Mary's February Challenge

FEBRUARY CHALLENGE ~ THE MONTH OF LOVE 

Seeing February is the month of Love I would like to see Hearts and journalling on your page this month. 
And now I would like to introduce you to our GD , the queen of fussy cutting and creating beautiful pages  the lovely Lizzy Crust

Hi I am Lizzy Crust and I have been scrapbooking since 2006. I began creating pages for my youngest daughter
to show her the things she did when she was little.. Over time I found the world of scrapping in the internet and then
online challenges which I enjoy being involved in as much as time allows..I began my blog called Crumbs of Creativity
and just love visiting the many scrappy friends I have found.. My style is still evolving but I love flowers and layers.
Thanks so much for having me as a guest on Orange Paperie this month!

Lizzy was also kind enough to answer some questions for me

Where do I scrap?
I am lucky to have a vacated bedroom that I have claimed for my scrap room.. I have our old dining room table in there and have purchased various cupboards which I use for storage of my papers and tools etc.

Do I consider I have a certain style and if so how do I describe it?
I am still evolving in my style and am inspired to try new techniques in my creating, however I do like using sketches, building layers and using flowers. I tend also to use the whole page and find leaving white space a challenge. I think the photo I am scrapping can influence how I create also in that for a female photo there will be  floral elements and for a male photo there will be masculine colors and embellishments and no flowers or minimal flowers.

How long have I been scrapping and how did I get introduced to scrapbooking?
I formally began scrapbooking in January 2006 which is when I bought some papers and embellishments  from a Scrapbooking shop that I had been taken to by my friend Marlene. It was after seeing all the papers and the whole range of wonderful things to create with that got me hooked I think.. I wanted to keep the memories of my youngest daughter growing up in our family and this was a continuation of a book I had started several years earlier due to the process we went through with adopting her.

What is my favourite product/tool?
I have many favourite things I like to use with scrapbooking, but I think my big shot die cutting machine would be my number one tool in that I use because I use it  when creating cards and also for layouts. My punches would come in a close second.

Why do I scrap - what does it mean to me?
Just like my styles have evolved with time and the skills I have acquired, my reasons why I scrap have changed too.. In the beginning it was all about capturing the memory of a photo and telling the story behind the moment, now I think I create for the relaxation and enjoyment as much for the memory of the photo..  I like to try different things and am influenced by the trends around that I see. Scrapbooking is an outlet for creativity as well as a time out for me and therapy to help with the stresses of life which we all have from time to time.. It is "ME" time. And the results are there are albums for my children to look through and hopefully admire and remember the moments of times past.

What inspires me?
Everything! The photo, new papers, new products, clothing, trends, other scrapbookers, an idea that comes into my head, a new technique I see, online challenges, sketches. I have been known to dress my daughter in the colors I need for the papers I want to use!! It is wonderful to be inspired and just want to sit and create and forget the housework for a while!

Who inspires me?
Everyone.. Each person has something to share and I love popping around on blogs and seeing what is happening on my friends sites. There are too many wonderful scrappers to name here, and I am sure many more I have yet to discover!

Do I need music or do I like it to be quiet?
I tend to create in quietness, although I have sometimes had talk back radio on for a bit of back ground chatter. My creating time is my time out to de-stress and contemplate life and often say a prayer or two for those I know who need them..

and now the gorgeous layout Lizzy created for this months challenge

LOVE

Thank you Lizzy for being our GD for the month and for creating this gorgeous layout.

Now for Cheryl and Jo's beautiful layouts

LOVE

Another month gone by and here I am again with my take on Mary's challenge. The pic is of three of my beautiful grandchildren Jessica, Jake and Libby taken a few months ago. Brady was very antisocial and declined to be in the pic. I have used Kraft Cardstock, corrugated card  swiped with gesso and some old Kaiser papers from the Timeless Collection, a few Kaiser roses and the twine is from Craft Queen . I have inked the edges with Tim Holtz Walnut distress ink and the sentiment was cut using the Cricut

Hoping you all find a bit of time to squeeze this challenge in. Love and hugs to all

Cheryl.

