January Challenge

Happy New year everyone!
Welcome to another decade.

Our January challenge looks like this.

Your challenge is BE INSPIRED BY A FAIRY TALE.

We have had this topic before  but it is a popular one.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE.
From January onwards we will no longer accept digital layouts and all work and photos must be your own. (not borrowed pictures from the internet etc.)

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                                                                BUFFY

DALE

BARB

TRISH

JULENE

MITZI

LESLIE

Our winner for December was Leanne Sue Tin. Congratulations Leanne.

December challenge

Our DECEMBER CHALLENGE has nothing at all to do with Christmas.

Here's our picture

Your challenge this month is to use a zipper
AS you can see from the DT ideas ,there are many ways to use a zipper.

We have no sponsor this month but I will donate some Christmas craft items as a prize.

Here's our wonderful Design team ideas.

                                                            BARB

DALE

BUFFY

TRISH

JULENE

LESLIE

MITZI

Our winner for November is Aussie Annie

Congratulations!

Finally, on behalf of the team, I wish you a happy and blessed Christmas.

Be kind to each other!

November challenge.

November is the time for reflection. The end of the year is coming and what have we achieved?

Take a few minutes to dwell on the happy times before the mad rush to Christmas and New Year.

Perhaps you will have been somewhere near water where you will see pretty reflections like these two above in our picture.

Your challenge is to use Reflection in your layout,card,tag etc.

How you achieve this is up to you.

We are sponsored this month by Memory Maze chipboard.

Here's some examples of what you might achieve from our Design Team.

                                                              TRISH

                                                                   BUFFY

BARB

                                                                   JULENE

                                                                     LESLIE

                              The frame around the face is mirrored.

                                                                   DALE

A reflection on her exercise regime. Reflection can mean thoughts or ideas.

MITZI

Our winner for October is Debra Beer. Congratulations :)

October Challenge.

The October challenge is to use DISTRESSING on your layout/card/tag.

This can mean torn papers, inks, corrugated card, fabric scraps, etc.
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Our sponsor this month is Mystical Scrapbooks who are celebrating their 11th Birthday.
We are grateful to Donna for her continuing support.
http://www.mysticalscrapbooks.com.au/store/



Here's what the DT have done this month.

                                                      DALE

               

TRISH

 BUFFY

BARB

JULENE

MITZI

LESLIE

Our winner for September was Karen B.

September challenge.

Firstly thank you to Jackie for being our guest DT last month.

Our winner for August was Tracey Beer

Our September challenge is based around this

Helix park and the Kelpies.

Can you guess the challenge? It is an obvious one this month.

Use a horse somewhere on your layout

Our Design team have been busy as usual scrapping up some goodies.

Here are our ideas for you.

BUFFY

BARB

MITZI

DALE

TRISH

JULENE

LESLIE

(Another extravaganza)

This is a travellers notebook cover made from a canvas bank bag.

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We have a guest designer again this month. Kim Kendall is a scrapbooking friend who owns horses. The perfect combo for this challenge.

"I have been scrapping now for over 20 years and horses are something that I do scrap as my daughter and I have both been involved with them now for 50 plus years.

Horses are no different to people to scrap and the same principals apply.

I Hope you enjoy my LO's"

We are all looking forward to seeing your productions!

August musical challenge

This is the Country Music hall of fame in Nashville.

As you can see it is in the shape of a base.

These hints will give you a clue to our challenge this month.

                                          MUSICAL THEME

You can make anything featuring paper so long as it has a musical theme.

We are pleased to welcome a guest designer for this month, Jackie Edwards

Hi!  My name is Jackie Edwards and I live in Southend-on-Sea, Essex in the UK.

I am a widow but have a wonderful daughter and three beautiful grandchildren who are mostly the subjects of my layouts. 

I have been scrapping for over ten years now. I discovered scrapbooking when I was on holiday in America when my first Grandchild was about a year old and my style has changed many times over the years.  I am very lucky to have my own craft room and because I am now retired, I can scrap all day and not have to clear everything away!

I have always been involved with craft in some form – sewing, cross-stitch, cards, altered art (I love Tim Holtz!) but seem to return to scrapbooking every time.  My best buy a few years ago was my Craft Robo and this has helped me with titles and images on many occasions….I now have a Cameo too which means I can now cut 12x12 files!!

I very much enjoy entering challenges because they give me the starting point for a layout, whether it’s a sketch or other criteria……..although the end result doesn’t always reflect the original design or intention! LOL

I don’t know what I would do now if I didn’t scrap!!!

I was very pleased to be asked to be GDT this month and hope that my layout might give you some inspiration for this months challenge!

Here's Jackie's layout:

Here's our DT inspiration:
                                                         LESLIE
                                                      Altered LP.

                                                           BUFFY

                                                            BARB

                                                                      TRISH

                                                           JULENE

                                                                   
                                                                             DALE

                                                                              MITZI

Our winner for July is Leanne

Thanks again to Blossom Creations for sponsoring us during July.