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build a calendar: november december–readers pages

We’ve got to the end of the challenge and end with our readers fun and fabulous pages for November and December.  Thank you to Lainie Takawe, Agnieszka Bellaidea, Amanda Taylor, Chantelle Huizenga and everyone else who contributed along the way. 

We hope you’ve enjoyed our calendar series.  The links to the sketches will stay on our sidebar till the new year and probably beyond as a resource if you want to create your own calendar at a later date. 

We’ll be back with more readers challenges in the new year – but starting soon we’ve got a Christmas season to concentrate on!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

build a calendar: november december

We’re at the end of our year! – and still it’s not too late to join our challenge, even if only for these last one or two sketches – we’d love to see them! 

Email them to us at aussiedt(at)iinet(dot)net(dot)au.  We’ll need pics of these final November and December pages by next Wednesday 21st November.

We can’t wait to see how you interpret this week’s sketches so that we can showcase what you create!  This week Suz Doyle and Leeann Pearce bring you their own individual designs.

 

 

 

 

Suz went with BasicGrey’s Soleil range to show off November, as its pale sunny colours softly whisper late spring/early summer hazy days to her.  She has layered the papers and then used a Crafters Workshop template to softly whitewash the sunburst onto the background before adding her photo and embellishments.

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Leeann was allocated Red no: 3 from the Tim Holtz Coredinations cardstock to use as her base for her December calendar page.  It’s such a festival time of year with family and friends. Leeann captured this photo of her daughter Jorja with a bright red sponge nose. It is the perfect photo to display on this calendar page. She then teamed it up with this collection from crate paper – snow day, brightly coloured pattern papers and Christmas chipboard shapes, adding a few hambly overlays for extra detail. And finish this page off by hand stitching a border.

 

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build a calendar september october: readers pages

More fabulous variety from our readers for this weeks calendar challenge.  The last months are coming soon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

build a calendar: september october

Welcome to September and October in our calendar series.  It’s not too late to join in our challenge using the sketches created by our design team.

As each of our design team members has their own special style, it will enable you to explore a wealth of different sketches and techniques.  We’ll be awarding random prize packs over the weeks for entries we receive! You don’t need to use the same products as our pages, but if we show them on the blog we would prefer to product to be from Aussie Scrap Source suppliers.

So – get scrapping and email them to us at aussiedt(at)iinet(dot)net(dot)au.  We’ll need pics of your own September and october pages by next Wednesday 14th November.

We can’t wait to see how you interpret the sketches so that we can showcase what you create!  This week Lou Nelson and Carole Janson bring you their own very individual designs.

 

 

 

 

Louise N has kept her style simple and fun for the September calendar page. With this layout the 'sketch can be flipped and used in different orientations, and include more than one photo. Louise has used the wonderful Memory Box leaf cutting die to cut out leaf shapes to compliment her photo and the season of September.
For something a little different Louise has used the Jenni Bowlin Studio die cut paper as a template to cut out the first letter of her month title from patterned card stock.

 

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Carole could not resist "Happy Haunting" by Graphic 45 for her Halloween Layout, all the gorgeous cartoon graphics created fun and detailed embellishments layered throughout the layout.

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build a calendar july and august: readers pages

Thanks to our readers this week we have another wonderful mix of sketch interpretations, and two more pages to add to our calendars or albums!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

build a calendar: july august

Welcome to May and June in our calendar series.  It’s not too late to join in our challenge using the sketches created by our design team.

As each of our design team members has their own special style, it will enable you to explore a wealth of different sketches and techniques.  We’ll be awarding random prize packs over the weeks for entries we receive! You don’t need to use the same products as our pages, but if we show them on the blog we would prefer to product to be from Aussie Scrap Source suppliers.

So – get scrapping and email them to us at aussiedt(at)iinet(dot)net(dot)au.  We’ll need pics of your own July and August pages by next Wednesday 7th November.

We can’t wait to see how you interpret the sketches so that we can showcase what you create!  This week Nic Howard and Iris Babao Uy bring you their own very individual designs.

