Sue's Challenge Page

I searched high & low, in cupboards and book shelves, everywhere at work and eventually i found it! You see, i wanted to scrap Evan's birthday, so needed lots of spaces for photos. Evenually i found my april nursing bulletin - perfect!!

The actual doing the page was easy peasy!! I love the bright colours that's in the photos.

I didn't find this as hard as i initially thought Amanda, good challenge!!

some more entries - thanks girls :)

Thankyou for getting on board this challenge girls. It is so nice to see a few more entries!

First one is from Karen who has scrapped a beautiful photo of her precious dog Bonnie and used a great roxy bag for inspiration. Love the colours and design of the bag too Karen and can see why you were drawn to use it.

I like how you have kept the page simple and yet the message is very clear. Also ADORE that little birdie (but i do have a thing for birds atm)

The second and third entries are from Jenny who has used something she sees everyday as inspiration.

In jenny's words -

I love this, thank you Girls for creating this site and the challenges.
I have used my mirror reflection because I am in bed so much, this is pretty much all I see, except my computer screen. The chocolates are on my table for nausea.

These challenges have been so inspiring and I just can't wait for the next one. I've never thought of using something other than using a LO plan.

Again, thank you girls. This is certainly better than playing solitaire.

Something as simple as a choccy tin was used to form her page layout and what an awesome effort. You can see how she used the angle of the choccies on the front of the tin to place the photos and also the areas for title and jouralling. You can also see how she has used the lid to add that extra colour into her page

Her other entry is using the mirror she sees from her bed. I really love how she has put a different slant on this and used a reflective image as well. Fantastic effort Jenny and thanks for the digi scrapping entries!

Keep up the inspiration girls :)

Just a reminder

For those that have been asking - there are a lot of free stitching programs on the www.

http://www.paxcam.com/paxit/image_stitching.asp

http://www.pixtra.com/Downloads/Download.htm

this is about the canon photostitch software -(this is free with any canon camera and what Tiff, Meredith and myself have and use)

http://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/photostitch.htm

heaps and heaps of free stitching programs here -

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/downloads/stitching_software/


you DO NOT NEED to scan and stitch your pages to email them. Others have taken their pages outside or layed them in a naturally lit area of the house and taken photos looking down on them (watch your shadow)

again i re-iterate YOU CAN SEND IN PHOTOS of the entire page....no stitching required!

Please do not feel as if you can't enter because you can't stitch your scanned images together. Please take the time to look at these free stitching programs or if you prefer not to do that then send in whole photos as stated above.

EVERYONE CAN ENTER!

well i dont know about you but....

i am starting to shake and get a bit jittery.

It must be blog withdrawrals ;)

so here we are - back again! Thanks regulars for letting us have a little break to advertise our new retreat date :)

I have had a few lovely entries for last weeks challenge.

The first one to come in was Maryannes who was inspired by some footy guernseys! Black and red are an absolutely STUNNING combination to use on the page.

she writes -

Anyway bit slack because Im using just the color factor for inspiration, sorry!

some of you would be aware of my liking for black and red, and have done a LO today of our dog molly, when she was a puppy.

Have been wanting to do a LO of her for a while and have always planned on red, black combo, mostly because shes mostly black with a bit of white and has always had a red collar.Also have a liking for red and black because take lots of photos of the kids playing footy and of course being cougars its the red and black combo also.

Thanks Maryanne and i think you have done a brilliant job here!

The second entry was from Sandra who did a fantastic job being inspired by an old canister she had in her kitchen.

The choice of photo and subject that she chose is excellent as it almost seems a bit psychadelic and hippy so it transfers over to the page, using the photos that she picked really well.

Sandra wrote -

Here is my entry for the challenge
I found it really hard..... LOVED IT!
I found this old canister... and used the different colour pears as my inspiration... might try the wardrobe next.
great challenge!

The last entry is mine. I saw this book cover and thought that the placement would work on a page. The journalling is in the strip of paper - just explainin that as some others i have shown haven't realized and actually thought it was that Jenni Bowlin book print patterned paper!

