Winner- Kim's August Colour Challenge

Afternoon Ladies.....and what a glorious day it is here in Central NSW
  (finally!!!)
I think Spring might finally be here...YAY!!!!!!!

Just to re-cap for the August Challenge you had to use the beautiful picture (below) and be inspired by the colours

 

 

Mary, Annette and I picked this stunning layout by

 Mandy Sea as the winner of our August Challenge.

 

 

 

 



Mandy if you could send us an email at orangepaperieandco@hotmail.com with your address we would like to send you a little something.

Congratulations Mandy......such a stunning layout!!!

A  huge

Thank you to all that entered in the month of August. Your support is fabulous.
 Mary, Annette and I were super happy getting a wonderful 7 entries.
We hope you will continue to join us!!!

SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE

Oh my goodness, September already, and time for another awesome (because I have set it) challenge and a new Guest designer.
So without further ado I would like to introduce you all to Cheryl O'Brien who is a very close friend of us here at Orange Paperie.

Cheryl O'Brien

I discovered scrapbooking in 2001 when I was living on the Central Coast, or  I should say I discovered my first scrapbooking magazine, Creating Keepsakes, it had me intrigued and I knew I wanted to try this craft, but my options were limited as I could not find a scrapbooking store  anywhere on the Coast.  I eventually found my first store after moving to the country in 2002 and came across Joys Paperworks in a neighbouring town whilst shopping one day,  I was almost beside myself, excitement plus!! Needless to say, I went home that day with lots of goodies and thus my obsession began.

I don’t really know that I have a particular style, though of late I am tending towards layering a lot more than I used to and doing a lot of distressing etc  and am finding the results quite pleasing.

Cheryls Scrap Room

There are a whole lot of very talented scrappers out there, all with their own unique style  and I admire each and every one of them, though  I must admit my all time favourite is Julie Winks. I just love all her work, it’s candy for the eyes.

I don’t really do a lot of online shopping as I prefer to suss out scrapping stores wherever I go and stock up then, but when I do shop online  I would have to say that Scrapboxx ,Shop and Crop and  Scrap Therapy are my three top picks.

The Challenge for this month is a recipe, I like recipes they tend to take a lot of the guess work out of what you have to do but still allow for lots of creative flow.

You will need the following ingredients -

1 black and white pic

ribbon

chippy/s

inking

distressing

and a two word title 

So what do you think, not all that difficult, the main thing is to have lots of fun with it. 

Here we have Cheryl's absolutely gorgeous take, totally love all the beauiful layering, stunning flowers, use of the punch and lovely butterflies, such a stunning page.

 

 Mine is a bit more simplier but I loved how it turned out. All the awesome boy embellies on the page came from My2angels http://www.my2angels.net/p/7551/Boys-ONLY-Embellishment-Kit.html and is from their Boys only embellie kit, just perfect for this pic of my 3 cheeky nephews.

 

I made the banner from the pages of an old book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and used cotton twine, the pp is Kaiser and the alphas are old ones I had in my stash, forgot I had them actually.

Now Kim decided to do a Lou and came up with......

                                {Meeting Julie}

                                                                  

                                                               

So I hope that you will come and play with us and cook up a storm.

Hugs and love 

Annette xo

(We will be back to announce the winner of the August Colour Challenge in the next few days).

Hello Mary here, running a bit late with mine. Still trying to get back into the swing of things after being at Navutu in Fiji and seriously lacking mojo. Anyway last night I sat down and got stuck into creating my layout 5c Buster.

 This is a layout of my hubby and his dog Buster, I will put the story on my blog. Can't wait to see what you all come up with 

Cheers

Mary x

Sneak peak

With only three days to go until our next challenge I thought I would give a little teaser of my page.

Plus a little hint about the challenge itself, it will be a challenge that requires you in the kitchen hmmmm wonder what that means??????

That is all you get, bribery will be considered (depending on how good it is) if you can't wait, hahaha.

Until then hugs and love Annette x

And our FIRST winner is????

   Hello Paperie Peeps......
Very sorry I'm so late with posting the winner of  our very first challenge, which was set by Miss Mary, last month.
 Her challenge was to scrap a childhood memory with a vintage feel.

......and without further ado.......
  the winner of Orange Paperie & Co's first challenge is......

Cheryl O'Brien

     Cheryl's layout  really touched us all here at OP&C....the corri....the twine...the pic....the story.

             Congratulations Cheryl....here is Cheryl's Blog address if you would like to visit her.

Thanks to all that entered, you got us off to a good start.....Cheers!!!!

 Also if  DEBBIE PIERCEY could contact us at
 orangepaperieandco@hotmail
we have a little something we would like to send you for being the VERY FIRST person to enter a OP&C challenge.

Thanks again and hope to see a few entries in our AUGUST COLOUR CHALLENGE.....

Cheers

Miss Kim's Colour Challenge

 Welcome to AUGUST scrappy friends!!!!

  Well,  do we have some scrappy inspiration for you this month......as our blog post title, tells you this month I'm setting you a colour challenge, but before I show you the gorgeous colours I would like to introduce you to our Guest Designer for August......
                              
