Scrapology

G is for Glitter

2012-03-01T08:00:00.005Z

This month we have chosen to scraplift this colourful, glittery layout by our very own, very talented, team member Anita.

Here is our sketch...

.... and here are the Design Team's layouts. Please click on their names to view their blogs.

LYNN

LINDA

KAREN

SANDRA

ALISON

LINDA

LYNN

ANITA

DEIRDRE

Our Guest designer this month is Katherine Sutton, better known as

SUTTY

please follow link to view Katherine's blog.

*** Thanks for creating this beautifully cute layout for us Sutty ***

Prize Time

This month Jill of Cardinal Colours is offering 10 stickles, so you can get really glittery on your cards and layouts! Prize available to UK residents.

Our grateful thanks as always to Jill, to this month's guest Sutty and Anita.

How I made my February page IIII

2012-02-28T08:00:00.000Z

Wow, we must have been inspired - 4 layouts between Lynn & I this month!

My second page is from a pad of 12x12 papers called Up & Away by Mindy Terasawa which I found while out shopping with Lynn.

They were just what I had been looking for to start a new project.

I cut some of the papers into the 3" squares as before and once I had inked the edges, stuck them onto a 12x12 cream sheet.

The papers included a sheet of assorted tags and an alphabet too.

I cut around the letters, inked the edges and added to the tags with 3d foam, then added the bunting with more 3d pads. I used bakers twine through the holes in the tags, looping it along the way.

Some of the papers are thermographically glittered as you can see below, just gorgeous!

I cut a round tag and added below the photograpgh which is 13x14cm and mounted onto the reverse of one of the papers.

A selection of buttons from my button box were threaded with the same twine and added.

And of couse, the random cross stitches onto the page.

There is still time to enter this months challenge too!

Thanks for looking.

xxx

How I made my February page III

2012-02-26T09:00:00.012Z

This is my second layout our February Challenge.

A reminder that the challenge was to scraplift this clever layout by SJ, it was a class she taught at the Cardinal Colours Retreat last year.

This is the Scrapology sketch

I used a pad of 8"x8" papers from Glitz Design called Love Games, which is the same as was used in SJ's original, but I picked out the black, white and red papers to go with my playing card theme.

I cut and inked 16 pieces 3" x 3" and arranged them onto a plain piece of 12" x12" cardstock.

Then I cut and inked four card game shapes from scraps of the patterned papers. and added these to four of the squares. I used the Sure Cuts A Lot programme for the Cricut.

I mounted the photo onto some dark grey cardstock and arranged onto the layout. I tucked two fans of four mini playing cards (from a cracker) into position as seen. I added some large cross stitches in red DMC thread. Lastly I added the title using Lush black velvet letters.

The photo is my Dad back in the 1950's dressed up for a photo shoot with his friend.

Hop over to my blog A Moment in Time to see more information.

Thanks for looking and you still have until 5th March to enter this challenge.

March Sneak Peek

2012-02-25T19:00:00.016Z

A little peek at what we have in store for March's challenge.

Any idea what we have planned?

Pop back on Thursday 1st March when all will be revealed!

TFL

xxx

How I made my February page II

2012-02-20T08:00:00.002Z

I had so much fun making this page for the February Challenge.

I used a 6x6 paper pad from Merly Impressions called Bonjour by Kaisercraft.

You get 2 sheets of each design plus pages of elements and tags at the back, the picture doesn't really show the beauty of these pages, some are embossed and foiled.

With a sheet of natural cardstock as a base, I cut 16 squares of paper from the pad and arranged them on the page. As we had just been to Paris for a long weekend, the theme fit perfectly so I used images/words of the Eiffel Tower/Paris on the squares. The photograph was mounted onto a pink background and then random "X" stitches added with DMC thread.

I used a tag and cut out some butterflies to mount onto it.

This bottom square had a taller tower so I cut around it so it flowed onto the square above.

I cut out the bird and put him in the frame with 3d foam.

Back to my favourite torn roses for embellishment along with some leaves, stickled to make them icy to tie in with the photograph.

This is the pad I used.

Our Second Crop

2012-02-18T08:00:00.013Z

Well, February came and we had our second all day Scrapology crop.

A request had been made for a Sunday, so we obliged and after much preparation, shopping and organising, the day arrived.

Here are some of the pages made by the lovely ladies that attended (although some were a little shy to share) and there will be more to follow.

WENDY

MYSTIC MONKEY

LINDA C

ANN H

ADELA

SHARON O

A few pictures from the crop:

Preparations before the crop

Treats all round - everyone received a mug filled with goodies including hot chocolate, marshmallows and chocolate.

Linda made cupcakes for us all.

Our chef for the day - Robert. Thanks Robert - Lunch was super.

A great day was had by all, thanks for all the lovely feedback we have received, and here is to the next one!

Winner of January Card Challenge

2012-02-17T09:00:00.000Z

Ali at Crafty Ribbons has contacted us with her choice of winner for the January card challenge.

She says: "I would like to pick Krafty Karen. Her style is very plain and simple but elegant, the ribbon is a feature of the card, not just as an add on - perfect.
Good luck with the rest of your challenges."
Ali

Well done Karen!

Please email Ali at Crafty Ribbons and she will send you your prize of this super collection of 'Love is...' ribbons.

Many thanks to Ali.

Your cards for February

2012-02-16T12:56:00.005Z

First one in and very quick off the mark is:

CAROL

KYM

SUSIE

SUSIE (2)

KRAFTY KAREN

Check back to the original post for details of the challenge.

February Card Challenge - Crafty Purple Frog

2012-02-15T08:00:00.064Z

Our sponsor this month is Amy from The Crafy Purple Frog who says:

Introducing my world of digi decoupage sheet from the amazingly tallented Ching-Chou Kuik. I have been lucky enough that she has let me license her stunning art work to turn into beautiful decoupage to really wow who ever you give the card to.

The challenge is to use layers....

Here are the DT's cards, please click on their names to visit their blogs:

LINDA

SUE

LYNN

SANDRA

KAREN

DEIRDRE

LINDA

LYNN

Please email a link to your blog entry or email an image to the address in the sidebar.

Amy has kindly offered 3 sheets of your choice as a prize.

The challenge runs until 15th March so plenty of time to enter.

The challenge is open to card makers everywhere.

How I made my February Page

2012-02-10T09:00:00.004Z

Here is how I made my 'Christening Gown' layout for the February Challenge.

The challenge was to create a layout inspired by SJ's original and following our sketch.

I used:

1 Sheet plain Bazzill paper

Bazzill Cardstock in Tickled Pink, Sprout and Powder Blue

6 ½” x 6 ½” Paper Pad, Kaiser Craft Bonjour (24 sheets – 10 specialty Papers including 2 foil, 4 spot varnish and 4 die cuts).

