MAY challenge

Our winner for APRIL was Kay Van Der Male from Tumut NSW.

Now on to the May Challenge.

That's different!!!
We want you to include LAYERING AND SOMETHING REFLECTIVE.eg foil, glitter, pearls, sequins etc this month.
Here's your chance to use up some of those scraps!

I'm providing the prize this month. It will be a mixed pack of die cuts, rubber stamps and pockets for scrapbooking.


Now on to the Design Team's ideas for you.

                                                                  LESLEY

                                                                           
                                                                  LIZ

                                                                       TRISH

 

MARY

 

 

 

 

CORALIE LIZZY CRUST

 

 

 

We would love to see what you can produce! It can be a layout, card ,canvas or even a tag so long as it fulfils the criteria of layering and something reflective.

Don't leave it until the last minute!

APRIL Challenge

Well, Easter is over and now we are ready for a new challenge!
Our winner last month was Toni Heron
Sally from Memory Maze will be sending you a prize shortly.

Now on to the new picture.
This is known as the domino building.

 

Our challenge this month is to use SPOTS.

That should give you plenty of scope!!!!

 

PLEASE NOTE ENTRIES THIS MONTH CLOSE ON APRIL 27TH at MIDNIGHT

 

We are sponsored again by MEMORY MAZE CHIPBOARD

Again, this is not the exact prize pack but I'm sure you will be delighted by your prize should you win.

 

 

We have a guest designer this month.
Jackie from the United Kingdom!
Here is her blog http://jackin-thebox.blogspot.com.au/

Here is her layout, love the spotted background on here.

 

Thank you Jackie!!

Here is the DT's inspiration.

Something has gone wonky with the photo sizing below, sorry!

 

 

LESLIE

 

MARY

TRISH

 

 

JAN (2 cards)

 

 

                                                                       LIZ HOCKING


                                            CORALIE LIZZY CRUST

Our March Challenge

Our MARCH challenge is based around this picture

 

We are asking you to USE GESSO OR TEXTURE PASTE and SOME YELLOW.

Your layout or card doesn't have to be all yellow, but we do need to see how this building influenced you, perhaps a shape or an image it evokes.

You may do a card, tag, layout etc.

Make sure you link your blog on the right hand side by March 31st.

Please don't leave it until the last minute.

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Our sponsor this month is Memory Maze chipboard.

The winner may not get this exact prize pack but it will be a generous bundle.

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Now for our DT's inspiration

 

LIZ HOCKING

 

TRISH

 

 CORALIE (LIZZY)

 

MARY

 

 

LESLIE

 

 

Julene 

 

 

 

Our winner for February is a tie between numbers 2 and 8.

This means Jackie will be our Guest designer next month and Toni Herron is our local prize winner.

 

February challenge

Tick tock, tick tock..................Can you guess our criteria this month?

Here is the photo. This is Sydney's General Post Office building, which is heritage listed.

Our criteria this month is to use a clock or clocks.
It can be in the photo or on the page somewhere or on your card.
We can't wait to see what you come up with.
Entries close on February 29th...I've organised an extra day in the calendar especially for this challenge!!!!

Our winner for JANUARY is Lizzy Hill.

Now on to the DT's ideas for you.

                                                    Julene

                                                    
                                                                                               
                                                      Mary


This is Mary's great grandmother.
                                                     Leslie




                                                Coralie Lizzy Crust


                                                                 Trish

                                                    Liz Hocking

The prize this month is another package from me.

There are ribbons, fibres, hearts and pockets & tags. Well worth entering to win!

 

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.
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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.