Thursday, November 29, 2012

Coredinations 2nd Annual Holiday Party

Hello and welcome to my blog for the Coredinations 2nd annual Hard Core Holiday Crop. Coredinations has been celebrating the Holidays with their inspirational design team this week and the team really showcased COREDINATIONS beautifully. Please visit Coredinations blog for the master listing of designers with their personal challenges. These ladies have dedicated their time and talent to this annual event and you will not be disappointed. Here are my designs as a result of inspiration from the Coredinations Design TEAM. Thanks ladies!!! All of my creations have been made from the Core Impressions Graphic 45 Timeless Collection by Core'dinations color core cardstock. Shanunte Wadley asked for a stocking stuffer gift. I have pictured below a gold star shaped gift ornament which I will be putting some hair elastic's inside the star as a gift. Melissa Oliveira's challenge is to make a gift item. Well I could not resist making a christmas tree ornament out of pearls and ribbons. I used Core Impressions Graphic 45 Timeless Collection by core'dinations for the tree trunk of this ornament. Love how the sanding gave the tree trunk a classy texture design. Bonnie, owner of Really Reasonable Ribbon has a TUTORIAL on her website on how to make this Ribbon Tree. Leann Pearce has a challenge for everyone to try out a leaf folding technique. Here you can see that I used my leaves to embellish a gorgeous Chantilly Buttercream velvet and Lace bloom from PETALOO. Does this not look elegant on the classic black headband for some lucky girl to wear on any occassion?
Next up for the Coredinations party challenges is Jennifer Edwardson and Margie Higuchi's gift bag inspirational challenges. Jennifer has inspired all of us to create a gift bag with a tag. So, you can see my striking red gift bag with black embellishments here in the photo below. Margie's challenge was to create a gift bag using die cuts. Well I think the mojo was working that night due to the color scheme and I really gave my coredinations a workout embellishing this gift bag. The lovely green vine on this gift bag is from Flourishwithabling. FWAB is from australia and please do check out their website; a great community based leading manufacture of quality embellishments.
A few other challenges that inspired me were from Leica Forrest, Lydia Jackson and Debbie Standard. Lecia gave us inspiration for an all occasion gift bag which inspired me to create this little stand up gift bag with the sparkly tulle bow. Lydia's sketch challenge gave me this ideal to make a special card for dad. Debbie,s challenge was to use ribbon on a card and I even got my SCOR-PAL out to give my card an authentic retro look with scoring lines in a sunshine ray design on my card.
Hopefully theses Coredinations projects will inspire you to bring out your papers and create some happiness!!!

18 comments:


  1. Great post Ava, the projects really showcase Core'dinations well. You have inspired me to get out my stash and work with Coredinations again. Have to check out the latest and greatest at coredinations. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. These are AMAZING! WOW! love each one of them. The sanding is amazing and I LOVE the gift bags! Make sure you link this post to the individual challenges as well. Thanks so much for playing along with us!

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  3. WOW is right! You've been VERY BUSY working on all those wonderful challenges!! LOVE your entry to my challenge (Gift Bag w/ die cuts) :) Hope you enjoyed your creative time with us <3

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  4. Girl you have done an awesome job with the challenges - these are all just gorgeous!!! Thanks for playing along with us - hope you enjoyed playing with us!

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  5. Amazing projects Ava You really outdid yourself !!!

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  6. Such lovely work! I love how used FWAB Jack Vine! Thanks for your lovely comments too btw! :D

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  7. Such a wonderful collection of creations!! I really love that star too!~~

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  8. wow these are so awesome ... creative and inspiring !!!! I adore core'dinations papers x

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  9. Oh wow .... i adore you little project... and clever to use the leaves on a headband too. plenty of detail in them using your core. thank you so much for playing along!

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  10. Oh my Ava... they're all SO adorable! I'm a pushover for stars and I simply love that ribbon tree ~ will have to checkout that tutorial when I get some free time!
    ♥Sharon

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  11. wow! You have some amazing items here. I didn't realize the versatility of Coordonations paper.

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  12. What awesome creations ... I really love how you used the leaves.

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  13. Hello Ava ... i wanted to come back and let you know you are the winner of my challenge for the core crop. Congrats and thank you so much a really LOVED your project and how much detail there was in those leaves!

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  14. All winners must email ellen_sosnoski@coredinations.com by DECEMBER 12th with their name, address, phone number and prize they won in the subject line. For ex.: LEEANN'S LEAF CORE FOLDING CHALLENGE Winner.

    and here's what you need to do....thanks and Happy Holidays!!!

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