Aloha August

Hello yes it must be the first of the month again! Fancy us already being into the 8th month of the year! Hard to believe that Xmas is a hop step and jump away AGAIN!

without any further ramble, let's get into this months challenges:

Amanda's Challenge.

This month i would like you to either handwrite, journal or place your title ON your photo. Yes directly on the photo.

The best way to do this is to pick a photo where there is a lot of space on one side of the photo - ie. your subject is off centre and nothing much is on the opposite side.

You may like to handwrite on the photo. In my mind there is NO better example of a scrapper who does this handwriting on a photo as Clair Bremner. They always look so damn cool.

layouts by Clair Bremner.

do it via computer like this:

or do journalling strips.(another awesome page by Clair Bremner)

or you might like to pop your whole title on the photo. Here is another fav. scrapper of mine - Fran Tynan.

note: the title is OVER the photo.

Here is another example by Clair Bremner - this is either stamps or rubons for her title on the photo.......... (i told you that she totally rocks at this)

email your finished creations to me to pop onto the blog.

Sue's Sketch.

Stay tuned for Sue's sketch. Coming to you Monday-ish.

Meredith's challenge.

PINWHEELS!!!

Not too long ago Meredith did an awesome page but i cannot show you as it has this sign on it:

what a clever chook she is.................luckily for us she has done another since:

go here for a tutorial on how to make these awesome, hip, and in embellishments. Pop one or two on your layout and email the finished page to Meredith for display on the blog.

or there is another tutorial here which is a step by step with photos and examples of layouts.

Photo Challenge.

Try to think back - we might be talking a young kid or a teenager here. Who or what did you think totally ROCKED. Did you have an idol? Someone that you collected bits of trivia on, or maybe even sticky taped to your wall?

Now this photo challenge is not tricky at all. No need to even get the camera out of the bag.

go to google images and see if you can find an image of your idol. Right click and 'email picture' to me. Then tell us WHY you thought this person/band/group/TV show was awesome. Soooooo easy!

It might have been these guys:

or this one:

or these:
or maybe these people?

or who remembers this guy? Maybe you were his number one fan?

ah ok. No wait. I have found the number one ALF fan.........

jeez lousie what a *ahem* stunning tatt :-

.......anyway back to the challenge....

If you don't want to do it on yourself = tell us why Dora / Thomas / Postman Pat / *insert name* is so important in your childs life.

Email the image and your reason for being a fan to me for display on the blog.

don't forget our colour challenge is still on the go from last month also.

We can't wait to see what you create this month!