Important message for our followers

Changes from Google

In the past week many bloggers have noticed a decline in their followers. Below is the reason why this is happening.

If you follow my blog through another search engine you will no longer see it in your feeds. If you want to continue to follow my blog then you must have a google account. 

Its unfortunate this is happening as I personally don't like these types of changes but there's not much we can do about it.

Please read below about the change and I encourage bloggers to post it as well.

FROM GOOGLE:

Changes to Blogger's Google Friend Connect

Blogger has made some big changes to

how we follow blogs

so read on to see

if these new rules will affect you!

From Google: We announced the retirement of Google Friend Connect for all non-Blogger sites. We made an exception for Blogger to give readers an easy way to follow blogs using a variety of accounts. Yet over time, we’ve seen that most people sign into Friend Connect with a Google Account. So, in an effort to streamline, in the next few weeks we’ll be making some changes that will eventually require readers to have a Google Account to sign into Friend Connect and follow blogs.

As part of the plan starting the week of Jan.11th, 2016 we’ll remove the ability for people with Twitter, Yahoo, Orkut or other OpenId providers to sign in to Google Friend Connect and follow blogs. At the same time, we’ll remove non-Google Account profiles so you may see a decrease in your blog follower count.

We encourage you to tell affected readers (perhaps via a blog post), that if they use a non-Google account to follow your blog, they need to sign up for a Google Account, and re-follow your blog. With a Google Account, they’ll get blogs added to their Reading List, making it easier for them to see the latest posts and activity of the blogs they follow.

We know how important followers are to all bloggers, but we believe this change will improve the experience for both you and your readers.

January Archiscraps challenge

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We are starting our 7th year at ARCHISCRAPS which is quite an achievement.

And to start off 2016 we welcome Mary Bennetts, Coralie Lizzy Crust and  Liz Hocking to our team.

Congratulations to Emma Farley who is our winner for December.

Our picture this month is one I'm sure you will recognise.

 

OUR CHALLENGE IS TO USE SOMETHING WITH WATER
This might be water colour paint, misting spritzes or any other wet medium.
Mixed media people should enjoy this challenge.
                                                                 ****************
Our guest DT this month is Karen Brierly

My name is Karen Brierley, and I live in a quiet, semi-rural area of southeast Queensland, Australia, with my husband and daughter.  We share our property with our pet dog and an assortment of ducks and chickens.  I've been scrapbooking for over 10 years; it's my "happy place" where I can indulge my creative side, record family memories, AND there are no rules!  I'd love you to visit my blog at beingkaren.blogspot.com

And here is her wonderful take on our challenge

I love all the misty blue splodges on the background.




                                                 NOW to the DT ladies ideas for you

                                                               TRISH
used watercolour for the dots on her peacock


                                                                        MARY
watery background


                                                                        JAN
watery background



                                                                      LIZZY(Coralie Lizzy Crust)
                                                                         watery mist on her flowers


                                                      LIZ
                                Gelatos on water colour paper with a little water


LESLIE
Used doiley as a mask with watercolour
 

                                                              JULENE
                                     Misting on journaling card and 3 chipboard circles


Our prize for this month is this gift pack featuring October Afternoon goodies.

 

December Challenge

December at Archiscraps. Where has that year gone?
Our winner for November was Mary Bennetts

 And now on to our new challenge.

I'm calling it the "Bling building".

And your challenge this month is TO USE BLING.
This can be rhinestones,glitter,pearls or anything sparkly.

Here are our DT layouts

                                                       Mary

                                                                Sharon

It is with regret that I say goodbye to these above 2 lovely ladies. Thank you for all your help.

                                                                              Jan

                                                                               Regina

                                                                            
                                                                          LESLIE

                                                             Trish

 

Here's the prize for this month.

lots of sparkle for those post Christmas layouts.

 

 *note - If you are playing along using Flickr the team will no longer be leaving comments, due to changes in Flickr policies and passwords.  However, we will be checking out your entries for sure and you are definitely eligible for the prize draw. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

November Challenge

Our winner for last month was Bridget Blake.
Please contact me and your prize will be sent out to you.

The November challenge is based on this picture.
Cute eh?

 

The theme for this month's challenge is TRANSPORT.
We are leaving it very wide so it can be anything transport related,even a pair of feet or a vintage transport picture.
Entries need to be linked up at the side by NOVEMBER 30th.

Our Guest DT this month is SALLA PORRA (winner of September's challenge)
Her blog link is http://pistojapiiri.blogspot.com/
Here is her photo then her layout.

 

Now let's see what the girls have produced.


                                                      JAN


                                                                SHARON


                                                               MARY


                                                                   SHARON

                                                                           LESLIE

                                                                        TRISH

                          
  AND YOUR PRIZE
   is a bag of silver embellishments ,a Molossi chipboard and a Christmas rubber stamp set from MME.                                  

So let's see what you can produce for this very easy theme.

October Challenge

Our winner from SEPTEMBER is Debi Clark
Congratulations! Your mini album will be sent out to you soon.

The challenge picture for OCTOBER is this one.

 

It is part of a roof feature by Gaudi, in Spain.
My first thought was ice cream but as it is difficult to do scrapbooking with ice cream, we want you to USE MOSAICS OR CRACKLE.
This could be cut squares, serendipity squares,in fact any type of mosaic!

Here's what the team have produced.
                                                              TRISH

 

 

MARY

 

SHARON 

 

                                                                            JAN

                                                                    
                                                                         JULENE

                                                                           
                                                                       MAGGIE

 

REGINA

 

LESLIE

 

 So there you are, some great inspiration.
We would love to see what you can do with mosaics or crackle or both.
Our sponsor this month is MYSTICAL SCRAPBOOKING.

You will win a $15 chipboard and flower pack.

Mid month reminder

This is a reminder post to enter this month's challenge which I thought would be a popular one.
Layering is a great way to use up those scraps.
Here's what CHIP IT recommends....

Maybe those colours will inspire you.
You don't need to use this idea but I thought it might help.
REMEMBER we want layering or corrugated cardboard or both.

SEPTEMBER challenge

Hello everyone and a huge spring welcome (or fall in the case of Northern Hemisphere) to you.
I'm recently returned from a holiday and feeling refreshed.
Our August winner was Shazza Bishop.

The September prize is an 8x8 album by Creative Imaginations. It is travel themed.

Our photo this month is this one


and our challenge is to USE LAYERS and /or CORRUGATED CARDBOARD.
Remember it can be a layout or a card.

So start ripping into those cartons and find your co-ordinating scraps and get busy!!!!
Here is what out DT girls have come up with.

                                                        REGINA


                                                                MARY


                                                             MAGGIE


                                                                   SHARON


                                                         TRISH


                                                      JAN


                                         
                                                      LESLIE