                        
                                                Donna White

Hi! My name is Donna White and I live on the outskirts of a small country town in the Darling Downs, Queensland . Some of you may know me from various forums as Dondon.

I am a mother to two amazing teenage girls, Kirsten, 15 and Amanda 13, who have been my scrapping subjects for the last 9 years. I also enjoy scrapping about my life, my friends (and their children) Oh, and my husband LOL

I have recently discovered art journaling as well, so it is quite common to see my hands covered in ink and paint.

You can find my blog at http://donna-white.blogspot.com.au . (Pop in and say Hi!)

I am currently serving my second term on the Scrap the Girls DT and feel honoured to be asked to be a guest designer for Orange Paperie..

Thanks girls.

D xx

Thanks so much Donna for being an inspirational member of our team this August
Cheers
 So now you know who is adding to our inspiration this month I would like to show you a little pic I came across....
 Don't you just love the colours in this pic????

 So my challenge is for you to use the colours in this pic to inspire you!!!

Firstly Donna's gorgeous layout.....

Kim's......

Annette's.....

 Super gorgeous Miss A....



Now Miss Mary added her layout a few days ago.......below


Hello friends,
As I am going to be away for Miss Kim's challenge I have got my layout done and hopefully Kim or Annette will upload it for me. Firstly I must say I LOVE the colours that Kim has chosen and I had fun doing this layout. I was inspired by Kim and Julie Winks to try the Salt and Ink technique and I love the result. My layout if of a photo I took on the beautiful island of Patmos.
I look forward to seeing everyone's layouts when I get home

Cheers
Mary x

 So girls hope you have been inspired and we can't wait to see your layouts for August. You have until the end of August to enter.


 We shall be back Tuesday to announce the winner of  Mary's July Challenge.

Happy Scrapping

Miss Marys Challenge

Well lovely peeps here is my take on our first challenge set by the lovely Mary. Brief was to scrap a childhood memory and while I can't recall all of this time, the one thing that I do remember is eating mulberries on the other side of the river waiting for the boat to take us back across, also that the steps cut into the river bank seemed very steep and slippery.

How cool though to be rowed across the river (Belmore NSW) to go to school (Belmore Public).
So do you have a childhood memory to scrap? Come and join in.
Hugs and love Annette x

Our very First Challenge !

Hello  and welcome to our very first Challenge ! :)  We hope that you will join us and we can inspire each other and challenge each other in our scrapbooking journey.
For our first challenge I would like you to scrap a Childhood Memory. So it maybe a favourite doll or teddy bear, a holiday, anything that reminds you of your childhood. The only criteria is to have some journalling to tell the story. So have fun, enjoy the journey back to your childhood and please share your amazing layouts with us
I am using the layout I also used for Miss Annette's colour challenge on facebook. This is me at the Tennis Courts down from my family home. I spent a lot of time here growing up. You can read the story on my blog 
http://www.mbennetts.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/memories-of-childhood.html
Mary

Gorgeous Mary!!!
Love that MME paper and your soft colours!!!!

  A very warm welcome to our new venture, we are looking forward to inspiring you over the coming months. Mary has given us a lovely first challenge.
 
  When we, Mary, Annette and I talked about our first  challenge, Mary talked about a Vintage Challenge and my mind went straight to a photo I have had, hanging up on a string in my old scraproom...now the photo isn't of me it's of my mother, (Molly aged 5ish) with her family back in 1947, it was taken upon their arrival in Sydney from Launceston, Tas. I know very little other than what I've told you....but this pic so needed a new home other than hanging on a string!!!

 Over the next few days all shall become clear about our little challenge blog.
Cheers Kim

It gives me great pleasure to introduce our First Guest DT Member for the month
Drum Roll...........

The lovely Jo Tritton

and a little about Jo


Hi, my name is Jo Tritton and I've been married for 28 years (I'm still trying to get my head around that!) & we have two wonderful young adults who are my greatest achievement, and they provide lots of inspiration for this addiction of mine. We also have two fur babies who tend to pop up in my layouts from time to time as well. I've been scrapping for 7 years now & still cannot define my own style. I always like to try new techniques & I like to have a go at many different styles. I tend to use distressing techniques and ink on a lot of my projects and I love all the new masks and templates that are available now.  Besides my family, I also love to scrap our travel photos (travel being my other passion). I find the art of paper crafting very therapeutic, liberating and challenging. This year I have been published in Scrapbooking Memories Magazine and Australian Scrapbook Creations Magazine. I've also recently been a Guest Design Team member with "Show Us Your Stuff" and a "Featured Member" on The Scrapboxx. I am humbled and excited to be asked to be one of the first Guest Designers for Orange Paperie & Co. It's the wonderful people that I get to meet through scrapbooking that makes the journey so worthwhile.


and Jo's gorgeous layout

This is a layout of Jo's Mum

Beautiful , Love the cluster and the little Peter Rabbit Button
Thank You Jo for being our first Guest Designer


 So lovelies get inspired and create your awesome vintage beauties. Mr Linky will be added to the side panel over the weekend and the DEVINE Miss Annette will add her inspiration in the next few days.

 Entry closes on the last day of the month.

Cheers from the OP&C crew and a huge thanks to our wonderful, Guest Designer Jo
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