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LET'S SCRAP DESIGN TEAM 2012/2013

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Good afternoon ladies, I have not been around for quite some time, but will try and get updated with some posts in the next couple of days :-)

I am very excited and proud to announce that I have been chosen for the Let's Scrap Design Team from December 2012 until March 2013!!!!! This will be my third term on the DT and I am super excited to be working with some very talented fellow DT members. They are as follows:

Cathy van de Bruinhorst from Yuba City, USA;
Charlotte van Wyk from Mauritius;
Michelle Looi from Singapore;
Kristine Ponte from Abbotsford, BC, Canada;
Eniko DeLisle from Martha's Vineyard, MA, USA;
Janet Gregory from Cape May, NJ, USA;
Heather Corbitt from Butte, Montana, USA;
Tiffany Duvall from North Dakota, USA;
Val Thorpe from South Africa; and
Martha Sterbens from Hunting Beach, California, USA.

I am so excited to be working with all these talented ladies! A huge congrats to all of them and a special congrats to Cathy for being our DT organiser!!!!!

For the DT application we had to make a layout from the following sketch, designed by Jennifer Russell,

This is my take on the sketch,

The pictures in this layout was taken of our newest addition to our little family - our baby boy, Jonathan. The pictures were taken at his newborn shoot when he was only 6 days old. I just love all the pictures that the photography, Henriette Wolfswinkel from Howling Moon Photography took. For more pictures, have a look at the blogpost from the photographer, HELLO JONATHAN! / JOHANNESBURG NEWBORN PHOTOGRAPHER

I used Kaisercraft Miss Match collection paper and embellishment and the title I used are from Enmarc. Here are some pictures of the details.

I hoped you had fun reading the post.

Happy Scrappin'

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Hi there everyone and welcome to your next stop in the

If you came here from Denise van Deventer at www.strawbspatch.blogspot.com it means you are in the right place. If you did not, Alma van Biljon Carter at http://www.emsigebiene.blogspot.com/ has the blog hop order to help you find your way.

I am so happy that you have decided to join us for the Enmarc Spring 2012 Blog Hop! For those of you who are new to the site, Enmarc is a relatively new Social Network where a wonderful group of scrapbookers encourage and motivate each other in our love for scrapbooking! New sketches are posted once a challenge is finished and sample layouts are uploaded by members to provide inspiration to all. Enmarc sponsors all the challenges where you can win an awesome prize for each challenge entered. Our forum contains Tutorials, Tip & Tricks and General Discussions. We believe we have one of the friendliest communities of scrappers on the web and are so glad that you have decided to check us out during our blog hop!

The Enmarc Spring 2012 Blog Hop starts Saturday, 1 September 2012 and runs until 11:59pm, South African time on Sunday, 30 September 2012. That's right, it runs for the entire month!!!!!!! There are 8 Design Team, Contributing Design Team members and Administrators from Enmarc hosting the blog hop. They will each have a challenge for you to do and a prize that you can win. Also, some of the hosts of the group do not have a blog, but their challenges will be posted together with all the other challenges on the Enmarc Social Site, as well as on their Facebook pages. So make sure you befriend them on Facebook.

Not only do you have a chance to win a prize for each challenge you enter, but if you complete and post an entry for EVERY challenge along the blog hop by 30 September 2012, your name will be entered into a random draw for an awesome prize supplies by Enmarc Crafts!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok ladies, my challenge is a MONOCHROMIC CHALLENGE WITH A TWIST. In order to complete my challenge you have to do the following:

Your layout has to be a monochromic layout, but two colours have to be used. One primary and a second as the secondary colour. In my case I used blue as my primary colour and yellow as my secondary colour.
Along with that you have to use 9 products/techniques from the list given below.

Pattern paper;
Cardstock;
Ribbon;
Flowers;
Butterflies;
Die-cuts;
Metal embellishments;
Epoxy stickers;
Chipboard;
Pearls;
Heat embossing;
Embossing;
Stamping;
Rub-ons;
Brads/Eyelets

Here is my layout :-)

For my RAK, I will be offering a gift voucher from the Scrapbook Studio in Jeffreys Bay worth R200.

Here is a little about

The shop is located in the main street of Jeffreys Bay, South Africa. One block from the beach! We started our shop out of desperation for a haven of creativity, and what was just a small classroom, has now turned into one of the finest Scrapbook Supply, Cardmaking and Mixed Media shops around. We stock over 12 000 items in our store and over half of them are also available online at www.scrapbookstudio.co.za. We love, love, love paper and we just can’t get enough of it! Stamping, Inking and Punching also feature high on our list of Scrapbooking priorities! We try our best to always have the latest products in store as soon as they are available. Classes are taught on a weekly basis and you are welcome to come and scrap at the store every day, where one of our talented staff members will help you with your pages/cards/projects. We also sponsor various community projects in our town, as we believe that giving back to the community is really important. Please visit our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scrapbook-Studio/123773987712752 or our blog http://www/scrapbookstudio.blogspot.com to view some of our projects! We hope you will enjoy the prize that we are sponsoring and look forward to seeing you in store or online!

GENERAL RULES

Herewith the general rules for the Enmarc Spring 2012 Blog Hop.

