Challenge #117: Technique - punches

Hi everyone!

It's Rosey here this week, as Georgina is going through a hectic time at the moment. Sorry about the delay in posting Friday's challenge, but better late than never. :-)

Georgina has chosen a good technique challenge for us all: PUNCHES

How many different ways can you put your punches to good use? If you have lots of flower punches, you might want to layer them up. Maybe you have confetti punches - try scattering them about and see what happens. If border punches are your addiction then see how many you can use in the same LO. Be innovative! Show us what you can do!

Here are a few pages from the DT to get your creative juices flowing.

See how Nilsa has used border punches not only to create borders but also to make her own embellishments. Aren't those frames just adorable?

I went down the scattering route, and made full use of both my butterfly punches, cutting them in half to make resting butterflies. I also used a corner punch on the actual photos. I had my usual problems photographing black, but you get the idea I hope.

I also made a card using the confetti idea with my smallest leaf punch. This is great for using up those teeny pieces of beautiful paper without wasting them.

Can you think of any other ways to use your punches? We'd love to see your ideas. Link your project up to us here at Scrap Whispers, and include a link to this blog in your post. As we are so close to the end of the month, we're going to include this challenge in February's prize pack, which will appear very soon. Just because you can't see it yet, don't let that stop you - it will be as good as all the others!

All the best Georgina, and we hope to have you back very soon. {HUGS}

Challenge 116: Sketch Challenge

Its Friday and that means another scrapwhisper challenge for you to play with this weekend!

This week we challenge you to create a layout based on this cute sketch created by Kelly:

For some inspiration check out what the design team created:

Nilsa

Rosey

Kelly

Now it's your turn! Share your layouts with us by leaving a link below:

Challenge 115: Scraplift Challenge

Welcome Scrap Whisperers, happy weekend to you all! This week our challenge for you is to scrap lift this lovely layout by Rosey:

 To give you some inspiration take a look at the Design Team's interpretation of the lift:

Nilsa chose similar paper to Rosey's main background, but in a different colour. She kept the shape of the layout but added a banner across the top of her back and did not matt it on the square background. Her photos were larger and so is the scalloped border towards the bottom of her page. She has embellished her page with words in a similar way and placement to Rosey's layout:

 Kelly took a different approach - she kept her 12x12 background plain and hand cut and doodled her own background paper. She only used two photos but made them squareish (similar to Roseys). She kept a scalloped border and piece of ric rak for embellishment towards the bottom left of her layout and used buttons for her other embellishments. She cut stars for the two corners of her page and added a title with journalling in a frame. 

 I did something different again! I didn't have any paper similar to Rosey so I chose a star shape instead. I did however choose a piece that had green dots around it which ties in with Rosey's layout. I kept the photo placement but mine were a little larger and rectangle not square. I kept the scalloped border but only across the top of two photos and not in a straight line across the page. I also used a spotty background paper (which looks seethrough to the design on the back in this photo as I photographed it in front of a sunny window!! LOL). Like Rosey I embellished with buttons

So it just goes to show - there is no right way to scraplift a layout - anything goes. Take inspiration from Roseys layout in any way you want to . Flip it, Twist it, change it to suit your style, just keep the essence in there somewhere!

If you give it a go this week, please share it with us, we would love to see what you create and there is a chance you might win this months prize pack! :)

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your own name and email address and we will add you to a team. The next game starts in 2 weeks time!

And the winning team is.....

TEAM ONE

Congratulations goes to Rosey, Mary, Wendy, Tammy, Nora, Susi and Chelsey !

It was a very difficult decision for me to make this time around - I was very impressed with every teams layouts and loved how it twisted and turned! Team One - your layouts caught my attention the most - they were all similar in theme and I loved the coincidences throughout such as the same or similar paper being used, that every season was represented in layouts and that you all tried to keep as best you could to the previous layout. Well done I am very impressed! You will each win the following prize:

12 sheets of American Craft "Classics" 12x12 paper, 1 sheet of Thickers lettering and a random splatter of embellishments from my stash such as brads, buttons and ribbon to make it into a little kit for you ! Please EMAIL Georgina with your address details to claim your prize!

