Sorry****for delay**** OP&C November Winner.....is????

Hi all....

 I'm really sorry for the delay in the announcement of our NOVEMBER BASE CHALLENGE, here at OP&C.
 So without further ado......our winner is



 we so loved Jo's original entry....that is one awesome photo....love the burlap/hessian, gum leaves, well we loved it all.
 Thanks to all that entered and again sorry for the delay in posting a winner (my bad!).

Cheers Kim

One Year Ends A New One Starts ~ New Beginnings

Happy New Year ! Gee where did 2012 go? Frankly I am happy it is over and a New one has begun. I would like to wish everyone a wonderful 2013 and may all your dreams come true. So..... Talking about New Beginnings that is my challenge to you this month, to scrap a layout that means New Beginnings to you. I can't wait to see what you all come up with. And now I have the pleasure of introducing our Guest Designer for the month, a very sweet lady, I am sure a lot of you will know her......ta da.....Kerri Smith

Hi

 Thank you girls for asking me to be your guest GD for January, I was quite surprised and am very happy to be part of your wonderful blog here!

My name is Kerri and I have two sons; Cody is 20 and Jayden is 15.  We live in Colac, Victoria with our two Jack Russell’s; Willo and Nitro, our cat Sam and now we have adopted ‘Trishka” my son’s gorgeous cat!! It is a zoo!!!

I have been Caring for my mum and dad since June 2009 and they have just gone into full time age care.  I am having a bit of a break to look after my family; to get back to my garden, scrapbooking, just life in general! Then I plan on going back to school to Nurse!

I have been scraping for a while now and I love being able to scrap for my boys, and tell our family stories. I am currently a DT at Home and Scrapped.

I don’t really think I have a style, although I love distressing and ink and atm trying to be a bit more linear and not embellish too much! Lol! I love pp, sewing on my layouts, washi tape and of course Stamping as I have just been promoted to a Senior Supervisor with Stampin’ Up! J

I have a blog, I like to surf the net, have a go at challenges and of course take lots of photos!  I like to keep you updated with the bits and pieces of our life! My blog is http://www.myscrapnaddiction.wordpress.com

My layout I created for you is about my new beginning for 2013!  My “One Little Word Challenge” I am beginning, and working on all year. J

 I hope to SIMPLIFY my life in 2013! J

 And Kerri's take on the challenge

Thank You Kerri so much for being our GD this month

For my layout I based it on the A New Year beginning and how I want to embrace it and all its adventures

Next Kim and Annette will post their layouts :)

Cheers

Mary

Hi all....(Kim here)
Finally I hear you all say....sorry I've been a bit slow this month....I'll have to blame the kids, nah! It's their slack mother.
  Thanks to Kerri for being our awesome GD for the start of 2013. I took my lead from Kerri and scrapped a word for 2013 and my word is GRATITUDE a word I want my children to remember!!!
 For all that we consider to not be right in our lives we must remember that there is always something to be thankful for...
 I am thankful for my beautiful children.





 

Hope you find some time in the next couple of days to do this challenge....would love to see your take.
Cheers
Kim x

December Challenge

Phew just made it in time for the close of the December Challenge.....my challenge......oops have had this page done for ages just haven't taken a pic of it, but never fear fatithful and loyal followers here it is.

I stuck pretty close to the sketch but perhaps do need to add a bit more journalling. Used lots of glimmer, texture paste (thanks to the lovely Miss Kim for showing me how to do it). All the gorgeous chippies are from Scrapmatts, flowers, key, leaf ribbon and tiny twine from Craft Queen.

Only one day to go can you do it too? Would love to see, hugs and love Annette xo

DECEMBER CHALLENGE

Well he's making a list and checking it twice and will find out whose naughty or nice!!
It is nearly that time of the year again, love it or hate it, there is no escaping all the lights, tinsel, Santas and the trappings of the season.
Soooo with all this madness around I decided to break from tradition, I think that puts me on the naughty list, and make our challenge for the month a bit different. It has two parts, first is a pretty awesome sketch, designed by the wonderful Miss Annnette (that's me) with the following criteria - a Xmas pic must be used but no tradional Xmas colours ie red, green, gold, silver plus no Xmas embellies. Xmas sentiments yes but nothing else Christmassy.

To kick things off we have one of the most gorgeous, lovely, sweet and talented lady that I have had the pleasure of meeting irl and giving squishy hugs to..........the incredible LEANNE JAGO.

"Howdy, its me Leanne..or as many of you know me LJ..

I'm a mum of two mostly gorgeous children who say the darnest

things and are growing up so quickly.. the whole reason i scrap is the therapy

i get from getting my hands dirty and being able to zone out from the world

and truly relax.. Sure the bi-product of having all those memories is an added

bonus thats for sure.

I'm currently part the design teams for Show Us Your Stuff, Rainbow Splendour,

Lil Red Rocket and ScrapMatts.

Thank you for letting me be a part of Orange Paperie & Co for the month of

December. Annette has provided a Gorgeous Sketch and the bonus of doing

a Chrissy layout without the traditional colours is so refreshing .. so why not

have a go at this one.. "

Here is the sketch, while it looks a bit squashed it is meant to be done as a 12x12.

And here we have LJ's gorgeous take on it, totally love the pic and how she has intrepreted the sketch.

Now the rest of us will have our pages up within the next couple of days but I thought I would pop in a couple of sneak peeks of my page, after all it is my challenge.

So what do you think???

Would love to see your comments and of course your pages, until then.

