:)Tiff's answer to Challenge 3

Wow. I pulled this one together in record time for me.... and had fun. As you can see I turn the sketch upside down and worked with it that way.

Journaling says :

I just love this photo of myself. I am usually behind the camera and not in front of it so I don’t have many shots of me. The ones I do have, my dearly beloved takes for me with the kids and the focus is on them (of course). In this shot I feel sexy. I don’t know if it’s the half smile, my hair or the eyes but I love it. I usually hate photos of me but not this one. I am proud to say this is me. 10.11.07

Hope this doesn't sound too up myself because I definitely am not that way at all.

Amanda's page for challenge THREE

Heya girls :)





Hope all is well out there in blog land.





I have done a page on myself but didn't base it around the sketch - so kinda following the rules but kinda breaking them too (LOL typical!)





The main photo here is of Piper and the little one is of me.

also letting you know that i gave Maryanne and Sandra their prizes for challenge one tonight so hopefully we will see some amazing creations from their new bits!

Just adding here that i scraplifted this page from a girl called Tinkster whose page was awesome and inspiring!

get ready to laugh your butts off

OMG this page from Sandra absolutely cracked me up. It is for Tiff's challenge number THREE.

I love everything about it. The humour in the journalling is fantastic.

Journalling says -

I Am an Addict!
No...I am not addicted to
alcohol or drugs or even sex (excuse me?)
but to the escape2create blog!
I know it's an addiction because I
HAVE to check it EVERY day!

Thanks Sandra for a brilliant entry. Glad we could feed your addiction :) Now we will have to start up an Escape2Create Bloggers Anonymous group!

To share - My little Patch

I would like to share with you a LO that i did last week of my little patch, which i love. My little garden, which after some lovely rain was looking nice and refreshed. I love to get out into the garden after a rain, to dig and plant.

I just had to scrap it, and i used inspiration from a page that caught my eye in a creating Keepsakes - May 08. The colour of the duck egg blue and the red thickers got me in!!

Hope you like it too :)

a layout i thought might interest you all

I finally have gotten around to scrapping some photos of our retreat!!





i had to take a photo of it = the heart and pin really pop off the page so i cannot scan it properly without shadow and it looking crapola.

sorry have had to take it down as it has been accepted for publications YAY!

My inspiration came from a magazine's contents page - i just really liked how it was set out and thought that i could transfer that onto a page..... I changed a few things but really like the wide open spaces, even though there are three photos on here, journalling, a title and subtitle.

the journalling says -
45 scrappers
3 days
2 nights
5 scrap shops
1 venue
4 classes
1 photo talk
6 meals
44 new friends
7 pages done
3 hangovers

when can we do it again?

and before anyone asks - no i am not pregnant :) it was a freebie magazine from Kindy!

go scrap yourself

Hiya Scrappers. Well have I got a challange for you.

Let's put faces to names and scrap a page of yourself based on this sketch. Don't forget you can use the sketch in portrait mode, you can mirror it (turn it backwards), upside down, whatever. Use your imagination to suit the photo. ;) It's a bit hard to see but there is a journal card or something like it poking out the right hand side of the photo. The sketch is a bit fuzzy. (I thought it would load up better than this). If it helps email me to send you the sketch directly to you. katmfirth@bigpond.com

Sketch from littlescrapbookshop.com.au

The dimensions are 15cm x 30cm (6'x12') for the base page (good chance to use up some PP or Cardstock leftovers.) Use a photo size of your choice.

Try to use a recent photo of yourself (say in the last couple of years or so). If you dont have one this could be the excuse you need to set the camera on timer and grab some shots of yourself. Don't fret if you don't have the time, use a baby photo and we can try to guess who you are.

How to get my LO onto the blog? You have a couple of choices. Whatever is easier for you.

1. Take a photo of it. Lay the LO on the floor by a window in the morning light. Turn off your flash. Stand over it with your back to the window. Watch out for your feet and shadow. Line up the LO so it is square in the view finder and take your shot. email your jpeg file to ga.hall@bigpond.com for Amanda to load it up.

