without each other.
Click Here
to know more about the meaning and theory.


Yin Yang Card
at 5 inches
(The inside sentiment is a rub-on).



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Among so many challenges in our crafting community I would like you join me and try the challenge where you choose an image and make a project with it, pretty simple. Of course, some of them have/had sponsors;
I do not.
But... I do have a friend who makes stamps and she is willing to donate a customized stamp you can use for the back of your cards/projects.

Her name is Eileen and she owns a store on Ebay and goes under the name of qiqi7759. I have ordered my customized stamps from her and received nothing but excellent stamps and an excellent service. Not too mention a friendship too. That is a bonus you do not always get. :)

Eileen's Store (qiqi7759)
(you can click on the above link to visit her store)

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If you are interested in participating in this challenge please, read the details carefully.




I want to use the PAGODA cartridge for this challenge in honor of my friend Eileen, and you can use any of these five images.



1- the dragon from page 34
2- the fish from page 41 OR 3- the fish from page 42
4- the temple from page 60 OR 5- the shrine from page 61.
You can add any other images to the ones above if you are using Pagoda. Those images can be from Pagoda or anything else you would like to. If you do not own Pagoda please read the ETA below. Thanks so much!



ETA on Sunday, August 8
If you do not own Pagoda you can still participate with any image that will resemble any Asian theme. If you still can find any, please...do not let that stop you. As the last resort you can use any fish, dragon, temple building. Be creative and make it Pagoda. Remember to have fun!

I won't be using Random.org to choose the winner because I really want to choose it myself and for this very reason,
I will limit the entries to a max of 50.


---It is a requirement to be a follower of my blog because this way you will be automatically updated of what is going on with the challenge since this one is a bit different than most.

---Your project must be new for this challenge. It has to come from your heart and what this means to me is that it will be your original project, not something you saw somewhere else.

---However, you can get inspired from something you saw before but PLEASE....make it entirely your own.

---You must have a blog and must post about this challenge for the duration of it with a link to my blog.

---And lastly I would like to send the winning project to Eileen as a way to say Thank You for her kindness. I will pay for postage.

I will be using INLINKS for the first time. If you have any problems linking let me know in the comments area and your blog address for me to contact you.

If you would like to participate, please, read everything again and make sure we understand each other.
The deadline for submitting will be August 31st.

For my entry I was wanting to try something. I know its not as perfect as it could be but I am pretty happy with it :)

I used the cut on page 60 of the Temple I also used page46 of the branch. The big bright sun or moon depending on the time of day it is I cut by hand.

This is where the tricky part jumps in.. I found some fabric pain that is much like stickles :) I got some to try just to see how they would work. I still like my stickles especially when working with lots of little details but for this project I found a bottle that was glow in the dark!!! Yes GLOW IN THE DARK!!!!!!! HOW COOL IS THAT???! So once I cut the sun/moon out I took a paint brush and put two layers of the glow in the dark fabric paint. I must admit its not as smooth as I wish it would be but when you look at the moon its not all that smooth either so I feel better about it :)

The glow is not as bright as I would have liked but it does glow!! I went in my pantry and shut off the lights to check it out!!!!!!! LOL!

The only problem is that it doesnt translate that well on film :( Im sorry I tried everything I could think of to get a good picture so you could all check it out but I am going to put the ones I could get. If anyone has any other ideas about how to take this picture I would love to know so please share!!

Hugs to you all :)

May all your dreams come true!