The journalling says -

When you and Georgia were tiny babies i would read to you. I hoped with all my heart that you would grow up to love reading as much as i do. As you got bigger and started school, it became clear very quickly that you would really struggle to learn how to read. We would listen to your readers every night and i felt like you would never get it. With lots of extra help at school, and your perserverance, bit by bit we finally got to a stage where you could read well. Last year Granny bought you some 'go girl' novels and ever since then you have been devouring these with great gusto. I am so proud of how well youread now, and i love hearing the reply to my lights out call at night by you saying 'just one more chapter please mum?'

we are at long last at that place i wished for.

So there have only been 3 takers on this challenge - come on girls! It really isn't that hard. Dig out some of your son's rip curl t-shirts, dig in the pantry, look at magazines, at catalogues and in you bookshelf and see if you can find yourself a dose of everyday inspiration!

Learning how to transfer the things you see everyday onto a page is so exciting! To look at something and say 'ooooh how cool would that look as a layout??!!' is a very handy skill - and kinda an obsession LOL.

a date to ESCAPE in 2009!

FRIDAY March 13th 2009

Mark this in your diaries NOW!

Yep the 2009 Escape 2 Create will take place from Friday the 13th of March until Sunday the 15th.

The venue is booked (Nt Shields Lions Hostel) so we are set to go.

Next month Meredith and I will be doing a trip to Melbourne to attend our first retreat run by Scraptacular - a very popular and up to the minute scrap shop! It will be strictly business - no drinking, socializing, smoking, shopping or scrapping but purely getting ideas and bringing them back for you ladies to improve our own scrap retreat! ;) *ahem*
So you see the lengths we will go to - to provide you with the best scrap retreat possible!!!

Start saving, organizing child care and buttering up those husbands! woohoo bring it on! keep checking in here for tit bits of info and sneaky peaks :)

PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL BE NO PRE BOOKINGS. WE WILL NOTIFY YOU WHEN BOOKINGS FOR THE WEEKEND ARE OPEN

If you would like to go onto our retreat newsletter database to be kept totally up to date with emails etc. please contact Tiff - katmfirth@bigpond.com

To the regular blog go-ers we will not post a new entry here for a few days to allow everyone to see this post and note the new retreat date!

Please pass on the word to all your scrapping friends :) and please leave a comment regarding the retreat (particularly if you are new) Just press the comment button, write your comment, write your name down the bottom of your post and press 'anonymous comment'.

We would love to see/read some familar faces from our last retreat on here!!

a new challenge....and some changes

Firstly congratulations to Jenny for her win! What great luck to be pulled out of the hat by Sue's gorgeous little helper! We hope you enjoy your prize pack!

Apologies to Amy who sent me her entry yesterday but i didn't check my emails until the wee hours of the morning as i was out all day and at meetings at night. Sorry Amy.

Also a note to all that i cannot stitch your scanned images together - sorry if that sounds grumpy but i am finding it very difficult to manage my time at the moment with so much going on.

The next bit of news is in relation to the prizes. So far the prizes have come from a few sources; donated from individuals, scrap stores, and from our retreat prize pool. Because of this we have decided to have a monthly prize instead of a weekly prize. If we continue to use our retreat goodies that we use as giveaways over the weekend, come next year and we will have very little if anything left. And we want to be able to give fantastic prizes away on the retreat too!!!

So for every challenge you go in on the blog your name will go into the hat for the monthly draw. If you do all 4 weekly challenges then you have 4 names in the hat. 4 times the chance of winning if you know what i mean!

We hope you understand and will continue to be involved in our challenges.

Ok so this weeks challenge is - to be inspired by your environment!
A little while back Meredith posted a fantastic example of how a cereal box inspired her to make a page using the same sort of layout used on the cereal box. It was brilliant! I have also showed how i used a magazines table of contents page to help with the layout of a page.

See what you can see around your home and use it to influence a page. Not just a colour etc but the whole thing - how elements are placed and how you can translate that to a page.

