November Sketch Challenge Winner!

Hello everyone, Jo here. There were some really lovely entries for my Sketch Challenge last month & I think they are all winners. However the one that stood out the most for the DT was..............

KYLIE gW!  Congratulations Kylie, we loved your take on the challenge and the story behind it. A very appropriate layout for November. If you can send me your address I'll pop a little something in the mail to you :)

Thank you to everyone who entered, I hope you enjoyed it. If you get time it would be great to see you enter Kim's December challenge.
On behalf of the Team here at Orange Paperie & Co I'd like to wish you all a very safe & happy Christmas and a prosperous & creative New Year. We are looking forward to seeing all your creations in 2014.

October Challenge Winner

Good morning all, my sincere apologies for being a tad late with this announcement, completely slipped my mind. (a sign of age)
After conferring with my fellow team members a winner has been chosen......and it is............LIZZY CRUST!!! Congratulations Lizzy from all of us, a well deserved win. Please message me and I will get a little prize out to you.
And here is Lizzy's delightful take on the challenge. So much to look at.

Thank you one and all for playing along xx Cheryl

Mid month inspo for December

Cheryl here with my take on Kim's challenge for December.

and here's a closie.....

I just could not get my head around this challenge, drove me mad... but, all well that ends well.
and on that note, I would like to take this opportunity to wish each and every one of you a very Happy Christmas and a very prosperous New Year.. Love and best wishes to all
Cheryl

December Challenge - White, Gold & Silver

Hello all and welcome to December
 Firstly I want to tell you about our DECEMBER CHALLENGE
I thought it would be nice to have a little colour challenge.

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White*Gold*Silver

Now it doesn't have to be a Christmas layout as such but most of us have done Christmas ones.

Now onto our Guest Designer for this merry month.

I would like to introduce you to the very talented

Janice Nicholls

 Hi there, I’m Janice Nicholls and I live in a small country town in Cummins, South Australia.

I started scrapbooking in 2006 and my 2 beautiful children and family all feature in my work. My style is ever changing. At the moment I love double photos, grouped and layered clusters and white space.

I also like to add layers to my background using stencils, gesso, mists and inks.

I scrap mostly 12 x 12 layouts. I enjoy trying new techniques, not always successful, but it is fun trying.

I have been very fortunate to have been on some fabulous Design Teams and have had my work published in magazines.

My blog   http://janicenicholls.blogspot.com.au/

I am honoured and thrilled to be Guest Designing here at Orange Paperie & Co for December.

 A big Thank You to the very talented Kim Ewins for inviting me.

Kim’s theme for this month is Gold, Silver and White and being December I chose to scrap about one of my favourite times of the year…Christmas.

Here is what I have created.

{JOY}

I hope I have inspired you to join in the fun here at Orange Paperie for December. Remember to link up your layout and share it with us…we would love to see what you create.

A truly GORGEOUS layout Janice

I know you have inspired me!!!!

A HUGE THANKS to Janice for being our DECEMBER guest designer.

Make sure you pop over and visit Janice's blog to see more of her truly beautiful work.

Now here is my layout using the

White*Silver*Gold 

Colour Combo

{Peace On Earth}

 

My layout is about the 20 minutes of peace as the children put the decorations on the tree that is until they start arguing about who gets to put the star on the top!!!??
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Hello again & welcome to December and the last Challenge for 2013. Kim has set us a lovely colour challenge this month - WHITE, GOLD, SILVER (it doesn't have to be a Xmas theme). So here is my version:

I know it's a really busy time for most of you, but I do hope you can join in this month. You may have a fantastic photo you want to scrap of your Xmas celebrations or just a special photo that you've taken over the Xmas period of your family & friends. Can't wait to see your creations!  You can see closies over at my blog HERE. Until next time.....Jo xx

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Mary Here, 

I have chosen to Scrap a Christmas Photo of my two Grandchildren using the gorgeous Colour scheme for the month. Hope you can join us.

(The Spirit of Christmas)

 Some beautiful layout here by the team and our Guest Designer, JANICE......thanks girls!!!
  As Jo said we do realize that this is a very busy time of the year, for most of us but we hope you will find a little time to join in ?!
Cheryl and Annette will be back mid-month to remind you about this challenge and to share their layouts with you.

