CKCB Blog hop - Challenge No 1

Good Morning everyone! 

Welcome to my part of the CKCB Members' Blog Hop. You should have come from Lesleys Blog here

Challenge #1 was to take inspiration from Ugly Jumpers!! Yes you heard me... Ugly Jumpers! Now.. I was, when I first saw this, a little perturbed by the challenge as I knew I had one of those shameful pictures somewhere.. and I had never wanted it to see the light of day.. and that was the way I was going to keep it! 

However... my UKS housemates had other ideas! Once I mentioned I had one lurking in a drawer somewhere I was not going to get away without sharing it! So here it is.. in all it's ugly glory! 

The story behind the jumper is  simple... I was invited, through my job, to a local Solicitors 'Do'... they host a Christmas bash every year.. and in an effort to be seen that solicitors do have a sense of humour (!) they wanted us to all come in a Christmas Jumper! Well, I'm glad to say I don't actually 
own a Christmas jumper.. and I wasn't about to buy one for something that would only be worn for two hours! So.. I decided to make a panel and sew it onto a nice simple black jumper. Sounds easy.. right?  Err Err...Wrong! 

Anyone that knows me, knows I don't DO any form of sewing.. why? Easy.. because I'm useless at it.... seriously.. I got an 'Ungradeable' for my Needlework exam back in the day.. and things have not got any better in the ensuing years! 

Anyway.. long story short... I ended up half sewing half gluing the panel (left) and then pinned it to my jumper.. actually I was secretly quite pleased with the results.. until I went to work and saw what my colleague had done! I was completely and utterly outdone! 

She had made this adorable applique panel (she obviously didn't get an ungradeable in her needlework exam!) and had even photographed one of our For Sale boards (I'm an Estate Agent) and incorporated it into her design! I was totally outshone! 

Needless to say it was all taken in good humour and.. amazingly, in my view, she didn't win the bottle of champagne that was 
the prize on offer... another HIDEOUS jumper won that was the tackiest, nastiest one in the room... you know the sort of thing.. tinsel, baubles and etc, etc all pinned on won it. 

Anyway.. so here it is.. the shameful example of my handiwork.. oh the shame!! LOL!

I used a Spellbinders die to cut the red and white poinsettias and used scraps from my kit on a piece of dotty Bazzil cardstock also in the layout I included a tag with the whole story on the reverse and tucked it behind the bottom photograph. The LO was inspired by Creative Scrappers Sketch 261. 

Thanks for stopping by and now you should hop on over to http://www.karenscorneroftheweb.blogspot.com/

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