DMC thread and needle

Cricut with Storybook and Mother’s Day Bouquet Cartridges
Perfect Pearls
4” x 6” photo

I selected the patterned papers I wanted to use for the background of the layout and cut 16 pieces 3” x 3”, inked the edges and stuck down to cover the plain 12” x 12” base paper.
Then I mounted the photo onto pink cardstock to make a mat and stuck this to the layout.

I decorated some of the squares with die cut shapes from the ‘Bonjour’ patterned paper book and some I cut myself using the Cricut and the Mother's Day Boutique Cartridge.

The flower was build from many layers of die cut flowers and leaves using the Mother’s Day Bouquet, the Cricut, and some 3 D foam pads. I inked the edges of each petal and shaped them with scissors and an embossing tool.

The lettering for title was cut from patterned papers - and a shadow from cardstock. (I used two sizes 1” and 1 ½” and the Storybook Cartridge).

I highlighted the letters with Glossy Accents, and decorated the flowers and other shapes with Perfect Pearls and Stickles.

I added some random cross stitches to link the squares here and there. To do this I made a few holes with a paper piercing tool and added stitches with a needle and DMC embroidery tread.

The journaling was added to a selection of journaling blocks from the ‘Bonjour’ patterned paper book.

Thanks for looking, please see the original post 'P is for Patchwork', posted on 1st February for more details of the challenge.

Winner of January Challenge

2012-02-06T08:00:00.002Z

Firstly, Thanks to everyone for taking part this month, it was a difficult decision, but, there has to be a winner and that person is.......

KATHY B

Congratulations Kathy, please contact us to claim your prize.

Thanks too to Jill of Cardinal Colours for yet again supplying a fabulous prize.

xxx

P is for Patchwork

2012-02-01T08:00:00.003Z

Welcome to the February Scrapology Challenge.

This month we are scraplifting this layout designed and created by SJ for the Cardinal Colours Retreat last autumn. We enjoyed creating this class layout and thought you would too, so this month our technique is to use your patterned (or plain) papers to create a patchwork background.

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S-J says:

"I am SJ, a mother of one and an illustrator. I am the creator of "Little Musings" Clear and digital stamps. I live in Bexhill by the sea (UK) with my husband and my dinosaur loving son. I can mostly be found with a pencil, camera or scrapping stuff in hand. I spend my days with my little boy and a brain full of nonsense, which I put down on paper whenever I can! My blog can be found here: http://www.scrappyfairy.blogspot/."

Here is our sketch:

Here are the layouts created by the Design Team. Please click on the names to visit their own blogs.

SANDRA

LINDA

LYNN

KAREN

ANITA

DEIRDRE

LYNN

ALISON

DEIRDRE

LINDA

Welcome to our guest designer for February - Claire Bell, known as

Silver Custard

on UKS

Take a look at Claire's Blog HERE

Create a layout using the patchwork technique and our sketch, using all the above layouts for inspiration. When your done comment below with a link to the actual post, on your blog where you have displayed your work. If you don't have a blog, drop us an email with the image attached (address in sidebar).

The competition runs until 5th March.

Prize available to UK entrants only, but if you are outside the UK and want to join in the fun please send us an image of your layout to include on the blog.

PRIZE TIME

Jill of Cardinal Colours has yet again offered a prize for this month's challenge.

Everything you need to create more patchwork cards and layouts:

An 8" x 8" Me and My Big Ideas - Destination Paris - Patterned Paper Pad

and a

3" Super Duper Square Punch

Good Luck!

Our thanks to Jill, SJ and Claire x

February Sneak Peek

2012-01-25T09:00:00.034Z

On the 1st February there will be a new challenge posted on Scrapology. For now here is a peek of what is to come. Can you guess what the design team have been up to?

Come back on 1st February to find out what the challenge and sketch will be.

Thanks for looking.

How I made my January page II

2012-01-20T08:00:00.001Z

I have had this set of Basic Grey papers, Eerie, for a long time now and never found the right photograpghs to scrap with them. Until now! We spent a few days at Disneyland Paris in November 2011 and our favourite ride is the Tower of Terror. The story goes that in 1939 an electrical storm hits the hotel and plunges guests and staff to their death. Everything remained in place as the rest of the guests and staff fled. We join a service elevator and are dropped over 13 storeys, leaving our seats as we plummet down and back up again. What a ride!!! Anyhow, back to the layout. I used the off-white web paper, cut it in half and stuck it to the top of 2 pieces of bazzill. The orange paper has rows of bats so I cut around their wings and stuck them halfway down. The base was created with the purple web page. Instead of using two large photographs on this layout, I found the script used to introduce the ride and printed it onto another of the patterned papers which looked aged. The key was taken from the photo frame which came with the official photographs, mad I know but when you see Robert's face, just had to be done!

This side concludes the narrative welcoming you back safely along with the official photographs and one that Robert took from the top of the ride overlooking the parks.

The semi circle was cut with a creative memories circle and blade, the letters are from the paper pack. The numbers were added to the inner ring on a different piece of the paper pack to represent the service elevator dial along with an arrow cut freehand. I added some "screw-head" brads either side.

This was our sketch for this month, the original layout by Stacey Hansen who's work can be found here.

You have until the 5th February to enter the challenge so why click on the challenge over on the right to see the original challenge page, see the other DT pages for inspiration, and get scrapping.

December Card Challenge - Winner

2012-01-18T11:46:00.000Z

Our lovely Sponsor Chrissy of Merly Impressions has chosen the winner....she said,

"Wow where did that month go lol.
The cards arelovely, I was torn between two of them but have decided that the card from AGAPANTHUS(Karen)
is the winner. I absolutely love the colours and the leaves - beautifuland very eye catching!!

Well done to Karen.

The scrapology blog is full of great inspiration."

Well done Karen!

Please contact us to claim your prize :)

Thanks to everyone else for taking part, check out our new challenge - hope to see you there.

Your Cards for January

2012-01-15T18:51:00.004Z

A very quick response from Susie with our first card for this month.

SUSIE

CAROL

EMILY

VICTORIA

KRAFTY KAREN

Will you be next?

See the original post for details of Ali from Crafty Ribbon's Love is... challenge.

January Card Challenge - Crafty Ribbons

2012-01-15T08:00:00.102Z

Welcome to the January Card Challenge.

Our sponsor for this month's challenge is Ali from Craft Ribbons.

The challenge is - Say it with Ribbons - create a 'Love Is...' card .... an ideal theme as Valentine's day falls next month at the end of this challenge.

Here are the DT's cards please click on the names to visit their blogs:

LINDA

SUE

LYNN

SANDRA

ANITA

SUE

KAREN

ALISON

LYNN

DEIRDRE

Our Guest designer:

CARIN

Ali has offered a prize of the 'Love Is...' set of all 16 ribbons featured by the DT.

