Challenge 65 - Something New

Firstly, lets congratulate our Challenge 63 winner..........

Well done Kimberly! You will be in the draw for the gorgeous Bo Bunny prize pack!

Now... onto our next challenge....

We want you to scrap a card or layout with a "New" theme. It could be you have a new baby in your family or you might have just moved house. Maybe you have just purchased some new shoes... tell us about them! Alternatively you might just want to use some new products or techniques on your card or layout. Hey how about actually cutting into that new pretty paper you are stashing away!

Check out what our DT came up with.....

Helen used new brads on her layout

Kelly used a new technique - paper roses

Nilsa used new product on her layout

Rosey scrapped about her new home

and Telah scrapped about her new friend!

We cannot wait to see what variety we get with this challenge. Don't forget if you get chosen as the winner for this challenge you go forward to the final draw for the wonderful Bo Bunny prize pack!

You have a week to enter and link us to your layout by adding them below:

Challenge 64 - Movie Inspiration

Welcome to another weekend! This week our challenge is simply this:

Create a layout inspired by a Movie!

Easy Peasy huh?! You can choose to use the colours, the title, the sentiment or maybe a favourite quote. Check out what our DT created - see if you can guess the movie and if you're not sure or want to see if you're right visit their blogs for more information!

Helen

Telah
Kelly

Leah

Rosey

Georgina

Nilsa

We all love movies, so cannot wait to see what you create for this challenge! Don't forget what you are playing for too this amazing prize pack donated by the awesome Bo Bunny

To play along simply link us to your layouts wherever you store them on the internet by midnight on 28th May 2010. Oooh and don't forget to check back tomorrow to see who won challenge 63!

Challenge 63 - Scrap the Scrap

Wow! We loved your entries last week, so great to see so many new faces too! Thanks so much for playing along. As promised, we randomly selected one winner from the week and that was Catherine Stewart - she created this adorable layout:

We love how it is streamlined across two pages and what cute colours too. Congratulations Catherine - your name goes into the drawing for the bo bunny May Prize pack which will be drawn at the end of the month! Good luck!

There are still more chances for you to win the May Prize - why not give challenge 63 a try?!

For this weeks challenge, we want to see where you create your scrapbook pages, your cards and other projects you work on. Your challenge is to create a layout about either your space in which you scrap, whats on your desk right now, or a photo of you actually scrapping!

Here is what our DT came up with to help inspire you:

Helen had a rummage around her desk

and created a layered page

Kelly created a page about a crop she attended

(with Georgina and Rosey!)

Leah created a page about her scrapbooking

hobby and used photos of herself

Nilsa shared her scrap storage closet with us
Rosey shared her creative space too
Georgina shared her purple craft room

Telah scrapped a photo one of her kids
took of her scrapbooking

So - lets see your creative spaces!! This will be a fun challenge, it's always interesting to see other peoples craft spaces.

Don't forget you are playing for this amazing prize:

It has been donated by the wonderful Bo Bunny and is crammed full of yumminess.

Each week throughout May, one lucky person who played along with the challenge that week - gets selected at random to go through to the next stage. At the end of the month, there will be 4 names in the hat, and we will hold a random draw for the winner. Each of the 3 runners up will also receive a small token of appreciation in the post! So what are you waiting for? Give it a go!

Deadline for entries is midnight on 21st May. To play along, simply create your layout and link us to it on this post by using the linky below!! ooh and PS. Don't forget tomorrow is 15th May and that means a blog hop with the Design Team - check back here tomorrow to see what we are up to! :)

Design Team Blog Hop

Well, it is the 15th of the month - and that means a tutorial blog hop from your Scrapwhisper Design Team!

This month Georgina showed the team how to create a Waterfall card. Here is what you need:

1 piece of cardstock 5.5 inches x 8.5 inches
1 piece of patterned paper approx 5inches x 4 inches
1 piece of patterned paper approx 4 inches x 3 inches
1 strip of cardstock 2 x 9 inches
4 pieces of 2x2 cardstock
stamps and inks of your choice or other embellishments
2 brads
piece of cardstock 0.25 inches x 4 1/8 inches

Step 1 - Fold your main piece of cardstock in half and attach your patterned paper as so:

Step 2 - Stamp and colour your 4 chosen images and adhere them to the 2x2 square pieces of card. Here Georgina has used images from Pixie Dust Studio and coloured them with copic markers.

