Coordinates Collections

March Blog Hop, Sketch & Monthly Kit WINNERS!

The winner of the March Blog Hop Challenge is Celeste!

 
Congratulations Celeste!!  Please email Jamie by April 9th at jamie@coordinatescollections.com to claim your $20 Gift Certificate to the CC Store!

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the winner for March 3 Sketches is Lynn B! Be sure to check out all her fabulous work in the gallery. Thanks so much to everyone who has participated in the 3 Sketches Challenge. It's been fun coming up with the designs and seeing all the great entries.

And finally, our last winner of the Monthly Kit contest. Congrats to yeyioasis (Jesica)! Always good to see how you all play with your kits. Thanks for sharing and keep up the amazing designs!

Lynn and Jesica, please email Jamie by April 15th at jamie@coordinatescollections.com to claim your prize.

 

CC Store 50-80% OFF!

No, this is not an April Fool's joke!

The CC Store is 50-80% OFF until April 10th!  This is the perfect time to stock up on new CHA products, cardstock, pens, adhesive, etc.  The grab bags are not on sale, as they are already a killer deal.

Current subscribers that want their April kit to ship the 8-10th of April may add to your order up through April 3.

Have fun shopping!

 

Guest Blogger - Carol Sheetz

Hi Everyone!  I'm Carol Sheetz, and I am taking over the Coordinates Collections blog today!!

For my first blog post, I want to show you how I used the wonderful February Blue Skies Kit! 

 
One of the things that I really love to do when I'm creating a layout is to start off with a neutral cardstock as my page base.  I love kraft!  I used some Glimmer Mist on my kraft cardstock, and then I added strips of the wonderful patterned papers that are in the kit.  I love using many different colors to add a lot of character to a layout.  The colors really pop off the neutral background!  I also love to use border punches and my sewing machine.  I added three of the Jillibean Soup corrugated shapes, but first I inked the edges of them slightly before adding them to my layout.  The buttons that I sewed on a couple of the shapes really added a nice detail and an additional pop of color to my layout!  I really love the way this page turned out!

 
Here's another layout that I created using the February Blue Skies kit.  I love this ledger paper, so I decided to use it as the base of my layout.  I detail cut some of the clouds and added those to the top of my page.  One of the clouds was popped up with pop dots to add some dimension to the cloud cluster.  In order to add some of the beautiful patterned papers, I cut three very thin strips and adhered them to the left side of my layout.  I love how that little bit of color really adds some interest to my layout and compliments the fun photographs!  I then went a little crazy and added a whole bunch of brads!  I have so many, so I figured, use them up!  I think this is a really fun page!

When I'm creating layouts with a fantastic kit, I love to create cards with the paper scraps that I have left sitting on my desk.  So, I quickly created a fun card for my card stash!  I used a border punch, added some stitching, and a simple sentiment.  I love the Thickers that were included with this kit!

I hope you enjoyed looking at just three of the projects that I created with my February Blue Skies kit!  I absolutely love this kit, and I cannot wait to create more fun projects using it!

 

      
 

Saying Goodbye

This is the most difficult blog post I must write. But here goes:

I must close Coordinates Collections. 

Please know this decision was difficult to make because CC has been a major part of my life for over 5 years.  I didn't want to let anyone down by no longer offering kits.  I didn't want my daily interaction with the CC Community on the Message Board and Facebook to stop.  But, in the end, family comes first and I know my decision to close Coordinates Collections is the right one for me and my family at this time.

So, what does this all mean?

--April kits will be the last kits to ship.

--Subscriptions will end with the April kits.  Any current prepaid subscriptions will be refunded.  Any current subscriptions with a 'free kit' offer will be compensated in product in the CC Store for those free kits since there will be no kits to send after April.  Those customers who have prepaid subscriptions and/or the free kits promotion will be contacted by email and/or the invoice with the April kits.

--The CC Store will remain open until all inventory is sold (at least until the end of April).  You can still place multiple orders during this time and have them all ship at once later in April to save on shipping costs.  And, you never know what discounts/promotions will happen during April!

--The CC Website, Store, Forum and Gallery will remain up until at least the end of April.  This way you have time to save any work posted in the Gallery.  And, we all want to keep communicating on the Message Board for as long as we can, right!?