The prize is available to UK residents only.

Please comment with a link yo your blog entry or email an image using the address in the sidebar.

Looking forward to seeing your cards.

Our thanks to Ali and Carin.

How I Made My January Page

2012-01-10T09:00:00.081Z

This is the double page I made for the 'T is for Texture' January challenge. I used photos of my family from Christmas 1998. Because the colours were so mixed I changed them all to sepia before printing them out.

This month we are scraplifting a layout by Stacey Hansen, called Life's a highway, from September 2011 Creating Keepsakes Magazine. We are challenging you to use lots of texture (or lumpy bits), make a double layout and lots of photographs.

Left hand page

Right hand page

I used:

2 sheets Red Bazzill cardstock

1 sheet Leapfrog Bazzill cardstock

1 sheet Salt Dotted Swiss Bazzill Cardstock

QuicKuts dies - Poinsettia, treelights, Lucy Alphabet

Creative Memories Large Circle Template

Technique Tuesday Cardstock Fundamentals

The patterned papers are American Crafts Christmas Dear Lizzy collection, Twinkling Tree, Gracious Gifts, Garland Greetings and Poinsettia and Pine.

Here is what I did:

Use the two pieces of red cardstock as a base for the double layout.

Cut two pieces of diagonal red white and green stripe, 4" x 12", use TT FUNdamental Postage Stamp template to draw pattern along the top of both pieces, just to mark where to cut, then using a small 5/8" circle punch cut notches in place. Stick these to each piece of red about 2" up from the bottom so the pattern runs right across both pages, leave top unstuck to allow for tucking circle and bracket in place later.

Use a medium sized 'Swanky Frame' TT FUNdamental shape as a template. With Leapfrog cardstock cut half a frame following the outside edge of this shape. Cut a piece from holly paper using the inner frame as a guide. Mount the holly paper on top of the green, and tuck this under the diagonal striped paper on the right side of the layout to the right of this piece, about 3" down from the top. Trim where this overlaps the side of the layout.

Cut about 3/4 of a circle using the outer edge of the CM template and the fine stripe paper. Cut the inner circle from the dotted Swiss cardstock. Mount white over stripe and cut down the centre. Mount half of this shape on each side of the layout so they meet in the middle. See sketch for placement, but this is also about 3" down from the top. This is also tucked under the diagonal striped paper, and all is stuck down. (However I wanted a little spare red cardstock for making flowers, so I gutted some from under where the circle is going to sit before sticking all down for this purpose!).

I ran a wide red grosgrain ribbon with a white stitch effect across the bottom of the diagonal striped paper, then added a 5mm green satin ribbon on top of this, with a green bow to the left side of the left page.

I matted all my photos in white and arranged them across the layout as in the sketch (roughly).

Then I dusted off the QuicKutz, which has been neglected since I acquired my Cricut! I got busy and cut 16 poinsettia petals and 16 leaves, arranging these in pairs to make 8 flowers. I curved the petals with the scissor blade and attached each pair together with a gold brad, these were added to the layout with a 3D foam pad. The leaves were added later, 2 to each flower. Then I cut lots of small tree bulbs and arranged in a garland along the top of the layout, each of these is raised on a tiny piece of 3D foam too.

Next I cut my title using Leapfrog cardstock and the Lucy Alphabet dies. I arranged these letters inside the white circle.

Thanks for looking.

If you want more details of this layout please see my blog.

For more details of this challenge please go back to the post titled 'T is for Texture' of 01/01/12 on this blog.

Winner of December Scraplift

2012-01-08T12:16:00.000Z

The results are in for December's 'F is for Filters' Challenge and the winner is

SILVER CUSTARD (Claire)

with this super detailed entry.

Congratulations to you Claire.

Please contact us so we can arrange for your prize to be sent off to you.

Just a quick reminder of that lovely prize of the Echo Park Merry Christmas Scrapbooking Kit from Cardinal Colours:

Thanks to Jill, Pamela Young the designer, Suzie Snail our guest designer and to all who entered the challenge.

We look forward to your textured double layout entries for January.

Your Scraplifts for January

2012-01-06T14:25:00.008Z

Our first entry for the January 'T' is for Testure challenge this adorable layout from:

KATHY G

JACKIE

SHARON O

SCRAPPY SARAH

KATHY B

SCATTYCHICK

MINI OWNER

KRAFTY KAREN

Looking forward to receiving more entries as the month goes on.

Please see the original challenge post for details.

T is for Texture

2012-01-01T09:00:00.159Z

This month we are challenging you to use texture on your layouts, while scraplifting this fun double layout by Stacey Hansen.

So to take part, use embossing, raised shapes, ribbons, brads, chipboard, fabrics - whatever you like to add lumpy bits to you page.

We found this layout in 'Bonus Sketches' in 'Creating Keepsakes' Magazine (September 2011 issue).

Stacey says about herself - "I am Stacey Hansen. A craft-tographer. That is right, pick a cake and I will decorate it, pick a wall and I will paint it, pick an embellishment and I will glue it down. Pick a craft and I will give it a whirl and then take pictures of the process. That is how I became a scrapbooker. My life in pictures, telling a story and what a fun filled story it is to tell. I am a wife of one amazing man, a mom of six adorable kiddos, and a friend to many. I am an Adoptive parent, Foster Parent, Biological Parent, Boo Boo Healer, Band Aid Administrator, with an official title of "MOM". I started scrapbooking before I really even knew other people scrapbooked too. About 16 years ago I had fun shaped scissors, crazy coloured markers, and my hobby began. That hobby became a passion and now I couldn't imagine doing it any other way. So many memories to be made, so many pictures to be taken, so many pages in the making."

Here is the sketch we modified slightly to fit in with our 'Scrapology' style!

Here are the design teams layouts for inspiration. Please click on the names to visit the members own blogs.

As these are double layouts they are best viewed in more detail on individual blogs.

LYNN

LINDA

KAREN

ANITA

SANDRA

SUE

ALISON

DEIRDRE

Our Guest this month is CARIN see her blog HERE - Life Love &Scrap

PRIZE TIME Jill of Cardinal Colours is offering a super prize again this month

This month it's one of each sheet of Bazzill Two Scoops - extra-special, 12×12, premium cardstock - not only does each sheet have a delicious sounding name, but offers two colours in one sheet.

This prize is a sheet of all 32 flavours including: Cherries Jubilee, Raspberry Parfait, Strawberry Cheesecake, Tutti Fruiti, Orange Sorbet, Irish Mint, Mountain Blackberry, Tin Roof, S’mores, Rocky Road, Cookies and Cream and more! I can't decide which is my favourite?

