September Challenge

Our winner for August was Wendy O'Keefe.

 Your prize from Its and Bits craft supplies will arrive shortly.

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Our September challenge is based on this

A famous building by Gaudi in Spain.

The extra criteria is to use TEXTURE PASTE OR GESSO.

The ladies on the DT suggested funky, Halloween, underwater, a giant tree........perhaps you could use one of those ideas or another of your own.
Don't forget to link up your entry on the side.

Now here's what the DT have done
                                                           DALE

The inspiration pic screamed Halloween to me (pun intended). I had some photos that matched the colour scheme. I have taken some white gesso and added 5 different coloured paints to it. I got a stencil and then painted the different colours over the stencil down the right side of the right page and the left side of the left page. It was a 6x6 stencil so I had to do it twice on each page. I've used a lot more techniques as well. For more info and pics see my blog www.daleys-dailies.blogspot.com.

                                                                 JAN

I  have taken my inspiration from the oval shape of the windows and balcony's by using a Memory Maze Pebble Stencil with texture paste.

                                                                       TRISH

The Picture of the house reminded me of a haunted house, so i used the spider web die i had forgotten about,added some stickles for a cobweb feeling.

Also some liquid pearls for the drippy look,made it into a Halloween card.

 

Here is your prize for this month: A stamp set donated by DT member Jan

 

These will be for Australian entries only.

Overseas entrant winners will be invited to be our guest DT in November.

NOW what can you create?

We would love to see your interpretation of this fabulously textural building!

ANNOUNCING our newest Design Team member:

                                                LESLIE SMITH

I am a recently retired born-again believer, married to my high school sweetheart and living in the heartland, where we are busy creating a vision for our golden years while enjoying our grandbabies. We are truly blessed. 

I have been scrapbooking for well over 10 years and currently serve on the Counterfeit Kit Challenge blog design team and  have been published in an ebook.

 The inspiration photos on the Archiscraps challenge blog are really creative! I love the whole concept. Here is her blog:

http://lcsmithsaved-outofthemire.blogspot.com.au/

 

 

Are you Design Team material?

ARCHISCRAPS Challenge Blog is looking for new members to add to our current team. 

 

Your term would commence 1^st OCTOBER 2014 to end of FEBRUARY 2015 (inclusive)

 

You need to submit one layout each month using the inspiration photograph provided, comment on entries received and to vote for winners at the end of each month.

You should have an active blog and be prepared to promote Archiscraps where you can on other social media you may have. We have a private DT page on Facebook which you should be able to access.

International paper applications are welcome.

How to enter:-

Submit an entry for our August challenge.Starts August 1st. 

Email me a short Bio about yourself with your name, where you live and with link to your blog. 

julenem54@bigpond.com

Entries close 31st August- new team members will be notified on the 7th September .  If selected you must have a page ready for the October challenge on the 1st.

AUGUST CHALLENGE

Our winner for July was LIZ HOCKING again. Congratulations!
Since I started this in mid 2012,this is the first time we have had the same winner twice.

Now on to our AUGUST CHALLENGE.

Our kind sponsor this month is Merrilyn Jackson from
http://www.itsandbitscraftssupplies.com.au/store/index.php

And now here's your picture

The towers of the Grand masters in Rhodes Greece.
I have a friend who lives on Rhodes, so have been to this castle twice now.

The extra CRITERIA is CASTELLATION

It can be anywhere on your layout, but include in your description where it is.
Even if it is on your photo we would like it somewhere else as well to see your crafting skills.

Our guest designer this month is Mary Steinmetz and she has done 2 layouts for us

 

And here's the work from our DT.

 

JAN

I have used the gorgeous Heidi Swapp papers and banners as they matched this challenge perfectly 

 

DALE 

My inspiration came from the colours in the picture. I also chose the photos due to the interesting ceiling pattern and the fact that the building that houses the Museum looks a bit like a castle. My  castellation element is a Creative Memories rick rack at top left which I have had forever. I inked it using sepia ink and added my title stickers to it.

TRISH

My family went to China in 2012.

Lots of brickwork and turret type things on this page.

The old place my daughter was married in in Scotland ( Auchterarder House )had turrets aplenty.

You can see the building behind the couple my daughter and son in  law.

 

MOST IMPORTANT

Don't forget to apply for our D.T. this month.

See the above post for details and you must be a follower of our blog.

