Welcome to the new DT Members

Hello Everyone

I am so pleased to announce the new Design Team Members and also welcome back the current team members. I am really excited and pleased about the new Design Team Members and really looking forward to working alongside them and also seeing all the creativity and inspiration.

So  congratulations ladies and a very, very warm welcome to Arantzazu Sangrador, Asica Panewka, Athanasia Papantoniou, Julia Tsvetkova, Libeeti Frenkel, Marina Gridasova and Nolene Burnett. 

So here's a look at the new team! ;-)

It's a super, super team and I am really thrilled to bits! ;-)

Thanks so everyone who did apply! Sadly, it's not possible to have everyone on the team, but there will be DT calls in the future and I certainly hope that you will apply again! Your support and interested is really appreciated!

Ada Nicholls	http://www.adaskits.blogspot.com/
Alexandra Polyzou	http://avc-creations.blogspot.gr/
Arantzazu Sangrador	http://elbotondecuca.blogspot.com.es/
Asica Panewka	http://asica-scrap.blogspot.ie/
Athanasia Papantoniou	http://athanasiameandmyself.blogspot.gr/
Billie-Jean Beveridge	www.billiebeveridge.blogspot.com/
Channa Patella	www.crafts-pieces.blogspot.com/
Denise van Deventer	www.strawbspatch.blogspot.com
Elizna Parsons	www.eliznaparsons.blogspot.com/
Erica Houghton-Jones	http://ericahoughton.blogspot.com/
Helen Wallace	http://texturesandtales.blogspot.com.au/
Jo Tritton	www.mycherrypiecreations.blogspot.com
Julia Tsvetkova	http://jullisscrap.blogspot.ru/
Libeeti Frenkel	http://creationswithlove-li-bee-ti.blogspot.co.il/
Marelize Frisby	www.mycreativefootprints.blogspot.com/
Marina Gridasova	http://integra-gm.blogspot.ru/
Marta Lapkowska	http://artistycrafty.blogspot.ie/
Nolene Burnett	www.scrapshots.co.za
Tanya Palamarchuk	http://chashe4ka.blogspot.com/
Valerie Thorpe	http://valbellesramblings.blogspot.com/

As the days go on, I will introduce you to them and also show you little bits of their work.

Have a super day!

x

TOP 3 and Winners Sketch no.28

Morning Everyone

I hope that you are having a super weekend and that if you are celebrating Easter, that you have a blessed one!

We have some winners to announce today for sketch no.28, but before I do that, just say a BIG thank you to everyone who played along! The projects were really so super!

However, there was a resounding first place and that goes to 6. Ulrika Blomfelt (Sweden). Congratulations Ulrika, your page was just soooo amazing! We so loved all the little details, the sewing and that sweet, sweet photo! Everything was just perfect! Gorgeous page! ;-)



In second place is Joefil Cate: 8. Cate's Crafts: My cute girl, with her stunning and fresh page. The background and colouring is just so wonderful! Super cute and beautiful!!



In 3rd place is 12. 20 years ( Mette Kallander)! Well done Mette on this fresh, upbeat and gorgeous boy page!
We loved your styling and take on the sketch, just fabulous!



Congratulations ladies, you really created stunning pages and we really did love them all! ;-)

We would love to see more of Ulrika and Mette's work, so please would you send a mail to scrapafrica@gmail.com for a Guest Design opportuntiy.

For our giveaways, there are 2 random winners:

Our first prize of the PPBN Gift Voucher goes to:

11. My Scrapbook Corner: Moments

Congratulations Merisa Calitz! ;-)

E: info@ppbndesigns.com

W:www.ppbndesigns.com

“Here at PPbN Designs, I design SVG cutting files and graphics that will fit any design or craft need you have.  My designs are easy to cut, easy to piece together and will give your scrapbooks, cards, party supplies and crafts a homemade touch that everyone will love!  All of my cuts come with high resolution graphics that are also perfect for digital scrapbooking too!  Please visit us and take a look around our shop.  If you are looking for something but can’t find it, no worries! Just send me an email and I’ll do my best to create it for you!” 

