Sunday, February 14, 2010
Fun Photo challenge - Sandra
She said "Recently Teagan and I had a bit of fun with the camera and I actually got in front of the camera instead of being behind it! Trixie our dog decided she wanted to be in on the fun too!"
Great start ... photo hog dog!!! Great expression on your face Sandra!!
Fun Photo challenge
PHOTO-BOMB!!
"to drop into a photo unexpectedly; to jump into a picture just before it is taken."
This is not the best of examples ... Lachlan running through the background of this photo of Hannah.
I was sure I had a better example on the computer somewhere but couldn't find one!!
Have a look through your photos and send in your picture ... it may be a photo that you would normally delete!!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
peeps at our retreat so far...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Ali - colour challenge
A very warm welcome to Ali M from Roxby! YAY we have a new person to play with!!
Hi Amanda,
I'm always thinking that I'm going to join in and do the E2C challenges,but never do so here I am, I've actually done the colour challenge.
Let's see how I go with the others... See you at the retreat, I'm looking forward to it very much!!
Ali
This is great Ali - thanks so much for joining in. LOVE the mix of colours, your fantastic brackets and nice bold title...........ummm speaking of titles i reckon i spy a little bit of matting there too. So technically you have done TWO challenges in one! That jade/teal thickers title just pops against the black matting as well!
Very cute photo at one of our e2c -ers fav. places! WOW at your amazing paint work.
Thanks Ali. Can't wait to meet you in March and keep those layouts coming until then!
Sue's sketch - Jenny
"Here are the challenges. Ellie's page is the Sue's sketch and the other two are the colour challenge but I just can't decide where to put the blue brads.
I had a lot of fun doing these, got me beat where my inspiration went to, but I am back, I hope this time."
Lovely digi layouts Jenny! Gorgeous pictures of Ellie!!
I can't decide about the brads in the second two either, keep scrolling up and down to look!! I think I like the horizontal ones!!
Great to see you back Jenny!! It's been a while so I hope the mojo continues to flow!!
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Janice - Sue's sketch
A challenge done at last.
Thanks for the inspiration Sue.
Janice
Sandra - colour challenge
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Sandra - colour challenge cards!
Sandra -
Friday, February 5, 2010
Tiff - all in one
This fulfils 4 challenges. Something soft, something hard, this months colour challenge, Sue's sketch challenge and the matted title challenge. I think I've got it all covered. *wink*
The something soft is the blue felt and the pink hearts that I cut from an old pair of Annie's flannie Pj's. The hard bit is the pin, the 3 beads in the left corner and the strip of pink bling. I've turned Sue's sketch upside down and rearranged it a fair bit. The 2 pieces of green PP are instead of the 2nd and 3rd photo requirement. But the basis of the sketch is still there. The colour challenge happened to work perfectly with this LO and it also happened to be the one I was about to start on anyway. And as you can see the title is matted in green.
cheers
t
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Sandra - Sue's sketch and matt title
Sue- matt title word challenge
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Tracey - colour & sketch challenge
Hope you have had a good summer and a break away from the riff raff of life!! Attached is my layout of your sketch. This is also Amanda's colour challenge. Two challenges in one!! I was very happy that I thought to use the hambly screen print thingies under my title, I love them but have no idea how to use them. Doing Amanda's class the other night has encouraged me to use diecuts and these screen print things. When I was cropping the layout I chopped off the edges sorry. The kids ended up swimming this day in the absolute freezing water in their clothes!! No sense, no feeling!!! Lucky they had a change of clothes. The journalling says 'Note to self ... when going to the beach in the middle of winter, children will always end up getting their clothes wet. You must take spares!!'
Cheers,
Tracey
Wow, you were quick off the mark Tracey....sorry i was a day or so posting it up....but what a great layout, and clever one....getting two of the challenges done in one layout!!
Love the patterned papers you have chosen, they look great together, and love the use of the hambly screen transparency!!...and yummy crochet flower!!
Great page Trace! Thanks for giving it a go!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Marika - colour challenge
Monday, February 1, 2010
February Sketch challenge
Wow Amanda, what great challenges you have come up with for this month. Lovely bright colour one and the title one is surely a bit different that will get us all thinking and inspired again.
Actually, i almost had my sketch & example done Saturday and was going to post it early to surprise you all...but the wheels fell off here and it got too busy to post it... i was inspired by a Jenni Bowlin page on her blog but then it changed a bit....so i turned it into our monthly sketch. It can be with multiple photos of any size, and embellish as you wish...Hopefully you will be inspired to scrap some of those lovely summery photos like i was.
Here's my example:
So have fun with it and look forward to all your examples coming in.
Suexx
Sunday, January 31, 2010
the First of February!
I am so hoping to see some challenge pages being emailled to us this month, supporting us and this blog. It would be great to get past that holiday blah time.
It's bright, it's funky, its blue, green, pink and dark brown.
Show me what you have got!
Amanda's Challenge
Now i know already that i am going to totally suck at trying to explain this but what i would like you to do is mat one word of your title.
HUH?
I first saw our very own Brigette S. do this at the October scrapathon. Instead of placing her thicker title directly onto her page, she matted them onto felt (if i remember correctly??!) and then cut around the felt leaving a tiny bit of felt border peeping out around the perimeter of the word. She then affixed the whole thing onto her page. It made the title really pop and gave it quite a unique look.
The layout below by Deena Wuest, featured in January 2010 CK magazine and poorly scanned by myself illustrates what i am trying (and failing) to explain.
Deena has heat embossed her 'candy' title and then cut around it. THIS is what i would like you to do for my challenge this month.
You can stamp, use thickers, print from the computer, whatever way you would like to make your title up BUT then mat it as shown and cut around for WOW impact.
I would definately like to try this and it has been in my 'must do' list since October and i am sure all your examples will inspire me to try it also.
Can't wait to see your work in my inbox!
stay tuned for the other girl's challenges.
Friday, January 29, 2010
hello?
It has all been very quiet - a bit too quiet considering that there are
ONLY 55 DAYS TO GO UNTIL OUR RETREAT!
HOLY SMOKES!
Sue, Meredith and I have been busy as little bees getting things sorted and i am so excited at how things are progressing. I wasn't sure we could ever improve on last year's retreat but BOY OH BOY this is different, unusual and so damn cool! I am loving what we are sorting out for you!!!
(if you aren't coming you are going to KICK yourself!)
To top it all off at a recent scrap event it seemed that the 'direction' that we are taking is all the current rage! OMG who knew that we were soooooo cutting edge!!??
You will also notice that i have added more sponsors to our list down the side - the sponsors have been amazing this year. Very very generous considering the grim financial situation and down turn in scrapping. We thank them so so so much and we know that you will absolutely love what they have done for us. We are SO impressed!
Speaking of sponsors - Memories 2 Remember have a very special deal for our retreat go-ers.
This will be a pre-retreat special... something to wet our whistles so to speak.
This will take effect from FEBRUARY 1st so i will pop the details on what it involves in an email over the weekend. Let me just drop these words as a hint = discount vouchers, free postage, yummy product!
STAY TUNED as i am sure you do not want to miss out!!
Don't forget we love to see what you have been up to scrapping wise. Drop Sue, Meredith or myself an email and we can pop it in the blog and help inspire our little e2c community. (hopefully we still have one out there.....)