From all of us here at

 Orange Paperie & Co

happy scrapping :)

 

SEPT CHALLENGE WINNER AND REMINDER YOU HAVE A FEW DAYS LEFT FOR THIS MONTHS CHALLENGE

Hi all,
Just popping in to announce the winner for the Sept Challenge. It was so hard to pick just one, but the winner for the month of Sept is.......... Lizzy Hill with her gorgeous layout

Thank you everyone that joined in, it really is so hard to pick just one
Still a few days to get your entries in for this month, so let Jo's sketch get your creative juices flowing and inspire us with your fabulous layouts & congrats Lizzy !
Cheers Mary

SOME MORE LAYOUTS FROM THE DT TO INSPIRE YOU

Hi ladies Mary here with my take on Jo's fabulous Challenge . I love the sketch , so would love to see lots of entries on your take .For close ups and the story behind the layout visit my blog

Now Annette and Kim will add their beautiful layouts of Jo's Challenge.

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Kim here with my take on Jo's lovely sketch challenge and a HUGE thank you to Val for joining us this month to help inspire you to scrap a precious memory.....after all that is the aim of this ever-so-fun hobby /art of SCRAPBOOKING.....

 

{A Walk In The Park}

This is my girl Madison, who may I say doesn't really like me taking photo's of her! {Can you tell???}

I've used the CW template {Spring Fling}to add texture and also the Kaisercraft circles mask. Die cuts also are Kaisercraft and I have cut out some extra roses from the die-cuts.

 So the sketch looks like this

So as usual I went off on my own little adventure but you can see the basic sketch...

Thanks for looking and we do hope you can join us!

Kim x

Make sure you pop back as Annette will add her layout very soon :)

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Oh my what gorgeous pages Mary and Kim such pretty colours and awesome textures.
For my page a flipped the sketch on it's side and used this amazing pic of my friend Sue's beautiful little granddaughter Isabella (mostly called Bella), I did this page as a gift for Sue as Bella definately is the apple of her eye.

(princess bella)

Can't remember the paper range I used but the large flower is from Manor house, stamps are old Kaisercraft, ribbon, tiny twine, buttons, collection butterflies (part of my fussy cutting) and small blue fabric flowers are all from Craft Queen, Nicole has the most amazing collection of embellies. http://www.craftqueen.com.au/.

I just loved the sketch part of the challenge, can help get you out of a rut sometimes.
Hope you will all give this challenge a go, so much fun, can't wait to see.
Hugs and love till then
Annette xo

November Challenge

Hello everyone, Jo here.
 It's my turn to set the challenge this month and I thought it would be fun to do a Sketch challenge. I would also like you to either use Die-cuts or do some fussy cutting (you choose!) 

 We have an amazing Guest Designer this month and I can't wait to introduce you to her.

Here is the sketch - don't forget you can interpret this anyway you wish as long as it is recognizable as this sketch e.g. turn sideways etc.

And without further ado, I'd like to introduce the wonderful Val Thorpe who resides in beautiful South Africa. Thank you Val for inspiring us with your work this month.

Hi my name is Val and I am a scrap-a-holic. I have been married to Simon for 37 years and we have two kids, Clint and Storm, a DIL Lin who is expecting twins in Feb, four very spoilt yorkies and a beautiful cat called Hansa. I am lucky enough not to have to work and to have a very well kitted out studio. I get to travel a lot and photography is my other passion and so I always have loads of material to scrap. My passion with scrapbooking is the journalling (newly discovered) and now I am going back through my layouts to add the stories.

I am on the DT at Once Upon a Sketch,  CSI, Let's Scrap and Black with 2. I am also addicted to challenges. I like the fact that they challenge me to think outside the box and to try things that ordinarily I may not have... I have a blog
 http://valbellesramblings.blogspot.com.au/  
 and you can also find me on Facebook Valerie Ann Thorpe so come and look me up and say hello.

Here is Val's inspirational take on the sketch:

{FLY}

 I'm sure you'll agree that Val has a beautiful style and her photos are always magnificent. Remember to have a look at Val's blog - it's sure to put a smile on your face :)   So next is my take on the sketch:

{Weekend Escape}

I've used the lovely Kaisercraft "Sweet Pea" collection which I thought was perfect for this photo with the die cut animals. I took ages to decide on a photo for this paper collection because the colours match so well with many different pics. The little flowers are from Craft Queen, the flair button is from A Piece of Cake Designs and for the life of me I can't remember where I obtained the chippie title from, sorry :/ There is also a few bits of pp from Stampin' Up!  For closies go to My Blog   If you visit my blog you may also have a chance to see where I'm exploring at the moment :)

Anyway I hope you can play along this month and thanks for dropping by.

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Hi there once again all you lovelies.
 Me again, Cheryl with my take on Jo's challenge, it was a cracker this month (thanks Jo) and took me a while to get my head around it, but without further ado, here it is.

{Impossible to Forget}

A big thank you to Val for joining us this month, her inspiration and talent is amazing!

We hope you are inspired and can join us with Jo's Sketch Challenge.
Looking forward to seeing your creations.

Cheers

x