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pagemaps: the final!

First of all, congratulations to Hetty Hall (card), Tanya Tahir (single), and Hetty Hall (double) for most voted layouts of week 4.

 

 

Now we’re down to the final week, and here are the winners from each week.  Once again, please vote for your favourites in the side bar.  The winner of each category will receive a prize pack of fabulous goodies as well as Becky Fleck’s brand new book – PageMaps2.

Thank you so much to everyone who entered into the spirit of the competition!  We’ve been blown away each week by the quality and quality of everyone’s pages. 

 

Double Page Layouts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Single Page Layouts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cards

 

 

 

 

 

pagemaps: week 4 entries

Congratulations to Belinda Spencer (card), Anthea Peterson (single), Leeann Pearce (double) on their winning projects from Week 3.  And thank you so much to everyone who participated – we love having so many different interpretations.

Here are the final week’s entries – once again there’s just a wealth of inspiration and talent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good luck to everyone – please take the time to vote for your favourites in the sidebar and we’ll be back next week with our finalists!

pagemaps challenge: week 4 sketches

 

 

 

 

Janine loved this Page Maps sketch and followed the basic design quite closely, even cropping her photos to the same dimensions as advised on the sketch. Then she built on it with lots of little details, layers of hand-cut paper, mixed with Prima Felt Devines and flowers in browns, greens and blues to compliment her photos.

 

 

 

 

 

Working from a sketch is a great way to create a double page layout. It takes the hard work out of the designing process and gives you a good place to start with positioning your photos, papers and embellishments. Sue decided to use the Crate Paper Restoration range for her double page layout and found it really fun to work with. Sue loved using the die-cut papers as the base for both of the pages.

The chipboard embellishments from the Restoration collection are really quite lovely and although they are vintage themed, Sue shows that you can use them for any type of photo, not just older ones.

 

 

 

 

 

Caz has used BasicGrey Max & Whiskers to introduce her darling guide dog trainee pup in a scrapbook page.  She has converted the 12x12 beautifully to 8.5x11”.

 

 

 

 

Kathie wanted to base her family layout here on the happy yellow “Lace” patterned paper from Crate Paper’s Restoration collection. She’s stayed pretty true to the sketch; however rather than adopting the free-form butterfly trace in the sketch, she’s used embroidery floss (and a Crafters Workshop Dots all Around template) to create a circular shape to frame her family snapshots. This was more in keeping with the circular/continuous theme of family love, and family life.

Kathie’s applied distress inks and walnut stain liberally to further enhance the rich warm feel of the collection. She even stained the embroidery thread, then lifted and tore it back in places to reflect the shabby vintage feel of the products.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jane Clark and Suz Doyle have created a couple of different interpretations on Becky’s sketch card.  Jane has used Hambly doilies and Websters pages, wheras Suz has put Hambly and 7 Gypsies transparencies to work alongside Prima and her trusty & Gypsies stickers.

 

Email us your projects using any (or all!) of the above sketches to [email protected] for the fourth week of our Pagemaps Challenges.  Deadline is next Tuesday 9th November.  We can’t wait to see what you all come up with for our final week of sketches!

pagemaps challenge: week 3 entries

 

Congratulations to Rebecca Adams (double layout), Anna Koziarek (single layout) and Anne Jo Lexander (card) for the winning Week 2 entries. 

Here is the stunning line up for Week 3 – thanks so much to all who have contributed this week!  We love them all – but you have to choose!  So please vote for your favourites in the sidebar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pagemaps challenge: week 2 entries

Congratulations to the following who go into the final weeks draw to win a prize pack of goodies and Becky Fleck’s Pagemaps2:

Double layout – Megan Renfree

Single layout – Leanne Love

Card – Linda Langes

 

 

More wonderful entries this week – thank you all so much for entering into the spirit of the competition with Becky Fleck’s fabulous sketches.  Please vote for this weeks favourites in the sidebar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

colours and words week 13 - simple

 

 

At first Chris found this colour scheme quite challenging, then she remembered this photo of her husbands indoor cricket team and thought the colours could work together - well she was right! Chris has used We R Memory Keepers MVP range mostly on this layout as well as mixing in some Basic Grey Offbeat buttons. She also pulled out the old trick of 'if you can't find an alphabet in the colour you are after then hand cut it from cardstock.'