T-shirts are great sources of inspiration!

This sort of thing is all around you. Look with fresh eyes at advertising, food packaging and music clips - anything!!!

Send your entries to me WITH a photo of your source of inspiration!

I hope you can be invovled in this one :)

Stay tuned for some exciting retreat news

Heidi Swapp Interview.

http://www.epson.com/cmc_upload/pdf/HeidiSwapp_R4.pdf

Found this on the net. It's an interview by Heidi Swapp reviewing the Epson Stylus Photo R1800.
Its an A3 printer.
Anyway I attached her interview here about digi scrapping.
Thinking of Jenny actually.
Might start scanning more stuff into my pages now.... like the spatula.
click the link and it will make sense....
Cheers
T

The Winner is..

Well, THANK-YOU to all you girls who entered the Blue & Brown challenge, and i was thinking it was too boring - but WOW what some great pages and new ideas along the way. It was GREAT!

Now today, Amanda and I (oh, and my dear little grandson Jacob) drew the winner of this challenge. And Congratualtions to Jenny!!! Thanks for entering your page and i will pop a prize around to you in the next couple of days.

Thanks to our prize pool, the prize this time round are some bits and pieces from the lovely new range K&Co Awning!! Now i am jealous that i couldn't win!!! Well done Jenny and Thanks for taking the effort to join in.

Sorry girls for not commenting more frequently just this week, i have only had time to quickly read my e-mails, so i have seen all the comments and pages coming in.....so tonight just had time to make a quick comment. Glad you are all enjoying the blog....it's great to share our pages!!

anotherie

this didn't start out at a brown and blue but it is how it ended up. Thought you may like a squizzy. There's a bit of a shadow over the chip shape and alphas from being not being able to flatten when it was scanned.

Journalling says : as the breeze gently tangled your tresses together, your love for Paige will always be forever and hers for you.10.10.06

another entry!

Thanks Shaz for taking the time to comment AND join in the challenge fun!

Sue your challenge is totally bringing them out of the woodwork!

Shaz your photo is very precious - i had a bit of a moment when i saw it myself :(

I really like how you used a really big photo here so the the main focus is on it and really drives home exactly why it is a precious moment.

Thanks for sharing such a personal picture and i hope you can join in some more challenges!

Sorry i dont feel overly chatty tonight - am at the 'end of my tether' with the kids. Seriously boarding school is sounding like a bloody good option at the moment.

Also apologies to anyone who had the unfortunate luck to be in Kmart today while we were. You might not have seen us but would have heard the wailing and gnashing of teeth of three children. I was the unlucky recipient of 'that look' from many mums/grannies/aunties in there as in "oh you poor thing - i know what it is like". To be honest i wouldn't blame them if they had given me the other look that meant "go ahead and strangle them now"

Spoilt kids. Why do i have 3 of them? :(

goodness - and another one!

Everyone is loving Sue's Blue and Brown challenge!!!

Here is Jenny's page - welcome Jenny :)

and woohoo a digital page also! Fantastic!

The pic is pretty small but am loving those brown borders around the photo and the lace type look down the side. Beautiful Jenny and thanks for sharing!

Sue and I will draw this tomorrow at work *groan* and be back later in the day with pics of the winner and also a pic of the prize!

I will also post another challenge tomorrow night and then in another entry some VERY exciting retreat news.

two more!

Thanks Cassandra and Karen!

Karen your page is so beautiful! I love that big swirly thingamejig on the side of the paper! - stunning! That little ticket is so adorable too!

And Cassandra welcome and thanks for sharing your work. When you showed me your page at the Friday night scrap i was so hoping that you could send it in - really great layout and the horse is the perfect colour!! Your punched flowers add the perfect touch.

welcome Kathryn

woohoo we have a newcomer to the challenges!

Welcome Kathryn.....who has submitted a fantastic version of this challenge! She actually created this on our last escape retreat - and i distinctly remember it as she pulled out this old dymo with the 'script wheel'. This is VERY hard to find - rare as hen's teeth....so i was immediately interested!

