Challenge #5

Morning all! Time for a new challenge already. My the time is flying by now! Have you got your Christmas cards done yet?? Personally, I won't even think about them until at least the middle of November!

So, given we are all stretched for time at this end of the year we thought an easy challenge was in order (but really, they all have been pretty easy, haven't they??!!). This challenge is a good old sketch challenge. Something we can all have a go at without having to think too long and hard. I like that kind of challenge!

As usual, link your entry with the link button below, you have two weeks, interpret the sketch how you feel (so long as we can see a vague notion of the sketch still remaining it counts!) and keep your fingers crossed that you might win one of the great prizes!

For this challenge we have two brand new releases from Bo Bunny as prizes. Crush and Crazy Love have just been released and they are just beautiful, so to get your hands on a set make sure you enter!

Better give you the sketch I suppose...... So here it is and some samples to get you going!

Layout by Michelle

Layout by Ang

Layout by Katie

And here is a picture of the fantastic prizes (one for layout and one for card of course!).

Crazy Love by Bo Bunny

Crush by Bo Bunny

Till next time!

Challenge #4

Happy Tuesday to everyone! I hope you are all ready for the next challenge! This week we thought we would focus on flowers. Flowers are everywhere in the scrapbook and card market place, but what has been even more popular is creating your own flowers. So the challenge is to create a layout and add some of your very own handmade flowers!

There are plenty of ways you can make your own flowers, think layered die cut or punched flowers, rolled flowers, crocheted flowers or even hand cut flowers. Plenty of ideas! And of course we have some samples for you to get you started.

Layout by Ang

Layout by Zoe

Some gorgeous examples of handmade flowers there! And for one lucky winner there is this great pack of My Minds Eye Meadow Lark paper. As usual you have two weeks to uplaod your layout. And I have found out that you don't need to have a blog to link! You can paste a link from an on-line album like Photobucket or Flickr!


So get creating and I can't wait to see what you come up with. Challenge #3 finishes tomorrow so you still have almost a day to get something in! I will be back on Thursday to announce a winner.

Challenge #3

Here we are another fortnight gone already. They really are rolling around pretty fast aren't they??!! So are we all "blinged" out and ready for another challenge then?? This is going to be an easy one too. We like easy here at Scrapbook City, we don't want to have to think too long and hard about things!

This challenge is a colour combo challenge! Spring is in the air so we selected a nice bright "Springy" kind of palette. All you need to do is use this colour palette as the basis for your layout. These are the only colours besides white and black that you can use, but you can vary the shade (darkness) or tint (lightness) of them a little if you need to! And for some "colour theory" ideas to help get you started think about the 60 30 10 rule for combining colours. 60% use of your main colour, 30% of your second colour and 10% splash of your highlight colour! You have five colours to choose from so that should be easy!


So as usual we have some samples to get the juices flowing.

"Nature Lover" by Michelle Best Creation Inc Bella papers

"Auskick" by Katie Best Creations Inc Bella papers

"Chatty" by Ang Sassafrass Lass papers

Once again you have two weeks to link your creation to our gallery, and once again we have an awesome prize up for grabs! Prize details to come later today (I have to get me to the shop to take a photo!!!). And because we have put this challenge up a day later than usual you will get an extra bit of time to get your entries in! It is only fair after all!!

New Challenge

Well, two weeks has come and gone just a little too quickly. But on the bright side, this means a new challenge for you to try! Once again we have a great challenge with some wonderful samples by our girls and better a awesome prize!! So, do you want to hear what the challenge is???

This is going to be a really easy challenge for you I am sure. "Bling". That is pretty much it! Create a layout making good use of bling and link it to our blog here using the link tool (or email us at info@scrapbookcity.com.au with your picture) and you have until Tuesday 28th September midnight to get it there.

Now remember there are many different things that fall into the bling category. Gems, pearls, glitter, glimmer mist many things for you to use! So now, lets check out the samples from our girls.

"Mother of the Bride" by Tammie

"Cute" by Ang

"Now & Then" by Zoe

Three different ways to use bling and lots of different kinds of bling! So hopefully you are all inspired now, but one last bit of inspiration check out the prize! The randomly drawn winners (one from the Card Blog and one from the Scrapbook Blog) will receive a great new i-Rock tool from Imaginisce with a selection of gems to go with it!


So, what are you waiting for?? The winners will be announced on Wednesday 29th September. I am looking forward to seeing lots of great pages full of bling!

Our Kaiser Craft challenge winners will be posted tomorrow too, so keep an eye out for that. There is still a little time to get your entries in for that one so hurry!

Til next time.

WELCOME!

So, what do you think of our brand new look?? Looks fabulous doesn't it?! A big thank you to Zoe for designing this for us (not to mention fixing it all up too!). So, what does this new look mean?

Well, Scrapbook City has decided to get more active in blog land, and we thought you, our readers, might enjoy a more interactive kind of blog too. What we are going to do is provide you with lots of interesting tips and techniques and chit chat about the Scrapbooking industry and also challenges with opportunities for you to win great prizes. We have also created a second blog to show off our new found love of cards and cardmaking. You can find the link to this at the top of the page. This means too that we have two teams, one to cover the layout side of things and one to cover the cards. So make sure you jump over to the new card blog to check that out!


To launch our new look blog and the new card blog we are going to start off with a great challenge and a fantastic prize!


We are going to kick off with a Kaiser Craft challenge. Kaiser is one of our most popular manufacturers and they are constantly bringing out beautiful papers and extras and they are Australian to boot. So we figured most people would have some Kaiser in their stash! But we are going to give you some restrictions, after all you can't have it too easy! You need to create a page using one of the following collections (or you could mix and match from them all!):

Lush

Up Up and Away

Secret Bird Society

Hippy Girl

You need to use at least 70% Kaiser product, remembering that Kaiser have lots of extras like bling, flowers, ribbon, letters and stamps that can all be included. And to kick off your creativity we have some samples for you.

"Our Honeymoon" by Michelle uses Secret Bird Society papers

"Peaceful" by Ang uses Secret Bird Society papers

"My Butterfly" by Katie uses Hippy Girl papers

We are also running this challenge on the card blog (making cards instead of course), and we have two fantastic prizes to give to two lucky winners (one card and one layout). Up for grabs we have one set each of Secret Bird Society and Hippy Girl. The winners will be selected randomly so everyone has equal chance of winning. You have two weeks to complete the challenge (Tuesday 14th September midnight), with the winners announced on Wednesday 15th September.

Hippy Girl Prize Pack

Secret Bird Society Prize Pack

To show us your entry we need you to load it onto your own blog and link it to us using the link system. This is really easy. Just add you entry to your blog and then click on the image to find its URL (this will be shown in the address bar at the top of the screen after you have clicked on your image). Copy this address and add this to the URL box that comes up when you click on the link option on our blog for this challenge and fill in the rest of the details and then submit link to finish! Easy!



If you don't have a blog, don't fret, just email us at info@scrapbookcity.com.au with a picture of your entry and we will add it to the blog for you.

Remember you have until midnight Tuesday 14th September to get your entries in. We will also put up the next challenge on that day so keep a look out for that too!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope to see lots of great entries soon.