Hugs and love

Annette xo 

Love the gorgeous LJ's layout, Thank You Leanne for joining us at Orange Paperie with your super fabulous talent. That photo is so cute!
This is my take on Miss Annette's Challenge for the month and look forward to seeing a lot of people joining in :)

I would like to take this opportunity to wish each and everyone a Joyful, safe, and wonderful Christmas
Love and Sunshine
Mary x


 Hello everybody!!!!!
(Kim here)....

   Great to have the naughty but nice Leanne Jago helping us to inspire you during this festive season.....and before I forget, I would like to wish everyone the Merriest of Christmas Wishes to one and all and I hope that the new year is absolutely fabulous!!!!
     Now to show you my take on our Christmas Loving, Annette's Sketchy...Non-traditional Colour Challenge....

 Nawwwah!
They were sooooo cute, back in 1993.....(What happened????)

Hope you can find the time to get this challenge done....we know it's hard this time of the year with end of school and Christmas stuff!

Cheers  Kim xxx

***October Winner ****

Evening Lovelies,

Mary has asked me to post the winner of her October Colour Challenge.....so without further ado
drumroll......please....

               
                                     Cheryl O'Brien
Congratulations Cheryl......a simply stunning layout...we loved everything!!!!
Hope everyone's November is going well and we hope to see a few more enteries in my BASE challenge....

Keep happy and scrappy

Kim's November Challenge

WoW!!!
 November.....thoughts of organizing that special day of the year are starting to enter our minds. It's always such a busy time....especially in this house....sigh!
Makes me feel tired just thinking about it.
Putting those festive thoughts aside, just for now..... it's time to introduce my Guest Designer for November.
drumroll please!!!!!

November's Guest Designer is.....
the very talented......
                                       Gwen Wruck

I decided this month to ask Gwen a few questions and to show us a photo of her scrap space.

Q1. How did you discover Scrapbooking? I'm a card maker from way back and saw scrapbooking at a Craft Show around 10 years ago... My mum who was with me at the time said "oh, you should do that" so I bought some paper and had a go :) My first layout was of my pet cat "Hamlet" and no, I will not show you - it's too embarrassing!!

Q2. Your top 3 scrapbooking online stores? Craft Queen (http://www.craftqueen.com.au/index.php) because you will always find something unique, Scrap Friends for all the essentials (http://scrapfriends.com.au/) and ETSY.

Q3. What type of camera do you have? My husband loves photography so we have a few cameras in our house!!... The main one I use is a Nikon D5000 it is a great camera that is not too technical - I also have a Nikon CoolPix S9100 which I have in my handbag at all times for surprise photo opportunities!

Q4. Favorite products at the moment? *Sigh* Now that's a tough question...just one?? I'm going to say Gesso.. I use it on almost every layout I am doing lately whether it be with a template or with Impasto medium swiped onto the background or to soften the colors of embellishments/flowers etc. I know its technically an art supply but for me, it is everywhere right now!

Q5. Who inspires YOU? I know its a cliché but what inspires me to create the most would have to be my family and their support of my hobby. I get so much joy from watching Caitlin (my dd) and Chris (my dh) look through our albums and WOW over the pages I have lovingly made for them. They don't see the "latest products" or how technically good or bad they are, they just love that I have created something for and about them. I so so LOVE a colour challenge for inspiration and using different colour combos. I also do a lot of blog hopping and am very addicted to INSTAGRAM for photo inspiration.

Thanks so much for inviting me to be November's guest design team member I feel very honored and I've had a blast!

Gwen

And here is a pic of Gwen's Scrap/Craft Space.

Gorgeous space, Gwen!!!!

   So now you know who is helping the team to inspire you, lets take a look at this months CHALLENGE.

   I decided it would be fun to do a BASE CHALLENGE....that is where I give you the start of your layout and you build on what I give you.....

 The BASE looks like.....



and Gwen's take looks like...

 Stunning Gwen......Thank you so much for joining us at Orange Paperie & Co.... your work is beautiful!!!!

Now over to Mary.....









Kim Gave us a base to build on this month and I really enjoyed playing with Texture Paste and mists . Thanks Kim for the Great Challenge & Thanks to Annette for the Template I used for the circles.

Mary. X

Now the Devine Miss Annette....



Well the gorgeousness that is the lovely Miss Kim has given us a fantastic challenge for this month and I have to admit that I really enjoyed doing it. The base leaves so much room for intrepretation and creativity that the mind goes into overdrive.

This is my take on it, an adorable photo of my nephew Logan taken by a friend of my sister, the pic really called for quite a simple page to highlight, not distract or overwhelm.

I am totally loving BoBunny pp atm for black and white pics, the owl button was made by me, pretty clever chicky here.

Well I hope that you have as much fun as I have had and can't wait to see what you do with this.

Hugs and love Annette

And last but not least, ( my), Kim's take on the BASE challenge.... I kept it pretty simple as I just love this pic taken of Sidney last Wednesday (31st Oct).

So there we have it ladies.....hope to see lots of entries into this challenge and hope we have inspired and another BIG thank you to the wonderful Gwen for adding to the inspiration....

Cheers and Happy Scrapping from

ORANGE PAPERIE & CO.



Winner of my recipe Challenge

Well before we put the new Challenge up for November I thought that it might be a good idea to announce the winner of my recipe Challenge for September.......it was such a hard decision because there were so many gorgeous entries....but one that really caught our eye was this awesome page by the very talented Lizzy Hill http://lizzyhill12.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/orange-paperie-co-september-challenge.html

Totally loved how she used the recipe, the treatment of the chippies, great ribbons, everything.
So Lizzy if you could let us know your addy we would love to send you a little gift. Now we do have an email addy but I have forgotten it but I am sure the lovely Kim will see this and add it in a comment or something,
Huge thanks again to all those who entered, it gives us so much pleasure to see your wonderful pages.
Hugs and love Annette x