First off... VSN is Virtual Stamp Night. And what is that? Basically its an event that is held once a month or so on http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/ (SCS) where you can join hundreds of other papercrafters like myself and the organizers set up challenges that go up once an hour. You have 45 minutes to complete the challenge and the last 15 minutes are for clenaing up, snacking, washroom breaks, taking pictures and uploading your finished product onto SCS website.
I was very optimistic in yesterday's post when I thought I would be able to blog inbetween challenges... but wow... almost every challenge had me using every one of my 45 minutes... and then madly cleaning up and running for bathroom breaks (mine and Gizmo's)... Now you don't have to do the 5 o'clock challenge at 5... you could start at 6 or 7 - but you have to only use 45 minutes to do the challenge... and it can be very challenging!
Challenge number 1...
direct quote from SCS "When you go to a play there are always beautiful photos of the cast members posted for everyone to see. So, what do you do with the photos once the play is over? You frame them, of course. My challenge is to create a frame for the picture of the star in your life. You can use chipboard, cardboard box (like a cereal box), or a store bought frame to create your own personalized frame."
I've been in a school play where we had a star board with pictures of all of the people in the play... I did take my picture home but I never did anything with it.
I chose for this challenge to make a frame for one of my favorite pictures of my goofy husband!! I ran into a huge snag at first when my printer wasn't responding to my laptop... but my hubby was home and fixed that in a jiffy (love computer geeks)... and then I ran into a weird snag when I was trying to put snail adhesive (its double sided glue in kindo of a white out runner form) onto my fancy large Chipboard (from Stampin'Up!) frame... the adhesive was lifting the first layer off... I switched brands of adhesive and the same thing happened... maybe I had a bad batch of chipboard...
Luckily I had gone to Michael's the night before and picked up some $1.50 wooden craft frames so I grabbed one and quickly used my snail adhesive to attach my patterned paper...
Because I love glitter so much I had to use glitter on chipboard letters to spell out JOKER... a word that describes my husband to a T!! I added some fancy fibers and cut out the printed photo to fit the frame and just squeeked in to the finish line with only about 30 seconds to spare...
And here is the finished project... My JOKER frame...
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