I love how she has used a little bit of red to bring in a third colour which highlights the brown and blue but not overtaking the page.

Thanks for joining us Kathryn and i hope you stick around :)

3rd one!!!!!!!

how cute are those thongs on the flowers on the bottom right cluster. how typical of us scrappers and photographers 'taking photos of everything' You just never know when that perfect shot will happen. The cork suits this page perfectly.

congrats Janice. Well done.

Challenge page

Hello all,

I have done my blue and brown page!! I took this photo at the same time as the hairdresser shots!! I have used some new Carolee's Creation alpha letters in teal blue - can't stop using these little letters!! The title doesn't show up so well here but it says "My Middle Boy". Journaling says "Oh how I love this photo. It takes my breath."

Hope you are all enjoying the weekend ... so nice and sunny here after a cold day at football yesterday.

and another

cant hold a good scrapper down. Another excellent challenge answer for the blues and browns. This is proving a popular challenge (onya Sue)

Matthew is so cute....hasn't he grown so much lately...

Your sanding on the photo edges is really effective and that BG paper catches the shirt on the left photo and the tan tones in the middle photo so well. Also LOVE the journalling strips.

awesome Janice. 2 entries in the hat for you. Thanks Sarah for the scanning ;)

Introducing.....Janice

Janice's answer to the blue and brown challenge. After seeing this layout in her album on Friday night at the Scrap nite in the Bakery I pestered Janice to put up on the blog. I think she yes eventually just to get rid of me (;D).

She left the chipboard raw which works with the brown tones on the PP really well. Love how she has cut the flourishes with a craft knife and lifted them to sit on top of the photos.

Great to see you on the blog Janice. Don't forget to show Kevin and Matthew!!!

scrap night @ 5 loaves Bakery was a hit. Black Friday as the theme, come dressed in black, 13 scrappers. All the ingredients for good fun. Katy baked an awesome Black forest cake and had little black cat lollies and Chico babies on the tables.Lots of fun, chatting and sharing of layouts, not to mention wonderful meals and coffee. Next one is tentatively set for Friday July 11th.Cant wait.

Hello, hello, anyone there???

Hi everyone,

Well we have discovered recently that there are quite a few of you out there that check this little blog out regularly. Dare I say it, some of you check in more than once a day!! OMG :-0

So since we haven't had a post for a few days I thought I would just leave this little note so you have a bit of blah, blah, blah to read!! ;-)

Now, after the scrap night at the Five Loaves Bakery in Cummins last night we know that there are quite a few more blue and brown pages out there so get on and e-mail them to Amanda so we can post them here on the blog.

A big thank you to Katy at the Five Loaves for making a yummy Black Forest cake for black Friday (13th) - apparently it was very nice (I resisted!!).

Even if you are a non-page poster please leave us a message. We know you are out there so check in and say hello. Remember ... the chicks and chooks are here waiting to see what you have to say.

Happy scrappy days!!

Maryanne's page!

here is Maryanne's take on the blue and brown! Love how it seems to go so well with your 'vintage' photo of your Dad Maryanne......what a great momento!

The blue and brown combo is fantastic for heritage type pages.....and for boy pages.....well and for girl pages too LOL.

I like your little cluster of goodies in the corner too! the flowers are there but not in your face (if you know what i mean) so they totally DO NOT look out of place. They seem to belong there and blend in so well with the theme of the page you have going on.

well done chook!

keep them coming!

blue and brown.

Just as I was about to load up my creation, Sandra is already there. She is hot off the press. Onya Chick.

Here's my rise to the challenge.

Cheers.

Sandra's blue and brown!

wowee she is hot onto this!!!!!

arriving in my inbox tonight - hot off the press is this fabulous blue and brown creation! AND i can spy a flower or two!!!

anyone can tell you how much i LOVE basic grey papers - so this page automatically gets two thumbs up from me. Add in a cutie patootie and it is simply brilliant!!! Love the mix of black & white photos with the coloured one!