2. Scan your layout. This challange will be easy to scan at it will fit on an A4 scanner. Save as a jpeg file and email it to ga.hall@bigpond.com . For future LOs that are larger, scan it in 2 halves and stitch it together using a stitch program. If you don't have one send the two jpeg files in an email to Amanda and she can stitch it for you. (Thanks Amanda :) )

3. If you only have a camera phone that is just fine. Take your shot as describe in 1. and email it to Amanda.

Leave a comment if you would like when you have seen each LO when it's loaded up. Just click on the comment box on the bottom of each post. Don't forget to type your name or intitals into your comment before you click Anonymous otherwise we have no idea who you are. Or set up a blog/google account with the link and your sign on name and pic is done for you. :D

I reckon we will make the closing date a little bit extended on this one so you can have the chance of doing some self portraits and get them printed or developed. So let's say

midnight Friday June 6th.

So....... go scrap yourself

;)

will post a pic of the prize pack soon.... just have to get the camera.

The prize pack is donated from Scrapworkz in Port Lincoln. Big thanks Leonie :D

Winner of Challenge 2

Hello everyone!


Well we did a random draw of all the people who entered our challenge and the winner is ...

I would like to thank my able assistant, Rohan for his help. The first photo shows him smiling ... terrific smile, not!! He did feel very important doing this job though!!

So Karen a prize will be winging its way to you soon. Congratulations!!

Now I know that Tiff has the next challenge ready to roll so without further adieu

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come on down Tiff!!

I hope that we can have more entries for challenge 3 - we were pleased with the number this time so keep on scrapping girls. Thank you too for the feedback about how much you are enjoying the challenges.

A little hint for the next challenge ... see Karen's entry into challenge 2!!

val's fault

Ok this is Shaz's entry for the last challenge which Shaz completed well in advance of last night's deadline.

Unfortunately her internet is down so she passed it onto Val to pass onto me....and well being human we all got busy and forget.

So here is Shaz's fabulous entry - not really late in the making but late in the getting to me. I thought that we could still pass it on through as she has done such a brilliant effort.

Thanks Shaz!!!

Be sure to leave comments visitors..........we honestly feel like we are talking to ourselves (apart from great feedback from Maryanne and Sandra - thanks girls for being so encouraging!)

Challenge 2 closing soon

Well hello everybody ;-)

This challenge will finish in one hour and then tomorrow we'll put the names in a hat and draw out a winner for our mystery prize!!

Stayed tuned for the winner!!

Then I think it is Tiff or Amanda or Sue's challenge time!! I have had a sneak chat with Tiff about her ideas and I reckon that they will be good to see!!

Paige's Page :)

Paige sent in her fantastic LO for the challenge. She said that the only camera she had was her phone camera - talk about committed!!!

She says -

"The stamp is my letters, they were done with paint on the brown paper and then cut out.

My brad is the lil silver heart in the top left hand corner.

The sticker is the flower, which i cut out of the paper behind the pic, then covered in Kindyglitz (i love that stuff =D).

I don't have rub-ons that fit with this lay out so i rubbed-on ink around the edge of the 12 x 12 piece of patterned paper, cheating i know. =P

The journalling reads -

I believe the sun should never set upon an argument,

I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands,

I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you,

I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do.

I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul,

I believe that family is worth more than money or gold,

I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair,

I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires.

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned,

I believe you can't appreciate real love 'til you've been burned,

I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side,

I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye.

which i took from the song affirmation by savage garden (thats written on the lil tag in the bottom right hand corner). I just picked out the ones that applied to me."

Thanks Paige - i too love that song and have thought that they were very 'scrappable' lyrics which often bring a tear to my eye. So true!

Thanks again for your phone entry!

still banging out butterflies

Found this metallic butterfly in a pack of a few in Beers Newsagency in Port Lincoln. How cool. They compliment bling so well, and I love bling.
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still digging butterflies

just finished this LO. Am tickled pink with it (no pun intended). Thought I'd post it so we don't always have only LO's relating to the challenges.



The butterflies came from my daughter's scrunchie. Shh...Don't tell her, I think she had forgotten that she even had it. They have a mother of pearl lusture to them and I find them so perfect in so many LOs. I hand sewed one onto a bloom. I found these gorgeous hat pins in the Birch habadashery section at Spotlight in Whyalla. Who ever is there next, I know Amanda and Meredith want some of these.



Just thought I'd share it with ya.