Two Scoops can be used as it is, or the second colour (shown along the strip with the bar code) can be revealed to create colour combinations that look delicious together. Try ripping or sanding to expose the colour underneath.

Bazzill have even added a choice of “sprinkles” on top. There are three simple, embossed textures to choose from, so pick your favourite: Dots, Flowers, or Cathedral Window.

For a chance to win a sheet of every colour in the Two Scoops line, make a double layout, using the sketch shown at the top of this post and use lots of texture in your work. Comment with a link to the post on they blog where your layout is featured or email us a photo (address in sidebar). Thanks and we hope you have fun with this challenge.

Our grateful thanks to Jill, Stacey, Carin and the whole DT.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Your Scraplifts for December

2011-12-28T21:00:00.007Z

Our first entry in this busy month of December is this pretty layout from:

SCATTY CHICK

SCRAPPY SARAH

SILVER CUSTARD

Please pop back to the original 'F is for Filter Papers' post for full details of this challenge and the prize. The challenge is open until 5th January.

Sneak Peek for January

2011-12-26T09:00:00.011Z

What do you think we have planned for next month?

Pop back on 1st January to find out what we have planned.

Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T09:00:00.173Z

Merry Christmas

from the

Scrapology Design Team
xxx

Here is a look back over the past 12 months to acknowledge all the wonderful help and support we have received from our Guest Designers and the designers we have scraplifted. We thank all those who have set challenges and provided prizes too. Thanks to all who follow, comment and take part in our challenges. We couldn't do it all without you!

Monthly Scraplift Challenges

December 2011 Card Challenge - Leaves
Chrissy from Merly Impresssions

December 2011 F is for Filter Paper
Designer - Pamela Young

November 2011 Cardmaking Challenge - House Mouse

Joanna Sheen

November 2011 F is for Fabric Flowers
Designer - Handmade Hannah

October 2011 Card Making Challenge - Eyelets

Sue - Doogle 007

October 2011 B is for Borders
Designer - Georgia Keays

September 2011 Card Challenge - Bunting

Sue of Craftwork Cards

September 2011 E is for Embossing
Designer - Kelly Goree

August 2011 Card Challenge - Landscapes

Babara Gray - Clarity Stamp

August 2011 R is for Ribbon
Designer - Ingrid G

July 2011 card Challenge - Anything but Square

SJ of Little Musings

July 2011 M is for Masks
Designer Liz Qualman

June 2011 Card Challenge - Sketch

Laura from That's Crafty

June 2011 M is for Machine Stitching
Designer - Cindy Tobey

May 2011 Card Challenge - Thanks

Zoe Pierson of Stampin' Up

May 2011 V is for Vine

Designer - Liberty Chance

April 2011 Card Challenge - Be Charming
Elaine of Quixotic Paperie

April 2011 B is for Bunting

Designer - Sarah Youde

March 2011 D is for Dimension
Designer - Gabrielle Polloco

February 2011 P is for Punching
Designer - Laura Buckingham

January 2011 D is for Double Page Layout
Designer - Jana Ewbank

Many thanks to all who entered our challenges and commented on the blog. Special thanks to all our 2011 Guest Designers and congratulations to all our Winners -

Liz, Jules, Becky, Allycat Krafty Karen, Scrappy Sarah, Scrapdolly, Suzanne, Virginia, Kathy R, Sandra, Sy, Elaina, Dot, Misteejay, Scattychick, Wendy, Wendy P, Helen and Em.

Merry Christmas from all the Design Team

Lynn, Linda, Anita, Karen, Deirdre, Alison, Jill, Sue and Sandra.

Winner - Raffle of Joanna Sheen Original Card

2011-12-21T11:31:00.000Z

You may recall our recent post offering the chance to win the original Joanna Sheen House Mouse card which was made for the November Card Challenge - see here.

Well, you will be pleased to hear that we raised £39.00 for the Ellenor Lions Organisation.

The winner of this fabulous prize is......

RITA

Rita, please contact us to claim your prize.

Thanks to everyone who took part.

How I Made My December Layout II

2011-12-20T09:00:00.015Z

This is my layout for the December challenge.

A reminder of December's choice of layout from Pamela Young and this pretty page created for Miss Fancy Pants on http://www.scrapbook.com/.

You are challenged to create a page using 'filters', These can be purchased from Fancy Pants, or you can create your own with coffee filter paper, tissue or other papers. They can be used as they are, or they can be coloured with mists or paints. They can be pleated, cut or scrunched. We are looking forward to seeing what you do with yours.

Here is the sketch for this month:

My page was made using a photo of my daughter, Emily taken when we visited our friend Frances in Devon back in August. She took us along to a charity garden party run by her WI friends. We had tea and cake in the beautiful garden and Frances even found has for us all to wear. We had a great afternoon, enjoying this very English occupation. For more details see HERE.

I used:

Coffee filter paper

Cosmic Shimmer Mists

Butcher's Twine

Perfect Pearls

Gems

Decorative eyelet

Prima letter stickers

Cosmo Cricket - Odds and Ends Collection - Remnant, Scraps, From A to Z, Sampler, trinkets. I have been waiting to use these papers for some time and they were perfect for this photo, the colours were ideal and the roses are a perfect march for those in the garden.

I took my coffee filter paper and sprayed it with Cosmic Shimmer mists in green and bronze. I left this to dry while cutting the patterned papers.

I chose the striped side of 'Sampler' as my background.

I cut a large circle from 'Remnant' using the roses side and the outer edge of the very large Creative Memories circle template. This was set overlapping the bottom and right side of the layout, then trimmed the edges level with the base page, but not stuck down yet.

I cut another circle from the red polka dot side of 'Fom A to Z' using the inside of the template. I cut this in half and took 1/4"of the straight side of each. I stuck these semi circles to a piece of 'Trinckets' about 1/2" apart and cut out leaving a border of about 1/2" around the outside. This was then mounted onto the 'Remnant' Circle. This also needs trimming where it overlaps the edge of the layout.

I chose and cut out the elements I wanted from 'Scraps' paper.

I added journalling to one, made a second into a tag (with a large flower eyelet and butcher's twine), and cut a third with a short quote. I set these aside and flipped the paper over to the green side. From here I cut a strip about 10" x 2" and trimmed this with a Marthar Stewart Border punch.

When the coffee filter papers were dry I cut one into 1" strips, pleated it ans stuck it to the edge of the largest circle of patterned paper to make a frilly edging. This could then be stuck to the layout, and the other circular pieces stuck in place on top. Attach the scalloped border about 1" up from the bottom of the page, about 2" in from the left.

Next I arranged my photos according to the sketch, and added the three elements cut from the 'Scraps' paper. I stuck these all in place when happy with the arrangement.