Big Reveal Team Three

Finally - it's Team Three's turn to shine! As with the other teams they were given this layout by Georgina to start their game:

 First up was Nilsa - She moved the paper embellishment at the top of the page over slightly and used a punch to give it a scalloped edge. She kept the buttons there though. She moved the main part of the layout downwards more and kept the photo within the confines of the border. That cute little butterfly embellishment is still there but he's flying away a little bit more than he was on Georgina's layout! The scalloped circle is fuller and Nilsa has still embellished inside. Instead of a ticket there is a name and date tag on the corner of the photo.

 Then it was Helen's go - she added lots of texture to her page with paper tearing and curling. She moved the paper strip embellishment at the top over to the corner more and added three circle embelishments she made herself - I think I even spy an eyelet there! She created a wave like appearance to paper and layered it then moved the photo to the opposite side of the page. She has journalled in a curvy way on the patterned paper (I'm feeling a bit sea sick with all this waviness! LOL) and added more circle embellishments and eyelets!

 Elske was up next and she is taking us back to the Fall season! She has retained the top right corner embellishments and the paper tearing to add dimension. Her photo is in the same place but her title is a little smaller. The photo itself has a similar feel of water although a lot calmer than on Helen's beach! I spy eyelets again (they are so under used don't you think!) and some more circle embellishments and string.

 Tracy got to play next. She continued with the paper tearing theme but made it more central to the page. Her title was increased in size and instead of embellishing top right corner of the page, she embellished with stars to the top right of the central part of her layout. She has covered the corner of her photo with a date tag and journalled towards the bottom of the page. She has added interest with a patterned border. I also have to comment on the handsome little kid!

 Brianne played next - she made the centre layout bigger and instead of tearing all around the edges only turned a corner over. She kept three paper strips at the top and matted her portrait photo. She journalled under the title in white pen and placed a patterned border strip with some ribbon across the bottom of the page! Using blue black and red has made the page feel like the negative to Tracy's layout don't you think?

 Finally it was over to Colleen - she kept the central feel to the main part of the layout but scalloped the borders. She added swirls to the top right of this instead of strips and added bling - all of this has softened the feel of the page. She kept the portrait photo, turning it to black and white and matted this still also. The border strip across the page remains as does the red and blue! There is less journalling on this layout but the tag is hanging from the title and contains all the relevant information! Looks like there has been some ink distressing happening on this page too!

And that was the final page! Wow - again another complete transformation - Seriously... I love this game!

Well done team three!

Big Reveal - Team Two

Are we ready to see what team two got up to.........

Okay - as a reminder - this is the layout they were passed in the first instance! (created by Georgina)

 It was Kelly's turn as team leader first - she kept her design fairly true to Georgina's. She embellished the top right of the page with paper and buttons, kept the placement of the photos and the matting the same, although she centred hers to the page slightly more, her title was in a similar positioning and contained more than one font and she moved her journalling to the left and up slightly. Whilst there were no butterflies to embellish she did use a hot air balloon which also flies so brownie points for that one Kelly! :)

 Kelly's layout was passed to Kathy next who mixed things up - she kept the portrait photo on the right hand side but kept it within the background matting. She moved her title to above the photo and made it smaller and then embellished with 9 gifts. She used a similar paper doily to the one Kelly used and evened this out on her page by placing the other half under her photo. She retained the paper embellishment to the top right but moed it more to the top of the page instead.

 Kathy passed her layout to Sarah next who created a fun bright layout about a little boy turning five! She kept the positioning of the photo in the same place but made it slightly bigger again using some matting paper. rather than embellishing with 9 parcels, she placed 6 blocks of journalling there instead. Buttons were used to embellish the entire page and the actual title is above the photo still. She has used a scallop die cut to place behind the top of the journalling and kept the paper embellishments towards the top.

 Karen was next and it's all change again! (I love this game) She has changed the portrait photo to a landscape one, moved the title to the top and centre, moved the 6 blocks down the page and changed them from journalling blocks to more photos, she's added a funky dancing robot embellishement to above these and taken away the paper embellishment at the top.

 Next to play was Mindy and she has created a 2 pager - 2 A4 sides in fact so this has switched things up considerably!  She has also flipped the layout upside down and back to front! Instead of one main portrait photo on the right its now a landscape/block photo on the left. The 6 boxes have turned into 3 photos and her title has jumped from top right to centre left! Whats interesting here is that Mindy's journalling is in the bottom right and she has journalled on paper strips - if the original layout was flipped this is where the paper embellishment strips would be!

