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[pawprints]

*** I had over 20 participants and you know what that means Cherries! I will pick two winners! Thank you all so much for participating! I really enjoyed seeing all of the creativity flowing from all of you!

Winner #1, courtesy of random.org, is...
#23 scrappininAK

Winner #2, courtesy of random.org, is...
#17 pammyj

Congratulations to both of you! I will be sending you your gift cards shortly! ***

This month we are going to crop in the true sense of the word. Many cool graphic designs have large images that are cropped off the edges of the page. You see this style a lot on magazine covers and in many advertisements. It's a really great effect that I love and I've posted some really cool examples to give you and idea of what I am talking about...



 















I posted them all individually so you can get the true effect of the impact that this technique creates.

So my challenge for you this month is to crop photos and/or elements right off the edges of your page. Try and crop something large for a great effect. You can crop one or more items off the edges of your page, but you don't have to crop everything. Even one large item will do. Use the examples above for inspiration, and go wherever this takes you. I hope you can all have some fun with this.

Open to paper, digi, hybrid, cards, crafts, or whatever this inspires you to create.

Multiple submissions are allowed.

May be combined with one other challenge if that challenge allows it.

I will be running this challenge for two months. Post your creation to this thread by the end of February. I will accept entires up until the time I pick my winner. A random winner will win a $5 ACOT gift card from me!

I can't wait to see what creative ideas you all come up with!

Here is my page. I had a very blue Christmas this year, and I documented it on this page. I cropped the large Christmas tree off the left edge of my page, and I cropped my photo off the right edge.



Participants:
1) Deanna13
2) shoorn
3) joannie
4) Mimascraps
5) blfonty
6) Christi S.
7) average_kim
8) Charleneanne
9) jrrah4903
10 EmtAimee734
11) joannie
12) Christi S.
13) Yankeegirl
14) Scarp Bug
15) butterfly843
16) shoorn
17) pammyj
18) scrapsteph
19) Craftyshannon
20) oceanbreezes423
21) lesmitch
22) 1scrappymom
23) scrappininAK
24) sweetsour

[blbabe1234]

Wow Barb! Very cool challenge! Great techniques!

[Yankeegirl]

Interesting challenge, and I will have to think hard about what to create!  Thanks for expanding my comfort zone!!!

[StacyLee]

Great idea for a challenge, Barb...my wheels are turning! Your example is beautiful, too.

[Shutterbug]

What a wonderful challenge. Will have to think about what I want to do. Love your LO and I read your journaling. ((HUgs)) to you my friend.

[average_kim]

Great challenge! And I love your example layout!

[joannie]

OH Barb, I love your page!! Beautiful!! & I love this idea!! I think I can get a few of these done this month and next!!

[Deanna13]

Here's mine having my diamonds go off the page. I also used this for my example for my Shape Challenge.

Photos of DD Michelle and her 3 sweet kids on Christmas 2014.
Peace & Joy

[Berta R.]

Great challenge and a beautiful LO, Barb!

Deanna, I love your take on this challenge.  You page looks awesome...great design!   

[shoorn]

I'll have to give this one some thought!

[shoorn]

Here's one for me - combined with Shape Challenge

[joannie]

 
Barb, I "cut off" the large matted circle and the right poodle!! Fun Challenge!!

[MimaScraps/Lori]

Love your examples and your l.o. All the others are great, too. This looks like FUN!!

[MimaScraps/Lori]

I used Hot Flash Design's "A Fresh Start" kit and Photoshop Elements 12.  That was a blast!

[blfonty]

Here's my layout "Fall into FUN" using the graphic design of cropping the photos, title tag and journaling block off the edge of the page.

[Christi S.]

Here's mine:

The little guy on the bottom right is off the page.  (I love his hair!  LOL)

I combined with the Supply List Challenge.

Thank you,
CHristi S

[average_kim]

Here's my entry!  I used my Cricut and a gel pen to draw the basketball goal, using the Team Spirit cartridge.  Then I cropped it where it would be partly off the card, per the challenge specs.  The second photo shows the background before I added the basketball and sentiment.  Thanks for a fun challenge!





I'm also entering this into the Jan. Card challenge, since I used my brand new Team Spirit cartridge!

[Charleneanne]

I have combined this challenge with the Mfg. challenge

[jrrah4903]

I used this kraft paper mitten as my cut off image for this LO
Thanks for the great challenge!

[EmtAimee734]