Recycle, Re-Purpose and Re-Invent 1st Challenge plus a Blog Hop

I am excited to be a member of the new Design Team of a new and exciting challenge blog called Recycle, Re-Purpose and Re-Invent.  

Chris Stern  is the designer and owner of CS Designs, The digital designs are unique and original.  Check out Chris' designs here.   The theme of the challenge this month is Fall, Harvest and Halloween and they always allow Anything Goes but any project you enter must included recycling, or be re-purposed or re-invented.  


We're Also Having A Blog Hop with lots of Fun Prizes To help us Celebrate our 1st challenge here on Recycle, Re-Purpose & Reinvent.    There are 7 blogs participating in this Hop and 6 Great Prizes to be given out. Because we want you to become acquainted with our  fabulous new team you must  visit and leave a comment on Every Participating Project Post along the way in order to be eligible to win any of our prizes.

There will be 6 winners altogether,:  3 will be chosen from all the comments left on our participating posts, 2 will be chosen from all those that participate in our 1st challenge and 1 from those that find the hidden ghost somewhere on the CS Designs Store. Our Blog Hop starts today Oct 1st, 2014 and ends  at 11:55 October 13th, and winners will be announced on Nov 1st. All Winners will receive their choice of 3  digital designs from the CS Designs Online Store.    Art you ready to party? 
Start Here ... on this blog   (There are two ways to win on this blog, join our challenge or leave us a comment)

Recycle, Re-Purpose & Re-Invent     http://doodleartifacts.blogspot.com/
Angela   http://papercraftnook.blogspot.com.au/
Judy   http://insearchofmycreativeside.blogspot.com/
Laine    http://hugs4theheartdesigns.blogspot.com/
Marg  http://craftycardsbymarg.blogspot.co.uk/
Chris / Doodle Pieces  http://www.doodlepieces.blogspot.com/
Chris / CS Designs      http://cs-designs.blogspot.com/  

Chris ... Doodle Pieces Chris / CS Designs  .. The store does not allow comments so to play and be eligible for a prize you will have to find my little ghost hidden somewhere among my designs and write to Chris with where you found him. Chris will chose 1 winner from all those who find him.

This is one of my projects for this challenge, a Tea-Light using Chris' image called Raven and the background Halloween paper is also from 

Chris' collection and is called Mixed Halloween Text.  All of the images for this project were from the Gothic Macarbe Halloween Digital Stamp Collection. 

I used several recycle items for the project.  The top of the tea-light is made from a couple of different ribbon rolls, buttons are from a old top, the card board for the top and bottom of the tea-light is a cereal box and the acetate was from some packaging.  The ribbon came from a box of chocolates.

My second project this week is a Halloween door hanger.  I thought the shrunken heads would make a interesting door hanger for Halloween.  I also used the spider digital paper and a Zombie powder advertisement.  All of the images for this project were from the Gothic Macarbe Halloween Digital Stamp Collection. 

I used several recycled items for door hanger including the large padlock I  found a few years ago at a thrift store and have used it in other Halloween projects and cardboard to reinforce the shrunken heads and twine from the recycle bin .

  These projects were fun project to make. 

 I hope you will join our first challenge and the Blog Hop.  

I would like to enter these projects in the following challenges:

Craft Room Challenge - Seasonal Colors
Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes
Cheerful Stamp Pad - Halloween Costumes & Fun

Incy Wincy Designs - Something Old, Something New (re-cycled item, new images)
Through the Purple Haze - Tags (Shrunken Heads)
The Corrosive Challenges - Halloween Colors
Open-Minded Challenges - Fall / Autumn 
Not Just Cards - Always Anything Goes

Rhedd's Creative Spirit- Halloween or Not

The Mirror Cracked- Mixed Media