For the word prompt Chris has used 'simple' in her title and this is what her journalling says "Mens 2008/09 indoor cricket team. The team lost 8 games on the trot, but did win the vital games that put them into the Semi’s and then the final. The team they came up against in the final had beaten them quite convincingly during the season, but the boys pulled out their best game of the season when it counted. They thrashed em’!"

 

   

Blue, orange and green are three of Mel's favourite colours to scrap with, so given that this challenge included three of those colours, it was an easy choice for product. Mel chose to keep the page relatively simple as she wanted to use the layout as a front page for a camping album that she is working on at the moment. The chipboard buttons and diecuts are from the Crate Static range - such warm, rich colours and the buttons are easily added to the page with their adhesive backing.

The main title has been gently lifted off the page to add extra dimension and the hand stitching around the edge ties everything together and gives another texture to the page.
Keeping with the theme for the challenge, Mel included journaling (alongside the long colourful strip) talking about the simple pleasures of getting away in their camper as a family.

Congratulations to Tracey Henly for winning the poll with her excellent layout last week.  And now for our final week of Colours and Words we have three fabulous entries.  Thanks ladies!  Vote for your favourite in the sidebar. 

 

Sandra Wilkinson

 

Tracey Henly

 

Danielle Quarmby

colours and words week 12 – random

 

 

Jaimie has used a random photo and clustered random embellishments in her colour challenge page.

Random is a word that Caz hear alot in her house. Everything seems to be random to teenage girls these days. Caz decided to do another page for her 'book of lists'. She loves to collect quotes to use on layouts and these quotes are her all time favourites. They are printed out and sticky taped to her wall near her desk on scraps of paper but Caz felt that they needed a permanent record of their own.

They epitomize Caz in a way - a quote about jeans (her fav clothing), a quote about not accepting growing older, a quote about photography (her fav hobby) and a quote about being true to yourself (something she is always telling her kids).

Caz has noticed people using these random circle accents to decorate their pages lately and decided to have a go herself. She simply punched out 3 different sized circles, distressed the edges using her fingernail, stuck them on top of each other and added a button. Not high tech stuff but she was very happy with the result.

 

And now to some stunning pages from our readers – thank you ladies!

 

Alicia Redshaw

 

Janine Koczwara

 

Tracey Henly

 

Trina McClune

 

Sandra Wilkinson

 

And congratulations to Sandra Wilkinson for winning last weeks challenge.

 

Next week is the final one in this series – one for the boys perhaps!

colours and words: week 11

 

 

 

Steph found these colours really easy to work with, and the Basic Grey Lemonade range was perfect for this challenge. Bright pinks, greens, yellows and blues are showcased on this fun layout of her daughter Emma. She distressed all the edges with Heidi Swapp's Edge Distresser and then inked them in the gorgeous inks that Hero Arts distribute.

Steph added that home made touch with plenty of machine stitching and she made her own flowers and leaves using the new Aussie Scrap Source Cardstock. I think you will agree that they just finish off this lovely creation.

 

 

This colour challenge lent itself more to a girlie type layout, but Carole managed to sneak her son into the picture as well lol !!
The vibrancy of these colours was really beautiful and some of Carole's favourite colours, so she decided to make this layout more delicate and pretty, and utilise the use of pretty butterflies and other cute embellishments to match.

 

And now to your entries!  We thought this was a difficult colour palette – but your fabulous layouts make it look effortless.  Thanks so much to all who have participated.

 

  

Janine Kocswara

 

Jo Kinder

 

Trina McClune

 

Tracey Henly

 

 

Debbie Johnston

 

Sandra Wilkinson

 

 

Penny Ash

 

Congratulations to Jo Kinder for winning Week 10! Jo please email us with your details so we can send out your prize pack.