You must become a follower of my blog.
Be sure to use at least TWO Enmarc whiteboard/chipboard products and name them in the comment section when you post your layout to the gallery. You can go to the Enmarc Crafts website's catalogue to get the names of the products you used if you do not have the packaging anymore.
Please leave me a comment here on the blog and tell me who or what your favourite topic to scrap is.
You must upload you layout/card/project to the Enmarc Gallery. You must tag your layout correctly in order for it to be entered into the challenge. For my challenge, my tag would be SPR2012,CH4 - NO space between SPR and 2012, seperated by a comma and then the challenge number with no space either.
Come back to my blog and provide a link to your layout in the Enmarc gallery.
I will randomly select one person who completed challenge 4 to receive the RAK I am offering. The draw will be done no later than 03 October 2012.

If you have ANY questions, please reply to the following link: Enmarc Spring Blog Hop Rules

So this brings Challenge 4 to an end, hope you enjoy it. Now head on over to Mariaan Fouche at http://mariaanfouche.blogspot.com/ for challenge 5.

Friday, August 31, 2012

Hi there blogger friends!

I am very excited to announce that there will be a blog hop during the entire month of September!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The blog hop will be running from the 1st to the 30th of September 2012, so make sure to mark your calandars and be ready to make some beautiful projects and of course win some AWESOME blog candy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

I must admit, since we found out I was pregnant at the beginning of the year, I have not been able to keep my attention on my scrapbooking. Most of the time is either spent at the office or doing baby shopping - and there are so many gorgeous baby thingies :-)

Here and there I have been able to make time to scrap, the inspiration is not always there, but I got some stuff done. I have not however been able to keep my blog up to date. So today's posts are more about showing some of the layouts I have made in the past few weeks, but not been able to blog about.

Along with Scrap Africa's 5th Sketch challenge, there was some awesome news that the sponsor for this sketch is Kaisercraft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This time there is two prizes! In order to stand a chance of winning one of the two prize packs, all you have to do is take part in either sketch challenge #5 or challenge #5 (I have done a blog post on this, here is the link if you want to go and have a look -

SCRAP AFRICA CHALLENGE #5

Each of the prizes include the following:

35 sheets of paper;
3 paper pads;
3 packs of rub-ons;
3 packs of stamps;
1 pack of ribbon;
1 pack of collectables;
1 acetate sheets and
5 sticker sheets (30x30)

These prize packs include materials from the brand new collections, Magnolia Grove and Rock Pool, as well as 4 other brand new collections that will be released in June and July! Oh my word, this is awesome news, it really makes me wish that I could take part in this challenge! You really do not want to miss out on this great opportunity!

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I guess by now you cannot wait to see the sketch, well here it is!

Due to the fact that our sponsor for this challenge was Kaisercraft, it was requested that we as designers use Kaisercraft products in our layouts. To me that was definitely no problem and even less of a challenge, due to the fact that I adore Kaisercraft and have almost ALL of there ranges. Here is my take on the sketch.

The best news ever is that this challenge is still open until 31 May 2012. So please go and enter your layouts on Scrap Africa, so you can stand a chance to win this awesome prize!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Scrappin Regards

Monday, May 28, 2012

hi there ladies

I trust you are all doing well and that the creative juices are flowing and spilling over those creative buckets!!!!!!!!

There has been so many things going on lately, that I have not been getting to everything. But I was thinking that while I have a few minutes now, I can give you an update as to what is happening over at FabScraps.

Firstly, there are two brand new collections that have been launched in the past month or so. The first collection is the C48 Rustic Collection.

Then there is the lovely C49 Victoria Collection, shown below.

Then of course, there is still time to enter the Fabulous May/June Giveaway from 12 May until 12 June. All you need to do is submit your project by emailing it to laura@fabscraps.co.za. Once you see your project on Facebook in the May/June Giveaway folder, get your friends to like your layout/project. The project with the most likes, WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can submit any project, it does not have to be a FabScraps project. And what is up for grabs, have a look at this!!!!!!!!!!!!

Between these lovely collections and this awesome giveaway, this Monday can not be other than Fabulious! So head on over to the FabScraps blog to see some of the other happenings over at FabScraps!

Scrapping Regards

SCRAP AFRICA CHALLENGE #5

Morning ladies, the time has come for a new challenge over at Scrap Africa.

The challenge this week is based on the following poster, which was taken from Pinterest

Now before you get to excited, remember - KEEP CALM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You will need to create any scrap project, whether it is a layout, a card or an altered object, with a phrase on it "Keep Calm and ..." - the end of the phrase is up to you. Be funny, be creative, be thoughtful - whatever the mood you are in, as long as you spread the calmness around :-)

If you decide to create a poster featuring a phrase, make sure you think of something innovative and interesting. It must not just be plain letters on the plain background!!!!!!!!!!

You can see some more ideas of "Keep Calm" phrases on this Pinterest board.

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When I first read this challenge, I had a bit of a problem trying to Keep Calm, but after lots of thinking and a few attempts at it, I finally came up with the following layout.

The pictures in this layout were taken at our very first scan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here are some pictures of the detail.

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Over at Scrap Africa, our guest designers for this challenge were Roulien Stahnke and Val Thorpe. These ladies were among the winners of the Scrap Africa Rainbow Challenge. It is such an honour to have them join us and to bring you these wonderful inspiration! So please head on over to there blogs and have a look at what they did! Then you must also head on over to Scrap Africa, to see what the other designers came up with. It is amazing how each one's take on this challenge is so different and unique!

We believe that by now you are totally calm and ready to begin with your own exciting projects. Once you have completed them, please link them to Challenge #5 - Keep Calm and ... You have until the 14th of June for this challenge!

Looking forward to seeing your projects!

Scrapping Regards