17th Feb - No Papers

Today we challenge you to create a layout with no pattern paper and get creative with washi tape!
Do you find it hard not to use patterned papers? What can you do with washi tape? We would love to see! The design team have come up with some great ideas to inspire you.

Anna

I enjoyed not having to use patterned paper. It makes you think about what you are adding to the page. I love using washi tape so that wasn't hard! I used my orange border washi tape under my photo and created ruffles in it to add texture, I also used more washi to add banners/flags to my page too!

Chantelle

This was such a fun challenge to complete.  I've used lots of washi tape in long strips behind my photo's and then filled in the spaces with different stamped images.

Daphne

I believe that a year ago I really would have had problems with creating a page just with Washi Tape! But today - no problem at all! Washi Tape is all over and I even could select several greens from my collection to fit the photos and page! Scary!

Hilde

Inspired by a sketch from PageMaps

Here are a few things you can do with washi tape: use it as patterned paper stripes for your background, cover chipboard with it, make your own paper buttons, make your own flags  by attaching washi to ordinary paper clips, cover office paper clips with washi.

Kat

I have been having Silhouette problems lately (just can't get my cut settings right even when I follow what the program tells me to use!), so I decided to use this to my advantage.  I made a border for my layout and knew that my Silhouette probably wouldn't cut all the way through the paper.  I was right!  So, I used a few different colors of mist to color around the edges of the page.  The mist showed up darker where the cuts had been made and ended up creating a really cool effect

Katherine

As we weren't allowed patterned  papers I had a big play around with ink and paints on my page - spritzing, then with water and running it around my page, then added some layers of washi tape and fabric too - it was great fun.

Petra

Instead of PP I went wild with different masks from Crafter's workshop, Washi tape from You Do and stamps of my own design. I am pretty happy with the matching of the cobblestone paving and the mask. The title says Cinema date with Alva.

                        

Tessa

Between the stripes on my shirt and the stripes on my son's tie, I knew I wanted to create a striped effect with layers of washi tape for my background. To add an unexpected twist, I added the wide ombre green washi tape to bring out the vintage coloring in my photos. Who needs patterned paper when there's washi tape to play with?!

We would love to see what you can with washi tape and no pattern paper so please link up your creations!

January's Winner

The winner of January's challenges chosen at random is .....

Jenny Svensson

This was her lovely entry!

Jenny wins some great goodies from Yo Do. Jenny, please email me (makeandcreate @hotmail.com) with your address and I'll pass your details on.

Thanks to everyone for joining in, it was great to see your lovely creations!

Don't forget we are back Sunday for another fun challenge!

3rd Feb - Love

As it's now February and Valentine's day is only a couple of weeks away we challenge you to scrap about love but there's a little catch, you have to use at least 5 hearts on you layout! 

Here's what the new design team created!

Anna

 This layout is about my love of crocheting and the photos are of some of the blankets I created! 

I went a bit heart crazy, many more than five!

Chantelle

The 'love' theme was perfect for me to scrap book about these photo's - our anniversary of last year - I've included lots of different hearts - stamping, punch-out's, glitter hearts, wooden hearts and stickers.

Daphne

At least five hearts?! Hard task for me! So of course I added more than five on my layout!

My niece Ronja (14) is totally in love with nail varnish and when I visited my brother's family last December she and her sisters were sitting on the balcony and painting their nails in bright red. Even my nails got painted that day!

Hilde

By keeping the hearts small, and adding masculine elements as the moustashes, this layout didn't get too feminin, even if the hearts are pink. My oldest son before his very first prom.

Jules

A layout about love had to be about my husband, so, as he's reluctant to have his photo taken, I decided to use this one of our hands taken at our wedding.

Kat

I used a Studio Calico sketch to make my layout.  The sketch can be found here.  I don't typically scrap with a lot of hearts, but I found this layout prompt to be a lot of fun and I'm pretty happy with the end result!

Katherine

I went for lots of little hearts on my page - I stamped and punched some hearts out and used pink paper on a boy page which I think must be a 1st, but with the theme of love I figured it was an opportunity to use some :)

Petra

My daughter got a late Christmas present from some good friends who went to Disney World... As soon as she saw these glue on Disney Princess Nails she was in love ♥ To bad they fall off so soon. Anyway I managed to catch a few photos were she still have all ten nails on ♥

 

 

I used PinkPaislee London Market, flowers and sugar dots from YouDo, wood veener from Studio Calico, bling from Prima. Bakers Twine, Masks from Crafter's Workshop with distress ink, a Tingeling Sticker and shapes cut with the Silhouette.

Please link up your layouts in the side bar for a chance of winning a prize, we would love to see how many hearts you use for this challenge!