There’s only two more weeks to run with our colours and words competition and here they are…

 

Week 12 – Random.  Due Tuesday 8 September.

 

 

and finally – Week 13 – Simple.  Due 15 September.  Please email your layouts to [email protected] by these dates to be included in the blog post. 

colours and words: week 10

 

 

 

As soon as Nic saw this colour scheme she decided a nice mix of BasicGrey Wisteria and Porcelain would be perfect. Both have gorgeous green papers that would mix well with small amounts of the purple and blue to fit the colour scheme. Nic created her base with the BasicGrey papers, but decided to use a green decorative edge paper in the Little Yellow Bicycle Zinnia series to embellish down the right side. A small spray of a blue Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and the base was done.

NIc finished her layout by creating distressed circle flowers from the purple and blue in Wisteria, and a small flourish from Pink Paislee. The title was created with perfectly coloured Heidi Swapp cardstock stickers, (love them in the new booklet!) and a BasicGrey font sprayed with Juniper Glimmer Mist. Although this layout is predominantly green, it is the smaller touches of purple and blue that add contrast. Perfect for the colour scheme Nic was given!

 

 

Chris said she loved working with this colour scheme and thought of the SEI Bridgeport range straight away. She put the papers together with this photo of her daughter and her friends getting ready to go to school camp recently. The journalling explains that the friendships have been a bit more challenging this year, but that the group of girls always manage to work it out.

 

 

   

Jo Kinder

 

 

Tracey Henley

 

Trina McClune

 

Congratulations to Nina Granzien for winning last weeks poll with her beautiful layout.  Next week is a challenging one!  Email us at [email protected] by Tuesday 1 September to play.

colours and words: week 9

This colour combo has SEI and Heidi Swapp written all over it, according to Donna! It just screams pink lemonade, flowers, love hearts and whimsy...so that's exactly what Donna did with this beautiful colour palette. Here she has used Heidi Swapp's Lemonade Dots patterned paper as the inspiration for the layout paying particular attention to the large circles in the design. The circle design comcept is repeated throughout the layout with Luxe circle rubons, Hambley's overlay and SEI epoxy stickers.

The meaning behind the layout - which is just as important as the design concept - talks about Donna's realisation that her baby girl is growing up. The journalling reads:  "She fills my days with fun, laughter, frustration, joy & chaos, but above all, sheer happiness! We are nearing the day she will become a school girl & I'm afraid my happiness may fade - just a little. But, I guess it's all part of the job!"

 

Another journalling-based layout, this time from Suz, tells the story of when her daughter got a folded straw (sample shown on the layout!) stuck up her nose and she had to take her to the emergency department to have it removed. 

Suz admits she got a bit carried away with the colour palette side of this challenge, and completely forgot about the 'word' part. She was so happy to get a story in an album that she really wanted to be there, and afterwards realised that technically it actually had nothing - at all - to do with happiness. She couldn't even find a way to add it in as an afterthought.  Apart from the fact that her two children are her main focus and happiness on this earth, and she's completely happy with that being the case.  She’s hoping that counts?! 

Suz has used Aussie’s new textured cardstock as the basis to this layout and added some gorgeous BasicGrey elements from the new Lemonade range.

And now some beautiful contributions from our readers…  thanks to all of you – our regulars and some new faces - for participating!

 

 

Penny Ash

 

Janine Koscwara

 

 

 

Rachel Tucker

 

 

 

Anthea Peterson

 

Tracey Henley

 

 

Nina Granzien

 

A big congratulations to Janine Koscwara for winning our last weeks challenge with her stunning layout.  Email me Janine with your address so we can send out your prize!

 

This is our next weeks colour palette and word.  Please email your layouts to [email protected] by Tuesday 25 August.

week 8: colours and words – ready?!