I used Linda's Tattered Flowers die and the Sizzix to cut a lot of flowers from the second filter paper and scrunched these up and smoothed them out again. Then I layered them up to make three flowers adding a gem to the centre of each. These were then arranged and stuck to the layout.

I added my title with the Prima letter stickers before adding more gems and some perfect pearls to decorate the elements already on the page.

Thank you for looking and do visit my blog for more details of my layout and the 'F is for Filter' post on this blog for more details of the challenge.

Winner of November Card Challenge - House Mouse

2011-12-18T19:56:00.000Z

And the winner is..................

Loud drum roll please........

AGAPANTHUS - KAREN

Well done Karen, such a unique design., please contact us for your prize.

Thanks to everyone for taking part and look forward to seeing you again for the December Challenge :)

Your Cards for December

2011-12-16T09:00:00.007Z

Well, how quick is this? A card entry all ready!!

This is from AGAPANTHUS (Karen)

inside

SCATTYCHICK

RITA

TRACIE PINK

(the following 8 cards)

KRAFTY KAREN

WENDY P

This challenge runs until 15th January. Please see original post for details of the challenge.

December Card Challenge

2011-12-15T08:00:00.005Z

Chrissy from Merly Impresssions is our card sponsor this month,

click here for her website.

Merly Impressions are the UK's largest specialist supplier of

Kaisercraft products. They stock hundreds of Beyond-the-Page items as

well as all the latest Kaisercraft collections and embellishments.

They also stock a large range of products from ScrapFX, Tim Holtz /

Ranger, WRMK and Cropper Hopper.

The challenge is to create a card using the theme of 'Leaves, leaf shapes & leaf colours' seeing as we are having a fab mild season.

Here are our lovely DT samples.

ALISON

SUE

KAREN

SANDRA

LYNN

ALISON

LINDA

ANITA

DEIRDRE

From Our Guest Designer

SUZANNE

The prize is this fabulous set from Kaisercrafts Cockadoodledoo range.

Closing date is the 15th January.

Open to UK residents only.

Our Thanks to Chrissy and Suzanne (our guest designer) for joining us this month.

Winner of the November Scraplift Challenge

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Handmade Hannah has chosen a winner for November ...........

.... and it's this super layout by HELEN (Crafts Imperfect)

Well done Helen, please contact us via the email (address in sidebar). We will get your lush ribbon prize in the post to you. Thanks to Jill of Cardinal Colours

Our thanks for this project also go to Hannah, Scrapdolly and the design team.

How I made my December page

2011-12-10T08:00:00.005Z

I used American Craft, Dear Lizzy Christmas papers to create my page along with 2 sheets of Navy cardstock.

I decided to use the Merry Mistletoe paper as the base for my page.

I cut a large circle with my creative memories Cutter and red blade from the blue cardstock.

The filter paper I had was too small to fit this circle so, I folded it into a cone shape, cut a scallop in the top, then cut it in half and re-positioned it so it fitted the inner circle.

It looked too white so I used Adirondack paint daubers very lightly around the edge.

Once I had decided on the position on the page, I cut two edges square.

Using the same large circle cutter, I cut two circles using the red blade followed by the blue one to create a ring of the red paper, then reversed it so the patterned silver side was uppermost.

I cut some of the pale green paper to the same size and covered half the circle. Once the edges were all inked I put these over the filter paper and cut the same angles on two edges and fixed all layers to the page.

My main photograph is approx. 5x5” mounted with a thin border onto the navy cardstock, the smaller photos are approx. 3x2” trimmed and mounted too.

I placed them onto the page then cut and layered the poinsettias from the Merry Memories paper between them. Glossy accents and gold stickles have been used in the centres, I tucked another flower under the edge of the filter papers.

I drew some pencil lines onto the pale aqua area and wrote my journaling – only a few lines. The pencil lines are easily erased once the ink has dried fully.

A strip of white ribbon creates a border along the bottom of the page to which I added a thinner red ribbon, a 1” strip of the silver patterned paper was added beneath the white as it was too sheer.

I felt it needed a little “extra” so I stitched along the edge of the blue circle which I felt finished it off.

Apologies for the paper daisies over the photographs, this is to protect the childs ID.

This is the original layout and our sketch.

F is for Filter Paper

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December brings us the scrapping skills of Pamela Young and this pretty page created for Miss Fancy Pants on http://www.scrapbook.com/.

We challenge you to create a page using 'filters', you can buy filters from Fancy Pants, or create your own with coffee filter paper, tissue or other papers. They can be used as they are, or they can be coloured with mists or paints. They can be pleated, cut, bunched or scrunched. We are looking forward to seeing what you do with yours.

Here is a useful tutorial on using filters from Cindy Tobey.

Here is the sketch for this month:

Here are a selection of inspirational ideas from the design team. Please click on the names to visit their blogs.

LYNN

SANDRA

KAREN

LINDA

ANITA

ALISON

DEIRDRE

Our guest designer this month is Suzanne Senn, better known as Suzysnail on UKS

Prize Time

Our lovely Jill from Cardinal Colours has donated an Echo Park Merry Christmas Collection Kit with coordinating cardstock.

Thanks to Jill, Pamela, Suzanne and all the DT members.

We are looking forward to seeing your scraplifts.

Please comment here with a link to your blog or send an email an image to the address in the side bar.

Your Cards for November - House Mouse

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Here is the post for displaying all the entries for the November Card Challenge featuring mice. The challenge runs until 15th December and we will announce the winner after this date.

The first to arrive is this creative card from:

AGAPANTHUS

SVIT

RITA

KRAFTY KAREN

For full details of the challenge and the prize please see November Card Challenge post from 15/11/11

The challenge runs until 15/12/11

Good Luck

December Sneak Peek

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A quick peek at some of the layouts the DT have made ready for December's challenge:

What do you think we have all been up to?

Check out the blog on 1st December to find see these layouts in all their glory.

Find out who we are scraplifting, who our guest is and what prize Jill is offering.

Would you like a Joanna Sheen Original Card?

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Joanna kindly sent us the original card she made for our November card challenge, signed.

Would you like the opportunity to win this fabulous card?

We are having a raffle, £2.00 per ticket with all proceeds going to the Ellenor Lions Hospice Charity,
for more information see here.

Contact us using the details in the sidebar for more information and to purchase one (or more) tickets.

Such a lovely prize and a very worth cause so, please, dig deep and have a go.

The raffle will close on the 16th December once the challenge has finished and the winner will be announced on this blog.

Bon chance!

Winner of the October Card Challenge

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The results are in for the winner of the October card challenge................

and the Winner with this super ribbon and eyelet Christmas card is..........

congratulations Em!

Please contact us by email to claim your prize.

Many thanks to Sue and Anita for the challenge and the prize.

