January Challenge

 Good morning and Happy new Year.

here's our challenge for this month.

The Crooked House is nestled in Himley, South Staffordshire.

It is known affectionately as “Britain’s wonkiest pub,” its distinctiveness stemmed from a 19th-century mining subsidence that left one side of the building lower than the other.

Your scrapbooking challenge is put something crooked on the page or scrap the whole page crooked.

We are sponsored by Art Stacks

Let's see what our Design team has done for this.

                                                                JULENE

                                                                     BUFFY

                                                                   TRISH

                                                                   VICTORIA

                                                                       DALE

             

                                                                  BARB

                                                                           

                                                                           

                                                                            MITZI

Our winner for December is Donna.

December Challenge

 Firstly, thank you to all of our sponsors and those who enter for your continued support. 

Secondly, wishing all of you the blessings of Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Our picture for December is this one.

Your challenge this month is Mixed Media-

 Use sprays inks, mists, paint, stamps, gelatos anything else you can think of to create your background.

Your prize is another bundle of Christmas items. It includes a mini album plus assorted papers etc to complete your project.

Our winner for last month was Kim Kendall.

Now let's look at how this challenge has inspired our team.

                                                        DALE

                                                           MITZI

                                        She used water colour crayons plus inks on her background which is textured.

                                                                    TRISH

                                         Trish used lots of sprays, mists and waxes on here.

                                                                VICTORIA

                                      She used sprays plus a beaded texture on her background and texture paste on her flowers.

                                                                      BUFFY

BARB

JULENE

Texture paste plus paint on my background plus stamping.

A white paint wash then stamping using bubble wrap dipped in gesso.

           Blowing black ink through a straw and dragging a black ink pad in layers across the middle.

                                                           Inking through a mask

                                             **********************************

So, go mad! make it as colourful and textured as you like!! 

November Challenge

 We have a colour challenge for November.

Here's our picture a nice place to live but you wouldn't want to be a sleepwalker.!

Someone pointed out you could dive straight into the ocean from there.

I've made a colour chart for this. YOU MUST USE ALL 4 COLOURS

Neutrals like black, white and Kraft are ok in small doses. 

                                           What you scrapbook is up to you.

                                   Now let's see what the Design Team ladies have for you.

                                                              VICTORIA

                                                                     TRISH

                                                                  JULENE

                                                                      DALE

                                                                 BUFFY

                                                                MITZI

                                                                 BARB

Our winner for October was Maureen Wood .Congratulations. 

October Challenge

 Well, here we are again with another month of scrapping.

We are sponsored kindly by Mystical scrapbooking.

Donna has closed her business but there are still bargains to be found here.

Mystical Scrapbooks | Channel your inner artist...

Our picture is this

Ignore the horse. Your challenge is to use lots of little photos.

Put your entries in this album on Facebook 

Here's some examples of mine. 

Wedding proofs are a good idea if you have them

or if you have small photos not large enough to use on a layout on their own, use a filmstrip or grid idea.

Let's see what the team have done

                                                                       BARB

                                                                           TRISH

                                                                            VICTORIA

                                   (She incorporated the arch window which is also in the picture. )

                                                                      BUFFY

                                                          (Here's the grid idea)

                                                                           

                                                                

                                                                     MITZI

Our winner for September is Karen Guy. Congratulations.

September challenge

 Our challenge for September is based on this picture.

It is Use lots of layers -use those scraps!

It always feels good to use smaller pieces of left over papers etc to create a stack of mats behind a photo or interesting textures on a card.

Enter here: (2) Archiscraps Community Group | Facebook

Our winner for August is Heather Bensley

We are not sponsored this month but there is a prize.

Here's our DT inspiration

                                                                        TRISH

                                                          Use layers on the skirt.

                                                                         DALE

                                                   A card used Layers with flowers.

                                                        

                                                                   BARB

                                                       Layout with toning layers

                                                                     

                                                                      VICTORIA

                                             (Used wood toned pieces to layer on her layout)

                                                           

                                                                       JULENE

                                                           7 layers behing the photos

BUFFY

We hope you will join in the fun. It is another easy challenge this month.