:)

Sandra's challenge creation

Wow - this heritage page is just awesome. I love how 'ancient' it looks but so elegant and classy. That paper is perfect for the photo (how beautiful is that photo by the way).

Also lovin' that white space Sandra ;)

Thanks girls for the encouragement and support. I am loving seeing all these interpretations and how creative you all are.

thanks for sharing.

Sue's Page

This photo of Jacob has been sitting in my pile of 'to do' for some time now, so the challenge was a quick inspirational way to get him into my 'album'! I just love that dear little face of his. He is now almost 3!!

On the page you will find, Cardstock, Patterned Paper, tag which has been stamped, labels, sticker - white lace & smile chip, rub-on- owl, heart brad and of course photo!

It is my first attempt of actually photographing a LO and sending it off - i cheated and sent to Amanda. Every little step is progress, they say!

Everyone's LO's are great!!

Sue

Challenge finish date

Hello again,

I think we will stop taking entries for the current challenge on Saturday 24th May 2008, at midnight.

Remember to e-mail them to the address at the top of the blog. Then Amanda can post them on the blog.

The prize ... yet to be decided!!

Challenge 2 layout

Hello again,

Well I have done a page for the challenge ... it's okay not thrilling though!! Sorry!!

The journaling reads "After seeing the TV show you decided to dress up! Very scary! April 2008".

2 pieces of patterned paper , 1 tag, 1 label (from the Dymo label maker!!), 1 stamp, 1 sticker (my title letter stickers!), 1 rubon, 1 brad, 1 photo.

Keep those entries coming ... it's great to see all the interpretations!

Keep them coming!!

Hello everyone!

Well what a great early response!! The layouts are beautiful.

It makes the blog more attractive having something other than writing to look at too!! ;-)

I have yet to do my layout for this challenge so maybe today ... the pressure is on hey!

HINT:

If you are using a journaling stamp ... stamp it on a scrap piece of paper (more than once if you need to) and try out your journaling before stamping on the actual layout.

Another HINT coming:
I will take photos to demonstrate this one so will catch you with it later!!

*challange 2 LO* and *butterfly kisses*

Hiya Scrappers.

I have finally done the promised 'butterfly kisses' LO. AND it was also my Challange 2 LO. Quite proud of myself.

Just to explain those who are new to the blog. I love love love this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh8o8LZQbC4 it makes my heart wrench and a lump (sob) in my throat. So I thought I would use this as an inspiration idea for myself and create a LO based on the lyrics. And butterflies are really in atm.

I had the idea for the photo from an article in Creating Keepsakes April 2008 edition pg 52. Basically keeping the aperture really narrow (high F stop number) and distance. This should keep everything you see in the view finder in focus.

I used the first two verses of the song on the left side of photo (these are the words that really got to me)

Journalling on the tag says :

after hearing the words to this beautiful song, I had a big cry. This is exactly Kym and Annie. I watched the clip on YouTube and cried again. Then I saw in a magazine how to play with aperture and distance and an idea flooded my mind. I knew how I wanted to scrap all this emotion. Also as butterflies are so hip at the moment, it all came together so easily. 11.5.08

two more entries for challenge TWO

woohoo.

Two early entries for challenge two...

Well done girls for getting this one done - it was quite a challenge as i found last night.

First in my inbox was the very clever Karen's LO. I love how she isn't afraid to use herself as her subject (as a lot of us are). She has left lovely amounts of 'negative' or 'white space' which is just a fancy way of saying 'blank spaces'.... True testimony that you dont have to jam pack every cm of your page with embellishments for it to look fantastic.

Next in is Maryanne's creative master peice! I love how she has used humour in the title (ewww at kissing that fish!!!) and again a great use of white space. That rubon that extends OVER the title looks amazing too - great effect! LOVING the non traditional size here too Maryanne (not 30 x 30 " ) Red pages just pop out at you and this great layout is no exception. Great eye candy :)

Thanks girls for your fantastic entries. I know Meredith will be stoked with your interest and support in keeping this blog alive. Tiff has also completed this challenge so stay tuned for hers to be uploaded.

Dont forget to comment and say hello!

amanda's interpretation of challenge 2

Please find on this -

brad

rubon

stamp

label (dymo)

cardstock

paper

tag

photo

optional elements (oopsie did two - ribbon and flower)

journalling says -

2007-2008

dad's special name for you