Thanks Sandra - totally excellent!

Challenge 5

Hiya.

This is an oldie but still a goodie. Searched thru my scanned LO's on the computer and found one that fits Sue's challenge.

Don't worry, I'm doing a fresh page to also meet the criteria. I happened to have a page planned with brown and blue so this is great timing.

Thanks Sue.

Challenge 5 - 'Blue & Brown'

Gday there! All waiting for another challenge?? Well this time it is going to be a simple challenge but with a difference.

While i have been scrapping through Rachel's 'baby' album, i so wanted to do a blue and brown page. I had some lovely kaiser papers that i was dying to use, and 'whammo' it all came together quite easily. I love blue and brown, so now i challenge you all to show me what you can do with the colour combination too!

All this talk about flowers on our pages - well that can be part of the challenge too.

Blue and brown AND a bloom or two.





Can't wait to see your ideas and pages.

Challenge ends - say - Wed 18th June.





EDITED BY AMANDA to add photo of Sue's page and to also add mine here too..... (lo and behold the same paper!) Many thanks to Sue for her rubon to complete this one!

maryanne's mini challenge page

Sorry Maryanne - i did recieve this earlier today but was out all day and then forgot to upload it before the bath/tea/bed crazy time in which i feel like strangling everyone and would MUCH rather be on the www uploading fantastic layouts!!

*deep breath*

sorry about the delay -eek..

anyways i think she has done a fantastic job on this. Many people are scared to mix flowers with boy pages but there are some wonderful examples out there on how this works....

Dee Molina has 2 boys and regularly useds blossoms ttp://molinamusings.typepad.com/

and Felicity Malyszko has one boy, a passion for brights and uses lots of flowers on her pages of her little one http://felicity-lifeslittlemoments.blogspot.com/

I love how Maryanne has used humour in her title and really punched the title home by making the boys into flowers. Great page and i am very thankful you DID send it to me!!!

In other news i would just like to send out a little wave to Karen who would have had a difficult day today at the vets with her beloved Bonnie. I hope it all went ok Karen.

my take on this one

Hey girls :)

Well after a busy weekend i managed to scrap this page following my challenge guidelines.

The black ribbon down the bottom (looks wonky here but isn't in real life), then there are two in the cluster up the top.

There are three photos and also three colours.

Also have tried to use the 10,30, 60 rule but as you can see by my page.....it is a rough guide only - you dont have to obsess over the percentages to make it work for you.

If anyone saw 'how to look good naked' tonight- the page might look kinda familiar. I got the inspiration for this one from a skirt the mum was wearing which was very WOW in it's design.

A great LO from Sandra.

To quote her comment from Meredith's post

talk about a challenge!!My stash is very small and I had to turn my house upside down for some ribbon! Finally one shoe lace and one wrecked xmas decoration later.... voila! 3 ribbons..(already had one)

Just goes to show what u can use when u are pushed a bit. Innovation is everywhere.

LOVE the shoelace idea.

Triple treat entry

Well I thought I'd have a go at this challenge and it was a bit tricky using 3 colours and 3 ribbons!! I probably don't use ribbon that often even though I have a collection of it!

I used

3 colours: red, green and white

3 ribbons: white one is under the red and white stripe and then the green fluffy one is around the pin.

3 photos

The journaling reads "Before you even sat down you asked Lee if you could have 'product' in your hair! You kept asking until you got it ... funny boy".

Hope we have a few more entries uploaded once Amanda returns from Coffin Bay!!

a weekend quickie

Challenge four is a little challenge - just a little something to get us through the next 3 days of non school, non footy/netball and will not have a prize attached.....as it is a mini challenge.

This will close on Monday night. No winners for this one but just something for you to do over the long weekend to get your mojo flowing.

Sue was going to set the next challenge but is away in Adelaide........so this mini project can tide us over until she gets back to set another.


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this mini challenge is to use

3 ribbons, 3 photos and 3 colours on your page. It can be any sized layout.

