Meet the new Design Team - Part 2

Hello Everyone

Apologies...I should have done this post already...but life has a way of getting "busy" on one! LOL

In any case... in this 2nd part, I am going to list the next few new members of the Design Team.

I am really so pleased to have all these ladies on the team and I am thrilled that they agreed to share the Scrap Africa journey with me, for the next year! ;-)

So a huge welcome to all these amazing ladies! ;-)

Beatriz Sanchez

I am Spanish and live in Pamplona (Navarra), the city of the "San Fermines". I live with my 5 year old son and my three kittens adopted. Since childhood I liked to do and work with my hands, paint, create ... all I could express my heart through my hands. I like painting, I painted pictures and have become useless things useful to my great imagination like my mother, jejejeje says ... I also love photography and I am very sensitive but I have my character. When I discovered scrapbooking ... I found my happy world !!! because it binds everything that I like.

Well, I think now if you all ... with emotion forget to write.

A big hug and thank you very much again

Beatriz

Here is some of Beatriz's gorgeous work.

Christina Panetsou

My name is Christina Panetsou and I'm a happily married mommy of three from beautiful and sunny Greece.

I always wanted to keep my memories alive, that's why I started scrapbooking back in 2013.

I mostly scrap about my kids, they are my inspiration.

I don't have any specific style, I always want to try new stuff!

Enjoy the journey...

Thanks for stepping by,

Love

Christina 

Here's a little taste of Christina's gorgeous work.

Eirini Tsaima

Hello, my name is Eirini (Irene)Tsaima.I live and work as a trainer in a public school in the beautiful  island of Crete in sunny Greece.I'm married to a wonderful man who tolerates and supports  my  new passion ... scrapbooking!!!We have two kids and their coming in our lives, made me looking into anything handmade  that I could do as a new mother  to keep memories  alive.Somewhere  there I met  scrapbooking albums,lay outs and cards until I fell on mixed media ... That was !! It was love at  first  sight .Ever since i  stuck in this style, making lay outs who express me  at different phases of my life .Personally i like order and discipline in my life, but not in art.Art has no limits and barriers ... Inspired by everything in everyday life, from a photo-advertisement-music up to  a walk in my garden, by the sea or  at the center of my town.Glad to be the Design Team of Scrap Africa and I hope  in my turn to give inspiration to all of you.You can find me here http://renagym.blogspot.gr/ ,https://www.pinterest.com/eirinitsaima/ and on facebook .

Love you xxx..

Here is a look at Eirini's stunning eye candy.

Elzbieta Noga

My name is Ela, but in scrap-world I have a nickname Sonrisa. In Spanish it means "a smile". It's because, when I scrap, I smile a lot. That's my passion and I love it sooo much. And also I wish some of my cards, albums or even LOs will make smile someone else...

In my private life I am a wife and a mother. I like scrapbooking, healthy cooking and travelling. I love experiments and trying new thing; vegetarian, Indian food and I am very keen on running and... reading... ;)

My blog: http://sonrisaart.wordpress.com/

Here's some gorgeousness from Ela! ;-)

Jenny Andersson

My name is Jenny Andersson and I live in the north of Sweden with my husband and three boys. Love to photograph my family and trips we make, which goes well together with my biggest hobby, scrapbooking. I make all kinds of thing in my scrapcave such as LO, birthdaycards and so on. I find lots of inspiration in everyday things, photographs as well as a creative sketch :) I´m on two designteams here in Sweden and I also have my own blog. I would love it if you visit me www.vitatulpanen.wordpress.com  

Here's some of Jenny's beautiful inspiration! ;-)

Please pop over to their blogs and say HI! I am sure they would love a visit!

Be back very soon with Part 3.

x

TOP HATS & Winners - Challenge no.53

Hello Everyone

We hope you enjoyed the Planes, Trains and Automobiles Mood Board as much as we did! We really did love your projects and it was so hard to choose just 3 and which 3!!!! Please know that we really did appreciate all your creativity and passion! ;-)

Today we start with our winner section for the giveaway.

Thanks ever so much to Elizna at Scrap-It Design Studio for sponsoring this prize.

Scrap It Design Studio, situated in the beautiful coastal Port Elizabeth, 

is selling a wide selection of Lifestyle Crafts, memory Box and Poppystamps dies. 

Scrap It Design Studio will soon move into a business premises in Richmond Hill 

from where the owner, Elizna Parsons, will teach classes 

and sell dies and other scrapbooking basics.

http://scrapitdesignstudio.com/

on FACEBOOK: SCRAP IT DESIGN STUDIO

E-MAIL: parri@telkomsa.net

 13. Catarina Scrapbooking is the lucky person who wins this super prize! Congratulations! ;-)

Included in this prize:

Teresa Collins Nine & Co Foiled File Folders and Flaps

Heidi Swapp Glitter Stickers

Heidi Swapp Stamp Set

Webster’s Pages Sticker Elements

Petaloo Butterflies

Stick-on Rhinestones

Doodlebug Mini Doilies

Retail value also just over R300….

This is Catarina's gorgeous entry.