 

 

 

Jaimie actually had a completely different project for this theme - however when her daughter came out wearing these very funky knee-high socks for school she knew this was a LO in the making! The beauty of the colour palette theme is that there is no limit to product and the amazing thing is just how many manufacturers go together. Jaimie has used a mix of Basic Grey wisteria and Eva as well as Pink Paislee and Hero Arts stamps with a little bit of Heidi Swapp.

The end result is a very cute girly page with the focus on her daughters emerging and very individual fashion sense. The theme word "Ready" has been used in the title as a play on the 'Ready or Not' catch cry.

 

Chris found that the new Little Yellow Bicycle Zinnia range went quite well with this colour chart and she also used a bit of Crate Paper Prudence and Luxe Simply Turquoise to bring in the other colours. Chris has recently had passport applications done for both her daughters, she used the out take photos for this layout and the prompt word 'ready' for part of her title.

And here’s our readers takes on this potentially tricky colour palette – thanks to all of you for your patience with this post!

 

 

Anthea Peterson

 

Jo Kinder

 

 

Lara Moss

 

 

Penny Ash

 

 

  

Agnus Kasprzak

 

Janine Koczwara

 

A big congratulations to Jo Kinder for winning last weeks layout!  Jo – please email me with your address so we can send you out some goodies.

 

Finally, our next colour palette is bright and pretty – we’d love to see what you do with this one!  Please email us at [email protected] by Wednesday 18 August with your layout.

 

colours and words: week 7

 

 

 

 

For this colour challenge Mel used a mix of Pink Paislee chipboard elements (Fetching) on a background sheet of We R Memory Keepers diecut (Anne). The mix of aquas and yellows worked perfectly with the colour guidelines and the title (believe) was included in with the journaling. Final touches were added by dressing up the chipboard a little with some Queen & Co rhinestones (Halloween) and a splash of machine stitching.

 

 

This was a colour palette that Nicole might have overlooked had it not been for this challenge. She hardly ever uses yellow yet was impressed by how it emphasised the subtle golden tones in her photograph.

The fresh colours were the perfect combination for this story about a cheeky note written by Nic's daughter Madeleine as to why she couldn't clean her bedroom. A row of eyelets in the gold colour laced with Heidi Swapp tulle balances the layout design nicely.

 

And now a big thank you to all our readers who participated in this week’s challenge – some regulars who we really appreciate joining in each week,  and some new faces which is exciting to see!  Here are their layouts – all are welcome to browse through them and vote for your favourite in the sidebar.

 

Ali Williams

 

 

Anthea Peterson

 

Debbie Johnston

 

 

Jo Kinder

 

Lara Moss

 

  

Lyndal Higgins

 

Penny Ash

 

 

Tanya Soutar

 

 

And finally a reminder for next week’s challenge – enjoy!  We can’t wait to see your entries.

colours and words: week 6

 

 

 

This was a more challenging variation on the pink and green palette than Suz was expecting though the slightly-off more tertiary colours were beautiful, they were harder to find examples of.  Lucky for her the gorgeous new SEI Mimosa provided the perfect cardstock backdrop and of course changing photos that didn’t rely on colour to black and white was a go-to solution.

Suz used few embellishments, but loves the new BasicGrey bling and handcut a Hambly leaf, and a combination of all-new Websters and Rose Moka alpha stickers worked wonderfully with the colour palette.

 

It's not often we see Nic use a lot of cardstock in her layouts, but this one, using Kraft cardstock, is perfect timing with the release of new Aussie Scrap Source textured cardstock in 75 colours. Nic paired the Kraft cardstock with Basicgrey Eva, carefully cutting patterns to create a delicate pattern across the layout.

The emphasis in this layout is definitely the story, with journaling printed directly on to the cardstock capturing memories of when Nic was a little girl.

A simple yet effective layout, using cardstock and one range of patterned paper. Finishing details include a Twiddleybitz butterfly, Rose Moka alphas and BasicGrey Bling.