 

 

Nic has always loved blue-greens so it was easy for her to love more than one shade of the Tim Holtz Kraft core range.  The colours went beautifully with papers from several manufacturers including the ones featured by Teresa Collins Designs and Prima. Nic had fun including all sorts of shapes and designs in this layout, from the sharp lines of her layers to the doilies, arrows and Prima flowers. Texture paste is one of Nic’s favourite new discoveries and paired with a Prima mask, some gorgeous Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and finally a cute puppy pic and Nic has July all wrapped up.

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Former Prima Flower Girl Iris Uy definitely went back to her roots when she created this calendar page using beautiful products from Prima Marketing. She combined paper, wood, metal, fabric, and acrylic mediums for this vibrant page. She even used the flower packaging as a base for her photo.

 

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build a calendar may and june: readers pages

It’s so fun to see so many different interpretations of a sketch, and the innovation in these pages is so fabulous.  Thanks to all our contributors this week – we’ve hit the halfway mark and we hope you’re happy with the pages you’re creating!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

build a calendar: may june

Welcome to May and June in our calendar series.  We’d love you to join in our challenge, using the sketches created by our design team.

As each of our design team members has their own special style, it will enable you to explore a wealth of different sketches and techniques.  We’ll be awarding random prize packs over the weeks for entries we receive! You don’t need to use the same products as our pages, but if we show them on the blog we would prefer to product to be from Aussie Scrap Source suppliers.

So – get scrapping and email them to us at aussiedt(at)iinet(dot)net(dot)au.  We’ll need pics of your own May and June pages by next Wednesday 31st October.

We can’t wait to see how you interpret the sketches so that we can showcase what you create!  This week Jilly van Iperen and Louise Williams bring you their own very individual designs.

 

 

Instead of using a photo as the main feature to her calendar page for May, Jill has cut out one of the stunning birds from the JBS range, coloured it and then added it to her page.  This could easily be replaced by a photo though (black and white would be stunning!).

By cutting 2" strips of the text papers and wetting them thoroughly and then scrunching them, Jill has added them to the top and bottom of her page and finished them off with some rich velvet ribbon.  Add some Studio Calico flowers painted in complementary colours and you have the gorgeous flowers of autumn falling across your page.

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Louise W used a combination of Graphic 45 papers along with a Prima clock face to illustrate the "moment in time" theme of the page. By fussing cutting flower elements as her embellishments, the whole page has a very co-ordinated look and the simple addition of the paint pen adds a pop of white against the blue and balances the colour in the title and clock face.

The border was created by cutting out a central square in the blue cardstock and distressing the edges before adhering both pieces onto a red piece of cardstock. With the edges distressed and slightly rolled, it allows a thin strip of colour to show through and ties in with the red in the photograph.

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build a calendar march and april: readers entries

Thanks to our readers who continue to create amazing pages for us to share this week.  It’s a big ask – two pages every week and we thank those who are joining in and keeping up!!

Remember it’s never too late to join in – if you can’t commit to a whole calendar, we’d love to see what you do with the sketches with differently themed pages too.  You might just win a randomly chosen prize pack for your efforts – we’ll announce our winners at the end of the series!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

build a calendar: march april

We’d love you to join in our calendar challenge, using the sketches created by our design team. 

As each of our design team members has their own special style, it will enable you to explore a wealth of different sketches and techniques.  We’ll be awarding random prize packs over the weeks for entries we receive! You don’t need to use the same products as our pages, but if we show them on the blog we would prefer to product to be from Aussie Scrap Source suppliers.

So – get scrapping and email them to us at aussiedt(at)iinet(dot)net(dot)au.  We’ll need pics of your own March and April pages by next Wednesday 24th October.

We can’t wait to see how you interpret the sketches and showcase what you create!  This week Stacy Young and Kim Arnold bring you their fabulous designs.

Stacey was given the No 11 Green Craft Core cardstock to work with for her March calendar piece.  It worked out perfectly as March is birthday month for her eldest son. She teamed the Echo Park Paper collection Everyday Eclectic with the cardstock to create this fun, vibrant page.

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Kim was allocated No 20 Brown cardstock to use for her calendar page for April.  She has chosen to highlight the warmth of this colour by using the beautiful Harvest Lane collection from Simple Stories.  There is very much a patchwork / homely feel to this range which Kim has accentuated by including a beautiful family quote drawing on the patchwork theme.