--There will be no April sketches, Blog Hop, or Monday's Challenges.  There will be no more daily CC Blog posts beginning April 1.  There are challenges that end in April, and those winners will still be announced on the CC Blog and Message Board.  The CC Blog will also post important information about store sales, markdowns, etc. just not on a daily basis.

--The Design Team will post their April kit projects in the CC Gallery when they have them complete, but there will not be 'kit ideas' posts on the Blog for these projects. 

It has been a pleasure to work with fabulous Design Team members, interact with amazing customers, and develop long-lasting friendships the past 5 plus years.  Thank you all for helping to make Coordinates Collections a fun 'job' for me!

If you have any questions, please email jamie@coordinatescollections.com.

Thanks for an AMAZING RIDE!

 

Marielle's creative post- the mini album

Well, hello to all of you once again. I am here today to show you what I did with the Maya Road mini album that was part of the March Party Time kit.

I knew I wanted to make a birthday album for my oldest boy with this kit and got started by cutting the album apart (because it wouldn't close if I added all the stuff I wanted in it !!!) and then I painted the edges with the Jenni Bowlin paint dabber (I got the seed packet (green) color in my kit).

 
I then cut a variety of cardstock to match the Fancy Pants-It's Your Day papers.(the kit has sold out ,but many of the Fancy Pants papers are still available in the store (I just got some more !!! )

 

This is the result of adding the kit papers,photos and embellies to this mini album !!! The mini alphas and ribbons (except the red pleated ribbon) are from my stash. I had also gotten a few more of the papers from the add-on collection.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The numbers were cut from the "my day" paper from the kit. As you can see the "age 7 and 8" pages are not completed yet ( I ran out of ink for my printer !! :(  ) and I really need to get a bigger book ring for this album,it's rather chunky ! I really loved using the paint dabber on the edges of this little mini, it  got a little messy but really fun to use.

Thanks so much for visiting the CC blog today, hope you come back soon !!

 
 
 

Friday's Fab Find

Good morning! There are always so many wonderful projects in the CC gallery.

Today, I want to share this beauty by Celeste:

There are so many pretty details to love on this page. For starters, I love the stitched borders with the touch of bling. Love the snowflake, and check out the stickpins she added in!
The arrows move the eye across the page,and the title banner is really fun.

Thanks for sharing this with us! If you haven't already, leave her some love here.

 

  

Jen's Feb. PCC and a little creative post

I was a little busy earlier this month, so I just got around to doing my February layout this past weekend.  I had a vague idea of how I wanted it to look...pictures on one page and journaling on the other.  One of the great things about using the basic kit and a few add ons is that it comes together so easily.

In order to get all 8 pictures and a title on my one page I decided to print out all my photos sized to 1 1/2" x 2".  Using papers from the main "Life Documented" kit I laid out the background and began playing around with placement.  Once I was happy with my photo collage I grabbed a few items from the kit and a small piece of paper from the Bo Bunny "Olivia" pack offered as an add on and created my title block.  The small "LIFE" sticker is actually "popped" of the block with some foam squares.

On my journaling page I kept it real simple...a light background, a scalloped border sticker, some hand cut hearts from paper scraps and then a little pen work for a border around my journaling.  I think the whole thing took about 30 minutes to put together!  I am really loving this project.

So remember that chipboard album in the March "Party Time" kit? And do you remember my idea to use it as a place to "play"/"experiment" with ideas?  Here's a little update...

My page started out with a base coat of white acrylic paint.  Using a mixture of acrylic paints, glimmer mists, and a black sharpie marker this is what I came up with.  To make the bird I used a chipboard shape as a mask and sprayed the whole page with a base coat of "key lime" glimmer mist.  To color the inside of the bird I mixed a bit of "turquoise blue" glimmer mist with water and filled in with a brush.  The wing is a piece of cardstock lightly misted with the blue and then glued down.  After doing all the pen work (after the inital misting was dry) I misted again with the key lime, turquoise blue, some water and a watered down acrylic paint.  Basically I just had fun playing with color and seeing what I could do and how the mediums reacted together.

That's all I have for now.   

