Challenge #78 Distress It! With Bugaboo Stamps + DT Call

Welcome LOC Fans! Time for another new challenge today and this week we want to see you Distress It! Interpret this as you like, age it, tear it, sand it, use distress inks... just tell us what you've done if it's not evident from your post. 

Or indeed, you can always go LOC!

Our fabulous sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps and the team have had a ball playing with some of their awesome images... just take a look here!

An English Lady

 Kristy

 Louise for The Weird Scissors

 Maureen

Pam

Steph

 Susan

 Teresa

We hope you love the inspiration - I think the team have done a fabulous job this week and we look forward to seeing what you create!!

AND... Dont Forget - we still have a DT CALL going on - you can see all the information here!

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Challenge #77 bling with That Craft Place + DT CALL

Welcome to a new challenge at LOC! I am in sunny Scotland and hoping that the weather is great where you are - of course it's not just the weather that's sunny here, lots of Yellow about today! And this week we are all about the BLING! We want to see glitter and sparkle and shine! And even if you're LOC, try and stick a gem or two on your project if you can! Our fabulous sponsor this week is the That Craft Place Etsy store with some stunning images you're sure to love.

Also, this week, we have some news of departing team members. We are very sorry to say goodbye to Lisa Tyrell, Penny Nantell and Sarah Bales Strom 
We will miss you all here at LOC and wish you all the best for the future.

However, we'd like to take this opportunity to put out a DT CALL!
If you're interested in joining the LOC Crew, can commit to one project every two weeks, have a Blog/Facebook/Instragram or other social media outlets to promote the challenge and our sponsors, and you enjoy a dabble in the dark side of crafting - write us a quick post showing three of your favourite projects (at least one 'loc') and linking to your blog and/or social media pages. Mention a bit about yourself and why you'd like to join the team and link up here to the DT CALL linky at the bottom on this post!

Now, let's take a look at what our team have been doing for you this week!

Maureen

Susan

Sari

Alison

Jasmine for The Weird Scissors

Kim (using a Smeared Ink image)

We hope you will join our shiny challenge this week and look forward to seeing what you make!
And remember if you'd love to join us, link up to the DT CALL too! 

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Challenge #50 - A Sketch and A DT Call!

Happy Friday folks! I hope you are enjoying the Halloween festivities and all the ghostly, ghastly, creepy and cute crafting that's going on! I hope you will join us for our challenge this week and share some of your craftiness with us. But, before that, we are looking for some new members of the LOC Crew.

Yes, we are holding a DT Call for several new members and we are looking for you!

 If you are interested, please click here or visit the DT Call tab at the top of the blog.

Challenge #50 this week is a Sketch challenge! We would love you to create a project based on the sketch. This was designed by Eiglas, a former member of the LOC Crew and we love this layout. We hope that you will too and we'd love to see what you do with it. You can alter it within reason but we'd still like to see the basic layout - why not check out what the DT have done with it for your inspiration.

We are sponsored by A Day for Daisies this week and you could win a gift certificate to their store.

Teresa using Raven Waiting

Susan using Fall Fairy Friend

Samara using Flower Monkey

PennyRae using Little Pumpkin Witch

Maureen using Full Moon

And remember if you go LOC, you dont have to worry about the Sketch!

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Left of Center Design Team Call - We want you!

DT CALL IS NOW CLOSED. thanks. 

Hi there LOC fans! Would you like to be part of the team?!

We are looking to add to our fabulously talented Design Team and are looking for people who would like to join us. Do you have an active blog? Are you a paper crafter? Do you like things just a little bit different? Quirky? Dark? Gothic? Steampunk? Do you make cards? Layouts? Altered Art? A bit of everything? Whatever your style and whatever your creations, you will be welcome here!

Your commitments -

• We have a new challenge every second Friday and you would be required to create a project by the Wednesday of that week. This would be uploaded to the Design Team blog ready for publication on the LOC Challenge Blog. 
• Your project would follow the theme and may not always be LOC.
• You will also be assigned a number of entries to visit during each challenge where you will leave a positive comment from the LOC team.
• You will be required to view each entry and make a shortlist of your favourite 5 at the end of each challenge - these are collated and the winners and runners up chosen by the team.

The perks -

• We have some fabulous sponsors on board including Delicious Doodles, Dilly Beans, Rick St Dennis and Ike's Art to name but a few.
• With each challenge, a digital image will be provided for you to use free of charge to create you creation - this is yours to use after the challenge.

 How to apply -

• Create a blog post showing us three of your favourite recent pieces of work - one of which should be LOC in nature.
• Tell us a bit about yourself and your style in that blog post and include a picture of yourself which we would use on the blog if you are chosen.
• Link up to the specific blog post on the linky tool below before the deadline of December 27th 5pm GMT
• Please ensure there is an email address where we can contact you in your blog post or send an email to myself - maureenjscott@googlemail.com to let me know your contact details if you do not want to publicise them on your page.

We look forward to hearing from you and cant wait to see your projects!
thanks
Mo and the LOC Crew

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