Finally bloggin about Challenge 3

The word for last week: BUSY!! With life, three kids, MOPS and a Just Between Friends sale...BUSY is really an understatement. Just Between Friends is a tag and price your own items for a three day consignment shop. Once everything is tagged, you drop it off and do not need to be present during the sale. You do have to pick it up when the sale is completed. You can earn between 65 and 80% of the items sold. Not too shabby! I tagged over 400 items, sold 72 and made about $140. Each week for the next three weeks, there is a sale somewhere close to my home. I plan on taking everything that is left and consigning at those sales as well. My goal is to sell it all, make some money and clean out my garage by Thanksgiving! It's so freeing to clean out and throw away. I just love this time of year. We are using the money to update some items in our home. I can't wait!!

So, after an exhausting week of cleaning I am finally able to do some blogging!! Yeah. This is the layout that I completed for Urban Anthologies Got Talent Design Team competition. The challenge was to create a sketch and then create a layout using that sketch. Our layout also had to include one or more of these words in the title: strength, direction, nurture or time. I went with direction as I had a wonderful picture of Katelyn dressing up as Santa. We live in Houston where we usually are in shorts for Christmas so this was very funny to see her wrapped up in a blanket in 80+ degree weather. The entire challenge allowed me to really create, use lots of sparkle and complete a page I love!! I used glitter sticker letters for the title and mounted them on a transparency, cut around the title and floated it over the layout. I really like the dimension this created. The chipboard accents are embellished with rhinestones and stickles. I just love how all of it turned out!

Detailed photos of the layout:

Please take a second to go to Urban Anthology and vote for me: http://urban-anthology.com/blog/?p=1261. You have until this Wednesday evening. Thanks!!