 Love, Germany and Happiness

Hello everyone and welcome to Mary's fabulous February challenge. The theme is LOVE so she wants to see hearts and journalling.  We had a fantastic response to our January Challenge, so keep up the good work people and we can't wait to see what you have in store for us this month. We really appreciate your support. Here is my design for this month. I decided not to use the traditional red tones for my page so I hope you can find some inspiration in it. For closies & details visit HERE

We are looking forward to seeing your wonderful creations!
Jo

JANUARY CHALLENGE - 2014

Welcome to the New Year, have you made a resolution or are you like me and just winging it?

In line with the beginning of this year I thought that a nice challenge would be Friendship with journalling. This could be about old friends, new the choice is yours. I have done my example using a pic which was taken on the 28th December 2013 of my lovely friends Mary and Kim with the most gorgeous lady, Kylie Fraser, who I had the previous pleasure of meeting in March last year. 

(Picture Perfect)

The journalling on this tags reads - "Scrapbooking has given me the chance to make some very dear friends and to be able to met many on-line friends irl. I had met Kylie last year and when I saw on Facebook that she was travelling out this way I asked if she could stop in Orange so Mary and Kim could meet her. At Anything Grows we spent time chatting and enjoying the company. All too soon it was time for Kylie to continue her trip home to Canberra"

I used so much yumminess on this page it is hard to know where to start. All the pp, rubbon, larger flowers and diecuts (which I have made a vow to use much more, I have so many) are from  Pickled Pear by Kaisercraft, chippie flourish is Scrapmatts, small wooden embellies, smaller flowers and leaves (Prima), washi tape and metal dragonfly are all from CraftQueen.

So however you choose to interprete this challenge I look forward to seeing your pages.

Hugs and love till then

Annette 
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Happy New Year to one and all, and welcome to another 12 months of challenges at Orange Paperie and Co. Another great challenge set by Miss Annette to kick the year off, its all about Friendships, and this is my take...

{Perfect Day}

My Mum and her sister Marj, siblings and friends, Marj being the second born of nine and mum the fourth born.... They were always close as children, and their friendship did not diminish over the years, even after meeting and marrying the men of their dreams and going their separate ways their friendship remained strong. This picture was taken in Narooma in December of 2012 and it was to be the last time they ever saw each other with Marj passing away in June of 2013. The fond memories will always remain.

Love and hugs to all... Cheryl xx

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Hidey ho everyone! Welcome to 2014 here at Orange Paperie & Co. Annette has set a lovely challenge to start off the new year; Friendship (including meaningful journalling). For all the details, closies & story pop over to my blog My Cherry Pie Creations.

Thanks Annette for a terrific challenge!

                                                     
                                                               

  (Just You & Me)

I hope you all find time to play along this month :)  

  Jo xx

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Mary here,

boy hard act to follow, gorgeous layouts girls. I am  looking forward to seeing lots of entries on this challenge after the girls layouts to inspire.

My layout is of my Best friend of over 30 years, who I was lucky to have visited over the Christmas period and we went on a little road trip to visit another friend for a day. I couldn't help but think how when we were younger (all those years ago) our road trips were a bit different :)

LOVE MY BEST FRIEND

Kim will by later to add her layout in the meantime start scrapping about friendship with journalling

Happy New Year, may all your dreams come true.

Remember to upload into Mr Linky by the end of the month

Thank you all for your support during 2013....looking forward to a wonderful

2014

Still time to enter

Hello all as the title of this post states there is still time to enter in our challenge for the month which was set by Kim, to use White, Gold and Silver.
Now I decided to do a card plus a couple of ornaments, lots of glitter goodness to be had, don't think the cat was too excited about it though, glitter can be hard to get out of fur lol

 It is hard to see on the card but I rubbed over the alphas and embossed xmas trees with gold ink. Found it a bit hard to keep the glitter on the ornaments, using dimensional magic did make it adhere better but I think I got more on me than anything else.
So if you haven't entered yet have a go, would love to see some more entries.
Would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year. Hugs and Love xo

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 :)