   

This weeks contributors – thank you to all of you for hanging in there through school holidays and busy days…

 

Lara Moss

 

Agnus Kasprzak

 

Anthea Peterson

 

Nina Granzien

 

Julie Bode

 

 

 

We’re giving you an extra week to create with this beautiful colour palette – please email us at [email protected] with your entries by Tuesday 28th July.

 

Congratulations to Anthea Peterson for winning last weeks challenge.

colours and words: week five

 

 

Here's what Chris has to say about this layout: 'I took this photo of my daughter Annaliese and my nephew Jack enjoying a bit of poetry from my husband a few months ago and I've been wanting to put it down onto a layout and didn't really know how I wanted to the page to come together.

That's where these sorts of challenges are perfect. When I saw the word prompt was 'listen' I thought of this photo and worked a title around it. I used quite a few different pattern papers from Crate Paper and some more from SEI and a little bit of Scenic Route thrown in for good measure! With some Hero Arts flowers and a combination of Crate Paper and Little Yellow Bicycle alphabet stickers the layout came together wonderfully!'

 

Caz combines 2 different companies paper rages to get the colour scheme for this weeks challenge, Heidi Swapp's World Traveller and Dream Dining Room, and Basic Grey's Granola. She cut out a few heart shaped templates and then randomly cut the hearts from different papers that complimented each other. All the edges were inked with brown ink to give them uniformity.

This is probably not the first colour scheme she would have chosen for this picture of her daughter and one of the Disney Fairies in Disneyland but the neutral background lets the bright colours of the fairy stand out. The sentiment also seemed to fit exactly as even though Caz's daughter is starting High School next year, she is one of those children that likes to hang onto little pieces of her childhood, including her belief in fairies.

 

And thanks to those few readers who have found time over the school holidays to continue the challenge – not many but we love the different interpretations of the colour palette.

 

Anthea Peterson

 

 

Lara Moss

 

Penny Ash

Congratulations to Nina Granzien for winning last weeks challenge!  Prizes for the first four weeks will be sent out in the next few days.

 

And here’s next weeks colours – we’re looking forward to seeing what you do with this soft pretty palette.

colours and words – week four

 

 

 

 

Caz is not sure which threw her more, the unusual colour combination or the journaling prompt 'routine'. These gorgeous papers from the SEI Bridgeport range had the perfect blue and purple, then Caz cheated a little and added some of the lime to give it a lift. She snuck the 2 shades of yellow in using the Basic Grey letter stickers as the title.

Caz actually built the page before she even thought about the words, after all, she really has no set routine, she just gets in the car and drives the kids around, ALOT.  It wasn't until she sat down and wrote out what they did routinely every week that she realised it wasn't just random driving at all (and that she really shouldn’t worry that her kids don't get enough exercise, lol).

Caz downloaded a calendar page from the internet and changed the colour to match her layout then simply printed her journaling over the top.

 

This colour challenge was something that took Jaimie time to get her head around. It’s one thing to create projects using manufacturer product but to just go off colour alone was a little tricky. Jaimie liked the striking combination but felt in using so much 'bright' any photo or journaling might become lost so she teamed the palette with white which toned down the yellow and orange making the blues and dark purples pop. The journalling prompt was a word that is at the foundation of Jaimie’s world! Routine is something she lives by and could not survive her hectic life without. Jaimie journalled about her insane need to have everything running to schedule and how she relies on lists, diaries and plans to make her life run smoothly.

A photo of her daily diary complete with her much used highlighter pens gives focus to her journalling and her cute clusters of layered flowers, brads, circle cutouts and a very large but cute bird sticker add a touch of whimsy to Jaimie's page about her insane need for routine.

 

And now to our readers entries – some fabulous examples of colour schemes here.

 

Anthea Peterson

 

 

  

Cookie Aguilar

 

 

Julie Bode

 

 

Lara Moss

 

Moira Garton

 

Nina Granzien

 

 

   

Ronnie Simpson

 

Congratulations to Nina Granzien for winning Week 3 with her stunning layout.  Nina please email me with your address!