 

 

Kimberly's PCC

Hey, CC family. Today I'm sharing my first Project Calendar Creations layout. In January, I showed you the title page I created for my album, which is going to be about my son, Ryan's first year. I'm a bit behind schedule (I think everyone knows why) but I hope it doesn't seem too odd to see a January page in March. I'll catch up before the end of the year, I promise!

So, anyway ... here's my first page for my album. These show photos of Ryan from just minutes after he was born to a few hours later. Journaling talks about how he struggled in his first hours of life. This was a difficult page for me. I had forgotten that he almost didn't survive birth, that he had to be in the NICU on oxygen. The irony that he spent both his first and his last hours fighting to breathe ... well, I cried a lot while creating this.

Because I used so many photos and wanted to have a large block for journaling, I kept the background simple, with a piece of EP's "Life is Good" paper and a 6x12 piece from Memory Works "Life Documented" kit. The 6x12 piece gave me just the right amout of both journaling space and a punch of color from the vertical strips. I kept embellieshments simple, too, adding two round, layered flowers made from the MW kit papers, a bit of red pp from February's "Song Birds" kit, and a button.

To complete the page, I added a Jenny Bowlin butterfly, a couple of Prima flowers, another button, plus a Memory Works journaling sticker. Cosmo tiny alpahs and BG Micro Mono alphas complete the journaling, for Ryan's name and the month.

Lastly, I had to find a spot to put some little hearts. Ryan loved my punches, especially the heart punch, and punched dozens of them, maybe even hundreds! So my little personal tribute to him was to add some red punched hearts in the corner.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my blog post. Love, hugs and happy creating. See you next time!

 

Monday's Challenge: Journaling around your Photos

 Have you ever put a layout together that you LOVED, then thought, whoops! no room left for journaling?

Well, I HAVE A SOLUTION.

Just journal around your photo. It's fun, it's easy, and it makes your journaling look like a cohesive part of your page design instead of something you (OK, me!) just threw onto the page at the last minute because you didn't plan it out.

Not that that's ever happened to ME, of course. But it's happened to OTHER people I know. Who share my first name. And my craft space.

Fine! It's me! I forgot to include journaling in the layout below! And I loved the layout, and didn't want to mess with it!

BUT . . .

Now I have a cool journaling challenge for you!

 

 (Forgive me for just a minute, as I tell you how SO STINKIN' CUTE it is when Henry kisses me. It's like he's trying to eat my face. Which I realize doesn't sound all that adorable, but always makes my heart skip a beat.)

Where was I? Right, journaling around your photo.I just wrote a quick one-liner about my ridiculously sweet kid and wrapped it right around my photo. I like it, because it gets my journaling on the page without detracting from the rest of the page.

 

This layout was a little more intentional. I painted the background before I had any idea what I was going to do - just that I knew I wanted to paint. It turned out that I had formed a nice canvas for a centered block of pictures and embellishments and patterned paper and my title and . . .

wait for it . . .

Journaling!

And you know what would have been awesome? If my journaling had fit perfectly around that center block. Ah, well. You get what you get. That one sentence will just have to remain a straggler. Sorry little sentence.

What about you? Have you ever journaled around your photos?

WANT TO GIVE IT A TRY?

 Good, because that's this month's journaling challenge! Here are all the important details.

 The Challenge:

• Create a NEW project or layout featuring journaling around your photo(s).

 The rules:

• Upload the challenge project to the ‘Contests and Challenges' section of the CC Gallery in the Monday's Challenges folder by Sunday, April 17th at midnight PST (A whole month to do your layout!)
• Include the name of the Challenge ("Journal Around") in your title.
• Post a URL LINK of the project into the thread for the Monday's Challenge for that week on the Message Board

 You MUST upload to the Monday's Challenges section in the Gallery AND provide a URL LINK on the Message Board for your entry to be valid. Posting the project image in the Message Board thread only does not meet the rules, and won't be counted as an entry. Challenge projects do not need to use a CC Monthly kit, but must be newly created for this challenge.  The winner will be announced on Monday, April 18th, on the CC Blog and CC Message Board.

 Have fun!

 

March Madness Markdowns!

March Madness Markdowns are here!

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My team has made it to the SWEET 16!!  If they win Thursday, look for a March Madness special coupon or promotion!  GO COUGARS!