Sunday, May 29, 2011

Just a quick note

Hello! Sorry we are so late in getting a new post and challenge up! We here at the Shoe are taking this week off, taking the opportunity to catch our breath as Summer comes roaring in. Our little blog vacation will end on June 3rd with a brand new Fashionista Friday, some fabulous DT inspiration AND an opportunity to win a fun prize! What is the prize? You'll have to tune in Friday to find out!

Hope you are all having a fabulous weekend!

Friday, May 20, 2011

FF#80...just beCAuSe

Happy Friday my fellow Fashionistas!  Hope your weekend is getting started off in just the right way!  Thank you to all that participated in last week's Fashionista Friday!  Your B&W with a splash of primary color creations were fantastic!  Our FF#79 Top 3 are:


Fabulous job all!  Please feel free to grab our Top 3 badge from the sidebar!

and now...the Shoe of the Week for FF#79 goes to:


Congratulations!  What a truly gorgeous piece of art!  Please feel free to grab our Shoe of the Week badge from the sidebar!

On to this week's challenge!  This week we would like to see your CAS creations!  For those that aren't familiar with the term, CAS stands for Clean and Simple!  For FF#80 we want to see your interpretation of CAS!  Take a peek at our fabulous DTs samples...you just might find yourself inspired!







oh me oh my...can you say FABULOUS!  So thankful to have such an amazing group of talented ladies on our Shoe DT!  And now...it's your turn to wow us with your CAS-fabulousness!  Please use a direct link to your project and include a link back to us here at the Shoe.  We are only able to comment on your work when you include the direct link!  All entries must be new as of 5/20/11.  If you are posting to an online gallery, please use the tag FF#80.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

FF#79...with a Primary splash!

Happy Fashionista Friday brought to you on a Saturday!  I hope blogger wasn't too terrible to all of you, so far I haven't found anything to be missing from our posts, but we did have inlinkz disappear for a little bit yesterday.  Anyways...Blogger is back...and so are we!  Before we get to this week's challenge, we have some badges to award...a random winner to announce...and some thanks yous!

First...thank you to all that entered in the FF#78 challenge.  Your green art was fabulous!  The FF#78 Top 3 are:


Absolutely beautiful work from all three! Please feel free to grab our Top 3 badge from the sidebar!

And now...the Shoe of the Week for FF#78 goes to:



Lori, this card is LOVELY!  So bright and fresh!  Please feel free to grab our Shoe of the Week badge from the sidebar!

Next...a HUGE Thank You to Mo's Digital Pencil for being our fantabulous FF#78 sponsor!  The winner of the $15 gift certificate to Mo's Digital Pencil is:


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The random number generator was filled in using 77 entries as we had last week, for some reason when we bring it over here it defaults to 100.  

Congratulations Tracy MacDonald!  Please drop us a line at iftheshoefits5@gmail.com so we can get your prize info to you!

Last, and most certainly not least...let's get to this week's challenge!  This week we want to see Black and White with a splash of one of these:

Love the combo of black and white, and today we are asking you to add just a splash of a primary color.  Here are some samples from our fabulous DT:




Absolutely fabulous! (and I love how they all gravitated towards a splash of red!).  Now it's your turn!  We can't wait to see what primary splash you use with your black and white!  Please use a direct link to your project and include a link back to us here at the Shoe.  We are only able to comment on your work when you include the direct link!  If you are posting to an online gallery, please use the tag FF#79.

Friday, May 6, 2011

FF#78...May goes GREEN!

Happy Friday all!  Oh my WORD!  133 fantastic entries in FF#77!  It was incredibly difficult to choose just 4 entries, but we finally did....I just want to say thank you to EVERYONE who enters our challenges...you all are fantastically talented and it truly is a pleasure each week to visit your blogs and see your art!

The FF#77 Top 3 are:

Beautiful work ladies!  Please feel free to grab our Top 3 badge from the sidebar!

and the FF#77 Shoe of the Week goes to:


Congratulations Irit!  What an amazing piece!  All of the elements are fabulous!  Please feel free to grab our Shoe of the Week badge from the sidebar!

We are very excited here at the Shoe to introduce you to this week's Sponsor (and many of you may not need an intro):

I personally adore each and every image created by Mo Manning!  You definitely have to visit the Digital Pencil and see all of the delightful images available!  I am also incredibly excited to tell you that one random entry in this week's challenge will receive a $15 gift coupon to Mo's Digital Pencil!  How fabulous is that???  Thanks to Mo's for being our sponsor this week!  and now...on to the new challenge!

The Birthstone for the month of May is Emerald, so we want to see some GREEN!  Here is a little bit about the Emerald and maybe just a bit of inspiration for you (from Wholesalenest.com):
The name emerald comes from the Greek smaragdos via the Old French esmeralde, and really just means 'green gemstone'. Innumerable fantastic stories have grown up around this magnificent gem. The Incas and Aztecs of South America, where the best emeralds are still found today, regarded the emerald as a holy gemstone. However, probably the oldest known finds were once made near the Red Sea in Egypt. 

and now to the gorgeous samples provided by our amazing DT!

Lesley (using Windowbox)








Wow!  Love all of the different ways the color green was used!  And now...it's your turn!  Share your art with us (new as of 5/6/11) using the link below.  Please use a direct link to your project, and include a link back to us, here at the Shoe.  It is much easier for us to comment on your work when you include the direct link!  If you are posting to an online gallery, please use the tag FF#78.  We can't wait to see what you create using the color green!  Last, and most certainly not least, Happy Mother's Day!  Hope you have a fabulous weekend!