 

 

We’ve had great feedback on these challenges so we thought we’d keep it going another few weeks (and maybe another few after that!).  Here are the next four weeks colour palettes – we love to see you return each week and new readers are always welcome – pop in for just the one challenge if you like the colours -  or do the lot!

week five – deadline tuesday 7 july

 

week six – deadline tuesday 14 july

 

week seven – deadline tuesday 21 july

 

week eight – deadline tuesday 28 july

colours and words – week three

 

 

Warming up midwinter this week with this beautiful selection of reds and yellows…

 

For creating a layout specific to a colour scheme was a lot of fun, Carole loved the challenge and really enjoyed picking the right pattern papers to do the job. Carole chose Cosmo Cricket "Mr Campy", which created quite a delicate layout. The extreme reds and yellows to this colour combo, really highlights the blue of the photo.

Carole also used some Glimmer Mist "Pink Bubblegum" sprayed on the tree trunk to blend the colours into the layout.

 

 

Sometimes we need to just stop and enjoy the moment, as told in the journaling in this layout by Nic Howard. Nic had plenty of cute shots of her son from this one photoshoot and has been scrapbooking them with funny or sweet moments she wants to remember. She used a variety of papers and alphas in her layout from the Pink Paislee diecut base to the little embellishments cut from Scrapworks and Rose Moka papers, it all goes beautifully together to add to our challenge layouts this week.

And now, we share all the different moods and moments reflected with the same colour scheme in our readers entries this week.  Thank you to you all for your fabulous pages!

 

    

Wendy Smith

 

Agnus Kasprzak

 

Anthea Peterson

 

Bec Miller

 

 

Cookie Aguilar

 

Julie Bode

 

Karen Brierley

 

Lara Moss

 

    

Moira Garton

 

 

   

Nina Granzien

 

Ronnie Simpson

 

Finally – congratulations to Cookie (again!) for winning the popular vote for last week.  We also adored the sentimentality of Sandra Wilkinson’s layout so Sandra – email me with your address!  We’re sending you out a prize pack too!

And finally – next week…

A reminder that this is your colour palette and we need to have images of your layouts emailed to [email protected] by Wednesday 1 July.

colours and words: week 2

 

 

 

Initially Nicole wasn't sure how to approach this challenge as far as using the colour palette went, but once she'd settled on a main colour, being the green, found products matching the other colours as accents, the layout came together quickly.   Nic found that the restriction of using those four colours allowed her to focus more on the design and journalling rather than worrying about a colour scheme - particularly with a black and white photograph.

Nic often finds herself using up a lot of time trying to decide on a suitable colour scheme whereas that part was already chosen.  She emphasised the idea of "knowing" with the little owl stamp by Pink Paislee.

 

The hardest challenge for Mel was deciding on which products worked well with the colour chart, but once these were settled on, the layout itself came together very quickly. The Jenni Bowlin navy lined label die cut (12x12) was perfect to use as a backdrop, picking up the lovely rich navy tones in the chart and creating a nice crisp, white background for the photo and other embellishments/papers.

Mel also incorporated some Scenic Route papers (Ashville range), Jenni Bowlin crepe ribbon (just behind the title) and for the 'know that' subtitle, she used her favourite mini alphabet stamps, Hero Arts basic lowercase letters.

 

Using the leftover pieces of her Scenic Route Ashville patterned papers from the layout above and the last section of Jenni Bowlin navy lined die cut paper, Mel quickly put together a second layout for the colour challenge. By adding a mix of 8 photographs onto the left hand side of the page, it proved an easy way to use up excess supplies. Keeping with the 'know' theme, Mel hand stamped the word using Hero Arts basic lowercase letters and also added journaling down the strip in this fashion.

The page was completed by adding a title and floral embellishment (Pink Paislee Fetching chipboard elements).

 

And now thanks again to everyone who has entered this week – we’re loving your enthusiasm and wonderful inspiration.