 Finally natascha got to play and she reduced her layout back down to one page. She kept the placement of photos - 3 down one side and a single one on the top left. Her jounalling was in a similar position and she embellished with a line of bling just above her single word title which was centre left!

Now thats another great transformation I think you will agree!

The Big Reveal!

Wow! It's been such a long time since we started the team Scraplifting game (way back in October) I'm sure some of you will have forgotten what your own layouts looked like! I sure know that was the case for me!!!

I'm sorry it's taken a while, but I am excited to be able to finally reveal to you all of the teams gorgeous layouts! Lets start with Rosey's Team - Team One...........................

Georgina produced the original layout and this was sent to all team leaders:

 Next up was Rosey. You can see she kept true to the original design, she used matting and layering, dragonfly embellishments instead of butterflies and kept the title in the same area too. She journalled on a flower and embellished the corner of the photo with leaves instead of a ticket. She used one photo as in the original layout.

 Next up was Mary and she was scraplifting Rosey's layout - Mary also kept true to the original but she added a few of her own twists. She used two photos instead of one and stretched the title across the bottom of the page. She added stickers to embellish but kept the journalling in the same spot. She took inspiration from the yellow in Rosey's layout and continued this into her own.

 Then it was Wendys turn. Suprisingly she chose to scrap a similar theme to Rosey, even thought she hadn't seen Rosey's layout - Wendy was lifting Mary's! Wendy has embellished with leaves and buttons and kept two photos as Mary has done. She has kept the title stretched across the bottom of the page and added a cute scarecrow too.

 Wendy's layout was passed onto Tammy next who also kept the fall theme - She has made the photos smaller in size and placed them more towards the centre of the layout. She kept the little scarecrow embellishment and has moved the placement of the photo to the top of her photos. Funnily enough she has used the same fall themed paper that Rosey used in her layout! I love coincidences like this!

 Then it was Nora's turn and she has chosen to change the season! We've moved from fall into winter and more specifically Christmas. Nora has kept two photos but rather than having them both landscape has changed one to portrait view. She has moved the title more to the right of the page but left it at the top of the photos too. She has embelished with paper snowflakes and ornaments but moved these out from the right side of the page slightly.

Susi was next with another Christmas layout! (I love how this game works!) She has centred her photos more than Nora but kept the size and shape of the photos the same. Her title is in the same place and she has embellished with a little Christmas Squirrel (again another coincidence I love because Rosey's user ID in the forums is Squirrel) - ooh hold on maybe its a chipmunk? I don't know - what do you think? Susi has also switched the snowflake embelishements to christmas parcels.

 Then, finally it's over to Chelsey who has disregarded the Christmas theme and moved to a more gothic halloweeny feeling page. She has kept it simple and removed all the background matting paper, tilted her photo to the diagonal and added some dimenstion with lace. She has no journalling, has linked die cut frames together and placed a small title to the bottom right of the page!

Wow! Look at how that changed!! Well done team one!

Challenge 114: Colour Challenge

Before we leap into this weeks challenge we would firstly like to announce the winner of the December Prize Pack! There were 20 entries in all (Chelsey x1, Amanda Jane x 4, Jackie Edwards x 3, Tracy Rhodes x 4, Libeeti x 3, Wendy Crowe x 3, Tiffancy Call x 1 and Kimberly C x1) Thank you all for your lovely entries - we've looked at them all (we're sorry we can't seem to leave comments on some posts due to blogger  issues) and we're pleased to announce the winner for December is............



AMANDA JANE

Congrats Amanda! Please email Georgina with your address to claim your prize

Now onto this weeks challenge!

 PINK ~ BLUE ~ TURQUOISE

Happy New Year to all of our lovely Scrap Whisper Followers! 2012 is here and we hope you are raring to go - we have lots of fun challenges in store for you this year and we're starting you off gently with another colour challenge! We challenge you this week, to create a layout or card with the colour scheme of pink, blue and turquoise.  As always with our colour schemes you can add black, white or cream with your creations if you wish!

Check out what our Design Team created to give you some inspiration:

Wasimh by Rosey

The Windswept Look by Georgina

Angel by Kelly

Boxes are Fun by Georgina

Birthday Card by Georgina

Now it's over to you! Want to be in with a chance of winning the January prize pack? Simply create a card or layout and link us to them using the linky below. You can enter as many times as you like with different creations too!