How I made my November page II

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Novembers scraplift for Scrapology comes from Hannah Young whose blog can be found here.

These papers are from Fancy Pants Beach Babe collection:

Jumping Fish, Cards, Lemonade & Tropical.

I gutted the pink paper and added white bazzill then used the remaining pink to create a base for the photograph. I used two different Martha Stewart punches to create borders top and bottom.

Two 1" strips were added to the left hand side with torn edges at the base then a wider strip punched with another Martha Stewart deep edge punch.

I used one of the journalling blocks, cut out the circle and filled the space with another photograph and placed the cut-out below with my text. A further strip of punched lace was added below the main photograph.

I love these ribbon roses which are based on a tutorial on the Crafty Ribbons blog. The large rose used approximately 2.5m of seam binding ribbon with a 5cm circumference.

The leaves were cut on the Cricut by Lynn - Thanks :)

This is the smaller ribbon rose.

This is the original layout and sketch we worked from.

The challenge will run until the 5th December.

As usual there will be a fabulous prize for the winner.

November Card Challenge - House Mouse

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This month we are delighted to welcome Joanna Sheen and team on board as our sponsor.

Many of you will know Joanna, for those who don't:

Joanna has been running her craft company for over 30 years now and has been passionate about rubber stamping, decoupage and so many other forms of crafting for even longer. During those years she has taught in Japan, America, Australia and Europe and her pressed flower designs have been sold in Harrods and Fortnum and Masons and just before she moved over to full time papercraft, the pictures sold to Prince Charles for the Highgrove gift shop. Joanna’s website has videos and projects, samples and ideas to help everyone from beginner to more advanced learn about their hobby and enjoy cardmaking to the full!

So, onto the challenge, Joanna has asked us to make cards using the iconic House Mouse.

Don't worry if you don't have any, any mouse will do.

Here is Joanna's card

Here are the design team's cards, please click on the name to visit their blogs.

KAREN

LYNN

LINDA

SUE

LINDA

SUE

ALISON

SANDRA

ANITA

LYNN

SUE

LINDA

DEIRDRE

Last but not least two cards from our guest designer for November

SCRAPDOLLY

Using digital stamp image by Beary Wishes

The challenge finishes on the 15th December and the lucky winner will receive a £10.00 voucher from Joanna Sheen.

Prize available to UK residents only.

Winner of the October Scraplift Challenge

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.... And the results are in -

The winner of the October, B is for Borders challenge is ..................

HELEN (of craft imperfect)

Congratulations Helen!!

Please contact us by email to arrange for your prize to be sent to you. (Address in right-hand sidebar.)

Thanks to Jill of Cardinal Colours for this super prize.

Your Scraplifts for November

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Sorry for the delay in announcing the winner of the October challenge - we hope to pass on this information tomorrow.

Once again we have a nice new post for the scraplift entries for November and we start off with three lovely layouts (bit of a baby theme going on here!) from:

VICKY G

SUE (MINIOWNER)

KATHY G

MAY

WENDY P

HELEN

(CRAFTS IMPERFECT)

SCATTY CHICK

KRAFTY KAREN

MYSTIC MONKEY

Please refer to the original post 'F is for Fabric Flowers' for details of the competition, prize, sketch and examples for inspiration.

You have until 5th December to enter.

How I made my November Scraplift Page

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Here is how I made my DT entry for November. The baby in this photo is me in Beckenham Recreation Ground with my Mum and Dad back in 1960.

Here is a reminder of the original layout by Hannah Young of Handmade Hannah and the sketch.

For my layout I used papers from Fancy Pants' Beach Babe Collection

Lemonade, jumping fish, tropical and cards.

I also used white, green and lemon Bazzill

2.5 metres each of lemon and pink seam binging ribbon from Crafty Ribbons

Martha Stewart punches

Cricut Mother's Day Bouquet Cartridge

Letter stickers from My Little Shoebox

Button, DMC embroidery thread and chalk inks.

Here is a close up of the roses, please see separate post for tutorial on how these were made (posted yesterday).

1. Gut 'Tropical' paper leaving a frame of 1" all around the sides. Cut white Bazzill to measure 10 1/2" x 10 1/2". Round the corners of the Bazzill and ink the edges. Mount Bazzill centrally over the frame leaving a border of 3/4" all round with the stripes running vertically.

2. Cut a piece of 'Lemonade' paper 6" x 7" with pink side showing, trim top and bottom with border punches, ink the edges and mount 4" x 6" photo about 3/4" down from the top and right up to the right side. Punch a lace strip from lemon Bazzill, ink the edges and stick this along the bottom edge of the photo. Mount the matted photo to the layout about 2" in from the right and 2" down from the top of the layout.

3. To make the three decorative strips on the left, Cut a piece from the top, grid area of the 'Jumping Fish' paper, about 2 1/2" wide and 8 1/2" long, trim this with a deep edge punch.

Cut a strip 12" strip of 'Lemondae' paper, then cut this into two pieces, about 7" and 4". trim one short end of each of these strips with a decorative punch. Ink all three pieces. Use the gingham side of the longer piece and line this up along the right side of the grid paper. the bottom end can overhang by about 1". Take the shorted piece and use this pink side up stick this to the left of and parallel to the gingham piece. Just the punched decorative en will overlap on this piece, so all three pieces are graduated at the bottom of the layout. Stick these three pieces to the left of the photo mount, about 2" down from the top, and close up to the mount.

4. Select and cut out a journalling card from the 'Cards' paper, ink and add your details. Attach, overlapping the top left of your photo.

5. Make you three roses using your seam binding ribbon and the instructions in the tutorial (see separate, earlier post). The large one is 2", the others are 1 1/2" and 1".Arrange and attach to the layout.

6. Die cut 4 leaves (2 x 2", 1 1/2" and 1") using the Cricut and the mother's day bouquet cartridge, or cut using another method.

7. Using mini letter stickers add a small title.

8. Use a scrap of ribbon and a button and thread to add detail to the bottom left of the layout.

Thanks for looking, pop over F is for Fabric Flowers post if you wish to have a go at this challenge which runs until 5th December.

Another New Design Team Member

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We have great pleasure in introducing another new member of our design team. Her name is Sue, better known to many as Soojay. Sue has two blogs where you can see many examples of her beautiful creations - Paper, Ink and Glue where she uploads her paper craft, and No I won't shut up! which is mainly for news and baking posts.

Sue says: “I love anything “crafty” and have always found time to be making something. I have been married for 29 years to Derek. We have three children with additional needs. I work in High school in pastoral care and love my job.

My passion is stamping and I have very recently learned how to use Copic pens and am now an addict. I have designed for ScrapaGoGo and guested on ATDML blog and Chicken Soup. I am currently on the following card DT’s : Sweetpea Stampers and Twisted Card Sketches.”

