APRIL CHALLENGE WINNER!

Hello again everyone!  I'm back today to announce the winner of my "Circles & Flourishes" challenge for April. I'm sorry for the slight delay in this but Mother's Day held me up a bit. We here at Orange Paperie & Co were so blown away with the quality of the entries for this challenge. We appreciate each & everyone who took the time to enter & we hope you all had a bit of fun with it.

So without further ado, the winner for April is "LIZZY CRUST".   CONGRATULATIONS! We really loved the textured flourishes & subtles circles along with the colours which worked perfectly with the theme of your photo. The way you framed your pic with the circle of string tops the page off.

Lizzy if you'd like to pm me through our FB page, I'll organise a little something to be sent to you.

Thank you again everyone for joining in & for your support & I hope you'll join us again this month with Kim's lovely mood board challenge.

Until next time.....Jo  xx

Kim's May Challenge

Welcome everyone to our little Challenge Blog!!!

With the start of May, we see a few changes..... as most of you know

two member's of our Design Team made the decision to move on, so Mary, Jo and myself

set out to find Two new Design Team Member's

And we did!!!!

We give you

Rebecca Timms

 Here is a little bit about Bec.

Hi, I'm Bec Timms, I live in Orange N.S.W with my partner,

 Charlie. Originally from Southampton in the UK, we moved to Australia in the New Year of 2011.

 I started scrapbooking in Nov 2012 when the lovely Mary Bennetts started classes at Marally Craft, the store I worked at.

I had met Mary, Kim and Annette as regular customers of the store and had always been interested in their purchases, as primarily I am a card maker. 

And have been card making throughout my 20’s.

 The Orange Paperie girls started me on a journey of techniques, blogs and challenges, even helped answer my questions such as, “what is a sketch?”

Since then I have discovered a love for sketches, they are a perfect inspiration point with the ability to tweak anything to your personal style.  I love that every layout made from a sketch can be completely different and personal to the creator.

I love bright colours, washi tape, and chippies.  My favourite scrappy website is Home and Scrapped as it’s very welcoming and relaxed.  My muses in my scrapbooking pages are my nephews Isaac (4) and Nathaniel (2).  They mean absolutely everything to me and one of my ways to stay in touch with them, is to scrap their gorgeous faces on my layouts.

Visit Rebecca's blog.......* HERE*

and we also welcome

John Weston

Hi, I'm John Weston and I live in Orange N.S.W with my wife and two sons who are the reason why I scrap. Have been kind of scrapbooking since 2010 when my wife bought an album that I would stick one photo along with a ticket or certificate from when it was taken. Then I met Bec from Marally Craft who talked me into taking Mary's class. They started me on a journey of techniques, blogs and challenges for which I will always be grateful

I love to layer paper on my pages as well as try different techniques. 

You can visit John's Blog......* HERE *

A very warm welcome to Rebbeca & John.

Now on to May's Challenge.....

My Challenge is to use these images to inspire you to create, whether it's the colours, products....

 from the first image

 This image is by the very talented 

Gwen Wruck

And to use this quote in some fashion....be it the whole Quote or even just a word or two from it!

Here is what I have created.....inspired by the above images

{Friendship}

 The colours in Gwen's photograph really struck me and I simply love the Quote

Now let's see what our newest DT member's have created....

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Hi everyone. Happy to be with  my first DT Layout. Very honoured to be working with a very talented group of Ladies.  Hope I can keep up with everyone, all such beautiful work.

What a lovely challenge Kim has set us, with Gwen's beautiful Picture.

I Have draw my inspiration from some of the products in the picture & I liked the way the twine looked against the pink flowers & used the first part of the quote.

{Everyday Is Beautiful}

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Here is Rebecca's stunning layout......

 

{Even When It's Raining}

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Welcome to the team John and Bec, what beautiful layouts .

I took my inspiration from the quote and lovely colours and splash of gold in Gwen's beautiful photo

{Everyday is Beautiful }

Looking forward to seeing lots of lovely entries

Mary

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Hi all! Jo here. I just love the challenge that Kim has set for this month. Beautiful work Mary, John, and Bec. I love your interpretations. I took my inspo from the softness of the colours of the mood board, the quote & also the washi tape & flowers. You can go HERE for closies.

 {Beautiful}

So we hope you can find the time to join us this month

and hope you have been inspired

Again a HUGE welcome to our newest Design Team members

John & Bec

Circles & Flourishes.....{Jo's Awesome Challenge!!!}

Morning All :)

Kim here with a little mid-month reminder of 

Jo's April Challenge- Circles & Flourishes

Check out what the other Design Team members have created

*****HERE****

For me these two design elements are some of my all time favourite things!!!!

 anyway, here is what I created

{Easter 2009}

The photo is of my littlest (Hugo) discovering how to do

 'THE HUNTING EASTER EGGS'

thing....so super cute!

Lots of glorious circles & I have used black gesso and a mask to create my flourishes

I do hope you can find the time to create using Jo's Challenge?

Next month, Mary, Jo and I have a few surprises and we can't wait to tell you all about it!!!!

SQUEAL!!!!

before I sign off  we would like to wish you all a

Happy & Safe Easter 

 if you are traveling,

please keep safe.

Cheers

KIM

x

Vintage With a Twist (Cheryl's March Challenge) WINNER!

