October Challenge

Another month has flown by and it is my turn to set the new challenge and introduce our Guest Designer for the month of October.
So seeing I have been on a beautiful Fijian Holiday my challenge is.............. to use these colours

Yep I am still in Tropical mode. You can use the colours anyway you like. The only criteria is for journalling. And now to introduce to you our Guest Designer for the month...... The Beautiful....... Lizzy Hill !

and here is a little about Lizzy 

My name is Lizzy Hill & I began scrapping in 2009 after coming home from a trip overseas. Mum encouraged me to ‘give it a go’ as a way of getting my photos sorted. It opened up a whole new world which I just adore. Blogging seemed to be a natural extension of scrapping – thus I’ve managed to combine a whole pile of ‘loves’ - photography, writing & scrapping!

My style is madly eclectic. I’ll give anything a go & I LOVE the ‘love’ of belonging to this Scrappy Community…blog hops & challenges are such fun! There’s nothing like getting a scrappy surprise in the mail – this extends me, ‘cos I like to use what I’m sent….so I have to move outside my ‘safety zone’.  And I think that always helps us grow as scrappers!

I scrap cards & OTP’s [off the page projects] as well as layouts. I don’t consider myself artistic – but I do really enjoy colour combinations. That may come from my dim, dark past as a hairdresser! I was also an English teacher…but my boys are grown up, I have my first grand-child [see LO!] & I’m pretty much enjoying the good life these days. Not complaining at all…

I’ve been on the Design Team over at Scrap Friends for around 6 months – it’s my first serious ‘gig’ & that’s been a learning curve that I’ve really enjoyed.

I’ve also been published in Scrapbooking Memories quite a bit this year, as well as winning a few online competitions. That’s all given me an extra bit of confidence in my scrapping. Sometimes layouts go together really easily – sometimes they fight me every inch of the way….the layout I’m sharing with you today was the former. And I’ve used a few ‘different’ ideas that you might like to give a go.

See the Purple Pumpkin button? I’ve chopped it in half…this idea came from the lovely Chantelle. My scissors didn’t like the idea very much, but my wallet did!

There’s a flower tucked underneath. It’s made of paper towel – the stuff from the kitchen. I often use this when I’m misting – which I did for the top ‘sea blue’ flower [which is die cut from old packaging!]…saw the outline on the paper towel & decided to cut it out...it looked too nice to waste!

And I thought of another idea for Washi tape [which I LOVE] – threaded it through the little heart! The glassine bag holds my journaling.

This was a FUN challenge to do – I’m sure you’ll find it will be too. Hope to see lots of you joining in this month with the lovely ladies here at Orange Paperie & Co!

I love visitors stopping by my blog, so drop by and see me at Lizzy Hill …yep, thrilling name…but easy for me to remember! Cheerio for now…

and Lizzy's gorgeous layout

and the journalling

Thank you Lizzy for being doing us the honour of being our Guest Designer this month.
My Layout is of gee let me guess ??? Yep you got it Fiji :)

Now I will hand you over to Kim and Annette for their take on the challenge and look forward to seeing lots of entries

Cheers
Mary

Hi Kim here,
Don't you just love the summer feel of those colours!!! Thanks Mary for the great challenge....

here is my layout

                                      {Summer Breeze}

Hope to see lots of entries and thanks  Lizzy for joining us this month!

Happy Scrapping
Kim.



and of course we have saved the best till last hehehe...........I loved the colours in this and they were just perfect for this beautiful pic of my gorgeous great neice Lailah.

As you can see I used all the colours for this page and just love how it turned out, was inspired by two lovely pages in the current issue of Scrapbook Creations. 

How gorgeous is Lizzy's take on our challenge, wow thanks.


So looking forward to seeing your take on this, hugs and love Annette xo

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