Challenge no.25 - Recycling

Hello Everyone

We are already 15 days into the year and we hope that 2014 has been good so far.

We have a fabulous new challenge today and it is about recycling. You need to use at least one recycled item on your project. Create a card, layout or altered piece, that has a recycled item and please tell us what that item is.

This challenge is hosted by the really creative Billie-Jean.

She also has this super little prize up for grabs.

So to inspire you, we have some guest designers.

First up is Leila Cassimira, 

who is a previous TOP 3.

Leila created a super and fresh page.

Aren't these vibrant colours and the little splashes just fabulous?!

So beautiful and gorgeous!

Leila used a clothing tag as her recycled item.

Next we have Daria, 

who was also a TOP 3, and she kindly created this project for us too.

This is so very clever and so very useful and beautiful, all at the same time!

Love this little holder! Daria used a paper ice-cream bucket and an old hockey sock.

Thanks so much Leila and Daria for your super projects! Please pop along to their blogs, you will be sure to find more eye candy and fabulosity!!!! ;-)

As always we have some super projects from the Design Team and I can assure you they will certainly "wow" you.

Billie-Jean

I used drinking straws and I cut the hot air balloons out of a Pumpkin Patch bag.

Ada

I use an egg card box box to create these flowers. I have also added some close up snippets of the flowers. I will post this on my blog when I get back from holiday if there is interest.



 Cathi

Recycling a bit of Christmas for this one: the cardboard came from a Christmas package delivered recently and the netting you can see came from a bag of Christmas chocolates the girls had in their stocking!!

Channa

I recycled a clothing tag

and a lollipop stick

Denise

My background page is a page from an old calendar (year 2000) and the leaves, butterfly, book and chair are fussy cut bits from this calendar too.

Erica

I recycled a plain, brown clipboard!

Helen

My recycled objects are the typewriter tag from some stationery, the ribbon from a Christmas gift and the stars which were cut and inked from a Christmas Bob Bon.  The photo shows a bracelet which is made from old typewriter keys and I photographed it on a table cloth made by my Mother when she was a young girl.   The journalling is tucked behind the photo and it reads:-

A few weeks before Christmas, we flew interstate to visit our youngest son and his partner.  One balmy afternoon, we wandered through a local craft market admiring the hand made jewellery.  Sarah and I stopped to admire some bracelets fashioned from old typewriter keys and I explained that I’d learned to type on an old “Underwood” typewriter with very similar keys.  We strolled on and when she was engrossed in something else, I ducked back and bought the bracelet for her Christmas gift.  On Christmas day, imagine my surprise to open my gift from her, which revealed a bracelet of typewriter keys from the same stall.  She had asked our Son to distract me, while she whizzed back and  bought one for me as well. Neither of us was aware of what the other one was doing. Needless to say, we both love our bracelets.         

 December 25th 2013

Ия (Iya)

(Iya is also a new Design Team member and you will get to meet her shortly)

I used an old book...

and carton boxes.

Jowilna

 i used this large tag from new bedding that i bought to create this tag - the care instructions will be good advise for a friend and a fun twist to add to her gift

Lynette

 I cut a 12x12 square from a cardboard box and set about distressing it to form the background for my page.

Here is a close up of the one corner of the page.

Marelize

Out for Publication

I've kept and used the red bow (and bell) from the chocolate bunny on my layout. :)

Patricia

I used Prima packaging, Gauze swab, Plastic vegetable bag and clothing tag.

Prima packaging and hanger from socks that I bought.

The black and sequence embellishments were from an Alice Band...

Rene'

 I used a clothing tag for my recycled item.

Tanya 

(Tanya is one of our new Design Team members, I will introduce her properly in a little while! ;-))

This  metal  butterfly - my wedding decoration. I broke it into pieces and decorated my page with parts of it!

Val

The heart was from a box that I cut up and covered with the glitter paper, the tag is a clothing tag from Poetry that I stamped on, the ribbon is from a T-shirt that I bought (to hang it up with) and the black banners are from Prima Flower packaging.. 

Well we hope you are inspired by our projects!

In addition to Billie-Jean's prize shown above, there are these yummy goodies up for grabs!

You have until the 31st January to upload your projects!

We really look forward to seeing your creations and all those recycled goodies!

Meet our new DT Members - Erica Houghton and Helen Wallace

Hello Everyone

We have such exciting news to share with you! We have 2 new Design Team Members.

These 2 ladies are really so very talented and I am personally so thrilled that they have joined our team.

So firstly a HUGE welcome to Erica Houghton.

Here is what Erica had to tell us about herself.

Hi!! 

My name is Erica Houghton. My husband, Ben, and I live outside of Washington DC in Stone Ridge, Virginia. When I’m not working or sitting in traffic :) you can find me in my scrapbook room creating. I’m addicted to patterned paper so I’ve resorted to using lots of layers in order to use all of the wonderful papers that come in each collection. I never feel my pages are complete until I’ve added flowers, machine stitching, and usually LOTS of bling (I love glitter, rhinestones, and anything else that has glitz, glamour and a lot of sparkle). I mostly make 12x12 layouts but have expanded my interest into card and tag making, along with a mini album every now and then. 