Hello all :)

Kim here to announce the winner of Cheryl's March Challenge

We had some stunning entries last month!

Cheryl's challenge was fabulous, we had a hard time picking a layout

as they were all gorgeous!

Thank you all, for sharing your beautiful creations with us at

OP&C

 We did come up with a winner

and the winner is.......

Libeeti Frenkel

A stunning take on the challenge, Libeeti!

( I love the spotty pattern papers and your darling pinwheel )

Congratulations!!!

(Cheryl will be in touch with you!) 

Also on a sad note we bid farewell to not one but two of our DT members

Cheryl and Annette

you both will be sadly missed 

Thank You, Both 

 for your inspiration, your time and your support

it has been wonderful and we will miss you, both!

Don't forget we have 

 Jo's April Challenge 

 up and running and we have a fab 

Guest Designer.....so why not pop on over and take a look???!

Happy Scrapping

Cheers

Kim

x

 

April Challenge

Hello all! Jo here. My turn to set the challenge for this month, which is Autumn for us here in Oz and I'm sure all of you who live in the Northern Hemisphere are very excited that Spring is finally here. My challenge this month is CIRCLES AND FLOURISHES.
I'm very excited to introduce to you our very special friend and this month's Guest Designer ....

BEC TIMMS (someone who hales from the UK but, lucky for us, is now an honorary Aussie). Thank you Bec for sharing some inspo with us and I'm sure everyone will love how you've tackled the challenge.

Hi, I'm Bec Timms, I live in Orange N.S.W with my partner, Charlie. Originally from Southampton in the UK, we moved to Australia in the New Year of 2011.

 I started scrapbooking in Nov 2012 when the lovely Mary Bennetts started classes at Marally Craft, the store I worked at.

I had met Mary, Kim and Annette as regular customers of the store and had always been interested in their purchases, as primarily I am a card maker. 

And have been card making throughout my 20’s.

I have recently scrapped with Jo and Cheryl and enjoyed meeting them very much. 

 The Orange Paperie girls started me on a journey of techniques, blogs and challenges, even helped answer my questions such as, “what is a sketch?”

Since then I have discovered a love for sketches, they are a perfect inspiration point with the ability to tweak anything to your personal style.  I love that every layout made from a sketch can be completely different and personal to the creator.

I love bright colours, washi tape, and chippies.  My favourite scrappy website is Home and Scrapped as it’s very welcoming and relaxed.  My muses in my scrapbooking pages are my nephews Isaac (4) and Nathaniel (2).  They mean absolutely everything to me and one of my ways to stay in touch with them, is to scrap their gorgeous faces on my layouts.

In fact the layout I have completed for Aprils’ OP Challenge is of my youngest nephew walking through a field of lavender.

Thank you Jo for thinking of me to be your GD this month, I feel very honoured as I admire all you ladies very much!!!

And here is Bec's stunning layout:

I love the stencil work on this page & that beautiful photo within the pretty circle frame is perfect for our theme. Thanks Bec. For closies and more info pop over to Bec's blog HERE

In total contrast to what Bec has come up with, here is my inspo for the challenge. This is what I love about challenges, the very different ideas that everyone has. I hope you like it.

I've chosen to use large chipboard cogs for my circles as well as clocks. My flourishes are the die cut leafy swirls. For closies and info about the other techniques I've used go to my blog HERE

Next up is our lovely Mary. Over to you Mare...

Wow hard acts to follow!

Thank you Bec for being our GD this month, such a beautiful , soft, delicate layout for such a gorgeous photo. Just the right amount of soft , sweet touches.
and Jo Such a gorgeous masculine layout of your beautiful Tim. Love the weathered board and title.

BUSTER

This is my husband with his dogs Buster and Pogo. For the story of Buster the 5c dog you can visit my blog 
Here
Thank You Jo for the fabulous challenge. I love Circles and flourishes
Next up will be Kim

Vintage with a twist

Hi everyone, well I made it just in time (actually have a nearly two weeks before this challenge is finished) so I'm not going too bad.
I would like to share with you all a very precious page, it has a pic of my parents in their early twenties, so would have been taken mid to late 1959 or early 1960. I adore this pic so much, how young and in love they look, unfortunately they have both passed (much before their time) and the marriage didn't last but I will always have this pic capturing a lovely moment.

Used lots of stamping (all Kasiercraft) as are the flowers, except for the small cream ones (they are from Craft Queen along with the pink pearl strands and ribbons), rhinestone flourish and small lemon and green pearls. Some gorgeous Scrapmatts chippies and wooden words.

Now on a sad note this will be my last post for Paperie, stepping down from the DT, a bit of a break is needed but I will still be popping in to see how things are going and maybe do a challenge or too.
I would like to thankyou all for your support and encouragement over the past, nearly two years.
Hugs and love
Annette xo

GREAT CHALLENGE

Hi all Annette here, haven't quite been able to do a page for this challenge but perhaps a late month one could occur yet. Would like to thank Cheryl for her challenge, fantastic idea to scrap a vintage page with non traditional colours, makes one think and also for having  JOHN WESTON as our Guest Designer, it is nice to see a male take on what has been predominately a female hobby.
Keep your entries coming in, we LOVE seeing what you are doing, inspires us as well.
Until next time
Hugs and love
Annette xo