Step 3 - Take your strip of cardstock (2x9) and score it at 1 inches, 3.5 inches and 4.25 inches. Fold on these creases and press to make them sharp.

Step 4 - Attach the small strip of cardstock across the bottom of your card about an inch or two up, securing it with brads is the best option here as it keeps things sturdy. Do not attach with glue.

Step 5 - Cover the middle section of this piece of cardstock with glue

Step 6 - Slide the long section of your (2x9) cardstock strip behind the horizontal one. Fold the top of the 2x9 cardstock over at the first crease and secure as so:

Step 7 - Take the image you want to show last and adhere this fully to the bottom of your 2x9 cardstock strip. It should be in line with the smaller strip attached to your main card.

Step 8 - Completely cover the next section up on the cardstock strip with adhesive. Do not cover the back of your image otherwise the waterfall will not work.

Step 9 - Line up your next image over the previous and adhere it to the adhesive you laid in step 8.

Can you see how the image is attached only by the top

Repeat this for all the remaining images:

Step 10 - Stamp a sentiment on the base of your cardstock strip

Step 11 - then make a hole and tie a ribbon through - this will make it easy to pull down.

Then you have your finished waterfall card! Simply pull the ribbon gently downwards to reveal the images within.

And there we have it! A waterfall card. Before you try this yourself, check out what the rest of the Design Team have created - you will love their different designs. Start with ROSEY by clicking here.

Don't forget to leave them some love on their blogs and if you make it to the end of our blog hop, be in with a chance of winning a prize!

Last Call

Last call for

Keesha Cooper
Jackie Edwards
Miss Cooper


Please can you email your addresses to gh26@sky.com please to claim your NSBD prizes.

Challenge 62 - Change

If you are a long term follower of the Scrap Whispers Blog you will have noticed by now that we are *under construction* with our new look! We felt it was time for a change and we hope that you are loving the new bright fresh colours!

We have lots still to come and our transformation is not yet complete! Thanks for bearing with us during this transistion!

That leads us on nicely to this weeks challenge - it is all about change! We want you to create pages with a change theme. The twist? We also want you to "change" an item on your page - a flower you have coloured, a chipboard element you have altered, a piece of paper you don't like anymore that you have stamped on - the possibilities are endless!

We are excited to have a special guest designer this week too!! Welcome to Liz Chidester.

" Hello, my name is Liz and I am so excited to be guest designing here at Scrap Whispers. I am a wife and mother of 4, living in Arizona. I have been scrapping for over 11 years now, since my first child was born. I have been hooked ever since.

Like many of you I am a major doodler (especially when I'm on the phone) so I tried my hand at drawing sketches. I took such a liking to it that I started The Scrappiest blog in Feb. of '09. A new sketch is posted every Monday on my blog along with our DT's takes on the sketches. We also have opportunities to win great prizes from our sponsors each month just by completing the sketches. My goal is simple: I want to inspire scrappers to try new looks with every page they create and... to just get some scrapping done. What could be better? "

Liz did an amazing job with this weeks Scrap Whisper challenge don't you agree? Hop on over her blog to see more fantastic work and play along with some of her challenges too!

In addition our very own Design Team created a few layouts to help inspire you this week - check out what they've created:

Telah

Kelly

Helen

Rosey

Georgina

And if all this isn't enough excitement for one day, we are also thrilled to announce that throughout the month of May, we are being sponsored by the wonderful Bo Bunny!!

They have very kindly donated this amazing prize, consisting of 20 double sided patterned papers, a chipboard album, bling, stamps, buttons, brads and ribbon! WOW!

We think you will agree that it is an absolutely amazing and generous offering! How yummy is the paper?! You can find out more about the entire Bo Bunny range by clicking here for their website, or how about clicking here for their fab blog which currently is showing lots of delicious new paper releases.

This prize is on offer for the entire month of May and all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning it is to participate in one or more of our challenges this month. At the end of every week we will select one random person and then their name will go into the bucket for the end of the month draw.

So what are you waiting for?!

Play along with this challenge and link us to your layouts by linking them here on the blog. Deadline for entries is 13th May 2010 at midnight GMT.

Click on "add your link" and follow the instructions to show us your layouts