Recipe #20

It has been a most blustery day in most parts of the UK today and there is no mistaking that the weather has taken a wintery turn. You'll be pleased to know we are here this week to brighten your day with a warm autumnal recipe for your to kick start your possibly chilly mojo this weekend. Forgive the weather, snuggle down indoors to some serious crafting time and see where our 2nd recipe for November takens you.

Our design team drew inspiration in a variety of ways but the tree and fall leaves certainly inspired more than a couple of our examples this week.

Altered nesting box by Kate

A Christmas card by Heather

A Layout by Ann

A Card by Clare

A Layout by Christine
A Card by Lousette

A Card by Louise
A layout by Mel

Our sponsor for this month is Sarah's Cards and they will be awarding a little something to the lucky winner of our prize draw this month. As always to be in with a chance of winning leave a comment on the relevant recipe post with a link to your image and we will do the rest. We will announce our October winner over this weekend so be sure to look out for that.

Until then, stay warm and dry, and may all your weekend projects be SOUPer!

Recipe #19

Hullo again dear friends, have you all recovered from last weeks Trick or Treating sugar rush?



This week we're using Kate's photo of her pumpkin as our inspiration, will you choose the warm autumnal colours or use it as inspiration for your own Halloween photographs?

Recipe #18

Boo! Hope we didn't scare you on this Halloween Friday!!. You may be surprised that our recipe for this week has nothing to do with the time of year, but instead is a rather different album cover for you to draw inspiration from. Mel supplied this one for us and was attracted to the quirky Picaso effect.

Many of the design team have taken the patchwork overlay as their inspiration this week. Will that be what draws your eye? Or maybe the colours used? Possible you may choose to extend your photo freehand and get a little creative that way?
What ever you decide to do be sure to post a comment and share your creations with us. As always you will be entered into our monthly prize draw to win a little something SOUPer!!

First example for you this week is from Annette who created this pretty patchwork effect card.

Next up Mandy who kept with the season to bring us this stunning piece of art!

A cute layout from Lou inspired by the colours from the album cover.

In Christine's fun page we see the glasses and the overlaying squares theme clearly showing through.

We hope lots of new people will be joining in with us this week following our feature on page 6 of Issue 50 of The Scrapbook Magazine. Don't forget if you manage to create a little something with each of the October recipe's you'll get an extra entry into the monthly prize draw! Deadline for all October inspired creations in midnight GMT on Wednesday November 3rd 2010, and the winner will be announced on Thursday 4th.

That's all for this week - have a spooky weekend and we will see you again next week, or throughout the week on Facebook. Find us by searching for ChickenSoup DT!

Recipe #17

Many apologies for the delay in sharing this week's recipe, TIME often runs away with us right? which is funny given that it is featured as our inspiration this week! Infact, we could almost be forgiven for thinking we had planned to be late on purpose?

We hope you will find the time to be inspired this week to play along with our challenge, which is an Autumn pendant necklace from Monsoon Accessorize.


TIME to dig out those jewellery-style embellishemnts? We think so!
Enjoy the inspiration from our cooks this week, each inspired in a different way by the recipe.

Ann created a layout using clock-themed masks and inking.


Clare created this striking card using Stamping-up Stamps and inks


Christine displays some jewellery pieces on her layout this week.


Annette took time out to create this card to inspire us


Kate's layout features some time themed paper and phrases.


As always be sure to post a comment linking to your creations in order that we can enter you into our monthly prize draw. Given we are all about timing this week, how about an extra chance to win with ChickenSOUP? If you create a projects for each of the 5 weeks recipe's in October we will give you an extra entry into the draw. So instead of 5 entries for completing recipe's 14, 15, 16, 17 & 18(revealed next Friday) you will have 6 chances to win a prize from Craft Obessions!! Awesome right? So what are you waiting for?!! And don't forget, time flies when you are having fun, so you;ll be back here next week in now time!!

Recipe #16

A very warm welcome back to the SOUP bowl one and all. We hope you have enjoyed your week, or at the very least endured it, and are all set for some Friday night inspiration. We have something a little different to inspire you this week - a photograph taken by our Clare of a gorgeous vintage sign in Rome.


Clare took this photograph "because I loved the shapes and the colours and it inspired me!" We hope it will do the same for you, and look forward to seeing your creations. As always please link to your layout or card or project by posting a comment on this post and we will enter you into our monthly prize draw. You have until midnight GMT on Wednesday November 3rd to play along!

Here are your crafting examples for this week to inspire you along with the recipe above. Enjoy!

A Card from Andrea


A Card from Clare


A Card from Heather


A Layout from Kate


A Layout from Mel


An altered tin from Mandy


A Canvas from Louise


A Card from Lousette


A Layout from Ann


See you all again next week!

Recipe #15

Oh yes it is SOUPer time again! Welcome back, or just plain welcome if this is your first visit to our site! Do spread the word and share news of our challenge blog with your other crafty friends and if you haven't already you can join us on Facebook too - simply search for ChickenSoupDT. Our challenge blog here isn't purely for scrapbookers and cardmakers - the DT examples this week show how our inspiration can take all manner of directions!

So have you ever FELT the need to step outside the paper zone and play with other materials? We trust that this week's recipe will have you doing exactly that. Just take a look at what our cooks came up with this week - oh and join us is warmly welcoming the newest additions to the team who all played along this week!

A felt iPhone cover by Ann

A door sign by Annette

A Layout by Christine

A Layout by Heather

A card by Kate

Felt decorations by Louise

A little angel by Lousette

A card by Mandy

Wow! So there you have it, hopefully plenty to inspire you this week, maybe get you crafting those Christmas cards (we can never start too soon) or making some decorations for the tree! On the subject of the season of goodwill we have 12-days of very special inspiration lined up for you all in December! More news to follow!

As always leave us a comment with a link to your creations and we will enter you into our prize draw for the month to win something crafty from our October sponsor Craft Obsessions.

Have a great weekend SOUPers and happy crafting from all of us.

And the winner is....

October is here and September has been and gone, but not before we had 39 stunning entries into our monthly challenge draw. If you undertook a craft project using one of our September recipe’s (10-13) AND left us a comment linking to an image of your creation then we have entered your name into our draw. Before we announce who the winner is it is time to take a trip down mutual appreciation avenue and have a look at the delicious cards, layouts and other crafty items you have all been creating during September.

ChickenSoup Sept Gallery - slideshow with music

Using Random.org to select a winning entry from the 39 received we are please to reveal the winner the September ChickenSoup prize, kindly sponsored by The Craft Emporium is

CONGRATULATIONS CLAIRE!

Please send your contact details to Lynn at The Craft Emporium who will arrange for your prize to be sent out to you! Many thanks to Lynn for sponsoring us in September! Here is Claire’s stunning card based on our 13th recipe – certainly not unlucky for some eh?!.


We will see you again on Friday, usual time 7pm GMT for our next recipe reveal and some inspiring creations from the new cooks!!