I am on the DT at Sketchabilities and Flying Unicorn, and am very excited to be joining Scrap Africa! You can find me at http://ericahoughton.blogspot.com/or https://www.facebook.com/erica.houghton8, so be sure to pop over and say ‘hello’.

To give you a little taste of Erica's work, have a look at these fabulous projects.

Please pop over to Erica's blog and see all the wonderful eye candy! ;-)

Secondly, a BIG BIG welcome to Helen Wallace.

Hi, I’m Helen and I live in Adelaide, South Australia with my husband, who is my best friend and soul mate.  I have three adult sons and four grand children; almost always the subjects of my scrapping. I love to travel, take photographs, eat good food and drink wonderful wine. 

I have been scrap booking for quite a few years when I decided to make an album for our oldest son’s birthday.  Little did I know that it would become a daily obsession and require a studio to house all my stash. 

It’s important to me to pass on the stories of a different era, to put flesh on the bones of my ancestors so they are much more than just a stern black and white image. I want my Grand children to know how different life was when I grew up and the sacrifices their Great Grandparent made to keep food on the table.

I love everything about scrap booking.  The photos and papers, the card stock, the ribbons, the buttons and trims, the mists, paints and stencils.  I love the "playing" which allows my inner child to be creative.  I love getting messy and experimenting with new techniques  never quite knowing what might evolve.

I want my boys to know that their "old cheese" (moi) was once young and gorgeous too; that life is fleeting, so they should find time in each day to nurture their spirits.  I’ve learned to take better photographs to capture the spirit of our grand children. Their stories are recorded so they will know how much they are loved and enjoyed by their grandparents.  

Scrap booking fills a hole in my heart that I didn’t know was there.

Here is some of what we can look forward to ;-)))

Helen is an amazing story teller and I know that I can certainly learn from her! ;-) 

So welcome Erica and Helen, we really look forward to working with you and seeing all the wonderful projects you create!

pssssssst...... we will be back very soon with some more exciting news! ;-)

x

Winners and TOP 3 - Challenge no.24

Morning Everyone

We have some winners and a TOP 3 to announce for our snowflakes, masking and glitter challenge.

So let's start with the random winners.

The first winner who will get these beautiful flowers to create with is 2. Tina . Congratulations Tina! ;-)

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The second prize up for grabs are these 7 Gypsy goodies and the winner is 7. Joefil Cate . Congratulations Joefil! ;-)


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The last of our random winners, is going to get to play with this beautiful kit from Ada.

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Congratulations to 12. ЯОсенняя .
We know it was a really busy time of the year and so we want to say thanks to everyone who played along! It was really super to see all of your projects! You guys are awesome! ;-)
Okay, now to the TOP projects.
Congratulations to Joefil Cate.

This is one stunning page, with so many beautiful details and is so fun and fresh! Fabulous page!We absolutely loved it! ;-)
Next up is 11. Mona Pendleton

Congratulations Mona on this soft, delicate and beautiful canvas! This is an absolutely gorgeous canvas and we loved the colouring and beautiful textures.
In 3rd spot, we had 2 layouts. We loved these both equally.
Well done to 2. Tina 
 
We loved your amazing background and the beautiful winter scene created.  The photo is fabulous too!Gorgeous, gorgeous work! ;-)
Then last but not least,  4. Taniko 

We loved this fresh and festive page! The super design, stunning details and fresh colours were a hit with us!Well done Taniko! ;-)
Congratulations to all the winners and TOP projects! ;-)
Thanks again to everyone who played along too!!
We would love to see more of Joefil's work, so please could you mail scrapafrica@gmail.com for a Guest Design opportunity.
For all the random winners, please could you also send us your postal details.
Have a super day and we hope you will play long with our new challenge.

Sketch Challenge no.25

Morning Everyone

Welcome to 2014! We wish you many blessings, prosperity and health for this coming year! We also wish you an abundance of creativity and inspiration!

I saw this image and thought it is absolutely the perfect for New Years wishes.

We have a new sketch challenge for you today.  We hope that you will play along.
Create a page, card or altered project, which is inspired by the sketch below.

We have 2 fabulous Guest Designers for this sketch challenge and are previous TOP 3 winners.

First up is Helga Saaresto.

Helga created this amazing page for us.

There are so many wonderful textural elements here, as well as those super photo's! This is really such a fabulous page! ;-)

Here is a close-up for good measure.

  

Please do yourself an inspirational favour and pop along to Helga's blog.  You will really be amazed at her stunning projects.

The other Guest Designer is the very talented Miki Yatsuka.

Miki created this wonderful page.

Isn't this just the sweetest page ever?! The gorgeous background, beautiful blooms and sweet photo's, make for a super, super page! ;-)

Thanks so much Helga and Miki for your beautiful pages! ;-)

We have our Design Team to wow you as well, so have a look at these awesome pages below.

Ada

                                                         

Billie-Jean

Cathi

Channa

Denise

Elena

Elizna

Jowilna

Marelize

Patricia

I created a 10'x10' canvas for this challenge...in time I will do some journalling on it....

Rene'

Val

We really hope that you are inspired and will play along!

Tell us what 2014 holds for you, or your dreams and aspirations for 2014.

Use the sketch as inspiration and share a little bit of yourselves with us! ;-)

We have some goodies for a random giveaway.

You have until the 14th January to upload your projects.