May Challenge

 Happy Mother's Day to all the Mums and Grandmothers out there!

This month we want you to go on a flight of fancy.

Our picture is a door and window that dreamed of being a garden. It is Art Nouveau and probably in a museum somewhere.

Use fantasy creatures (not just fairies) or imaginary places or buildings in your work. 

Maybe you always wanted to live in a tree or a mushroom. Maybe you've been inspired by a fairy story from your youth. Are you a Harry Potter fan? There's lots of scope there to imagine things.

We are sponsored this month by Art Stacks.

Our winner for April is 

Here's the ideas from the DT . 

Firstly mine.

My daughter bought a pair of chucks sneakers in bright red sparkles. When I saw them,I immediately thought of the Wizard of Oz. From there came the blue gingham idea and as her toes pointed up in the photo, I thought I could do the layout as if Dorothy was looking down. 

The gingham became her dress which I trimmed with white ricrac. Next I cut tiny yellow rectangles to make the path. I hand drew the 3 characters and the town of Oz in the distance. (plus Toto.)

I added flowers in a variety of sizes and colours in the foreground. My title came back to the shoes and Dorothy saying "There's no place like home" Of course I used red sparkly letters.

                                                           EMMA

My 95 year old great aunty used to be "the fairy" when I was little. She would walk in the door and dip in her pockets then throw confetti everywhere. She would say the fairy is here.

Emma also made a fairy card 

                                                                        DALE

The photos on her background paper march this in the stimulus picture. Dale did a layout about Fantasy books.

                                                                          BUFFY

Blame it all on the unicorn. LOL

                                                                   TRISH

 Trish sprinkled around some fairy dust.

                                                                VICTORIA

Victoria was visited by Tinker Bell who left some magic on her page! 

This is a good topic and I hope you will join us. Its a good prize too,

April Challenge

 Our new challenge at Archiscraps for April is use lots of circles preferably in a pattern.

 This building might inspire you to be creative.

I thought of bubbles as one idea.

We have no sponsor this month so I'm sending a Kleer Keepers mini acrylic album, plus a set of Kaisercraft stamps as your prize.

Our winner for March is Donna O'Connell

Now let's look at what the Design Team have created .

                                                       VICTORIA

                                                           TRISH

                                                                    BUFFY

                                                      (pages in her art journal)

                                                                       DALE

                                                                JULENE

                                              

                                                                     EMMA

There's lots of ideas there. I hope you are inspired by this month's challenge. 

March 2026 challenge

 Do you ever feel like you need a more taxing challenge?  This month's challenge is for you!

Here is the ceiling in Westminster Abbey.

Use a repeating pattern.

WE are sponsored this month by Scrapbooking Delights

Our winner for February was

Here's the Design Team's lovely ideas.

                                                           DALE

Dale used a vine punch plus a patterned paper with a repeating motif.

                                                      EMMA

Emma used several chevrons in a repetitive rectangle pattern. The arches in her photo are also repeating.

                                                     VICTORIA

There are several repeating patterns on Victoria's layout about Thailand

                                                        JULENE

I used repeat stamping on the painted chipboard circle plus lined the flowers in a row. The antique lace is also a repeating pattern.

                                                        TRISH

Trish used repeating patterns on her borders plus the frame around her photo.

                                                       BUFFY

Repeated pattern background

                                                      MITZI

Stripes in the photo and 2 different striped papers.

February Challenge

 Happy February everyone. It is a short month so don't leave your challenge entry until the last minute!

Our sponsor this month is Mystical scrapbooking.

Here's the photo for this month.

Yes, it really is a building.

Can you guess the challenge?? I've made it an easy one. 

Include a dog somewhere on your entry

Here's a layout and card I made to get you started.

As it's Valentines Day this month perhaps you can include a dog on the card for your better half.

Now, here's the DT ideas.

                                                            EMMA

                                                             DALE

                                                                   

                                                                 BUFFY

                                                                     TRISH

                                       This layout features a dog we used previously in a challenge.           

                                                                VICTORIA

                                                                  JULENE

Well, that's it for another month. Our winner for January is Maureen.

January challenge

 Another year has passed us by and we start 2026.

Welcome back to Archiscraps and hope to see you join in more this year.

Our challenge for January is based on this picture.

I took it in Porta Vallarta on my recent travels. It was on top of an old church bell tower.

Your challenge is to USE A CROWN

The crown can be in your photo or added to your layout and card in some way.

Here are a few of my ideas.

Our winner for December is

The prize for January is a handy selection of embellishments.

Now here are our DT ideas.

                                                                 JULENE

                                                                  TRISH

                                                                       VICTORIA

                                                                        BUFFY

                                                           

                                                                 DALE

                                                           MITZI

December Challenge

 Our December challenge is to put a fancy border around your work.

Use a bordered paper or chipboard etc to centre your photo. Make it as attractive as you want. Must be totally surrounding centre picture or whatever (stamp, decoration etc)

Here's some ideas.

Our winner for November is Heather

The December Prize this frame. plus some other scrapping items.

It can be cleverly roken up into several components Each butterfly and leaf separately as well as the circular swirl.

                                            Here are our Design Team examples.

                                                        Julene

                                                             Trish

                                                                        Victoria

                                                                     Buffy