Here are pictures of some of Sue's creations:

Welcome to the team Sue and we look forward to seeing what you create along with us all.

Seam Binding Ribbon Rose Tutorial

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Here is a tutorial for making the seam binding ribbon rose adapted from Crafty Ribbons.

Using an embroidery stitch called Spiders Web rose, but rather than sewing on fabric this uses card.

The completed rose.

1. Gather the bits you need around you, scissors, large needle, thread, tape, card and about two metres of seam binding ribbon (for a 6cm bloom).

2. On the card mark a five pointed star and the centre point, and pierce holes at these points. Thread the large needle with some sewing thread. I have used a bright contrasting colour thread for the tutorial, but it doesn't show when the rose is complete, so any colour will do. Secure the thread on the back of the card with a piece of tape. Sew through the holes to create what will look like Spiders Web.

3. Secure the thread on the back of the card with another piece of tape.

4. Thread the seam Binding ribbon into the big needle and sew through the centre hole leaving a small length at the back of the card that you can stick down with more tape.

5. This is the front view. The ribbon has come up through the centre, now pass the needle under one of the threads.

6. Allow the ribbon to cover over the next thread then under the next. It is IMPORTANT to continue working in the same direction at ALL times. Pull the ribbon so it is tight in the centre, but not so tight that it puts a strain on the threads. Continue with the weaving technique of over one thread under the next thread. As you have an odd number of threads (5) you will go round in a circle.

7. Keep going round, if you can still see the holes you need to continue. Allow the ribbon to twist, this will create more interesting shape rose petals.

8. This rose is almost finished, it requires no more petals.

9. To finish, carefully take the needle back down through one of the holes. Secure the ribbon on the back with a piece of tape as before.

Cut away the excess card from around the completed rose. It is now ready to attach to your card or layout.

These instructions are adapted from those supplied by Crafty Ribbons, who supplied the ribbons for these roses and you will find plenty more colours available to purchase on their website.

Welcome New DT Member

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A big Welcome to Sandra Dry who is joining our team of designers, kicking off with the December Scraplift.
Take a look at her blog - Sandra Dry Designs.

Here are a few words from Sandra:
"Hello folks my name is Sandra and it is my dream come true to be part of the Scrapology Design Team.

I have been crafting for as long as I can remember and stamping since the year I got married in 1994. I have made a lot of cards over the years but my passion is Scrapbooking.

I’m not one for following trends…. ‘I likes wot I likes’ and I have a mountain of photos to Scrap. I do always manage to have a trademark mucky fingerprint (or two) on my work.

I live in sunny Sussex on the South coast of the UK with my (craft widower) hubby, Adrian, 12 year old son Tommy and 6 year old twin son and daughter, Ben & Isabelle. They are my constant source of inspiration and the usual suspects on my layouts.
I work as a Teaching Assistant at a local primary school. Fortunately I can get by with very little sleep……leaving more time for crafting! Yay!"

We are thrilled to welcome Sandra to our team and you may remember she was our guest designer back in August.

Here are a few layouts Sandra has selected from her collection to share with us all:

So I think you will agree w are in for a treat in the months to come.

Welcome Sandra, we are really looking forward to working with you.

F is for Fabric Flowers

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For the month of November we are scraplifting this delightful layout by Hannah Young of Handmade Hannah.

We ask that you make your blossoms from some sort of fabric, ribbon or lace and use the sketch below to make your page.

Hannah is a teacher, wife & mother of 2 daughters who loves paper crafts, photography and blogging.

Here is a close up of Hannah's flowers.

We made a sketch .....

... and this is what the design team came up with. Please click on the designer's names to be taken to their blogs.

LYNN

LINDA

KAREN

ALISON

ANITA

DEIRDRE

Our Guest designer this month is

SCRAPDOLLY

Many of you will be familiar with her work, check out her blog Dolly's Dreamings.

Please join in the fun and create a layout using these pages for inspiration and the technique of creating flowers from fabrics. We hope you will let us share your finished layout on this blog.

We ask you to become a follower of this blog to be considered for the prize and you have until midnight on 5th December to enter the competition.

If you create a page after that date, please still share it with us.

Please can bloggers leave a comment with a link to the relevant post on their blog. If you don't have a blog - no problem! - Simply drop us an image attached to an email (address in sidebar).

THE PRIZE this month is once again provided by the lovely Jill of Cardinal Colours

A delightful selection of ribbons, decorative pins and some ribbon threading needles.

Thank you to Scrapdolly, Jill and Hannah.

November Sneak Peek

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Here are a few sneak peeks of what we have planned for you on 1st November for the next scraplift challenge.

Can you guess what we will be doing yet?

Your Cards for October

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This post is for your October Card challenge entries. First in this month with a card using eyelets is:

MAY

closely followed by

SUSIE

WENDY P

Please see the original challenge post for more details including the prize HERE

Winner of the September Card Challenge

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On behalf of Sue and the team at Craftwork Cards - The winner for September is...

WENDY P

with this cute baby boy card

Congratulations Wendy!

The prize is the Sweet Meadow Collection.

Please email us (address in sidebar), with details of your address so we can send you your fab prize.

Congratulations and many thanks to Craftwork Cards.

How I made my October page II

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I used Bazzill Olso cardstock as the basis of my page with Bo Bunny Barefoot and Bliss papers:

Barefoot Cutouts, Bubbles, Beach Bag, Stripe and Surf.

Each panel is cut and mounted onto the blue bazzill before adding to the page to create the borders.

I added part of a doilly under one panel (mounted on 3d foam pads) with some prima flowers.

The title was cut with the Cricut Life's a Beach and faux stitched with a white gel pen.

Some of the Hibiscus flowers and leaves were added to the side with 3d foam.

The journalling block came from the Cutouts sheet and the remainder of the doilly and flowers were placed under the edge. The other tag was also from the cutouts sheet, only using part of it.

This is the sketch we worked from...

And Georgia's original page.

Challenge closes on the 5th November with another fab prize on offer for the winner, so still time to enter.

October Card Challenge

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This month our challenge has been set by Sue Roberts, better known as Doogle007 in the creative world.

Sue challenges us to get our eyelets out and make use of them in creative way's on our cards. You can see Sue's creations on http://www.scrapbook.com/

Sue says:

"Hi, I am Sue,
I have been scrapbooking for about 8 years and cardmaking for a little longer. I love animals, so zoo trips are a main topic in my scrapbooking pages along with my 3 cats, Fluff, TC and Jinx.

I live in Sussex on the South coast with my cats and dozens of seagulls. I work for a local advertising paper on the night shift. When I am not sleeping I can be found in my little craft room or in the garden."

Sue's card can be seen above.