One lucky person will win this $30.oo voucher from PPBN designs. So a very big thank you to PPBN designs.

Thanks also to Molossi for sponsoring another giveaway.

Molossi is 100% Australian owned and operated, with over Nine years industry experience and access to the much loved paper craft brands and experts.

Molossi is situated in the Hawkesbury region of New South Wales, and our warehouse is located in Wilberforce and open by appointment only.

With the vision, Molossi is committed to sourcing and supplying all your papercraft needs, whilst delivering our own unique products. Our priority is to deliver a prompt and efficient service to our cliental base, to maintain this promise we are listening to what you as the customers are asking and we are always open to suggestion and comments to ensure we uphold this value.

Follow us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MolossiScrapbooking

Email: info@molossi.com.au

Wholesale Website: www.molossiwholesale.com.au

Retail Website: www.molossi.com.au

This super gift pack from Molossi, goes to:

14. Jò in Wonderland

Congratulations Jo! ;-)

Merisa and Jo, please can you send a mail to scrapafrica@gmail.com to claim your prizes.

Thanks so much everyone, for supporting us and for playing along! We really do love seeing your work and are always amazed at the creativity and talent out there!

Be back soon!

x

Challenge no.28 - Distressing with a Difference

Hello Everyone

We are back with a new challenge today and it is all about Distressing with a Difference. 

The distressing needs to have been done with household items and you need to tell us what you used in your blog post.

There are many ways of distressing with household items and here are some examples:

• Using bleach to colour or stamp
• Vaseline for embossing or stamping
• Coffee for stamping and colouring
• Tea for stamping or colouring
• Distressing the edges with a cheese grater
• Burning the edges for an aged look
• Sanding the edges with sandpaper 

So we really hope you will put your creative hats on and play along with our challenge! ;-)

Ada Nichols is the host for this challenge and here are the gorgeous tags she created.

She tells us a little bit about how she created the tags and will post more details on her blog.

On these tags I used Ranger Distress ink and then I stamped on them using household bleach.

These certainly came out beautifully and I love that technique too!

The Design Team has created some wonderful projects, to also give you some ideas and inspiration for this challenge. Please pop on over to their blogs for more details on their projects.

Billie-Jean

The distressing was achieved via sticky tape, distress inks and embossing powder.

Denise

I used bleach to alter the colouring on my background.

Elizna

...distressing on this card done with distressing inks and salt...

Erica Houghton

Distressing on the key hole was achieved using Q-tips.

Helen

Distressing using salt and clear glue

Jo

Using tea (background & flowers) & the reverse side of a cheese grater with a stylus for a fine texture (difficult to see in this photo).

Marelize

Distressing using masking tape, cardboard box, tea on flowers and muslin, and all paper edges distressed using scissors.

Marta

Tanya

Val 

Distressing using coffee.

We hope these projects have given you some seed for inspiration! ;-)

As always, we have some super goodies up for grabs.

 Firstly, is the super voucher from PPBN Designs.

E: info@ppbndesigns.com

W:www.ppbndesigns.com

“Here at PPbN Designs, I design SVG cutting files and graphics that will fit any design or craft need you have.  My designs are easy to cut, easy to piece together and will give your scrapbooks, cards, party supplies and crafts a homemade touch that everyone will love!  All of my cuts come with high resolution graphics that are also perfect for digital scrapbooking too!  Please visit us and take a look around our shop.  If you are looking for something but can’t find it, no worries! Just send me an email and I’ll do my best to create it for you!” 

One lucky person will win this $30.00 voucher from PPBN designs. So a very big thank you to PPBN designs.

Pop over to the blog and see the super designs!

Secondly, there is an entire paper collection up for grabs.

The Woodland Winter  paper collection from BoBunny.

Pop over to BoBunny and see this super collection.

2 random winners will be chosen to win these super prizes!

Good luck everyone and we look forward to seeing your distressed projects!

You have until 30 April to upload them.

Please also upload your projects to our FaceBook page, for an extra chance to win the giveaways.

