It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas # 8 ...

Love these great baubles made with transparencies: source

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ... # 7

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Hhhmmm I might just do these!!

Colour Challenge - Trish

Hi Amanda
Here's my very late take on your wonderful colour challenge. The only yellow
I have used had been in the photo and I included a smidge of black. I'm
really happy with how the Kraft came up. Thanks girls.
Trish S

WOW Trish. Love how you have just used the yellow in the photo - it really packs a punch and draws you in.


You are the queen of kraft scrunching and love love love how it looks here!! And fabulous splats! Great use of the hessian for a masculine embellishment. Awesome stuff.

Retreat payment reminder ...

the due date for payment was yesterday ... either a deposit or full payment.

I am aware that there can be a delay in the money arriving from one bank to another so I will check again tomorrow and Monday ... so if you haven't paid or simply forgot ... please pay soon :-)

It is a busy time of the year and we all forget things but would hate for you to miss out on your spot :-)

Cheers
Meredith

PS: I just love that apple so had to use it again ... hey maybe we could have an apple "carving of the design" as a challenge at the retreat LOL

big title challenge - Judy

Hi Amanda, 


I got all keen when i saw the new challenge of so what!! as I
have had these chipboard letters 4ever and never been able 2 use them as
they were sooo big-aha they were just the ideal thing 4 this layoutand this
photo was soo right 4 it. 


I didn't have enough s's but as there are no rules
in scrapbooking ...I used the Z instead. I sanded right around the edge of
the red paper butit needed a border and the only thing I had was the
packaging from some protective sheets I got from k-mart and wall-a it was
the perfect colour as the letters hope u enjoy it.

Looks great Judy. Love the dymo (ive got a soft spot for it from way back!) and those chip letters are fabulous! Great photo and the layering + buttons is fabulous. Red, white and black are such a striking colour combo.


Thanks for joining in!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas #6 ...

Okay all those people with a heap of twine ... check out this very clever but easy idea ...

Head over to Elise Blaha's blog!!

seat and sleep mates...

Amanda's colour challenge - Sue

Finally finally i have completed this LO, it has been sitting on my work desk for the past week!! I had fun putting this one together and i chose to go with the lime green colour which is just a splash of colour with the kraft and touches of black. tis not often i get to scrap a photo of myself, but Rach did good getting this one (photo) of me with her little boys!
Thanks Amanda for this inspiring challenge!

Judy

Hi Amanda its Judy W once again and have some more layouts to go on
the blog. This one is of my eldest grandson Dawson and I used a negative
part of a used up letter sheet. I sanded all the colour off it and gave ot 2
coats of cream paint, so there is a way of using up what I would have
probably thrown away. 

This 1 I really loved because nearly every page I do I almost always have

2 sew something on it either by hand or machine, otherwise it doesn't feelright.  Tiff says it's my signature.

This one I got the idea from the internet but then did my own thing-all
the girls at Scrapworks loved all the details. I inked the gauze bandage
with a ink pad and made it look like grass and used felt and blanket
stitched around the edges 4 the clouds. Thanks 4 letting me share my work, u
just never know maybe I'll get enough courage 2 submit some b4 long Regards
Judy 

Wow Judy all these are fantastic. Love the detail in the count your blessings one. Looks fabulous on the fabric! Great idea using the negative of the lettering - i have often thought that i must try that too. It looks great and so effective!!


Awesome stitching on your love to sew layout. Wonderful bright colours! Makes me want to fire up my machine on some layouts!! Really amazing stuff.


So glad you could join in and post some of your brilliance Judy!! Thanks for the inspiration.

The "OH YEAH" challenge ...

check out this fabulous layout ...

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So my challenge to you all is to create a layout with a large out there title and a smaller photo as in the example ... can't wait to see what you come up with!! 

xx

Amanda's colour challenge - Meredith

So how about we get to business ... scrapbooking!! LOL

Here's my layout for Amanda's yellow, kraft and white combo!

A few helpful details for your planning ...

Hello again ...

I have emailed out payment details to everyone today.

For those needing to book flights ...



http://www.rex.com.au/

OR



http://www.qantas.com.au/travel/airlines/home/au/en

the retreat will open at 1200 (midday) again on the Friday 27th April 2012 ... (like this year)

and

finish at 3pm on Sunday 29th April 2012

Further finer details will be posted here and emailed as it gets closer.

Stay tuned also at a later point for class details (will be more like December for that)!!

e2c books out in record time!

It was a few minutes of complete madness at the Treloar home at midday on Monday 14th November, when scrapbook retreat co-ordinators Meredith Treloar and Sue Parsons received registrations to their nationally known getaway 'escape2create'. 75 seats were literally booked out within minutes resulting in iPhone meltdown.

Australian internet provider, Bigpond, has launched an official investigation into the sudden popularity of the e2c contact address. 'I can't believe paper and glue could be so popular' said a Bigpond spokesperson.

Registrations were taken from all over Australia, which proves that these girls are onto a hit both locally and nationally. Such is the popularity of escape2create that many ladies hoping to secure a position spent the morning counting down the minutes until midday when registrations were open.

 'It was crazy' Ms Treloar stated after the event.

'I arrived a bit late,' said Ms Parsons, 'and poor Meredith was in a frenzy'

'We hope that the ladies understand that we try and be fair with our registrations, giving plenty of notice of the date and time, and offering three methods of registering attendance,' said Amanda Hall, another escape2create coordinator who was unfortunately unavailable to assist on that day.

'We would love to be able to accept every registration but space is an always an issue, and so it comes down to a 'first in / first served' type of situation,' Ms Hall said. 'Our reputation has grown and so that time frame in which you can register is very, very short. The time it takes to book out seems to get quicker every year.'

It was even mentioned on the groups Facebook site that it was more nerve wreaking and difficult than getting tickets to a big name concert or rock band.

The retreat will be held at North Shields Lion Hostel on the 27th, 28th and 29th of April 2012. The theme will be 'homegrown' and focus on all things South Australian. Escape2create is a non profit retreat run by volunteers. E2C 2012 will be the fifth year that this very successful gathering has occurred.

Ms Treloar managing the telephone registrations

Ms Parsons taking a couple of calls

Ms Hall at work while registrations were taking place.

Hello ...

Hello everyone ...

well we beat last years record in booking out ...

I think I have emailed everyone who contacted me ...

If you haven't heard please get in touch with me ...

Email: john.treloar@bigpond.com OR text: 0429380250

It was a very hectic time so please forgive me if I have missed contacting you :-(

Meredith xx

Escape2Create registrations ...

Hello everyone ...

Please be patient with us ... we will let everyone know if they have or haven't got a spot as soon as possible.

The registrations via email and mobile phone and text made things very hectic and we need to make sure that we get it right :-)

Escape2Create 2012 ...

Proxy registration = you can send in to register for yourself and 1 other person.

Tomorrow at 1200 midday ...

I'll be looking forward to hearing from you ...

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I may not have quite so much makeup on though!! LOL!! 

Or any guys dancing around in the background!

But my support crew (Sue sitting with me and Amanda on the mobile waiting for text messages!!) will be at hand!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas #5 ...

Head over to Design Digitals ... they are having 30% off and Ali Edwards has some great designs ... check out her blog for an idea of the designs! Sale ends 16th November.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ... #4

An easy Christmas decoration idea ... found over at Kerri Bradford's blog

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ... #3

Tutorial

It uses a Spellbinders diecut but I think you could make it with out one ... just a bit of cutting by hand!!

or the video ...