 

Jenni Hudswell

 

Tammy Milborn

 

 

Anthea Peterson

 

Bec Miller

 

Cookie Aguilar

 

Julie Bode

 

Karen Brierley

 

 

Sandra Wilkinson

 

 

Lara Moss

 

 

Moira Garton

 

 

Nina Granzien

 

Ronnie Simpson

Congratulations to Cookie Aguilar for winning Week One Challenge with a stunning layout – Cookie please email us with your address so we can send out your prize pack!

And a reminder.. next week we’re brightening up these long winter days with this stunning colour palette!  Entries close next Tuesday 23rd June.

 

colours and words: week 1

 

We kick off the first week of our colours and words challenge this week, and have been thrilled at the response by our readers – thanks so much to everyone who has emailed – apparently we have helped to cure some scrappers block and even have entries already for all of the the first four weeks.  We love to see and share our readers stories – I hope they too bring inspiration to you.

 

The challenge to use the word 'unique' came just at the right time. Nic had recorded a very unique conversation with Abby just a few days prior and was thrilled at the chance to get it on a scrapbook layout.  Colour choices were already given - such a challenge but one that fell into place once Nic found a range of papers with most of the colours. Crate "Lillian' was the collection of choice, the layout starting with a die-cut paper and building from there.

The title is built from the new Rose Moka alphas, paired with some BasicGrey chip alphas. Butterflies are stamped from Pink Paislee clear stamps. Read the journaling and you'll see why Nic tried to include a 'goal post' image in her layout... or should that be 'gold post'?

 

Not a single piece of patterned paper was used in this layout, instead Suz built her page from a single piece of white cardstock, using Tim Holtz distress inks blending them with layered Tim and Heidi Swapp masks that she’s loving right now to create colour and pattern. 

She’s combined this with more Tim and Heidi – chipboard clocks and metals, as well as a touch of Tattered Angels Glimmer Glass to create the deeper brown accents.   The flowers are Grungeboard ones that she has also inked, and then blended with dimensional magic to create a shiny mottled effect.

Suz and Nic would like to point out that they both came by the same title quite independently!

 

And now we would like to thank our readers for their fabulous response to our first weeks challenge.  Have a wander through this gorgeous gallery, and vote for your favourite on the sidebar to the left.

Anthea

 

Bec Miller

 

 

Lara Moss

 

 

Moira Garton

 

 

Ronnie Simpson

 

Sandra Wilkinson

 

 

Cookie Aguilar – hidden talent all the way from the Philippines

 

 

Finally, a reminder of next weeks colours and words – please email them to us by Monday 15th June to be eligible to enter.

colours and words

 

we thought it was time for a new challenge series and so we’ve designed one that we hope will be a whole lot of fun.  it’s based on two of our design teams favourite challenge blogs – one little word and colour combos galore.  so, to help inspire us – and you – to scrap, each week for the next few months, we’re providing a colour palette, a word, weekly guest designers, and prizes!

the details: to play you need to include all four colours from the colour palette in any proportions you like. you can team the colour palette up with neutrals such as black white and kraft. 

obviously we prefer to see aussie scrap source brands (basicgrey, cosmo cricket, heidi swapp, hambly, sei, pink paislee, scenic route … see our list on the left – there’s heaps to choose from!) but it’s certainly not compulsory.  we just want to help inspire you to get scrapping, and challenges like this can make you look at your stash in a different way.

the word is a prompt to inspire your theme – it can be, but doesn’t have to be part of your title.

email your layouts to us at [email protected] by the specified deadlines for the challenges below.  we’ll share them in one big post, set up polls so you can vote for your favourites, and send out prize packs.  what could be easier?!

 

week one -  deadline monday 8th june

 

 

week two – deadline monday 15th june

 

 

week three – deadline monday 22nd june

 

 

week four – deadline monday 29th june

please feel free to leave a comment if you have any questions, let us know what you think, or even just to tell us that you’d love to play!

cherryArte Winners!

We are pleased to share with you the winning entries from the cherryArte competition. We had a tough time selecting the winners and would like to thank everyone for their entries. Prize packs will go out in the next few days. Congratulations to the winners and in fact to all of the entrants.