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A warm welcome to 2 new Design Team Members

Hello Everyone

Within any Design Team, members come and go and it's a cycle of saying goodbye to good friends made and saying hello to new friends and inviting in new and fresh creativity.

So firstly I would like to say thanks and goodbye to Jowilna Nolte, Patricia Basson, Lynette Jacobs (Lynette is on an absence of leave, but may yet be back) and Cathi Smith O'Neill and Rene Sharp! Thanks so much for all your creativity and inspiration over your terms! It was truly appreciated.

It is also very sad to let you know that Evgenia Petzer has decided to step down from Scrap Africa, as her life has become very hectic after the birth of her second son! She and Svetlana Austin were the founders of this blog and really it was their baby to begin with! I am really going to miss her, but I really do wish her well! 

So there is definitely changing times on the blog, but I am hopeful that we will grow and with the new Design Team members, we will continue to bring you new and exciting challenges, and also bring you some new and fresh creativity.

Marta Lapkowska is also going to be taking over the FaceBook activities for Scrap Africa. It is so great that she will be helping me out and also bringing a fresh and new touch to our FB site.

Thanks so much Marta, your help is really appreciated! ;-)

So a very warm welcome to Alexandra Polyzou and Jo Tritton! I am thrilled that these ladies have joined our team and I know that you are going to love their work.  They are really both such talented ladies.

So to tell you about them, here is Alexandra firstly.

.My name is Alexandra Polyzou and i'm from Greece.I'm a working woman, married happily to my hubby and I have 3 kids....Valentina 9 years old, Costantino 7,5 years old and our little one...Elena 15 months only!I' m creative by nature and I love any kind of crafts but scrapbooking is above all these, my true passion!!!I discovered it by accident 2 years ago and it was a love at first sight .I like everything with paper crafting - traditional 12X12 pages, minis, cards and more. I’m not sure I have a style. I’m always searching for new ideas and techniques. Scrapbooking my photos and seeing my family's memories displayed on paper and projects is very important to me....

I'm actually a DT member of SCRAP AROUND THE WORLD , LIFE.PAPER.SCRAPBOOK , SCRAPBOOKING IN GREECE & SCRAPSNPIECES challenge blogs ....you can see all my scrapbook creations on my blog http://avc-creations.blogspot.gr/

SCRAP N' CREATE

avc-creations.blogspot.gr

Here is a little taste of Alexandra's work.

Please pop over to Alexandra's blog, I am sure she would appreciate a visit and you will be sure to find some wonderful inspiration.

So to tell you a bit about Jo Tritton, here is what Jo had to say.

Gidday! My name is Jo Tritton (Joanne really but only my parents call me by my full name...cringe), and I was born, raised and still live in a small town in the central west of New South Wales, Australia. I've been married to my childhood sweetheart for 30 years & we have two wonderful grown children (a pink & a blue). We also have two very spoilt fur babies. Besides my papercrafting addiction I love reading (everything & anything), photography, watching movies, gardening & as you will see from many of my layouts we love travelling. I work part-time outside the home as well.

I discovered scrapbooking 9 years ago & I've been hooked ever since. I naturally fell into cardmaking & off-the-page projects not long after.  I have been published in Australian Scrapbooking Memories Magazine & Australian Scrapbook Creations on several occasions as well as being on the Design Team for Craft Queen (an online papercrafting supply store) & Orange Paperie & Co.  Recently I've been a GD for CSI: Colour, Stories, Inspiration.

I'm lucky enough to now have a dedicated creation room, where I spend every spare minute playing & generally enjoying myself. My family indulge me with the appropriate vocal noises whenever I create a new page, which is all the encouragement I need to continue with this wonderful hobby. I've discovered recently that I am more content with my work by sticking to what I'm comfortable with rather than trying to do whatever everyone else is doing. I like to try different techniques & I like a little bit of mixed media & I'm happy using patterned paper or plain cardstock. Depending on what mood I'm in. I'm more comfortable with feminine pages than I am with masculine layouts. 