While we are at it I would like people to have a think about the 10, 30, 60 colour rule.

basically this is where you have one main colour used (60% of the colour on the page - it may well be the white cardstock for example on a minimilist page), the second colour is used not as much as the first (30%) and the third is only a smidge of accent colour (10%).

While this sounds awfully technical for scrapbooking....it works wonderfully and is SO easy to pull pages together using the right amounts of colour without overloading your mind. By using this rule your layouts will look very balanced and pleasing to the eye.

Remember that the rule is totally flexible. You can use ANY colours. The 60,30,10 amounts dont have to be EXACT - just a rough guess.

This is one rule that is used quite a lot in design and if you look very closely at pages that appear in magazines that use 3 colours.....scrappers use it a fair bit too (usually with out thinking about it)

So give this mini 3 challenge a go!

3 photos
3 ribbon
3 colours -

and if you feel adventurous you can try the 60, 30 ,10 rule too. Hopefully i have explained it ok here.

can't wait to come home from Coffins and see all the creations!

winner winner winner winner

taking a leaf from Meredith's book, I had 2 pj clad assistants draw the winner for Challenge 3 - Go Scrap Yourself -

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SANDRA

grrreeeeaaatttt stuff chick. Fantastic to see our self confessed addict has something to get her even more addicted. Nothing like feeding the habit is there. good on ya chick. Your prize pack will be on your doorstep this morning when I come in for my ice coffee (:D)

Huge thanks to Leonie from SCRAPWORKZ in Port Lincoln who was very happy to donate this prize. Leonie will be in the 5 Loaves Bakery in Cummins this coming Friday. Black Friday, the 13th, with at least half the shop. So come in, grab a coffee and get yourself some retail therapy. Or if would like to scrap email me on katmfirth@bigpond.com to book you a table. Only 5 left.
cheers and scrap madly.

and another one!

woohoo the entries are now flooding in!

Thanks Cassandra for taking the time to do the challenge. From your journalling it sounds as if you have been unwell - thanks so much for getting your creative juices flowing and making this amazing page. Difficult i know when you are feeling under the weather. What a fabulous job you have done though! Love the rub-on and the floral details!

Keep them coming girls - so nice to see some new names in here too (but still loving our 'old regulars' ;) )

another entry!

Thanks Amy for joining in our challenge. I know Tiff will be in raptures with the bling you have used on the page and the leaf accent looks brilliant. I love seeing everyones interpretation of the same sketch.....there are so many ways to make one thing look so different.

Thanks again Amy and good luck :)

a blue day

How appropriate on this cold, rainy day i recieve an email from the talented Karen with her challenge entry.....titled 'blue'

The journalling is so sad and strikes a note with me as we went through a similar situation with our labrador Chloe a couple of years ago.

Anyway Karen's family pet is sick......and her heartfelt journalling left a lump in my throat.

Here it is.

"Blue, is how Im feeling. My beautiful Bonnie is sick and may not recover. Im finding it hard knowing that she may not be with us much longer. 4th June 2008"

Thinking of you chook. A pet really is a part of your family and it is so hard to say goodbye.

challenge 3 countdown

Righto Scrappers. Get your skates on. We only have 2 entries for challenge 3. Closes midnight Friday night so get a wiggle on.

Dimensions of the page are 15 x 30 cm (6 x 12'). Self portrait LO

Rolled oats inspiration

When I bought this packet of rolled oats a few weeks ago I did so because I loved the design on the box!!

So today I finally decided to do a layout based on the box!!

The photo is a bit dark here, but I think you can get the idea. Journaling reads "Day one of school this is how you wore your shirt".

Oh and I have had a bowl of porridge ... with dried apricots mixed in and no yummy brown sugar (my favourite but trying to watch the sugar intake! ;-) )

Have you found some inspiration on a packet lately? Give it a go ... lets face it companies pay big dollars to designers so the designs must be okay!!

a note from Sandra

Today i recieved a fantastic email from Sandra. She has agreed to let me post it on here so sit back, grab a coffee and be inspired by this chook.



