29th December - Review of the Year

Good Morning and welcome to our last challenge if the year!

Today's challenge is ....

Review of the year; how was the last year for you?  Was it good or bad? Was there a stand out moment or maybe you would like to add something from each month, it's up to you!

Helen

Lori 

Michelle
There were a lot of milestones for our family in 2019. Morgan graduated from high school. Ma & Pa celebrated their 50th anniversary. Sam and Graeme got married and announced baby #2 is on the way. So much to be thankful for!!

I hope these lovely layouts have inspired you to give the challenge a go, we would love to see your layouts.

Happy New Year to you all! See you next year!

15th Dec - Christmas Traditions

Good Morning! Today's challenge is ...

Your Christmas traditions, what is Christmas like where you are, is there something you always do at Christmas time that is different to other people's? Or maybe there's a tradition you have to do for it to feel like it really is Christmas.

Helen
My layout is about the change of our Christmas tree decorating, once we had a traditional red/green tree with Hallmark decorations that the boys and I would go and choose each year but when they got to their teenage years they weren't interested. So, I decided that we could have a teal tree instead seeing as I was the only one interested in it. So each year I have teal and another colour(s) on my tree.

Lori
One of our favorite Christmas traditions is decorating the tree - it is the kick-off to our holiday season - and it's a requirement that everyone in the family has to hang at least one ornament.

Michelle
Hey everyone. A new tradition for us is my grandson visiting Santa. It didn't go so well last year so here's to hoping it won't be a short lived tradition!!

I loved seeing the design team's traditions and now it's over to you, what's yours? We would love to see your challenge layouts, just link them up to the side bar.

Happy Scrapping!

1st Dec - Sketch

Happy December!

Today it's sketch time! I was inspired by DT Lori's take five challenge layout for this sketch. Hope you like it!

Lori

Michelle
For this sketch challenge I decided to rotate the sketch.

I hope these layout have inspired you to give our sketch a go, we would love to see how you get on with it. Please link up your finished layouts to the side bar.

17th November- Now and Then

Good Morning the challenge today is ...

Now and Then or Before and After; it could be how something has changed/grown a year/s on, something you've improved on or maybe you could do a childhood photo and then the person they turned out to be! Up to you as long as we have before and after photos please!

Helen

Lori

Michelle

Please link up your finished layouts to the side bar, we would love to see it.

Happy Scrapping!

3rd Nov - Mood board

Today I picked this lovely Autumn/fall mood board from Pinterest to inspire you.

Pinterest Pin

Here's what the design team created with it...

Helen

I tried to follow the mood board, however, seeing as it is spring here in Australia I found it a bit hard to get into the autumn/fall mood. So, I used the colours rather than the images for inspiration.

Lori

Michelle

Lovely layouts! I hope they have inspired you to join in, please link up your finished layout to the side bar.

Happy Scrapping!

20th Oct - One Piece of Patterned Paper

20th October - One piece of patterned paper; it sounds like a hard one but it can be double sided! You can cut it up, change it somehow, its up to you as long as there's only one sheet of patterned paper used on your layout!

Helen
Luckily, the piece of patterned paper I chose was coloured on the back of the branding strip so I got a little bit extra to play with. It's actually quite amazing how much you can achieve with one piece of paper when you try to use every last little bit of it!

Lori
This was such a fun challenge! The hardest part was deciding which pretty double-sided patterned paper to use!

Michelle
When I first saw this challenge I was a little nervous, but I found a gorgeous floral paper with a fun stripe on the back. A lot of mixed media on the background also helped to save the day. I was able to use the thin strip on the top of the paper as well. I used what was left to mat my photos. No scraps to store of this paper!!

I think the design team did a great job with this challenge. If they inspired you to give it a try please link up your layout to the side bar by 3rd November.

Happy Scrapping!

6th October -Sketch

Inspired by DT Diana's layout for the Title and journaling challenge, as she is leaving the team. Sketch created by me, Anna.

Here's the sketch, hope you like it!

Helen
I decided to turn the sketch and thus ended up creating this layout.

Lori

Michelle

I hope this has inspired you to give the sketch a go, if so we would love to see what you did with it, please link up your finished layout to the sidebar by 3rd November.

Happy Scrapping!

22nd September - Take Five

Good Morning!
Today's challenge is to...

Include these five items in your layout...

Enamel dots/ shapes
Chipboard alphas
The colour orange
Thread/ stitching
Stamps

Helen
For my layout I used a Dylusions stamp which I though was only fitting seeing as I was scrapping about the the class I took with Dyan Reaveley earlier this year. Plus I've included orange enamel dots and hearts, and orange ink. I used thread on the tag and did some sewing on the title where I also incorporated some chipboard letters.

Lori
For my layout, I have used enamel dots and enamel stars, chipboard alphas, the color orange, thread - bunched up behind the circle on the bottom, and two different circle stamps.

Michelle

Hey everyone. For the stamp portion of the Take Five challenge I used a label stamp from Stamper's Anonymous, and then added word stickers to them. The other items are pretty obvious. Thanks for stopping by!!

If that's inspired you to give it a go please link your layout up to the side bar.

Happy Scrapping!

8th September - Chevrons

Today's challenge is to use ..

Chevrons; create a layout with chevrons on, anyway you like.

Here are the design team's chevron layouts...
Deb

Diana

Helen

Lori

Michelle

I hope that inspired you to have fun with chevrons, if so please link up your layouts to the side bar.

Happy Scrapping!

25th August - Monochromatic

Today's challenge is ...

Monochromatic; use shades and tones of one colour on your layout.

Here are the design teams take on it....
Deb.

Diana

Helen

Lori

Michelle

This month challenges close on 8th September so you have plenty of time to try it yourself!

Happy Scrapping!

11th August- Sketch

Good Morning! It's time again today for a new...
Sketch. As our DT member Lisa-Marie is leaving us, I created this this sketch inspired by her Stars and stripes layout as a tribute to her.

Here are the design team's takes on it...

Deb

Diana

Helen

Lori

Michelle

Lovely layouts ladies! I hope they have inspired you to join in with the sketch, we would love to see what you do with it!

Happy Scrapping!

May's Favourites

Thanks to everyone who joined in with our challenges.
Our favourites from May were ...

Anna

Laurie

Yvonne

28th July - TItle and Journaling

Today's challenge is about ...

Title and Journaling  I want you to focus on the story of the page, now is the time to journal about what happened or a funny story about the photo. I would also like to see a title with two types of alpha but the rest is up to you!

Here are the lovely layouts made by the design team ...

Deb

Diana

Helen

Lori

Michelle

I hope that's inspired you to join in with us, just link up your layout to the side bar.

Happy Scrapping!

March's favourites

Mi bebe

Adventure

And finally...

Cathy Lu
Lovely layouts by all, thank you for joining in with us!