Here are the cards from the design team:

LINDA

LYNN

KAREN

ANITA

LYNN

ALISON

DEIRDRE

KAREN

ANITA

LYNN

SCRAPPY SARAH

our guest designer

The challenge will run until the 15th of November and the winner will be chosen by Sue and announced shortly after.

The prize from Anita is this fun stack of colourful eyelets (unstacked for easy viewing) and is available to UK entrants.

If you don't have a blog to link to please email us attaching an image of yor creation - the address is in the right hand sidebar.

Thanks to Sue, Anita and Scrappy Sarah.

Winner of the September Scraplift Challenge

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The winner of last month's challenge was:

WENDY

Please contact us by email with details for where to send your prize, hese fantastic stamps and some inks kindly given from Cardinal Colours.

Congratulations Wendy!

Thanks to all who took part.

Thanks to Jill, Kelly and Karen.

The October challenge is now up and running - see 'B is for Borders' for details. This runs through until 5th November.

There is also a card challenge set by Craftwork Cards, set on a Bunting, which closes on 15th October.

Both challenges offering great prizes.

Scrapology's First Crop!

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We planned, shopped, scrapped, baked, packed, arranged furniture and generally prepared for our very first crop. We held it at The EllenorLions Centre in Dartford on Saturday. We had lots of locals and other people traveled from as far as Southampton and Eastbourne.

Buckets of sweets and scrapbooking embellishments marking each scrappers place.

23 scrapbookers getting started at the beginning of the event.

Linda made cakes for everyone.

Robert was a star in the kitchen cooking lunch and washing up too!

Thanks Robert.

Zoe Pierson and Natalie O'Shea came along too They taught a card making class using Stampin' Up products, which was great fun and good value for money. We have lots of products left to make a few more cards.

This is what we all made, a folder of four Christmas cards. More details to follow on our own blogs soon.

We had a great day and the feedback we have received confirms that everyone who attended enjoyed themselves too.

So I guess we should get planning again!

How I made my October Scraplift Page

2011-10-09T10:00:00.000+01:00

A few tips on how I made my layout for the October Scraplift Challenge.

The little girl in the photos is my daughter Emily when she was 8 years old, on Old Town Beach, St Marys, Isles of Scilly. August 2000.

I used 2 sheets of navy Bazzill and Bo Bunny, Barefoot and Bliss papers all from Cardinal Colours.

Beach Bag

Surf

Stripe

Bubbles

Cutouts

Here is how the layout was made:

1. Cutting
a) Gut a 12 x 12” sheet Navy Bazzill to leave a 1” frame.
b) Cut blue side of ‘Surf’ paper to 11 x 11” and gut to make a 2” frame.
c) Cut a piece of navy Bazzill to 9 x 9” and gut with a 1” frame.
d) Cut variegated side of ‘Stripe’ paper 8 ¾ x 8 ¾”.
e) Cut navy Bazzill to 1 ¾ x 9 ¾”.
f) Cut blue side of ‘Bubbles’ paper to 1 ½ x 9 ½”.
g) Cut navy Bazzill to 7 ¼ x 6 ¼” and 3 ¼ x 6 ¼”.
h) Cut white side of ‘Beach Bag’ to 7 x 6” and 3 x 6”.
i) Cut out ‘Dive into summer’ and ‘another day in paradise’ from Cut –outs sheet. Mount these onto navy Bazzill and trim to show a narrow border.
j) Mount photo/s (total size approx 4 x 6”) onto navy Bazzill (approx. 4 ¼ x 6 ¼”).
k) Keep all the scraps of Navy Bazzill for title letters and smaller mounts.

2. Placement of papers.
Ink the edges and stick b centrally onto a.
Stick d centrally onto c and c centrally onto b.
Stick f onto e and place against the top edge of the layout about 3” in from the left.
Stick both pieces cut in step h onto both pieces cut in step g. Place smaller piece about 1” up from bottom of layout, about 4 ½” in from left. Place the larger piece so it overlaps the bottom piece by about 1”, make sure it is not stick down along the bottom edge allowing embellishments to be tucked underneath later.
Add mounted photo and cut-outs as shown on sketch, flowery side of ‘Dive into summer’ showing on the left of the blue strip. Stick the ‘Another Day in Paradise’ to right of layout.

3. Embellishment
Using scraps of navy Bazzill cut lettering for title using ‘Life is a Beach’ Cartridge.
With scraps of patterned paper cut plumeria flower and leaf at 1 ¾” and 1 ¼”, ink the edges and arrange onto layout.
Tuck paper flowers and doilies under pocket made g and h. Place more flowers to left of floral panel.
Punch label with Stampin' Up punch and mount onto navy Bazzill and trim to leave a narrow border. Attach where required.
Write journaling onto scraps of patterned paper, trim and add to left side of layout with 3D foam pads.

You have until 5th November to enter this month's challenge. Check back to the 'B is for Borders' post for more details of the challenge.

Your Scraplifts for October

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First in for October is:

KATHY G

Followed closely by

HELEN

with her very first ever layout

SQUIGGLE7

with her second ever attempt at scrapbooking

ANN H

WENDY P

RITA

SCATTYCHICK

KATH B

MAY

KRAFTY KAREN

HELEN - Craftimperfectblog

IFA

You have until 5th November to enter this challenge. Please see the original previous post for details -

'B is for Borders'.

B is for Borders

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For the month of October the design team selected this great layout designed by Georgia K Keays.

Please see Georgia's blog ON MY MIND for more of her layouts. As you will see from Georgia's layouts, many of them feature narrow borders around the page, patterned papers and photos. We want you to use this idea in your scraplifts this month.

"I’m Georgia and I live in the Perth hills with my lovely husband and three kids, Lucy, Eliza and Archie. I started scrapbooking in February of 2008 and it quickly turned into an obsession."

This is the Design Team sketch:

And here are our layouts for inspiration.

LYNN

LINDA

JILL

KAREN

ANITA

ALISON

DEIRDRE

Our guest designer for this month is

SCRAPPY SARAH

please see her blog HERE

Please join in the fun and create a layout using these pages for inspiration and the technique of creating borders. We hope you will let us share your finished layout on this blog.

We ask you to become a follower of this blog to be considered for the prize and you have until midnight on 5th November to enter the competition.

If you create a page after that date, please still share it with us.

Please can bloggers leave a comment with a link to the relevant post on their blog. If you don't have a blog - no problem! - Simply drop us an image attached to an email (address in sidebar).

PRIZE TIME

The prize for the best layout had been generously provided by Jill of Cardinal Colours.

This time we have a seasonal prize of the Happy Halloween Kit from Echo park and some matching bazzill in balck, white, orange, green, purple.

Prize offered to UK residents, but all welcome to join in the fun.

Our thanks to Georga, Scrappy Sarah and Jill. x