The New Design Team

We have two new members to welcome to The Studio Design Team for the next six months!
First, here are the returning members:

Anna 

Daphne
Jules
Kat

Katherine

Petra

Tessa

Valerie

And please give a big welcome to:
Chantelle Huizenga
Hello,
I'm a mum to four boys and wife to a wonderful man. We live in Busselton, a pretty sea-side town in Western Australia. My family provides me with inspiration to scrapbook - their handsome faces will often grace my pages. I enjoy the whole process: from taking the pictures, to planning the page, to playing with pretty papers and embellishments. My style has evolved over the years. I love seeing the new styles of papers that come out and enjoy keeping up with new techniques. I like to tell the story behind my pictures, but also really enjoy the arty side to scrapbooking - my pages will include paint, ink, mist and texture. My style of scrapbooking often depends on what challenge I'm playing along with or collection of papers I'm working with. I love to share what I create - you can view all my work at: Chantelle's Creative Space

Scrapbooking provides many opportunities and I've met some wonderful people who inspire me. I'm fortunate to be on a few design teams and I love the challenges they provide.
I'm excited to be joining The Studio Design Team and look forward to sharing their fun challenges with you all ☺


Hilde Aaslund
Hello!

My name is Hilde Aaslund, aka Scoobie,  and I am a challenge addict! I live in Norway with my hubby, two boys 10 &13, two cats, a dog, two budgies and FIL. I work full time as an engineer at construction sites and spend my leisure time running this place called home, spend time outdoors and craft with paper.

I started my paper craft career as a card maker in 2005, but transformed to a layout scrapper a year later. My main scrap subjects are - quite naturally- my family, but I also scrap about subjects found in our everyday life – the pets, our friends, funny signs and anything that makes my day special.

As life is busy, I hardly have time to sit down and create for hours, and this is reflected in my scrap style: often simple I-can-do-that layouts with plenty of white space or quite linear. But on occasions I get carried away and keep adding details as if I were paid by the number  J  I still feel proud and happy if published or featured, and work hard to deliver inspiring projects when on design teams.

I am thrilled beyond words to be a part of The Studio Challenges Design Team, and hope my examples can give you some ideas on how to preserve precious memories.

My blog: Hilde - The paper Addict

We can't wait to see what they create for the challenges!

Nov and Dec Winners

Lets sort out our winners for November and December!

The winner of November challenges is.... MandySea This was her lovely layout:

Mandy has kindly agreed to be our guest designer for the month of April.

The winner of December challenges is..... Niknaks. Here's her lovely layout:

Nikki has kindly agreed to be our guest designer for the month of March.
We look forward to seeing what you create for the challenges!

We should now be up to date with our winners!

Thanks to everyone for joining with us, we love seeing your creations!

I'll be back soon to introduce the two new members of the design team!

20th Jan- Sketch

Valerie has come up with another lovely sketch for you this month, this time it was inspired by one of Amanda's layouts.

This is the last challenge with the design team as we know it, here are our layouts created from the sketch.

Anna

There's lots of different ways to play with this sketch but for this one I stayed quite close to the sketch, the main difference are my photos are the other way round.

Daphne

Val's sketch with two photos was the best what could happen to me this week! I wanted to document my weight-loss in 2012 and therefore two photos of me, one from February and one from in December last year, would show the best results.

Emi

That's my last LO for this amazing group so from this place I'd like to say thank you. Thank you for your inspiring works and ideas. Val, thank you for creating those beautiful sketches. Thank you for the opportunity to be with you, you're DREAM TEAM and

it was pleasure for me to work with You!

Kat

Another fun sketch to work with!

Katherine

A great sketch which I followed quite closely I even used my flower punch to cut the curved edges on some of the papers too.  The page documents my husbands love of roller coasters - not sure whether he is in the carriages on that photo, but he loves them....something I am not so sure about!

Kim

Tessa

I've been holding onto this pair of instagram photos for quite awhile, just waiting for the inspiration to scrap them. This sketch was perfect!

Petra

I loved creating after this sketch ♥ super inspiring. As I am also on the You Do Design Team who is sponsoring us this month I decided to make a double page, one half for the Studio Challenges and one half for You Do. I mirrored the sketch on one page and used the same brand new paper collection from You Do as well as the new You Do stamp collection..

Valerie

I love Amanda's page and didn't stray to far from the original sketch. I used die cut frames to make my larger photo appear smaller:

Guest designer Eleni Gratsia

What an incredible sketch ... it inspired me to play with photos of my nieces and lots of love elements.

Some members of our lovely sponsors for this month, Yo Do's design team have joined in too!

Lisa Andersson

Petra Offrell

Monica Bernpaintner

All the pages and cards from the You Do team are made using You Do paper, stamps, washi tape, flowers and decorations.

We would like to say thank you to Eleni for being are guest designer this month, it was great to have you joining in with us! Also a big thank you to Kim and Emi from the design team who are sadly leaving us, it's been a great 6 months with so many amazing layouts that inspired everyone, we will miss you!

Don't forget to link up your takes on the sketch, we would love to see them!