This hobby lifts me out of my comfort zone & constantly challenges me. But the best thing about it is the kindred-spirits that I've been lucky enough to meet on this amazing journey. My fellow papercrafters never fail to inspire & encourage me to continue to push my creativity to higher levels. Scrapbooking is a type of escapism for me & I can't remember what I did before it became a part of my life. I'm so happy that I can record my life & the lives of my family for future generations. 

I'm so honoured to be on the Design Team for Sprap Africa & I can't wait to get stuck into the fantastic challenges on offer here. I hope I can inspire you to join in.

Jo's blog can be found here. Please pop over and say Hi, and also see her stunning work!

I really look forward to seeing Alexandra and Jo's creativity and I really look forward to working with them!

xx

TOP 4 and Winners - Stars and Stitching Challenge

Hello Everyone

I hope you are enjoying a scrappy Saturday or at least relaxing and  having a little breather.

We have some winners to announce as well as the TOP 4 projects from the Stars and Stitching Challenge.

But before I do that, a BIG thanks to everyone who played along! We had such super projects and it was really so close between all the projects, that I really do want to say thanks to you all for playing with! The quality of projects was really very high!

So to get right to the winners....here is a reminder of the prizes up for grabs.

Zeus and Zoe Etsy shop - $35.00 gift voucher . The postage will be covered too! ;-) So thanks again so much to Marivic and Zeus and Zoe for this super prize!

Marivic Clifton - Zeus and Zoe Etsy Shop

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ZeusandZoe/

Zeus and Zoe is the sister Etsy Shop to Berry71Bleu and sells one-of-a-kind crafting embellishments for scrapbooking, crafting, altered art, home decor and collage art. All tags are handmade and can be designed according to your preference. Please contact Marivic through her Etsy Shop to request a custom order.

Congratulations 2. libeeti you are the winner of this gift voucher from Zeus and Zoe! ;-)

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I am also so thrilled and pleased to announce that we have a permanent sponsor for Scrap Africa and that is PPBN designs. Thanks ever so much to Nicholle Calmes for this sponsorship! 

E: info@ppbndesigns.com

W:www.ppbndesigns.com

“Here at PPbN Designs, I design SVG cutting files and graphics that will fit any design or craft need you have.  My designs are easy to cut, easy to piece together and will give your scrapbooks, cards, party supplies and crafts a homemade touch that everyone will love!  All of my cuts come with high resolution graphics that are also perfect for digital scrapbooking too!  Please visit us and take a look around our shop.  If you are looking for something but can’t find it, no worries! Just send me an email and I’ll do my best to create it for you!” 

One lucky person will win this $30.oo voucher from PPBN designs.

Congratulations to Marilyn (12. Treasuring Memories: Babydoll) you have won this gift voucher from PPBN Designs!

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Okay to announce the TOP 4 projects, we have 2 winners in TOP spot. Can you believe it? 

So the 2 top projects are 9. Christina L. and 10. Katya Pogodina...Congratulations ladies! ;-)

9. Christina L. created this absolutely adorable page and we loved that background, with the soft colours and stamping. That sweet, sweet photo also won our hearts! So congratulations, again, Christina on your shared top spot! ;-)

10. Katya Pogodina created this stunning boy page! We loved the feathers, leaves, stars and that precious photo too! The styling and design of your page is just fabulous! So well done Katya on this shared top spot! ;-)

In 2nd place is 8. к другим берегам: многослойная открытка (Cve) with this gorgeous card. The layering and styling of your card just caught the eye and one had to take a second look to check out all these wonderful details! So congratulations Cve on this amazing card! ;-)

3rd place goes to 13. Natali Yarkova with this creative and gorgeous card! We loved the creativity and uniqueness of this project, so very well done Natali! ;-)

We would love to see more of Christina and Katya's word, so please mail scrapafrica@gmail.com for a Guest Design opportunity.

For the winners, please also email your details to scrapafrica@gmail.com to claim your vouchers!

Thanks again to everyone who played along, you guys were STARS! ;-)

xx