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build a calendar: january & february

It seems crazy, but the end of the year isn’t that far off (there’s less than 100 days til Christmas!) and we’re starting to think about next year.  We’ve challenged our design team to design a calendar, and we want to inspire and help you to create your own calendar as well.  This could be to hang in your own home, or make as a gift for a scrappy friend or a fabulous christmas present for a relative or proud grandparent.

So, each week for the next six weeks, we’re going to post layouts designed by our team for two months of 2013, along with a sketch to help you create your own page for each month.  To tie the pages together, we’ve used Core’dinations Tim Holtz Kraft Core cardstock as the base of each layout, but apart from that our design team has been free to use whatever Aussie product they like on their page. 

At the end of the six weeks, we’ll show you how to tie the whole thing together to create a fabulous hanging calendar.

We’d love you to join in our calendar challenge, using the sketches created by our design team.  You don’t need to use the same products as our pages, but if we show them on the blog we would prefer to product to be from Aussie Scrap Source suppliers.

As each of our design team members has their own special style, it will enable you to explore a wealth of different sketches and techniques.  Anyone who creates all 12 pages for their calendar and sends us images to share by the due date each week will receive a fabulous prize pack from us to start off the new scrapping year in style!

So – get scrapping and email them to us at aussiedt(at)iinet(dot)net(dot)au.  We’ll need pics of your own January and February pages by next Wednesday 17th October. 

We can’t wait to see how you interpret the sketches and showcase what you create!

 

 

 

 

Sue Tonga was allocated January, and had a yellow/mustard coloured cardstock to use as the base for her calendar page.  She decided that the Pink Paislee Portfolio collection was a perfect complement. 

Sue took the 'Amazing' paper and used a scalpel to cut out the middle sections from in between the doilies.  The result was a lovely, intricate pattern that made a beautiful feature for the page.  Sue added a punched circle to the centre of each doily and also stitched around each circle to add texture and colour.

Sue loves the new Heidi Swap memory files and has utilised one on her page.  They are not only a great design feature but can be used for additional photos and journaling.

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COR-TH-KC06 Tim Holtz – Kraft Core No.6 PINK-00755 Portfolio – Remarkable PINK-00756 Portfolio – Amazing PINK-00757 Portfolio – Incredible PINK-00760 Portfolio – Unbelievable PINK-00765 Portfolio – Ephemera PINK-00741 Heidi Swapp - Vintage Chic - Memory Files MME-ST-1070 The Sweetest Thing – Bluebell ‘Bright’ Blossom  TAT-GM167 Spring 2011 - Trunk Bay AC-TH-53162 Thickers - Printed Chipboard - Forest: Vanilla

 

 

 

 

 

Danielle has created a warm summery feel for her February page, using a deep orange Core’dinations cardstock base.  She has combined Studio Calico’s Heyday range with the sunshiney BasicGrey Soleil and has managed to tie a lot of different eclectic elements together softened with the use of translucent washi tape.  Though this page looks quite free and random, you can can see by the sketch she has actually based her layout on solid design principles.

 

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COR-TH-KC07 Tim Holtz - Kraft Core No.7 BLVD-CC-247 Ciao Chip Alphas – Orange  STU-HD-330041 Heyday - Crush 12x12 d/sided paper STU-HD-330038 Heyday - Jubilant 12x12 d/sided paper STU-CL-331115 Classic Calico 3 - Mistable Thicker Shapes – Feathers WPG-SP-TM9816 Sunday Picnic - Trim Card PRM-548803 Love Note Collection - Melody approx 1.25-3" 12/pk EPP-EE-33014 Everyday Eclectic - Element Stickers BGR-SOL-3928 Soleil - Alphabet Stickers BBP-AC-13208367 Apple Cider – Buttons HSP-DT-103 Decorative Washi Tape - Teal Hearts / Grey Doily / Yellow Grandma's Wallpaper 7GYP-EMB-17952 Collage Tape - Keys & Metro OCT-SW-SI-950 Sidewalks - Sprinkles