Hi Amanda and Tiff
Here is my latest layout... In my Daughter's Eyes.. Using the same papers as Tiffs.
I have applied so much of what I have already learnt on the blog and by looking at your layouts
for eg
song as inspiration.. In my daughter's eyes by Martina Mc Bride
Butterflies.. from guess who :)
Lace from Amanda's 'Play' layout
'thumbing' the paper to curl and distress it
The Noteworthy paper that I won.... thanks girls ... love it!!
staples staples staples
dymo.. love it too
have now got the confidence to sew on the page (butterfly's trail)
Inking the 'chipboard' bracket (actually it isn't chipboard but card from Ally (she uses it for her mini albums.. easy to cut out.. used a stencil for the shape..I think I will be using this more often..so easy!
and there is heaps more...
but the most important thing I have learnt is to be more confident..and try things I haven't done before. 'its only paper' :) from Amandas post.
Thanks girls for all the inspiration!
Sandra



hasn't Sandra done a BLOODY FANTASTIC job? wow.

She has come such a long way in a few weeks there is absolutely NO stopping her now!

My challenge page!

Hello again,





Well I finally got around to doing a page last night!

Photo by Amanda Hall.

Journaling reads "I love to laugh", tag behind photo says "always have and will".

It was a bit weird doing a page 6 x 12 inches. I have seen a couple in magazines and hadn't tried it so thanks Tiff!!

Hope we see some more entries in the next two days as the close date for challenge three is the 6th June (I think!!).

Prize for previous challenge (No 2)

Now Karen has probably been wondering where her prize winged its way too as she hasn't received it yet!! You will be receiving it very soon Karen.

The prize for the previous challenge (No 2) is a $15 voucher to The Shabby Chic Shack at Lock.

If you are ever in Lock or would like to visit a great scrapbooking shop make sure you head to see the girls at the Shabby Chic Shack. They always have new goodies arriving!!

They also put out an e-mailed newsletter and have recently been sending e-mails with photos of new products just in so send them an e-mail to get "on the list"!!
Brigette at siebert@eyreonline.com or Jo at schell@eyreonline.com

Better get back to my current challenge page before I miss the boat.

I have heard a few whispers about the next challenge too!! ;-) Stay tuned!

I am so transparent.

Now I am excited by this LO.

It's an A4 transparency. I was inspired by a LO by Kim Ogden in For Keeps Issue 66, pg 74.

I had hassles originally with a thicker transparency. The ink from the printer wouldn't dry on it. Bugger I thought. There goes that idea.

Then 'light bulb' moment.

I have transparencies that I can print on so why don't lay one over the other and sandwich the photos in the middle. Now I can see all of the flourishes as well instead of the photos covering part of them up. I used a mini brad in 2 of the corners to hold both together and sewed the other corners. Just as an added interest I popped out a little mirror from a powder compact and 'viola' I have my LO done.

A bit of a trick to photograph it well. I leaned it up against a panel on my door in the morning light but I hope you can see the 'transparent' side of it.

And I LOVE it.

two more entries for challenge THREE just in

Thanks to Sue and Maryanne for stepping out of their comfort zones and scrapping gorgeous pages about themselves.

LOVE what you have both done!

Maryanne has used her dymo - can you tell that it is my most fav. scrap thing!??? So naturally i think her page is awesome. Great photo and excellent spin on the topic too. The patterned paper as a back ground is also great and OMG is that paint swiped along the edge? Jeepers - amazing stuff.

Sue love love love the contrast between papers, cardstock and the colours of the flowers. It all looks so amazing and eye catching. Simply stunning! That pink just pops right out at you!

So you can see - with one sketch there are so many variations....Truely amazing to see each persons interpretation. One is no more 'right' than the other - and yet they were all inspired by one sketch.

great work girls :)

And yes - lurkers please say hello!!

intro

Hiya all. How about all the sight seers out there introduce yourselves. Let's not have any lurkers but a big bunch of happy scrappers.
sooo.... intro yourselves.
looking forward to hearing from you.
:D