March Madness

Good Morning Everyone 

Welcome to March Madness Month!! Yes it's time for a new Challenge, A new Guest Designer and our RETREAT is only 18 days away!!.

Firstly I would like to introduce our Guest Designer for this month,

Delsie Mowbray,

Hi fellow scrappers. I'm really excited to be guest designer with Scrapbookit this month. I fell into scrapbooking about ten years ago and I have loved it ever since. Despite being a career soldier (34 years) I've managed to have three wonderful children and now have four gorgeous grand-daughters which labels me officially as a 'mad scrapping grannie'. I'm a bling girl - I adore flowers and sparkle and use two very different styles .... vintage/shabby chic and the opposite - the clean, sharp lines of paper piecing and punch-work. I'm delighted to have this opportunity to share my 'take' on this month's mood board challenge ..... I hope you enjoy it. Regards Delsie xx

Here is Delsie's Beautiful Mood Board. You project must be inspired by things on the board,it can be a layout, a card, or an OTP but it must also include the word 'Cherish'.

Here is what Delsie has come up with for her challenge.

Thanks Delsie for a great challenge, I look forward to seeing everyone's entries. Entries can be up loaded on the sidebar via Inlinkz or via email to joanne@scrapbookit.com.au. Entries close on March 30th, the winner will be our Guest designer for May and receive a prize pack as well. So why not join in.

Happy Crafting

Jo Caird

March, April Challenges

Good morning everyone,
Wow I can't believe it's the middle of March already and Easter bunny is packing his basket full of chocolate goodies.

It's time for a very busy month with new challenges and a New Design Team Call Out (see top of posts for information).

This month's Layout  challenge is a recipe for you to follow with what ever theme you like but your page must have only the following:

• 1 word title
• 2 pieces of card stock
• 3 pieces of patterned paper
• 4 embellishments
• 5 photos.

I have used the new 'In the Attic' range from Kaisercraft, Twiddleybitz chipboard and Thickers to create my page of my boy playing backyard cricket on boxing day.

This months card challenge from Janene is to create a card for your BFF (Best Friends Forever).
I had fun creating my card with the same bits and pieces as my layout, with lots of Distress Ink and a cute flower from 'The Trinket Track', some bling from my new irock tool and a Kaisercraft stamp.

This Month Children's challenge is to create a Layout using only these 3 colours.
Yellow, Blue and Red. Hope you have fun with it.

Entries must be e-mailed to joanne@scrapbookit.com.au by the 14th of April and you can check them out in the gallery at Scrapbookit.

I will be back next month to introduce the new Design Team, but please drop back often to see what the current team has inspired you to create.

Jo Caird

Another Paper Inklings Layout...

Hello Everyone,

Have you put your DT Application in yet? If you haven't why don't you....

To apply you must create a layout based on the sketch (below) by Pagemaps.com, you must also send in two other recent layouts, tell Jo a little bit about your scrapbooking journey, link your blog, and answer this simple question: How will your position on our friendly team enhance the 'Scrapbookit' business???

This position will be for 12 months and DT members will receive products each month to create with.

How good does that sound??? Too good to refuse I bet!

Here is this months sketch:

This month Jo sent me the Paper Inklings range. For the sketch (my last blog post) I used the Paper Inklings Australian Flag papers to create an ANZAC Day layout. Jo also sent me the Paper Inklings Aussie Stamps paper and keeping with the theme of ANZACs I have used this paper to create a layout of my Pop in the army during WWII.

I have used Kaiser Cardstock (white, green and black) coupled with the Paper Inklings paper. I inked the papers with a Kaisercraft sepia ink pad.

I have also used some tulle and inked it for another dimension to the page.

I used some string and have created my own embellishment using a beer bottle lid.

Check it out here.....

Whilst it didn't quite turn out like the ones Geli Duncan did in Scrapbooking Memories Vol 14 No 4 it still looks like they are from the WWII period and they have aged beautifully.

The American Crafts Thickers I have used are 'Doll' and are fabric letters.

Here is another close up.

I really love how this has come together....a great way to share some history!

Make sure you pop on over to Scrapbookit - apply for a DT position and grab some of these Paper Inklings Papers for ANZAC Day....it is just around the corner!

Thanks for popping by,