Please send an email to scrapafrica@tynox.co.za to claim your prize.

Now for our TOP HATS.

Our TOP hat for this challenge is this beautiful and stunning card by 4. Julia Kissel

Congratulations Julia! ;-)

We loved the styling, the gorgeous elements and especially that beautiful and fresh pink bloom! A stunning card! ;-) The cute little plane and the sentiment so wonderful! ;-)

Our 2nd TOP HAT is this beautiful page by

16. Mary (Greece). Well done Mary! ;-)

We loved the styling and textures and that amazing photo! ;-) Just so much beauty and perfection on this page! ;-)

The 3rd TOP HAT is this amazing page by 6. Chara Flouraki (Greece)

Well done Chara! ;-)

We loved the stunning background, gorgeous photo and fabulous elements! So gorgeous! ;-)

I am unable to enlarge this as the blog page does not allow for any copying. Apologies.

So congratulations to our 3 TOP HATS you ladies really created such divine pieces of inspiration! ;-)

We would love to see more of Julia's work, so please email scrapafrica@tynox.co.za for a Guest Design opportunity.

Thanks so much to everyone again, for having played along! You guys are awesome! xx

Sketch Challenge no.54

Hello Everyone

I really don't know where the time is going to, but 01 July is here and that means we start the month off with another sketch challenge.

You can create a card, tag, layout, an altered project, journal pages or even a digital project! You can create whatever you like! ;-)

We have an amazing and super, talented and inspirational lady as our Special Guest Designer for this challenge and she is the lovely Cathy Cafun.

Here's a little bit about Cathy!

Hi everyone!! Cathy here, I live in Brisbane Australia with my husband and 2 teenage children, who are the inspiration for most of my scrapbooking creations.
I was very excited to be invited by the lovely Denise to be this month’s Guest
Designer for the Sketch Challenge at Scrap Africa, and had so much fun creating this LO.
Scrapbooking and papercraft have been part of my daily life for over 10 years now. If I had to describe my style I would say it is predominantly shabby chic/romantic, but I am very partial to the grungy distressed look when creating masculine LO’s. My pages, cards and BTP projects always have elements of texture and dimension and I find layering, distressing and any form of mixed media a wonderful way to achieve this.
I am currently designing for Kaisercraft and am thrilled to have been asked to stay on for another year with this fabulous company.
If you’d like to pop in and say "hello" my blog is http://cathycafun.blogspot.com.au/

Cathy created this amazing and stunning page.

Here's some close-ups of this beaut.

The layers, the textures and the background are just fabulous! ;-) The blooms are so amazing too....so absolutely pretty!

Thanks sooo much Cathy for creating this wonderful page and giving us lots of seeds of inspiration! 

To see more of Cathy's inspiration and eye-candy please pop over to her blog! I am sure she would love for you to say Hi! 

We have some more Guest Designer inspiration, from a previous TOP HAT..Vicky Trabas.

Here's what Vicky had to say.

Hello, my name is Vicky and I live in Madrid. In late 2012 I discovered the Art Journal. Since then, I am a lover of inks, stamps, stencils and any material that can be used in my projects. During this time I have tried different styles and I can not say which one I like more. However during the past few months I have become a fan of transfers and collage and I like to use these techniques in my Art Journal pages.

It is an honor for me to be invited to participate in this blog, which I believe is full of great artists.

If you would like to know more about me, you can have a look at my Facebook public profile and YouTube tutorials under Vicky Trabas.

I hope you will enjoy my work!

Vicky created this gorgeous and artsy page.

Vicky had this to say about her page.

It is difficult for me to work on a sketch because when I create an  Art Journal page , I have nothing planned and I let creativity slowly emerge.

I decided on a Pinterest picture that I thought it reflects what Art Journal means for me: FUN.

I added some texture with 3D Gel Gloss Finnabair and stencil. Then I used Lindy's Stamp Gang and Tim Holtz Distress inks.

I drew flowers with a black marker and put a stamp (also black).

The washi tapes were perfect for the Art Journal!.

Since the base paper was white, I embellished the edges with washi tapes to create a visual triangle.

I hope you will like the end result.

Kisses

VICKY

Here is a closer look.

It's artsy, it's gutsy and definitely loaded with FUN, gorgeousness and wonder!

Fabulous page! ;-)

Thanks so much Vicky for sharing your creativity and talent with us! ;-)

Thanks again to Cathy and Vicky for providing us with loads of inspiration! ;-)



To really add to the inspiration we have the DT, to show you their takes on the sketch.

Ada

Ana Paula 

Anna

Arantzazu

Asica

Asmah

Beatriz B-arte

Channa

Christina

Denise

Eirini

Ela

Jenny

Jo

Joanna

Julia

Marie

Marina G

Marina T

Nolene

Olga

Regiane

Salla

Teri

Yana

Thanks so much to the Design Team for their amazing and beautiful work! ;-)

As always, we also have a giveaway prize, up for grabs.

A surprise pack from

I can assure you that it will be BoBunny Yumminess!!!

So now it's your turn to show us what you can do with the sketch.

You have until 14 July to upload your projects.

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