This month's challenge is part of the application.

Good Luck!

JULY Challenge

It seems as soon as I go away the universe works against me.
My sincere apologies to anyone who was trying to upload their entry for JUNE and couldn't get it to work.
Also many thanks to the D.T ,especially Dale and Jane for keeping us afloat.

Our winner is LIZ HOCKING and her Memory Maze chipboard is on its way there.
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Meanwhile here is the stimulus picture for JULY.

 

And the criteria is LAYERING.

You can interpret that any way you like so long as the layering is visible to us.

Perhaps you might do a layout featuring clusters of items arranged in layers.

Now here are the DT's contributions
                                                       TRISH

the colours on the paper remind me of the original photo.

I layered a Marianne die for my matting and there is a blue striped umbrella in the background of the photo.

My grandkids are in Spain right now.

                                                                                  JAN                                                                       

 

 

Inspiration I have drawn from the colours orange, teal and white, plus the scallops.
Additional criteria layers.  The card has 5 layers.

                                                                   DALE

 

I took my inspiration from the predominant colours of blue, white, green and orange. I liked the semicircle pattern on the large spire. By background paper picks this up nicely. The added criteria is layering. Firstly my photos have a Hotel that has a lot of interesting layers. Next I have layered papers and stickers.

I used an Imaginisce trees stamp which I have then coloured and fussy cut to create a little forest to match the theme of the page.

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Our prize this month(for Australian entries) is donated by me.
There is a mini accordion file, useful for storing smaller items, an Urban Lilly sugar cube, a travel border title and some jelly stickers.

 If you are from another country you will be asked to be our guest designer in September.

We would love to see your take on this challenge.
Please enter your work via the INLINKZ on the right hand side.

June entries here please

Hi everyone,

Julene is travelling at the moment. It seems that Inlinkz is not working correctly and I don't know how to fix it.

Can I suggest entries for June go in the comments section of this post? Just post a link to the actual blog post that has your Archiscraps entry in it.

Thanks everyone. Happy scrapping.

Dale

June challenge

for MAY .............. Shazza (Sharon Bishop)

and Mary Steinmetz will be a Guest Designer in August.
We had a tie this month.

Now the June challenge.

OUR JUNE CHALLENGE WILL CLOSE MIDNIGHT ON JULY 5TH.

This time we are going out to the garden with this picture

Wouldn't you love a green house like that?

THE EXTRA CRITERIA IS FRAMES

Our sponsor this month is Memory Maze chipboard

Now on to the Design Team's take on this picture
                                                         DALE

I have chosen to make my background the same grey woodgrain as the building.

Then I found some photos from a trip to the Bowling Alley in Sovereign Hill in Ballarat. The whole thing was made of wood. I wanted to use all brown tones with a touch of grey to match my photos. For the frame criteria I have used square frames made with square punches for my title.

 

                                                                   TRISH

 

OUR GUEST DESIGNER

Stephanie Papin

 

 

I was inspired by the colours ,pink, green, and wood.

I have also used different texture stamps (wood) to create my background.
 

LIBBY

 

I was inspired by the wood grain and lines from the inspiration photo... and used wood grain patterned paper for my background as well as lined pp and tiny strips below the photo, which also represent lines.  I started with a large frame for the background which was double matted, then framed the photo several times using various sizes.  The chipboard page title (above the photo) was framed with a metal tag also.  Sketch is Page Maps.

                                                                              JAN

 

Love the colours, white, teal and pink, reminded me of Heidi Swapp.
So I have used Heidi Swapp papers and embellishments and 2 frames

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So off you go and find those frames to create your layout.

Remember it doesn't have to feature a building, so long as it has frames on it

 

I'm heading off to Canada and Alaska for 3 weeks but will have lots of new architectural photos when I return.

Let's chip it

I'm on Counterfeit Kit Challenges DT.
This weekend we have been having a wonderful world of colour celebration for International Scrapbooking day.
One of the posts was about finding your colours from a photo.
She recommended a site named Let's chip it by Sherwin Williams, which is too useful to keep a secret.

You load in any photo and it picks up the colours you can use to scrap the photo.

Here is this month's Archiscraps photo done that way.
I thought it might help you


REMEMBER THE EXTRA CRITERIA IS MISTING.

Perhaps one of your mists comes in these colours.
I would never have dreamed of using green with this.